That truck is in sweet shape for its age...my dad had one when i was growing up, 238 DD very simple truck at the time..not much could go wrong as long as you put a gallon of oil in it every 2000 miles
The Detroit 2 cycle engine is an amazing durable engine. What a great product. These are classic trucks that helped build America and put food on peoples table. Great tractor. Excellent work btw. These are trucks worth saving.
Every part is the same as on 53, 71, 92, and 110.......just bigger scale . You have it firing but not quite enough fuel . Ole 2 Stroker Wayno goes through the same rituals on truck or industrial engines. I give you lots of credit, being more of a 4 stroke guru, you knew the basic principle and are a quick learner . Good job showing us a step by step procedure, and never got disheartened . I'm kinda surprised this engine didn't get donated to the Cool Spring Power Museum, where I've attended off and on for 40 years .
@@robertbradford7892 what were they 450 HP? we had a 8V92 in a 4 axle COE Freightliner that was used for heavy haul. Also recall it had a “deep reduction” tranny for pullin those heavy ass loads on lowboys, Sieberts, yada yada
That hendrickson rear end with that wheel base means a doctor visit every week with your back if you are not younger than 40. Those old detroits you better be early with those gears on a hill and keep it screaming.
I took my semi license test (pre CDL days) in one of these. Single axle, no power steering, no air seat, 6-71 Detroit. It was 100 degrees, the woman giving the test asked me to turn around and go back to the office after a few minutes, I passed. It was too hot and loud in the truck.
As a retired trucker I'm here to tell ya I put a lot of miles in a gmc brigadier . No room , rough riding non pulling junk. I don't miss them nor the damn cabovers.
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 Happy New Year…2025! This is a great piece of American trucking history that you have! I had an uncle that loved these old GM trucks & had several for his transfer business. He had both single axle & dual. They were all red, too! Your truck sounds good, too! Looking forward to seeing it roll & run more! Keep On Truckin, my friend! Blessings. 🥰😎✌️
Always liked how these big c90s were just a continuation progressing up from the level of a pickup, then to the medium duty , and maxing out with a powerful heavy tractor.
Beautiful rig, tight pedal lay out for surely, tip toe pedal package , oil bath air filter is what my 8V-71 has too, but in a bus with 2 Stage jake and it howels on take off and landing, old gear is the stuff that built the greatness of our countries 🇺🇸👍🇨🇦 10-4 over and out 🍺
Great find, and interesting comments regarding ergonomic differences between the 9500 and 7500/8500 trucks. The joys of trying to cram a larger powertrain under the same cab and BBC, most likely...
Nice looking project. I would definitely bend the gear lever to suit. In regard to the ‘prerusted cabin’, GM New Zealand brought in their first shipment of Isuzu SBR trucks in the early ‘80s, as deck cargo. Most of them disappeared from the road within 5 years😁! Later shipments were handled with greater care🙂. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
Sweet rig! I remember even as a kid thinking they crammed everything on the drivers side. There are advantages to those pedals being close together, as long as you don’t wear a size 16 boot, I can just see on a snowy or rainy day getting tangled up trying to stop. Wish they still made real trucks like this, great memories from way back when.
I'm sure it will be fine to drive. But just off they are like that. Even with my big clown feet. I just realized the other day that there are plenty of plastic trucks that are 30 years old now. I'm not sure we will ever talk about them being "real trucks". But maybe
I always thought these were ugly., but they grow on you. I really love the old trucks, great work horses.That truck is a gem, and a great piece of history too.
Back in the day saw a lot of these.Anchor Motor Freight ran them from across the street from the Chevy plant in Baltimore .I thought the Chevy’s were meaner looking than the GMC’s
Man Anchor Motor Freight! That's a blast from the past. Growing up in the Baltimore suburbs during the 50s and 60s the Anchor trucks were a regular sight. I took remember their yard across Holabird Ave from the GM plant. Some of my schoolmates fathers worked for them.
