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Oct 5, 2016 | 07:39 AM

#91

DieselCamper01

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From: BLT, MN

Good morning guys.

Oct 5, 2016 | 07:56 AM

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Big-Foot

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From: DFW, TX-GoldCanyon, AZ

Good morning gents...

Oct 5, 2016 | 08:04 AM

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fordpower88

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From: Suppertown, MN

Good morning Jim's, Cory, Tom, Jay, Randy and anyone else stopping by today!

Have a great Hump Day everyone!

Oct 5, 2016 | 08:32 AM

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Ford79

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Good morning guys.

Oct 5, 2016 | 09:37 AM

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MisterCMK

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Originally Posted by Big-Foot

I have no problem with 2-Strokes running backward, but water pumps and secondary CV clutches would probably not work as well...
Heck, we had 2-Stroke diesels in the service that ran backward as well...

Secondary clutch works just fine for moving the sled in reverse. You don't run the sled in reverse for very long.

Running a diesel backwards is a good way to soot up the air filter!

Oct 5, 2016 | 10:17 AM

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Big-Foot

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Originally Posted by MisterCMK

Secondary clutch works just fine for moving the sled in reverse. You don't run the sled in reverse for very long.

Running a diesel backwards is a good way to soot up the air filter!

As I recall, you could run them indefinitely in reverse as they also reversed the blower and pump drives. The engine itself had no predetermined rotation unless they were put in tandem. In those cases they ran the engines to counter-rotate, thereby eliminating torque steering.
These were in submarines, river boats and tug boats mostly... Intake air was typically not filtered by anything other than a centrifugal air cleaner that would pull out the big stuff (not much of that out at sea)...