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Re: 1995 U320 with Detroit series 60

Reply #25 –
Quote from: Pierce & Gaylie Stewart –
Jerry, the Wanderlodge must be a tiny bit slow with the 6V-92TA in it. I think the 8V-92TAs were installed in the later Lodges. They are heavy.
Pierce
Pierce,

Jeff has a some videos on upgrading his injectors from 9B90s to 9G95s.  Hp rating is supposed to go from 330 to 350HP.  Hope it made a difference for the expense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C5bA34z2u8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_WRrq67Kqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56EGcE-Cr7g

Jerry
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Jerry and Cindy Maddux
1993 U300/36WTBI DD6v92TA
build 4271  "Miss Lou"
1995 suzuki sidekick 4x4 toad
Gulfport, Ms

"Pride of Ownership"

Re: 1995 U320 with Detroit series 60

Reply #26 –
This is a mechanical Detroit 92 series engine. Our Foretravel engines are electronic DDEC (Detroit Diesel Electronic Control) so the horsepower increase is just a firmware change in the DDEC II electronic control unit. From 300 hp to 620 hp is just an engine serial number to allow Detroit to make the increase legal for emissions. The long round shaft you see in the video is the famed "rack" that has to be adjusted for each injector. For us, there is no rack to adjust so our engines are very simple to maintain. We can test the injectors in the comfort of the cab with our ProLink 9000. Timing is done by the DDEC ECU and all are exactly the same. Gone are the days of "running the rack" and the mystery of it all. No need for "old time mechanics that are in short supply and getting shorter every day" as even with the old mechanical engines, there are DIY YouTube video like you posted to take the mystery out of it all for the old mechanical engines.

The mechanical Detroits could run backwards also so the muffler became the air cleaner. Bad deal if you allow the vehicle to roll backwards at a stop sign with a manual transmission.

The Detroits on my fire dept were 8V-71 engines so 8 cylinders at 71 cubic inches per cylinder. These were mated to a syncro 5 speed transmission (including CL) The engine was 318 hp that was turned up a bit to 2400 rpm so they screamed sounding like a 4 cycle at 4800 rpm at each shift. They had 19 to 1 compression ratio as non-turbo engines compared to our 17 to 1 ratio in Foretravels. This meant they would start in a thousand of a second as you only had to touch the starter button and they were running. With the engine right behind the cab, the fan noise and the engine noise were loud but when pumping, the noise including the fire water pump was incredible if pumping at maximum throttle.

Pierce
Pierce and Gaylie Stewart
'93 U300/36 WTBI
Detroit 6V-92TA Jake
1140 watts on the roof
SBFD (ret)

Re: 1995 U320 with Detroit series 60

Reply #27 –
Read an article awhile back that some scientist wrote about the volcano that had been  erupting had put more pollution in the air in five days than mankind did in 10,000 years.
Guess our "polluting" engines are kind of puny in comparison.
Nitehawk,  Demolition Lady, & our NEW master, Zippy the speeding BB cat.
1989 Grand Villa 36' ORED
Oshkosh chassis, 8.2 DD V8
2006 Saturn Vue AWD

Re: 1995 U320 with Detroit series 60

Reply #28 –
The Tail pipe is the low hanging fruit, the list of emissions that are not quantified is endless. NASA is a good example or the largest user of fossils, our military, the list goes on. When a solar panel is manufactured who measures the various emissions related to the process for example? When I was a kid in England we had those ' pea soup " fogs created for the most part by burning coal, so bad that visibility would be measured in feet. We progress and regress in some form or other on a daily basis and to require emerging nations not to follow the path we laid is disingenuous at best.
88 Grand Villa 36' ORED 3208 (throwaway)Cat.
 Build # 3150
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.