Dear List, I'm considering several used trawlers and they seem to have a wide range of hours on the engines. Whether it’s a full engine rebuild for the Caterpillar 3208 or simple maintenance for the Cat 3204, we’ve got the engine parts to keep your fleet operating. CAT 3208 Arrangement CAT 3208 engine specs, bolt torques, manuals The original caterpillar 3208 diesel engine was a 225hp, 636 cubic-inch capacity V8 design.
Cat 3208 Marine Heat Exchanger Removed From 1996 210hp Engine. If the 425 CAT is experiencing many failures, then let’s look at it as an individual flaw and not just categorize everything else built w/ similar material as trash. The Cat 3208 at 375 HP built close to a 20 year track record with aluminum housed seawater cooled aftercoolers w/ probably only a handful of failures (not that I even know of one).
