Absolutely insanely awesome video man can you please do more of these kind if you can make them a lot longer if you still have the truck of course I would really love to hear more of this thing cause it sounds so awesome stay safe man I hope all is well with you. Let me know if you can do more of these kinds of videos because I would love to see unedited driving videos of this thing and also if you can find her out a little bit more because she sounds really good at the higher RPM. Once again stay safe man and I’d really appreciate it.
@@codykennedy19 that 8.2L died about 6 years ago, and after two trips to a machine shop and many thousands of dollars, it still had a crankcase full of coolant, that truck now has a GM Gas engine in it, I have two of them, but they’re only used as site trucks now with the cost of insurance often being close to what they make a year. And they’re close to both being retired to barn ornaments and being replaced by a trailer with the amount of sitting between jobs often the expense of reviving them being as expensive as they make just keeping them going.
In Texas you can get plates for 84,000lb but unless you have onboard scales it’s more or less guesswork with the air bag pressure and even the scales aren’t 100% accurate until you get to the place that’s buying it. They have much more accurate drive on scales.
The governor work’s basically the same way as the two stroke detroits, but if you’ve got a manual, highish idle isn’t a terrible thing, it’ll hold better oil pressure when it’s hot. 800 isn’t a bad place for these to idle at
WOW, phantastic views, please do more of them, please if possible longest lasting possible vid from underneath drivers cab floor, to open view on pedal segments activated by drivers feet in the cabin and steering linkage....would be awesome to save pics of this mechanical technology threatened by new electric drives....
No this was a ground up stopgap engine from Detroit while they finished up the series 50/60 that ultimately replaced all the old Detroit designs. The governor assembly and fuel system on the 8.2L was directly off the two strokes and you can see a lot of the design elements, really if they had more head bolts per cylinder they’d have had a good engine, but it was never meant to be a long term design along with 3208 cats and cummins 509. that’s why they all only lasted a short time before they along with the electronic controlled inline six’s. And honestly if you took a 500 Cadillac and converted it to modern EFI it would likely run circles around any of the 80’s diesel V8’s at the expense of fuel economy which is what those engines where all about. They knew at the time the path would lead where it did, that was just a step to get them there. By the 90’s all the V8’s were replaced by their respective straight 6’s the cummins B the Cat 3116/3126 and the Detroit series 50 but it was probably the least common, Detroit kinda pushed to the larger truck engine more than the medium duty, and international pretty much got it right the first time with the DT-466 and DT-360
I’m fairly sure it’s a spicer 5 speed. But it’s been power train swapped since this video to a GM gas unit because it had a habit of dumping the coolant in the oil pan.
It’s only about a 20% difference in “loudness” but they breathe much better without them, they clog up over time and are kind of a useless emissions device, in the fact they stop working effectively over a fairly short time for how long the trucks live, and anything with a turbo catalytic converters really take away the the turbo noises that diesels are famous for, if you don’t legally have to have them where you live, I wouldn’t keep one on a truck. Hope that helps.
Good ole Western Star, 1st built in Kelowna BC, they were eyeing the logging market, then bought out, Kenworth, Pacific, Hayes and Mack made some great 16' bunk size truck, loved driving those beasts, some 14 ' had 5and 4 tranny's, lots of folk don't even know what that is. and no air, 500 gallon water tank behind cab for cooling brakes, look em up, that driving.
Badass video and badass truck! But for the record the Detroit 8.2 was one of the worst engines for reliability and that is because the coolant water jackets run too close to the cylinder. So known for headgaskets blowing that if you read down in the comments- the owner of this one writes that it blew a head gasket!
1st get rid of them street tires, 2nd use those diff locks and inter lock and that little bit of mud won’t stop you at all. I been driving a log truck for 21 yrs in Mississippi 3rd get them cd’s out of the way, they gonna cause a blind spot
The rear was locked up the whole time I was off the highway, if you watched the video before I strapped down to get on the pavement I unlocked them. The tires were the original tires they’re open shoulder now.
What mpg that get? My 366 gas gets 4. I found a truck that’s junk with a Detroit and 50k miles on it purrs. Thinking about buying it to swap into my c60
Are these good reliable motors? I'm lookin at buying basically this same truck. I've only driven one other one and it wouldn't go over about 45 and smoked like crazy
Ours did fine for many years, and then the head gaskets went, and after a hearty machine shop bill, it never was reliable again. We have 3 of these now all with Chevy gas engines. Costs at the pump, but very reliable.
I drove and operated a railroad, rail test truck for the C&NW RR that was powered by an 8.2 coupled to an Allison automatic. A few months from taking delivery of this vehicle in late 1982, the company received a letter from GM indicating we needed to bring it in for head gasket replacement. My supervisor decided to put if off and in about a year the gasket leaked into the engine and the internal bearings had to be replaced (at GM's expense). Eventually the replacement gaskets leaked and again we had to go through the same engine repairs. For the weight of the truck, the engine was a bit sluggish. Nonetheless, it held up pretty good overlooking the head gasket issue.
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