Re: 706 806 gas vs diesel- cheap horsepower?

Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 23, 2006 at 02:49:48 from (216.208.58.133):

In Reply to: 706 806 gas vs diesel- cheap horsepower? posted by gdorsey on November 22, 2006 at 16:21:27:

gdorsey: I see these gassers as excellent candidates for a diesel repower. Very few people have ever been able to afford the gasoline comsumption, thus you find youself with a chassis in much better shape than most diesels. Energy cost rose sharply, shortly after a lot of these were built, thus many of them got put on standby status on a lot of farms, loader duty, etc.

Through the 70s, 80s, and 90s the diesels were the ones that took the hammering, pulling heavy loads for long hours. Not saying you wont find a good diesel, but I'm betting you'll find a lot more gassers with 5,000 hours or less. If you've watched Allan's experience, and I single out Allan as he has taken several 6 cylinder Farmalls and restored them A1 mechanically. You never hear him crying about power train noise from his gassers.

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