Way to low key flex on Toby. Hahahahahaha. Cool update Kyle. Thanks for sharing. That press is definitely sketchy, from a different time. Shake hands with danger.
😎 good to see ya. We've got about a foot of light snow and the Temps are hovering around 0F, -18°C this week. These conditions can be a bad sign for avalanches in the spring, it can granulate and act like marbles at the bottom of the snowpack making areas extremely prone to avalanche dangers.
Good to have you posting once again. I can't believe that you actually knew someone who had an original Cat hydraulic pump-puller set and loaned it to you, that is a real friend to trust you with an extremely hard-to-find and replace tool.
Good to see that you came back to work with all those rusty parts. I’m 83 and I hope to see an assembled running RD-4 before I kick the bucket, so get to it this winter. Nothing like having a little pressure!!!!
Nice to see you back on it Kyle, I'd been enjoying the series to date. Hope you've got some heating in your shop now, it was looking pretty cold in some of those vids last winter
Kyle, when I helped Allen Rudolf close to 50 years ago he was changing tracks on his D7. The dealer loaned him the portable press for pressing the connecting pin out. The press was similar to what you have there, one of the bolts sheared and the press flew like a rocket but fortunately no one got hurt. He wound up torching a link.
I'm not 100% sure on material but they almost seem like a forging and not a casting. I wasn't the biggest fan of that either but that is how Caterpillar specs it, right down to the tooling. Thanks Chris
@@kylechrist I didn't think about it being forged, but that would make sense for durability of the teeth. I can just imagine that baby getting hammered out!
Yeah. Cool 😎 Kyle. 🤗Oh, oh, oh I would love to have that puller 🤩 awesome. Noice very noice 🤣😂🤣 The grease/oil you have there is what I refer to as rhino-lube. That stuff is heavy, water resistant and made with a high molybdenum content. It don't wash off easy. Modern anti-seize is a walk in the park next to that stuff. I still have about two and a third drums of the grease left over from the 80's for my projects 😁👍
I acquired a puller like that with a bunch of parts. I wasn’t sure of why the particular arms but now I know if I pull the sprockets. Scary to have the pump on the ram tho
Neat! while that picture /diagram it show that the sprocket was strong enough to pull on. So I would presume that a guy could use most ant 100 ton ram and strong backs and clamp around the sprocket spokes to get them off
With the press. Do you have the adapters to push the sprockets back on with enough tonnage to tighten the retaining nut.. Have you chunked the rusty engine parts in some kind of antirust solution
I'll gladly take forgetting to record over focusing so much on the filming that safety becomes more of an issue than it already is when pressing old parts. That's just the mechanic in me talking, drawing from the days when I have to press transmission shafts apart at 50 tons or more with stacks of gears and hubs that all slam at once.
Good morning, I am French and a fan of your channel for quite a long time now... I am buying a 1937 RD4 which is in poor condition, so I am looking for spare parts. Could you tell me where you find your spare parts please? Thank you in advance, cordially
Well isnt that pretty much how it goes it's been that way with me most everytime there was something that you wanted to highlite and bang it's a miss lol the only time it went to plan was the day my dad had a JD Model G that had a particular issue where the tractor would lockup and quit in one movement. But it would do it only after running about an hour or so and not when working vigorously just in normal slack operation. I looked over the schematics grand dad had and read a trouble shooting notice about a water plug.between the main transmission and the horizontal drive engine back half. Entering through the transmission top and after draining the trans which was mixed with water I found the steel plug with a jamb mark in it pryed it free and checked the mounting surface and installed a new brass and rubber sealed water plug that seals the hole completely. Did it all in a single afternoon after school that saterday dad was going to check and see what its issue was. I told him it was done already and handed him the old plug and informed him the coolant and the transmission would had been changed and stopped off. He couldnt believe his teenager did in and after noon what had been stumping him for nearly 2 and a half years oddly enough the oil never entered the coolant passages but the coolant filled the tranny
Way to low key flex on Toby. Hahahahahaha. Cool update Kyle. Thanks for sharing. That press is definitely sketchy, from a different time.
Shake hands with danger.
Wow That press is awesome - nice to see a survivor like that!!
😎 good to see ya. We've got about a foot of light snow and the Temps are hovering around 0F, -18°C this week. These conditions can be a bad sign for avalanches in the spring, it can granulate and act like marbles at the bottom of the snowpack making areas extremely prone to avalanche dangers.
Good to have you posting once again. I can't believe that you actually knew someone who had an original Cat hydraulic pump-puller set and loaned it to you, that is a real friend to trust you with an extremely hard-to-find and replace tool.
Kyle been missing the work on this Cat but that's what old weather brings. Thanks for bring us along.
It's been a minute since we had an RD4 video. It's great seeing you again.
I bet Squatch gave you some grief about the CAT puller.
