I post this as someone mentioned a while back some intrest in finding an old Detroit Diesel engine. Hope this is a humourous solution to your search.

It's truck #13 on this webpage...comes attached to a nice looking Ford cement mixer free of charge! Never knew $6500 could buy so much!!

http://www.threelakestruck.com/trucks2.html

 

Your probobly refering to me. I was asking questions for a freind. He wants to put one in a pickup for no good reason.

 

this was the truck that used to pick up my garbage until it got retired and a automatic truck started collecting it

thats pretty wierd that its in michigan all the way from springers base in glens falls new york

 

Agreed, that is wierd. This dealer seems on the level, but it also seems like a "retirement yard" for old equipment...

 

Yeah, really wierd since Three Lakes is really in Wisconsin!

 

v6-71 in a pickup... oh well, but why???? That's just a 238 in a v form. My ISB pulls better than the 238 did of years ago. He would have a pickup truck with probably 2000 pounds of moter with no turbo, will use a gallon of oil in a few hundred miles, guarenteed to get at least four miles per gallon. Won't start without help below 25 or 30, dribbles oil all over the driveway from the air box drains, only has about a 300 rpm power curve, should I go on???

Back in the 1970's I loved my detroits, loved to beat cummins out with them, rebuilt them once a year, could do that on a weekend and blindfolded, but.... then America started building a modern engine. Actually several of them and Detroit, well they saw the writing on the wall and sent the unsold motors to the musiums and junk yards. The only good thing left from the old two cycle engines is a few blowers for instllation on big block mopars and chevvy's

 

Not saying by posting this that I would reccommend it at all. Why today would I reccommend any 2-stroke diesel? Or...

...How about a modern day two stroke called the Mazda RX-8 (yes, rotary)...

I say this as I have a neighbor who bought one of those beasts for $9000 off sticker price. Only now he's discovering *why.* How about an under 2.0 liter-displacement car produced in 2004 that uses a quart of oil every 1500 - 2000 miles, and returns about 12mpg on premium gas in combined city/highway driving?! If that's not enough, Mazda cautions it's owners that they need to fully warm up the engine after a cold start, or else it will flood out if shut down cold. Perhaps they will soon become the official practice vechiles for fire departments nationwide. All of these problems are being discussed elsewhere on the web, apparently my neighbor didn't do his homework....

 

 

The 6V71's were great, especially in marine applications. They make great boat anchors.

 

they also do a great job of turning #2 into beautiful music...er, i mean noise

 

I used to work for a company as an equipment operator and as it turns out a lowbed driver as well (I hate it when that happens!) because they didn't have one.
The tractor was a green long nosed Brockway tandem with a 318 Detroit with a 3 stage Jake and twin stacks coupled to a 13 speed roadranger.Talk about a sweet sound!!!))
I got to drive it a lot because it was a paving company and usually the paver and rollers etc. had to be moved at the end of the day to be ready for next days work so I spent a lot of time in it.That was after my workday of preparing worksites for the grader to make ready for the paving crew.Sometimes it doesn't pay to talk to much)
This old Brockway had bungie cords tied from fender to fender to hold the hood down but she would pull that 35 ton Rogers pretty nicely. Ron

 

426 cubic inches