BUZZIN DOZEN

Hey Kruser-typed in Buzzin Dozen and your pictures came up from the show last Summer-had to post these 2 again-DETROIT POWER--LIKE--Thanks---Tee

Those V-12s make a beautiful sound. Nothing else can even come close, but it is a sound that is best to be admired from one or two miles away.

Better put a dip pan under them before the EPA finds them! Don't call em driptroits for nothing!

Notice what's hanging on the steering wheel of the first one? Earmuffs!

A good Detroit always leaves it scent like a wandering tomcat!---Tee

Fellow had a picture of his favorite Detroit hanging over the mantle. If you looked close, he had a rag under it to catch the oil.

Ah the Detroits , i can tell you never ran much powered by a 2 stroke . In my youth i worked for a large construction company that had every piece of equipment made to move dirt lift heavy iron and lay down roads sewer line , water lines and gas, build bridges and dams . and we had alot of DETROIT powered from 2 cylinders on up to the V 12's . And each one had multiple exhaust stacks ADDED a 4 cylinder woul have TWO 2 -71 manifolds and TWO straight pipes a 6 cylinder would have THREE 2-71 exhaust manifolds with STRAIGHT pipes a V 12 had four 3 -71 manifolds and four pipes . Spent many days running a Le Tornenu Model C and D scraper / Pan setting about two or three feet away from the exhaust pipes with those screaming engines that were turned up hopped up , if it came from the factory with the two valve head it now had the four valve head blower over drive and nothing less the N 70 Brown tag injectors , if it was factory set at 2150 it was now screaming a 2450 to 2650 . All shovels and cranes were Detroit powered , spend a day in the house of and old 22 B Bucyres or what ever one you may be running for that day . Then spend a day on a D 8 high out put with twin stacks pulling a 20 yd scraper . Now today i so enjoy the ringing in my ears .

They did not have such things back in the day and cotton did little to help as BTDT.

Yep Detroits always mark their territory LOL Fill the oil check the fuel. My uncle had one in a White Freightliner, that was red.
It was an 8V71TTa twin turbo twin supercharger after cooled, got so worn out that he carried a barrel of oil on the rear deck and would just pump it in. Another uncle worked for Dow Well and rebuilt it for him. Told him don't idle it for the first 20,000 mi. after 10,000 he let it idle one night locked up two cylinders. Couldn't pound out the pistons with a sledge hammer, ended up driving the pistons and liner out together.

"he had a rag under it to catch the oil"

Do you mean IN the photo, or UNDER the photo, ha

Don't want to get any oil on the mantle.

Learned to run pan on a Le Tornenu D-Pull.If you did not run full out ,you had no electric power to operate with. Everything was electric on those dang things.

(quoted from post at 11:18:20 02/21/18) Learned to run pan on a Le Tornenu D-Pull.If you did not run full out ,you had no electric power to operate with. Everything was electric on those dang things.

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ran a C pull and had blisters on my fingers from running the toggle switches by lunch the first day. They were clean old pans except for the engine oil leaks and the dust and dirt absorbed most of that.

Buzzin dozen? We called them the dirty dozen.

NICE Pictures Tee - BUT you forgot some of the other REPOWERED Classics !!!

What would U call a John Deere with a V16 Detroit, There is one in Southern Indiana, the engine came out of a Ohio River towboat. The owner also hauls grain and equipment with A GMC with a factory V12, also he has a 5020 with the V12 installed.
If my Grandson will loan me his 30-60 Aultman-Taylor, I want to have a tractor pull between the A T and the V16 J D, any ideas who would win? Only two rules, no added weight and 3 MPH speed limit,

Ah yep i also did field mechanic work and at the ripe old age of 17 they told me i was the master omn fixen them . Most times it was condensation build up in the rectifier and it would take the insulating paint off the plates . SOOOOOO a dip in either the hot tank or the old fashioned carb cleaner and get all of it off and redip let dry and stuff it back in you now had JUICE . Yep rememeber well of shoving the clutch down and flat footen the go pedal to make turns , hanging on for dear life to the CHICKEN BAR Turn switch tucked between you left had fingers . They were loads of fun to ROAD from one job to and other . what's the ;ongest roading you ever did on a pan??? We roaded a dozen Cat 641 from Cinnci to just S/W of youngstown O That was a two day ordeal two trips over the OLD back roads . when we ran the C and D's it was wise to have a spare rectifier , brushes and a couple relays and oh don't for get the dash switches . And LOTS of OIl ,Dad gum Detroits used a gallon a day even if ya did not run them.

Never had the pleasure of roading a pan.My experience with them was at the operating Engineers training site in Logan,Ohio.Did the four year apprenticeship program with Local 18. Problem was not much work 74-78, had eight months union work the whole time I was there.I learned to use a backhoe on the farm,Case 400 with a Shawnee three point hoe. On one occasion they put me on a Bucyrus Erie cable rig hoe. Instructor said he would be back in an hour and to dig a hole. When he came back I had a square hole big enough to bury the hoe. He said I would never have a problem with any hydraulic hoe.Never worked union after that, they wanted to much money to keep card active when no work for a young with a family. Now when I need some equipment on a job I just go rent what I need .