Need diesel info and looking for 10X10" flat belt pulley or 16-30" v belt pulley

[Trapper John]

Well, guess I am making progress as I have abandoned the car engine idea for my Belsaw and bought a 6 cyl watercooled Duetz diesel.  Now to hook it up.  First I need to know where diesels like to run, I have been getting two figures 1800 rpm and 2100-2300rpm.  Any advice on this?  My easiest hook up right now is finding a 10x 10 flat belt pulley (2.5" bore) or something close to it for the engine and building a 30" arbor pulley with light truck tire.  Anybody got a flat belt pulley around that size?  Second option is to use a jackshaft and use v belts which would require mounting a jackshaft and finding a large v pulley for the arbor.  The arbor is 1.75".  Final plan will depend on what kind and size of pulleys I can find. 

I realize I will only be able to transmit around 100 hp with flat belt but it is probably good enough. 

[Gearbox]

answer for your diesel try to run it close to its max torque . It may be around 15 or1600 .

[SCSawyer]

I have seen a rig that uses a PTO shaft from engine to tire with u joints and the tire was pulled to the pulley by an ax handle worked like a clutch, just pulled it slow with engine in idle until saw caught up to speed then locked into place like an old 2 horse wagon brake handled, then turned engine up to speed, worked real well.