Yeah but try to get all five motors working as one. Tuning them was a headache, and the history proved as much. Give me the GAA, although M4A4 sure beat the other Brit alternatives.
I recently read that the Ford motor was originally developed as a high power aircraft 12-cylinder engine. For whatever reason it was not accepted in those circles for that purpose. When more tank engines were needed, (space dictated ?) it was reduced to a V-8.
Being a Mopar Fan, it is an engineering masterpiece. Glad to hear it was reliable and not as bad as the radial. I would have though setting 5 distributors would be a PITA, along with 5 carbs. I take it the Ford GTAA was the top dog, as far as ease of maintaince/reliability.
setting the distributors is not that bad, juo have to look at each block as a single engine and use the strobe like u do on a normal engine and the cyncronise the carbs u used twin vacuum meters.
the ford afcourse was the easyest but therefore not the most reliable.
kingmopar, the chrysler engine was no more or less a maintenance nightmare than the continental radials, we have several sherman in our museum and i find that the continentals need more maintenance than my chrysler. and they also suffer more breakdowns.
Much of the Sherman's design was dicated by the engine, originally the Continental radial. Engine shortages led to lots of experiments, the most successful being the Ford GAA V-8. To keep production lines going, this engine was cobbled together and mostly used for training or were sent to Great Britain. It was a maintenance headache, but proved reliable enough in combat.
as a matter of fact, during a test with the dufferent engines at fort knox the chrysler engine proved to be the most reliable of them all, there are also after action reports that a sherman with 2 of the 5 enines shot to pieces still made it back on its own power.
what kind of mileage do you get?
KrazyKuul111 5 months ago
Yeah but try to get all five motors working as one. Tuning them was a headache, and the history proved as much. Give me the GAA, although M4A4 sure beat the other Brit alternatives.
FlaggerX 1 year ago
I recently read that the Ford motor was originally developed as a high power aircraft 12-cylinder engine. For whatever reason it was not accepted in those circles for that purpose. When more tank engines were needed, (space dictated ?) it was reduced to a V-8.
dginia 1 year ago
Being a Mopar Fan, it is an engineering masterpiece. Glad to hear it was reliable and not as bad as the radial. I would have though setting 5 distributors would be a PITA, along with 5 carbs. I take it the Ford GTAA was the top dog, as far as ease of maintaince/reliability.
KingMopar7 2 years ago
it is indeed an engeneering masterpiece,
setting the distributors is not that bad, juo have to look at each block as a single engine and use the strobe like u do on a normal engine and the cyncronise the carbs u used twin vacuum meters.
the ford afcourse was the easyest but therefore not the most reliable.
panzerbuff1 2 years ago
I imagine it would be a maintaince nightmare--but, when one has to run on the fly, you work with what you have.
KingMopar7 2 years ago
kingmopar, the chrysler engine was no more or less a maintenance nightmare than the continental radials, we have several sherman in our museum and i find that the continentals need more maintenance than my chrysler. and they also suffer more breakdowns.
panzerbuff1 2 years ago
Much of the Sherman's design was dicated by the engine, originally the Continental radial. Engine shortages led to lots of experiments, the most successful being the Ford GAA V-8. To keep production lines going, this engine was cobbled together and mostly used for training or were sent to Great Britain. It was a maintenance headache, but proved reliable enough in combat.
FlaggerX 2 years ago
as a matter of fact, during a test with the dufferent engines at fort knox the chrysler engine proved to be the most reliable of them all, there are also after action reports that a sherman with 2 of the 5 enines shot to pieces still made it back on its own power.
panzerbuff1 2 years ago
1 of the weirdest engines made but chrysler would be the 1 to make it
09adge13 2 years ago
we have an old dodge truck with a 251 flathead six, good old engine
dalekrueger 3 years ago
sounds very smooth but doesn't want to idle, I guess it would be difficult trying to synchronize 5 carburetors.
mildude45 3 years ago 2
it idles just great mildude its just happens my mate in the driverseat didn't let it. and synchronizing the carburators was actualy not to dificult.
panzerbuff1 2 years ago