A modern rotax, optimax is much more powerful for its size and can run in any position, a Detroit with a sealed crankcase can do the same with fed ester based plant based 2 stroke oil, total loss burn off anyone
A twin turbo 600 horse 12V-71 could often be found as a starter motor in a General Electric Frame 5 or Frame 6 gas turbine generator set. They started and idled for about 20 seconds then ramped up to wide open throttle. It drove a Twin Disc torque converter which turned the gas turbine through a jaw clutch. It would run the turbine to 20% speed where fuel and spark was introduced. The Detroit would scream its guts out accelerating the gas turbine to 50% speed where it would outrun the jaw clutch and go to 100% speed or 5100 rpm. The Detroit would idle 5 minutes for cool down, then shut off until needed next. Brutal duty!
This thing sounds like a racecar! I think it is one of the best sounding engines on the internet, and that rev at 1:37.. No matter how many times I watch this I can't get enough of it!
Modern muscle cars fire on every stroke, the average skiddoo can put out more than 3 hp per cubic in with oil injection, do the on hp for cubic inch, but the muscle car is involved with direct inection 2 stroke technology since the mid 60's, Where the fuck is the 2 stroke tech, oh i know its in nissand UD 2 stroke diesels, Detr oit, Evinrude etect, detroit diesel i got 1 for 8v92 for 2500, and mercury optimax, come on rotax with chevy for DFI motor for raising hell, the 572 hemi has been a poppet valved loop charged 2 stroke for years for years, ha
@@sebastianochs7714 well a few hemis have Benn made into a u-loop scavenged poppet valved 2 stroke, i seen one at a car show boy the power and racket it made
poppet valved drag race loop charged 2 strokes are well known for quick cars with a blower, its time for the piston ported ones to come back, both brap though and perform the same functiuon, its 2 stroke vs 2 stroke hehe
I learned on those old cabovers in the 70's when my dad was still a owner operator. Started in a 70's F-model Mack, w/a V8 twin turbo 5sp. Then a 82 Mack CruiseLiner, 350 Cummins, 10sp. An 84 Pete 379EXHD. 400 Big Cam. 15sp. Finished in a 84 Pete 379EXHD. 444 Cummins, 15sp. My 1st truck was a 80's KW K100 "Aero" w/a mean ass KT450 15sp. In 15th gear, you were either lugging or flying!!
I don't pretend to know much about Diesel Engines... But I know a engine that ramps that quick up it's rev range and sounds that good is almost always a monster.
Craig G not taking anything away from a Detroit but those old 2 cycles didn't have the low end torque a Cummins or a Caterpillar had. Never the less they did ok. nice sound to boot
If I could still climb in a truck I'd drive that one from coast-to-coast and love every minute of it. Some may call me crazy but if you love it then nothing else needs to be said.
heh - I came across an old GMCAstro with a 6-71 sitting on a property a few years back and the owner saw me gazing at it. He's a really funny & hard-bitten old road dog so he got nostalgic pretty quick. He told me that the secret to drivin' her was - Every morning before you start it up you have to SLAM the door on your thumb. Cuz yaa gotta be really MAD to drive it properly.... :D never got to take it for a burn though :/
If you can, start lifting weights, walking a mile or two, and swimming. You'll find that you CAN climb in and still shift the gears. Try BPI Sports Amino Acids, they'll help those sore muscles.
You'd need ear plugs or hearing aids before you reached Nebraska. Ive been around a few of these old monsters and their noise get annoying after a few hours.
Wow what a BEASTLY SOUND!!! I did drive an old crap spreader back in the early 80's. That had a V12/71! That ran like a scalded rabbit! Sounded like a scalded lion!! I'm not sure what the Pierre ratting was, but it had some power!! Lots of speeds too, like a gear for every 5 mph!!!
What an awesome piece of machinery. I had the experience one summer when I was in grade school and spent the summer with a class mate and his Dad doing runs during summer vacation in a cabover Kenworth identical to that, talk about a rough ride, just a few hours on the first run, my kidneys were about to fall out.
