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

[Steve W.]

carl gogol wrote:
> 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?

The 702 GM engine has a special block with all 12 cylinders and a
special crank with all the throws on it.
The heads and intake/exhaust manifolds were the same as the V6 though.
They are a real bear. There is a local company that still has a parade
engine with one in it. LOUD almost describes it.


> 
> 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

Around here you have Oshkosh or Walters used to open the roads after big
snow. Then they use the smaller trucks for single lane clean-up. Between
them I think the Sno-Fighters have an edge. Takes a GOOD driver to run
them though. And a BIG tow tractor if you get one stuck...


-- 
Steve W.