“Y’all ever wondered why diesels are so loud, especially the old mechanical ones? This is why… the injection system! This P-8600 is like a mini engine pumping out almost 1200cc of fuel. It’ll be bolted to the side of an IH pulling tractor and tearing up the track this spring!”
This is a mechanical fuel injection pump that is going on a high horsepower Pulling Tractor.
Get a load of how much diesel it is dumping in just a few seconds.
I looked it up so you don’t have to.
1200 CC’s is 0.3170074 of a gallon, so almost a third of a gallon.
I couldn’t even guess how much money that thing cost to build and test.
Leigh might have a better idea.
It will give you a better understanding of why they belch so much black smoke at full throttle.
I had an 84 Toyota NA Diesel pickup. Top speed was 74 Mph. It had just under 200k miles when the injector pump went out. A Mitsubishi injector pump was used as a replacement. It was much louder. Fuel milage dropped from 40 Mpg to 35 and it would run up to 82 Mph. When the second AC system failed on it I traded it.
That was pretty cool
not much to build, its all in the tolerances as to the fuel output. the test stand probably goes for about 200+K. i could BUILD one for 500 bucks. testing and timing one on a test stand is another matter.
Just to give an idea. An injection pump for a small 6 cylinder generator, 99 kilowatt, is about $2500 new. That’s for the same size John Deere engine that goes in one of their corn harvesters. At full output it uses 120 gallons of fuel in 24 hours.
A buddy, diesel mechanic, pulled his Oliver 77(?) at the fairgrounds regular. Fuel=Power in a diesel he would say.
His tractor would black the crowd when he pulled and he would state, “Im rollin coal”
Good times!
Mc
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