small 6-8hp diesel engines

mwechtal · Jan 20, 2005

Yes, Northern Tool lists 6 Hatz diesel engines in 4.6hp for $1329.99 to 10.5hp for $2299.99. Probably the 7hp for $1899.99 Item # 606720 is what you are looking for.

Mike

hazmat · Jan 20, 2005

Yes they do

yanmar L series air cooled

yanmar TF series "Tough Fighter" liquid cooled.

Might be pricey.

Edit here - what's it for...

RobertN · Jan 20, 2005

I have one of the monopod "Whacker" brand foot compacters. It has a Yanmar diesel motor on it. I am not sure of the hp though. They have been around for some time; I got this one used, and believe it is 8-10 years old.

gws · Jan 20, 2005

The reason for the inquiy is the B&S gas motor on my Generator is getting long in the tooth and I wouldnt mind swapping it out for a diesel engine.. I also wouldnt mind a small diesel engine to play with with some pet projects.

California · Jan 20, 2005

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ... if you are into the nutball types of Diesel engines, check out Utter Power. -v8dave)</font>

Darn it Dave, I stayed up half the night reading that guy's stuff and all his links!

It tends a little toward wild eyed enthusiasm but then so does anyone ahead of his time.

I'm fascinated by this simple technology. One of his links is running a summer fuel blend up to 80% biofuel / 20% diesel, for several years now.

Do you think the simple diesels in this present thread, and the oil furnace in you prior thread, could run on a high % blend of waste oil assuming proper filters?

v8dave · Jan 21, 2005

Probably most Diesel engines with darn good filters will run on the "bio-diesel" mix. Will probably need some diesel mixed in by what I've seen.

My furnace probably won't run well on bio-diesel because it does not scavenge the combustion products as well as a diesel motor does. I'd be concerned that a soot build-up would eventually kill it off. There are probably some types of oil fired furnaces that would work--open burner type. In fact, if we weren't using California specified low sulphur Diesel, I'd only run kerosene in my stove.

Bio-diesel is very well filtered vegetable cooking oil. Mostly using a waste cooking oil from fast food restaurants for deep fat fryers--i.e., french fries.

Ozarker · Jan 22, 2005

I don't think that will work real well for you. Gas generators generally run in the 3600 rpm range to produce power and the diesels generally run around 1800 rpm.

gws · Jan 22, 2005

Most of the small diesels I have seen so far are 3600rpm. Even if they are smaller then a couple of pulleys will solve the problem.

Egon · Jan 22, 2005

Here is one that may suit your purpose>

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RobertN · Jan 22, 2005

The Yanmar on my compactor says "3100-3600rpm". I used it today. I did not see HP rating on it. I'll look some more tomorrow.

I do not know about other little diesels. This one though, has no glow plug. It has a compression release, which is necessary to turn it over. It starts pretty easy.