Best and worst diesel engines ever put in a big truck
#31
06-15-2008, 01:31 PM
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Yep they used to do that, mine did it pretty regular. Really screwed up the air filters if you left it do it to long
#32
06-15-2008, 01:35 PM
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Yep they used to do that, mine did it pretty regular. Really screwed up the air filters if you left it do it to long
#33
06-15-2008, 01:47 PM
Originally Posted by cowdoc
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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#34
06-15-2008, 02:44 PM
Originally Posted by Colts Fan
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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#35
06-15-2008, 03:22 PM
Originally Posted by cowdoc
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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#37
06-15-2008, 04:24 PM
Originally Posted by cowdoc
You are correct of course. I guess brain disengaged. We had a 71 8V71. We also had a 6V71 238 which was weak. Hooked to a 10 speed would barely pull itself off.
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#38
07-06-2010, 04:57 PM
The smoothest running and strongest pulling engine I have driven was a 60 series Detroit in a '95 Pete. Rolling up I-75 north of Cleveland, TN I hit the grade at 70 with 79,500 on and topped the hill at 64. Not bad really.
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