Abandoned Caterpillar D2 Dozer part 2- Fixing the engine...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- We recovered this broken down old Caterpillar D2 Bulldozer in a New Zealand forest a while ago. There was water in the engine oil so we stripped it down to investigate, suspected blown head gasket.
We discovered multiple issues...
I don't mean this to be derogatory in anyway. You guys are the definition of shade tree mechanics! Old Cat dozers are my favorite. Makes me happy to see them come alive again
No offense taken, some of the best mechanics I know work under a shade tree ;)
two, possibly 3 (showing from earlier in the same room) people and they just laid the torch on the table, and even left it running while standing up, ya'll are crazy, keep it up man.
This is one of those awkward moments when you have to admit to yourself you are getting more excited watching this than a 100 million dollar film.
When you wish you were there, with a few mates,a few beers, and a BBQ,putting the world to rights and exercising your minds and hands.
The awkward moment is admitting that the age you got to now, you get more excitement out of watching a liner "pop" out, than the bare body of some starlet, or the villain spraying the room with bullets.
Am i getting old or is this just the best therapy? Thanks, and on the edge of my seat waiting!
It is just interesting, start, middle and end , they get to drive and play! Awesome aye
No fancy intros or background music just straight to the point
And they know what they are doing, more so than a lot of us. I can take anything apart--it's the putting it back together correctly that I'm still working on.
@@k.r.baylor8825 Take more pictures; I try not to think about it but labeling things does help some people.
I’m still voting bare starlet
My husband and I like how relaxed you guys work together 👍
When I was in the military, back right after the Three Wise Men came through, I ran a diesel generator repair shop and we were brought in an ancient Cat that had to be fixed by Monday. I pointed out that we repaired diesel generators and this thing was a dozer. The Commander pointed out that he did not have a dozer repair shop but he did have me. By the time he left he had convinced me that if that dozer wasn’t fixed by 0800 hours on Monday I would be working on it as it was being delivered by a C-130. We got it done 0445 hours Sunday. What you guys are doing in the middle of no where is unbelievable. My hats off to you.
I've been following my uncle work with heavy machine since i was 12 years old, now I'm 29 and have my own workshop, working with those heavy thing is not easy and dangerous, 5 time got in hospital, it was a memories that i never forget.. Good job sir!
Cheers from Canada to my Commonwealth brothers! Kudos for your skills, tenacity and methodical approach to getting these old girls rolling again.
The razor blade in the vise grips was pure genius!!! Most under rated seconds of this video!
The beginning has begun. Nothing has been easy and you have persevered. Proud to watch progress.
Soon parts will arrive and reassembly will commence.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice work putting the valve retainers in! Very slick.
You guys are so funny. I absolutely love it. You find a random old tractor in the forest even notice. The head is blown and still remove it. I love that great job.
Wow, that is amazing, finding this abandoned machine in the bush, then taking the time and money to revive this unit..
If you have the time and the inclination....
Popping that sleeve out startled me a bit! Good job!
I just shit my pants😂😂
I love how calm and relaxed you work on the machine. Great to watch. We Germans tend to go rogue if things dont go as fast as we want.
So wonderful to just watch something ‘normal’...I have been immersed for weeks in the Corona Virus data and I just can’t tell you what a mental relief it is to just see something normal and from before.
Dont stress about it man. It will be just another virus in a couple weeks
Yeah just like the Ebola scare.
Coronavirus has killed 600 people. Tragic I know, but the ‘flu kills 50000 a year, every year for at least the last 100 years. Potential Pandemics make great headlines, but a sense of proportion needs to be retained.
takes me back... my dad had his own earthmoving business when I was growing up. D6C, couple of D8Hs and later on D8Ks and high sprocket D7 and D8L I think. but anyway, we did most of our own mechanical work. this is all very familiar to me! cheers.
You have some incredibly good friends. The never quit attitudes from both of you shine throughout.
Thank you for rescuing this historical piece of equipment
Warms my old heart to you guys bringing one back from the dead. Cheers!
Make sure to be carful when spraying break cleaner on hot metal as it can create extremely hazardous fumes. Love watching you work Marty 👍
@@Darryl603 don't forget "break"!
Inaccurate. First it has to be chlorinated, second it has to be exposed to intense UV, third it has to be exposed to intense heat.
@Paolo G They have both versions, and again.... it takes intense UV.
@@ShainAndrews Like welding. Do not ever use brake cleaner for cleaning parts or fitups for welding.
