good vid, has the cadence of a car repair tv show for the first few minutes, but it's all good. You go into extreme detail many other times. thank you for taking time to share this even with Mother Nature and Mr Winter chasing the clock with you 😊
Man I like the way you work! None of this, "that's good enough". If it's not right, it won't go back on the machine until it works as designed. You're a man after my own heart. Good job.
Thanks! Add to the mix, anything that requires that much work to get at, doesn’t see any shortcuts taken that may cause you to have to go back into it lol 😂
One reason I love to watch these videos because the attention to detail is so important and it’s so frustrating watching videos that are ahh just throw this together! Ahh look good last long time mentality
Oh my. You make that process seem so simple. I have removed the starting engine about three times for work and that alone is a major job for me. And that is just part of the pinion removal process. Thanks for the instructions . I hope I never have to use it. 😊
Very timely TH-cam. I’m completing everything you accomplished plus I’m installing a new flywheel ring gear. Project began with repairing clutch pinion. Once I pulled the pony motor I discovered missing teeth on the ring gear. Cat D4 6U.
Thanks for letting us go along for the ride, Squatch. I know it adds a ton of time to a project when you document it for all of us out here. I live in the forest where the snow gets deep, so I'm familiar with the "get it done now" imperative. Good to see the inside of the shop (and Christine), though. Thanks for the video.
I am as excited as a honey bee on a flower farm now that winter is coming so we can get back on ol X231 can't wait to see that one finished with all the major work you have done on it so far 🐝🐝🐝🌻🌼🌷
Thanks for the video Toby. Very valid information and to be fair no amount of antisize will prevent rust from forming. Learned from your older videos that having a stockpile of o-rings and gaskets +bearings makes a huge difference in finishing things in time. Also picked up every starting engine pinion that I find savable or a parts donor.
Thanks for the video, lots of work condensed into this one, took me a month to do all that on my 4u D2 during my spare time, nice info to bridge the J and U series together. Thanks again.
What a tease! 😁 Rebuilt pinion looks immaculate One thing that might be nice to go over would be what Cat was going for with the much larger redesigned governor vs the original. When you aren't pressed for time, of course
That larger governor on the U series was actually a much better and more compact design than the earlier J series tractors. The “J’s” had the flyweights way up under the front cover, the governor housing with springs behind the injection pump, and about 3’ of linkages inbetween that pulled on each end of the fuel rack. These U series governors have everything in that one housing - flyweights, springs, arms, etc that just work on one of the fuel rack, with much less motion lost due to pins, pivots, and distance 👍
Thanks for the video Toby! With the amount of work in removing the starting engine, you're better off to use all new gaskets to prevent future headaches. Cheers
I enjoyed the last video about the cost of the shed your honesty went over and beyond what I expected great job You make fixing the pinion look easy glad you covering all the bases while you are into it looking forward to more fix it videos and when you get back in shop put the switch cover I sent you on the furnace haha
Crazy. I’ve been watching/ subscribed since the beer can engine episode out of your grandpas tractor and I can’t keep track of all your machines still. That’s a good thing by the way.
Actually the Beer Can engine wasn't out of my grandfather's old D2 #5J2115, it was from a parts D2 that my grandfather had bought in pieces, old 3J2219 :-)
Isn't this Senior's future D2? Great job on the starting pinion rehab. Like you, I'm also a "while I'm here" type of person. Sometimes that's a good thing...sometimes it's a PITA! 😆
Yep this is one of three 5U’s here that will all be getting taken apart, rebuilt where needed, and end up with just two really nice 5U’s when finished 👍
I hope the rest goes to plan Toby. I would love to own one these amazing machines. Plus the bonus is that I wouldn't have to dodge all the potholes in the UK roads!
Great video. Always a pleasure to watch someone who knows what they're doing. Curious about what your chain block was attached to in your portable shelter until, during reassembly, I spied a home made jib pole on your Kubota. Love it!
Good video Squatch, I have a 4u, but mine has a bolt on bell housing cover, which might make access a little bit easier if I ever have to do that otherwise I think it will be pretty close to the same, good instruction though. Dave D.
Squatch: Your shop looks like a clean room compared to mine! I hope to clean it up this winter but........ I could use some education on the Pony motor system. It seems insanely complex for what an electric starter good do and more so for a D2/D4 sized crawler.
