Another bad cat c -15

I hear ya on liner protrusion. . . . . . .some shops will put it back together a .001.

Bad news would have done 3 laps around the earth before good news gets out of bed.

 

Sounds like a 625 . for whatever reason they seem to have alot more problems than 550 and below.

 

I would say that was just the opposite with the later model Cats.
I've got two of them and am lucky if one is running at any given time.
I passed a guy today on the highway broke down.........yellow motor. He was in a beautiful Pete though. It's not all Cats fault. The EPA has played a large part in all of this but Cat did get caught with their pants down and all Cat loyalist have paid the price for it. It amazes me how loyal Cat people are even in the face of disaster. It's kind of like my dad used to say, If Kruschev were to run on the democrat ticket there would be millions who would vote for him. Sometimes, You just have to face the facts. Cat was competing in a market that they were losing money in. They never really made enough money in the truck market anyway. It's too competitive. I've seen the same thing happen in Air Compressors down through about 25 years of messing with them. 25 Years ago the airends in industrial screw air compressors were built huge. They were very rugged and the manufacturers turned them realively slow. As time went on though they got smaller and smaller until they were half the size of the old ones and they still rated them at the same HP buy turning them thousands of rpms more than the old ones. They weren't nearly as rugged but the companies had to do it to stay competitive. It will be interesting to see if Cat and International can come up with a motor that will pass all EPA mandates and even a few parts houses. I wish them all the luck in the world.