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Some friends of ours need help please, urgently need a 1500 bmc engine they are stranded and need your help.

Please message me if you can help.

Thankyou Martin

Posted
15 hours ago, Titan said:

Some friends of ours need help please, urgently need a 1500 bmc engine they are stranded and need your help.

Please message me if you can help.

Thankyou Martin

 

 

There appears to be a BMC 1.5 on ebay at the moment, £100 and no bids yet.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/kubota-bmc-marine-engine/192636576325?hash=item2cda08e245:g:s8YAAOSwh49bgEVG

 

 

Or there are several expired ebay listings which failed to sell, e.g.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bmc-diesel-engine/263833086299?hash=item3d6dad695b:g:G0UAAOSwixlbVhSB

 

 

Worth contacting all of them I'd say. Search for completed listings. 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Boat-Engines-Motors/56422/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=bmc+diesel&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=56422&LH_Complete=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=RG6+4BY&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=3&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=200

Posted
4 minutes ago, Athy said:

I think Calcutt Marine sell reconditioned ones.

 

I took the OP to be wanting one for less than the £3k+ price of a Calcutt one. Although he doesn't actually say. 

Posted
Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

I took the OP to be wanting one for less than the £3k+ price of a Calcutt one. Although he doesn't actually say. 

You're quite correct. I would rather trust a £3,000 one from an established specialist than a hundred quid one out of the back of some bloke's shed, I think.

Posted
5 minutes ago, Athy said:

You're quite correct. I would rather trust a £3,000 one from an established specialist than a hundred quid one out of the back of some bloke's shed, I think.

 

You are in the privileged position of having £3k+ lying around, I suspect. Not everyone has. 

 

 

Posted
37 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

You are in the privileged position of having £3k+ lying around, I suspect. Not everyone has. 

 

 

Not after just paying for extensive fencing and tree pollarding work here!


Of course I appreciate that budgets vary - but I'm also aware of the adage "Buy cheaply, buy twice".

Posted
1 minute ago, RLWP said:

They do, but not the 1500:

 

http://www.calcuttboats.com/engines.html

 

Richard

 

Should the OP's friend be comfortably off, an 'off the shelf' reconditioned 1800cc BMC would still be a direct swap I think. Yes?

 

Or do Calcutt require a knackered 1800 engine in addition to the £3k purchase price for a recon 1800cc engine? The web page is ambiguous on this point.

 

 

Posted
15 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

The web page is ambiguous on this point.

 

 

The first item in the price list says:

 

Quote

Rebuilt exchange ‘long’ engine - an un-marinised but running unit

 

The rest are based on that

 

Richard

Posted
2 minutes ago, RLWP said:

The first item in the price list says:

 

 

The rest are based on that

 

Richard

 

 

Ok thanks.

 

So a Calcutt recon engine is off the menu for the OP.

 

 

Posted
5 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

Search for an old model Sherpa van scrap, 1.8 D BMC.

 

Will drop in but much fuel line replumbing.

 

Just for fun - try that on Ebay and see if you can find any

Posted
1 hour ago, Boater Sam said:

Search for an old model Sherpa van scrap, 1.8 D BMC.

 

I suspect it will take a long while to find one, though, won't it?

Posted
2 hours ago, bizzard said:

Sherpa's tend to hang around Kathmandu waiting for work.

 

What? Even the Luton versions? 

 

I'm surprised they can drive up a mountain. Mine used to get stuck even in slightly muddy fields....

 

 

Posted
6 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

What? Even the Luton versions? 

 

I'm surprised they can drive up a mountain. Mine used to get stuck even in slightly muddy fields....

 

 

Must have been a Shirka.

29 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

Or for 1.5D, Morris Oxford, Austin Cambridge, J4 J2 van. Very long in the tooth now. Also look for the Thorneycroft and Tempest equivalents. 

 

J2's only used the B series petrol engine.  The diesel was pretty rare in the Cambridge, Oxford and the J4. The 1500 Diesel was pretty slow and sluggish in vehicles, nobody wanted them.

Posted
5 minutes ago, bizzard said:

The 1500 Diesel was pretty slow and sluggish in vehicles, nobody wanted them.

Apparently they sold well in Malta

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