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  • rough cunts

    

  • worst engine ever only good for tractor pulling coz of its speed they were shit in terex ts24 where they had to run 12 hours a day

  • and thats how you kill a motor after 20 years of sitting

  • Was that a run way?

  • Wouldn't you get fresh fuel, change the oil, and all the other little things when doing a fresh start. I know these engines are bullet proff but damn!Runs good though:))

  • Wouldn't you get fresh fuel, change the oil, and all the other little things when doing a fresh start. I know these engines are bullet proff but damn!

  • He forgot to kick it first

  • You still see big compressors like this from time to time, epecially running big crawler excavator mounted utillity drills (17") 1600cfm

    this also is the same engine found in the Gm Artic

  • give it a shot of ether (starting fluid) approx $2.00 a can a napa

  • Worst sounding motor ever made.

    I drove one of these screamers back in the 80'sThey suck.

  • @tomcrissy I'm still driving one. Its in a 82 Prevost bus. My passengers like it-college kids, puts them to sleep.

  • Diesel smoke is good for you. Don't believe all that pollution, acid-rain propaganda. Diesel smoke will put lead in your pencil.

  • @gonetoworkbbackin5mi It will also give you lung cancer.

  • 1:45 iiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMM­ AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII­IVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEEEEE! RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR­RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  • Chuck Norris called, he wants his blender back

  • Man it sounds like a monster coming to life!

  • was this shot with a potato?

  • 1980's S500 diesel is still better than todays B5 bio blend ultra low crap

  • I thought from sound, that it is going to seize at any moment, as in intentional engine blow videos. Hope not bearings or rings took any damage.

  • Ill give you 50 bucks for this.

  • @BurtBartlow pffft its more money than your $50 dihatsu charade

  • @hold3n01 My dihatsu charade cost $75 bucks thank you.

  • @BurtBartlow pft with only one horse power

  • Yea, stare at it....Dumb Ass!

  • Ive been around 6-71 detroits all my life. The fuel rail is very sensitive and if an injector is somehow hung up it will cause the engine to runaway (wide open) the engine in the video sounds like it starts in a runaway and then settles down as the injector re-seats itself. Hard to tell for sure. Anyway, these are great old engines that can run on about anything, but they roar like a lion and pull like a mouse. lol

  • @southernwaytransport yeah thats true,we had a 318 detroit power unit runnin a saw mill one time and we cleaned the air filters with gas and we cranked it up it was going to blow up we had to hit the emergency stop

  • @MrMrcrain lmao YOUR NOT THE ONLY 1 ... i learned that way as well working on my uncles internation 4700 dump truck , we also cleaned the air filter with gas , BIG NO NO ! ...NO WAY TO SHUT IT OFF , EVEN WITH KEY OFF , IT STILL RAN ....it pegged the governor till the "gasses " dried up outta the air filter ... :-D

  • I know Detroit 71's very well and it almost sounds like its running away. You must have had to replace the injectors before attempting to start it after 15 yrs. The fault of Detroit 71s including the 92's, if they set for more than six months there's good chance that one of the injectors will seize while cranking it over. The seized injector, connected to the others via the rack, will holding them all wide open. On a runaway you block the air intake with anything flat or use CO2 to choke it.

  • Love the sound of that 8v71

  • thats an old air compressor isn't it, to run an old air tracks?

  • It's great. Like watching a phoenix rising from the ashes...

    Foxdude, I like that....

  • Out of asking...Did you guys do anything to the fuel or just use it straight in the tank?

  • too much rpm at the start - an engine like that need to be warm before using the rpm.

  • The govenor is the throttle control right?

  • garbage quality, not worth watching.

  • what the hell is that thing?

  • Good Onya fellas,,, 'look at all the Detroit experts you've uncovered lol

  • its not a generator , its a 600cfm air compressor

  • Who took the axles of this GPU?Cant think of any reason why they would.