Still wouldn't use it as shown though.
Good point, I always hold my breath around any kind of fumes or stay upwind, never know what is going to do damage
I hope Squatch 253 watches this to see how it should be done! I love both styles of working, I'm somewhere in between when I recondition engines or gearboxes. Great vid. Thanks.
It is funny to watch one end of the spectrum to the other, Squatch253 would be doing cartwheels when he saw them banging the liner out from the bottom of the engine.
Loved this video.. reminds me of watching my grandfather repair and maintain his fleet of Cats (a D2, D6 and a D8 - 40's and 50's) - some a bit older than this one. Cheers from Winnipeg, Canada.
Your human ingenuity to overcome the obstacles you've confronted has been brilliant! We often take risks to complete a project, but the weight and mass of this could be debilitating. Be safe! Look forward to you bringing this toss away to life. Thanks.
You guys are amazing, anybody else would take a torch to it and see how much they could get for the scrap. I love what you two do, REAL men.
Seeing how much work it is to fix it, plus you have to know what you are doing, it's somewhat understandable some people would just abandon it and get a new one, if there's such an option. It's great to see it being fixed, though. At the very least it should have been recycled.
I don't know jack about engines, i've never done any mechanical work, save from changing oil and filters a couple times, so i don't know why this is so fun to watch..
but it is.
it's fun to watch.
nice video. keep 'em coming!
@@kingtut5923 Wise words. I'm about as mechanical as a Feijoa, but have learnt a bit from these videos. I'm a kinesthetic learner, so I appreciate this kinda material. Lots of people are though. -School only really works for a certain type of person I reckon. ➕
If TV had a channel with engine rebuilds, machine rebuilds and restorations
I'd still have a TV
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this, reminds me of when I was a kid helping my dad working on our cars.
Working methodically.
Excellent start to my morning. Wakeup and there's a video just uploaded. Kiwi stuck working in Ireland.
great to see u re-purposing and breathing life back into old abandoned equipment.. love your work.. keep it up. (top stuff)
But after all the investment it is still JUNK!
I like watching your repairs and fixes. Some of those valve seats and valves should have been replaced.
Expanding and contracting the stuck parts is a brilliant idea
That is how mechanics have done it since for ever.
@@Einungbrekke And just about anybody that works on old stuff!
@@JonDingle That is a mechanic. Don't have to go to school to be a good mechanic ;)
With a head like that you could lap the valves with a drill on the stem and low speed up and down reverse forward. Works pretty good. Thanks for sharing...
Dear Darryl 603
That's what I instantly thought too!
2) In my opinion at least one valve seat will not seal up completely. The seats of the rusty cylinder should have been treated with a valve seat cutter.
Best regards luck and health.
I'd consider myself a bit of a rufty-tufty bloke, but when you're crawling around this beast, half jacked up in a "let's just get this job done" way, my back door was rattling it's hinges a bit. That's some heavy engineering =;-)) Nice, satisfying work, though. Lovely to see rescue/restorers at work; love anything pre-digital and this is nearer pre-historic!
No fancy workshop here. Done in the field like a true Kiwi lol. Just watching out for the No 8 fencing wire. No wonder it was abandoned. If you had to pay for the repairs, you might as well buy a replacement.
Pre-digital is so robust. For example, I can't stand digital washing machines. The circuit board almost always fails in humid environments before anything else. Mechanical controls are more reliable.
@@jycalcano5893 Trudat, mate.
@@jycalcano5893 Right here I have a tip for you, I like to use one of those laser thermostats to measure temperature on those washing machine circuit boards, if its below 20c under operating temperature = glaze it with silicone or 2 part epoxy, that'll keep it from corroding :D
I am along all the way on this one, from England, looking forward to the final part just before she comes back to life, i have never doubted you Marty.
I love heavy equipment, it has always fascinated me since I was a young boy. It saddens me to see a piece of equipment just sit and rust away, it's so wasteful. I guess that's why your videos caught my eye. It's very satisfying to watch y'all work and rescuing these old work horses. The first video of yours I watched was the one where you got the free excavator off the trail. Thanks for posting and keep up the good work. I'm definitely a subscriber to your channel now.
Great work guys, thanks for documenting 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
This has become my favorite channel.
same
I like the birds and the quite voice of Marty explaining stuff, but have you seen the channel with the dutch guys restoring a tank?
