Financing for older truck engine rebuild.

I'm sure you have, but I'm talking about a Cummins Recon out of the crate. That way there's all new components (compressor, etc,) and a warranty for what that's worth.

Every place I've discussed this option with from Pittsburgh Power to up my way to Montreal, Qc. all come in around the same figure at about $26K just for the motor alone, then you have your incidentals yet, and don't forget labor.

 

No doubt...I bought this truck off Craigslist exactly 1 year ago now for a couple reasons; #1, it was pretty stinking reasonable, #2, it was a square, decent looking truck and #3, it already had a brand new product pump and compressor for chemicals that I needed to put on anyways, which saved me about $8K in that alone. I was able to go right to work the next day after I bolted the plates on because of the pump alone.

I wasn't doing backflips and cartwheels over it having this ISX, but it is what it is and I'm completely satisfied with the power it makes once you put the coal to her. It's a first gen 565 non-egr and man, does it walk up and over the mountain.

It's just the reality now of the rebuild/replacement cost of that ISX. I will keep this truck until I tip over in about 12-15 years, as I've rebuilt it from the front bumper to the mudflaps already and it's in perfect shape for a 2000. I sometimes wish if I had to be stuck with a Cummins for whatever reason, it had an N-14 550, but again...it is what it is. I'll get through it.

 

I did, and they don't offer any financing around this area for rebuilds right now.

Long FLD; I know what you're saying and it's a good option for some, but I'm more of a long-term minded guy in that I want to do this ONCE and never have to deal with it again until it's time to get away completely. The work/customers I do requires a pretty reliable truck, and the area I am in is demanding to put it mildly with 12% grades to pull in both directions daily, lots of pulling and braking in this region...so it's tough on the equipment. Plus I want to get everything all changed at once like the air compressor, water pump, oil cooler, turbo, etc. so it's all freshened up and has some sort of limited warranty for what they're worth nowadays...so that's the reason for wanting to do a complete new recon motor vs. just an inframe. By the time I did an inframe alone, then added all the stuff I just mentioned plus all the other things while I'm at it, it would be more than the price of a recon after I was done. No sense in doing all that and not freshening up the clutch and flywheel...I can hear a little clicking going on now and then when I come into the throttle lately, sounding like the input shaft and clutch are getting a little wear...bigger HP tends to eat things like that up no matter how easy you are, and I'm not the original owner of this thing so it's got some previous wear.

I got it to behave itself for now by changing thermostats and flushing the coolant sysytem, so all I do now is keep the oil pan full and that's a heck of a lot cheaper than a crate motor for the time being. $100.00/month in oil vs. $30K is much easier to deal with. Who knows, it may last me the entire time I want to keep going, so for now, it's working.

 

That's a tough conversion nowadays, going from an ISX to a Cat. Wiring harness, ECM... it's not as easy as you think. It's not like 30 years ago when you could swap out a Detroit for a Cat or Cummins by just changing the motor mounts and exhaust anymore. By the time you buy the wiring harness to do a Cummins to Cat conversion, you'll be just about broke.

I don't need to do anything anymore, I got it under control now after a little creative tinkering. That's what "outside-the-box-thinkers" do. If I depended on the standard operating procedures that the system provided me with, I'd have been hung already. Not the case.

I like my other truck with a throttle linkage better anyways.