Looking for B81 engine for FV432 MkI

[rob love]

These powerpacks used to be everywhere out west here about a decade or so back. But they have since dried up. I had a spare or two to go with my FV432 back in the day, and was a handy method of making sure you had one spare of everything (starter, junction box, oil sending unit, etc). It seems to me I bought very good condition take out packs for around $300 when I was still in Saskatchewan.

[Yohan]

Thank you for the kind replies. I'm sure the days of $300.00 take out 432 engines have passed me by! Why were there so many in Canada?

[rob love]

British Army Training Establishment Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta had loads of the gasoline FV432s in service. Around 95, they started disposing of them. Most went to the scrapyard in Regina, a smaller batch were sold on the condition they be scrapped, and they weren't. There was a trailer load of power packs included in the second batch I mentioned. These ones were sold to anyone with the cash. Complete 432s varied from $1800 to $5000.
Many others went to various ranges as targets, and the power plants were pulled before the hulls were filled with cement. These plants also were around.

I had the opportunity to slavage parts off the ones in the Regina scrapyard. The price was something like 10 cents a pound for whatever we took.