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I love your diesel engine photo blog. Good eye for the art.
Thanks 🙂 It was a nice diversion.
Very clever look at the inner Detroit Diesel. With all those parts, it is just amazing that they last the hundreds and hundreds of miles that they do.
Here’s to good old American diesel technology…designed in the late 1930s! :c)
It is pretty incredible that this iteration has been a mainstay for so long.
There’s a wonderful steampunkness to these pictures, especially the timing gears. I also like the pics that suggest your engine has a face (#4 and #9-upper left).
Uh-oh, you’ve found us out 🙂 We’re a bit steampunk/dieselpunk, and glad the mood was recognized in the pics.
Hope that engine will give you MANY miles of happy traveling. It is a workhorse!
Thank you.. we’re hoping for 300 workhorses 🙂
Now that you know about all those parts whirring around, you’ll never be able to listen to the hum of the motor again without saying “did you hear that?”
We’ll definitely leave here so much more in tune with everything. We’ve been so blessed to have mechanics who have not only allowed us to see it all, but taught us.
I was amazed at the beauty of that engine. Now that it has been reworked, cleaned up and so pretty, it should purr like a kitten and hopefully you guys will have no more problems for many years to come. The whole thing is simply a work of art to be sure. Take care.
We have gained so much appreciation for the engineering behind this engine by seeing it all up close and personal. Beautiful indeed.
Great pictures Cherie/Chris…..love how pristine the various gear assemblies still look after all these years!
It’s amazing, isn’t it?
Great images…was hoping to see the timing gear setup…very cool.
I wish we had caught it after the last gear was installed… but otherwise, yeah. Sweet aren’t they?
My 7th grade art teacher (who was the daughter of the woman who gave me piano lessons!) once said something like this…… A true artist looks at the normal, the ordinary, the mundane and sees the beauty and complexity of the extraordinary.
Great pics… very well done
Thank you 🙂 It was fun to create them.