workinallthetime said:
L39 when you say
The 6.6L & 7.8L "Brazilian" diesels were never in the same quality class as IH DT diesels. Boat anchors is what they really were.
are you talking about the durimax?
No, heck no.
Back in the early-mid 80's, Ford & New Holland offered 2 new diesels- one was a 6.6L and the other was a 7.8L. They were designed to be tractor/industrial diesels and were also used in Ford M/D trucks (like F-700's, 800's and some of the smaller "L" series trucks, like the L-7000, L-8000, etc.)
They were produced for about 10-12 years in a plant in Brazil, owned by Ford/New Holland, so they became nicknamed Ford "Brazilian" diesels. They weren't really all that bad...boat anchors may be a little too rough, but they weren't really anything terribly rememberable, either. I had a 6.6L Ford diesel in an F-700 and it never gave me a lick of trouble.
The funny thing is the GM/Isuzu Duramax diesel just happens to displace the same amount of litres as the old 6.6L "Brazilian" Ford diesel.... Even MORE strange is that the bigger duramax, found in newer GMC 6500/7500's is 7.8L, same as the bigger old Ford "Brazilian" 7.8L diesel.
As you can imagine, the rumor mill already has started that the Isuzu company may have borrowed the blueprints for the blocks for their 6.6L & 7.8L diesels from the old Ford Brazilian diesels.
Quite a bit of coincidence going on there, huh???????
Wouldn't it be amazing if it were true and find out these awesome new GM diesels actually share some old Ford DNA in them?
