by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 06/27/2017 at 15:10
by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 06/27/2017 at 15:10
Tags: Güldner
; Air cooling
; Linde
STARS: 3
The other day at a show I came across another thing rarely never seen which is without something.
It’s a closeup of the engine from a Güldner G60 tractor. It’s an inline six as we can see.
What it doesn’t have is anything watery. No pipes, no radiator. It does have fins on the side of the block. We conclude then that it’s luftgekühlt and indeed though I don’t have a picture the other side has a housing running the length of the engine with a fan at the front so air can be blown over those fins.
It’s a beast of a thing with noise to match but for all its 4.7 litres it only produces 60 bhp. Only a couple of hundred were made so you’re unlikely to see another.
Güldner gave up the tractor business a couple of years after this was made which is hardly surprising with those production numbers and reverted to being Linde’s forklift business.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
06/27/2017 at 15:13, STARS: 2
I imagine it’s done somewhat similarly to a Deutz?
"jimz" (jimz)
06/27/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 0
well, an engine that big only making 60 bhp is easy to cool.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/27/2017 at 15:21, STARS: 1
Sure is. My first thought was that it had a Deutz engine but seemingly Güldner did their own.
As it happens Linde sold the spares business to Deutz after exiting the tractor business.
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/27/2017 at 15:32, STARS: 1
Interestingly, Deutz still make very similar aircooled engines with low specific power outputs - their six gives just 116 bhp (174 with a turbo) from 6.5 l.
Without a turbo, they’re only slightly better than the Güldner units of fifty plus years ago.
"kanadanmajava1" (kanadanmajava1)
06/27/2017 at 17:03, STARS: 2
In Finnish markets Deutz decided to put an emblem saying “ilmajäähdytetty“ (air cooled) proudly in Finnish in certain models instead of luftgekühlt. It’s the only motor vehicle/tractor that I know of that has some technical detail emblem written in Finnish.
For some reason my example has a typing error. May the last Y has dropped?
