Mk1 diesel

[Luke]

If its '68, diesel and orginal it'll be a 4/108 perkins, 1760. I like my perkins, seems a straight forward engine, always starts and I've grown to learn that not everything in life is about speed. Mine's a SWB and I can get 45 out of it when the wind is blowing in the right way.

what mpg do you get from yours

[transitgeoff]

i love the old perkins aswell i would eventually like to put one back in mine if i ever find the time the ones ive had were very economical as well

[Southerner]

To be honest I've never bothered to work it out and since July it's been looking something like this




was supposed to be on the road next month but at the rate I'm going I'm guessign it'll be more like April before it gets put back together.

[Luke]

wow nice work

[Southerner]

Cheers mate, it's getting there, slowly. Although I don't know the mpg Geoff's right, it's definetly pretty good.

[Luke]

perkins mk1's will be a very rare thing soon - most seem to get removed (guilty) and it's a shame - infact if i had one spare i'd fit it back in my mk1 pickup

[FredTransit]

You can have mine, I am not travelling at 45!

[Luke]

You can have mine, I am not travelling at 45!

i bet you have to drive a long way to get to a road where you can do more than that

[FredTransit]

that's what I am worried about!

[transitexpress]

Transit 75 to 115 up to May 1966 were fitted Perkins 4/99
( 4 Cylinder / 99 cu. ins ) 1621 cc.
Transit 75 to 130 after May 1966 were fitted Perkins 4/108
( 4 Cylinder / 108 cu. ins ) 1760 cc.
2.4 York Diesel (2358 cc) introduced from May 1971.
Not heard of any 2 litre variants fitted as standard, but someone out there may know different.

[baconsdozen]

I have a soft spot for the 4/108.I used to work on a lot of boats with them fitted.They stand incredible amounts of abuse.We'd sometimes raise boats that had sunk and have the engines running within a few hours (you can't hang about too long when they start to dry out is when the damage gets done).
I also worked on Lister Blackstones,and single cylinder Field Marshalls,I'm now off down memory lane all on my own.Bye for now.

[madmark]

i fitted one ( 408 ) into a twin wheel amby i use to have the amby loaded up with newspapers and it still only done 45
i had a dodgy inj pump ,i can remember getting air in the damn thing all the time!
but one pre heat and away it would go
didnt have it in there for long ,

[baconsdozen]

Nothing to do with this but.........................
I once had to collect a boat and take it by river 10 miles to the boat yard.It was an old wooden thing fitted with a Leyland lorry or bus engine.Bloody great 6 cyliner diesel with a four speed and reverse gear box!..They hadn't got round to rigging the clutch up so you had to stop the engine to go from forward to reverse.I've seen some bodging in my time but this was a classic.The new owner rigged up a clutch and used to change gear going along I think he thought rivers had hills,but the thrust from the prop buggered up the box pretty quickly,the engine was bolted in solid to the frames,no mounts and no UJ and vibrated so much that your teeth rattled.

[Muttley]

I drove a Commer Walkthrough with a 4 108 in the seventies, I wished it could even reach 45!!!