Engines for Jeeps....
As any one bothered to ask Jim Fraser what he has in his strorage sheds...?
Last time I was there we had to push complete jeep engine/tranny/Tcase aside to get to the stuff behind......
On the cost of a rebuild remember it is 2010...... rebuilding an engine for less than a $1000 is a pipe dream....... a total rebuild where you bore out and polish everything to new size means pistons, bearings, sometimes rods, valves and valves seats, valve springs..... you start with a confirmed good bare block that has been magnuflux and head and crank go from there....
4 years ago my 261 cost $3000 plus $600 for taxes and environmental fees I would suspect $4000 today.
Rebuilt Jeep engines are readily available across the border ($2500 to $3000)and will only cost you HST when you cross the border...... BUT.... beware..... some of those government contract rebuild engines were slapped together by various outfits that were more concerned with collecting the inflated government contracts then developing customer satisfaction...... apparently some of the Canadian rebuilt engines for the CDN army are crap also...... so do your home work and ask around about the rebuilder tag on the engine before you put out hard cash.
One more comment..... the environmental restrictions on the by-products of rebuilding engines is such that most machine shops have been driven out of the business my safety/environmental regulations..... to my knowledge there is or was only one shop in Ottawa....Engine Extra in the West end..... that does all its rebuilding in house.....ALL the others are sending the parts somewhere to be washed in an automated massive dishwasher that recirculates the waterbased solvents.... somewhere else to have the crank ground and polished......boring out is the same thing..... and guess who pays for all the shipping and transportation. Most of the dirty work is done either in Montreal or Toronto. Ottawa si clean !!!! Shortage of experienced machinists that can do the various jobs of balancing, grinding, etc. are also contributing to the higher costs....have to keep an expensive digital controlled machine idle in a corner of the shop is not a way to saty in business........ and local machine shops have to deal with the throw away mentality of the auto industry...... except for rebuilding commercial/industrial engines...and a few hot rods or restorations..... they do very little car engine rebuilding these days.....
Our CMP hobby and/or obsession with rebuilding everything sets us in a unique category.
....but what ride!!!!!! Talk to Jim.......
Boob
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Bob Carriere....B.T.B
C15a Cab 11
Hammond, Ontario
Canada
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