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25-02-2022, 06:32 #1
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Rooikat: Engine
Which company / country was it sourced from? A V10 diesel, particularly for that era is unusual - I don't think Mercedes Benz made V10s at that stage - would be Magirus Deutz by a possibility perhaps?
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25-02-2022, 06:35 #2
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25-02-2022, 06:45 #3
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
It has an ADE v10 engine, probably the 443. It is watercooled whereas the Magirus engines used in the Samils are air cooled.
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldw...ca/rooikat.php
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25-02-2022, 06:55 #4
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25-02-2022, 06:58 #5
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
Yes, the ADE engines are/were copies of Mercedes Benz engines. MB had V- configurations up to V12.
https://mymotorlist.com/engines/mercedes/om443/
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25-02-2022, 07:14 #6
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
Is ADE or a descendant of it still around?
Edit: question should rather be, do we still have an engine production capability in the country like ADE?
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25-02-2022, 07:31 #7
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
ADE (Atlantis Diesel Engines) where copies of the Perkins line of engines. ADE is not existing post 1994 anymore.
Most parts between Perkins and ADE are interchangeable. We still have a lot of old model Agricultural Tractors (Ford, Mazzey Ferguson, John Deere) that have ADE engines in them. A lot of old Mercedes Benz trucks also had ADE engines. The drivetrains where designed around the Perkins Engines. During sanctions certain engines were not allowed into RSA, so the Perkins engines where copied and then just replaced the Perkins engines in said vehicles.
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25-02-2022, 07:54 #8
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Re: Rooikat: Engine
Thanks. Seems like manufacturing in SA is a thing of the rapidly receding past.
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25-02-2022, 09:21 #9
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