The pony start system was originally developed because the electric starters and batteries of the day weren’t capable or reliable enough to provide long term starting at a lower price point or as reliably as the pony start. That’s also why IH used their own “Gas-Start Diesel” setup, having their engines running on gasoline in a decompressed mode to warm up, and then switched back to full compression to transition to the diesel mode. It was the same general idea as Cat’s pony start - use easier starting gasoline power to crank and warm everything, then fire up the diesel. Also the fact that glow plug pre-heating starting aids weren’t yet invented, even with an electric starter those diesels couldn’t be fired up without being pre-warmed so pony starts were the best they had 👍
@@squatch253: I finally get the reality and as noted, there is a logic to it that solution. The key to me is, it works well until well into the life of the machine and then like the rest, needs TLC to keep going.
I not going to lie, after being auto painter for a couple years before going into tool and die, seeing the front of the H as a storage solution made my left eye twitch
I've had a few one hour projects that ended up taking a few days because starting it opened up a can of worms that opened a new can for every worm I tackled.
Looks like the you got some rain today we did too but just spotty any is appeciated hope the carb is coming along ok hope it goes back together and runs ok
We actually ended up with 4” of heavy wet snow today - but I did just manage to get the D2 running and put away late yesterday afternoon so just in time with none to spare! lol 👍
I was wondering how you supported the pony motor from that canvas quonset rib, then on installation I caught a glimpse of the forks on the Kubota. Nice!
I'm pretty sure I watched every video of your the last 4 years. But, never realized just how many crawlers you had until these move in videos of late. I need to go back and see if you ever did a complete equipment inventory video. If not, may I suggest you do one please.
I’ve never done a full episode, because it’ll take way more time and effort to compile than it would be worth. The Red Shed is barely half of what I could show lol 😂
Another good video, thank you. An unrelated question: Plans for the rock crusher? Will it find a home in the Red Shed? Looking forward to more videos on that piece of gear!
Lol thanks, but to be honest nothing sparks motivation better than the words "First Snow" in the weather report - with this one last D2 that desperately needed better accommodations but was in no shape to even be pull started or operated, I had to make the decision to either leave it where it was, or tempt fate and try for one last Hail-Mary attempt at an 11th hour repair ;-)
I can understand your dislike of the aluminum based anti-seize, just look at old containers. However the copper and nickel based are much better products, some reason it doesn't attract as much dust and dirt in my experience.
I wonder why the Cat Engineers in 1940s thought it was necessary to have a threaded castle nut and a cotter pin on the clevis pin on the throttle link to governor arm? A cotter pin would be strong enough. Thanks for the episode.
You forgot one tractor....are you going to move x253 to the red shed?i don't know what it is about that machine but its my favorite,that's what started me watching your channel.not sure if its the color or just the overall look of it but i really like it😁
Because people wanted the convenience of electric start, but the diesel still needed the starting engine to also provide a pre-heating starting aid because glow plugs had not yet been invented. It basically represents a snapshot in time when the electrical systems were starting to prove themselves capable of reliable daily use, but had not yet been fully developed enough to stand alone and handle all of the required tasks completely by themselves. As soon as glow plugs came into the picture, the starting engines began to go away but in the years prior, the only way to get heat into the diesel was to have the starting engine warming and circulating the coolant 👍
That’s this winter’s project again, at least until I reach my wits end with it once again and just have to go do ANYTHING else to regain my sanity lol 😂
Nice shop and all but there's one crawler you haven't talked about moving to new shop the Minneapolis-Moline Prototype Crawler #X253. Will it be moving to new shop?
The chain fall you were using to lift the unit out, what was it attached to? As in supporting it? Is it he backhoe with some beam attachment? How much weight can you lift? Thinking of building a simple A frame using one of those old railroad track extruded steel signposts, backed with a 2x6, so I can run a trolley. Supported on 2x6 uprights with height adjustment holes. Inverted T bases, with steel brackets joining the wood upright to the steel bottom beam. The goal of this is having of a method of lifting a very heavy item up say off of a table, or up an open stairwell inside my house. Using something I can disassemble when not in use. I have one of truck bed mounted hydraulic hoists attach to 4 x 4's, but it can only lift something small a few feet.
🤗❤ I went into the hospital 2 weeks ago.I will be getting out in 6 days.If not 4 I have missed a lot of your videos.I will try to catchop.The doctor is removed my liver and run a jumper To my spleen
Thanks Toby for all the great videos and information. I have a 5J3426SP and while tow starting it started to pump water out the exhaust pipe. Do you think it could be a head gasket problem or a precombustion chamber issue?