The sound of the Detroit can be heard from miles if you know the sound. I've drove for 12 years now and the first truck I drove was a old food lion cab over. Had the big ass steering wheel in it and my god was it a ugly ass truck but it did the job. My old man loves a cab over exp the 63. I've only seen 3 63's in my life and I'm 38 yo. But idc who you are if you like big trucks it never leaves you. I've been into trucks as long as I can remember. My dad had a w900L it was purple and that's the first truck I remember my dad having. I'm a 379 ext hood guy but I don't hate on any truck. Ok I've got to shut up bc I could talk truck's all day long. I never get excited about anything but when I see a nice truck I get excited like a little kid. The wife says she loves it when I get so excited about a truck but also hates it bc I don't get excited about anything else. Lol. Cant help it trucks and trucking is in my blood. Hammer down. Nice cab over by the way. Screaming Jimmy lives on.
The cold start governor hunting away.Seeing 10 or 11 of these in a fleet all starting up at the same time before dawn would be a sight and sound to behold.
I love those sound of the big Detroit's I had a silver 92 in my 1987 GMC General with a 256" wheel base what a screamer that blower and twin turbos kick in pulling up hills , let's not forget about topping up the oil every morning, I'm sorry just got carried away that sound drove me crazy, keep on trucking
i ran a terex scraper with that sitting next to me all day. the "little"8v91t was the pusher. just remember at after lunch to put a gallon of oil in the 12 and half gallon in the 8. Still love two strokes over claterpillers and cummeaters.
Good old 2-cycle Detroit Diesel love the old-school rain caps AKA flappers would be cool to roll some coal in that gnarly old machine very old school love it smart letting it chug along until it gets its lifeblood circulated so cool to watch it smooth out you did everything proper that is so gnarly
I have been a mechanic for over 35 years, Navy Seabees'!!! (Can Do!), highschool mechanic's for two years and community college studies of mechanical and math skills as well, and dealerships, and many times working with friends and doing for those that can't afford to have the work done. BUT THAT'S THE SWEETEST SOUNDING PISTONS I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!! 😲😳
That truck sounds like a monster, I can picture this truck laughing in the face of a V8 Scania and telling it to shut the fuck up and let a real truck engine roar.
Everyt time I go to the hospital I think of this video since the a/c system sounds like the truck warming up. And when I do it cheers me up and makes me feel more at ease. Thank you for sharing this video.
I love the grin on his face as he walks by to grab the camera. He knows some people are about to enjoy that sweet Detroit diesel sound just as much as him
A real 2 stroke uses its crankcase for an air compressor is more compact and does not need an external blower. Fairbanks morse did this with huge engine as well as all sleds, bikes and JLO diesels with total loss oil burn off. look at most high performance outboards that make way more power for there size than these wanna blower helped 2 stroke detroits, sleds and outboards desighns are much better, a modern 850 etec rotax is much more powerful without all this wet sump crap!
@@jlo13800 You aren't talking about 2 stroke diesel engines. 2 stroke. oil /gas burning engines are apples and oranges. GM Diesel 2 strokes require superchargers to run and are considered Naturally aspirated . Turbos are added as performance upgrades.
@@VitaminC440 True but a detroit burns some of its oil and you rig it up for total loss oil burn off if you want, i fill and run klotz techniplate 2 stroke, 8 gallons in my 8v92 and feed some into the fuel, boy its not cheap though
@@jlo13800 Agreed most diesels Especially turbocharged ones will eventually push oil past rings ,seals yadda yadda. Klotz is good shit. I used to burn it in my CR 125 elsinore. It smells like model airplane fuel. When it burns. If anything it will provide lubricity. For the old Detroit.. With today's low sulfur fuel. It's warranted..
It was a brute. 475 hp in 1970 was unheard of, this was the beast of the highway back in the day. I loved this truck and I dreaded see it go. It sold the day after I recorded this. I dream of one day owning a kenworth w900a with a 12v71.
+chevy power believe me I thought about it but that would of destroyed that cab over, and it had some extremely rare features for example, it was equipped with an experimental air clutch from kenworth.
