Waukesha Engines for Power - factory tour video

[Harry]

I ran onto this on Youtube and decided that it might be of interest here...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oe8q6kSbHs

[Fred Van Hook]

....Thunder Pumpkins...????

[Bruce Werner]

I just finished rereading the SAE book titled "Hall Scott: The Untold Story Of a Great American Engine Maker", very good book. I am now an engine nut, wanting to know more about the big ones. So---when I go to Wisconsin this fall, I am going to attempt to go on a tour of the Waukesha plant, thanks for posting this video.

[ihredo4]

I was fortunate enough to tour the facility at their open house several years ago. All I can say is it is unbelievable. Words can't describe what you will be seeing when you get there. One of the special display's they had when I was there was one of the enginators that was in the bottom of the World Trade Center.

[Bill Geyer]

That's some "casting kit"

[mrxlh]

Originally Posted by Fred Van Hook

....Thunder Pumpkins...????

I have been working on them for 10 years now, and never heard the term thunder pumpkin. Most people who don't like waukesha's refer to those that do as "having agent orange poisoning". In 1966 the VHP was put out in the field as a 50,000 hour throw away engine. It has been Waukesha's bread and butter ever since. Since 1966 there are only 2 different crankshafts (angle or t-drilled), 1 head, 2 different bore sizes (piston/liner kits), 1 valve cover, 3 different weight con-rods, 2 different exhaust manifolds, and 2 different head gasket sets. Henry Ford is smiling, cause someone finally listened and practiced what he preached. This excludes the series 4 VHP, but even then the 1966 til now is upgradeable to a series 4.