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« on: November 02, 2023, 10:58:33 PM »
Has it been sitting outside uncovered for awile? (A few years or more) Post some pictures when you start digging in to it.. They are fairly simple engines to work on.. I have two now. A 12/2 CS clone. From p.m. diesels in India.. And a Metro CS 6/1 roid type.. 12/2 is a few weeks from running. But it was an easy rebuild as it was stored inside for 15 years with about 10 hours runtime.. A bunch of things had to be corrected. A couple things I was not setup to do, A well known shop in my area did a bit of the machining type work.
Water in the engine for a long time is not going to look pretty when you tear it down.. Your engine may have the replaceable liners ? Which helps.. But still expensive.. You eill probably find a gallon or so sitting undr the oil when you pull the drain plug.. Hopefully the water did not get up as high as the crankshaft.. unlikely but possible.. You will have to take it down to bare block and clean it up and see how it looks. I wish you good luck and hope it is not to bad..
You will probably spend quite a few $$ getting parts for it.. As the days of inexpensive pistons and rings, bearings lifters, valves guides and springs were peanuts back then.. are long gone.. Prices are pretty rediculous actually for what you are getting.. They have not improved the parts much since they started.. So you are buying the same camshaft lifters etc that were in the engines imported here 25-30 years ago.. But you are paying alot more $$ for the same kind of crap parts.
Not trying to dicourage you at all and hope it works out.. It just will not be as cheap as it used to be.. Take it fully apart and inspect everything ,including knocking out all the cast iron slag and cleaning sand from the crankcase. Do not order any parts until you see what you are working with. This is just my opinion and ymmv.. But there is a ton of reading you can do here on the forum to see alot of the problems the India people caused themselves. In the 40 years they have been producing parts and engines copied from the original english engines, they have screwed up way more than they improved.. As far as india lister engines are concerned, they simply do not care.. And put almost zero effort in quality control.