Sounds like ke crap to me rotax erect makes more power for its size and it don’t need and external blower, it uses the crankcase like Fairbanks model 32
It doesn't make money to make stuff last. I use to like ferd until after 03 and they ended the 7.3 powerstroke which could get 500k-1 million miles before needing rebuilt.
The truck I learned to drive with was an OLD worn out washed up West Coast spec International day cabover,with the meanest shifting 5 and 4 I have ever driven in 38 years.We hauled a load of junk cars 130 miles south(oh,the passenger seat was the 5 gallon pail of oil needed for the trip)All went well,but on the return,we got passed by this big shiny long-nosed Pete!!! We were at 65 and he went by us like a bullet!! Well,that didn't sit well with the old man(PTSD,combat veteran,Ansio-Sicily)we slid to the side of the road,where he pinched the return line.When we got back to the road it was shuttle re-entry speed until he saw the rear end of that flatbed,then he pulled the last gear and we went by that Pete like a meteor!!!! (A really SMOKY meteor) The saddest day I remember--I drove that truck to the shredder,Mystic Peer,Boston in 1990 but that old truck had over a million miles on it!!! Got to where it wouldn't start good and you had to run 10 gallon of gas to each 70 gallon tank,plus,it would run on the oil that was leakin by the blower shafts.Your post brought back alot of memories,many thanks.
I was thinkin after I posted,I remember the old man sayin that that 12V71 was a Silver Edition and it was the first honest-to-God 475 hp engine,I think the old International was a 1972-73,not sure
What a sound Beautiful. I start this thing everyday for my neighbours Some wouldn't like it at first but they would learn to love it like a rooster crows in the morning. NICE sounding truck
i drove a gmc general with an 8V92. when the jake kicked in,it was obnoxious and i laughed..i cannot imagine driving down broadway in bangor maine n letting the jake chirp with this truck!!
The GM/Detroit 71 series was used very commonly in military landing craft and tanks as well as trucks, bulldozers, buses, boats, and stationary applications like sawmills from 1938 when the line was conceived to 1995 when they stopped producing the 71 series due to emissions restrictions.
A crane company I used to work for had a whole bunch of nice Cat-powered Kenny COEs for delivering Scissor-Lifts and Boom-Lifts. They probably had more of them sitting in their yard then I've ever seen on the roads. 'Twas quite a site to see. I kinda miss them, tbh. They even had one with a 3408B in it.
I spent a lot of my childhood riding with my dad in a GMC Astro cab over. I remember playing with army men and lining them up by the vent in the sleeper and shooting one and push him out the vent😂. That was the early 80s.
i had a 76 but it was air start. never could find the leak so when i got home i just had to air up the tanks to start it if it set for 2 or 3 days. nothing sounds as good as a v12 2 stroke
This is awesome! So many bad things have been said about cabovers but with the customization abilities today, even for tractors, any of those problems that plagued the cabovers can easily be overcome. Hell, how hard would it be to use a European cabover as a donor and swap over all that would be necessary to give a cabover such as this all the modern creature comforts of a conventional tractor? You can effectively have the best of both worlds.
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A modern rotax, optimax is much more powerful for its size and can run in any position, a Detroit with a sealed crankcase can do the same with fed ester based plant based 2 stroke oil, total loss burn off anyone
A twin turbo 600 horse 12V-71 could often be found as a starter motor in a General Electric Frame 5 or Frame 6 gas turbine generator set. They started and idled for about 20 seconds then ramped up to wide open throttle. It drove a Twin Disc torque converter which turned the gas turbine through a jaw clutch. It would run the turbine to 20% speed where fuel and spark was introduced. The Detroit would scream its guts out accelerating the gas turbine to 50% speed where it would outrun the jaw clutch and go to 100% speed or 5100 rpm. The Detroit would idle 5 minutes for cool down, then shut off until needed next. Brutal duty!
Damn I learned something today...
I always feel sorry for donkey engines.
Cat used pup engines on their D17000 four cylinder diesels in the ‘50s.
There very simply is no sound like a Detroit Diesel in the morning 🤣
Had to be one hell of a noise starting up!
