That young man was very attentive and excited to turn that key. Made me cry. Feel the same way working with my Dad.

great job saving er from the scrapper, to many of these old sweetheart workhorses have been trashed an forgotten, these lil screamers built our nation just like you did, thank you !

I learned on these engines before they were Detroit’s. They were GM Diesel. I still love them. So far ahead of their time before WWII.

Love seeing the young hanging out with the older generation and actually learning stuff about these (and any)diesel engines!👍🏻👌🏻🛠️🔧🔩📏

This is awesome , good to see the young mechanics excitement when she fires up😎

Detroit Diesel Power. 2 stroke diesel power the sound of victory. USA1 GM1

Love seeing these old Detroit diesels being saved from becoming scrap. Cheers from 🇨🇦.

What adorable little boys!!!❤️❤️

What a great video!! Thanks for sharing!!

Those old injectors will work much better once the engine is warm enough to unfreeze everything. Nice work

My dozer was a built by Garwood ...Allison drive frain 10 for blade ...super well built..Manuel angle shift blade...best machine l ever owned...we called the engine our bud bud engine because AR an idle it would just ho bud bud bud bud so quietly but man did that thing have power!!! Peace to ya...Ray

There's one of these installed as a fire pump at a location I service. Neat little engine.

Thank you for showing her live up to her name!!

hi there had 1 of those moved to a 471 and a 671 on my sawmills good show john

What a cool score.

The 2-71 is awesome, I've seen those gensets advertised awhile back made from repurposed detroits. Thanks for sharing this video, you have a beautiful house+property.

You are the coolest, Uncle Dick! Johnny and I enjoy these videos!!

I’ve been on KZfaq a good while and have watched a lot. This is a great video. Assuming you read this. Youre personable, relatable, and your projects are interesting. Keep making content and this will get really popular. Also I’d be curious to learn more about that style of Detroit. Totally would like to see a video of showing the components.

Cool old rig. I love the modern airbox that’s on it too

I just finished bringing a 371 back to life after sitting for 10+ years. I had to remove all of the fuel lines under the valve cover and use a combo of carb cleaner, PB Blaster and DW40 to get the injectors unstuck. After that it would run but gave off white smoke as in the beginning of this video until it would begin to wet stack if the throttle was not adjusted. After installing a pressure gauge on the secondary filter housing I discovered that the fuel pressure was all over the place. Cleaned the fuel pump and discovered the pressure relief valve was stuck now it runs like it was stolen. All it cost me was a bag full of cleaner & lube cans 2 fuel filters and a oil change now do that with a high tech modern diesel power unit Nice 2 cylinder you have. To many get scrapped when they will run with a days work.

Keep up to great work on the videos

Me and the boys are fortunate to be able to work with and learn from Pa/Grandfather!

How cool, thanks for your efforts!!! Used to work on those, went to school on them in Seattle in mid '60's. Good luck.

Great stuff Uncle Dick :) Toren and I have been building a go-kart with a welded frame and live axle. Named it Black Jack ;)

Love that sound, I ran a White with a 6-71, heard that sound every day. Music to my ears. Good job.

Old Detroits are Awesome

It's a good insect repellant fogger machine when running on one cylinder. xD

When they sit one cylinder has the exhaust valves open and the moisture in the air rusts and corrodes the seats effecting the compression. Whats the plans for it?

I love being a Grandpa

I don't know about the rest of you, but I actually cheered when nothing started up.

Really cool!

I wish I started and ran that well.😋

Yeeeeaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!! very nice the 2-71

Very neat!

what a great way to spend time with your children and grandchildren, them old Detroit's are unfortunately a thing of the past, I cut y teeth on 6 & 8-71s & 92 series engines, I think the smallest I had ever worked on was a 3-71 that was in a spotting truck, what a sound it made! screamin Demons is what we called them. because even though they were only turning the standard 2100 or so RPM they sounded like they were running at 10000 RPM just being 2 stroke I guess. I still have some injector tools etc in my tool box for them things.