Yes, Cat had you use the same oil as the starting engine and diesel engine for simplicity, but for about 20 years now people have also been using ATF fluid inside of the pinion drive instead because it still lubricates well but doesn’t make the clutch discs stick together so badly if you aren’t up to doing the whole disassemble & dish mod 👍
Yep we’re getting it today here too - luckily I finished recording the conclusion to this video yesterday, just hours before the snow blew in 👍 I’ll have that one playing on here in a couple of days.
Nope, that tractor is just here for parts and because I knew that one would start and drive if it was pulled, that’s good enough to stay as it is until I rip it down. With the pinion sleeve being loose inside the bell housing on this D2 though, I didn’t even dare try to pull start it because that loose piece inside there would’ve caused a lot of damage 👍
I had a detached retina, a very serious condition that will lead to blindness in that eye if not caught early and treated properly. The retina is all the way inside the eye, basically the lining of the back wall and the surgery is quite invasive - I had a laser vitrectomy where they cut the whole eye open and suck out all the fluid. The then laser weld the retina back in place and refill the eye with synthetic fluid and a gas bubble that will hold the eye together on the inside until it heals, taking 2 months to dissolve. Fortunately, cataracts are much less severe and are only in the front part of the eye, and that surgery is performed quite regularly on a lot of people so much less risk of anything going wrong :-)
Hey squatch, I re-watched a video on the semple tank from New Zealand. I remembered that they used a CAT D8 for the base of the tank. I wonder if you know if it is possible to find the serial number of the tractor used.
If you had tried to pull start in, would the piece that in the bell housing have caused damage, or did it only fall in when you were removing the assemble for repair?......
Yes it still would’ve caused damage because it was dangling off the end of its shaft and resting against the flywheel. If I had attempted to run the diesel engine at all there’s no telling where it would’ve taken off to lol 😂 That’s why it’s been 2 years since this tractor has ran, because I knew it would take this much work to get it fixed 👍
Hey I’m curious what’s truck is under that blue tarp hiding behind you?? Also first part of this video I was very curious how you were using a chain fall in the portable shed then I saw the loader!
Quick question if you could provide some insight. ‘50 D4-7U Removed starting pinion due to leaking large o-ring, replaced o-ring, reassembled and now the handle doesn’t have enough “pull” to engage pinion. Button doesn’t look worn, if I put a screwdriver between handle pin and button, I can get it to lock in. Any type of adjustment/setup in pinion assembly to make this work again? Thanks, glad to see the 5U series getting attention.
There’s no depth adjustment setting for the pinion that I’m aware of, so if the lever arm isn’t capable of locking it in something else had to have changed. Lever arm bent or pivots worn causing a loss of travel, thicker flange gasket or double gasket in place which would’ve moved the whole drive housing further out, etc. 👍
@@squatch253 Thanks for the reply!! I figured if any knew of any adjustment, it would be you!! I have only used CAT replacement parts...but I'm wondering if I add a thicker flange gasket/double up between the pinion housing and the bell housing, that should move the pinion housing towards the front, allowing for the pinion to latch in. Unfortunately, my clutch/tranny cover is the old one-piece style, and no one has made the cut to make access to the clutch easy. Again, thanks for your help....you and your videos have been a life saver, and I have completed many repairs with your help. Really, you just don't know how your work has rippled out to many of us. Thanks again!! Keep those videos coming. Also, awesome job on the barn!!
Doubling up the gaskets or using thicker gaskets under the flange would make the issue worse because moving the whole pinion drive assembly forward makes the engagement arm have to travel farther to latch the pinion because the engagement arm is still in the same spot, hence me mentioning a possible doubled-up flange gasket as one possible source that could’ve contributed to the problem - if anything you’d have to do the opposite and reduce gasket thickness to bring the drive closer to the engagement arm, but when everything is in proper condition the arm should have no trouble latching the pinion with the proper Cat gasket behind the flange 👍
Thanks again for your reply and sharing your knowledge!! Once some nicer weather comes in, I should be able to pull the clutch/transmission cover. Thanks again!!
Does it strike you as odd that Cat made it so difficult to access the pinion drive, which seems to be an assembly requiring frequent attention? It sometimes seems that the whole pony motor was an afterthought.
While we're in crawler mode..... I've always wondered if there is any advantage to choosing a wide gauge over a narrow gauge (5J vs 3J / 5U vs 4U) crawler other than to accommodate wider pads for softer soil conditions?
