Case has the rebuild kit with pistons, cylinder sleeves, wrist pins, bearings, rings and gaskets for $2,100. I'm buying new injector nozzles for $78 each, new exhaust bolts, new thermastats and all new water lines. I'll be into this for just under $3,000 and have a new engine for it.
My Dad had an RV with a 5.9 Cummins in it abuout ten years ago that needed a rebuild. The cost for that was $8,000
I don't know what it would cost to hire somebody to do my 8.3 Cummins, but that's sort of the number I'd expect.
Here is the tool I made to pully the cylinder sleeves and one of me on the dozer using it.
I will get my lake dug, I just have no idea when.
Eddie