From: Marc Strangfeld (curlyjoe98@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 06 2004 - 21:57:49 PDT
>oh, by the way, while the 3208 and 3204 may
> not be caterpillars
> best effort, they are certainly not throw away
> engines. cat has a large
> rebuilt shop in texas that remans them and they will
> run for hundreds of
> thousands of miles if taken care of.
> tom
Perhaps if people/truck manufacturers used it as a
medium duty engine as it was intended it wouldn't have
the bad reputation. I still don't think I'd buy a
truck with one in it however. Especially since there
is such a glut of trucks out there to chose from.
Marc
--- tom-fastest_m-35 <milveh@carr.org> wrote:
> bjorn is right, the flanges need to be there to
> support the axle shaft.
> there is only a short bushing in the inner end of
> the spindle and none
> in the axle tube so all the weight would be on that
> one bushing and it
> would certainly do it no good to be moving around
> that way. also the
> original drive flanges are only heat treated and not
> all that hard that
> they cannot be easily machined and they will still
> support the axle
> while allowing it to turn in the flange with a small
> amount of grease.
> it has been fairly ease to find spare flanges and it
> cost me $15 to have
> a pair machined which is why i gave kenny a pair for
> his last trip from
> here. oh, by the way, while the 3208 and 3204 may
> not be caterpillars
> best effort, they are certainly not throw away
> engines. cat has a large
> rebuilt shop in texas that remans them and they will
> run for hundreds of
> thousands of miles if taken care of.
> tom
>
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