Chrysler 225 industrial 6 cylinder

What do you think of them?

I have seen them in many things and they all seem to be just fine.

Friend of mine has one powering a World War II seach light. Runs very smooth and quiet. I guess that it has a governor on it. Really bright light, uses carbon arc rods. Another local man has a Massey-Harris self propelled combine, maybe the first model they made, which i think is powered by a Chrysler six. It sat for many years and started up with no trouble. No stuck rings etc.

My cousin has one in a Yale fork lift and it purrs like a kitten. Seams to have plenty of power. Bandit

Is that the same as the slant six they used in cars in the 60's? the ones we owned seemed indestructable, altho could'nt stop one from leaking oil at that 90 degress pan bend. gobble

No powerhouse but treat them right and they will last a long time.
Use extra caution when putting in the water pump bolts.
If you mix them up one of the bolts when installed in the wrong hole will apply just enough pressure to crack the wall on cyl #1

The "Leaning Tower of Power" as they call it. Have worked on a few over the years in ag equipment. Current customer has one in a CIH windrower that has been no problem over the years. A little cold blooded with manual choke but runs fine after 5 minutes. They are a dependable engine.

That was the engine in the JD 800 swather. Mine was sn 255xxx, so plenty of them used there.

Had one in an old White forklift at a place I worked st years ago. Every once in a while the monkeys would forget to check the oil and she'd lock up. A little lube and a couple guys jumping on a 4 foot pipewrench and she'd take off and work for another year or so...

Tough as nails.

I drove an old 65 1 ton Dodge for a few years with that engine. It had been an old school bus maintenance truck. I got it in the late 80's. No telling how many miles on that thing. put a flat bed on it and a pintle hook on the back. Pulled a small dozier on a trailer one time about 50 miles. Hauled my 8N on the truck when I needed to.
Got the 8N stuck down in the creek one time with a full dirt pan. Was bottomed out good. Did not have help that day. Chained the Dodge to the 8N and jerked it and the dirt pan out.
I finally rebuilt the engine in the old truck.
When I had the crank ground, the shop man said those cranks could be ground to .080 and still keep going.
Richard in NW SC

One of the toughest and most dependable engines of any ever built...the industrial engine probably had a few things that the automotive versions didn't; like hardened valve seats.

Neighbor had one in a Hesston swather it ran for years.

Last 2 summers in high school I worked on a tug boat. We had a
carbon light that would shoot a pencil beam a mile ahead. I got the
job of crawling up on top of the wheel house and changing the rods
when they burned down. Quite a light.

Mark

As usual, I had wrong! I was thinking of old Chrysler flathead six, not the 'newer' slant six.

Garry

I think some 60's combines used that engine: MF 300 and Case 960, maybe some others.

slant 6 was designed to go in place of the flathead 6, side slant and low profiled manifolds would tuck under car hoods that had been designed for the flathead. The industrial users that had previously used dodge or continental flat heads were happy to have the slant 6 - almost no changes needed to tuck them in place, a bit more power and little less overheating, valve wear to worry about. Ford and Chevy had similar displacement engines but 7 bearing cranks and big bores meant longer engine case and tighter fit in some applications- if not tied by contract to Chevy or Ford, the Chrysler was easy, better choice compared to reworking a engine bay for extra 6-8 inch or so length. AMC 232, 258 inch engines got used for a few things also mainly because they were 4 bearing cranks and shorter engine case- The IHC pickups and some vans used them as easier to fit in the bay that had previous 4 bearing crank engines from 1950s design upgrades of 1930s engines. RN

I believe my uncles Massey Harris #82 self propelled combine used the Chrysler slant six engine.

The engine had plenty of power to run what was considered a very big combine for its era.

Good engine that was removed and sold for someone wanting it as a power unit to put in a ????? do not remember. The like new tires were also salvaged for Dad's 430 case tractor. Rest of the combine eventually went to scrapper.

My dad was pretty much the only one who would run that pitiful combine. It broke down more than it ran (not the engine as the engine was great). Worse the operator station was right beside the main rasp bar throat which ran very high at head level on that design and it had no cab. The operator was basically seated in the worse place imaginable from a dust perspective.

Dad had to wear dust masks or panty hose over his nose and mouth and when he was done operating that POS for whatever time it would run in a given day before breaking down yet again - he looked like a solid dirtball.

Dad eventually bought a little John Deere 40 SP combine. Although much smaller and well worn that little 40 (also with no cab) was a way better machine than that much bigger but pitiful Massey 82.

One of the toughest motors Crysler ever built. Can tell you from first person experience they can take a lot of abuse. (smile)