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RE: multifuel motors used in farm tractors Found a few more details - I wrote this back in 2003 - have found additional info since, but nothing to contradict what follows. Copyright David Doyle In the late 1950s the military was keenly interested in developing powerplants that could run on...

It'll be a few more days before I get home - so I can't at this time address specifics and cite references. However, the LDS-427 was not built from the ground up as a Multifuel engine. A Continental engineer saw a MAN engine on display in Europe that was being promoted, IIRC, as the "Whisper...

I've always like the Multifuel - and still do. The foremost thing to remember here is that, per other documents I've recently uncovered, many of these trucks were given NO regularly scheduled preventative maintenance. This was in large part because there were far too many trucks, and far too...

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Found this in an official document: "Though not a maintenance fault, failures of multifuel engines created the requirement for a major off-shore maintenance effort and a sizeable supply problem. In January 1967, more than 300 5-ton trucks were deadlined in Vietnam because of inoperative...