As a design engineer for current crawler products yes a wide gauge machine has better steering power than a narrow gauge. If your draft load is pulled thru the drawbar imagine extending the distance between the drawbar and the tracks. This distance is your moment arm that affects steering torque around the corner.
Yep I’ve always heard it exactly as challengerhitchman stated - the wide gauge tractors pulled better through the turns, had greater stability on side hills, and could be fitted with wider track pads for lower compaction. The narrow gauge tractors had their own benefits - like being a bit more maneuverable and actually having a slightly higher drawbar pull in straight-line pulls 👍
From one of your members in California , question anti seize my father told me bolts subject to heat or water or dissimilar Metals always get anti seize will you help one of your members what do you recommend because clearly it doesn't work .
That was the Humdunger/Stover engine sludge pump that I picked up earlier this summer that I was referring to, and I moved that up to the Red Shed a few days ago as a small part of the episode in this link - th-cam.com/video/cGMKQkZBxac/w-d-xo.html But be aware that was one of the "Behind the Scenes" episodes that only aired on the Members' Channel.
I keep on top of all of my machines as far as proper freeze protection (antifreeze strength) anyway, but every one in the fleet has already had its annual fall season re-test just to make sure - plus each machine that was parked in the Red Shed also had its carburetor ran dry plus the gasoline tank drained, with the exception of the diesel tanks because that doesn't quickly spoil like gasoline these days :-)
good vid, has the cadence of a car repair tv show for the first few minutes, but it's all good. You go into extreme detail many other times. thank you for taking time to share this even with Mother Nature and Mr Winter chasing the clock with you 😊
Excellent detailed information
"The flyweights argue with the governor springs." That is a great way to describe it!
The fly-ball governor- one of James Watt’s other inventions.
Man I like the way you work! None of this, "that's good enough". If it's not right, it won't go back on the machine until it works as designed. You're a man after my own heart. Good job.
Thanks! Add to the mix, anything that requires that much work to get at, doesn’t see any shortcuts taken that may cause you to have to go back into it lol 😂
@@squatch253 I too suffer from "while I'm in here" syndrome. 😉
One reason I love to watch these videos because the attention to detail is so important and it’s so frustrating watching videos that are ahh just throw this together! Ahh look good last long time mentality
"If everything goes as planned."
Morgan Freeman: "And it was at that moment he realized he jinxed himself."
Oh my. You make that process seem so simple. I have removed the starting engine about three times for work and that alone is a major job for me. And that is just part of the pinion removal process.
Thanks for the instructions . I hope I never have to use it. 😊
Always a race against the weather. They're saying possible snow or rain/snow on Halloween. Never a dull moment in racing old man winter!
Kenny we had snow a few hundred feet above us on the mountain this morning. Old man winter is knocking on the door.
@@alanharney5278I'm hoping he will be busy enough with you guys to keep him from knocking on my door.
Very timely TH-cam. I’m completing everything you accomplished plus I’m installing a new flywheel ring gear. Project began with repairing clutch pinion. Once I pulled the pony motor I discovered missing teeth on the ring gear. Cat D4 6U.
Thanks for letting us go along for the ride, Squatch. I know it adds a ton of time to a project when you document it for all of us out here. I live in the forest where the snow gets deep, so I'm familiar with the "get it done now" imperative. Good to see the inside of the shop (and Christine), though. Thanks for the video.
Squatch,
Your knowledge and attention to detail makes this job look easy. Thanks for yet another quality video. Boe
I am as excited as a honey bee on a flower farm now that winter is coming so we can get back on ol X231 can't wait to see that one finished with all the major work you have done on it so far 🐝🐝🐝🌻🌼🌷
lol you’re a lot more excited for that one than I am 🤦🏻♂️😂
The design changes in different caterpillar models always amaze me.
Thanks for the video Toby. Very valid information and to be fair no amount of antisize will prevent rust from forming. Learned from your older videos that having a stockpile of o-rings and gaskets +bearings makes a huge difference in finishing things in time. Also picked up every starting engine pinion that I find savable or a parts donor.
Great episode! I'm really getting the crawler bug watching these videos the last bunch of years.
"I knew an old 'Toby' who swallowed a cat, to catch a spider, to catch the fly....". 😂😂🤣
These videos are pure gold for a fellow D2 owners. Many thanks for this excellent content.
Hahahahah “Mess in the shop” I don’t think you have seen mine.
