560 miles off road
From Mojave California to 100 miles south of winnemucca NV.
some epic hot springs in the desert.
We left Monday night, today is Thursday and we still have ways to go.
So far 560 miles in.
Yes the old school international design 7.3 for ford trucks,
Those have the identical DB2 Injection pump used on humvees and as well as pre 95 GM 6.5s 6.2s
Deer tractors also do have that DB2 but it’s slightly different.
That 7.3 powerstroke that’s known as one of the best ford diesel engines uses 100% identical injection pump as on humvee, DB2, they are bulletproof units until you give one to military kids 🤣
As far as running with aviation fuel,
It’s fine as long as you ad a qt of used motor oil in the...
Maybe we are old fossils to love this kind of engines
But how awesome is that you can start with gasoline and switch to diesel,
Don’t try that to modern Deer Motors.
Portal hubs generally don’t need to be rebuild, all the gears and bearings are in Oil bath, just like a differential they can last hundreds of thousands of miles, and they do, I have never rebuilt mine,
However the input and output seals will dry out and leak tiny amounts of gear oil on hot...
Oh yes I definitely tried used motor oil and used ATF
it runs 😁💪
I actually have a video on YouTube of 6.2 HUMVEE engine running on motor oil.
so I had a little bit of a JP8 that I drained from friends HUMVEE when he got it from the auction
I used it in a wood-burning stove to test out how...
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