You'll have to watch the video. I saw one OP diesel in an old tugboat many decades ago and the thing slobbered an oily mess out the airbox drains worse than any Detroit Desiel ever did, but I guess they have a cure for that in mind.
You'll have to watch the video. I saw one OP diesel in an old tugboat many decades ago and the thing slobbered an oily mess out the airbox drains worse than any Detroit Desiel ever did, but I guess they have a cure for that in mind.
My last Detroit Diesel didn't lose a drop of oil in 500,000 miles.
The future is going to be electric sooner or later, whether battery or solar. Gas and diesel are a dying breed. It is going to be a long time though. I dont see fuel vehicles advancing any further technology than they have.
My last Detroit Diesel didn't lose a drop of oil in 500,000 miles.
This one is doing fine, but it's only up to 200k.
Brad
My guess is you don't have an oil 53 or 71 series motor tha tI am willing to bet MJ has expierence with. Funny you should mention a tug using the OP diesel. I think there is a still one of thopse (tugs) with an OP diesel in the Baltimore/Norfolk area running around in private (non commercial) hands.
If a 2 stroke Detroit diesel isn't leaking oil its probably cause it ran out of oil. I had a diesel mechanic tell me once that you can write Detroit diesel on a brand new hat and hang it on a wall and it will leak oil
The Napier Deltic engine is a British opposed-piston valveless, supercharged uniflow scavenged, two-stroke Diesel engine used in marine and locomotive applications, designed and produced by D. Napier & Son. Unusually, the cylinders were disposed in a three bank triangle, with a crankshaft at each corner of the triangle.
The term Deltic (meaning in the form of the Greek letter Delta) is used to refer to both the Deltic E.130 opposed-piston high-speed Diesel engine and the locomotives produced by English Electric using these engines, including its demonstrator locomotive named DELTIC and the production version for British Railways, which designated these as (TOPS) Class 55.
If a 2 stroke Detroit diesel isn't leaking oil its probably cause it ran out of oil. I had a diesel mechanic tell me once that you can write Detroit diesel on a brand new hat and hang it on a wall and it will leak oil
A 6/71 is a messy ***** . After a few hundred thousand miles you could tell if it was leaking more oil or burning it through the valves.
But it was the chainsaw of engines. It could produce ungodly amounts of power if the revs were kept up. With a good load at a certain RPMs with that turbo and blower you could vary the intake noise to sound like someone whistling a tune.
That engine will run on bypass oil if you run her out of diesel. I both hate and love the 71's.
One of the first "big trucks" I ever drove, back in the mid '70s, was a cabover GMC with an 8v92 and a 13. God, that thing was fun! I could load it up with lumber and plywood, hook a forklift on the back, let out the clutch and the thing would just about jump straight up into the air.
Hmm. I wonder if they're more or less fuel efficient at partial loads then a typical 4-stroke...though I'm sure at high loads, they should be notably more efficient.
