3406C Engine Overhaul

It could possibly be , but I haven’t touched it from this morning ... kinda gave me the red ### but I don’t think I did . The deck on the block was good , and the head is a bad Subject , I literally had to wait a month and they say there is only one more in the US as far as a Cat Reman goes . Yes I replaced water pump , oil cooler , and air compressor . I didn’t think anything about the block but did not see Anything when I was checking block with a straight edge . I only tore into it because it dropped a valve on #3 intake and while apart I wanted the piece of mind that everything was right .

 

No sir everything was original Cat parts nothing on the classic side

 

Yeah , there quality have went down for sure , I had and older 7FB and overhauled it with Cat parts and I literally could not keep the dowels in the head where the valve bridge rides and the thing about it was they wouldn’t stand behind it . Ended up putting a aftermarket head on it and didn’t have no more problems then

 

No you sure can’t blame him , after reading this and what superhauler said and a bad past experience , I didn’t check the dang surface on the Reman Head

 

I tell ya it’s just darn right frustrating , I would have went UTN be there where no availability on those . I see now why the previous guy had all kinds of different parts in the engine .

 

That’s great a new head for reman price , and yeah all of the older stuff will not pass there inspection on the castings so they are having to scrap them . Mine was unfortunately a true reman . I tried to price aftermarket just to compare prices when I started the build but our local aftermarket guy could not hardly get any info on the particular engine and his exact words was “ you have to get it from Cat “