according to the Cummins website, 2.8 repower is still not legal in TX and WV. anybody tracking legal progress, if any in TX?
West by God Virginia?according to the Cummins website, 2.8 repower is still not legal in TX and WV. anybody tracking legal progress, if any in TX?
West by God Virginia?
How is that even possible?
Trucks drive around WV looking like they escaped a salvage yard...
How could a Cummins repower be *illegal*...
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See the end of this thread. Engines fitted with warranties directly by Cummins in South africa.
https://forums.lr4x4.com/topic/100435-alternative-engine-to-td5/page/2/#comments
This explains quite a bit. Chad and I were asked to quote out repower packages for 15 game viewing rigs in Botswana. The request was from Cummins SA through Cummins here. They specified they wanted Ashcroft trans and tcases so I got a quote from Ashcroft for 15 of ea and used that quote with zero markup in our quote to Cummins. In the end they decided they could do everything cheaper. They only bought one of Chad's bellhousings presumably to crank out forgery's. As they have been working on this first one Chad has been getting emails with questions and forwarding them to me for responses since he's never worked on a rover or installed a 2.8.See the end of this thread. Engines fitted with warranties directly by Cummins in South africa.
https://forums.lr4x4.com/topic/100435-alternative-engine-to-td5/page/2/#comments
Did you follow the link to the game preserve owners post on that UK forum ? He'd had multiple td5's rebuilt by a company he had faith in there in Africa and they all failed quickly. He's looking for warranty.
Yes... But you are charging over $20000 per swap. They would need to be a lot higher using factory engineers that only heard of a Defender last week. $10000 will get you the greatest engine rebuild on the planet. The TD5 should be more than adequate for what they are doing. They are just as reliable as the Cummins. There is no need for the extra power. 80 km/h is nothing. A 2.5NA would do. 150 km a day is 50k a year (30000 miles) worst case.
we charged 28k labor only on a Packard super 8 engine rebuild. Money is just a number, especially when dealing with governments. I wouldn't expect any of it to make sense.
Wow. That SA story is interesting. Disappointed by 150 inch 12 seaters driving in the Bush towing big ass trailers and they are knackered as soon as 300k Km. Overloaded I bet.
They're asking a whole lot from those drivetrains.
my biggest challenge right now is that my workshop team doesn't have the skills to make a TD5 work again once they have taken it apart, in fact I wouldn't trust them with much anything, so I need functioning units to replace with, we order our gearboxes and transfer cases from ashcroft and this seems to work well (if I keep reminding my team to put the clutch plate in the right way round), and I am not around to guide them in the workshop....
We offered to fly in and supervise the first install and teach the mechanics in our quote for the cost of airfare and room and board for a week @ the preserve. Pretty sure Cummins SA edited that out as well.For the money he is spending, he could fly Doug down there for six months and be further ahead.