  • That screeching sound - turbocharger or a dry bearing?

    Cool start-up BTW. Thanks.

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  • Sad part is the 80's fuel is better than the garbage they're passing off as fuel today.

    Sounds great though!

  • I always heard these engines that havent run in years COULD run away on start up from bad seals from sitting ending in a seized engine or thrown rod! I agree it should have idled a bit before letting it go up to governed speed. Ive been told u should stand by w/ a big CO2 fire extinguishers an give it a shot up the intake to kill it if she takes off. old school way is stuff a jacket up the intake but thats not the best idea because it COULD suck oil/air threw the bad seals an continue 2 run

  • Sweet!

  • WOW. Listen to that thing sing! Christ, now that's an engine.

  • Does is that thing a natrual or turbo? And whats that high pitched noise???? thats a serious issue if thats a turbo doing that.

  • @shamay92 all Detroits are supercahrged, some turbo, some Roots type blower. That whistling you hear is from the compressor it's running. I'm certain this one is using a Roots blower. Due to thier 2 stroke design, they have to have forced induction in order to run correctly.

    As to a turbo singing, alot of early designs could really whistle, modern impeller designs are made so as to eliminate this noise.

  • @Thrawnization its not supercharged its blown technically there is a difference

  • @robby844 A "blower" is a supercharger. ;)

  • @Thrawnization a "blower" is a supercharger yes BUT a "blower" doesnt supercharge the air.it only pushes it under 8 psi into the engine.

  • What fell to your right at 1:52?

  • @myrabbitmoose - I think it was the engine's right nut.

  • wow the fact that it even cranks is amazing haha

  • Sould freshen up the fuel supply, swap the fluids and filters and she'll be rarin to go!  Straight pipe on that detroit couldn't hurt either ;)

  • is that a jumbo jet compresor?

  • That ought to keep the mosquitoes down sucka!

  • wheres that can of "start ya bastard"..........lol

  • That stuff is like "Crack" to Detroits, they get addicted to it. Before you know it, they're selling themselves in the streets for it.

  • @heatherrose2006 ROFL, that is so so so true

  • @fixitdude74

    "start ya bastard" Gonna have to remember that one LOL

  • @fixitdude74 right behind the gas mask

  • :50- *koff...koff..." LOL. Cool man. That's a big fucking engine. What was is this thing? An old compressor or generator or something? It looks like it had wheel once upon a time, or something. I love the sound of an old Detroit; the first time I heard one, I didn't believe it was a diesel at all, because the 2-stroke sounds like it runs at such high RPM's compared to a four-stroke. I love how "industrial" they are though. Fucking go deaf standing next to that thing for five minutes!

  • listen to an old V53, very high rpms you'll love it.

  • ...or a 12V110 :-)

  • Talk about power... I owned a 1970 GMC "fishbowl" suburban 49 passenger bus with this engine with a four speed manual transmission, oh man! what a coach!!!!!! talk about a land jet....

  • There's and old truck driving song, that I forget the name of, where the premise is of the story is, a truck driver praying to to God that he will grant him but one wish before he dies and that is to be able to pass a Greyhound bus.

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  • I guess the governor is a double weight VSG. They are tough to use in a truck.

  • WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SOUND !!!

  • LOL. Sounded like the governor was a little sticky at first from sitting all those years. The governors on these were prone to sticking in the wide open position while sitting for long periods of time. Nice sounding rig you got there by the way!

  • I think the engine reved high cos the air supply tap was wide open all compressors do that

  • Of course she'll run good on 80's fuel, It was probably a batter mix then and diesel is an oil, It'll never go bad unless its contaminated.

  • @jet62095 That's not exactly true. Bactria will start to break down the fuel after a few years creating a slime that will be caught in the fuel filters. But in the 80's high sulfur fuel was available. Great mileage, smokes, but great mileage. Then the EPA mandated low sulfur fuel & the mileage went down. I had a IHC Scout Turbo Diesel. Got 33MPH on High Sulfur Canadian fuel . When I got back to the US & low sulfur only 17-23MPG.

