Nice job. No music, no talking over the top, no revving the nuts off it when it's cold. Sensible and enjoyable. Just to listen to it warming up is a great start to the day.
Put a hair dryer or heat gun into the intake, preferably without the filter. starts a lot faster. Propane torches or weed burners work too. Heat up the manifold on the outside first, then stick the torch in the intake and start cranking
Detroit Diesel engine 71 or 92 series It's always has been music to my ears No computer plastic ceramic or another garbage need it at the time Thanks for posting this video God bless You all
@@GuyBetten you got it..all the way…i saw a 8V92T pulling a D10 up a seemingly endless steep hill in Alberta Canada in the 80’s once…..screeeeeeeeaamin…if that was a modern day truck the engine warning light would have come on and it would have stayed on!
Brings back memories... Drove MC7s and MC9s for about 4 years back in the mid 1980s...all had 6V71NAs. Flatland Motorcoaches. 315 miles from Bloomington IL to O'Hare and back. Usually had a few hours layover and just let them idle and catch a few Z's after lunch... soundest sleep I can remember was being sang a lullaby performed by the Detroit Diesel Municipal Orchestra! Miss those days and nights, never a breakdown in close to a million miles! Thanks for the Memories! Bruno Biava ⚓
I had to deliver a 978 about 150 miles one time and we were short on time. It was the old 4 speed models so at 60 mph I was in the redline. Sarge said put the foot down so I did. I drove about 4 hours in the redline and it took it like a champ
When I drove school buses, we had an old international cab over bud we’d use as the spare bus. I came to the yard and someone used my bus for an after school run and damaged my crossing arm so off to the international I went. Thing took like 5 minutes to start but when it did, the damn smile on my face hearing this engine roar made me always want to take that bus 😂
In the 1970s, I used to drive a Commer two-stroke lorry (a TS3) in the UK, it was always a pig to start in cold weather. I used to take the top off of the air filter, light a piece of newspaper and drop it in, then run around and turn the key - believe it or not, it used to start really well with that proceedure.
Sounds like the official startup procedure on a Field Marshall! (sans the blank shotshell) Detroit had an "arctic start" package that included a burner that mounted in the air intake. Just a nozzle spraying diesel and a spark plug really. I think there are a couple other manufacturers that did similar, including an electric version.
I drove V12s for years always carried ethier! And sprayed before even trying to start that monster! Watching this video brought lots of memories, l could almost smell the diesel in the morning air in Oregon!
With a Detroit , the 8 second rule works wonders. Crank the engine for 8 seconds , allow it to sit for 8 seconds . It does not overheat the starter, does not drain the batteries to quickly and acts as a pre heat. I had a 8V92 Silver in a 79 COE PETERBILT. I miss that Truck.
Yeah but some go crazy on the Detroit more than eight seconds they sit there and cook the thing for about 30 seconds at a time LOL I've seen them cold start these
Perfect perfect vid! I hate when a Cold Start vid (Or any start for that matter) is only a minute.....yours is over 7 and goes thru the whole cycle.....AWESOME JOB DUDE! Old School Diesels Rock and so does all of their Smoke! What a Beauty! Thanks for not cutting it off after a min!
Hi.....a shot of either, would do the trick. Shoot a spray, into a rag, place under air cleaner.....away you go. Or, shoot it out passenger window, while cranking it with your left foot. Used to drive one of these Generals, in 1983, it had an 8v92 silver. Pulled like crazy, in the oilfields. From Alberta Canada. Good day, Mr Betten. NO betting on the weather, i guess. ha ha
Look people! He didn't smoke the starter! And he didn't have to rev the fuck out of it when it started! Learn from this guy. On a how too start a diesel.
2:31 The old girl is awake and ready for action :D I have 3 first gen dodge cummins in my hauling business and soon am looking to add a couple of these old Detroits to it for hauling some heavier stuff. Old diesels never die, they just sleep in between jobs. Thanks for filming this :)
Reminds me of when I was driving a tow truck part time and had to bring it home with me over night. Winter time, and I had to plug in the block heater. I did, and went to bed. Got up at like 3AM for the first call and the block heater blew the fuse, and was colder than a witch's tit. Took about 20 minutes of fiddling around before I was on the road.
I’ve started many an old school mechanical diesel the exact same way. Crank it a couple seconds , stop a couple, crank it again, stop , crank nail you build a little heat in the cylinders then when you have just enough it starts and you don’t overheat the starter. Looks like it was at least 20 degrees F or less
Good Job: Not that my opinion matters, but so many people rev. them as soon as they don't need the starter anymore. Cold thick Deisel oil? Even if Oil Press. is showing, Oil is not everywhere. & Nothing has expanded yet. Wheel holders don't get it.
Good to see not being an animal with the starter motor. What brand of battery or was it a mains powercharger driving the starter? How would an air start have coped?
What's the ambient temperature? Glad you didn't use any ether, a lot of people seem quick to turn to the ether to get these old diesels going. But surely there is some consequence over time.
Yeah they become what's known as ether dependent It's like a drug they get a sniff of that crack and they wanted every single time. So many of those older ones would come dependent on it I had a shiny 290 that was like that when I bought it years ago the guy he threw the piss out of it constantly and that was the only way you could get it started it needed that crack.
A lot of it has to do with how well the engine has been maintained. If the oil is high quality and the valves and injectors are set right, Detroits are not clattery and rattly messes. Someone showed this engine some love.
General Bill been dirving for awehile before having to stop due to health. biut the 12v and 8v were before my time. correct me if im wrong , does say the 8 mean 8 cylinder and 71 mean each cyl is 71 cubic inches?
@@yamahonkawazuki Yes, : 453 is 4 cyl 53 cub inches. 671 6 cyl 71 cub inches 6v92 8vanything....12v etc 16v92 (two 8v92 blocks, together) 24v92 etc..... UNLIKE TODAY, all engine makers' numbers, don't add up to a steep hill of beans......computercrap, belongs, ON YOUR TABLE / DESK / in thee office. NOT IN WINTRY CONDITIONS, IN THE MOUNTAINS, ON THE PRAIRIES.....(neither at Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, where i used to haul sulphuric acid, to uranium mines, with western star, 290 cummins 13 Fuller RTO....
