Alaska Stretch 8

once again steve you are a tease. posting a super straight d8 that has been painted some weird colour (i'm colour blind and xena is not here to tell me what colour it is). that would look real good in the KINGDOM and impress the ladies, LOL

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I never heard of a D9 engine in a D8 but I guess most anything can be done if you want to do it.

I never heard of a D9 engine in a D8 but I guess most anything can be done if you want to do it.

Just membered-9 engine was used as engine 8 came w/ didn't have enough power to pull cat @ speeds they were playing with- dead track take a lot of power @ high speed- thats why tanks have live track..

Hi, Tanker.
There have been a few re-powers done on various machines over the years. I've even done a couple on trucks and cars myself.

I think it was the McCoy 2U D8 pusher tractor that had a D337 super-charged engine as fitted to the Cat DW21 scraper tractors. As well as being more powerful, that engine also revved out a fair bit higher and gave the tractor a reverse speed that is supposed to have made the ground shake.

From what can be seen of it in the photos above, the D353 transplant looks a pretty neat job.