A Day in the Life of Boat Driver Using Gigantic V8 Diesel Truck Engine
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- Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for an absolutely enticing piece on a crazy phenomenon prevalent in Thailand and most of Southeast Asia where four decades old massive Japenese V8 diesel truck engines are brought back to life and used to power wooden boats for commercial maritime transportation.
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03:36 definitely not 500lbs, 500kg yes, but there is no way something so massive could be so light.
Agree no way is this only 500 pounds. 1 ton likely.
The boats look so well kept. You can see the owners pride in every aspect. That they are monitored by government must make customers feel reassured. I think I would love going on some of those boats.
southern Thailand used to be part of the Pattani Sultanate.. back than Pattani Malays built wooden boats with ironwood & the planks are joined together with wooden pegs sealed with paperbark as caulking.. this method is still practiced till today in southern thailand
@@jeremyooi1996our austronesian encestors sailed up to madagascar and easter island with only raft.
they're barely regulated at all in reality
lol that hino v8 weighs aloot more then 500 lbs lol,
more like 2500 pounds, good video though love boats
You got that right, I was going to comment, but you nailed the issue first.
They mis quote numbers all the time.
To get comment clicks
I note the lack of actual audio. What a surprise many would have when they have to use hearing protection/ One Noisy ride. I guess they have not heard of mufflers.
Hand steering those monsters through traffic, tight spaces, shallows, shoals, etc has got to be a constant workout. These guys never skip leg and arm days.
more back day
The engine and the prop tail has been balanced well. They are not wrestling it too much. An unexperienced person would surely struggle a lot to work it.
the cleanest truck motors one can see.
This the documentaries we should see in our tvs
This entire outboard motor technology started with home made devices that used a little utility motor modified for marine use with a exceptionally long propeller shaft to achieve a acceptable propeller angle.
WOW! Unbelievable!
The boat, interior & engine look very clean & well maintained ❤
Accidentally going astern into another boat with this huge powerfull propeller must be very intresting .......!
Beautiful boats, beautiful scenery! 😊😊😊
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Guaranteed they weigh a lot more than 500 lbs.
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Hino is a lightweight engine and probably 500 kg for 500 hp. The arnnison drive with surface piercing prop is for shallow water.
In South Louisiana mud boats use a similar design to float in 4 to 6 inches of water in the swamps.
I was thinking the same
The 8V71 were hard on fuel the silver 92 had the power but still hard on fuel and when they broke you better knew how to repair them I worked on these Detroit motors adjusting the fuel rack was a Art I mastered it I miss these old motors. Buy the way they were a 2 cycle engine they sounded like a race car like they were really winding up but the RPMs would only be around two grand. If something hung up in the fuel rack, they would run away with themselves or people were using. The emergency shut off with that does shut the air off to the engine through the blower. They did that too many times it would suck the seals out of the blower motor would fill up with oil and that it would run on that engine oil until it ran out of engine oil screaming to its limits. They said the motor run away but in the end it was the Operator that ran away when it happened. 😂😂
God i love diesels
30 seconds info lenghtened to 24 minutes. Nothing about the engine itself but many times mentioned V8.
If they has a chance to buy a V12 4 stroke modern truck engine....that would be on there.
Inreresting Video. THX.
500lb 8cyc diesel?? Thats the lightest diesel ive ever heard of
Yup, more like 1,500kg (3,300 lbs)!
The engine is not very old as far as big diesels are concerned, in Japan most vehicle owners write off their vehicles as the registration and inspections become yearly and the cost of registration goes up in proportion to the age of the vehicle. So that engine might have 200k kilometers on it if lucky, barely run in for a big Hino.
500 to 800 horsepower? No way. That non-turbo medium-size V8 might put out 250 horsepower max. What say you?
The Captains go deaf by age 30😅.
Very interesting, as well as educational. Thank you.
im very pleased Thailand was spared any of the heavy bombing cambodia and laos saw during the 70s. Royal Thai Guards have always had the upmost respect among the USAF security forces. They have some fierce women in their ranks. warriors
Bunch of airports in thailand are where they are due to being bases used by usaf.
Thais have some.. Interesting views on their military history though particularly on whoever just coming and using their land for a while. Dunno where they would've done fierce fighting? During the domestic communist uprising? The domestic uprising was luckily really limited and the casualties low compared to anything that went down in neighboring countries.
You generally don't hear them talk much about it either, not even in esaan, of either the uprising or why the airports are where they are - most of what you have as remnant is just bob marley, chequevara and indian iconography. And country songs. Country roaaaads take me hooooomeeee tooo theee plaaaaceee i beelooooong every week.
Bigger problem for them is that stuff in military isn't merit based so they end up buying scam products, corruption is high and stuff like that..
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After long time, good ❤
"500 lb. V8 diesel engines" LOL, try 1100+ lbs.😆 I'm amazed that they can get them balanced as well as they do, to make them somewhat easier to maneuver! 😯
Probably why they have a cruise ship propeller on the end of the shaft. 500lbs ha ha, ok lady.
