EulaVFD#620
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To start off, we used this Deuce to fight a fire last night, it ran great and performed well. It has the LD-465-1 engine in it. Which thanks to several of you around here I finally got to achieve 56 MPH by changing fuel filters and turning up the fuel a little, didn't go to much cause I didn't have access to a pyrometer.
Today I was taking all of the fire trucks to the store to get Fuel in them as we ran most of them all night, The last one I took to the store was EVFD unit 606 a tan Deuce. I get to the store fill up with fuel, with no problems. I start heading back to the station, which is 5 miles from the gas station, and I am just poking along, as I am not trying to break any land speed records. I get 2.5 miles down the road and everything looks normal on the guages, oil is reading about 60 psi, air is around 120, Vlots are in the green, temp guage is flaking out(which is normal for this truck) RPM's around 2000 in 4th gear, speed is 38 ish MPH. all of the sudden. The Engine shuts down, all indications are 0..........Crap. so I coast to the side of the road. Turn the ignition swithch off then back on and push the start button, and ...NO ROTATION........double crap. So, I hop out of the truck pop the hood open and there it is Oil on the underside of the hood from front to back......this fuel trip is getting expensive in a hurry, so I radio to the chief to bring the other deuce to tow me back to the station. cause this engine is baked. No oil left in the engine, it is evidentally between where I came to rest and the gas station. Ihe oil appears to be comming from the front end of the engine, possibly the front main seal went out. But without taring into the engine, I have no clue honestly where the oil is comming from, it is all over the top, bottom, sides of the engine, pretty much every surface under the hood has a nice coat of engine oil on it.
I will post pics as soon as I can. I just have a few questions for the experts, how big a job is it to replace the engine, provided I have another to install, and are there any hints/ helps you have from your expieriences, expecially the hints that aren't in the manual?
Would it be better for the fire Dept to buy another deuce, and just transferr the fire equipment to the new deuce, and use the old deuce for parts?
any help is greatly appreciated, and anyone who has some free time who wants to help, all help and advice will be appreciated.
Thanks,
620 out
Today I was taking all of the fire trucks to the store to get Fuel in them as we ran most of them all night, The last one I took to the store was EVFD unit 606 a tan Deuce. I get to the store fill up with fuel, with no problems. I start heading back to the station, which is 5 miles from the gas station, and I am just poking along, as I am not trying to break any land speed records. I get 2.5 miles down the road and everything looks normal on the guages, oil is reading about 60 psi, air is around 120, Vlots are in the green, temp guage is flaking out(which is normal for this truck) RPM's around 2000 in 4th gear, speed is 38 ish MPH. all of the sudden. The Engine shuts down, all indications are 0..........Crap. so I coast to the side of the road. Turn the ignition swithch off then back on and push the start button, and ...NO ROTATION........double crap. So, I hop out of the truck pop the hood open and there it is Oil on the underside of the hood from front to back......this fuel trip is getting expensive in a hurry, so I radio to the chief to bring the other deuce to tow me back to the station. cause this engine is baked. No oil left in the engine, it is evidentally between where I came to rest and the gas station. Ihe oil appears to be comming from the front end of the engine, possibly the front main seal went out. But without taring into the engine, I have no clue honestly where the oil is comming from, it is all over the top, bottom, sides of the engine, pretty much every surface under the hood has a nice coat of engine oil on it.
I will post pics as soon as I can. I just have a few questions for the experts, how big a job is it to replace the engine, provided I have another to install, and are there any hints/ helps you have from your expieriences, expecially the hints that aren't in the manual?
Would it be better for the fire Dept to buy another deuce, and just transferr the fire equipment to the new deuce, and use the old deuce for parts?
any help is greatly appreciated, and anyone who has some free time who wants to help, all help and advice will be appreciated.
Thanks,
620 out
