After swapping out my engines, I am stuck with a "rodbender" 603.971 and have no idea what a fair price is or just take it to scrap.
It is the long block with intake manifold, injectors, glow plugs and leaking injection pump. Before I pulled it, it was using 1 qt of oil per 100 miles and no power.
Does anyone have any ideas what it might be worth?

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1987 350SDL Parts Car
1987 350SDL #2 Sons Car
1991 350SD My Car-RIP 9/7/09
1992 300SD Her Car
1995 E300 Spare Car-RIP 4/23/09
1992 S320 My Car - Soon to be diesel
1990 W250 4x4 Cummins #1 Son's Truck
1993 D350 Cummins My Truck
1999 3500 Cummins Just Another Truck
1987 Executive Cat 3208 Family Wagon

"Growing up is a choice. Growing old is a privilege"

The heads worth a few bucks, what does it have a 17?

I'd probably try to sell the head, and IP. Bet you can get a couple hundred for the IP, and probably the better part of a G note for the complete head. But I havn't bought a 603 head thankfully, so I'm not sure of what the market value is now.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I'm not sure what head is on it. But at least you have given me a ball park.
I have been searching all the usual sites, CL, e-Bay, etc, but no used broken down engines, so I have no idea what it's worth.

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1987 350SDL Parts Car
1987 350SDL #2 Sons Car
1991 350SD My Car-RIP 9/7/09
1992 300SD Her Car
1995 E300 Spare Car-RIP 4/23/09
1992 S320 My Car - Soon to be diesel
1990 W250 4x4 Cummins #1 Son's Truck
1993 D350 Cummins My Truck
1999 3500 Cummins Just Another Truck
1987 Executive Cat 3208 Family Wagon

"Growing up is a choice. Growing old is a privilege"

it also helps to click the completed listings on fleabay to get actual sale prices. and do multiple simple search strings because fleabay takes the search string literally, they need a lot of work on their search engine

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1982 300CD Turbo (Otis, "ups & downs") parts for sale
2003 TJ with Hemi (to go anywhere, quickly) sold
2001 Excursion Powerstroke (to go dependably)
1970 Mustang 428SCJ (to go fast)
1962 Corvette LS1 (to go in style)
2001 Schwinn Grape Krate 10spd (if all else fails)

When I was disposing of my .971 short block someone wanted the crank for an M103 -> C36 conversion. In fact I might know someone who'll take the crank for a similar project. Not sure he'll want to pay for it. If you sell the head and are stuck with a short block (with reciprocating assembly) no one wants, I'll take it if we can hoist it into my car.

Sixto
87 300D