SlashGear: What Is The 318 Detroit Diesel Engine & What Made It Popular?
What Is The 318 Detroit Diesel Engine & What Made It Popular?
The Drive: Mechanic Tries Killing Runaway Detroit Diesel With Water but It Runs Better Instead
There’s an unmatched amount of lore surrounding two-stroke Detroit Diesels. They were never the most efficient lumps, but they very well might have been the toughest. Truck drivers have traded stories ...
Mechanic Tries Killing Runaway Detroit Diesel With Water but It Runs Better Instead
Detroit Diesel’s two-stroke engines earned their “Screaming Jimmy” nickname the hard way, with a piercing exhaust note and relentless mechanical clatter that turned work sites, logging roads, and ...
SlashGear: All About The 6.5 Detroit Diesel Engine: Horsepower, Specs, & Common Issues
Since launching in 1992 as a replacement for the 6.2 diesel V8, the 6.5-liter GM Detroit diesel engine has had good years and bad years, and opinions on its merits have been just as mixed. Some view ...
All About The 6.5 Detroit Diesel Engine: Horsepower, Specs, & Common Issues
The Drive: The Aftermath of a Diesel Engine That Ran Full-Throttle for Eight Minutes
If you’ve never seen or heard a runaway diesel engine, know that it’s violent and, more often than not, dangerous. It’s something you should pray never happens to you, but some people are wild enough ...
The Aftermath of a Diesel Engine That Ran Full-Throttle for Eight Minutes
Product names which are derived after an inventor's name will often remain capitalized, though not always (e.g. the petroleum distillate used to power trucks and locomotives is called "diesel" rather than "Diesel" even though it's named after the inventor of the four-stroke compression-ignition engine for which that fuel was formulated).