Car motor powered PW?

I think a car motor running at 1500 rpm would last forever and get super gas mileage. I bet there's enough torque to run a couple 8 gpm's. Initial cost and parts could be a lot less. One of the old time guys - John something from New Mexico I think - runs a chevy 350 on propane at 1500 rpm to run a generator that runs a couple of 10 gpm pumps. Says fuel cost is super low.
 
I don't want to knock you idea, because it can be done, and if done right there would be nothing wrong with it. I like coming up with ideas like them too.

I have a 4 cylinder Cummins engine here that I thought about using sometime.

I forgot to mention my 20hp Lambardini diesel skid unit that I have also. I haven't used it in a couple of years. Nothing wrong with it just haven't needed it. Got a 8gpm at 3000psi pump on it. It's a very nice small unit,and doesn't use much fuel.
 
Here is a picture of the equipment that we mounted in the back of our White truck several years ago.

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Upper left is a 8000 watt generator. Lower left is a General TSF-2221 (10.2gpm @ 3000 psi). The rear of the engine is on the right 48 hp Kubota liquid cooled diesel.

It has been doing a great job for us!

Dave Olson
 
Dave Olson said:
Here is a picture of the equipment that we mounted in the back of our White truck several years ago.


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Upper left is a 8000 watt generator. Lower left is a General TSF-2221 (10.2gpm @ 3000 psi). The rear of the engine is on the right 48 hp Kubota liquid cooled diesel.

It has been doing a great job for us!

Dave Olson
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Dave that looks nice and clean, now I was wondering on how far you could push it. :love:
Do you think if you added two more pullys for another pump and air compressor would work?:idea:
How big is the foot print?
If you are not using one of the machines does the belts still have a load on them? I wonder if you could add a clutch so it there would be no load on the engine?
Can you put another picture up?
 
We put slide clutches on ours, so that if something happen to the one pump the other 1 or 2 pumps could keep going while the one was down.
 
Tom,

Yes we still have the Red GMC.
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These are old pictures but we really have not changed much since they were taken.

Scott,

The picture was taken when we were putting it together, that's why it is so clean!

I tried to size everything (generator, pump, and engine) so that the engine had a little Hp left over. The generator runs the burner assy for the boiler and the lights in the back of the truck. The additional power is for running vac's and pumps for reclaim.

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These are also old pictures but we have not change much since they were taken.

Dave Olson
 
FullBlast said:
I know it can be done but one thing to tink about too is, doesn't a power unit have a different kind of govonor to control the throttle?

In a car when it bogs down you just push the peddal harder, in a power unit application it has to be able to do that itself.

I would go diesel for a power unit, more effeicent. I have 2 diesels, and love them.
12k hr on the Duetz and 14k hr on the John Deere.
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There is a guy that use to do a lot of flat work at some of the gulf coast air force bases. He took a marine diesel and built a riding surface cleaner a little bigger than a club car. He would brag that it had everything but air conditioning and reverse. I think he ran two high volume pumps, a reclaim/recycle, generator, drive shaft and power-steering of one engine. I know it was powerful enough to pull a 300 gallon trailer besides.
I think it's definitely worth trying if you've got the time and money...
 
You could just run PW off your truck engine. Wreckers have an idle up feature for the hydraulics, just do that. A car engine might be a waste unless you are running a couple high volume pumps and hot water, etc from it. If you had a need for it would be great. Even just to show it off, if you like to do that.
 
BlueBliss said:
There is a guy that use to do a lot of flat work at some of the gulf coast air force bases. He took a marine diesel and built a riding surface cleaner a little bigger than a club car. He would brag that it had everything but air conditioning and reverse. I think he ran two high volume pumps, a reclaim/recycle, generator, drive shaft and power-steering of one engine. I know it was powerful enough to pull a 300 gallon trailer besides.
I think it's definitely worth trying if you've got the time and money...
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That would be so cool if you had some pictures of that riding surface cleaner.
 
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