im not a d.d. Fan oil dripping is a troits tradition. But to each is own.
This big yeller engine $imply purrs at 80000#
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11 meter is very quiet?
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This big yeller engine $imply purrs at 80000#
I like all motors but my favorite is an ole 400 Cummins or a b model cat.
ohh my best 1 my 90 mack superliner E9-500hp V8 marine pump n injectors 18 speed newway airride mack 3:36 rears.wish id kept that 1.guy who owns it completely restored it n just shows it now.i sold it 15 years ago for $20000 he was offered $40000 .he laughed n walked away
A friend owns a Signature 600 in a ‘99 379. 2.25-million. 800k on second engine. He described the cold starts sounding this way when original files are used.
Hell, I could be retired and still walk out at dawn with a coffee and let it fire off just to listen awhile.
About 0730 out on the highway with an empty trailer and run slow in the way of the commuters. Consider my daily good deed as done. .
Till tomorrow.
Edit: He also has one of the best radios I’ve ever heard. A magically good 959 Galaxy. All the pieces came together. Barefoot (no amp) he’ll hit you 15-miles out in West Texas.
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Had a DD generator years ago in a far off land that we started with a cargo strap and a HMMWV.
You got that right,kicked myself every now n then after i sold it
the rarest truck we got here at the shop is a 1973 cabover dodge with an old screamin Detroit but it’s cut up now just sits in the back but we got a few old 359 Pete’s we run and some that are going to be restored one day
i bet its got a hydraulic clutch. Deceased friend had a black dodge cabover 73 with 238 10 speed. He lengthened it out to 325 inch wb
On that particular camp about 120 diesel gensets. Only one DD.
Just sheer number wise probably 70% Perkins and the other 30% made up of Cats, JDs, Deutz, White, Volvo, and a Cummins or two - keep in mind many of these were not sourced from the US.
Measure in watts and it was a different story: all the heavy hitters were big Cats. Most of the Cats were 1-1.8 megawatts.
In the 100-300kW ballpark, the Perkins were more or less as bulletproof as you could get.
we used to say reason they ran screamin jimmys in boats was there aint no hills to climb on the ocean.
But head over to a rock quarry,see a 238 or 318 on a rock crusher n its started n cranked wide open ran like that all day,it never drips oil
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