Hmm.....not really my thing but...

[rusty ol ranger]

for those who wanna swap a diesel into there rangers.....

Where i work we have a whole fleet of Toyota Forklifts.....that run a little 2.4L Diesel Engine. I have no clue what kind of power they make.....but they move around the 8000cap forklifts with no problems.

Anyone know any more info on them?

Externally there the same size (maybe a little smaller) then a Ford 2.3L gas.

later,
Dustin

 

[Danger FX4 Ranger]

The contractor I used to work for had a couple of Komatsu forklifts which weighed in right at around 7000 Lbs. We also had one large Komatsu which weighed in right at 16,000 Lbs. They had 4 cylinder Nissan diesels which would run like a bat out of hell. They held up well despite the hell we gave them.

 

[Will]

Those engines need to be a little bigger than their horsepower would indicate because of the abrubt torque demands of suddenly lifting a 3,000# crate or something, and they aren't running at a very high rpm either.

I can't really picture a forklift going like a bat out of hell.

 

[Danger FX4 Ranger]

I can't really picture a forklift going like a bat out of hell.

We raced them as if they were.

 

[metalmacguyver]

Those engines need to be a little bigger than their horsepower would indicate because of the abrubt torque demands of suddenly

wouldnt they be equiped with a larger flywheel to help compensate for that?

these are my thoughts on this idea. i may be completely wrong so correct me if i am.

i know that most diesels prefer to be run hard. they dont like to idle and only have an occasional light load. because of that, wouldnt these forklift diesels be designed slightly differently because it was known that they would be going into a utilitarian application where its expected that they will be spending extended periods of time idleing?

 

[Will]

Is this it, Dustin?

Looks like a 4.6 diesel. And only 91hp--which is extremely light tuning. It probably uses 1/4 of its power to lift a maximum load and it needs a lot of torque to zip it along because it's probably 25,000# fully loaded. But it doesn't need much power to go 3 mph through a warehouse.

I think you are correct about the flywheel--but the flywheel won't hold enough inertia to let it run a load up to the top of it's range. I should have used the word momentary instead of instananeous.

 

[Jspafford]

We have a 8000K komatsu here at work, it also has a nissan engine, but runs on propane. It will move anything, we move 15K fifth wheels around the lot with it.

Only had it stuck once, sunk to the steering axle and resting on the differential. The chevy 2500HD, had a hell of a time unsticking it.

Ours will scoot, we use it outside. I would say it can get up to 10-15mph.

 

[Danger FX4 Ranger]

We have a 8000K komatsu here at work, it also has a nissan engine, but runs on propane. It will move anything, we move 15K fifth wheels around the lot with it.

Only had it stuck once, sunk to the steering axle and resting on the differential. The chevy 2500HD, had a hell of a time unsticking it.

Ours will scoot, we use it outside. I would say it can get up to 10-15mph.

I have used Yale, Allis Chalmers, Toyota, Nissan, Raymond (electric), Caterpillar and Komatsu forklifts. By far, Komatsu builds the best forklift.

 

[Will]

We had a tiny little engineer detachment asign to our battalion when I was in the 1st MAB. They had little articulated forklifts we called the RT4000. They look like the picture below, except they didn't have a body over the engine and no cab at all--just a ROPS. They had 3-53 Detroits with litte blowers on them. One of the engineers was always trying to sell me an extra blower to put on my Duster but it was too small really. When they were out of the gunpark, we would race around on those things and use them to move guns onto the wash rack or out onto the pavement to run drills or whatever. Loud as hell, 110hp was on the little data tag. When you stomped the pedal down it took them a minute to get going but they would go maybe 40mph. They shifted automatically. They had no suspension so they would beat themselves to death and the purpose they were intended for, dropping pallets of ammo off and running them to the guns, never came to be. But it was fun to play with them when nobody was looking.

 

[jgrnot]

I can't really picture a forklift going like a bat out of hell.

Come watch me drive one!

 

[AllanD]

The little 2.4 liter toyota Diesel engine makes a raging 62hp at 4400rpm.

I used to have one in a toyota pickup truck.

All things considered the 2.5liter Nissan in Nissan pickup was a much better engine.

The toyota was an iron block, with "Dry liners", but had an aluminum head
and a belt driven overhead cam. the problem with it was the injection pump was also belt driven.

The Nissan was an iron block (also dry liners), IRON OHV head with a gear driven camshaft and gear driven injector pump.

Every 40k miles you had to replace the timing belt on the toyota
(and retime the injection pump)

The Nissan? I did NOTHING to it in 200k miles.

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[Natedog]

wouldnt they be equiped with a larger flywheel to help compensate for that?

YES.

Come watch me drive one!

ditto!

...All things considered the 2.5liter Nissan in Nissan pickup was a much better engine...

....The Nissan was an iron block (also dry liners), IRON OHV head with a gear driven camshaft and gear driven injector pump.

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Yes, Nissan deisels are far better than the Toyota deisels at least the 80s vintage ones. The Yota ones were POS.