From: International Movie Services (ims@telus.net)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 08:39:04 PST
Remember (if you're old enough!), the old TV series "Cannonball"? The title
song, which I still remember went :"The rumble of the diesel, the shifting
of the gears, the rhythm when he's rolling is music to his ears". A pioneer
trucker up here in the land of vertical landscape warned me "beware of the
lure of the singing wheels!". When he died and willed his huge truck
collection to our Provincial Government he stated that he wished the Museum
to be called "The Singing Wheels"; instead it was called "The B.C. Transport
Museum" and when the Government changed a few years later the collection was
broken up and sold at public auction. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi!!
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Burke" <julian@knology.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:43 PM
Subject: [MV] Diesel Engine "Purr"
> In response to this statement:
>
> " That terrible noise is the fuel detonating ,
> as opposed to the near silently burning as with gasoline . The much
higher
> compression ratio {about 22:1 } "
>
> It seems like one of the few pleasures I get out of life is to hear a
> diesel engine run! Everything I own is a diesel. A "real" diesel engine
is
> a good engine. (not converted gas engines) Just today I used my Isuzu
NPR
> with the turbo "H" engine and always like to hear it run, never turn on
the
> radio and never get tired of hearing it run. Some years back I rented a
GMC
> Top Kick with the 6 cylinder Cat engine to go across country. Many times
I
> turned off the radio (music was horrible and hearing the same things over
> and over again with news too) and that Cat Turbo kept me company for much
of
> the way! I have talked to many truckers and others with diesels and they
> seem to say the same things too. It's a phenomenon of how it runs that is
> always a science fair project in reality! Every diesel has a signature
> sound that make them unmistakeable when they pass by. Julian
>
>
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