D19 turbo history

Was the turbo heavily marketed? Did they make a big deal out of it? How did they sell?

The sound of a D-19 diesel under load working, Is pure sweet music...

I always enjoy reading others comments on the D19. We have always been Allis— going back to the WC, 45’s, D17’s and through the 100 series which have all been great machines. We had a D19 turbo diesel for a few year’s, ran smooth for short periods when it wasn’t in the shop, I always thought our slightly worked over 45’s had more guts on the pto, 19 had weight but would fall on its face as soon as it had to work any. Had to have been one of the worst tractors of its day for maintenance. On paper looked great, 38’s, 3pt, easy on fuel. Reality was; bad head, hard starting, bad transmission, no guts, poor hydraulics(left handed as well), poor power steering at low rpm and hard to see over in my opinion Neighbor had a gasser they tried to give us for a few hundred dollars with around 500 hours because it was so thirsty and couldn’t get a good trade in back then. He went green for that reason. I just was looking at old pictures mother took when we were kids, many times grinding feed. There was always two people in the pictures with the 19, one with the grinder shoveling and one watching the tractor for leaks or to cut back back the feeding auger when it started to smoke! Lol

I recall having coffee where the local dealer had a new, model D-19 on display.
He placed a small cardboard box on the drawbar and ran the engine wide open.
The little box stayed put! Very impressive!! especially to guys that ran two
cylinder John Deeres on a ham mills

Dad and Grandpa farmed with AC near Jansen Nebraska.  Their dealer was Wells in Plymouth. The only things I heard Dad say about the 19 diesel was that he liked the 17 diesel MUCH better and that if you idled the 19 for awhile after working it was much better for the engine!

We have a D19 diesel..it was our big tractor. It outperformed our D17 with the same implements.. we worked the same gear so it was basically the same load. It was fine. Not a tremendous upgrade, but it was good.

We have bigger tractors now. We have an 8070, two 7060s and a 7040. The D19 is mainly used on a grain auger. When we unload at the farm it is on a 10x72. Load out auger is 8x40. We have had at least two head gaskets go bad. I run it. I think if I let it slowly come to operating temperature it would last longer. I try, but sometimes I get anxious.
After the latest time, I just use the 7040 with a special pto shaft so I can run it on the 1000 side but at a fast idle for 540 rpm. This works better.

My brother does the repair work, and he is very good. But, after $1,000s of dollars, I wish we had purchased a 190 to run the augers. We use the D19 to run the load out auger and pull a trailer for school kids to ride when they come to the farm.

The repair bills have been high, but Dad bought it. He is gone but we will keep his tractor running.

I remember our dealer holding a combine school in 1962. My uncle had just bought a Gleaner A. At the end the A-C blockman talked about the new D-19 diesel with the turbo. He said with 7 main bearings it was the only tractor engine strong enough to take the pressure of a turbo. I guess the top end hadn't started to cause the famous problems yet !

I would think it would be hard to get 100 hp out of an unmodified 185 just by turn the fuel up.

Cylinder sleeves sinking is solved by just leaving it in the shed.

He's probably right on the fire ring thickness/harness thing. But, the flange lip is still too small/narrow regardless. I posted the dimensions on here some time ago as how the 262 engine sleeve lip compared to all the other AC engines and it was pretty sad.  As a gas engine, there was never a problem. With the higher compression of a diesel, it becomes a problem. Stick a turbo on that same engine and it is a HUGE problem.

Does anyone know if the Gleaner CII combine in the 262 Diesel version experienced the same head problems? Or was it designed differently internally?

Ok, thanks just curious.

Mine has an actual Engine serial # Aluminum plate on it. We took a CII Diesel 262 engine and dropped it into our '62 D-19 diesel. Not much to change over and figure the CII engine had alot better life than the original D-19D engine

Only knew of 2 D19's around growing up. 1 sat in the shed as they had head gasket issues and didn't use it much. Was in great shape. Eventually it was sold to a collector

Yes Ed, we have had several sets of oversized flange sleeves made at LA Sleeve, the flange is about twice as wide and .020 thousands taller to allow a badly eroded block to be cleaned up. I have installed about 6 sets so far with good results, it still would be nice to find a better quality gasket with better fire rings for a permanent fix  for these engines.

Marlyn nwia wrote: You forgot to tally the amount of 'BS" from old retired college professors; it would certainly add to Sioux County's supply of poop!

did I miss sumpin?