@@tuneskramer69 I second that favourite channel and most relaxing and valuable. What’s the Dutch channel? please
@@benwinstanley101 Mastermilo
Thought the injectors were never coming out. Great job, nice tricks to ease the pain. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the next installment.
I just watched squatch253 pull injector cups last night. Looks like a legit pain in the butt! Loving the project so far!
They tore the cat into bits.
It surely was giving them fits.
The head parts were seized.
Add some heat if you please.
The flame really gave it a hiss.
Then on to the oil pan they went.
The bolts were quite rusty and spent.
The oil was a bit lumpy
Which made them quite grumpy.
The sleeve popped faster than they meant.
And now we await part three.
Bout the CAT that was in the trees.
We'll stare at the phone.
Hope I'm not alone.
It's all good because it is free.
From Texas, thanks for the fun. :-)
Very nice project! The valves and the valves seat looks very pitted !
This is the kind of work that is lost with my generation, love watching this and learning from the old school guys.
Boy does this bring back memories...
Hmmmmm, Injectors froze up----Hammer Drill. Worked in a shop that did a lot of diesel engines in addition to marine pumps. We lapped using a slow speed drill and for these PIA parts that got frozen up... Some joyjiuce, then heat, then hammer drill and it made short easy work of things without any damage... Wow! There was a lot of gunk inside under that liner! Wasn't expecting that. Got a lot done.
You guys rock . To do what you’ve done and watch reminds me of my grandfather as I was a lil boy watching him rebuild all kinds of stuff back then you didn’t throw stuff away like now but then again stuff back then was made to last and be able to be rebuilt if it needed to be keep up the great work and videos and thanks for bringing back good memories of my grandfather kids now a day wouldn’t get this type of stuff just so cool 😎
When you removed the injector chambers be happy they didn’t have glow plugs because you have to use different spacer rings to get them at the right angle. Worked on the assembly line installing.
Thanks, Marty. Looking forward to the next one.
So I'm having trouble finding a mechanic willing to replace my car engine and you two are having fun rebuilding something in that state! good on you :)
I guess there are a lot of people like me, just wishing they could be there, getting their hands full of grease and grime and bending a breaker bar to remove an injector. Love these videos. Good job you fellows.
Is it just me or does everyone find it utterly satisfying for something to finally break loose and come out with a lot of heat and a loud pop?
Perfect timing! Just got home and having some din and get to watch someone else work! Hahaha! Well done, sir!
James A
Morning just having breakfast in England. Can’t wait to see her running.
@@bacilluscereus1299 Do not be absurd. I work hard. You sound the type who has his hands out looking for what he can get for free at the expense of someone else. Then when you get your fill off of someone else's work you put your hands back in your pockets and whistle as you lounge. Be gone from us!
@@bacilluscereus1299 Try Retirement boys. I can do this everyday....ALL day if I want. Getting old is great. Met my ex boss a month ago...Told him he's a effing ...something, Walked home laughing.
@@jamesa7506 Try a since of humour Jimmy . YOU are absurd!
Getting on with it! Can't drop too much money into this Cat , can't wait to see the next instalment. I love a good serial!
One thing that happens on other channels is they start buying massive amounts of new tools and machines. That's when they get boring. I like Marty because he uses common tools to do an amazing job.
These videos are great, I love old equipment like this. It’s put in its work it deserves to live again.
This is great, nice job Marty filming and editing for us to see the process, it’s been years since this ol girls been opened up and looked at and cleaned
Thumbs up for the win. Watching from Tauranga.
That was great Marty T! Can't wait to see Part 3! Thank you so much for sharing!!! Happy Tooling!
Great to see you resurrect this old American machine. Glad to see you can still get the parts.
This is an awesome contrast to Squatch253! Where he's performing surgery in a hospital with scalpels and anticeptic, you guys are doing triage in the field with duct tape and gum.
Speaking of Squatch253, I see no comments from him!
I prefer this type of rebuild. Squatch253 goes to far.
@@stephenhunter70 He's really, really busy. I'd be surprised if he even watches other channels!
I posted a link to this on his latest video
@@johnlemmey7698 I am 100% certain that Good Ole Squatch253 gives exactly zero "fracks" what you think. PS, you don't get to define what is "too far" on someone else's project.
The biggest diesel I ever overhauled was a 2.2 liter toyota L. Always and always would I want to take the engine I am working on out of the vehicle and refurbish the rest of the vehicle inch by inch.But this is massive by my standards.Anyway this is great.Thank you.
