Re: Big 4WDs

Posted by John Hagen on July 08, 2006 at 07:45:51 from (69.26.29.18):

In Reply to: Re: Big 4WDs posted by davpal on July 07, 2006 at 21:24:20:

". I am not buying all the bs on this board about 3208 engines being junk because they are fine. If all v-8 diesels are junk we are in big trouble with all the navistars, and duramax's out there. Being sleevless is a benefit as far as I am concerned "

Well,then were in big trouble.

Here is a real life farming experience that soured me on the 3208 cat and any other sleeveless diesel.
In the late 70's I was farming with my brother inlaw who had a Steiger tractor with a 3208 cat engine. This was the only tractor he had big enough to pull his seeding rig. On the second day of seeding,his 3208 seized an injector which scored one cylinder. With no sleeves in that engine,the tractor had to be trucked to the cat dealer where the engine had to be totally disassembled,ruining the other 7 cylinders,so the damaged one could be sleeved and the engine reassembled with all new parts. He was out thousands of $$ and more important,without the use of his tractor for two weeks during the critical seeding time. He had to rent another tractor at $ 100 per hour to seed his crop. All this while I was thinking,If that had happened to my old 6-71 Detroit powered 4wd tractor,In 1 day we could have removed the head and pan and replaced the dry sleeve/piston assy in our farm shop at a cost of $200 and been back in the field planting our crops the next day.

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