This thing sounds like a racecar! I think it is one of the best sounding engines on the internet, and that rev at 1:37.. No matter how many times I watch this I can't get enough of it!
yep! this is nuts... who is ferrari? who need it we have this!
Yeah!
i agree
So good! Nothing like that here in england!
Americans🇺🇲 sure know how to build brutal machines. Greetings from Holland
These Detroits helped win the Second World War.
That's how we do It in the states
Thank you! We love Holland. 🇺🇸❤️🇳🇱
No matter how many times I have watched this video I can never seem to get enough of it thank you.
Same
Same here
After 4 years I'm here again. Thanks TH-cam algorithm. ❤
Same.
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that Detroit sounds pissed off. Just how it should be
If a Detroit diesel don't sound pissed off there's something wrong with it
+The Unforgotten that's true
If i rebuild one i woulds go with roller bearings on the crank!
Nordic ✌
Jeroentje_diy werv tyude verh no tapzen, ien toner batonk... no butza.
Nothing can be close to the sound of a classic Detroit diesel 💪🏻
Caterpillar gives Detroit a run for its money.
Sounds like a goddamn muscle car revving up. Sounds amazing
Modern muscle cars fire on every stroke, the average skiddoo can put out more than 3 hp per cubic in with oil injection, do the on hp for cubic inch, but the muscle car is involved with direct inection 2 stroke technology since the mid 60's, Where the fuck is the 2 stroke tech, oh i know its in nissand UD 2 stroke diesels, Detr oit, Evinrude etect, detroit diesel i got 1 for 8v92 for 2500, and mercury optimax, come on rotax with chevy for DFI motor for raising hell, the 572 hemi has been a poppet valved loop charged 2 stroke for years for years, ha
@@jlo13800 no modern car at all fires on every stroke homes😅
I just grabbed a 8v92 for 2500
Well ther are ew converted hemi engines converted to poppet valved u-loop scavenged 2 strokes, i saw one at a car show what a noise it made
@@sebastianochs7714 well a few hemis have Benn made into a u-loop scavenged poppet valved 2 stroke, i seen one at a car show boy the power and racket it made
Idling it sounds like some giant carnivore out of Jurassic Park! Sensational!
Its a monster 2 stroke!
poppet valved drag race loop charged 2 strokes are well known for quick cars with a blower, its time for the piston ported ones to come back, both brap though and perform the same functiuon, its 2 stroke vs 2 stroke hehe
They were all bark and no bite
thats a good way to describe a 4 stroke lol, we are all 4 stroke brainwashed.
Sounds like me when I smell a steak
I come back to this video every now & then. This is the best sounding Detroit in All of Utube land !!!! No Doubt !!!
Craig G I watch it all the time! Always cheers me up lol. I have yet to hear one that sounds better
Craig G I found another video on here a while back but could never find it again.
I agree. Have not heard a Detroit like that. I drove 692s & 892s nothing compares to the buzzin dozen.
Yep best vid on tube. Just like dads old 12v92 sounded when I was a kid. Will never forget that sound.
Youve got a god damn pretty good point
That truck is so dang clean. Looks and runs like it did in it's prime time.
I learned on those old cabovers in the 70's when my dad was still a owner operator. Started in a 70's F-model Mack, w/a V8 twin turbo
5sp. Then a 82 Mack CruiseLiner, 350 Cummins, 10sp. An 84 Pete
379EXHD. 400 Big Cam. 15sp. Finished in a 84 Pete 379EXHD.
444 Cummins, 15sp. My 1st truck was a 80's KW K100 "Aero" w/a mean ass KT450 15sp. In 15th gear, you were either lugging or flying!!
This sound never gets old with me.
Same I like this kenworth I wish I had one like that
I don't pretend to know much about Diesel Engines... But I know a engine that ramps that quick up it's rev range and sounds that good is almost always a monster.
Two stroke v12. Nuff said.
You would be wrong
@@RJ1999x
he did say, ALMOST ALWAYS
@@bertgrau9246 lol, true
Its not really revving up that quick, iirc they only rev up to 2500-3000k? Not a high revver at all though.
