Hope you're doing better Steve

Growing up in Detroit when he mentions Detroit Diesel and Kelsey Hayes. I had uncles that worked at both. Remember I was going to apply for a job at Kelsey and asked my uncle if I could use him as reference. He said I could but they’d pay me good enough I’d never leave. He said follow your dad into the trades. I did follow my dad and spent forty years in the Carpenters union retiring four years ago👍

I had me a 1967 GMC 1/2 ton back in the day and it had the 305 V-6 gas motor. never knew they made a V-6 diesel . that V-6 gas motor ran great. Thanks for sharing

@Clawson_customs

5 ай бұрын

If you watched my channel you can see my 66 gmc truck it was originally a 305 v6 also but has had a 327 in it since I got it and now today I pulled it out and im putting a 454 in it

@curtiscriscoe367

5 ай бұрын

My dad owned a 1961? Not sure of the year, GMC with the V6 and a 2 speed auto, the absolute worst American truck I had to drive. No torque and a 2 speed, junk from the frame up

@Clawson_customs

5 ай бұрын

@@curtiscriscoe367 mine still has the 4 speed standard tranny in it but it's awesome to drive I have took it to car shows all over to state. You can watch some of my videos on my channel to see my truck

Love his knowledge. Get well soon Steve, we want you to keep making videos.... Thanks for the ones you did...

Steve's classes are the only ones I truly enjoy.

@cornbinder

5 ай бұрын

live and learn

Enjoy your vids Steve!!!!! 🤜🤛

Missed your upload yesterday, Steve!! Hope all is well and healing back to normal my brother!!

@mikeadie7031

5 ай бұрын

I do wish he would give us another update.

9:05 and here endeth the lesson. Class dismissed. Thanks Steve.

I have a 66 GMC truck it had the 305 V6 original. But its my hot rod now that i have painted and take to car shows all over Utah

Jeez L. Peterbilt!!! There's SEVENTEEN leaves to that rear spring-set!!

Saw a GMC with the 401 v6 long ago, first and last time in person. Get right Steave!

My grandfather had an old GMC field truck with a 316ci V8 that was a work horse of a truck.

@Sheisthedevilyouknowwho-ft9we

5 ай бұрын

Must have been a '56😊 with the Pontiac, the 55, 56, 57 is one thing, but the V8s in the 58 & 59, that's wild (two different 336s)

Would be a very cool hauler truck for vintage race car! Get well soon Steve!

Hope your recovery progresses be well

Amazing where Steve finds "mint" brochures!:)

Wow, looks like a lotta work and a lotta love that old girl could be brought back to life, would be fun at car shows.

Good morning from Cape Cod 🦈 hope you're well on your road to recovery my fellow masshole👍✌️🇺🇲

get well bud, were all pulling for you.

It's great you are recovering; look forward to seeing you back in action!!!

Cheers Buddy. 🇨🇦

Thank you Steve👍

Would have loved to hear it run.

Looking Great Buddy! Glad you're back...

Glad to see your are back to work!

Screamin Jimmy's quiet cousin

Speedy recovery Steve! So much looking forward to your official comeback! Gods speed bro!

Steve, that absolutely could have been a tow truck. That was the shortest wheelbase available on that year Plus the double frame leads me to believe it was a tow truck

Always liked the look of that body. Still working the algorithm Steve 👍

Like your automobile episodes 💪👍🤟

Thank you Steve

Great video and history! Wishing you wellness Steve!🙏

❤ keep on truckin 🤓

What a beast.

Some of the gas V-6 engines were over 700 cubic inches, and the spark plugs were on the top of the head next to the intake on the 60 degree engines.

Gm also made a 702 v 12

I was thinking about why it's called toro-flow but it dawned on me that the Intakes on opposite sides look like horns like a bull. Makes sense.

thanks fer sharing!

I would say it was a dump truck

Thanks for sharing this

We still have some of the gas v6 parts laying around in our shop,but I've never seen the diesel version in person.

Hi Steve how are you doing get well 😂

I can see a roll over and a used cab being sourced to put the truck back on the road.

nice truck

Nice patina 😂😂

I think things are getting back to normal. There are fewer comments and views. That's too bad. This is great stuff that I look for daily. In fact, I have the bell notification enabled.

But a battery on it and a fuel tank. I bet it will start. Let's hear those twin exhausts!!!

