We’ll touch on a little bit of each rendition of the DT466 below, with most of our still photography being of the DT466E and MaxxForce DT variety, obtained during our time spent at the Melrose Park, Illinois engine plant. However, the legendary I-6 always employed direct-injection, turbocharging and the aforementioned wet sleeve design that made it the engine of choice in the medium-duty truck segment. Throughout its 45-year production run, the DT466 underwent plenty of changes, from mechanical injection to HEUI injection, non-intercooled to intercooled and emissions-free to emissions-friendly. If you’ve ever been to a tractor pull and seen all of those 50-year-old IH machines running at the front of the pack, you’ve seen the DT466 platform in action. The all-iron DT466’s wet sleeve technology revolutionized the medium duty engine market when it debuted and its overbuilt design means it’s exceptionally hard to kill. International produced more than 2 million of these iconic inline-six diesels between 19 and they can be found in everything from box trucks to school buses to farm tractors to construction equipment. Whether you know it or not, you’ve spent time around the DT466 or one of its variants.
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