Rebuild Cost

[spanerhed7]

I bought a used then rebuilt core from Pip for £3600 as my originial core had been totally overheated by the previous owner so all housings where scrap.

Having rebuilt my TII engine when a tip broke, I did it  myself for around £650, I would personally think you could do this for a lot less than £3k if nothing is broken yet. All you really need is a seal kit and new tips. I would very much doubt that housings needed replacing at 40k and should last AT LEAST double that if nothing like a broken tip damages them. If you do want to replace the side housings which take the most wear, RX Motors supply these at around £250 each for new ones, but I wouldn\'t bother.  Side housings, being cast iron wear much less but a visual inspection will reveal all.

Overall you are doing the right thing to get it done before it breaks, which will save potentially at least a grand.

PS I did find that API engines do rebuilt FD short engines for £1495 plus vat (but I had no exchange) has anyone tried them??