Need Information Motor Rebuild

[luvrbus]

@luvurbus "The 8v92 military rebuilt or new engines are everywhere I just purchased 2 and 1 has a 740 transmission attached." If I may ask what sort of costs are these?

They sell from $2500.00 up with the shipping containers,there are 5000 8v92 at the Barstow CA military base that will be auction off this year I look for those to get even cheaper both DDEC and mechanical controlled.You need to know what you are buying. when it comes to the military spec engines it can cost big dollars to adapt one to a bus configuration,T drive buses are lot easier to configure than a V drive left handed turning bus engine like a GM uses  

[Scott & Heather]

Here's my secret engine failure plan:

Buy a used coach with an 8v92 in it that was recently rebuilt but the bus is junk. Spend maybe $10,000 on it. Swap motors, scrap the old bus with my dead motor for $3000 and i just fixed my bus for $7,000.

Not bad.

[Iceni John]

My understanding these old DD 2 strokes are running buses in many other countries. If so, is there much experience in buying a rebuilt long block and having it shipped here? May be an incorrect stereotype but it seems poorer countries may keep more of these old mills on the road.

Unfortunately there's much fewer 2-strokes in Mexico than even a few years ago.   Last year I saw only a handful of 2-stroke buses (including a pair of MC9s!), and they were all in rural areas way outside DF.   I'm going there again in a few weeks, so I'll keep my eyes open for others.   (There's a GM 4104 still in revenue service near Aguascalientes that I saw last year  -  maybe it's still there?)   So, any thoughts of having a 2-stroke worked on in MX probably isn't realistic any more.

John

[eagle19952]

 So, any thoughts of having a 2-stroke worked on in MX probably isn't realistic anymore.

Again, I am aware of fleets in the trophy fish industry and shrimpers. Mexico/Mexicans do not seem, in my experience, to abandon any skill...