Their site is: www.deutzusa.com -Steve

 

My brother in law has an old one cylinder Deutz in his fishing boat, direct drive to the prop. What I thought is very unique about it is if you want to go in reverse you flip a lever and restart the engine rotating the other direction.

 

Hehe, Deutz diesels. Cool engines, if maintained properly they are veeery reliable. Found an air compressor unit with a Deutz 4cyl in Africa when I was there- made 1928 (reading the plate). Guys there told me that the old bugger just won't die. Air cooled with an auxiliary oil cooler (very big one), fully manually adjustable IP and no gizmos on it.
Lots of Deutz tractors over here, some older trucks with Deutz engines. Mostly on building sites etc, they seem to love to run 24/7 WOT
In a cooperation with Magirus they had an air cooled boxer engine (diesel) for trucks that was mounted in the frame. Small drivers cab with the dumpbed shield protecting it, all the tech stuff was sorted within the frame rails, 4X4 or 6X6-with the engine going from 4 cyl boxer up to 12 cyl... with turbo. Talk about screaming

Older singles with the reverse running feature were really cool- you had the same power and efficiency in both directions. (There were bigger ones and multi cylinder layouts with that feature too, but I never saw them)

AlpineRAM

 

General Electric turned to Deutz when they needed a 6,000HP prime mover to compete with those offered by General Motors' Electro Motive Division.
http://www.trainweb.org/csxrailfan/nov99/ac60/ac60.html

Both GE and EMD had some teething problems with the new engines.

 

Duetz Engines are GREAT!!! Even better than Cummins in my opinion

When we started selling their tractors in 1986 we went to the factory in Germany. The people are wonderful and the engines are better.

While we were there, someone asked why they didn't sell a main and rod bearing kit for the engines they produced, and the CEO of the company said "If you ever take the bottom end out of a Deutz, there had better not be enough of an engine left to put it back into, because they will never need serviced alone"

And he was right. The only downfall of Deutz's are the price of parts if you do need them. The Germans are kind of ripping us off, but it has gotten better over the last few years.

Let me know if you need any info, I can look into what models our tractors used.

Chris