Detroit Diesel is not made to be idle they are made to be set wide open otherwise you can make some serious damage to the bottom and a two stroke diesel is made to be run wide open full throttle all the time on a 2-stroke
First time seeing a beautiful lady riding in an old school truck I wish her the best of luck with her marriage may God warmly bless her and her husband
My father owned CMC 1982 through 1991. He bought the company located in Waterloo Iowa from Warren Holden. I believe Warren was the original owner and inventor of most of the mixers manufactured by CMC. My father also owned Ericson and Lull. The Waterloo plant was used to manufacture certain models of all three. In 1991 my father, Alex Stamatakis, lost everything following a Ponzi scam, the market crash, and the failure of his bank in Chicago, Continental. My brother and I worked for him. My brother John ran the Waterloo plant for several years.
Hello, my name is Devin and I’m working on one of these right now it’s a 1906 natural gas Samson, I was hoping to pick your brain about jetting and setup as the jets are missing as is the rest of the intake manifold in front of the governor
Over charged? A short? What number is this one its in such nice shape. My mity kat is 348 approx 1956 production date? Allmost operational again. Love just seeing one that works. Cheers
Detroit power!! My dad was a trucker. The first truck he drove was a 1967 Kenworth W900 with a 318 Detroit in it. Some years later, he was driving for Elliott Bay Trucking out of Seattle and his boss put him in a 1979 Peterbilt 359 with a Detroit Silver 92 in it.
I LOVE the sound of a GM Detroit diesel 2 stroke normally aspirated with a roots scavenging blower! You can hear the whine of the Roots Blower! And they smell good too.
@BobbyTucker 0 seconds ago Sounds about like a John Deere "G" Model, I used to drive one down in Cherry Valley, Arkansas, for my Uncle Bob, he had a Plantation there. This brought back a lot of old memories. Will this run on 'white gas', 'kerosene', and 'diesel' too? I probably won't get a reply but, if there's anyone out there who knows, feel free to answer. Thanks.
I too remember seeing highway torches in use in southern Calif. in the 1960s -I especially remember seeing them set up in lines along the edge of the road. makes me nostalgic. I work for the Colorado Department of Transportation and would like to find one that the old Colorado Highway Department used to use.
