Rusty , when they were new reg gas was 95 and the only gas i knew of that was less then 95 was Gulftane and it was 93 . when the 706 was new i was well aware of octane ratings on fuel and what needed what grade . The old B 60 Mack that i drove back then for the construction company that i worked for had a Thermodine 6 cylinder gas and it needed 105 octane fuel and we had two gas pumps at the yard and the octane was on the pumps and it was the R+M=2 and we had one diesel pump with Sohio diesel supreme and that diesel fuel was Red dyed back then as a trade mark reg diesel was a yellowish clear and the old man would not use that as he call it bottom of the barrel junk . God help ya if you put reg. gas in the mack . we also had a account out at the fuel stop on the outskirts of Canfield Ohio where we would get fuel from also and each and every old gas burnner semi ran hightest . Farm tractors ran reg. The old man also owned a large farm between Canfield and Ellsworth and on of my jobs was that on Tuesday and Friday evening before i went home was to take either a 150 gallon of gas and a 150 of diesel to the farm and fill the tanks from the shop . we had over 40000 gallon storage at the shop 10 each for gas and 20 for diesel . Had lot of practice hand pumping fuel back in those days.Gas did not really go down hill till in the late 80's early 90's .The first i started to notice it was with my Massey 300 combine as i was being cheap and was using the 89 as that was the lowest we had here at the time , she was running hot and nothing i did would bring it down . First i pressure washed the rad. out , no help ok change the water pump and stat , that did not help with anything other then lighten up the wallet . Pulled the rad and had it boiled and flow checked it was fine . Still running 210 -220- . One day i was at a auction in Stilesville In. and i bought a couple 110 gallon fuel tanks and i loaded them on my truck an headed home gas prices were 42 cents a gallon cheaper in In. then home and i stopped at the one truck stop off I70 and they had Farm gas and it still had lead and it was 94 octane i filled one of the 110's with it and filed the truck and the other tank with the high test as i ran hightest in my 460 . Come home and put the cheap Farm GAs in the combine the next day and we to shelling the engine temp never went above 185 on that gas when that was gone i filled the combine with the 93 we had down the road from the farm and the heat came up a whisker around 190 . and another thing you guys keep missing here is the material that the pistons were made out of BACK THEN also , THEY WERE FORGED , not cast . You Can not get Forged anymore .
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