2 stroke detroits

I am sure you are right, I was never around either a lot, I did drive a water truck a little that had a 6V53, but that was it
What did they call the v 12 gas jimmys? I only ever seen a couple of them used for irrigation engines in Kansas. They had a distributer cap that was as big around as a 5 gallon bucket. lol

What is the secret on jakes, inquiring minds want to know. lol

 

Around dump trucks, that was a pretty common sight, even had a guy jump out and leave his truck running with the bed half up, he came ask me why his bed would not go up or down, he had forgot to unlatch the tail gate. I looked over and oil was blowing out of the air can, so I ask him if it had a lot of reverse gears, he said that is another thing. lol

 

Yep, a lot of twins in boats had them and some rear engine busses had a reverse rotation engine. Even cat has some reverse rotation boat engines. I worked on a bus that a music band had, they changed the starter, then could not figure out what was wrong. lol

The V 12's I looked at, did have 4 heads and manifolds, but just one distributor, I looked it over pretty good.

My logging boss still uses an old pete some that has the old buzzin dozen.
My first real truckin job was in a brand new gimmy pulling a 50 ton lowboy with one of them power house 318 jimmys. lol It did the job, I would hate to go back that direction though. lol

 

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that the 2 strokes needed a single viscocity oil, does anybody know if that is right or not. I know I an delo in the 318 I owned for a couple of years, but I don't remember what weight.