There is no way anyone goes to sleep near a 471 Detroit.

This is what I have chosen to power my house

if only there was a 10 hour video of this thing running I would use it to sleep

I need this outside my house...

You might just need it soon. Fill up some BIG tanks with fuel.

You can get a electric lube kit that pumps oil to the mains and over head before it starts other wise it’s going to take the bearings starting up full rpm’s very very nice set up 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just the thing for a quiet bit of power after an ice storm. Wonder how the HOA will feel about it!

Omg Very loud!

Generators got the power!

You would be well advised to ground that thing. They CAN bite!

did you sell the gen set

👍👍had to ove em on my tug,(gen.sets )

When first starting any Diesel-it is good to see the exhaust. Too bad you didn't photo the exhaust on this video.

All, this generator is now providing prime power to a missionary school and medical facility in a remote part of Africa. Hopefully they will will send pictures as promised and I will share them.

Great! I'll take one!

I wish you were my neighbor!

Nice. Love those old Detroit 2 strokes. How many kW?

Do you know how much roughly it weighs

Very cool acquisition Larry. I am in the middle of getting one of these going after it sat for 30 years. It drives a large pume. I can direct to to a guru of detroit.

I was politely chastised for not supplying more information so I will do so now. First about me, I am a 40+ year component level electronic technician mainly in the radio communications field along with industrial electronics as well. Spent many years working for Motorola, learned electronics doing television repair in high school in the 1970's, worked in machine shops, photo labs, instrument labs, HVAC and more in my early years. Enough about me, the Generator was installed in an AT&T Long Lines Microwave tower shelter in 1967, part of the Cold War Era communications system primarily to support the government if WAR actually happened along with telco communications. This unit was properly decommissioned in 1986 by AT&T. It sat dormant foe 33 years. I was fortunate enough to receive the maintenance log for it. I was not able to get books on the control or wiring so I reversed engineered all of that and added my own simple control and alarm circuitry (the switch and lights on the control panel door) which I can provide a drawing of if anyone wishes. Having worked on a few Detroit 2 cycle diesels in the past my first check was to see if the injectors were stuck and 3 of the 4 were. After pulling, disassembling, cleaning and reinstalling them, I no longer worried about a "run-away" issue but prepared just in case. All the rest was simple, changing rotten hoses and belts, adding coolant, oil and disassembling the starter to clean the rust off the starter drive and lubricate it. Then through checks inside the generator to make sure no rodents had got in and chewed things up, cleaned the dust off commutator and slip rings before turning it over. Applied battery power, turned it over to get oil into the governor, bearings and up to the push rods and lifters, primed the fuel rail and it fired right up. Now I just need to decide if I want to haul it 400 miles to the new place or sell it. It is very heavy. Hope this is enough detail. Regards, Larry

Them were the best fucken around USA ALL THE WAY THEY WERE MENT TO LAST WE THE PEOPLE

Will you get a load tester to run it under load? Now THAT would be epic!

Way to go. I have a Detroit 3-71 AT&T gen set in my shop as back up power. As a retired AT&T tech I can tell you the 71 series Detroit's are super reliable.