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Mount Vernon, WA | Talk is cheap, and is just that, talk. One guy in this thread raved about how much better his Deutz was than his old 2-stroke Detroit, to which I replied "It's not hard to beat a 2-stroke Detroit in the fuel consumption area". Still another poster in this thread said his Isuzu was among the best. Last I checked, Isuzu engines were water cooled.
Unless and until I see a Nebraska-style test that shows otherwise, I remain convinced that a water-cooled diesel engine will do better on fuel than a Deutz in an irrigation pumping application when the water-cooled engine is using the pumped water as the cooling medium. In this scenario, the water-cooled engine enjoys at least a 5% advantage in parasitic losses due to not having to drive a fan.
Edited by Bern 7/3/2012 11:03
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Deutz Air Cooled Irrigation Engines ?
