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Found this--The pony is not peeing so it can't be a Detroit!---Tee
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I watched a show on TV about Cummins the other night, very interesting. I often wander what would have happened way back in the 1960s if I had went in for interview when they called??
 
I can't say how true this is but an oldtime mechanic once told me that Mr. Cummins was a cousin to Mr. Diesel and took Diesel's designs and patented them in the US.
 
To be authentic, the guys in the Cat photo need to have their pockets turned inside out.
 
(quoted from post at 09:52:52 01/07/19) I watched a show on TV about Cummins the other night, very interesting. I often wander what would have happened way back in the 1960s if I had went in for interview when they called??
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If you make a statement like that you should also have to include the story, kinda like paul harvey says....where is the rest of the story?
 
If you consider evolution and survival of the fittest for heavy truck engines, Cat is extinct and Detroit is still out there.
 
Jim, I think we all have questions like that. I wonder what would have happened if I had accepted that job with the computer folks at GE in 1970, when computing was in its infancy. . .
 
Just because cat refused to make an engine that would be junk and unreliable do to emissions garbage
 
Cat engines had a bad reputation in trucking for a long time before that, at least starting with their twin turbo engines.
 
Your right on that, I would not have done body work for 44+ years. I got married in 1966 and probably wife would have been different? A buddy and I put in applications there in 1962, he went and I didn't. He became a company man for them and died of heart problems about 25 yrs later.
 
Yes I worked for a company that hold a whole fleet of Pete?s with those twin turbos and they had more than one truck where the turbos fell off going down the road . I had a friend who worked for caterpillar and he said they did some updates and things to em .
 
I know the aftermarket companies can make them pretty good, but factory they were trouble. I don't know of any major company that was using them in the end.
 
Dad hired in when he turned 18 and retired when he got 30 years in.( was only there 28 but was drafted and in the army for 2 but it still counts toward 30). I started in 1996 on second shift build test engines and installing them in test cells.
 
I think that?s when cat decided no more truck engines the twin turbo deal was to help meet emissions and they say how good that worked for em and it?s gotten a lot worse
 
A cummapart rubber drive shaft to drive. I never hated an engine so much as a cummapart. I'll keep my claterpillar. I have not spent that much in the scope of 20 years and more owning Cat engines. Mine is a single turbo with the 6NZ engine and a B model 3406 in the other both good engines as far as reliability.
All kidding aside all of them are good when running right and non of them worth anything when not running right.
 
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