Torque wars continue in the diesels

ShinerBock wrote:

DSteiner51 wrote:

We had a Cummins 5.9 in a farm tractor. Loved the sound but soon learned the 5.9 wasn’t really built for farm use. Seems at approx 6000 hrs numerous tractors were ready for overhaul. Pistons came from Brazil, oil pumps came from China. John Deere, New Holland, using their own engines and the Case IH using the larger Cummins all seem to get 10,000+ hrs before overhaul.

The 5.9/6.7 May be fine for trucks that don’t demand full power for hours on end but farm tractors... I’ll pass.

I believe the engine in the Case was an Iveco/CNH 5.9L, not a Cummins 5.9L. Many people thought they were the same since they had a joint agreement to share technology and the displacement was the same, but they were different down to the block and bore/stroke ratio. In fact they shared very little common parts. Cummins mostly made their own while Iveco/CNH outsourced them.

We have equipment with Iveco engines.....the nameplate says "Iveco". The small 1896 Case farm tractors which were built from 1985 - 1989 used the 5.9 diesel. It was the CDC (Consoladated Diesel Corporation)/Cummins B series engine. I am all but certain it had a Cummins nameplate on the engine. In the Case 1896 it produced 106 HP.