My compliments to you. It certainly a project and you're willing to do it. I hope finding any replacement parts isn't a big issue. Good luck.
Thanks Marty been waiting for No. 2 on this rebuild making great progress look forward to the rest of the build
what a mess, good to see you working with mates though!
Great video. Great channel. Its encouragement for all of us to take on these projects. Thanks for filming steps we can all follow along.
Great job brother thank you for taking us along.
Pro tip............to remove liners, first run beads of weld up them, it shrinks the liners and makes them easy to pull. When installing the new liners, put them in a freezer first and tap them in while cold, as quickly as possible. Talk about funky injectors!
Absolutely hat off on everything! Aswell as filming ! And still in your calm stride ! Fair play chief
Thanks to this youtube recommendation i'm looking at Bulldozer engine parts which i have no idea because i'm in the health care field of work
Well done. I'm looking forward to see what you and your mate do next. 🇦🇺🍻👍
Good work. I usually run a copper brush on a grinder to clean up the desk, but as long as it's clear that's the main thing
Love seeing you using the wire brush. That's a must have for every shop.
Yes! Been anxiously waiting for part two. Love your videos
Bloody brillant! Just got home from a day at college and I see this pop up!
‘Collage’?
@@tutekohe1361 college*
I always thought Tasmanian Hillbillys lived in the bush between Wayatinah and Ouse, and never went to school, let alone college :)
@@einfelder8262 My relatives come from Ouse! 😂😂
@@TasmanianHillBilly nice part of the world!
Can't wait for Part 3. You guys are certainly putting in the work on this one. But a good old piece of heavy equipment is almost always worth it. Good thing I wasn't paying really close attention when that liner came out of I probably would have needed to check my pants, lol. Also I love seeing assemblies that utilize castle nuts, cotter pins, safety wire, etc. Safety measures that help to ensure that in the event of a failure that damage is as minimal as can be.
Looking forward to seeing part 3 can't wait to hear and see it run. Keep it up.
cool i like your way of working around obstacles !
Hello Marty. We do a lot of cylinder heads. We have a tool that goes in the stand drill for extracting the valves. You can expect anything with something that age. There's still some oil about it.
You guys are getting some crazy sense of achievement, at each and every mile stone, luv it!
glad to see the ol gal will be up an goin again
Oh Lord! Those valves need to be replaced! Too much rust damage on them to be trusted not to break or bend.
Perfect for a friday afternoon and a couple of beers, cheers Marty.
Good catch any old Cat is a fun project, can get deep in the pocket . I really hope you got new or good used valves and had the seats done on #2 cyl. The state of that seat needs to be replaced. Will not seal!! you will have skip or missing cyl. It is a lot easier to jack the back of the tractor up about 14 in or so, block under the tracks at the sprocket. Then jack the front up level. Good luck.
All this invaluable combined knowledge like the brake cleaner cooling trick and he still grabbed it after heating... lol The look on his face was priceless (I've made that face before but that's all I'll admit lol)! I'm a wee bit behind catching up on some of these vids but this is an excellent series. :)
I nearly soiled my underwear when that sleeve popped loose.
yup, me too. :-D
Haha made me jump to 👍
Was not expecting a little jump scare haha
Me too I didn’t know they were sprung!
never had one pop like that in my engine rebuilding career
Pretty BIG Job... Loving the rebuilds...
Love that ad with the kids lol.
