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my truck has been pretty reliable I had one drive shaft that didn't take lube in the splines so I had to replace it than this weekend I had a side wall blow out. thank god it happened before hooking up to the 45000 pound dozer trailer combo I towed back to Nome. the roads were slick with a fresh...
I was once a diehard cummins fan, since I have spent the last 10 years on cat stuff, I cant say its any better just a little different. I wouldn't go through the trouble to re power unless I had an engine I could no longer get parts or service for. Like I said I have a snow cat wit a dorset ford...
the c series is longer and taller than a b, it will make a bit more torque, and is a wet sleeved engine not a bored cylinder like the b series and 3116 cat. the cat is a 7 liter engine and the c series engine is 8 liters. the c series should be about the same size as the cat but a b will be much...
you can also get an rpm signal for the cummins to. I work on both engines and also deere on occasions, I don't see much difference in the price of parts in any of them. The aftermarket support for parts is drying up because of deals like cat has, where they no longer allow the company's they are...
I would leave the cat maybe tune it up to around 300 hp. Replacing with a like engine will be a lot less work. When the 363 ford diesel took a dump on my snow cat, I went looking for another one. I had a 6 b cummins on the floor but that would have required a re engineering of the whole thing...
I just ran into a problem, the line going to the oil sampling valve had been rubbing on the oil filter, in my case it wore through the line first, but had left a deep wear mark in the oil filter to.
Check your cat bolts cat is good for using bolts that have metric threads, but head sizes that work with both size wrenches, like 16 mm heads which interchange with 5/8.
I thought mine was having regulator problems too since the temps dropped to -20. turns out its just the gauge I gave it a couple taps and the needle jumped right up to 28 volts