Biggest Ford I've ever worked on...

[LearjetMinako]

haha, to me with the size of those engines gpm should be gallons per minute! not gallons per mile. lol.

Like an aircraft engine.

 

[adsm08]

I was kinda thinking about trying to get a p-51 pratt and whitney v-12 into my ranger. Then I found out that they run on 100 octane and only have about an 8 to 1 compression ratio, and I thought, man for the amount of boost I'm gonna have to run to make that work, the rest of the truck is gonna be a set of huge compound turbos!

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I was kinda thinking about trying to get a p-51 pratt and whitney v-12 into my ranger. Then I found out that they run on 100 octane and only have about an 8 to 1 compression ratio, and I thought, man for the amount of boost I'm gonna have to run to make that work, the rest of the truck is gonna be a set of huge compound turbos!

That would either be a Allison for a early P-51 or a Rolls-Royce Merlin for the later ones. Pratt & Whittney engines were usually radials like the P-47, F4U Corsair and most US bombers.

The low compression is probably because they were normally supercharged. They pop up in a puller tractors every once in awhile running against tractors with multiple V-8's so they must not be too bad.

 

[74duster318]

Continued the project...

Drained the 14 gallons of coolant, removed the water pump, disconnected ignition wires from magneto's.

Removed the radiator expansion tank.

Removed cooling fans and shrouds (weighing over 100 lbs a piece and lifted by hand), and radiator inlet connection.

Removed radiator outlet, air intake hoses, disconnected fuel lines and drained fuel tank.

Next time is the hard part, all the hard to get at and remove bolts. Exhaust manifold to downpipe connection bolts (rusted like crazy), engine mount bolts, cooling fan drive shafts, as well as the main driveshaft. After doing all that and pulling off the front carburetor and throttle linkage, it's ready to pull. The main driveshaft has to be accessed through the rear of the crew compartment, behind the turret basket.

More to come in a couple days...

 

[Doom's Day Custom]

i heard on the tv that it takes about 1 to 2 million to restore one of them !!!

 

[74duster318]

i heard on the tv that it takes about 1 to 2 million to restore one of them !!!

Not a Sherman. Even if you started with nothing, it wouldn't cost that much. Other armor, however, can. German tanks are easily in that range due to rarity, complexity, and the extremely high demand by large limitless funded museums.

Either way, they're lots of work. But well worth the effort, time, and money.

 

[mn_smokeater]

on the subject of german tanks duster if you had the money and tools to restore one what one would you take home?

 

[chittybangbang]

Interesting topic- Have you worked on the m3 or m5 series of light tanks.I think those were caddy powered?

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

I've never worked on tanks, but worked on trains for about a 5 yr period of my life. I am now officially jealous though.... even though the smaller train engines have around 1600 HP.......

 

[chittybangbang]

I've never worked on tanks, but worked on trains for about a 5 yr period of my life. I am now officially jealous though.... even though the smaller train engines have around 1600 HP.......

Sounds like you worked on EMD 567 or Alco 251 series

 

[robertc1024]

Keep them pics coming Duster - that's one cool project.

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

Chitty, alot of them I worked on were the swithcers, the smaller yard units. I did ocassionally however get to play with some of the old emd's and the larger SD-40's and such, but like I said my main staple was switchers.

 

[chittybangbang]

Chitty, alot of them I worked on were the swithcers, the smaller yard units. I did ocassionally however get to play with some of the old emd's and the larger SD-40's and such, but like I said my main staple was switchers.

 

[74duster318]

on the subject of german tanks duster if you had the money and tools to restore one what one would you take home?

Very good question... Have to be either a Tiger or Panther. I like the Panther because it was a better all around tank than the Tiger was, with better power to weight, sloped armor, and still had plenty of firepower. But either would be quite alright.

On second thought.... This...

The Sturmtiger... I believe less than 20 were ever built, and less than 10 ever made it to the field. 380mm gun/rocket launcher. Can level a whole building. Talk about coolness. I think there's only one or two that exist now, and are owned by very large museums. But that one would take the cake...

Interesting topic- Have you worked on the m3 or m5 series of light tanks.I think those were caddy powered?

The M3 and it's variants were powered by a 7 cylinder radial engine, and the newer M5 (the m3's replacement) was powered by two Caddy V8's. I like both versions alot, but between the M5 and M3 in combat...the M5 is much better. Not to mention radials are a pain in the ass when you have to crank them a boatload of times after they've been sitting a while to get the oil out of the lower cylinders.

I might plan the M5 as the next project.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Tiger or King Tiger.
Great pics duster!I have Tank envy!