Lots of big steel and iron on that

Steve , i hope you are doing well , i am about as old as you , well a couple years older , my health is good aside from nasty back pains , pain pills works quite well for me. I’m still active and still working on cars again I hope you’re doing well. Can’t wait to see more of your videos. Thank’s

If anyone is as curious as I was about the sound of the Toro-Flow, I found a quick 20 second clip "Screamin Detroits" with a 65 GMC Toro-Flow idling kzread.info/dash/bejne/nqabt9CCqKzHg9I.html

It didn't hit me the first time, but with all this knowhow in their books, I wonder why GM didn't employ this tech for their earlier passenger car diesels? Sure, sizing would have been different but......Anyhow, thanks as always for the lessons sir, keep feeling better ~ Chuck

@Sheisthedevilyouknowwho-ft9we

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, the 350 diesel had so many problems, and yet the 6.2 had 2 filters, one being a water separator from day one in the trucks, which the 350 never got. Water separator & filter is something I'm not sure about with the GMC Toro Flow. Some things don't quite make sense. (Then again, GM wasted a lot of money on the Wankel rotary which never went into production, my father used to talk about how IHC wasted a lot of money on turbine engines, bought a company called Solar )

@thegreenerthemeaner

Ай бұрын

Supposedly, the Oldsmobile block was the strongest but with only 10 head bolts compared to 17 for Chevrolets, gotta wonder why they didn't add that to the Olds design. The Heads and injection pumps were the issue. My sister bought a new 1981 Caprice 2 door Diesel. Got 30 mpg on the highway, which is where they belonged. Short hop city driving killed them quick. The also had a 4.3 262 V8 that got 35 mpg highway in the Cutlass RWD. Then in 1983, the Cutlass Ciera had an available 4.3 V6 Diesel in FWD. This pushed it to nearly 38 mpg highway. That 4.3 was not related at all to any other engine but the 5.7 Olds having nearly nothing in common with it but the parent company. Between the Fuel Pincher and these dung baskets, people in the Diesel world really started to doubt GM when the 6.2 came to the pickups. They weren't outstanding but they were tough and had long life along with mileage potential. Most 6.2s with proper care and use outlasted the bodies they were in.

DanE!! Where are you??

@DanEBoyd

5 ай бұрын

Still waiting for yesterday's upload!😆

I drove a Toro flow diesel in the 80s. Never did do a good job of shifting those twin sticks.

Diesel fuel was dirt cheap back then, and should still be, it’s sour crude

Yes hope your doing well. 😊

They also made a v-12 version. Check out Wikipedia gm305 v6

Would be cool to make into a rat rod

The ToroFlow is a Detroit Diesel... there is nothing to confuse. It just isn't a 2-stroke Detroit Diesel, Detroit Diesel has made a lot more than just 2 strokes. Detroit Diesel is literally just the GM diesel division anyway. Especially back then he lines were much more blurred. Same with the GM buses... GM / Detroit diesel engine depending on which year but its always a 2 stroke we'd call a Detroit. The 8.2 isn't a two stroke either neither is the 50 or 60 series. anyway Detroit Diesel isn't a type of engine.... its just the GMC Diesel division. Now you could argue that this engine was not manufactured by the Detroit Diesel divison and I'd grant you that may be the case but during that period DD and GM are definitely the same company.

Trucks......Merica!!!!💪

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Giddy up giddy up 409

Let's gooooo 140k subscribers Like and share people, Let's help out and get it going.

Am I crazy or did I already watch this video???

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Amazing that GM forgot how to make diesel engines in the 80's after success in the 60's.

What's that thing with the speedometer cable passing through it? Seen at lower right @4:12. I'm guessing it's maybe to keep from engaging overdrive under a certain speed, or perhaps a two speed rear axle?

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Mr. B. Here ! 👀😎👍 Class is in secession 🍎🍎✏️📓🎓. 🍺🍺

@UnfinishedProjectDartSport

5 ай бұрын

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@debbiebermudez5890

5 ай бұрын

@@UnfinishedProjectDartSport 🍩🍩🍺

a week only 7 days should say truck month🤔

In it's day GMC was heavier duty truck

64...😊

1954 cadillac ambulance 23 leaf springß

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How many batteries did these medium trucks use? I can't find any information on these trucks.

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Here’s a running Toro Flow in a unique truck, if it’s okay to post links. kzread.info/dash/bejne/YomLpc9wpqatj84.htmlsi=eQ1aq6uU7tGPNZaX

Steve what is the phone number for that Place?

Please stop marking up your old books. Thats drives many of us nuts!

What. We called. The oil man he delivered. Furnace. He. Drove. The same truck. Large oil tank. Just realized. It must have. Been. New. He. Used drive. Rounded. Body international. Thanks

The gauges for the air brakes aren't for vacuum, but for air pressure. break an air line and lose pressure, and the brakes lock. That's basically how air brakes work.