KTA 19 Cummins slow idle return?

Cool! Plus it has sexy Daytons, but do you thank it may run out of fuel? Very few KTA's running in the USA also but I enjoy your pictures. I thought triple nickle's were Ford back-hoes or the six cylinder version of of 903 Cummins. Is that a product or some type of a train setup?

 

555 is a small V8, it is basically a downsized 903.

903s are built with the 5.5" bore of the 855 but with a short stroke of 4.75".

 

I went to get one running that pumped water out of a mine shaft for the new owner. That was in about 1983 and one of the few I have ever seen. Thanks for the correction and education.

 

Our KW's got nothing on yours.

 

I wondered what you meant for a minute haha
By triple nickle tankers I meant I hauled a triple trailer roadtrain with
tanks of nickle concentrate from a nickle mine to the railhead where it was railed to the port. We had triaxle trailers with tandem dollies and grossed out at 120 tons. That was back in the '80s, now for the same run they are 4 trailers at 175 tons.

 

We have a 555 in a farm tractor, it is getting really hard to get some of the parts for it, runs pretty decent in the tractor it is in.

 

It used to belong to a cattle hauling mob in WA. He bought it and did it up virtually from the frame rails. He used to do a lot of work up to NT but like everyone with flat tops, the last couple of years have been quiet.
There's more pics of it on the last page of this thread:
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/threads/some-aussie-roadtrains.298030/