This is a vidio of the start up of the perkins with a fresh rebuild.Only has a couple minutes on her.not very good shot of the dash to dark will take another of the truck with the hood going up and down when I get the truck out of the garage and in the sunlight.

1975 Ford with Perkins Diesel - YouTube

Dale

 

Thats awesome! We have a little perkins on our chipper, but I have wondered about putting a bigger one in a truck and I think this just helped me decide! Do you know what kind hp you are getting?

 

not real shure but I have no problem running with a 450hp 5.9 boothe of us grossing 26.000lb the perkin has a 5" stroke.I can't wait to start driving her with the allison 6sp.


Dale

 

Those Perkins diesels are stout little beasts, i have a 4.135 Perkins in my '83 Ranger (factory, not a retrofit), doesn't have much power but the thing runs forever.

 

A freind of mine had one of those some years ago.He put a turbo off of a dodge daytona.that shure woke it up but still wasn't a speed demond it got better fuel mpg.it hit 20lb of boost.That is a sharp looking truck.I was going to buy a 4.0 perkins phaser and put ina ranger then I got the one I have now from my dad and put the 6.0 in her.

Dale

 

Ford finally got smart after 2yrs of the non-turbo diesel and installed a turbo on the later diesel Rangers, it helped bump the horsepower numbers nearly 50%.