@@gottspeed LOL, the "Thaitanic"!!🤣
Kg/lb snafu
GREAT INOVATION
The engine looks, and sounds good. I've seen these boats in videos before. The configuration sure does make maintenance a lot easier but are there other reasons not to build the engine into the hull of the boat ?
Maneuverability - you can change the direction of thrust. It also eliminates the rudder. Safety - the wooden boat may catch fire from enclosed engine, the exhaust is as much behind as possible. Cooling. You don't need to build/maintain a sealed passage for the shaft into the hull. Space saving - the inside of the boat is free. Less chance the engine gets flooded (if there is a leak). And in extreme case, probably the whole engine could be thrown away, to make the boat lighter...
@@holtzman72 Thanks for that response - very interesting. Well that sure does seem healthy, and powerful !
its a whole lot easier this way. hard mounting an inboard engine requires more setup and complexity, the boat design is different as well as you have to have a shaft exiting the hull.
They have no gearbox by the look of it, it explains why they said the prop needs to come out of the water to get into ‘neutral’ as it’s directly driven from the engine.
When you fly back from Thailand as you cross the border of the EU you can almost feel the health and safety regulations warm embrace.
thankmuch
Super Power boat diesel engine longtail popular in Thailand
That engine could power the Titanic..... :P
I'd love to see a guard put on the main pulley of the engine
Why, you seem to be applying safety rules from a western world to a make do asian world.
Don't be a moron and you'd be safe around it.
@@couttsw western or eastern, we all have accidents
Then dumb people would continue to survive. This system keeps the gene pool full of careful practical people
Don’t think too much
Just go 😂
I believe she meant 5000 lbs, not 500lb engines
I see you have a reverse gear. Where did the transmission come from?
With the amount of torque available he could easily do with a bigger 4 bladed propeller.
I'd like to hear from some of their mechanical whiz engineers on why they prefer those systems?
@holtzman72
1 day ago
Maneuverability - you can change the direction of thrust. It also eliminates the rudder.
Safety - the wooden boat may catch fire from enclosed engine, the exhaust is as much behind as possible.
Cooling. You don't need to build/maintain a sealed passage for the shaft into the hull.
Space saving - the inside of the boat is free.
Less chance the engine gets flooded (if there is a leak).
And in extreme case, probably the whole engine could be thrown away, to make the boat lighter...
I wonder at what point do the engine get so big and heavy that it is more easy to mount it rigidly on the boat and use rudder instead...
Do they cool the engines with sea water ?
Yes
@@johnnyholland8765
But that stainless steel tube on top of the engine that he was filling up with water at each stop was a heat exchanger...fresh water in the engine...seawater circulating in the exchanger taking heat from the fresh water engine coolant...then the heated seawater being pumped back into the sea..
it never freezes so there is no need for anti freeze or any coloured coolant....
@@JohnSmith-yv6eqNow that makes sense. Fresh water preserves the engine from corrosion and easy to replace heat exchanger takes the abuse of salt water.
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq Even in Thailand you put better anti-freeze in the coolant. It prevents corrosion. But you see seldom anti freeze here.
No
So this is inboard - outboard type of engine setup
pushing power
3:00 is that a bottle holder/warmer ?
10x fuel economy than outboard engines
Thst looks like a Tank Engine??
No; just a truck engine.
Im actually surprised ive never seen a duck hunter with LS powered mud motor on an aluminum jon boat now thatvive seen this
And I can see the cool jon boat with LS engines racing!!
Awesome topic
But no protection cage on rotation parts? One mistake and you can lose arm or wounded badly. Sure not for rough waters.
Why is protection cage not made on many boats? It's just metal sheet, easy to make it. I have feeling they just don't care and keep costs low as possible.
Geez, those things look so dangerous to both people & water life.
OSHA has yet to be invented here....
Dangerous? Wtf😂😂😂
Japanese engine in Thailand. . .
Where they produce motorcycles. . .
so they use no cooling what so ever?
Motorista de barco?
No radiator?
nope.. it works just like a marine diesel engine.. seawater is pumped and circulated to cool the engine
@@jeremyooi1996
That long stainless steel tube on top of the engine that he fills with water every stop...
looks like a heat exchanger using pumped seawater to cool the freshwater coolant?
Raw seawater corrodes engines very quickly and builds up salts in the engine....
I don't see a radiator how do they keep them cool ?????????
Continuous cooling using the sea water
Is it a Euro 6 engine?
Lol
The prop is not fully submersed so it is losing thrust. Interesting but not optimized.
Look well at the propeller. I'ts a diamond type surface propeller made to be aerated. No problem of thrust.
@@pabloricardodetarragon2649 Sweet! I could not see it well! Thank you!
@@physicsguybrian You're welcome.
The straight pipes exhaust are too noisy.
Sounds like a 2 cycle Detroit but says it is from Japan.
