DPFs, EGRs, DEF, etc...

[Snobdds]

In simplistic terms your disbelief of a single failure while calling the same type of failure rare tells me you don't understand the difference between something that happens rarely and something that never happens.
Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. Stupidity is the rejection of knowledge.

Yeah, but statistics is my wheel house...and someone pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining in the desert is kind of streaching.

 

[Hay Dude]

Gee, all the Pielstick diesel engines we built at Fairbanks Morse were all V configurations. They used them for power generation, locomotives, and ships. Some were well over 1000 HP per cylinder.

Fairbanks Morse | COLT-PIELSTICK PC2.6B

Absolutely! Probably won’t fit in an OTR truck tho

 

[Hay Dude]

I lead you into a priori argument and you took the bait.

My work here is done...

Hehe

Trickyyyyyy!
And here I thought you were here to talk about diesel engines….

 

[Snobdds]

Trickyyyyyy!
And here I thought you were here to talk about diesel engines….

Actually it was the other dude that had to go all a priori to make a case...and when you go a priori, it's all BS after that.

 

[Snobdds]

Absolutely! Probably won’t fit in an OTR truck tho

You have a singular focus...branch out a bit.

 

[IndyJay]

Trickyyyyyy!
And here I thought you were here to talk about diesel engines….

Please don't feed the trolls.

 

[Hay Dude]

You have a singular focus...branch out a bit.

Ok, sounds like fun…Do in line six configurations go into bigger machinery than OTR trucks, even though we aren’t discussing them?
I will do my part to keep it on topic.

 

[ruffdog]

Absolutely! Probably won’t fit in an OTR truck tho

You just need a bigger truck. Here is one being started using the air start. It's like a distributor cap that directs air to each cylinder in the correct sequence to get it turning. Then fuel is added and it starts.

 

[CADplans]

I almost felt bad posting this.... but just couldn't let it slide.

I always felt that the reason that the V-8 engine was not popular in row crop type tractors was simply visibility.

Even the big JD tractors of the late 1970's could put out some massive HP,, with in-line engines.
It is hard to consider the 4630 JD a "row crop",, but, that was its category.

The biggest problem that tractor had as staying a row crop was the fuel tank size.
The hood was so narrow, the tractor only held about 70 gallons of fuel.
I could only run about 6 hours, then the tractor would be almost out of fuel (11 gallons per hour)

The tractor could PTO dyno over 200HP (that was the max of the dyno used to test it)
which was PLENTY of HP for what we used it for.

The 4430 that was also on the farm could dyno beyond factory specification,
but, it could NEVER even consider pulling the equipment the 4630 easily handled.

The hood on the 4630 was easy to see around,
The 10 tractors in the video ALL have the same issue, lack of visibility.

The worst of the bunch (IMHO) is the last one at the end of the video,,
with the two stacks sticking out/up at the VERY FRONT of the tractor.
Who thought that was a good idea??

I would have been convincing someone to change that exhaust,, it is like looking around a wall.

 

[Snobdds]

Please don't feed the trolls.

Ok buddy...thanks for stopping by.