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    Reconditioned 4bd1t from china... thoughts?

    Hi all

    looking for a 4bd1t engine, and came across a company in china that reconditions them.

    The Company is called Comfort Diesel. Ive had communication:

    "For the 4BD1T engine for light truck, 88kw/2800rpm, the price is USD3050/set, with shipping cost
    to Australia sea port, we have delivered many of these engines to Australia before".

    Has anyone used them or have any thoughts on this...?

    Thanks

    Troy

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    Quote Originally Posted by troyfyn View Post
    Hi all

    looking for a 4bd1t engine, and came across a company in china that reconditions them.

    The Company is called Comfort Diesel. Ive had communication:

    "For the 4BD1T engine for light truck, 88kw/2800rpm, the price is USD3050/set, with shipping cost
    to Australia sea port, we have delivered many of these engines to Australia before".

    Has anyone used them or have any thoughts on this...?

    Thanks

    Troy
    Depends upon the quality of the components they put in it when they recoed it
    Being Chinese I would be wary as some of their stuff is rubbish but then again some of it isn't

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    I remember someone look into these, or was it new 4bd1t engines from china, and there was quite a few differences to the original isuzu engines. Was a thread on here somewhere about it

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    yeh it does concern me a little, just doing some research, still keen on your offer
    Thanks

    Quote Originally Posted by djam1 View Post
    Depends upon the quality of the components they put in it when they recoed it
    Being Chinese I would be wary as some of their stuff is rubbish but then again some of it isn't
    Last edited by p38arover; 20th October 2018 at 09:18 PM.

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    Well i might be parting this out soon, so its 4bd1t might be available

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    Engine

    Please keep me informed, what about the 4bd1....? Getting rid of both ?
    Thanks


    Quote Originally Posted by Vern View Post
    Well i might be parting this out soon, so its 4bd1t might be available

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    Nobody has yet made the comment that, if you do the work yourself, the cost of reconditioning a motor with a genuine Isuzu parts kit (which includes new liners) would be less than $3,000 wouldn't it?

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    Wouldn’t have a clue

    QUOTE=87County;2851056]Nobody has yet made the comment that, if you do the work yourself, the cost of reconditioning a motor with a genuine Isuzu parts kit (which includes new liners) would be less than $3,000 wouldn't it?[/QUOTE]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vern View Post
    Well i might be parting this out soon, so its 4bd1t might be available
    Yeah sorry, haven't had a chance to look at it yet, its a fare way down my list at the moment (its packed away), but i will be getting rid of the one in the shed.

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    From my perspective I wouldn't even consider a reco'd 4bd1t from China.

    a. You've no idea if its in fact a genuine Isuzu engine to start with
    b. No idea what they have used for parts
    c. No idea on the quality of the rebuild workmanship
    d. Due to the distance, you'd likely have to write the whole lot off as a bad experience if turned out to poorly.
    e. Its likely to have a crap turbo on it anyway.

    If you want a 4bd1 with turbo just buy a running NA motor locally and turbo it.
    If you're hung up on having a factory "T" engine you're either planning on some serious tuning, or haven't absorbed that the NA engines are very robust when turbo'd and that most people won't get any benefit from a factory T engine apart from a warm feeling in their shorts (or you DO know and just like the warm feeling.....
    If you're tuning or needing the feeling, you likely won't be satisfied with a china special.

    Personally I'd prefer starting with a genuine NA 4bd1 (even the very early 1981 stage1 engine that's in my county) rather than build on an unknown pedigree chinese sourced engine.

    BTW - I'd expect you'd be up for anything from AUD$1000-2000 extra in handling/customs costs at the Aussie end by the time you had it sitting in your shed. Think you'd have a pretty decent engine if you spent $6K locally on one.

    Steve
    1985 County - Isuzu 4bd1 with HX30W turbo, LT95, 255/85-16 KM2's
    1988 120 with rust and potential
    1999 300tdi 130 single cab - "stock as bro"
    2003 D2a Td5 - the boss's daily drive

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