Cat 3208 Page

First of all I would like to quell some 3208 issues. If all the 3208's I have remanufactured (Lots), I have only had 3 that really had "Blown Head Gaskets". The actually had the head gasket burned thru between cylinders. But they had NO WATER in the oil. The second one is "I have a bad oil cooler I have water in the oil". Think about it. 3208's average between 60 and 80 PSI of oil pressure and about 11 pounds of water pressure. When the oil cooler is bad you will have oil in the coolant. Now, why you really get coolant in the oil. Cylinder cavitation . Pin holes in the cylinder wall(s).  See Video Below. I have more people call for head gaskets than I care to count. These are not routine maintenance items. For some reason when I tell them, they have head gaskets put on anyway and then call back when they don't work. I don't get it. In order to repair these you must bore .250 out of block to install a repair sleeve. Then you must cut the repair sleeve to size and then finish hone the bore. If you do it in the unit where do all the cutting chips and hone debris go? Into the engine. I don't care how well you try to clean it you will not get them all out.  They then get sucked into the oil pump, ruin that. The they travel thru out the engine ruining that. Besides, if you have one cavitation hole more are coming in other cylinders. Your going to do another one sooner or later. If it lives through the first one. When ever the cylinder compresses it will also blow pressure thru the cav hole into the cooling system. Of course this can cause cooling system pressure and can blow up the radiator like a balloon. So you see there are more to these symptoms than just "a head gasket".
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The other thing is "Inframe Rebuild". What is this? This is NOT a rebuild. These engines have NO cylinder liners. The must be bored and honed for oversize pistons. (see blowby).  We install new cylinder repair liners to these engine because of cavitation holes.

Now lets see what's involved.

1.  Find affected cylinder
2.  Remove oil pan
3.  Remove oil pickup tube
4.  Remove head from affected side
5.  Find someone with a portable boring bar.
6.  Have cylinder bored and sleeved.
     (See if operator gives you a guarantee that all chips will be  removed).
7.  Reinstall head, valve train, injector nozzles,  exhaust etc.
8.  Fill fluids and restart.

View Cavitation Hole
Was a pin hole after boring .100 look
how big it got.

We install the following:
3 ring pistons
New Valves, valve guides, valve seats, valve springs and locks
Recon Camshaft
Recon Crankshaft
Recon Rods
NEW Water Pump
All Gaskets and seals
New Camshaft Bearings
New Main and Rod Bearings
New oil pump rotors
Remanufactured Fuel Injection Pump
New Injectors
Recon Turbo (as applicable)
Oil, Oil filters and fuel filter
All engine full tested
Warranted for 2 years unlimited miles (Vehicle engines)