Best and worst diesel engines ever put in a big truck
#21
06-11-2008, 02:20 PM
Originally Posted by TK THE TRUCKER
Originally Posted by TK THE TRUCKER
We used to have this 1968 truck just like it. It had this, I think, gas 585 Cadillac motor in it. That thing barely moved.
 ops: I remember 585 and some kind of motor. I'll have to ask my father what the hell engine it was. 8) 8)Ford also offered a 401 and 477 which used that same grotesquely inefficient block.
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#22
06-13-2008, 07:59 AM
had a Cummins ISX 600 HP 8)
great power, but it did use a bit of oil now i have a Detroit DD15 with 550 HP. its a gutless wonder. but im stuck with it for at least 300k more miles :cry: just say NO to Detroit Diesel
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#23
06-13-2008, 04:02 PM
Cummins stock skyrocketed the other day when it was announced that CAT is getting out of the North American diesel engine business.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7582348
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#25
06-14-2008, 12:37 AM
International announced they were building an engine already last year, about the same time as Paccar did.
#26
06-14-2008, 03:58 AM
Originally Posted by TK THE TRUCKER
Originally Posted by TK THE TRUCKER
We used to have this 1968 truck just like it. It had this, I think, gas 585 Cadillac motor in it. That thing barely moved.
ops: I remember 585 and some kind of motor. I'll have to ask my father what the hell engine it was. 8) 8)LOL..back then.....most of us were thrilled to get a truck that had the Cat3208 as a power plant!!
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#28
06-14-2008, 12:49 PM
My '05 Volvo has this big red thing that says Cummins. I have driven it around 47000 miles and observed two things . . it's extremely reliable and it will out pull most trucks at or near gross on most hills.
RIP CAT . . you sure sounded good . . RIP anything box, square or long nosed . . you USED to look good . . 7.2 over all MPG. It was 6.7 when I got it.
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#29
06-14-2008, 02:45 PM
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I just LOVED my old 12v71 Detroit. Had all the marien conversions, 92 blowers, twin turbos, hell of a motor (As long as you could keep oil in it). Walk up, do a walk around, walk up to the cab, open the door, put your hand on the sill and then slam the door. Then you were ready to go trucking. Wind it up till it wouldn't wind no more
#30
06-15-2008, 01:08 AM
I had a 12V71 in the 70's. One day I sunk a little bit loaded and I was rockin back and forth trying to get out. I rocked it forward,stalled it and it rolled back in the hole. This started that ole 318 running backwards. Blowing blue smoke out the vents and clattering like the devil. I abandoned ship scared to death. The other guys got a big laugh out of it and told me it wasn't uncommon for those 2 strokes to run backwards. That was the only time it ever happened to me.
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