Four Cylinder Perkins, expensive to rebuild?

[Gearstix]

I may try to get a four cylinder Perkins turbocharged diesel engine from my dad's work.
When my dad was off over the weekend one of the employees didnt check the oil in the truck and the oil drain hose (its got a big huge 4wd front axle in it) had came off the pan and it dumped all the oil on the floor and somehow he didn't notice the oil on the floor and drove it till it locked up.

My dad got it back to the shop and put some oil in it and got it running again but he said it was noisy. So they replaced the engine in it.

The old motor is sitting on a crate on the floor.

I have a different truck now, a 96 S10 because my dad accidentally cut down a tree on my old truck, and it needs a engine rebuild, so I'm thinking I might as well put in an engine I want.
I have a 4.3 GM Automatic trans (4L60E if I remember right, however its 4x4 so I'd have to change it to 2wd)

Are the four cylinder perkins expensive/difficult to rebuild? I have a friend who has a cylinder head shop.

How do I determine what bellhousing is on it?

Its in a PSI push back tractor, like this.
http://www.rockanddirt.com/perl/thumbnail.pl?db=truckdb&height=280&width=385&border=0&fname=6965744_k.jpg

I will try to get the serial number from it.

[rustyk]

Can't offer any help, except that on Perkins and Westerbekes, the location of the injector lines' clamps and brackets is critical. Otherwise, resonance can set up and break the lines.

[Gearstix]

I went and took a look at the engine.
I didn't get all of the serial numbers but this is what I got.

50272

U342802T

[Yesterday]

You might try DSG's website, a DP advertiser, they handle Perkins engines.

Duane

[Gearstix]

I am quite sure it is an LJ, therefore it is the T4.236..

[NH2112]

If you can get it for free you've got nothing to lose by tearing it down and miking everything. IMO they're way better than 4BTs, when Ingersoll-Rand started building their new construction forklift models (VR642, VR843, etc) it seemed the 4BTs they used sounded like a coffee can full of bolts before 2500 hours. I saw more I-R VR90s and Hyster Z90s with 4.236s (turbo & NA) that had over 10K hours on them and still ran great except for the smoke show on cold starts.

Most of the pushbacks on our field have Detroits, 2 have liquid-cooled Deutz, one has an EFI 300 I6, and one of ours (a big Stewart & Stevenson 4WD unit) has a 6.2l in it. :) Another of ours has a silly little Chrysler 3.0l V6 with FWD tranny sending power to a D60 front & dually D70 rear.