2-stroke diesels

Sounds like you ran the gauntlet of the range! Some of them real oldies, however I'm glad to note you never encountered the needle rollered cam followers.. The only quads I encountered were on drilling rigs and they were about the oldest I worked on. The strangest were Stevenson pump units where the engines were mounted with the crankshaft vertical. Later I was involved with 92 & 149 series before I got mixed up with the bigger stuff like 567s & 607s. Mind you that was last century.:-) With the price of petrol going the way it is, I've been mulling over whether I should throw a 6v53 in my Chev truck, still dickering over the purchase price, though.

Tom

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Hi Tom,

I've seen a picture of 6-71 Quads on a drilling unit. Our quads come in two flavors: the more modern ones have four engines on a Falk reverse/reduction gear with hydraulically operated clutches, and our one vessel Circle Line VII [ex-LCI(L)-191] has quad engines mounted on a simple reduction gear and hand-operated dry disc clutches for taking off line (no reversing gear, since LCI's have controllable-pitch propellers). They sound different since the LCI gearbox has whining spur gears and the Falk uses quiet helical ones.

Regards, Brian Bailey

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