I am impressed by how clean that engine runs. And people want to tell me that you can't make an old school mechanical injection diesel run clean...... I have said it for years, a properly tuned diesel of any type should smoke little to none.
I've driven all matters of engines in trucks and the 'Fire Breathing' 350's and E-9's in Macks cleaned out totally after the turbo spooled up. Also a 3406 and a 3208. Just heat is all you see. The computer stuff is garbage.
Diesel engines have always been an obsession of mine, I currently play with gasoline engines (Early 1990s Honda engines mostly) but I want a pickup for hauling stuff around, and I want something mechanically injected. Then, I have no problem learning how to maintain one, as well as tuning one.
Exactly! I've been around diesels all my life, driving and operating. I do NOT like a computer controlled ANYTHING on a diesel. I've driven the new ones and like the older ones better. Really started in high school and right after working on construction. Army in 1970 with 5-tons , cranes and dozers and whatnot and from then Chauffeurs license at 21 and am now 67 and still at it. STILL prefer mechanical over computer. ANY time.
I used to run the 903 in the US Army in the Vietnam era 10 ton tractors , the M123A1C, hauling Cat D7E dozers but ours were geared very low with s top speed of 43.9 mph at 3300 rpm’s. But we had dual exhausts coming out right in front of the quarter fenders. And when we were pulling hood it would shoot the exhaust smoke out the sides about 3 feet before turning back
@@lewiemcneely9143 when hauling dozers at night in the summer we’d throw a 3 inch flame out the pipes sometimes and with the deflectors the sidewalls of the first drive would partially melt
@@Retired88M I did all my 7E dozing during the day but went TDY to Ft. Knox to help run a test on an 1150 Case and did a LOT of clearing at night with only dozer lights and NO CAB. Very interesting. And I got around the 903's in the RT Cranes. One time you'd mash them and they'd run clean and the next time they'd sputter and gagg and around the amphibs at Ft. Eustis and Story but not close enough to tell. Got hauled around in the BIG one with the four 6-71's though. Then got my chauffeurs lisence and went to looking at bulldog butts. That and digging up mud turtles to pay the light bill. Burning diesel with a grin!
I knew a bloke years ago who worked driving road trains for his father in Darwin. His father would buy any old prime mover and try to use it pulling doubles and triples, sometimes with some not so spectacular results. He bought an ACCO with a 555 in it and had his son pulling doubles with it. Son reckoned that every time he saw a hill in the distance, the truck would slow down! lol
Is this triple nickel powering an ACCO, Australian Constructed Cab Over Int'l. The 555, 1160,3208, and the 4cycle Fuel Pincher Detroit city delivery engines were known as throw aways in the U.S.A. The V-6 Cummins built in Shotts,Scot- land sounded like a 2- stroke Detroit revving up. They were used in the FORD conventional line of trucks and other equipment like Clark Michigan loaders here in the U.S.A.
That's not the exhaust pipes rattling It's the actual tone of the engine Owned one of these in the early 80's Should here the sound with twin pipes and Jake brake fitted AWESOME
That's the sound of exhaust gases bumping into each other. Decent pipe headers should fix it neatly. Though I'll admit it's rare in the diesel industry.
I am impressed by how clean that engine runs. And people want to tell me that you can't make an old school mechanical injection diesel run clean...... I have said it for years, a properly tuned diesel of any type should smoke little to none.
I've driven all matters of engines in trucks and the 'Fire Breathing' 350's and E-9's in Macks cleaned out totally after the turbo spooled up. Also a 3406 and a 3208. Just heat is all you see. The computer stuff is garbage.
Diesel engines have always been an obsession of mine, I currently play with gasoline engines (Early 1990s Honda engines mostly) but I want a pickup for hauling stuff around, and I want something mechanically injected. Then, I have no problem learning how to maintain one, as well as tuning one.
Exactly! I've been around diesels all my life, driving and operating. I do NOT like a computer controlled ANYTHING on a diesel. I've driven the new ones and like the older ones better. Really started in high school and right after working on construction. Army in 1970 with 5-tons , cranes and dozers and whatnot and from then Chauffeurs license at 21 and am now 67 and still at it. STILL prefer mechanical over computer. ANY time.
