At my fire department we have 92 silvers in our pumpers, one is a 6v92ta 400 horse and the other is an 8v92ta 500. Our ladder truck we just retired last year after 43 years of service had a NTF 365 855 small cam with a t906b 5 speed, I miss that truck. I love the 71 series with a turbocharger on them. The 12v71tt is a great motor
Great sound from the 12 cylinder engine , the gearbox is so smoothe and no whines , great truck , more videos please thank you so much ,,greetings from Ireland
Sweetest Road going 71 engine for sure, just before the 2 strokes were killed off in the early 90's GM built some 24V71T engines for industrial drives ;-) I used to work for the Australian GM agent in field service and test. It looked like the designers had walked down the aisles of the parts warehouse and just grabbed the biggest of everything including what looked like turboes from a 16V92 T engine. Start up to flight revs took about 3 revolutions of the engine, insane acceleration and zero vibration, just a sound like a swarm of angry bees. Ray
it was and ut was very durable. I have seen one filled up with supertech TCW3 2 stroke oil, it burns it anyways and is still running, i would go with castor 927 maxima but its pricey so stick with shell rotella cf2 low ash 2 cycle diesel oil.
@@jlo13800 927? Pricey? You think. My friend runs that in his quad. It costs a lot and it stinks. I never ride behind him.Its nasty and when mixed with race fuel it gets real nasty. I myself run Maxima Super M. It smells gr8 smokes way less and dosent foul a plug every day LoL.
I see one of these still working in Queensbury/Glens Falls NY once in a while. Lots of old Detroits still in use around here. A lot of small dairy farms silage trucks run 6V71's. It was my first and I'm certainly not going to change now
I cut my teeth in 71 working on a gas powered brockway, and a DD 6v71 GMC dump. Wow to see a great truck married to a great engine. The 12v71 had some great pickup and sound.
Nice rig. If memory serves me correctly, this beast was among the many trucks used in "maximum overdrive". Course, most memorable was the western star "green goblin" (8v71 I think)
That’s some beautiful country up there 👆🏻 in The Hudson Valley Region of NY State along Rt. 22. That reminds me of all the trips I took going up there in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
I used to pickup waste restaurant grease down off rt22 at the Dover Plains McDonald's,oh my,that was in the 70's.Actually we went to every McDonald's from there to the Canadian border.That Brockway brings back some old memories,and thanks for that.
It's beautiful there in the summer and fall.I miss it up there,and Plattsburgh where I lived. I've been here in Florida for 25 yrs,and retired 2 yrs ago.
Clifton Jamison it ain't too bad even now, even though fall is over I think I'm starting to enjoy that season a little more around here. Wow Plattsburgh ? That's up there. My grandpa lived up in massena, that was quite a hike from down here.....glad ya liked the area here, I think it's like a hidden little gem that isn't very well known about, surprising because of it being so close to the city. Draw a square on a map from hunter mountain, to port jervis, to Greenwich ct and on up to northwest ct, and you will find me somewhere in that area workin, fixin on generators.
Growing up in Hudson Florida, just north of New Port Richey, I remember seeing, and being fascinated with the few Brockways, and Autocars running around the area. Most of them were heavy haulers used for moving houses and such. There were also several of them running around hauling rock. Right up the road from where we lived the local garbage service, Hatcher's disposal (I think) had several old Brockway garbage trucks that they kept in pretty nice shape. I remember there being a few old Macks around with all wheel drive, and construction fenders, I always thought of them as quite the beasts !
Anyone ever heard of a 1973 Mack R700 long nose with a V8 Detroit Diesel & a 10 speed Fuller Roadranger ? It pulled an oil delivery trailer for the first 10 years then I converted it into a dump truck that continues to work 5 days a week in my excavation business ---- so many drivers in the know continue to give me air horn blasts for good luck --- truck has new paint job , body recently painted but that is it ! Everything else including the interior is 100 percent original ! I actually learned to shift gears with this beast back as a teenager...........
Yes Roadway ran the RL700 Macks Detroit Power, I repowered several RL700'S from Mack V/8s naturally aspirated to Detroit Power, was a plug and play,Mack had all the Parts
When I was a kid. I could fall asleep to that and the smell of spent gear oil and hot old bias ply tires brings back memories. My dad use to drive a detroit I can hear him coming home or leaving he use to haul brand new toyotas from the pier to dealerships all over.
I always said............... If the wheels wobbled, the tire man needed to be beat with the tire iron.......... Learned the right way when I was 12 yrs old..........
Music to my ears. drove many a mile with 6 and 8V71s. Problem is, they were 40' behind me...charter buses. And, to me anyway, the 92s have a completely different sound that doesn't soothe my diesel lust near as much.
The first ever Detroit diesel ever built was in 1937 or 38 but venice diesel was designed to run off peanut oil then went to low grade oil,navy was impressed with the engine, started powering it's small boats and landing craft with them they where 61 cubic inches per cycle, navy called them gray marine, they still in service today ,2-71 to the 645 24 cyc.........
Is that an old doubles Thruway truck? Brockway Dad had kept a propane torch with him to heat his feet in Upstate winters. Even though cab similar to a White 9000, the 9000 heaters would roast you out of cab in winter. Hauled salt to treatment plant in Fultonville out of NJ from 1975 to 77 with NA250 or Formula 290. Drove 12V71 in a 71 KW COE from 77 to 81. What's cool about the 12V is exhaust just changes tune on a pull and nothing rusts behind motor. LOL
I know that yard. I haul out of Wingdale with those guys sometimes. My dad used to drive one of Rinaldi's old V-12 Brockways. Used to wear an old fighter pilot helmet with the ear muffs!
