They were used a lot in snow plow trucks in this area. They were also a great engine for hauling wood. Not unusual to hear of them hooking on a 427 GM to tow them and a full load of wood.

 

The county owned a 69 F950 534 with Marmon Herrington All Wheel Drive for snow plowing. With chains on all 4 wheels, It moved. a house that was on skids weighing over 80 tons. Before they used this truck, various combinations of big GMs and Intl could not move it .

 

royster - good to see another local on this site - welcome ! No question in my mind they were / are great trucks with lots of power !

 

When I was going to high school in the early 60's on occasion I got a ride with a guy that had two ford tractor trailer dump trucks with 534 engines. His worst one needed a valve and a valve job at 250,000 miles. Before this he had three GM trucks and was on verge of bankruptcy from repairs when a Ford dealer took the GM units and put him in one of the Ford's. He never looked back and his drivers were always over 40 yrs. He was getting 3 mpg haulling those heavy loads. On another topic the trucker that picked up the milk from the farm had an IH with a huge 6 cyl I think it was 600 or 700 ci. I saw one years later in a Grove Crane. They were also a very good engine.

 

The big 6 in that Cornbinder was probably a Hall-Scott.

Hall-Scott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These are the engines made for 20 cent gas, not $3 gas.....

 

SeaMaster was also converting the 534 engines for use in marine applications. The last iteration was a twin turbo and intercooled beast--pretty wild for 1972.

 

Great pics. Do you have any specs of those marine beasts?

 

Unfortunately, no.

What I DO know is that this was a 40kt boat, which was darned fast in 1972 for a 46' motoryacht. A guy who knew the boat said when the captain laid the sticks forward, the beast would make this ungodly sucking sound--no mechanical noises came past the lead lining in the engine room--and the nose of the boat would go way up while the stern squatted. After a second or two, the bow would slap down and it would just take off.

I still have one of the water-cooled intercooler housings, the carburetor plenum (it's the blue thing in the pic above between the turbos and is also water-cooled), and other plumbing if anybody's interested. Here's what the intercooler looks like. It bolts to the manifold where the carb would go. My guess is it would fit any 4-barrel manifold.

 

I bought a '74 Ford 900 Fire Engine a few years ago with a 534 and 5+2 manual trans from a fire department in Illinois. When I showed up to get it the Chief couldn't get it to go into second or third gear, so I drove it home about 400 miles using 4 low, 4 high and 5 high. You really had to slip the clutch to get it to roll in 4th... The worst problem was, when I was only 20 minutes or so from the repair shop I stopped for gas, and then couldn't get it back into 4th. So I drove the last hour at 20 mph down the highway - good thing it was 1am. Turns out that the gears for second and third were missing some metal - I guess the fire fighters thought they were driving a sports car! When I had the transmission rebuilt it cost almost as much as buying the truck in the first place...

 

i have a 534SD out of a 1967 C600 and was wondering what one is worth in running condition waith about 60,000 miles on it. i bought the truck for some body parts and have the motor and heard form a few people that it may be worth a pretty penny. but i am unsure and was wondering if anybody knows and if so if anybody needs it. let me know either on here or email me if interested in buying it at zaknave@yahoo.com

 

any Idea of part numbers for the oil filter?

 

Yeah, but they are sodium valves.

 

Wow. Somebody revived an ooooold thread.

I didn't back when I posted in 2009, but I got a bunch of new info in 2013. The 534ci twin turbo and intercooled Super SeaMasters developed 400hp at a relatively low 3200rpm and 657 ft/lbs of torque. I found the original invoice for the engines hidden on this boat I'm refitting. Back in 1973, they were $6,480 each, with exhaust risers and marine gears. I've been keeping a blog on the boat refit from start to today. The article about these engines is at 1969 Chris Craft Roamer 46 Refit: Engines! (the wrong ones…)

Cheers,
Q

 

I believe I am the current owner of your old Land Cruiser. Information on this bus has been extremely hard to come by and I'm curious about any history you may be able to share.

 

That guy was "one and done". He posted at 8:11 and last activity 8:12, all on 11/08/2007, just about 12 years ago.....