the adventures of big grey!

[Goose_ss4]

over the years I have collected many pics of my truck and other diesel related stuff that I would like to share with guys. hope you like it.

 

[Goose_ss4]

and for big stuff

parts of a boat engine I worked on

 

[hesutton]

Very nice rig. Love seeing the photos of the truck working. What marine diesel were you working on? That water cooled turbo is cool.

Heath

 

[GENIUSLOERTS]

over the years I have collected many pics of my truck and other diesel related stuff that I would like to share with guys. hope you like it.

i burried my first 93 f250 like that once but while waiting for someone to pull me out it sank all the way down to the body. ended up buying a high lift jack and 4 pallets to get it out after snapping a front drive shaft on the truck trying to pull me out.

 

[The Warden]

Very nice rig. Love seeing the photos of the truck working. What marine diesel were you working on? That water cooled turbo is cool.

Heath

X2 on both questions...and, any pics of the boat that engine came out of?

Also, where in CA are you? I've spent quite a bit of time in the S.F. Bay and Delta over the years

 

[Goose_ss4]

the boat is a military vessle so i dont know how much i can say about it. the engine was so big is that i could stand inside one of the cylinders, out of the 12, and look up at another four feet of engine. it was a 12 cylinder with 24 pistons. it osolated or were opposed to each other so there was like two cummins stacked on top of each running with a single head in the middle. the turbo is about 30" across, and about 2feet tall. the engine itself had two supershargers, a water to air intercooler, and two turbos. those are the cam gears that you see laying there.

 

[hesutton]

I knew it was big, but not that big. It sounds like a beast.

Heath

 

[Goose_ss4]

there were two of those fitness in the boat. technically they were train engines. did I mention it was two stroke diesel.

 

[The Warden]

there were two of those fitness in the boat. technically they were train engines. did I mention it was two stroke diesel.

They weren't Napier-Deltics by chance, were they?

I could be mistake, but the Deltics are the only opposed-piston engines I've heard of being used in trains (they were originally designed for British locomotives, then adapted to fit into USN PTF boats among other things)...although I thought they were smaller than what you described. OTOH, I don't know all that much about opposed-piston engines other than the Deltics and the Fairbanks-Morse engines used in WWII-era submarines...

 

[Goose_ss4]

there was a big logo on the valve/ oil pan that you looked at. it said "GD", and I thought of general dynamics who works on alot of boats.

took two guys to pick up a piston.