Yah scary indeed. I be a lot of these engines are long gone though.
Still this post from Mark Drillock is interesting and something I'd
possibly heed if need be:

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0006A&L=vanagon&P=R19735

granted that was way back in '02.  IF subsequent remans built by
Cummins were any good, my conjecture and questions may be moot.

Neil.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> very interesting.
> thanks for posting this.
> the Boston Bob stories are scary . ..how 'off' somethings that are supposed
> to be right can be.
>
> On 4/20/2012 10:21 AM, neil n wrote:

> Does anyone have an approximate time line of when this happened?
>
> It was interesting to get some insight via the archives. Here's a post
> from the esteemed Bob Donalds (may he RIP):
>
> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0410A&L=vanagon&P=R3349&m=188659
>

-- 
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