Nothing Sounds like the Ole Detroit's !!!!! LOVE THAT SOUND...
Me too
Craig G not taking anything away from a Detroit but those old 2 cycles didn't have the low end torque a Cummins or a Caterpillar had. Never the less they did ok. nice sound to boot
Check out my box truck then
lol it's a two stroke
I just a silver 8v92 to tinker with
Hypnotic watching it smooth out on idle. The revving was awesome!
Thats the best sounding engine ever...
By far the best.
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Avoid the 4 stroke at all costs, it’s a disease
What about a rolls Royce merlin V12, they were used in spitfires and p-51 Mustangs
I'm more of a car engine guy than anything, but 2-stroke diesels whether it's this or an EMD locomotive engine are just awesome to listen cold start.
If I could still climb in a truck I'd drive that one from coast-to-coast and love every minute of it. Some may call me crazy but if you love it then nothing else needs to be said.
heh - I came across an old GMCAstro with a 6-71 sitting on a property a few years back and the owner saw me gazing at it. He's a really funny & hard-bitten old road dog so he got nostalgic pretty quick. He told me that the secret to drivin' her was - Every morning before you start it up you have to SLAM the door on your thumb. Cuz yaa gotta be really MAD to drive it properly.... :D
never got to take it for a burn though :/
D Tittle1964 that's not crazy I loved my cabovers I owned in the 70s through 90s
If you can, start lifting weights, walking a mile or two, and swimming. You'll find that you CAN climb in and still shift the gears. Try BPI Sports Amino Acids, they'll help those sore muscles.
You'd need ear plugs or hearing aids before you reached Nebraska. Ive been around a few of these old monsters and their noise get annoying after a few hours.
epistte Nah! It’ll keep you awake and passing everything out in the hammer lane next to the jersey wall. 🇺🇸America!
The first 5 seconds sounds like me getting up in the morning.
I can watch this clip over and over. That starting sound is giving me goosebumps 🙂
Wow what a BEASTLY SOUND!!! I did drive an old crap spreader back in the early 80's. That had a V12/71! That ran like a scalded rabbit! Sounded like a scalded lion!! I'm not sure what the Pierre ratting was, but it had some power!! Lots of speeds too, like a gear for every 5 mph!!!
Sounds like a monster rising out of its lair
What an awesome piece of machinery. I had the experience one summer when I was in grade school and spent the summer with a class mate and his Dad doing runs during summer vacation in a cabover Kenworth identical to that, talk about a rough ride, just a few hours on the first run, my kidneys were about to fall out.
I grew up around these and miss the sounds, the smells and the oil stains where dad and grandad parked them
This is one of the best sounds coming from an engine I have ever heard
The sound of the Detroit can be heard from miles if you know the sound. I've drove for 12 years now and the first truck I drove was a old food lion cab over. Had the big ass steering wheel in it and my god was it a ugly ass truck but it did the job. My old man loves a cab over exp the 63. I've only seen 3 63's in my life and I'm 38 yo. But idc who you are if you like big trucks it never leaves you. I've been into trucks as long as I can remember. My dad had a w900L it was purple and that's the first truck I remember my dad having. I'm a 379 ext hood guy but I don't hate on any truck. Ok I've got to shut up bc I could talk truck's all day long. I never get excited about anything but when I see a nice truck I get excited like a little kid. The wife says she loves it when I get so excited about a truck but also hates it bc I don't get excited about anything else. Lol. Cant help it trucks and trucking is in my blood. Hammer down. Nice cab over by the way. Screaming Jimmy lives on.
The idle sounds better than every new car revving
The cold start governor hunting away.Seeing 10 or 11 of these in a fleet all starting up at the same time before dawn would be a sight and sound to behold.
1:30 The Detroitborghini Cabovertach
Nothing sounds better than a Detroit diesel through straight pipes.
What a fkn beast!!!.. those ole cab overs are trucker gold!!..it sounds like a monster out of the depths of Hell!!