Mine has spots where I just have paths.
Thanks for the video, lots of work condensed into this one, took me a month to do all that on my 4u D2 during my spare time, nice info to bridge the J and U series together. Thanks again.
Just another fun video to watch and learn even if I will probably never own a D2.
I knew you were going to get everything moved before the snow set in, great video as always!
What a tease! 😁
Rebuilt pinion looks immaculate
One thing that might be nice to go over would be what Cat was going for with the much larger redesigned governor vs the original. When you aren't pressed for time, of course
That larger governor on the U series was actually a much better and more compact design than the earlier J series tractors. The “J’s” had the flyweights way up under the front cover, the governor housing with springs behind the injection pump, and about 3’ of linkages inbetween that pulled on each end of the fuel rack. These U series governors have everything in that one housing - flyweights, springs, arms, etc that just work on one of the fuel rack, with much less motion lost due to pins, pivots, and distance 👍
Was missing these episodes very much. Thank you!
Thanks for the video Toby! With the amount of work in removing the starting engine, you're better off to use all new gaskets to prevent future headaches. Cheers
I enjoyed the last video about the cost of the shed your honesty went over and beyond what I expected great job You make fixing the pinion look easy glad you covering all the bases while you are into it looking forward to more fix it videos and when you get back in shop put the switch cover I sent you on the furnace haha
Crazy. I’ve been watching/ subscribed since the beer can engine episode out of your grandpas tractor and I can’t keep track of all your machines still. That’s a good thing by the way.
Actually the Beer Can engine wasn't out of my grandfather's old D2 #5J2115, it was from a parts D2 that my grandfather had bought in pieces, old 3J2219 :-)
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Dang it. lol. Walking away in shame. 😆
Isn't this Senior's future D2? Great job on the starting pinion rehab. Like you, I'm also a "while I'm here" type of person. Sometimes that's a good thing...sometimes it's a PITA! 😆
Yep this is one of three 5U’s here that will all be getting taken apart, rebuilt where needed, and end up with just two really nice 5U’s when finished 👍
Great work Squatch. it will be good for years to come. 👍
I hope the rest goes to plan Toby.
I would love to own one these amazing machines.
Plus the bonus is that I wouldn't have to dodge all the potholes in the UK roads!
Great video. Always a pleasure to watch someone who knows what they're doing.
Curious about what your chain block was attached to in your portable shelter until, during reassembly, I spied a home made jib pole on your Kubota. Love it!
Good video Squatch, I have a 4u, but mine has a bolt on bell housing cover, which might make access a little bit easier if I ever have to do that otherwise I think it will be pretty close to the same, good instruction though. Dave D.
I'm in for a treat! I love the D2's.
Thanks
Squatch: Your shop looks like a clean room compared to mine! I hope to clean it up this winter but........ I could use some education on the Pony motor system. It seems insanely complex for what an electric starter good do and more so for a D2/D4 sized crawler.
The pony start system was originally developed because the electric starters and batteries of the day weren’t capable or reliable enough to provide long term starting at a lower price point or as reliably as the pony start. That’s also why IH used their own “Gas-Start Diesel” setup, having their engines running on gasoline in a decompressed mode to warm up, and then switched back to full compression to transition to the diesel mode. It was the same general idea as Cat’s pony start - use easier starting gasoline power to crank and warm everything, then fire up the diesel. Also the fact that glow plug pre-heating starting aids weren’t yet invented, even with an electric starter those diesels couldn’t be fired up without being pre-warmed so pony starts were the best they had 👍
@@squatch253: I finally get the reality and as noted, there is a logic to it that solution. The key to me is, it works well until well into the life of the machine and then like the rest, needs TLC to keep going.
I not going to lie, after being auto painter for a couple years before going into tool and die, seeing the front of the H as a storage solution made my left eye twitch
That sheet metal is getting a complete re-spray anyhow, due to me not liking the first finish so no worries 👍
@ Thank goodness, I wasn’t aware of that development
Carry on.
It finally got cold here too. It’s 75 today!
I've had a few one hour projects that ended up taking a few days because starting it opened up a can of worms that opened a new can for every worm I tackled.
Very informative and enjoyable video Squatch. I look forward to the next episode. Thanks
Très intéressant merci bonjour from France
I will continue to use anti sieze . I use it on spark plugs and on front wheel bearing hubs to press them in and it works .
