Diesel Engines

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 […]

1983-87 International/Ford 6.9L IDI Public and governmental outcry after the oil shortages of the early ‘70s forced U.S. auto, light truck and commercial truck makers […]

Emissions Friendly Upgrades for the 2020 Duramax There is no denying how well GM has executed these latest generation heavy duty trucks. The 2020+ Silverado […]

1960 John Deere 435 and 440 John Deere was just couple of years away from debuting a completely new line of tractors when they found […]

Whether you’ve seen them in person or not, you know there are diesel in ships and boats, road vehicles of all types, off road vehicles […]

1967 Massey Ferguson 165 Hi-Hi Consult the books on Massey Ferguson tractors and you will see no high clearance model of the MF165 listed. So […]

1964 Cummins  VT12-825-M Not all diesel engines have glamorous jobs in fancy places… like under the hood of your pickup. Some toil in the dark, […]

1966 International Harvester Farmall 1206 The Farmall 1206 was International’s first over-100 horsepower tractor as well as being the first over-100 horsepower rowcrop tractor on […]

Installing Duramaxtuner’s 6-SPD Conversion Kit in an LB7 It has officially been twenty years since GM introduced the Duramax and Allison transmission combination to the […]

1962 Massey Ferguson 65 Dieselmatic The Massey-Ferguson 65 Diesel debuted for 1958. The DNA for that tractor started with the 1939 intro of the Ford-Ferguson 9N, […]

The Key Differences Between Early and Late Model ’03-’07 Power Strokes If you own a 6.0L Power Stroke, you have an engine that is at […]

1944 Kahlenberg B-5 The name Kahlenberg may inspire only quizzical looks from a modern diesel pickup enthusiast. If you operated boats on the Great Lakes […]

The 1961-68 Jeep CJ-5 Perkins Diesels In 1960, if you were on of the very few Americans who wanted a diesel in a car, light […]

Supercharged Cummins By the late 1930s, the diesel engine was rising to meet the needs of a market growing ever more friendly. The support infrastructure […]

The Hidden Gem of Small Displacement Diesels It’s an engine that is tough as nails, extremely efficient on fuel, and highly affordable at the present […]

The Most Revered Oil-Burners Ever Assembled From the farm to the highway, construction equipment to gen-sets, and emergency vehicles to the trucks we drive every […]

Whiskey Cummins This story is as much about a pair of Cummins engines that protected thousands of gallons of Seagrams whiskey from 1970 to 1991 […]

Last Scream of the Jimmy In 1954, when Oliver needed a powerful diesel to one-up their competitors, they went to General Motors. The Detroit Diesel […]

The Sixth Time’s a Charm for this Talented Builder. If it’s true that the more you do something, the better you get at it, then […]