My first trucking job was driving a short nose day cab with an 8v71 and a 13 speed I made great money got full benefits and a per diem. Adjusted for inflation I was making about $168,000 and home every other day
That's a four and a quarter inch bore with a five inch stroke. I guess five is a nice round number and makes for lots of torque. Caterpillar made a four stroke V8 (3208) that had that five inch stroke as well. It was just a little bigger with a four and a half inch bore for a total displacement of 636 cubic inches rather than 568 for the Detroit. I've never driven one of them two strokes yet. They tell me that you have to drive it like you're angry all the time (because it likes it like that). And yeah I think I'd want Jacob brakes on there as well, absolutely! That's such a sweet style of truck that you almost never see now. I'm wondering what the horsepower rating is on the engine tag. That was a different era before all the five hundred horsepower plus rigs you see rolling down the highways now. You'd be holding up traffic in the mountains, chances are. But nobody needs to be in that big of a hurry. Cheers!
Don't have to drive them angry, but you definitely have to rev them close to the governor evey shift. This one should be 318hp with the injectors it has currently
chev and gmc up to 19667 made some of the best designed driver convientant trucks but then starting in 65 made manual steering harder .so next time you buy p/s removed floor vents so you buy a/c and that petal sertup i bet to push the allasion auto trans although the dd 53.71 and otheres streaght or v was a good and repairable engine it amazing watching them in trucks or bus sitting years or decades with little care they start and run possably little weeker but in frame rebuild often gives several hundred thousand mor miles except in cal who dont understand the pollution for junking a good usable truck or bus and build a new one
When I see one of those trucks you think of what you know I was a little kid riding with my pops see this truck two companies come to mind Canada dry and Ryder car carriers
That's a Motorola business band radio, not a "cool old Midland". I used to work on those radios, I, was a Motorla two-way radio tech for a while. I also hold a ham radio license.
Somebody painted it like a united van. But it was originally a U&R express truck. Hauled chip trailer. It's mint green with a dark green stripes under that white/yellow.
You do know the short pan that holds the oil (oil bath air cleaner detroit) that goes on the bottom of the air cleaner is gone , and looks like the band that clamps the pan on the bottom of the air cleaner is also gone . You do know its sucking dirt , grit and etc... straight into the blower and destroying the blower and engine , right ? Thats a donaldson oil bath air cleaner , Ive cleaned many of them . The screens up onside the air cleaner are probable full of dirt , and probably have to back flush it from the blower side pipe hole a bunch of times to clean it out . Its yours do what ever you want ..........
Very aware of all that. It's all laying on the passengers seat. You can see it in the video. I'm sure the couple minutes of run time it's had will be fine.
I take that Detroit. These lot of dairy. Get me a Caterpillar, a new Caterpillar. Find me a back end of a nice donut truck. I switched that puppy up if I gotta get a knife, a new or mad frame or something? I feel like about a 90 or early 2000 but it aint Fuller in there. They use on there, change that puppy up. Change that color paint. Get me a cheap radio cheap CD player in there. I put a nice ham on them and I'm on my way. I'll call us on the front and in the back things all in life. L I v's and I have satellites on the air and I'll get that truck on
You say you are not a muffler guy. I am 79 and very hard of hearing from driving 8v71s and 92s and 12v71 in the 70s and 80s and believe me you will regret your macho attitude about mufflers. Every truck I drove had mufflers and it still affected my hearing. There was very little (as in none) sound deadening used in most of the rigs then and they sounded good but the price is high. Good luck.
That is an awesome truck, I love the old Detroit engine, they sound like no other on the road, great video 👍👍
That truck is in sweet shape for its age...my dad had one when i was growing up, 238 DD very simple truck at the time..not much could go wrong as long as you put a gallon of oil in it every 2000 miles
Fresh out of high school ‘92 I drove one of these for 4 years identical to yours! 1976 model and it was rusty back then!
Great truck; first diesel engine I ever overhauled many, many moons ago! Congrats
Pre rusty from the factory love it. Very nice rig I cut my teeth in one of these lots of good memories in them. Thanks for sharing
That's a fine-looking Chevy day cab!
The Detroit 2 cycle engine is an amazing durable engine. What a great product. These are classic trucks that helped build America and put food on peoples table. Great tractor. Excellent work btw. These are trucks worth saving.
It's amazing to me how so many people haven't heard of a 2 stroke diesel. Such an important part of America.
That C90 is a beast!