Looks like the you got some rain today we did too but just spotty any is appeciated hope the carb is coming along ok hope it goes back together and runs ok
We actually ended up with 4” of heavy wet snow today - but I did just manage to get the D2 running and put away late yesterday afternoon so just in time with none to spare! lol 👍
Looks. Like you have done this a time or two . Really injoyed this video . Denis from Santa RosaCa .
I was wondering how you supported the pony motor from that canvas quonset rib, then on installation I caught a glimpse of the forks on the Kubota. Nice!
Squatch doing more accidentally than 98% of most people do on purpose! Well done!
That was a lot of fun to watch
I have had very good luck using anti-seize on exhaust components, where ordinary grease burns away or hardens into a rock.
Might as well while I'm here is such a dangerous line to walk
I'm assuming CAT comes to you for older machine parts LOL. Another great video
I'm pretty sure I watched every video of your the last 4 years. But, never realized just how many crawlers you had until these move in videos of late. I need to go back and see if you ever did a complete equipment inventory video. If not, may I suggest you do one please.
I’ve never done a full episode, because it’ll take way more time and effort to compile than it would be worth. The Red Shed is barely half of what I could show lol 😂
Good job Toby !
Very informative, thank you.
One concoction I found in place of neversieze used on the railroad I worked for was a mixture of powdered graphite and grease.
great video, can't always work in a heated shop. Just a side question, what did you have the chain fall attached to, a jib boom perhaps?
Yep, look closely as I was just starting to lower the engine back down the jib boom that I rigged up on the tractor loader becomes visible 👍
Nice job, Sir.
Another good video, thank you. An unrelated question: Plans for the rock crusher? Will it find a home in the Red Shed? Looking forward to more videos on that piece of gear!
The rock crusher will stay where it’s currently sitting for the time being 👍
I wish I had your ambition... WOW !!!
Lol thanks, but to be honest nothing sparks motivation better than the words "First Snow" in the weather report - with this one last D2 that desperately needed better accommodations but was in no shape to even be pull started or operated, I had to make the decision to either leave it where it was, or tempt fate and try for one last Hail-Mary attempt at an 11th hour repair ;-)
thanks
I can understand your dislike of the aluminum based anti-seize, just look at old containers. However the copper and nickel based are much better products, some reason it doesn't attract as much dust and dirt in my experience.
I wonder why the Cat Engineers in 1940s thought it was necessary to have a threaded castle nut and a cotter pin on the clevis pin on the throttle link to governor arm?
A cotter pin would be strong enough.
Thanks for the episode.
I think it’s because it offers a tighter wobble-free fit than a straight pin with a cotter on one end - no wobble, no wear 👍
The “W” goes to Squatch. 👍
You forgot one tractor....are you going to move x253 to the red shed?i don't know what it is about that machine but its my favorite,that's what started me watching your channel.not sure if its the color or just the overall look of it but i really like it😁
My 1926 oldsmobile starter also has that same bolt on the starter .
As should be done.
Wow! There’s a lot going on under the hood of that thing! 😮
Very nice videoed
Good job Squatch! One question: How come the starting engine itself has a electric start motor but the main engine does’nt?
Because people wanted the convenience of electric start, but the diesel still needed the starting engine to also provide a pre-heating starting aid because glow plugs had not yet been invented. It basically represents a snapshot in time when the electrical systems were starting to prove themselves capable of reliable daily use, but had not yet been fully developed enough to stand alone and handle all of the required tasks completely by themselves. As soon as glow plugs came into the picture, the starting engines began to go away but in the years prior, the only way to get heat into the diesel was to have the starting engine warming and circulating the coolant 👍
Anti-seize is thread lube and will not stop rust or parts corroding/rusting together
Try telling people that, they smear it on everything because they swear it prevents things from rusting together ;-)
@@squatch253 Other part it ends up on you, vehicle, clothes, tools and everything you touch
I 'm thining, you will refresh all gaskets, bushing and other perishable items when you reassemble this unit.
10x. Put it together!!!!!
That’s this winter’s project again, at least until I reach my wits end with it once again and just have to go do ANYTHING else to regain my sanity lol 😂
Nice job
Nice shop and all but there's one crawler you haven't talked about moving to new shop the Minneapolis-Moline Prototype Crawler #X253. Will it be moving to new shop?
Great video as always!
The chain fall you were using to lift the unit out, what was it attached to? As in supporting it? Is it he backhoe with some beam attachment? How much weight can you lift?
