12.7 core value

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  1. bigguns

    bigguns Road Train Member

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    I am considering pulling the 12.7 Detroit out of my W9. I don't know the actual miles on it. The ecm and odometer showed 748,000 miles when I bought it 2 1/2 years ago. It had been sitting for 8 plus years. I want to sell it the engine before I pull it. That way somebody can hear it run or drive it. I was thinking it was getting tired and needed rebuilding. I installed an Air Dog before I put the truck on the road. As it turns out, the Air Dog seems to have been bad when I installed it. A week ago the Air Dog started to knock and blow fuses so I removed it. Now the engine pulls better than it EVER did. Oil consumption had always been questionable in my mind. I need to run it more to see how much oil it uses now that it runs well. What would be a fair value for this engine?
     
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  3. baha

    baha Road Train Member

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    Some of the glider kit builders were paying up to 5,000$ for pre/egr eng. that had std. crank bearings.
     
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  4. bigguns

    bigguns Road Train Member

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    I have been looking at some of the ads selling cores. Detroit cores appear to be worth pretty good money along with used running Detroits being pricey in my opinion.
     
  5. swaan

    swaan Road Train Member

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    I've heard all the glider builders are running out of good running cores.
    When I ordered my 2016 glider with a 14L pre egr detroit I was charged $5000 for a core.
    I've since heard that price has gone up now.
     
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    bigguns Road Train Member

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    A glider builder probably wouldn't give me squat as a core but then will turn around and charge the buyer big bucks. I should post it over in the classifieds and see what happens.
     
  7. swaan

    swaan Road Train Member

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    I don't know about that.
    There getting kinda scarace.
    I think you'd be surprised
    I've heard the 14L now are fetching $7500 CORE alone
     
  8. prerunner404

    prerunner404 Medium Load Member

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    When i bought my 12.7 it was pulled out of a kw with 100k on rebuild and i paid $6,000 for it through my mechanics buddy that owned a salvage yard. This was last year around July. When i bought it at the time they were going for that and more with 700k-800k miles on them. So i think i got a fair deal. No reason you shouldn't be able to sell it for 5-6k.
     
  9. Bean Jr.

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    Why are you pulling it out of the W900? Is it an Aerocab, or does it have flat windows? Is it for sale?
     
  10. bigguns

    bigguns Road Train Member

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    Is what for sale? I assume the truck? 93 W9L flat glass 60" flat top. Everything is for sale for a price. I have a lotta lotta lotta money in this truck but I would drive it to Alaska. On second thought maybe not. I hate the cold. If I put a price on it you would maybe faint. However I have seen a W9 with a 60" Aero one sleeper I would love to buy. PM for tits and giggles if you want. Oh yeah. I want to go back yellow. I have had red, yellow and green. I liked the red but too problematic. I like the green fuel mileage and cheap to fix. But I also like being stupid and want to go back to yellow.
     
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