"Frode Berg" wrote in message
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What would our options be? A new engine? Refurbished one? What would be
the
pro's and con's of those two, and the price difference.

I was chatting to an aircraft-owning friend who's also an engineer (and
who's also trying to sell me a share in a PA28-161) about this the other
day. In his opinion and experience, he reckons that if you can afford it,
you should always go for the new engine instead of a "zero timed"
refurbishment. Apparently he's found over the years that although components
may look okay during the refurb, it's generally the bits that weren't
replaced that start to give trouble, and that there's a noticeable trend
that refurb engines need attention long before new ones.

D.