  • It is an air compressor...the screech is an air leak on the discharge side of the compressor...no bearing noise, just air leaking. We use these on the flight-line in modified form to start 747's.

  • Wow! I sure do enjoy some of the stupid comments I read on this post. The engine is now sitting in my shop and the rest has gone to the scrapper to be sent to China. I've got a 13spd roadranger to go behind the DD and its going in my 56' International S-160 truck.

  • @TheNickNixon

    Thanks for sharing the video, love that Detroit sound. Better than those castrated engines they use today.

  • as long as it ran if had no oil it would have locked up it is a air compressor cause at about 3.40 it stops if was bearings it would not have stopped

  • glad to see u brought the old girl back to life props 4 u

  • WTF?

  • @TheNickNixon wtf is this thing?

  • if it had no oil in it, it would seize pretty quickly.

  • @scubahsteve that's probably the air compressor or a leak in the blower you boob.

  • do you honestly think that it would run that long if it had no oil in it. ya it should have an adjustable throttle on it. ive seen gen sets that are progammed to red line right off the hop. no oil pressure yet, but its going to 3 grand.if it had no oil it would have lasted for about 20 seconds before it grenaded.

  • that is an air compressor hear the whistle the valves are open

  • @trckdrvrbird Sure its not the turbo?

  • What is that engine in, a generator, or some other type of implement?

  • 20 mins of crankin and 2 cans of either, she will wake up lol typical detroit thats sat for some time ! I you use them on daily basis you only need 1 can of either lol

  • ive driven trucks with over a million miles on its engine...they last forever

  • Is it good to rev the engine up to governed rev limit right from startup, especially after sitting for 15 years?

  • no its not no matter how long they have sat, i believe fire it up at normal idle for a few minutes then rev it up dependingon how cold it is

  • It's designed to go straight to the governer. Just like on small gas powered air compressors

  • @Mitsugejl NO. Absolutely not! You'd get "preignition" where the fuel is igniting B4 TDC. You could throw a rod through the engine block. Even then you with a warm up, you get some preignitionl. That's what caused the rattle sound after it fired up.

  • agree with u ironsean7

  • hope the 20 year old oil was changed before throwing 2500Rpms at that old girl

  • Really? It couldnt have been that great to take that thing after sitting for so long and get it started then flog it right up to governed speed. I mean a gen set will run gov speed start to finish but maybe would have been a good idea to bypass gov to let her idle for a few minutes first? sounds good though. enjoyed the video.

  • The only thing i thought about is if your firing up a gas motor with a hydraulic cam for the first time you go to 3000 rpm for 20min! It peged the oil pressure gauge out @ 80psi+

  • @TheNickNixon

    Indeed, because higher RPMS obviously pump more oil to the cylinder head [ but the main reason is that at higher rpm, theres less load on each cam lobe... along the lines of momentum.]

  • @sm350bl All of that cranking would get quite a bit of oil pressure built up.... But I totaly get where your coming from.

  • I thought it was about to run a way when it first started up! Usually when 1 starts up like that, it's time to get the rubber stopper out quick!!

  • Redneck yard of the month

  • Dr Diesel developed the Diesel engine to run on coal dust actually, the solid hydraulic injection to inject liquid fuels wasnt developed at that time. All the early engines were air blast injectionof just about anything that could burn.

    BTW that 8v71 must be rooted, with no compression to need all that winding over to start. Normally they start straight up even when very cold.

  • I would like some more info very interesting. Link or links please. Sound very cool.

  • Why did you let it rev like that?

  • It looks like a generator set, it has to run at a fixed RPM for the frequency from the alternator to be correct.

