Pc80

[Steveburton]

Hello everyone I’m new to the group and was hoping someone on here may be able to help I’m looking for a price for a Komatsu king post knuckle the machine is 8 tone I believe it’s a pc80 picture attached to help identify part
This price is purely just for a reference as I’ve recently line bored all the bores on one which has turned out to be a pretty expensive repair and am curious how much one is new compared to how much we are looking to charge for the repair

 

[Powerfab]

Welcome Steve, good to have you on board.

No picture attached, but IIRC you have to have a certain number of posts before you can post attachments.

 

[CPS]

Best thing to do is call the dealer and ask. I priced one for a 6 ton machine about 5 years ago and it was about £4500 from memory

 

[Steveburton]

I just noticed the file/picture didn’t upload I would ring a dealer but from experience they usually won’t give prices with machine serial numbers and I only have the knuckle in our workshop so was hoping someone might have priced one before but going on what you got priced on a 6 ton that long ago I think our repair isn’t even half the cost of a new one

 

[Diggerdavey]

I just noticed the file/picture didn’t upload I would ring a dealer but from experience they usually won’t give prices with machine serial numbers and I only have the knuckle in our workshop so was hoping someone might have priced one before but going on what you got priced on a 6 ton that long ago I think our repair isn’t even half the cost of a new one

In my opinion you charge what the job costs based on your labour rate and materials used. I’m assuming you wouldn’t work for a lesser labour rate to make your repair cheaper than a replacement as that wouldn’t be good business?

 

[V8Druid]

In my opinion you charge what the job costs based on your labour rate and materials used. I’m assuming you wouldn’t work for a lesser labour rate to make your repair cheaper than a replacement as that wouldn’t be good business?

yep ... was always time and materials (sometimes a premium added, if they wanted to jump the queue or were prats) .. was always fair on what things cost to do. ..... kept us busy and a good name

 

[CPS]

In my opinion you charge what the job costs based on your labour rate and materials used. I’m assuming you wouldn’t work for a lesser labour rate to make your repair cheaper than a replacement as that wouldn’t be good business?

It will be cheaper, and quicker id imagine.

I used to line bore alot of kingposts for main dealers so that should tell you they weren't cheap