Thinking of building a simple A frame using one of those old railroad track extruded steel signposts, backed with a 2x6, so I can run a trolley. Supported on 2x6 uprights with height adjustment holes. Inverted T bases, with steel brackets joining the wood upright to the steel bottom beam. The goal of this is having of a method of lifting a very heavy item up say off of a table, or up an open stairwell inside my house. Using something I can disassemble when not in use. I have one of truck bed mounted hydraulic hoists attach to 4 x 4's, but it can only lift something small a few feet.
If @Squatch253 can’t fix this D2 by the next episode “We’re gonna lose the shop!”
Stay tuned Folks!!!
lol nice little inside joke there 👍🤣🤣
🤗❤ I went into the hospital 2 weeks ago.I will be getting out in 6 days.If not 4 I have missed a lot of your videos.I will try to catchop.The doctor is removed my liver and run a jumper To my spleen
Best wishes for recovery! 👍
Thanks Toby for all the great videos and information. I have a 5J3426SP and while tow starting it started to pump water out the exhaust pipe. Do you think it could be a head gasket problem or a precombustion chamber issue?
Precombustion chamber is the most likely cause, but head gasket is #2.
Thank you. I’ll tear into it and see what I find.
Good video
Excellent video
Great stuff. How many ccs is the D2 pony?
Hey up great video is the oil same grade as engine in pump/governor, loved the farmall parts bench
Yes, Cat had you use the same oil as the starting engine and diesel engine for simplicity, but for about 20 years now people have also been using ATF fluid inside of the pinion drive instead because it still lubricates well but doesn’t make the clutch discs stick together so badly if you aren’t up to doing the whole disassemble & dish mod 👍
@squatch253 my question was if it was a serpent lub s
System which would make sense for the injection pump
Ah I misread your original question - but yes you’d use the same oil for the injection pump & governor as you’d use in the diesel engine 👍
@@squatch253 thanks mate
Before first snow. WELL October 31 2024 snow New Auburn Minnesota
Yep we’re getting it today here too - luckily I finished recording the conclusion to this video yesterday, just hours before the snow blew in 👍 I’ll have that one playing on here in a couple of days.
Wish my d7 was that easy to change starting pinion parts
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Great so this one is operable. How about the other one with the bad pony motor? You gonna give that one a winter overhaul like the try build?
Nope, that tractor is just here for parts and because I knew that one would start and drive if it was pulled, that’s good enough to stay as it is until I rip it down. With the pinion sleeve being loose inside the bell housing on this D2 though, I didn’t even dare try to pull start it because that loose piece inside there would’ve caused a lot of damage 👍
@@squatch253 pity figured you would want it more movable.
Nah, it’s good to sit right where it is now until I break it down into bits, so it doesn’t need to be movable 👍
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Enjoyable & informative as always. 🫵🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
What was it that you had done to your eye what surgery was it ? I'm going in for a cataract pre screening in December having left eye worked on.
I had a detached retina, a very serious condition that will lead to blindness in that eye if not caught early and treated properly. The retina is all the way inside the eye, basically the lining of the back wall and the surgery is quite invasive - I had a laser vitrectomy where they cut the whole eye open and suck out all the fluid. The then laser weld the retina back in place and refill the eye with synthetic fluid and a gas bubble that will hold the eye together on the inside until it heals, taking 2 months to dissolve. Fortunately, cataracts are much less severe and are only in the front part of the eye, and that surgery is performed quite regularly on a lot of people so much less risk of anything going wrong :-)
@squatch253 ok thank you for the information
Hey squatch, I re-watched a video on the semple tank from New Zealand. I remembered that they used a CAT D8 for the base of the tank. I wonder if you know if it is possible to find the serial number of the tractor used.
If you had tried to pull start in, would the piece that in the bell housing have caused damage, or did it only fall in when you were removing the assemble for repair?......
Yes it still would’ve caused damage because it was dangling off the end of its shaft and resting against the flywheel. If I had attempted to run the diesel engine at all there’s no telling where it would’ve taken off to lol 😂 That’s why it’s been 2 years since this tractor has ran, because I knew it would take this much work to get it fixed 👍
@@squatch253 Thanks for taking the time to let me know. Glad you made the right decision!!! Love your projects!!!
Hey I’m curious what’s truck is under that blue tarp hiding behind you?? Also first part of this video I was very curious how you were using a chain fall in the portable shed then I saw the loader!
Pretty sure you can just reuse the old fold over locks 😉
Dangerous talk, you're asking for a smack!
