karl2878:
I drove my old man’s transcontinental for a trip to Italy it had a 290 big cam in he had the 13 speed fullers replaced with a 9 speed . it went like [zb] of a shovel he had a guy called Owen ( oc diesels ) from goldbourn do a bit of magic
With it apparently he was the man for ■■■■■■■ around m/cr and surrounding areas he was always busy my old man did his own servicing and sent it to him for a check up every couple of months . that truck never let him or me down ■■■■■■■ at one time the best and easy to maintain shame that what they were in couldn’t be a bit better…
i remember owen from Golborne, we had a seddon atkinson 401 with a e290 and it wouldn’t pull when we got it, owen sold us a reconditioned pump with a few tweeks and boy would it go…went right off the clock pulled like burt Reynolds in a brothel and passed everything but a filling station. .happy days
Punchy Dan:
I wonder if the pump will work for road use or will it be like the perkins ones that seem to be set different for the Rev ranges of plant ect ?
I’ve heard of ■■■■■■■ lumps being transplanted from plant into lorries. Robert
knew a lad from Atherton who had a 1981 freightliner fitted with a 17 litre 720 ■■■■■■■■ …reckoned it was a generator prototype. …best of all it only ran through a 9 speed fuller 9509 to be honest when he lifted the bonnet it looked the same as a 14 litre to me!!
newmercman:
I don’t know if a 1980s vintage 9spd Fuller could handle the torque from a 720hp engine?
Carryfast will advise you on that…
Pete.
All sounds like bollox to me.Why would ■■■■■■■ need a ‘prototype’ 700 hp motor when they already had the KTA. As for for exact Fuller ratings at that type of output don’t ask me we only used an Allison with the 16v71 which trust me was like like an earthquake of around 9 on the richter scale when it was put into gear from neutral just at idle.
But they obviously made a Fuller capable of handling the torque of the KTA so that would obviously be the rating.
thinking about it i might have it wrong. .i think it was 19 litre not 17. would that be a kva? as I said I will nip up next week to see if he’s still got it as he had it up to a couple of years back.
Just before my retirement one of my regular collections was from a warehousing company in Bridge Trafford, nr. Chester. Outside one of the sheds was a generating set on skids powered by a HUGE in-line ■■■■■■■■ I should have taken more notice of it but I remember it stood higher than me and may have been a marine engine at some stage in it’s life.
Interesting topic and I’d just like to add a bit of glitter to it with a photo from my album.
This is a pic of Ralph Chitsulo our production manager extolling the merits of a N14 whilst showing HRH round our assembly plant in 1984. This was a 290 to go into a Landtrain. We also did 350’s and 400’s to go into S26’s
tankerian:
Here we have what i believe to be a ■■■■■■■ 220, its really interesting to see engines like this with sections cut outso you can see the internal working parts.
Does a 250 big cam turbo exist ? we had a 240 small cam turbo in a Erf b series , I went to look at a c series recently which on the cab plate was down as a 250 but it had a turbo , I didn’t look at the cam shaft covers to see if it said big cam , then I read somewhere that ■■■■■■■ didn’t like Erf calling it a 240 and it was later called 250 ,so can anyone shed any light on this ?
Robert
As for for exact Fuller ratings at that type of output don’t ask me we only used an Allison with the 16v71 which trust me was like like an earthquake of around 9 on the richter scale when it was put into gear from neutral just at idle. 