  • Um, no. Glowplugs heat the air, not the fuel and they are only used during cold starts. A diesel burns fuel by spraying a very fine mist of it into air that has been heated by compression. And yes you can run diesels on just about any kind of oil, be it animal, vegetable or mineral based.

  • Depends on what engine cummins do both on some engines if glow plug are in the head vs the intake( grid heater) (Deutz 1011 intake heater, 1012 and 1013 glow plugs. If in the head they are all on so some cykinders heat air and fuel mixtures. But i do agree with it is meant to heat the air. Burning newspaper in intake works awesome. Ashes from paper catalise the furl and flame heate the air. Try it with no air folter of coarse.

  • I don't know about that burning newspaper, sounds like someone is looking for an airbox fire or explosion. Not to mention ash isn't good for any type of engine, you know scored rings & cylinder walls.

  • Burned paper= Carbon. Carbon is a normal by product of a diesel engine. Also there is no fuel in the air box, thats why is call an air box. Fuel is metered trhough the injectors which are foun in the clylinders on a diesel. Fuel found in intake on a gas engine. Burning news paper in an intake in -20 f is a great way to get large detroit running. You should also try a small fire under the oil pan. SMALL FIRE. Not a raging inferno. Internal combustion engines= internal explosion engines

  • Carbon does not equal ash. Carbon and water is not corrosive, ash & water is corrosive, lye. Add fat and you have lye soap. Lye and cylinder rings = oh gee, is it time for new liners? And I'm guessing you never pulled the access covers off and cleaned out the airbox, Full of lube oil & carbon, given a hot enough fire and that junk will start. And If you don't believe me, what comes out of the airbox drains?

  • Actually is does equal carbon. Wood dosen't condust electricity but carbonized wood does due to the presense of carbon. Try it with a dvm on ohm's. its kinda of neat. Ash is mostly carbon. Actually have pulled of air box cover on an 8v71 3 per side double closest to bell housing. rebuilt hydrolocked after muffler let water down right bank. bent two rods and broke two liners at botttom in a half moon shape. Liner to head height width depth gauge 3-5 thousanths. Yeah never pulled one apart.

  • Oiy! You a stubborn one ain't cha? Try this, get some fireplace ash, or ash from the barbeque, light grey stuff & try to light it. I'll tell you, it won't light. Next, get some carbonized wood, or a briquette, I like kingsford mesquite, it lights don't it? No free carbon in ash. Leach water through wood ash and you get Lye, very akaline, very corrosive. But hey, I'm not your boss, just an internet acquaintance. And this is pointless.

  • Or use starting fluid like the rest of us :p

  • wow

  • smell that diesel plume!

  • it was a joke, one thing is the build quality its another the type of douchebags that live there i.e = you,

  • Calm down guys I think you both have the right ideas. Diesel is measured by Cetane not octane anyway!

  • Octane, diesel? noobs.

  • C-E-T-A-N-E

  • ok for the guys who posted the video so they don't have to deal with the hoards of idiots out there diesels don't use octane infact nothing uses octane it is mearly a measurement of how much pressure the fuel can take before it combusts which is how diesels fire at the top of the pressure stroke a diesel injects fuel so that it combusts that also why diesels don't use spark plugs and ya it would fire i worked on a 1950's track loader and it fired in 2 turns after draining the oil and fuel

  • Yeah that would have been best instead of turning it over and over until it decided to fire

  • is that camera from the 80s? i cant see fuck all

  • There would be no octane left in 20yr old fuel, it simply wouldnt run on 1980 fuel.

  • Diesels don't really need octane. It would run on 1980 fuel, obviously, because it did. New diesel would NOT have been that smokey...

  • wrong new diesels are also very dirty city buses, fire engines, and trains.

  • Sure it would. Happens to our older Cummins-powered buses in cold weather. We run ultra-low sulphur fuel - modern stuff.

