[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zdtlvxBA6Y

[Red Badger]

DIESEL kNoCk!..................

[OKSooner]

Well, cool just for the novelty of it. One never knew that such a thing existed. Obviously it would never make it past the emissions regulations today, which makes it so much even more cooler.

One will watch later.

[BradyLS]

Will they put it back to work? Put it in a museum? Wreck it in an action movie?

[NorthMountain]

Source: Bruce in AUS / YouTube

Because of course his name is "Bruce".

If it was "Michael", that would cause a little confusion.

[OKSooner]

Good on someone for making it run again.

[Bob434]

My dad used to work on a person’s 12 cylinder jaguar - the thing was a beast

[sonova]

Detroit Diesel .. turning diesel fuel into noise. Glorious delicious noise!

[pierrem15]

A marvel of simplicity and how the maturation of ICE technology without electronics made massive improvements in labor productivity and income possible.

Is the performance and longevity of newer engines better? Yes, but how many "improvements" that have added costs such as improved fuel economy, emissions control, and safety have been driven by government mandate instead of market demand? What is the cumulative effect of such mandated market inefficiency over just about every product produced and sold? How is this different in the end from a planned, Soviet-style economy?

[mountainlion]

I used to maintain. a pair of v16-94 generators. Two turbochargers and two super chargers each. 1,000 HP debated to 750HP because of altitude.

[Yardstick]

Interesting. I didn’t realize these big diesel engines were 2-stroke.

[left that other site]

I got an old Honda 750-4 going by pouring Mystery Oil into all four cylinders and putting in a new battery.

VROOM!

I salvaged it out of my voice teacher’s back yard where it had sat for decades, obtained a Salvage Title, and got to work.

Cleaned up, it sold for $500.00.

Those were the days, my friend. I LOVE ICEs!

[spankalib]

I can tell from most of the FReepers posting here that most would like "Diesel Creek" on utube:

https://www.youtube.com/@DieselCreek

Matt takes heavy equipment that's been abandoned for 20 years & gets them up & running.

Fun channel!

[Chode]

Vise Grip Down Under...

[Clay Moore]

Some of our old fire trucks had 2 stroke Detroits in them. Every morning we would pull everything out of the equipment bay and wipe up about a 3’x5’ pool of oil. On Saturday we put 3-5 quarts of oil in them.

That was considered normal leakage and consumption.

If you matted the throttle from a stop it would blow a black cloud of smoke that would block out the sun, and you about had to mat it to get it rolling.

Ah, the good old days.

[Libloather]

EVs do exactly the same thing, no?