Every part is the same as on 53, 71, 92, and 110.......just bigger scale . You have it firing but not quite enough fuel . Ole 2 Stroker Wayno goes through the same rituals on truck or industrial engines. I give you lots of credit, being more of a 4 stroke guru, you knew the basic principle and are a quick learner . Good job showing us a step by step procedure, and never got disheartened . I'm kinda surprised this engine didn't get donated to the Cool Spring Power Museum, where I've attended off and on for 40 years .
Looks like it has good bones to start a project with. Congratulations.
Had one way back in the 80s with the 8v92TA 18 ft dump and 14 ft pup, it was a beast...💯
@@robertbradford7892 what were they 450 HP? we had a 8V92 in a 4 axle COE Freightliner that was used for heavy haul. Also recall it had a “deep reduction” tranny for pullin those heavy ass loads on lowboys, Sieberts, yada yada
Overall, very nice shape. Bumper is excellent
That hendrickson rear end with that wheel base means a doctor visit every week with your back if you are not younger than 40. Those old detroits you better be early with those gears on a hill and keep it screaming.
I took my semi license test (pre CDL days) in one of these. Single axle, no power steering, no air seat, 6-71 Detroit. It was 100 degrees, the woman giving the test asked me to turn around and go back to the office after a few minutes, I passed. It was too hot and loud in the truck.
First truck I ever drove at 18 yrs old on a harvest run from Arizona Texas all the way up to Lethbridge AB.
671 Detroit and a 10 speed
As a retired trucker I'm here to tell ya I put a lot of miles in a gmc brigadier . No room , rough riding non pulling junk. I don't miss them nor the damn cabovers.
She’s a beauty for sure! A genuine keeper! Very nice! Congratulations!
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 Happy New Year…2025! This is a great piece of American trucking history that you have! I had an uncle that loved these old GM trucks & had several for his transfer business. He had both single axle & dual. They were all red, too! Your truck sounds good, too! Looking forward to seeing it roll & run more! Keep On Truckin, my friend! Blessings. 🥰😎✌️
Always liked how these big c90s were just a continuation progressing up from the level of a pickup, then to the medium duty , and maxing out with a powerful heavy tractor.
Beautiful rig, tight pedal lay out for surely, tip toe pedal package , oil bath air filter is what my 8V-71 has too, but in a bus with 2 Stage jake and it howels on take off and landing, old gear is the stuff that built the greatness of our countries 🇺🇸👍🇨🇦 10-4 over and out 🍺
Great find, and interesting comments regarding ergonomic differences between the 9500 and 7500/8500 trucks. The joys of trying to cram a larger powertrain under the same cab and BBC, most likely...
I'm sure it has to do with the width of the V8.
I was surprised it was that noticeable
Damn sweet truck. Love the color. The school district my dad worked for had one in dump truck form for a while. Only diesel in the fleet of Chevys. 😊
She's a keeper 👍, don't get rid of her, they don't make trucks that solid anymore
Definitely a keeper.
It's a good lookin truck..
Nice looking project. I would definitely bend the gear lever to suit. In regard to the ‘prerusted cabin’, GM New Zealand brought in their first shipment of Isuzu SBR trucks in the early ‘80s, as deck cargo. Most of them disappeared from the road within 5 years😁! Later shipments were handled with greater care🙂. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.
Sweet rig! I remember even as a kid thinking they crammed everything on the drivers side. There are advantages to those pedals being close together, as long as you don’t wear a size 16 boot, I can just see on a snowy or rainy day getting tangled up trying to stop. Wish they still made real trucks like this, great memories from way back when.
I'm sure it will be fine to drive. But just off they are like that. Even with my big clown feet.
I just realized the other day that there are plenty of plastic trucks that are 30 years old now. I'm not sure we will ever talk about them being "real trucks". But maybe
Those Screaming Detroits are music to the Ears.
that GM am radio made by Delco electronics Kokomo Indiana
Beautiful Machine Man Sounds Happy I Love it
Sounds great
Had an old 8v71 in my ford f600 miss it all the time good engine
These old Detroit Diesels were the world’s greatest externally lubricated engine. Ya still just gotta love them. 👋
Good looking truck
I always thought these were ugly., but they grow on you. I really love the old trucks, great work horses.That truck is a gem, and a great piece of history too.
Ugly???? Shame on you.
