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Not sure it mattered much!no water in the oil?
Not sure it mattered much!no water in the oil?
I'm in my 30s and I play it occasionally just cause I like the sound!This is my 2 year olds favourite video
We've that Merc engine in our Claas Dominator combine, I've been known to start it and give it a blip or two just to cheer myself up!!Any FPT, John Deere 466, MWM and probably the very best is Mercedes OM352 absolute beast and sound godly!
Even if it did, no laptop was necessary to fix it!Not sure it mattered much!
No Detroits fitted to any tractor I can think of in the UK, older plant certainly had them. The Defender fire trucks at the airports had them in the 90's as did the Tyne class lifeboats from the RNLI (both 8V92 DDEC's if I recall rightly).Cummins 6bt. Or MwM as in the older renaults. Were there many Detroits fitted in tractors?
I had one of those Sambrons back in the day. Great loaders fir it’s time with the three cylinder Deutz popping away. Loved the hydrostatic drive. Much better that the matbro that replaced it.
I had one in a 976 versatile that was set at 400. She was past 11k hours when it went. I had it for 10 years and only every changed the batteries on it. Different mentality to building tractor back then. Now that are only wanting them to hold together until the warranty is out.the Big Cam 855 was used in a whole range of equipment, including both Versatile & Steiger tractors. From memory, it went from about 180 hp up to at least 350 hp . . .
The lad who milled our pig feed back in the day had a mill mounted on a wagon with a Detroit running the mill, it made some sound at full chatt.No Detroits fitted to any tractor I can think of in the UK, older plant certainly had them. The Defender fire trucks at the airports had them in the 90's as did the Tyne class lifeboats from the RNLI (both 8V92 DDEC's if I recall rightly).
It's bigger brother EMD (Electro Motive Diesels) were used in trains and generators, there are still a lot of Detroits and EMD's running on older oil rigs to this day in the North sea with high high hours run.
Emissions killed them off in this country, they started building four strokes after that but were mega money to import (IIRC about twice the price of a Cat) so Cummins & Cat stole the show from then on in.
So good, I bought 2
And one still does a fair bit ....... including having to pull out bogged down JDs ....... it torques down to them
Exactly what I was about to post,Perkins 6354
Jack?The lad who milled our pig feed back in the day had a mill mounted on a wagon with a Detroit running the mill, it made some sound at full chatt.
Yep and BillyJack?
Great blokes Dad and Jack are still good friends.Yep and Billy
its more than just about hp though isnt it? and any case them 2 engines much of muchness in that way imoWe had a 674 with that engine. Flat as a fart compared with The Perkins 236 in our Massey 168 and the head cracked after only 5 years. Swapped it for a Renault with The 4 pot MWM .(I could never understand the nomenclature on those engines, it was called a D226-4 I believe which makes it sound as if it was only 226 cu in when actually it was 256!) Now that was a good engine .
Prefer the smoothness and quietness of the 6 with a water jacket on itSAME 1000.4 & 1000.6 air cooled engines.