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| posted on September 1st, 2005 at 11:25 AM |
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recond. or rebuild
hey guys - i was wondering what is the difference in reconditioning or rebuilding an engine
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| posted on September 1st, 2005 at 11:32 AM |
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I would normally say that there is no difference....
..but if you want to split hairs, I would expect a reconditioned engine to have been rebuilt using some new and some secondhand parts, but built to
factory specs.
A rebuilt might just be slapped back together having fixed whatever part caused it to need to be pulled apart....
but as I said initially - I don't believe that there is any real difference, I have heard the both the terms used refering to the same engine.
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| posted on September 1st, 2005 at 12:55 PM |
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^ what he said. It is really just semantics. What you really want to know is what specific work is being done and what parts are new. Like new
Pistons/cylinders, journals ground, new oil pump etc. It's such a general kind of term it really can mean anything. Some dodgy mechanic can run
some dodgy snake oil engine revitalizer through an engine or soemthing and say it is reconditioned engine.
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| posted on September 1st, 2005 at 06:48 PM |
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Then there is also the term "remanufactured" used in engine building etc.
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