[AT] Weird truck problem was RE: 8V 71 DetroitinaMackCaboverfor Ralph

[carl gogol]

Twin 351s or twin 409s - what's a hundred cubes one way or the other when 
you have 7or800 cubes?  Either way, it couldn't pass a gas station, but we 
sure could shake up a few drivers that didn't want to go 50 on the snowy 
road.
I remember some talk about the motors having a special crank; was it only on 
the one nearest the output clutch or on both?  Could one engine be shut down 
for better economy?

This was a great plow setup, but was usually put aside late in the winter 
when the banks got eight or ten feet tall.  The Walters machines with 
V-plows got used almost exclusively except for cleanup duty after the 
Walters plows forced the banks back into the ditches where they could on 
warmer days.  After that exercise you hoped for lots of warm weather, as a 
foot of snow and wind would fill the snow canyons to the top.  The only hope 
then was the rotary.
Carl
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Ralph


>
> Here is a 409 engine'
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> http://www.jims59.com/miscphotos/images/63Impala409Engine.jpg
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> From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
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> inaMackCaboverfor Ralph
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>> Gosh guys - I can't remember the valve covers, probably last saw them in
>> 1969.  I kind'a remember the engines being 409s,  since that was also on 
>> of
>> the hot rod setups of the day.  Could have been easily something else
>> though - that was about 41 years ago.
>> I remember more about the 6 cylinder "Climax" engine that powered the 
>> rotary
>> snowthrower mounted on an Oshkosh 4 WD truck.  That had split heads and 
>> two
>> carbs, you could pull it down to about 200 RPM in heavy snow - at least 
>> that
>> what it sounded like.
>> Carl
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