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td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:40 am
by big lux
Ok i dropped my engine off as a long motor no axcessories to be rebiult 6 mnths ago got a phone call yesterday saying its ready to pick up and invoice is $6500 including gst. are u serious. seen them exchange on ebay for 4k, what have others paid?
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:04 pm
by thehanko
you dropped off an engine with no idea of what it was going to cost to rebuild? I would have wanted to have a reasonable idea based on the basics then extras from there.
$6500 doesn't seem out of the questions for a TD42 rebuild.
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:20 pm
by its aford not a nissan
considering nissan were selling bare td42 and td42t motors for $5500 not too long ago i would think that was a bit pricey
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:28 pm
by moddedgu
its aford not a nissan wrote:considering nissan were selling bare td42 and td42t motors for $5500 not too long ago i would think that was a bit pricey
I'd surely like to know where these are being sold for this price!!!! I priced one recently TD42T was $10500
David
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:44 pm
by 4wheelinls1
Quite often manufactureres sell engines cheaper than they can be reconditioned. Look at the 3.0L Diesel. If you do a full rebuild on a TD 42 and it is high mileage so you have do reface and reharden the rocker gear faces and buy oil pumps and resize rods, tunnel bore deck replace liners and so on and so on it will cost $6500 or more .
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:01 pm
by mickyd555
6.5K is cheap if you ask me.
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:56 pm
by toaddog
So what did they quote you before you dropped it off?
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:18 am
by 5inchgq
toaddog wrote:So what did they quote you before you dropped it off?
big lux wrote:Ok i dropped my engine off as a long motor no axcessories to be rebiult 6 mnths ago got a phone call yesterday saying its ready to pick up and invoice is $6500 including gst. are u serious. seen them exchange on ebay for 4k, what have others paid?
Seems to me that the question wasn't asked ?
Could be wrong though.
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:20 am
by big lux
was told around $4000 for all the machine work + the rebiuld kit wich was 1100 id be happy to pay that, just seems to me theres an extra $1000 coming from nowhere or miners tax im not shure.
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:06 am
by oldmate
I'd have a closer look at the invoice to see where the money went. But that kind of money isn't unheard of.
What surprises me is it took 6 months to do.
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:35 pm
by GaryP
big lux wrote:was told around $4000 for all the machine work + the rebiuld kit wich was 1100 id be happy to pay that, just seems to me theres an extra $1000 coming from nowhere or miners tax im not shure.
$1000 for labor sounds fair, $4000 for machine work does sound a bit exy though.
Re: td42 rebiuld cost
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:43 pm
by its aford not a nissan
moddedgu wrote:its aford not a nissan wrote:considering nissan were selling bare td42 and td42t motors for $5500 not too long ago i would think that was a bit pricey
I'd surely like to know where these are being sold for this price!!!! I priced one recently TD42T was $10500
David
twas nissan at/near archerfield, they had a motor sitting on the floor with a sign on it saying $5500, i asked about it and they confirmed that both the td42 and td42t motors were the same price, these are bare motors , no glow plugs,pumps, lines etc. , they also had bare zd30 motors for $6500 and was the updated motor,
this was about 14 months ago now tho