Sad Bulldog Engine - any ideas on sourcing a better one?
One of my lovely Bulldogs started looking very ugly on Annual - long story short it needs a fair amount of work, including a new Crankshaft. New one from Lycoming is a staggering £10,470 - flipping heck. Also needs crankcase skim and bore, all gears at the back replacing, another £3k. Amount of work to be done means that the engine would have its overhaul at the same time, putting the total cost in the region of £25k - which I can't help notice is not that far off a Bulldog approaching the end of its fatigue life.
SO - if anybody has any brilliant ideas, or happens to know of a nearly new Lycoming IO360 A1 B6 that could be made available, I would be very grateful to hear from them!
Cheers
greeners