Dieseldude4x4

Finally after three solid days of work, Operations finally turned the key to the right bank air starters and all 20 of them cylinders fired up in less than four seconds. Call me crazy but there's something about a big diesel roaring to life that just sounds great. (even though it is a two stroke EMD and not a Cummins) Set there idling at 500 Rpum's for about 20 minutes and then went to 900 and loaded her up. Exhaust temps went from about 270 to 760 from idle to loaded. Cool thing about these is that they have a gear train that turns the turbo till you load it up then it comes up off the gear train and exhaust takes over. Talk about no turbo lag!! ;D
Hey Keith, got that on your truck yet?
Guess I can go home and get some much needed rest now. ;D ;D ;D ;D

DarrellB

[quote author=dieseldude4x4 link=board=10;threadid=10914;start=0#104084 date=1045125882]<br><br>Guess I can go home and get some much needed rest now. ;D ;D ;D ;D<br>[/quote]<br><br>No you can't! don't you have a &quot;R&quot; that needs the Pony rebuilt? ;D<br><br>Just thought I'd remind you. <br><br>DB

Dieseldude4x4

Gee thanks buddy. Just when I thought I could go home and sleep peacfully for a few minutes. :'( :'(

DarrellB

If I gotta be awake all night I'm keeping someone up with me. <br><br>Since you're not sleeping I could use a hand installing all this Chem-Aire pipe. <br><br>DB

shortround

What engines are they, the 645 or 710 series? Love to have been there with you. It would have brought back memories of the old Fairbanks. There's nothing that beats the sound of rolling one of those big hogs over on air.

Dieseldude4x4

These are the 645 series 1969 vintage.<br>We do some really stupid stuff to these engines like take them from a cold start to fully loaded in 12 seconds and stuff like that. Just makes my skin crawl every time they start one up. I love to hear them run though especially when you load them up and that turbo comes up off the gears. Sweeeeeeet...

dodgeman01

What are these engines used in?<br>Who makes them?<br>Dm01

ramlovingvet

[quote author=shortround link=board=10;threadid=10914;start=0#104110 date=1045140237]
What engines are they, the 645 or 710 series? Love to have been there with you. It would have brought back memories of the old Fairbanks. There's nothing that beats the sound of rolling one of those big hogs over on air.
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We had Fairbanks EDGs on the Kitty Hawk they were Awsome Beasts!!

Dieseldude4x4

[quote author=dodgeman01 link=board=10;threadid=10914;start=0#104178 date=1045151538]<br>What are these engines used in?<br>Who makes them?<br>Dm01<br>[/quote]<br><br>They are used for emergency back up power at nuc a station in this particular case. We have three of them, 20 cylinder two stroke 3800 HP at 900 rpm. Nine inch bore ten inch stroke if I remember my numbers right. They are made by EMD in LaGrange Ill. One sweet machine considering the age of them. Everything that wears is replaceable without replacing the whole engine.<br>We have a 3612 Cat running 4800 HP too. Ten inch bore, eleven inch stroke. Talk about a sweet clean looking package now, that is it.<br>