From: Glenn McCalley (glenn@combatcatering.com)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 10:21:46 PDT
...and that poses a question I've had.
Are there gear sets anywhere to get the final gear ratio down?
I'm not really looking for higher top speed (a deuce at 80MPH sounds too
thrilling for me) but would like to get 55 - 60 at something less than 98%
throttle (or whatever - it's close). Seems to me engine wear would be less,
and low gear might even become significant when starting up.
Glenn.
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From: <jalberhasky@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] oil pressure
>
> The oil pressure in my Duece, which has the original White built 465 1C
engine with no rebuild and roughly 10,000 miles is 50psi at 650 idle rpm
when hot. 60 psi at 1000 rpm up. I run the same extended change interval
15-40 oil that I use in my diesel farm tractors. I last changed the oil in
May of 2002 and with almost 3,000 miles on it it is down maybe a bit over 1
quart. As far as life expectancy goes on these engines....I don't see why
they could not last 150-200k miles before a major if the maint is done on
them correctly and the rpm are kept down below 25-2600, which is much higher
than most diesels this size are designed to work at. They would go much
farther if the gearing was higher, say around 5.62. jja
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