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| 903's have gotten a bad wrap as engine, in my humble opinion.
Dad had a 935 Versatile with one in it. Got to 8500 hrs I believe when we shucked a rod. Went to TPP out of Illinois for an off the shelf reman for less than $10K with a good core and we were back in business. That rig is still running up north of Wilson a few miles with over 10K hrs on it. Running the overheads was pretty important to maintain the old girl, did ours every 1000 hrs. The reman was dyno'd on a the test stand at 400 hp before we put it in. They lugged with anything else in the country and we have some of that black gumbo tiger crap around here. An 855 will lug better just because of the inline configuration. I have never seen a V style engine lug with an inline engine.
The biggest drawback was the fuel consumption. Around 18gal/hr no matter if it had the field cultivator on or the deep chisel. It was like a college kid at nickel beer nite, it drank A LOT!!
Triple nickles, seemed like the bastard child of the V series. Dont know much about them other than they were in the 555 row crop versatiles. | |
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903 Cummins...... Many questions
