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Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ] Roll On Big Mama. Forum/Discussion about Eighteen Wheeler Trucks. What truck do you like or dislike? Is your favorite truck a Mack, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Marmon, Volvo or Freightliner? Which diesel engine do you prefer; Detroit Diesel, Cummins, or...

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Correct me if I'm wrong but that 85 did not come factory with a screamin demon in it. Did it?

None of the mid 80s I've ever seen have.
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no it did not he replaced the enginei am not sure what make it had in it stock he told me he replaced it.
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If you have much of an emissions law up there, you are going to have a rough time getting a Detroit through the system. Second item, if you are planning to haul containers, traditionally the lowest paying freight it is possible to put behind the truck, you aren't going to be able to afford the fuel to run a Detroit. They are an engine designed in the 1930's, and the fuel use reflects the price of fuel at that time. A good Detroit, set up as mechanically perfect as possible, and driven with a constant eye on economy, is going to be a 5 mpg engine at best. On container money, that's a sure way to go broke fast.
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thank you for your information guys that will really effect my choice on weather to but the rig
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me and my friend are looking into buying a 85 freightliner with an old detroit 2 stroke we want to use it as a can hauler when we get our cdl could it past the smog test now?

Not a chance.
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They also liked to start sucking oil through the rings and seals and star burning it in the cylenders causing the motor to run away on ya. The only way to stop it before it detonated was to empty a fire extinguisher into the intake.

We had a few at tech school ad we had one run away after one of the student rebuilt it. Inside a shop and no exhaust..... It's not something you want to hear
When I was in tech school I remember we shut the ol' detroit off using the Emergency shut-off...we had half that #### school filled with black smoke...we loved the sound of that ol' detroit back when we was young though...but we also liked the sound of a balloon full of 50/50 oxygen and acetylene too...maybe that's why I always got to tell people to speak up when they talk to me

and we used to have an old detroit manure truck...thank god that thing had good brakes cause it'd run away almost every time we used it...we just started cuttin it off by stompin on the brakes and going to high gear
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