Its hino my my guy, here in Asia you can barely see any western or any American engines cuz they cost alot. Asian people used Japanese engine because of the availability of parts when it came to maintenance and it's just half the price compared to American or any western engines.
love it !!
They don't like rudders in Thailand.
Rudders stick down where they can get knocked off in shallow water....
500lb? Try 2000.
Rules are different in different countries. In Europe such boats doesn't exist....
What's a "dee sil" engine?.
Imagine it having a Detroit Diesel in it, but there known for high fuel consumption
500 pound engine? more like 2500.
Yup. We can put a man on the moon, send carbon fibre u-boats to titanic, have thailand refurbished diesels with beautiful clear exhaust… gotta love the new AI… 🙄
"Nearly 500 miles of coastline"??? A simple Google search yields much closer to 2000 Miles. Vid is full of mis-information.
The engine operator will experience severe hearing loss as he ages. Ask me how i know....what did you say? :)
The motor has a terrible engine. Can one person control it?
Don't fall out the open transom...
you'll be mince meat
ok
Imagine if he discovered gearing. I mean, he made an outboard motor, just needs a few gears to redirect the prop shaft
It already has a gearbox, with forward and reverse and a clutch, I'm sure it's been modified to deliver the most torque for a given job. Boats have 1 forward gear and reverse, no five speeds, and unlike an outboard, he likely sets the throttle and leaves it alone. Bit like a tractor, pick a gear, set the throttle and play with the clutch to complete the job at hand.
@couttsw i just meant what outboards have, the gearing differential to allow the driveshaft to be bent which allows the prop to be down in the water. You're right, this set up these guys rigged allows most power, I just moreso meant that they have an outboard motor, just with a tad fewer steps
@@drockjr 👍
@@drockjrit's built this way to allow navigation through very shallow/muddy/lilly areas that a regular inboard or outboard wouldn't
@@brantley1975 and, diesel engine are more cheap to operate than regular outboard motor
i never heart of a v8 diesel lorry engine without a turbo that makes 500-800 hp
Now if she said ft. lbs. of torque, I’d be less sceptical. 800 hp is the size of the engine in a small locomotive.
Agreed. No turbo or intercooler and no black smoke?? I wonder if it's detuned or they're not showing the belching black smoke. Plus no Alternator! How do they start that thing? Remote jump box or something
Weighs a bit more than 500lbs...
No electric motors there,, not for a very, very, long time. Diesels will still be cheaper and save a bunch of wasted time. There is alot of time getting those inboard/outboards tuned for balance and power and load, and learning to drive the thing and get it up to the docks, without looking the fool.
日本の様にJCiの船体検査や船舶法の甘い国ならではの小型船文化。寧ろたくましい。
Its simpel.
Its easy to maintain
And easy beult them .
So wy not ?
And with the big propes and long stearing range you can easy turn it.
Are those Detroit diesel engines
Hino V8 engine from a 22 wheeler truck 🇯🇵
No. These are 4 stroke Japanese diesel engines
Spent a month on the seas all around Thailand, and though beautiful, we didn’t catch a single fish. Hardly any fish while diving. The over fishing has devastated those waters. This doesn’t stop the 1000s of nets you have to constantly steer away from. It makes sailing tough. It’s just terrible that greed and impoverishment has destroyed th3 fisheries forever. There is no c9ming back from this
Poor Somalians are seeing the same. I’m so sick of the Chinese, Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian fishermen raping other waters after destroying their own. Time to put all the stored drones back to work, and repel this global threat
Interesting perspective. Why isn't it regulated more through permitting? I'm no expert but thought I would ask.
First because it doesn’t work like that out there. Even if there were laws, enforcement can be bypassed with corruption. I got stopped at a roadblock , blew what they said was over the alcohol limit, and then told to follow them to the cop station, driving more on my scooter. We then drank beers until my bribe was agreed upon. I drove home after, in front of them.
It’s so unlike the west in most of Asia. Rain forest, fisheries, it terrible, but the people are awesome!
@@SirtubalotTX
@@dirkaminimo4836 Interesting, I was thinking that in the back of my mind though. Would like to visit.
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How dare you
The long shaft has nothing to do with keeping the splashing away. It's just the easiest way to convert the engine to spin a prop
If the shaft was short it would push the stern of the boat up wasting energy, that is why they use a long shaft.
no cooling system I could spot
Takes water from the water way...
There are two pipes go down to the water behind the boat.
That long stainless steel tube on top of the engine that he fills with water every stop...
looks like a heat exchanger using pumped seawater to cool the freshwater coolant?
Raw seawater corrodes engines very quickly and builds up salts in the engine....
Why are they not using a turbo?? Since when do we use diesels with no turbo? Seems like such a waste especially a big ol V8 they could run a tiny little 4cyl with a turbo less fuel less maintenance cost smaller footprint
No turbo=simpler.
Torque and a much longer life
Has anyone told him that for Oil level checking the engine musst be off? 😂
OMFG.
And how about the climate change?
Especially the coldest countries in the world fear the warming most