Red Heavyweight

1966 International Harvester Farmall 1206 The Farmall 1206 was International’s first over-100 horsepower tractor as well as being the first over-100 horsepower rowcrop tractor on […]

Getting Up to Speed

Installing Duramaxtuner’s 6-SPD Conversion Kit in an LB7 It has officially been twenty years since GM introduced the Duramax and Allison transmission combination to the […]

The Perky Massey

1962 Massey Ferguson 65 Dieselmatic The Massey-Ferguson 65 Diesel debuted for 1958. The DNA for that tractor started with the 1939 intro of the Ford-Ferguson 9N, […]

Know Your 6.0L

The Key Differences Between Early and Late Model ’03-’07 Power Strokes If you own a 6.0L Power Stroke, you have an engine that is at […]

The Giant Swiss Watch

1944 Kahlenberg B-5 The name Kahlenberg may inspire only quizzical looks from a modern diesel pickup enthusiast. If you operated boats on the Great Lakes […]

1942 Cummins HBIS Engine

Supercharged Cummins By the late 1930s, the diesel engine was rising to meet the needs of a market growing ever more friendly. The support infrastructure […]
BMW M57

BMW 3.0L I-6 M57: Small Displacement Diesel

The Hidden Gem of Small Displacement Diesel BMW 3.0L I-6 M57 It’s an engine that is tough as nails, extremely efficient on fuel, and highly […]
best diesel engine ever made

The Best Diesel Engines: Top 10 Of All-Time

Top 10 Best Diesel Engines Ever Assembled From the farm to the highway, construction equipment to gen-sets, and emergency vehicles to the trucks we drive […]

Tractor Talk

Last Scream of the Jimmy In 1954, when Oliver needed a powerful diesel to one-up their competitors, they went to General Motors. The Detroit Diesel […]

The 60 Year Demonstration

1961 International B-160 Diesel Demonstrator International was one of the first truck manufacturers to start pushing diesel engines in light and medium duty trucks. Back […]

Swaps, Swaps, Swaps!

A few of our favorites from the last 15-years Diesel Swaps tend to be on just about everyone’s list of “one day” projects. So, seeing […]

1949 Sheppard SD-2

Classy Tractors With this, we will have covered three of the four Sheppard tractor models built from 1949 to 1956. We covered the SD-3 in […]

Beating Dr. Diesel

A 6 hp Hornsby Oil Engine Diesel’s 1898 patent on the compression ignition engine is the well-charted beginning of the engine type we now call […]

The Super Beast Lives

1978 Allis-Chalmers 8550 In the early 1970s, Allis-Chalmers joined the ranks of the manufacturers offering articulated four-wheel drive tractors. They started by rebadging the Bearcat […]

Something Different

Diesel Club Car It is not uncommon to see UTVs, golf carts and even small cars/SUVs used as pit vehicles at pull tracks, but they […]