    What you were seeing wasn't smoke... it's near-vaporized diesel fuel. Very common occurrence on cold starts with no starting aid (glowplug, ether, intake heater, etc) - the engine won't develop enough heat to ignite the fuel charge and simply push it out the exhaust until it's cranked long enough to warm the cylinders a bit.

  • @TestECull Ok. Octane VS Cetane. Octane is how has a fuel such as gasoline will burn. Cetane is actually a part of crude oil and is a measurement of how much heat a "distilate" such a jet fuel, Diesel 7 Fuel Oil will burn. The slower the fuel burns the more heat it will produce. Gasoline engines use Octane. Diesels us Cetane.

  • Real quality. Still be going in another 20 years.

  • Man those 871's were screamers. I have also heard they can start and run backwards. They can also just start on there own for no reason.

  • lol yeah if the run in a too low rpm the can go in reverse

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  • lol !!! X D Gotta love kill dozer!

  • running backwards. So hoe does the engine retain oil pressure if the oil pump is runnig backwards

  • I dont think it retains oil pressure. It is very bad for a detroit to run backwards. you also cannot turn it off with the key you have to unplug a glowplug wire or take one out while its running.

  • You don't take out a glow plug when an engine is running unless you want to lose a limb.

    That also won't help - if you want to stop a runaway you choke it with CO2.

  • They don't have glowplugs - those are pretty well limited to automotive applications, with a few exceptions. Some Detroits use ether injection for cold starting, most do not.

    Glowplugs, for that matter, only assist in cold starting. They do not cycle once the engine is running and unplugging them will not affect the engine.

    Two ways to kill a runaway diesel: shut off the fuel manually (force the rack to full closed for Detroits), or choke off the intake air. Prayer helps, too.

  • glow plugs on a detroit = news paper kerosine and a match. remove air filter throw in intake. does work well.

  • and what does a glow plug do i wonder?????????

  • Yet to see a glow plug on industrial 8v 71 6v 53 , 4 53,6v 92. These are all air port aplications. In fact not one detoit diesel athat ia have seen at logan airport have glow plugs. Navistar detroit series 60 dosen't count as a real detroit.

  • yeah its not a real detroit.ive been all over websites and still cant find it.i dunno what he was on about

  • Actually it is. Mabybe you should get out and stay off the internet. Series 40 are known for water pump failures. Impellar (Stainless steel)backs off shaft an migratese backwards and eats its ways through gear/ accesory case (Aluminum). Series sixty can be found in big trucks that go vroom vroom. You should try not to insult people that do this for a living. What do you do for a living?????

  • i work on them every dam day asshole.i was talking to the prick that said to take the glow plugs out.how fucking stupid is that? and no the series 60 isnt a real detroit because mercedes actually designed and built the engine.oh and learn how to spell dickhead.

  • Ugggh, back in the late 80's was when the Series 60 came out, I don't recall Mercedes Benz being in the American truck market then. The DD15 Mercedes may have had something to do with. Let's stop with the name calling too. Series 60 is awesome, I prefer a 2006 or older, not to enthused with the '07's.

  • uggggggggh damn your a retard if you think the 60 is great.and no it wasnt a merc when it first came out.those were the good ones.but the new ones ( 1997 ^) if you can keep turbos,front seals,injectors,and oil pans in one piece then i guess you got a good truck.and why stop with the name calling the douche said to take the glow plugs out.where are they?

  • Bud, show me your sources, Series 60 is an awesome engine. There you go again, retard, douche bag. Why not try to have an intelligent debate, no matter who is wrong, makes you look like a fool. How about I call you a douchebag because you can't use use capitalization, I'm not? Just quit already, keep it relevent, if there's no glow plugs say there's no glow plugs.

  • theres no glow plugs.and my sources are my self.we get 60's in every 50K for new turbos and front seals.wheres your proof they are great?

  • I don't have any sources, my experience around the Series 60 has been excellent, I guess its all a matter of opinion. I'll take a series 60 over a CAT or Cummins. I wasn't challenging you on the glow plugs. Oil leaks happen over time, and no matter if its a CAT, Cummin's or Detroit they all blow turbo's over time.

