GM "Industrial" vortec 4.3l gurus? Need to swap engine in forklift. What can we use?
Have a forklift (96-97 vintage) that will need another engine. Other is not worth rebuilding IMO. I am having a hard time finding information on the "Industrial" engines. What is different? What is the same? How many flavors exist? Does it matter?
So far, it seems like the old engine was only rated to less than 100HP. Issue is getting something that has a reasonable power curve to work with a fork. I have also heard about the "hardened valve seats" for LP and not sure how others might stack up? I don't need to stack the hours on this machine. Maybe 100hr/yr. I just need to do some cross checking here before I do a transplant.
Would a pickup engine be cam'd about right? Would compression ratio be too low to really take advantage of LP?
Just need some good info on these 4.3's! All I can find is guys playing with their toy trucks and not much about industrial applications. I guess there are marine engines, which is probably on par though. No talk about compression, or cams though.
Our fork has electronic spark timing so I have concerns we will run into issues if we have something cam'd radically different. I am not sure if we can just alter the mechanical advance to cheat or not. So little info.....
Have a forklift (96-97 vintage) that will need another engine. Other is not worth rebuilding IMO. I am having a hard time finding information on the "Industrial" engines. What is different? What is the same? How many flavors exist? Does it matter?
So far, it seems like the old engine was only rated to less than 100HP. Issue is getting something that has a reasonable power curve to work with a fork. I have also heard about the "hardened valve seats" for LP and not sure how others might stack up? I don't need to stack the hours on this machine. Maybe 100hr/yr. I just need to do some cross checking here before I do a transplant.
Would a pickup engine be cam'd about right? Would compression ratio be too low to really take advantage of LP?
Just need some good info on these 4.3's! All I can find is guys playing with their toy trucks and not much about industrial applications. I guess there are marine engines, which is probably on par though. No talk about compression, or cams though.
Our fork has electronic spark timing so I have concerns we will run into issues if we have something cam'd radically different. I am not sure if we can just alter the mechanical advance to cheat or not. So little info.....