Love these cabover designs. But International's 9800 series was way better with the flat floor............no doghouse intrusion
Lost count of how many times I have watched this 👍
me too
I love those sound of the big Detroit's I had a silver 92 in my 1987 GMC General with a 256" wheel base what a screamer that blower and twin turbos kick in pulling up hills , let's not forget about topping up the oil every morning, I'm sorry just got carried away that sound drove me crazy, keep on trucking
Been watching 2 stroke diesels for hours, and, by FAR this is the absolutely baddest of them all, EVRYTHING about it screams ANGRY n I love it!!!!
i ran a terex scraper with that sitting next to me all day. the "little"8v91t was the pusher. just remember at after lunch to put a gallon of oil in the 12 and half gallon in the 8. Still love two strokes over claterpillers and cummeaters.
Good old 2-cycle Detroit Diesel love the old-school rain caps AKA flappers would be cool to roll some coal in that gnarly old machine very old school love it smart letting it chug along until it gets its lifeblood circulated so cool to watch it smooth out you did everything proper that is so gnarly
Beautiful sound, very powerful
@Hello Mickey how are you doing
You can feel the pure unadulteraded HATRED in this godless beast .
That be the song of the "Rocky Mountain hummingbird". That is an insane truck engine.
Huh I've heard them be called a lot of things but that's the first. I like it.
They saw a lot of use in the Canadian timber industry.
+Rainhill1829 ....lots of them in the woods of WA. and OR. timber industry as well.
it this a bird that can cut down a tree??
A big Detroit 2 stroke is a mighty engine I got one but the most powerful 2 stroke is positive lightning!
I still come here a couple times a year to listen to this old girl!!
Man, these two strokes sounds amazing!
I have been a mechanic for over 35 years, Navy Seabees'!!! (Can Do!), highschool mechanic's for two years and community college studies of mechanical and math skills as well, and dealerships, and many times working with friends and doing for those that can't afford to have the work done. BUT THAT'S THE SWEETEST SOUNDING PISTONS I HAVE EVER HEARD!!!!! 😲😳
That thing sounds like a pissed off monster! Sweet music to my ears thx for this video
@Hello Bryce how are you doing
That truck sounds like a monster, I can picture this truck laughing in the face of a V8 Scania and telling it to shut the fuck up and let a real truck engine roar.
Once Optimus Prime woke up and realized that those humans changed his paint scheme, he was pissed off!
That’s one cool truck always loved the sound of the old 2 stroke Detroit’s
euro -4
Lol
@@alainaverio9245 More like -14
@@businessandpoliticsinswede3138 Euro... Nvm it doesn't even matter. XD
@NickoLps yeah fuck it who fucking even cares about the earth anyway
Getting off 4 strokes is like getting off drugs, they are a fake reality, I don’t like them at all
That's one BAD bitch!! Love them old Detroit's. That's what this world is missing nowadays....mean and nasty sounding diesels!!
Sound of 2-stroke diesels is amazing!
So is an evinrude/Johnson omc rotary sled engine
Everyt time I go to the hospital I think of this video since the a/c system sounds like the truck warming up. And when I do it cheers me up and makes me feel more at ease. Thank you for sharing this video.
Love that raw sound!! Detroit for life!! 😛
I love the grin on his face as he walks by to grab the camera. He knows some people are about to enjoy that sweet Detroit diesel sound just as much as him
Omg this is amazing .nothing better then the sound of the Detroit Diesel
nothing else sounds like a buzzin dozen
We used marine fuel injectors to get more oomph out of ours
A real 2 stroke uses its crankcase for an air compressor is more compact and does not need an external blower. Fairbanks morse did this with huge engine as well as all sleds, bikes and JLO diesels with total loss oil burn off. look at most high performance outboards that make way more power for there size than these wanna blower helped 2 stroke detroits, sleds and outboards desighns are much better, a modern 850 etec rotax is much more powerful without all this wet sump crap!
@@jlo13800 You aren't talking about 2 stroke diesel engines. 2 stroke. oil /gas burning engines are apples and oranges. GM Diesel 2 strokes require superchargers to run and are considered Naturally aspirated . Turbos are added as performance upgrades.