I want one of those just to tinker with.. please use WD-40 instead of ether if you really think you need to use something. Other alternative is to hold it in the shutdown position and crank it over several times, this will help get fuel up into the engine and also warm the cylinders making it easier to fire.

What great boy's The future of America 🇺🇸

It's alive, alive,alive, alive, I'm getting one 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍👍💪🇵🇷🇵🇷

Neat little 2cylinder 2stoke. I'd get an intake heater off a Cummins 6BT or cat 7.2 off a truck for cold starts.

Looks and sounds great. And as for the oil leaks, if 2 is all you've got tgen id say you're in good shape. They didn't get the nicknames "driptroit diesel" and "green leaker" for nothing!

That's really cool...I didn't realize they made a dd 271....I know they made dd 471....and I have a dd 671 in my 1951 bus I converted to an rv....runs great....cool video

I had a dozer with this engine ...my neighbor's made fun of it being a two cylinder but it had plenty of power and it was the best , most reliable engine that I ever had.

2:58 - Got that hand ready for a runaway.

Easy on the ether man!!

Cool. Imagine a Detroit diesel leaking oil!

Richard it runs great may I suggest mix into your diesel fuel some Seafoam it is a excellent cleaner can be used in fuel oil to loosen stickeness

A true " bewd bewd " engine

One injector wasn't working, that's why it ran better when you introduced fuel to the inlet.

I work for a railroad on the west coast and there must be two dozen of those 2 stroke Detroit's brand new in the crates down at what used to be the Refer car repair track. I've enquired about the Engines and absolutely no one has any idea who put in the p.o. (purchase order) for them, nor does anyone know why they were never used, and what's most upsetting is the Railroad Will not sell them to anyone due to fear of liability suits, so they sit and rot in their factory crates.😭

If you don't have enough load the Exhaust ports will carbon up so much you'll barely be able to stick a pencil through it. Roughly 3 inch tall by 5 inch wide port and it'll black smoke.

Should make a nice go cart motor

That screamin detroit will make your kids partially deaf (joke)

interestingly Google speech to text describe diesel sounds as music.

Where did you find your seriel number? My data tag is gone but can't find a Stamp either

I think with a diesel if you want it to start and it is having some trouble you should use pb blaster or wd-40 should do the trick.

Check the spark plugs!

Please have a talk with the little helper about carbon dioxide. He was standing in the path of the exhaust. There wasnt any life threatening affects at the moment. But there's no need to start that young damaging his lungs. "Good Habits will Payoff" .

La vieja escuela.

2 cycle supercharged.

Mine is way louder….did you get your injectors cleaned and tested…?

Put that little blower on like a Honda 4cyl bike engine

Yo tengo un detroi de la serie 471 y uno de la serie 453 siempre en las mañana son duros para la partida en los camiones duran poco de su vida util y aca en chile es muy caro los repuesto

Was that a beer or a highball the neighbor was drinking??

What did you do with that Detroit? Did you put it in the Chevy in the background?

Noticed your Kubota has a grapple? Was it farm made…?

Kwantwz hp??

NEVER USE EITHER ON A DIESEL! Stick a torch, propane, butane, or acetylene in the air cleaner for 10 seconds then bump the starter and its running with no engine damage.

...you're going to blow it up if you keep using the starting fluid...

No one, ' let's make a video of electric motors starting up' lol

...Strange, that plastic airbox doesn't look that old...

Que bale el motor gm detroi de dos cilindro

qwantoz hp??

People don't realize that starting fluid can ruin an engine

So what ya gonna do with er

Scary watching noobs toy with an old Detroit, things can go south in a great big hurry.

Never use starting fluid on a diesel, destroys the valves. Use WD40 to assist

You shouldn't be allowed to have a toy like that either can sounded empty when you throw it down very poor cooling system

Best just do a rebuild on it. 👌🫵