On or around Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:05:27 +0100, "Oily"
<martinhill100@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> enlightened us thusly:
>
>"Austin Shackles" <austinDITCHTHISFORBETTERRESULTS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>message news:1sm874hrhta44silk05hf3473bheldr8c6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On or around Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:32:00 +0100, "Simon Oates"
>> <zz_oates@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> enlightened us thusly:
>>
>> >Does anyone have experience or knowledge of running a Series with the
3.3
>> >litre Perkins 4.203 diesel engine?
>> >
>> >In particular, what sort of fuel consumption can I expect?
>>
>> it's the half-shaft consumption you should be worried about.
>
>Hehe, you can say that again. :-)
>
>>
>> although if you have a salisbury or other HD axle, it ought to be OK.
>>
>> don't be tempted by the bigger output of the 4.236, as that really does
>eat
>> half-shafts...
>>
>> heard of a rangie once with a 6.354 in it, god knows why.
>
>Friend of mine had one and used to pull a sodding great trailer with it,
>nice and smooth though but not as quiet as the P38 with BMW but probably
>twice as much get-up-and-go.
main thing about the 6.354 is it was designed for lorries up to about 16T
gross weight, so the fact that it probably weighs half a ton is not really
a
problem.
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