Re: [MV] 5 ton gas motor

From: Randy Orpe (sgtorpe@sierratel.com)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 07:18:13 PST


WOW, you get 2 mpg. I keep looking for the hole in the bottom of the fuel
tank where the gas is running out of mine. The guy who owns our local gas
station jumps up and down with joy when I drive in ( which ain't often I can
tell you ) because he is going to make payroll for that day. And it's an
underpowered slug to boot !
I really have to put a Cummins in that thing

Randy

----- Original Message -----
From: <DDoyle9570@aol.com>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] 5 ton gas motor

> What you saw was the Continental R6602. Inline, 6 cylinder 602 cubic
inches.
> Unlike the later Multifuel, the 6602 was a commercial engine that was
used
> by International Harvester and Diamond T in the production of the G-744
> series five tons. A common civilian application of the 6602 was fire
trucks.
> As for the little-bitty carb...I couldn't afford for it to be any bigger!
> The 6602 in my 34000 lb M62 wrecker gets a little more than 2 miles per
> gallon.
> BTW....All the 6602s I've seen, including one with a NOS carb, run rich,
at
> idle sounds like the carb loads up, but ALL the old heads say if you "fix"
> the mixture problem, the truck won't run down the road.
>
> Hope this helps,
> David Doyle
>
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