Repowering a 560? (long text)

Do your research because there probably is a kit out there somwhere to make your job easier.

Or for the 560 wheatland, you could just find a D282, D301 and add a turbo, or one step further; a DT motor. Yes a 466 with minor modification to tractor will bolt up and keep the IH front to back. MONSTER HP.....

I was at Macon,MO in 1991 for a NTPA pull and got to hear (8) modified tractors each running from 5-7 blown engines.Rodalyn Knox from New Hampshire with (6) JP1 Hemis beat The Banter Brothers from Indiana running (7) blown Chevs.6000 people went wild.

I used to pull a 1966 Oliver 1950 in the 15,000 lb class back in the 70's.I have pulled it in front of 3,000 people at my home town pull and half of them said they only came to hear the little 4-53 Detroit scream.They loved it the night it took two pull offs before a 190 XT AC finally beat me.Have the times changed that much?I used to have people come out to ride on the Oliver's fender just to hear it when I farmed.

Sure it would get old if everyone pulled a Detroit but one every now and then is fun.By the way I guess you wouldnt want to come and ride on the fender of my current 1967 Oliver 1950 thats run in the field with a straight pipe on sometimes.

By the way I say leave it all IH and put in a DT466.

The Detroit uses a mechanical supercharger. But some don't call it a supercharger, just a scavenging pump, because the 2 cycle diesel will not run without it.

Steven

GM Detroits all came stock with a blower or supercharger, and could be ordered with a turbo. So he could possibly find someone who has a 471 and install a turbo.

Thanks
Steven

All 2cycle Detroits have a Supercharger NOT a Turbocharger although some had a Turbo, also in later years when engine builders learned the benefit of the free horsepower that they add. I am a tractor puller and pull Detroits, I have never been told or have ever been told that people would not come to a pull because there would be Detroits there. We have people that will sit in the Hot sun all day long just to see the Detroits pull at the end of the pull in the heavy classes. I am not a big fan of Brand X tractor but I will not knock another brand just because of the color of the paint or the sound of the motor. Here's an idea, if you don't like a certain brand of tractor thats pulling or the noise that it makes maybe that would be a good time to go to the shitter or the consession stand you won't hurt your muffler coddled ears. If a Detroit is built right and the tractor is set up right it will give any brand a run for it's money. Most people think that Detroits are complicated and hard to work on but they are simple if you know what you are doing they are very easy to work on and are very well built, I have never ever come across a Detroit motor anywhere with a rod through the side of the block. Lets just remember one thing, we are there to have fun and if you can't let the other guy have fun with his choice of toy maybe you should take up GOLF because the golf karts are either electric or gas motors with MUFFLERS. Detroit Frank It Ain't Over Till The Detroit Sings!!!

I have pulled a 15,000 lb 1966 Oliver 1950 many times back in the 1970's.Half the crowd said they came to hear that screamin little 4-53 Detroit.They stayed to the end to hear it and loved it when I got in a pulloff.It had bigger injectors and turned 3300 rpms.I have recently had a picture of the 1950 on the internet with a picture of it winning the 15,000 lb class at the 1970 Ozark Empire Fair in Springfield,MO.We drove it down 100 miles with the muffler on and back home with the straight pipe on.You could hear it for 10-12 miles that night.

Those were the fun days of pulling.

Jack

Jack