HARVEY-V12 GENERATOR

THIS IS A UPDATE FROM THE POST LAST FALL ABOUT THE ALLIS BUILT V8-V12 ENGINES.I HAD A LEAD ABOUT THESE ENGINES FROM A FORMER ALLIS MECHANIC THAT USED TO WORK FOR DD KENNEDY(ALLIS CONST DEALER)THAT THERE WAS ALLIS 65000 GENERATOR(V12) IN THE BASEMENT OF THE HOSPITAL IN HARVEY,IL.I THOUGHT THE THING WOULD HAVE BEEN REPLACED A LONG TIME AGO.ABOUT 4 WEEKS AGO I GOT CURIOUS AND MADE THE CALL. I FOUND OUT THAT NOT ONLY WAS THE V12 STILL THER AND RUNNING AS A EMERGENCY GENERATOR,BUT IT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE REPLACED ANY WEEK!!!!TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT IT,IT IS SITTING AT MY SHOP IN WESTVILLE,IN.(INFO-ALLIS-CHALMERS 65000 V-12 ENGINE-6X6 B/S,2037CI,TWIN TURBO,900HP,BUILT DEC.1972-)I FILMED THE OLD HARVEY ENGINE PLANT AND GENERATOR REMOVAL AND WILL HAVE A LINK TO UTUBE SHORTLY.

Excellent! Looking forward to seeing the youtube vid.

And excellent timing!  I'm always a week too late.

TO ELABERATE ON CALS THREAD,THE V8'S DID NOT GO INTO PRODUCTION-THEY WERE USED FOR TESTING UNITS.ALLIS SAID THER WAS A STRONGER MARKET FOR THE V12.APARENTLY FROM MY SERVICE BULLITAINS THAT WASN'T THE CASE,MY BULLJTAINS ONLY SHOW TO SERIAL #55.THE ENGINE FROM HARVEY IS SERIAL #6.I WOULD GUESS ALLIS MADE THEM FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS?MAYBE SOMEBODY OUT THERE KNOWS MORE OF THE STORY.

DON-TALKED TO MY GUY,WORKING ON THE VIDEO THIS WEEKEND.HOPEFULLY WILL BE DONE IN A DAY OR SO.

Well ACjack, go ahead and spill your guts if u wish. Is there a video of the start/running of these engine?

Sooooooo...do we get to see a video of this monster running? I'd love to hear it run.

DougG wrote: Theres another in St Louis that i ran across,, still like brand new!

One of the earlier gen sets was sent out to Tucson, AZ. It was the back up power for Bio-sphere 2.

ACjack wrote: DougG wrote: Theres another in St Louis that i ran across,, still like brand new! One of the earlier gen sets was sent out to Tucson, AZ. It was the back up power for Bio-sphere 2.

I'd love to get a hold off one of those engines and squeeze it into my 8550.

Still waiting on the startup/ running video

Edited by DonDittmar - 28 Oct 2014 at 7:02pm

grinder220 wrote: Calvin Schmidt wrote: There is a video on Youtube of them lifting the engine out of the hospital. The engine was at the GOTO in LaPorte this summer and it was running. Very impressive! There must be a video of that some where. I've watched that video earlier this year but I want see one of it running. Anyone know how many RPMs it turns? That thing has to bellar.

This picture was taken a Laporte last summer.

DMiller wrote: Cannot remember the model year but it was a Freightliner COE while I worked in Salt Lake City in 1980/81 that a fiend had a Allis inline engine. Could possibly have been a 78 or 79 model year as had a lot of miles and parts were getting hard to come by. We ran for IML Eagle Division(Special Commodities). He traded it that year on a KW K100C with a Cat 3406.

By my calculations it is 1357 c.i.d.