An engine is an engine is an engine. They've been putting tractor engines in trucks and truck engines in tractors for years, not to mention all the marine uses for the same engines. Detroits, CAT's, Cummins, etc have all had the same engines used in various OTR vehicles that were also used in equipment. That said, there are also engines that were designed and are still being designed primarily for the OTR market due to emissions standards, wanting different torque characteristics from the engine for conditions found OTR vs offroad. The differences you see in the OTR engines vs offroad engines are typically in variations of bore size vs stroke to obtain the require torque characteristics, and in the the governors and injectors to meet emmisions regulations. beyond that an engine is an engine is an engine, if it has the HP to pull the load and the proper gearing that engine isn't gonna care what kind of vehicle it's setting in....even though the vehicles suspension system might care when you replace say a 400HP big block V8 with a 6V71Detroit which is gonna weigh substantially more.
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