I was just curious if anyone here could help me put a ballpark value on a Lister 8/1.
It was originally part of a SOM (start-o-matic) power plant. It was a barn find (overseas) and was shipped to the states back befor the ban.
It was inspected refurbished and tested before being crated.
I picked it up over 10 years ago and its been in storage ever since. Still not sure im willing to part with it. I would still like to find time to play with it.
But my wife has medical expenses. So will see.
She always compains im a pack rat, but my old purchases from when i was single are becoming a God sent.
Pictures aren’t the best but it is what i have on my phone.
I would ask these guys. They have a remanufactured 8/1 for 1300 but that might be a clone since that is what they have listed under the chart for location, and another page has the 8/1 clones new for the same price.
You might look on the internet for hit and miss clubs somewhere around where you live. The lister is a throttler but there would still be some interest from those guys. Also look in the smokestack engine forum.
Hi Chris , i have a friend that is at this moment putting in over size big end shells on his SOM engine i think its the same model as the one you have , I think he mentioned only a few weeks ago that he paid over 2 grand about 4 years ago for his as a running engine with generator , pretty sure its the same as we were talking about indirect injection engines being able to run old motor oil and how the spare parts for those engines are so cheap due to them being made in India still ,Bot sure of the value of yours where you are but here in Australia they are going for anywhere between 1 and 2 grand .
I can ask him any questions you might have as he has a lot of Lister engines and is up on these engines .
Dave
Thanks Dave, its good to know there is a contact out there that has real world experience with the listers.
Ill keep you in mind, im hoping to dig it out of storage this summer.
I just sold a deutz air cooled engine to a local amish resently. They are going to put a hand clutch on it and run their saw mill with it.
Dad mentioned i had this lister and they where real interested. But i have no idea what its worth. They are not collectors they probably dont care it its an original or not. They are just looking for powerplant they can use daily for real world work.
Still not sure i want to even sell it anyway. Id be bummed if i let it go without even playing around with it. Run a chunker or genset or something.
Ill have to look up serial number again. Memory isnt very good anymore but i think i remember looking it up once and it was a 43. But not sure on that anymore.
He has it out in the bush as he is totally off grid , he should have it back up and running in a day or two .
Brian has one as well but his SOM has a twin cylinder Diesel engine
Dave
He bought it to run waste oil on, and he told me that as its indirect injection he can run waste motor oil with it as long as the oil is filtered first of course and will of course run on waste veggie oil and diesel .
Dave
Best way to sell something in my book. Means you aren’t forced to take less just because you need the $, but because someone wants it more.
We will head back out to Baltimore in July, wife is getting a kiddney removed and some major re-pluming of some vessels to aleviate some compression issues. crossed and prayers to the good Lord everything goes well, as well as a quick recovery. Probably be out there 2 weeks for sure.
Do i want to sell?..no, but figured i should probably know what its worth if i need to.
Greetings Chris, I am asking our Creator for your wife, He knows what is best for us.
I paid 400 Euros for my Jenbacher engine, well, your Lister is practically unused and is worth more, but there are very few potential buyers for such engines, if it were closer, I would buy it. These engines are very interesting for operation on waste oil, and even more so for operation in hybrid mode on wood gas, where the combustion is very clean, one could only wish to have such an engine at home in case of crisis situations. I will add magnetic ignition and a spark plug to my Jenbacher, so it will work easily even on 100% wood gas.
I hope you will creat a topic and document your work on the Jenbacher. I for one would be very interested in following along, im sure there are others as well.
I noticed that as well.
I did see a 6-1 a week ago on craigslist. I believe it was listed for 2700 but i cant be for sure. I cant find the listing anymore so who knows how much it actually sold for.
The more i research them the more i dont want to give mine up. Would rather find a nice pto type generator to couple up to it. But boy those have gone up!
I wrote to the email on that site and got a very quick reply:
“Prices on old web site are more than a decade out of date now. We still operate Lister/Petter Americas parts and service out of Kansas. If there is anything you need, we likely have it.”
So if anyone needs parts send [email protected] an email. (I didn’t ask about complete or reman engines).
Th Lister my friend has is a 6-1 he ordered new big end shells for his as the previous owner had put in the incorrect over sized shells and it rattled a lot , his new shells came in last week and will not fit the conrod , it seems he has the Indian conrod and crank in his engine , so he re ordered a new conrod and shells to match .
Most modern day spares for these engines are made in India he said and there is nothing wrong with there quality and have even managed to modernise the manufacturing of spare parts .
Dave
Best way to sell something in my book. Means you aren’t forced to take less just because you need the $, but because someone wants it more.
crossed and prayers to the good Lord everything goes well, as well as a quick recovery. Probably be out there 2 weeks for sure.