Well you have done good so far even if cat mechanics are in convulsions right now from methods you have used to get this far. I certainly am not going to fault your methods. I know how and had tools to do all this but from the many years removed from working (crippled in injury fifteen years ago) don't have a good working memory of some of these type liners. So working the field many years ago and without proper tools available (doing same as you) I have installed new liners with the piston and rings inside the liner and shoved the better one (not new) but when I did it, I made sure that the piston was lined up with the crank so to just draw it down over the shaft so cap could go on. I have replaced bearings by removing the covers on the side and replacing them the hardest way possible from other engines that were parts cause we needed the machine, we were dirt poor, we didn't have a choice. and I mean eat beans poor for weeks till I found game to go with beans. The three of ate twelve deer, a few birds an over two hundred pounds of beans. Hungry, no problem, build fire and boiled beans for hours and grind or chunk up game. A few wild onions in the spring added flavor but...... I said but didn't I? Well that was next as it was a natural tonic an I crapped behind every tree on the island. On top a few stumps to get even with the crows that circled our food we had and stole from us so just giving them a taste of their own medicine!! Use some vaseline to lube the rubber seals so they go all the way in. On the Cummins engines we heated the oil to almost boiling to get pistons apart and back together (heated the pistons in the oil that was very dangerous as it could of blown us to hell and back but no backing down and no going home, and we got the cat running and made our first float for town. Yeah that was the early sixties and we were poor and the game not doing much better but at least they had tree boughs to eat. I tried some wild stuff in woods but turpentine just isn't on the menu as a must try. Took that one off my bucket list!! Going to town in our least dirty clothes that were rags by then wasn't so bad for us as we got acclimated to the smell but the pilot flew with frost on his eyelids and fresh air vents open. We all walked in to the "Outfitters" in ketchikan and took our clothes off and donned fresh bath robes and then picked out new stuff to be sent to the hotel foolish enough to rent to us. The guests in other rooms complained of a foul odor coming in the rooms but we were in tubs by then!! That hotel told us if we left, they wouldn't charge us for that room but I just smiled and said menu please.... every word true
Your fingers are fine I see...
LOL! Where can I buy your book?
@@c1d2e So I would "b" zero to keep numbers in the row. I had someone take oral notes and cassette tapes once. I found that magistrates don't take to well being woke up after midnite cause drinking courage doesn't bide well with the hellcat I married and trying to tell in a nice way that everything has a reason... so out on my tail and headed to a hotel when my method of using Ray Charles brail to go from where b was, as I had made it from a to b and now headed for c when using the speed bumps on the side of the road didn't bide well to that trooper who decided to run interference so he being the new sheriff in town when he polished his patrol car up an was way too serious. After he had used his bullhorn in my ear for how long I couldn't tell you, but I just got tired of it and told our little " Barney Fiffe to hold it down" and then he got brave and smacked me in the chops with his flashlight and told me "we were going to jail" an I ask him for separation papers. I told it wasn't "we" that had this little plan he was so proud of. I'll be staying at the crowbar hotel and he would be back taking us criminals in and saving his girl from being killed by me. So I reached in my pocket and threw a wad of money in front of him and said, "go get a date with a real girl instead of Raggedy Ann"!! So he added it to the charge of driving while "Heavily influenced " he wrote Bribery! I kept my mouth shut by then, as I wasn't going to get out before kids graduate from college. More time than I wanted to invest. So when he marched me back to holding he screamed to get in, in his bullhorn again and so, I shoved it in his face and thats how I met the judge! Well that guy did write a book which was never published. I never got a dime but time to talk to counsel. Helped do the time is all. I kinda thought he was a friend. Turns out he was in it for money only and some were published in reader's digest but I never saw anything. When you get old, well that is what you get. Full of tails of the southeast an old. Glad you enjoyed
You should start a YT channel, just tell these crazy stories!
The D2 was a very well made machine, I restored a 1938 5J model 25 years ago that had broken down beside the coast 20 years before. I had to move it a few years ago but could not get the donkey engine to start, my solution was to connect the front pto on a tractor to the rear pto on the D2 & used the clutch to engage for starting, worked a treat 👌
What you guys do is great, saving old equipment especially the d2 cat is a priceless trade and skill, it's much like repair and renovations on a beautiful old home.
I wonder if there's some old trucks you can find just saw your in NZ I know they love the A and B model Kenworth just west of you
Lot's of work, keen to see the old beast run!
That cylinder liner popping up scared the Sh@! out of me ! Nice job, i can't believe it came out so easily.
Well done guys - great to see inside a D2 - always wanted one but I reckon that it might be too much of a project for me now i'm in my seventies!
Aaaah, such an treat and refreshment to watch people talking with a normal accent.
I predict the engine will be running like shit considering the valve seats and valve seat face condition. Lapping won’t do if perfection is the aim.
No lapping in the world can fix that.
I agree. Apparently it runs ok now but I doubt it will be good in the long run. These old low RPM, low compression, low hp engines arent fussy but that cylinder is going to have a severely hampered lifespan.
You guys have all the fun(????). Sasquatch in Minn would be proud.
Cant wait to see how this one turns out
Can't wait to hear this beautiful old lump fire up for the first time!
Glad to see an old machine coming 1 step closer to running
Bit by bit and piece by piece, fun to watch and learn.
Haha the clamp holding the drill. Kiwi ingenuity at its finest
Glad to see progress is being made.