EC14 is a Cummins The Perkins engine was the EC12 The numbers being the Litre capacity Oh, and it MUST have a Jake Brake too
I hadn’t realised at the time that you couldn’t have a 14 litre Perkins. Only one customer purchased Perkins as he preferred the supposed reliability, he never did buy a Cummins engined ERF having switched to Scania once he got frustrated by having to recover them from Europe as no one the continent would repair them. I believe he still has his first ERF in his yard to this day. But he no longer operates trucks just his groupage operation. Wasn’t that an exhaust brake or some such weird device.
Cummins engines were pretty much bomb proof, Oddly enough, you had to drive the 11 litre EC11 carefully to get decent fuel figures, but, with the 14 litre EC14, you could rag the shit out of it, and still get good fuel The Jake Brake is an engine brake, which releases the compression direct in to the muffler
Another company I worked at exported their old ERF C series to Saudi Arabia, or they’d break them and export the engines to Hong Kong to put in boats.
Pretty hopeless effort. As I was taking the pictures, the scary-looking tattoo-faced owners called out asking if I wanted to buy the car. I politely declined and they told me that each sticker had been individually applied with help from their grandchildren… (btw, the driver’s side was equally covered in stickers)
