replacement ford engine

[Alrob]

Anyone know where I can get a good replacement ford 120HP Lehman engine from for a project I am thinking about.

Am I right in thinking these are transit engines ?

cheers

 

[longjohnsilver]

Contact Mermaid Marine in Poole, most of their engines are Ford based and they are very helpful.

Mermaid

 

[macnorton]

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Anyone know where I can get a good replacement ford 120HP Lehman engine from for a project I am thinking about.

Am I right in thinking these are transit engines ?

cheers

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The transit uses a 4 cylinder 2.4 or 2.5 ltr engine, I think the 120 was based on the D6 (6 cylinder 6ltr) usually fitted to trucks, try truckbusters

 

[Alrob]

all good info guys m- keep it coming

what kind of money are we talking about for a recon - (roughly)

 

[burgundyben]

I think some of the later Lehman 120's were dover or dorset block, Mermaid as LJS says.

Should be able to get a rebuilt core for about 2.5k I reckon, check out boatsnadoutboards.com

 

[essexboy]

Lancing Marine, Les Bellamys your man.

 

[omega2]

No they are the cargo engine, straight 6 5996cc, and weigh about 1/2 a ton

 

[LittleShip]

They were indeed the Dover or Cargo engines, depending on which one you have, they come in many disguises including generators. These engines were a slow revving low power unit 120-135 and were marinised by many a different manufacturers.

You will see them referred to as Lehman , Sabre ect and were know to have turbos on some of them, the base unit is a Ford.

The replacement by Lancing marine is an expensive unit 10K+ but reconditioning one is not out of the question and a lot cheaper.

If you need manuals I can point you in the right direction

Tom

 

[omega2]

You could try Freedom Marine, but not much change out of £8'000

 

[Alrob]

okay so I decide to renew the engine, it is in a trawler yacht
boat with the engine under the main salon, now my question is how do you get the engine out ??

 

[LittleShip]

Send me a PM with you email address and I will forward a couple of photos of how I did it!

Tom

PS I'm away until friday!

 

[Latestarter1]

Hi,

Have you considered a a bit if lateral thought? If your vessel is a Grand Banks 32 we did three or four over the years, we re-powered with Cummins 6B 120.

Ford Lehmans were good motors in their time, however time is being called on older Fords. Dorset forget it. The newest Dovers are getting on for twenty years old, pistons no longer cheap.

Even totally rebuilt they smoke on start up and have built in oil leaks.

Cummins 6B by comparison is a little lighter and smaller so will sit on the same footprint as an old Ford. This is a far more durable motor, easily good for 30,000 Hours plus in this type of application with NO start up smoke, better fuel consumption and no oil leaks.

Consumable parts, filters are cheap as chips, hardly a town in Britain which does not have the engine running around in Dennis buses and DAF trucks.

If you have a GB 32 I can dig out some pictures. You will probably need new fuel tanks, which is a far bigger challenge.

 

[Latestarter1]

Digging into the records we did at least two with Cummins 6B210's, in the version with fiberglass hulls, owners still reported better fuel consumption, I also think the later hull shape responds to being run at semi displacement speeds.

 

[Gumpy]

I have just done this in my Barge.
Spent ages trawling the interweb looking at various sites. Eventually found a 1980 Ford Sabre with 1350hrs on the clock. The owner had a reasonable story as to why the hours were so low, so after having had a sea trial I bought it for £1750.
After a couple of hundred hours the only problem I have had is a crankshaft oil seal and I suspect that was because of the extra alternator adding to much sideways load.
Doesnt smoke or use oil so I am well pleased

Found it on findafishingboat.com
http://www.findafishingboat.com/listings.php?cid=13

Got a recon PRM 360 from there to for £200 plus my old box /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

As for Parts I use these guys
http://www.seahorsepower.co.uk/
They may be able to do complete engines worth asking.

Julian