My eyelid would probably blast off into orbit if I were to attempt that lol 😂
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Quick question if you could provide some insight. ‘50 D4-7U Removed starting pinion due to leaking large o-ring, replaced o-ring, reassembled and now the handle doesn’t have enough “pull” to engage pinion. Button doesn’t look worn, if I put a screwdriver between handle pin and button, I can get it to lock in. Any type of adjustment/setup in pinion assembly to make this work again? Thanks, glad to see the 5U series getting attention.
There’s no depth adjustment setting for the pinion that I’m aware of, so if the lever arm isn’t capable of locking it in something else had to have changed. Lever arm bent or pivots worn causing a loss of travel, thicker flange gasket or double gasket in place which would’ve moved the whole drive housing further out, etc. 👍
@@squatch253 Thanks for the reply!! I figured if any knew of any adjustment, it would be you!!
I have only used CAT replacement parts...but I'm wondering if I add a thicker flange gasket/double up between the pinion housing and the bell housing, that should move the pinion housing towards the front, allowing for the pinion to latch in. Unfortunately, my clutch/tranny cover is the old one-piece style, and no one has made the cut to make access to the clutch easy. Again, thanks for your help....you and your videos have been a life saver, and I have completed many repairs with your help. Really, you just don't know how your work has rippled out to many of us. Thanks again!! Keep those videos coming. Also, awesome job on the barn!!
Doubling up the gaskets or using thicker gaskets under the flange would make the issue worse because moving the whole pinion drive assembly forward makes the engagement arm have to travel farther to latch the pinion because the engagement arm is still in the same spot, hence me mentioning a possible doubled-up flange gasket as one possible source that could’ve contributed to the problem - if anything you’d have to do the opposite and reduce gasket thickness to bring the drive closer to the engagement arm, but when everything is in proper condition the arm should have no trouble latching the pinion with the proper Cat gasket behind the flange 👍
Thanks again for your reply and sharing your knowledge!! Once some nicer weather comes in, I should be able to pull the clutch/transmission cover. Thanks again!!
Does it strike you as odd that Cat made it so difficult to access the pinion drive, which seems to be an assembly requiring frequent attention? It sometimes seems that the whole pony motor was an afterthought.
The ONE thing anti-seize is good for is making a mess.
X253 isn't going to the Red Shed? I've lost track of all the equipment, how many D2's do you have? Maybe the Moline's are getting a Yeller Shed.
The M-M’s already had the nicest of accommodations on Senior’s place, so they’re staying put. 👍
While we're in crawler mode..... I've always wondered if there is any advantage to choosing a wide gauge over a narrow gauge (5J vs 3J / 5U vs 4U) crawler other than to accommodate wider pads for softer soil conditions?
As a design engineer for current crawler products yes a wide gauge machine has better steering power than a narrow gauge. If your draft load is pulled thru the drawbar imagine extending the distance between the drawbar and the tracks. This distance is your moment arm that affects steering torque around the corner.
Yep I’ve always heard it exactly as challengerhitchman stated - the wide gauge tractors pulled better through the turns, had greater stability on side hills, and could be fitted with wider track pads for lower compaction. The narrow gauge tractors had their own benefits - like being a bit more maneuverable and actually having a slightly higher drawbar pull in straight-line pulls 👍
@@squatch253 I almost had 3J1003 back in college. Some day I would like to pick up a 4U.
From one of your members in California , question anti seize my father told me bolts subject to heat or water or dissimilar Metals always get anti seize will you help one of your members what do you recommend because clearly it doesn't work .
Didn't you say you were going to move a "Pump Engine" to the red shed, what would that be please? If you have time, appreciate you are a bit busy.
That was the Humdunger/Stover engine sludge pump that I picked up earlier this summer that I was referring to, and I moved that up to the Red Shed a few days ago as a small part of the episode in this link - th-cam.com/video/cGMKQkZBxac/w-d-xo.html But be aware that was one of the "Behind the Scenes" episodes that only aired on the Members' Channel.
Are you going to "winterize" the red shed machines?
I keep on top of all of my machines as far as proper freeze protection (antifreeze strength) anyway, but every one in the fleet has already had its annual fall season re-test just to make sure - plus each machine that was parked in the Red Shed also had its carburetor ran dry plus the gasoline tank drained, with the exception of the diesel tanks because that doesn't quickly spoil like gasoline these days :-)
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Did I hear Squatch call it a decompression lever???