Diesel Engines

The Blueprint For Making Your 24-Valve Cummins Relevant In Today’s High-Horsepower World The second installment in this underdog diesel series brings us to the VP44-fueled, […]

1942 Caterpillar RD-1820 Radial Diesel In today’s world, a Caterpillar diesel in a tank seems like a naturally good idea. In World War II, however, […]

Make Your 7.3L A Contender Without Sacrificing Durability A quarter century ago, Ford’s HEUI-injected 7.3L Power Stroke was state-of-the-art. These days however, your ’94.5-’03 Ford […]

Buying Used and  Getting Back to Basics We’re coming up on a year of ownership with Project My2k and have really turned this thing around. […]

1972 Allis Chalmers DES-550 Generator Sometimes the best ideas come to a company and bear fruit at the worst possible times. Such was the case […]

1949 Mack Model 75 with Jimmy Power While this Vintage Smoke column usually centers around period original diesels, this  Mack drew our attention. While it’s […]

Buying Used and Getting Back to Basics Over the course of it’s nine year run of production, International produced almost 2-million 7.3L Power Stroke engines […]

Cummins, Duramax, Power Stroke —They All Break As much as some of us hate to admit it, diesel engines do fail. Pushed too far, there […]

1978 Case 1570 Agri King Case was within sight of the top power tier of the tractor market when it debuted the 70 series tractors […]

Why Diesel Will Survive The Current Push For An Electric World The whole world is going electric, or so we’re told. But the reality is […]

International Harvester’s Gas Start Diesels Making diesels user friendly was an uphill struggle in the late 1920s and early ‘30s. The advantages of the compression-ignition […]

You Otto Know The engine in this story is one of the last built in the United States with a direct connection to the beginnings […]

1970 Allis-Chalmers 220M Military In 1970, the United States Air Force announced it’s first operationally ready Bare Base squadron, the 336th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Part […]

1977 EMD 16-645E6 Anybody here think their truck will still be in service 111 years from now? Here’s a 118 year old tugboat that remained […]

5 Proven Power Recipes For 750 HP To 1,000 HP In the modern era, which has no doubt proven to be the golden age for […]

1961 Case W5 Terraload’r By Jim Allen In the mid 1950s, ongoing market research at J.I. Case determined they needed a line of wheel loaders […]

Fairbanks-Morse Model 38 By Jim Allen How do you fit ten pistons into five cylinders and make a running diesel engine? Well, the diesel engine […]

It’s Not Impossible! Just because the electronically controlled Cummins mills burn cleaner and are easier to fine-tune doesn’t mean street able 12-valve applications have gone […]

1964 Minneapolis Moline 602E The M-Series Minneapolis-Moline tractors debuted in 1960, replacing the 5-Star tractors of the late 1950s in the middleweight tractor role. It […]

Where Vintage Engines Come to Live Again If you follow Vintage Smoke you will know we’ve covered engines from the Coolspring Power Museum several times […]