Redneck Ford C-750 water truck, now mufflerless!

[start1318]

Nice DOg!!!

[all66books]

I had a 3208 in a '85 Ford 8000. It was oversized weight wise-by todays standards-single axle rear, could haul about 3,600 gallons of fuel with no problem.

[castirondude]

yeah the 3208 is kind of small for that kind of application. The 3306 or 3406 is the way to go. The cummins 855 is also a very nice engine. The more cubes, the better.

[tpvalley]

it will only suck in air if fuel level is low or u have a split pipe or pickup.

Usually the primers break.

[WARD5KUSTOMZ]

do you have it ran on into the stack?

[gajda1984]

aren't cat 3208s six cylinder engines?

[castirondude]

The first 2 digits are the engine series (i.e. piston size/displacement per cylinder), and the last 2 are the number of cylinders. a 3206 would be a 6-cyl and a 3208 is an 8-cyl. I think a 3208 is about the same displacement as a 3306.

The newer motors have a different numbering which doesn't seem to follow any particular denomination.

[ClassicTVFan82]

Actually, the first three digits of the nomenclature would indicate piston size and the last number being the cylinder count.

CAT's current engine nomenclature - six-cylinder configurations all - consists of C (for CAT) and the numbers after it indicate the engine displacement in liters. (C7 is 7.2 liters, C9 is 8.8 and then 9.3 liters, C10 10 liters, etc.)

[fanoseagrave]

I love Ford C-series rigs!!! They are getting more and more extinct by the month. If you could Castiron, could you possibly add "Ford C-series" to your video tags for all the truck buffs out there? Great vid, thanks!!

[castirondude]

Yeah I wonder why they werent very popular at the time. The shorter wheelbase of a cabover is great when driving in tight places and when you lift up the cab they are much easier to work on than conventional trucks. The whole drivetrain is just sitting right there on a bare framerail with nothing in your way! And they probably were a lot less expensive than freightliner, iveco, GMC/isuzu etc

[Bag0fRats]

@fanoseagrave They used to be all over the place, hard to believe gas at one time was so cheap they used 534 Fords

[castirondude]

hahahah, the sound of that engine is too much for the poor little camera :-)