My first big truck I drove in 87 was a Peterbilt 362 with a 8v92 ….. 15+sad…last two gears were . backwards . Looks like Oly Peninsula
The steering column looks like it came out of the smaller Chevy/gm trucks and the shifter looks like it was heated and bent that way
Nice old girl air ride would be a big plus 😊
Our a/c was mounted on back wall of cab.
Quite nice for it's age. Love the low maintainence AC system. Just needs a little TLC.😀
Did a good deal of my initial training on one very similar to that. Just a couple years older and a 6-71.
Sweet!👍
This is a cool old truck
Beautiful piece of old iron please restore it these trucks were classics 👌
Back in the day saw a lot of these.Anchor Motor Freight ran them from across the street from the Chevy plant in Baltimore .I thought the Chevy’s were meaner looking than the GMC’s
Man Anchor Motor Freight! That's a blast from the past. Growing up in the Baltimore suburbs during the 50s and 60s the Anchor trucks were a regular sight. I took remember their yard across Holabird Ave from the GM plant. Some of my schoolmates fathers worked for them.
Anchor Clanker
I drove for Anchor out of Tarrytown NY we hauled ME to Fla east of the Miss
@@waynetravers-f8jWould that have been the Tonawanda plant?
It don’t go fast enough to need a Jake !😂😂😂😂
That Detroit will pass every thing but a fuel island! :-))
Drove one for 9 yrs....GMC that is
Love em G Ms. Looking for long hood for my Bruin 900. 1969
Nice truck man
Those alternator belts are LIT!
Right!
Seems like every heavy truck I get I heat and bend the shifter.
Very cool!!! 👍👍
That or the long nose GMC one of my favorite
I drove a 1980 G M C brigadier with 6v92, very nice truck!!! Go ahead and bend the shifter forward!!!
I'm definitely doing somthing with the shifter.
Sweet old truck
Beauty rig!!!
My first trucking job was driving a short nose day cab with an 8v71 and a 13 speed I made great money got full benefits and a per diem. Adjusted for inflation I was making about $168,000 and home every other day
Do you have the bottom part of the oil bath air cleaner? Without that there is nothing to keep dirt out of engine.
Luckily I have it. It's on the passengers seat.
It’s in good shape 😊
Very.
I've never seen one of these before and never knew they existed.
They are somewhat rare for sure.
Awesome shape
When you put the Jake’s on use the aluminum spacers …. Much easier to work with.
The jakes that I bought came with those spacers instead of the tall covers.
nice truck!!!!!!!
Beauty.
Not too rusty
Not bad for one of these
That's a four and a quarter inch bore with a five inch stroke. I guess five is a nice round number and makes for lots of torque. Caterpillar made a four stroke V8 (3208) that had that five inch stroke as well. It was just a little bigger with a four and a half inch bore for a total displacement of 636 cubic inches rather than 568 for the Detroit. I've never driven one of them two strokes yet. They tell me that you have to drive it like you're angry all the time (because it likes it like that). And yeah I think I'd want Jacob brakes on there as well, absolutely!
That's such a sweet style of truck that you almost never see now. I'm wondering what the horsepower rating is on the engine tag. That was a different era before all the five hundred horsepower plus rigs you see rolling down the highways now. You'd be holding up traffic in the mountains, chances are. But nobody needs to be in that big of a hurry. Cheers!
Don't have to drive them angry, but you definitely have to rev them close to the governor evey shift.
This one should be 318hp with the injectors it has currently
I love it.
chev and gmc up to 19667 made some of the best designed driver convientant trucks but then starting in 65 made manual steering harder .so next time you buy p/s removed floor vents so you buy a/c and that petal sertup i bet to push the allasion auto trans although the dd 53.71 and otheres streaght or v was a good and repairable engine it amazing watching them in trucks or bus sitting years or decades with little care they start and run possably
little weeker but in frame rebuild often gives several hundred thousand mor miles except in cal who dont understand the pollution for junking a good usable truck or bus and build a new one
I road tested for my CDL with a GMC same engine but 5 and 4 transmission in the early 80s
5 and 4 would be the cats pajamas in this truck
That is sweet!!
When I see one of those trucks you think of what you know I was a little kid riding with my pops see this truck two companies come to mind Canada dry and Ryder car carriers
Someone took the torch to ur shifter to bend it up. Same thing was done on my 9500
I'm definitely going to bend it back.
