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leroi v8 844 engine

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jimvw

02-18-2008 13:49:01

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Have a chanch to buy a leroi 844 v8 gas engine. Anyone use one of thes for pulling

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Roger A. NY

02-20-2008 06:25:44

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Re: leroi v8 844 engine in reply to jimvw, 02-18-2008 13:49:01

Also, while I was in Korea, I had to change a clutch in one of the 10 tonners with Leroi V8. What a beast!!!!

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Roger A. NY

02-20-2008 06:23:00

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Re: leroi v8 844 engine in reply to jimvw, 02-18-2008 13:49:01

I sure am glad to hear you guys talking about the big Leroi V8 gas engines. Everytime I talk about them everyone thinks I am crazy and there was no such thing. Well, when I was stationed at Fort Meade Md. in 1959 & 60 we had two of the road tractors with the V8 Lerois for hauling the draggin' wagon with M48 tanks on board. On ours the exhaust came out by the the front of the rear axle and boy did they bark. I don't remember them as having any muffler but with the exhaust down low like that we had to put two straps sticking out from the exhaust pipe about 5 inches and then put a flat piece of plate over the end of the exhaust. It seems we were breaking to many house, and other building, windows especilly when I went though Baltimore one night. The 10 ton road tractors with V8 Lerois also showed up while I was in Korea in 1961 & 62. And J. Schwiebert, I was stationed at Fort Drum from 1976 until 1979 but in aviation at the time. I still live about 70 miles south of Fort Drum.

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David from Kansas

02-19-2008 05:55:07

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Re: leroi v8 844 engine in reply to jimvw, 02-18-2008 13:49:01

I also remember them in the Army 10-ton trucks. We towed 8" howitzers with them. They were a low RPM engine with lots of torque, and sucked lots of gas. I would think their weight would make them undesirable in a pulling tractor.

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J Schwiebert

02-18-2008 16:17:55

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Re: leroi v8 844 engine in reply to jimvw, 02-18-2008 13:49:01

Don't know how old you are but when I was in the Army in the 60's you could find them in 10 Ton Army trucks. Also in the 50's a few Autocar trucks used those engines. Have you checked into parts?

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oliver fan

02-19-2008 18:27:45

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Re: leroi v8 844 engine in reply to J Schwiebert, 02-18-2008 16:17:55

John, I agree what what you said, but I have never heard any engine make the same sound as those Leroi V-8's. Sounded like they were running on four cylinders/missing or whatever, but they had the power.

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J Schwiebert

02-20-2008 05:46:52

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Re: leroi v8 844 engine in reply to oliver fan, 02-19-2008 18:27:45

I agree. The last year I went to summer camp we went to Watertown NY. There were some Massachusett NG troops there with the 10 Ton trucks. Us motor pool people went and looked them over one eveing. We all wondered what the fuel consumption was!. When I worked for Dana yet they sent me to the Texas panhandle one time to do some "pump motor Clinics" There were some there on well where you needed nothing smaller than HD800 Moline to pump water

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Mel in SW Iowa

02-19-2008 20:55:39

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Re: leroi v8 844 engine in reply to oliver fan, 02-19-2008 18:27:45

Our unit at Ft. Sill, OK in 1968 had 2 10T tractors with the Leroi gas engines to pull our draggin wagons with. We gutted the mufflers and gas welded the cases back together, painted, and rotated the muffler so you couldn't see the weld. Sounded like 2 fuel dragsters going through main post with MP escorts blocking off crossroads ahead of us when we were moving SP Howitzers or M60 tanks out to West Range. Probably made a contribution to my last few hearing test results- "almost profound deafness in left ear", although my wife claims
that I practice "selective perception" with some
of the things she says.

They were a torquey motor alright, but with 52T
on, it still kept you real busy with the 5X2 crashbox when you were pulling any kind of grade.

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