  • so 6 different 60s coming into our shop (i work at CAT in riverside when times are tough you work on whatever you can get your hands on) losing turbos and dropping front seals every 50k miles is normal? well i guess since the ISX cummins we get go 15k to a cam.LOL we have CATs that come in with over a million miles and they come in for an oil change.thats it.cummins ive never seen one with over 600k with out a major OH.

  • Robby.

    I am just curious, and since you are working with engine, maybe you know about Detroit two stroke. How many miles could the Detroit two stroke clock.

  • ummm ive seen them clock 575,00o miles before a major overhaul.but that was in cement truck that got dusted.they should go for over 700K miles.

  • the ISX series suck! i had an 07 with nothing but jake brake trouble McCandless in vegas tried telling me that the jakes were "weight sensitive" bullshit when they just up and go from half to full back to half then just quit somethingis wrong, LOL McCandless is run by a bunch of morons ! LOL

  • i know thats my whole point.oh and the cams go flat.

  • my question is why do the bigger motors not have glow plugs but the ones in pickup's do?

  • wow ummmmmmm older detroits dont have them.thats the engines i know that doesnt have them.cummins,cat ,newer detroits, all have them.you cant start a cummins or detroit with out them.

  • bigger engines dont need glow plugs for 2 reasons the first being that they create a very large amount of heat becuase they are compressing alot of air into a small place more so than smaller diesels and beacause they are mostly direct injection and you dont need glow plugs when you have direct injection this is the same with small diesels though some do run a heating element in the intake to make them run smoother when cold

  • huh ok makes sense, i new they were direct injection but never thought of the how much heat they create LOL thanx

  • @pfalways Diesels of any size will start with no glow glugs. The reason for glow plugs is for quicker starting on car engines where people do not have patience to cold crank a small diesel. On my 1980 IHC Scout Turbo Diesel I only had to use the glow plugs once or twice a day in the warm weather. The compression ratio is the same on any size diesel therefore the compression heat is the same regardless of the engine size.

  • @mike198748 Because people generally want the engine to start quicker. The glow plugs are in a "Preignition Chamber" which heats the air . People are used to a gas engine which starts right now where as direct injects doesn't. Plus the batteries are smaller if you don't have to cold crank. Trucks take a 8D battery with 24VDC and alot of weight & space. With the glow plugs, two regular car batteries will do.

  • Hey, I heard those series 40's have plastic oil pans, zat right?

  • BiohazardDingleberry is a moron. Unplug a glow plug? Is he kidding? Running backwards. Why is he even posting here?

  • @heatherandpaul2 A Detroit will run backwards. Happened to my Brother. If the engine stops just right, the compression will kick the piston downwards & the Detroit Diesel will run in reverse. He had 2 speed forward & 13 in reverse. I ran a Fairmont 2 stroke motorcar. No tranny. We just adjusted the timing, cut the ignition, when the flywheel almost stopped, hit the ignition & the engine ran backwards. Any two stroke will do that including a model airplane engine.

  • Yep, they sure can! Had that happen to our MCI coach bus once (6V92TA, 375-ish hp). Don't know how, but it managed to kick over backwards and continued to run like that until I lifted the lid and yanked the emergency fuel-cutoff. Sounded normal, despite the big red oil pressure warning light and "0" on the gauge!

  • I lol'd.

  • Gotta love the europeans and their holier than thou attutude. Fuck off.

  • calm down u muppet

  • Fuck off you limey fag

  • thats nice for er, sleepin' for 20 years and being waken' up wide open. lol

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  • bullshit , runaway can happen, backwards imposible no oil pressure oil pump runs in reverse.

  • the myth is in reference to a right or left hand rotation. Put the cam on the other side change gear positions blower postion and the engine will now "run backwards"