They must not of liked shifting more up/down than back and forth
it's awesome it's a workhorse
I had the extended hood version.
That's a Motorola business band radio, not a "cool old Midland". I used to work on those radios, I, was a Motorla two-way radio tech for a while. I also hold a ham radio license.
Add a vgt turbo with the jakes. Something from a Cummins from 2007-10.
There wasnt any leg room inside that cab for me.
Nice no computer I would be able to work on it nice old truck😎
Service manual and a few basic tools is all you need. Unlike today's trucks
I can’t believe there isn’t more foot room. Are you sure the doghouse isn’t quite right.
The dog house is slid back. But not really towards the pedals.
Did GMC ever put the V903 in any of these trucks?
I looked at the literature i have. I didn't see anything about the 903 listed
@@jaminstewart2444 Perhaps the 9500 I saw had a V8 Detroit replaced with a V903 later in it's life
I just acquired a 1972 C90 with a 6-71. Where did you find the Jakes? Are they hard to install?
71 series jakes are pretty easy to find. I found some off of a parts engine.
You do need a little knowledge to set them.
@jaminstewart2444 Thank you
Don't forget to hang cans under the air box drains so ya can recycle the oil......
It hasn't been driven hard in awhile. They drip alot right now.
I grew up with those scremeing demons what the story on that Freightliner cabover that looks like united van lnes truck
Somebody painted it like a united van. But it was originally a U&R express truck. Hauled chip trailer.
It's mint green with a dark green stripes under that white/yellow.
You do know the short pan that holds the oil (oil bath air cleaner detroit) that goes on the bottom of the air cleaner is gone , and looks like the band that clamps the pan on the bottom of the air cleaner is also gone . You do know its sucking dirt , grit and etc... straight into the blower and destroying the blower and engine , right ? Thats a donaldson oil bath air cleaner , Ive cleaned many of them . The screens up onside the air cleaner are probable full of dirt , and probably have to back flush it from the blower side pipe hole a bunch of times to clean it out . Its yours do what ever you want ..........
Very aware of all that. It's all laying on the passengers seat. You can see it in the video. I'm sure the couple minutes of run time it's had will be fine.
8V71 is a 318 put a turbo you'll have a 350 I drove one in the early 70s 😊
It's built like a GMC top kick
Hiw much would you want for it? I have a dodge pickup that I can fit it all into.
I will probably be keeping this one
I take that Detroit. These lot of dairy. Get me a Caterpillar, a new Caterpillar. Find me a back end of a nice donut truck. I switched that puppy up if I gotta get a knife, a new or mad frame or something? I feel like about a 90 or early 2000 but it aint Fuller in there.
They use on there, change that puppy up. Change that color paint.
Get me a cheap radio cheap CD player in there.
I put a nice ham on them and I'm on my way. I'll call us on the front and in the back things all in life. L I v's and I have satellites on the air and I'll get that truck on
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Pretty sweet.:)
318 hp ?
I think so. It has n65 injectors according to the guy i got it from.
@@jaminstewart2444 I had a gmc 9500 single axle with a 238 Detroit and 5 speed 2 speed rear transmission very similar to that chevy
Let’s hear it run!
I will make a good cold start and driving video of it soon.
it's a truck it works
like it
You say you are not a muffler guy. I am 79 and very hard of hearing from driving 8v71s and 92s and 12v71 in the 70s and 80s and believe me you will regret your macho attitude about mufflers. Every truck I drove had mufflers and it still affected my hearing. There was very little (as in none) sound deadening used in most of the rigs then and they sounded good but the price is high. Good luck.
I'm not that macho. I wear hearing protection when I drive detroits.
Sometimes even when I'm driving my S/C cummins on the freeway
Definitely want the mufflers left on for that one!
I never see those here in the Northeast.
What few there where, got all rusted out and gone
Power steering that’s rare for a truck that age
Muffler's where necessary only when you had a non turbo charged engine
It's a long hood 9500
Pre rusted from the factory 😂
Old friend of mine used to say that about international and dodge trucks.
The infamous 318?
Yes it is
@ They were a very popular engine in Western PA and Ohio pulling flatbeds loaded with steel back in the 70’s