Noticed on Ebay

Buildings are black due to hundreds of years of burning coal. Diesels have only become popular in the last 20 odd years.

Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

I think the real question Dave is why are you (he lives in the UK) listing your M715 using a US location?

My 63 190D went 774,000 miles without major engine repair on virtually the same oil-bath they used on the gas engines which were lucky to see 300,000 miles.

I appreciate it Dave, I just bought a waggy for the axles, and still would like to find some with lower gears.

A diamond in the rough?

our diesel doesn't come from coal if that's where your point is headed.

heh, if I had a M715, I wouldn't be listing it !

Are you talking about the oil sands in Alberta?

Maybe the oil companies should invest in refining it, they've certainly got the capital...

I used to work on the military version of the Thermo King reefer unit that used these early pushrod OMs. They would run forever, some of ours had 50,000 hours on only one cylinder head and injector refurb. But the pushrod OM Benzes would flatly not get out of their own way, just like a Real Jeep.

The later OHC OMs like 616 and 617 are a lot better especially put into the old chassis like the Heckflosse and Ponton. Biggest problem is the front oil sump and chain driven oil pump that hangs down in there like a basset hound's nut sack. 4WD vehicles tend to have front axles that go right where the sump does. Other than that those diesel Benz motors would be great for jeeps, especially the old flatfenders. I really think the old mechanical Benz OM diesels are the most reliable car engines in the history of automobile manufacture. Unlike the inadequate girlie-motor small block Chevy with its poopy stud rockers, crappy valve guides, inadequate rod bolts, EIIEEIIE valve arrangement that results in cast exhaust manifolds forever warping, and oil pumps the factory admits need pressure relief grooving and the pickup brazed into the pump housing but they don't. (See Chevy Power manual.)

Nope, Alberta has oil sands, sandy soil with a high concentration of natural bitumen.

Exxon is not a good buy, the price is too high. Should have bought this time last year, the return since then has been 24% I believe. And I think it was closer to a 10% margin last year. Major retailers regularly work on less than 4%.

There were no SMOG laws when American Made Overhead Cam heads were put on Model T's and A's for racing, and on the American Made Duesenberg J and SJ or the American made Miller-Meyer-Drake-Offenheuser that won Indy 35 times. The only GM engine they make anymore that's any good except Duramax, is the Northstar as you well know. Let's not forget the Overhead Cam Allison V-1710 that won WWII and a lot of Boat races. No one in their right mind would build a pushrod engine today except for racing where the ridiculous rules favored them like Mercedes Benz did when they won Indy a few years back.

The Ford GT is a JOKE and a CARTOON CAR unlike the real Lola built GT40 that is really a Lola of course.