@@VitaminC440 True but a detroit burns some of its oil and you rig it up for total loss oil burn off if you want, i fill and run klotz techniplate 2 stroke, 8 gallons in my 8v92 and feed some into the fuel, boy its not cheap though
@@jlo13800
Agreed most diesels
Especially turbocharged ones will eventually push oil past rings ,seals yadda yadda.
Klotz is good shit. I used to burn it in my CR 125 elsinore. It smells like model airplane fuel. When it burns. If anything it will provide lubricity. For the old Detroit.. With today's low sulfur fuel. It's warranted..
I'v run 12-V , 6-V and 8-V Detroit's. Nothing else sounds like an old Detroit, Love the way they sound.
I love when they get that certain quick rev that spelled out looks something like BRUM-GAH
You can see the smirk on that guys face as he gets out and walks towards the camera. He knows he's got internet gold.
That is my dream. I love Kenworths, love cab overs, love Detroits, and holy shit! A 12v71!? I need that!!!
It was a brute. 475 hp in 1970 was unheard of, this was the beast of the highway back in the day. I loved this truck and I dreaded see it go. It sold the day after I recorded this. I dream of one day owning a kenworth w900a with a 12v71.
+chevy power believe me I thought about it but that would of destroyed that cab over, and it had some extremely rare features for example, it was equipped with an experimental air clutch from kenworth.
What a fucking beast!!!! The toughest sounding machine I’ve ever heard I think and I’m a diesel mechanic!!!
All new diesels just pissed themselves
ChrisHallett83 👍😁
@ChrisHallett83 Yes and they sound garbage in comparison to this.
@ChrisHallett83 | Smiles per gallon.
@ChrisHallett83 yeah you're right, but you love this truck . Who wouldn't?
Yeah, but let's check back in and see if all those new diesels are all still running in 48 years....
I think this is the best cold start and the best sounding diesel I ever heard!!!
when the go petal was stepped on i wet myself
the "go petal"? what are you? 5?
pardon my friend. he ment the "loud petal"
I believe its called the "vroom vroom foot thing"
🤣
David Chapman I think he means the brake
(Joking -.-)
the "go petal" beats saying "gas petal" any day of the year
Ran one in a 79 Astro as a young trucker from the Midwest to San Francisco hauling seafood out of the bay. Those were great times to be trucking.
The Buzzin' Dozen!!!!!!!!!!!
More like clunkin' duzen ar idle and then a buzzin' duzen lol
I just got a silver 92
Sounds like ke crap to me rotax erect makes more power for its size and it don’t need and external blower, it uses the crankcase like Fairbanks model 32
This sounds amazing, i love the slow start like a giant is being prodded to wake up then full godzilla when its revs and ready to go.
That thing sounds angry! Love it.
This reminds me of the m88 Hercules that was at old mod in Iraq when I was deployed in '09. Loved hearing that beast moving around.
Sure miss hearing these Jimmy's regularly on the road .😢
Man I love the sound of a Detroit diesel in the morning
Outstanding sound there, and lots of power too,.
Ahh, the good old days. They sure don't make stuff like that any more. Super truck dude, keep it nice.
It doesn't make money to make stuff last. I use to like ferd until after 03 and they ended the 7.3 powerstroke which could get 500k-1 million miles before needing rebuilt.
Damn, that is a cool old KW, Love the angry sounds coming from those stacks!!
Beautiful, love the rain caps!🇺🇸👍
For some reason YT suggested me this.
Dang glad it did!
Makes me happy. Put a smile on my face.
*Convoy is ready to roar* 💪
*Trucks: something to believe in*
*God bless truck drivers* 💖 🖒
If you believe in trucks, then you are sorely lost. Jesus Christ is the only thing to believe in.
Imagine the pride of driving that monster off the dealers lot!
In its time one of, if not the baddest on the road.