Still using them motors on ferries here on Long Island...worked on a lot of boats with two stroker blue smokers...Charles Kettering designed them....also Zephyr first diesel electric train.
The 8V71 was the first diesel engine I ever tore down and reassembled, shops said they were high maintenance engines, but you can't beat the sound of a screaming Jimmy. In a time where the biggest cummins or cat truck engines were 400hp, the 12V71 could pump out over 500hp. The biggest problem for the 2 stroke Detroit's is no Jake Brake, now they have disc brakes for class 8 trucks, I wonder if those would make up for the lack of an engine brake, its an interesting thought, for a real screaming jimmy fan.
Compression ratio also weighs in on engine braking. I know my old Vw idi engine with 23:1 slows down way better when I only lift, than my 17.5ish :1 tdi diesel.
You had to make sure the Jakes were adjusted properly, and one specialist told me about a customer of his who would shim the valvesprings so that the Jakes would hit harder ( increased valvespring pressure )
My grandfather was one of the largest sugar cane farmer in Puerto Rico. Back in the day when PR produced sugar. Anyways, he purchased 2 Brockway’s. One with a 12 cylinder and one with an 8 cylinder. This was to replace the old ox train that took one full day to deliver the sugar cane to the buyer. With these trucks, he could do the round trip in 30 minutes. I still remember riding beside him, listening to that 2 stroke 12 cylinder scream away. It was heaven on earth.
Very cool. I know there are a few Brockways in Puerto Rico. Have you heard about the Borinquen Special? Supposedly a special package offered by Brockway dealer for the entire island.
DailyDieselDose they were specifically built for a trucking company in Puerto Rico. They had reinforced frames and suspensions. Cummings 250 and other goods. Painted orange and white. My grandfather bought his in the states. NY state specifically. He bought them used with less than 500,000 miles on them. His where green and white. Don’t know who they came from. He reinforced the frames and upgraded some of the shocks. But needed the big Detroit engines to climb the hills and mountain roads. Eventually, before the demise of the sugar industry in PR. He had 5 trucks. The other 3 were Mack’s equipped with cat 3406 engines. My favorite will always be the Detroit. You could hear them miles away. BTW, wast it Mack or Brockway who build these beauties? My grandfather now 101 years of old said that Brockway was owned by Mack.
I realize this is 5 years old... Was a Deroit mechanic a Looooong time.. It ran good, but there were 3 problems the ear picked up. 1) Idles way to slow 2) That lope/surge at low idle is the buffer screw adjustment on the governor. 3) When he makes the left turn and gets on it, listen for the high pitched whistle.... That's either the perimeter seal on the Blower, or if it's a TT, a boot clamp leaking on one of the turbos. We used to take a can of ether, or WD40 and spray around the blower base and turbo boots, when it revved up, you found your problem. Guys like me are getting hard to find. If you find one, they may be laying bored in a hospital bed at 4AM, playing on a I-pad, after hip replacement surgery. I worked on 16V71TT,s that were in fleet R100 Euclids (100 ton quarry trucks). We were building the West Approach to the Esinhower Tunnel on I-70 from Dillon/Silverthorne in the mid-70's
LOVELY OLD TRUCK and nice driving too fair play to you she seems to have loads of guts and plenty of torque she is just raring to go thanks for the video of a buzzin 12 cylinder Detroit Diesel greetings from Ireland
That NYS TMT plate from the 1960's beneath the regular NYS Tractor plate of the 1970's is a nice touch. I've been trying to find out all I can about them all my life.
I remember my dad always wanted a Detroit diesel, he thought that the greyhound sound was cool. He found a 68 KW cab over with one in it with a spicer 13 speed over under air shifter he became so happy to buy one, me being a 7 year old at the time said "now the long nose truck will have a brother with a flat nose" My dad laughed" I 1956 KW long nose
Wow, your rusty old day cab with a piece of particle board for a license plate holder makes noise. I'm impressed.........…......…...…...impressed that it even runs. They stopped production in 1977.
ill get my CDL just to operate this beast. through boston! the hipster losers will love this. or I will. hauling a 79 cat D8.! or toxic waste whatever. awesome machine indeed!
When i grow up a constrution co . named james romanella had r- model mack trucks with 8v71's pulling trailers of rock and gravel up and down street when i was a kid they twin stacks and small muflers load
I remember where I used to see the Brockway fleet. They used to belong to DeFazio who were grocery chain suppliers in New York. When Brockway went out of business, I forget the year, DeFazio bought up everything Brockway they could get. trucks, parts, EVERYTHING! Now DeFazio is gone and I just bet , that there are a lot of parts and maybe complete trucks in midstate New York to be had
+Robert Jones This is correct, I think they had around 150 trucks? Many parts off DeFazio rigs have been used to bring many Brockways back to life. Someone has a large group still, maybe a dozen so, trailers too.
Ahhh the sound of when North American was great ! Bad ass nothing beats the smell and sound of a Detroit mayb it’s the sound of the blower screaming or the 2stroke smell or the fact that there’s no limp mode or def lol cool vid
I’m kinda curious, being from a country that doesn’t have much or any trucking.....what do you mean when you say when trucks were trucks.....what happened to trucks now?
@@TheSpiritOfTheWest trucks now are all bubbley, and have aerodynamic fiberglass bodywork. American trucks now are ugly, oversized, disproportionate, and don’t sound cool at all with their muffled, emissions restricted engines
Yes Canadian National Railway we had 5 of them in freight liners 13 speed trans tons of power and best music coming out of twin stacks oh yah they were the days hauling 20 ft trains with 90,000 now you are talking great sound.
Damn that one badass truck. I just love old semi trucks from the 50s 60s and 70s. There built good not like today shit.no electrics in there to fubar up or nothing
