harry_gill:
Er’ Dennis do you think I can pass on the offer of those Scania 80 thingy’s
I did for a few days drive a KM and I got sick of blowing them off, Pete
didn’t we (proper drivers I mean) have to drive stuff with ill fitting bits
and bobs and missing bits and bobs (gaiters round the gearstick and the
pedals and when standing still in traffic you taste the damned stuff as
the Gardner fog found it’s way through the aforementioned appendages.
The only Gardner that I knew was a 180 in the last of our ERF B series heaps.This piece of junk had been relegated to yard shunter duties but I had the misfortune of having to do a run with it because we had nothing else available.
You’re right about their awful smoke issues.Which leaves the question how could such a dirty motor be supposedly so good on fuel.Unless their reputation for durability was overrated and much of that was oil burning not diesel.
Anyway I never bought into the NA diesel idea thinking it was a laughably obsolete design by the mid 1970’s at least.It stands to reason the boat anchors were never going to get enough air into them.