Love that sound could listen to it all day better than that so call music of today
The truck I learned to drive with was an OLD worn out washed up West Coast spec International day cabover,with the meanest shifting 5 and 4 I have ever driven in 38 years.We hauled a load of junk cars 130 miles south(oh,the passenger seat was the 5 gallon pail of oil needed for the trip)All went well,but on the return,we got passed by this big shiny long-nosed Pete!!! We were at 65 and he went by us like a bullet!! Well,that didn't sit well with the old man(PTSD,combat veteran,Ansio-Sicily)we slid to the side of the road,where he pinched the return line.When we got back to the road it was shuttle re-entry speed until he saw the rear end of that flatbed,then he pulled the last gear and we went by that Pete like a meteor!!!! (A really SMOKY meteor) The saddest day I remember--I drove that truck to the shredder,Mystic Peer,Boston in 1990 but that old truck had over a million miles on it!!! Got to where it wouldn't start good and you had to run 10 gallon of gas to each 70 gallon tank,plus,it would run on the oil that was leakin by the blower shafts.Your post brought back alot of memories,many thanks.
I was thinkin after I posted,I remember the old man sayin that that 12V71 was a Silver Edition and it was the first honest-to-God 475 hp engine,I think the old International was a 1972-73,not sure
Best sounding truck I've ever heard.
@Hello Nathan how are you doing
Words fail me. I am almost emotional right now... Nice Rig!
Som lindo do motor Detroit! Lembro da minha infância quando aproximada um caminhão Chevrolet, ou numa subida carregados, ai o grito dele era bonito!
What a sound Beautiful. I start this thing everyday for my neighbours Some wouldn't like it at first but they would learn to love it like a rooster crows in the morning. NICE sounding truck
That truck could scare the shit out a kid !
My dad used to drive a straight piped gmc general with a 8v92 he was told women and children got scared when he came through town
Francis JPK nahh out of the tesla truck or a prius
Kids...I think it’ll give their parents nightmares. 🤣
Good Lord!! That revving! Sounds better than most exotic cars!
i drove a gmc general with an 8V92. when the jake kicked in,it was obnoxious and i laughed..i cannot imagine driving down broadway in bangor maine n letting the jake chirp with this truck!!
Just like the ol country song! I’m from southern Maine, always stop into dysharts on my way by
Oww I love this tractor been driving 18 wheelers for only 11 years and really want to drive a big cab over like this.This is so sweeeeeet...
This is basicly a tank engine in it
Just more pissed off
The GM/Detroit 71 series was used very commonly in military landing craft and tanks as well as trucks, bulldozers, buses, boats, and stationary applications like sawmills from 1938 when the line was conceived to 1995 when they stopped producing the 71 series due to emissions restrictions.
This video never gets old..
Man that sounds amazing. Sweet music. I’d love to have that swapped into a c30
A crane company I used to work for had a whole bunch of nice Cat-powered Kenny COEs for delivering Scissor-Lifts and Boom-Lifts. They probably had more of them sitting in their yard then I've ever seen on the roads. 'Twas quite a site to see. I kinda miss them, tbh. They even had one with a 3408B in it.
That sounds and looks straight piped right there
I spent a lot of my childhood riding with my dad in a GMC Astro cab over. I remember playing with army men and lining them up by the vent in the sleeper and shooting one and push him out the vent😂. That was the early 80s.
Nicely done and awesome video Sir, this is ASMR for me!!! :)
That rev is glorious, what a noise! I think hondas one town over just crapped their pants when that was made to sing. Amazing.
Dang, That is a bad ass!! I would love to have that old truck!!
Those old Detroit engines are something else. Listening to them you swear that they're going to blow apart but that's how they liked it lol.
i had a 76 but it was air start. never could find the leak so when i got home i just had to air up the tanks to start it if it set for 2 or 3 days. nothing sounds as good as a v12 2 stroke
glen john squirt bottle filled with soapy water always shows the leaks
yes you would think. but never did find it. we changed it to electric start.
The air starting component was more reliable compared to an electric starter motor though, right?
IF you had air pressure.
What psi did it take to turn the engine?
every once in awhile i come to listen to this
This is awesome! So many bad things have been said about cabovers but with the customization abilities today, even for tractors, any of those problems that plagued the cabovers can easily be overcome. Hell, how hard would it be to use a European cabover as a donor and swap over all that would be necessary to give a cabover such as this all the modern creature comforts of a conventional tractor? You can effectively have the best of both worlds.