No smoke does not mean a Diesel is burning clean. You cant see Nox, nor low levels of particulate matter.
@@joshuabridges6081 the only educated comment,.
And that's why we called the 903 "bird scarers" ! lol
I used to run the 903 in the US Army in the Vietnam era 10 ton tractors , the M123A1C, hauling Cat D7E dozers but ours were geared very low with s top speed of 43.9 mph at 3300 rpm’s. But we had dual exhausts coming out right in front of the quarter fenders. And when we were pulling hood it would shoot the exhaust smoke out the sides about 3 feet before turning back
Thank you for serving
I remember the square deflectors on the end of some of the pipes too. I pulled the 7 around with a 5-ton.
@@lewiemcneely9143 when hauling dozers at night in the summer we’d throw a 3 inch flame out the pipes sometimes and with the deflectors the sidewalls of the first drive would partially melt
@@Retired88M I did all my 7E dozing during the day but went TDY to Ft. Knox to help run a test on an 1150 Case and did a LOT of clearing at night with only dozer lights and NO CAB. Very interesting. And I got around the 903's in the RT Cranes. One time you'd mash them and they'd run clean and the next time they'd sputter and gagg and around the amphibs at Ft. Eustis and Story but not close enough to tell. Got hauled around in the BIG one with the four 6-71's though. Then got my chauffeurs lisence and went to looking at bulldog butts. That and digging up mud turtles to pay the light bill. Burning diesel with a grin!
That sounds really good
I knew a bloke years ago who worked driving road trains for his father in Darwin. His father would buy any old prime mover and try to use it pulling doubles and triples, sometimes with some not so spectacular results. He bought an ACCO with a 555 in it and had his son pulling doubles with it. Son reckoned that every time he saw a hill in the distance, the truck would slow down! lol
Been there and know how it is. CHEERS!
Music to my ears
Cool truck! I love the sound of triplenickel!
Glorious sound .👌
I had a 555 in a Kenworth back in the 70's good Engine but no power , the 903 was much better
Never drove one with 555 drove a few with 903 they were pretty good engines but nothing like the 855 CID 350 or 400
Is this triple nickel powering an ACCO, Australian Constructed Cab Over Int'l. The 555, 1160,3208, and the 4cycle Fuel Pincher Detroit city delivery engines were known as throw aways in the U.S.A. The V-6 Cummins built in Shotts,Scot- land sounded like a 2- stroke Detroit revving up. They were used in the FORD conventional line of trucks and other equipment like Clark Michigan loaders here in the U.S.A.
Total beast
Now that one sounds like a six or a power struggle without the VGT
I thought it sounded like a Merc v8
Sounds like my hole after 10 pints of Guinness, black as well, great sound ..
Yeah I see you where in Maffra that day going to sale Vic 😁
Best diesel I have ever heard.. what truck is it
Nice bark! Pity they not as good as they sounded. I fixed way to many 555's.
Are there bulletproofing options?
@@jakefitzpatrick8550 The engine was produced in the 70's there isnt anything for them at all
@@justinpeterson6839 thanks
504
That's got a nice BLAT to it's bark! I like that. Were they a 2 stroke?
4 stroke
So cool, although it would sound much better and prettier without the exhaust pipe's rattling 😉👍
That's not the exhaust pipes rattling
It's the actual tone of the engine Owned one of these in the early 80's
Should here the sound with twin pipes and Jake brake fitted AWESOME
That's the sound of exhaust gases bumping into each other. Decent pipe headers should fix it neatly. Though I'll admit it's rare in the diesel industry.
Reminds me of a big block Chevy
The tripple nickle
Some how Cummins came up with a motor that sounds more like a pwerstroke than a powerstroke😂😂
Sounds like a 6.9 IDI
lovely
Nice!
Is this Australia, Mate?
Certainly is
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Rolling coal lol 👍
Sale racecourse Vic 👍
La mauvaise foi des commentaires, non, non il ne fume pas, just a little bit..
Uh? What the hell is these folks doing driving on the wrong side of the road? Shit🤔 lmao
Australia
Lowkey, it sounds like wet farts.
One of worst diesel made. Broken crankshaft, bearing, zylinders liner. No either power.
Greeting from Russia (Cherkasy).. ❤️