Nice to see you being able to pick back up on your winter project again, Thanks for sharing Kyle
Good to see that you came back to work with all those rusty parts. I’m 83 and I hope to see an assembled running RD-4 before I kick the bucket, so get to it this winter. Nothing like having a little pressure!!!!
Nice to see you back on it Kyle, I'd been enjoying the series to date. Hope you've got some heating in your shop now, it was looking pretty cold in some of those vids last winter
Long time no see Kyle. I'm sure Squatch would love that old puller.
Kyle, when I helped Allen Rudolf close to 50 years ago he was changing tracks on his D7. The dealer loaned him the portable press for pressing the connecting pin out. The press was similar to what you have there, one of the bolts sheared and the press flew like a rocket but fortunately no one got hurt. He wound up torching a link.
Did this all the way to d9s, gets a little scary sometimes 😳. Enjoyed every minute of this.
Great to have you back on your project.
Wow - a peek at a genuine Caterpillar working press!
100 ton, be careful every time. I was jacking a house up with a 5 foot tall 6x6, it popped loose and flew by me 20 feet
i'm liking the Caterpiller hydralic press.
Good to see you back!
Great work! Looking forward to seeing more!
Pulling against those spokes would have made me a little nervous. Is it ordinary cast iron, or a different alloy?
I'm not 100% sure on material but they almost seem like a forging and not a casting. I wasn't the biggest fan of that either but that is how Caterpillar specs it, right down to the tooling. Thanks Chris
@@kylechrist I didn't think about it being forged, but that would make sense for durability of the teeth. I can just imagine that baby getting hammered out!
Yeah. Cool 😎 Kyle.
🤗Oh, oh, oh I would love to have that puller 🤩 awesome. Noice very noice 🤣😂🤣
The grease/oil you have there is what I refer to as rhino-lube. That stuff is heavy, water resistant and made with a high molybdenum content. It don't wash off easy. Modern anti-seize is a walk in the park next to that stuff. I still have about two and a third drums of the grease left over from the 80's for my projects 😁👍
I acquired a puller like that with a bunch of parts. I wasn’t sure of why the particular arms but now I know if I pull the sprockets.
Scary to have the pump on the ram tho
Squatch will never forgive you for missing the money shot but I will. :-) Good job of not breaking that sprocket casting.
Can the bull gears be swapped from side to side? Pretty sure the sprockets can be. Wear the other faces.
Hey good to see another vid from ya!! I was 599th thumbs up!.. thanks for the video👍🏻🍻🍻
Neat! while that picture /diagram it show that the sprocket was strong enough to pull on. So I would presume that a guy could use most ant 100 ton ram and strong backs and clamp around the sprocket spokes to get them off
If oil is used I doubt anybody on the planet today will live long enough to see those sprockets wear out. :-)
With the press. Do you have the adapters to push the sprockets back on with enough tonnage to tighten the retaining nut..
Have you chunked the rusty engine parts in some kind of antirust solution
Looking good Kyle. Did you get your heat in the shop working yet?
I bet squash 253 is kind of jealous of your 100-ton caterpillar press
Haha I know I am 😍
I'll gladly take forgetting to record over focusing so much on the filming that safety becomes more of an issue than it already is when pressing old parts. That's just the mechanic in me talking, drawing from the days when I have to press transmission shafts apart at 50 tons or more with stacks of gears and hubs that all slam at once.
Good morning, I am French and a fan of your channel for quite a long time now... I am buying a 1937 RD4 which is in poor condition, so I am looking for spare parts. Could you tell me where you find your spare parts please? Thank you in advance, cordially
Well isnt that pretty much how it goes it's been that way with me most everytime there was something that you wanted to highlite and bang it's a miss lol the only time it went to plan was the day my dad had a JD Model G that had a particular issue where the tractor would lockup and quit in one movement. But it would do it only after running about an hour or so and not when working vigorously just in normal slack operation. I looked over the schematics grand dad had and read a trouble shooting notice about a water plug.between the main transmission and the horizontal drive engine back half. Entering through the transmission top and after draining the trans which was mixed with water I found the steel plug with a jamb mark in it pryed it free and checked the mounting surface and installed a new brass and rubber sealed water plug that seals the hole completely. Did it all in a single afternoon after school that saterday dad was going to check and see what its issue was. I told him it was done already and handed him the old plug and informed him the coolant and the transmission would had been changed and stopped off. He couldnt believe his teenager did in and after noon what had been stumping him for nearly 2 and a half years oddly enough the oil never entered the coolant passages but the coolant filled the tranny
How much does that sprocket weigh by itself?
I’d give my right arm for that 100t puller! Nice to see anyhoo..
Oo man, I know that is a nice press. 😁👍
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Are you going to blast the sprockets?
Clearly the drive sprocket pop was edited out cuz you screamed like a little girl didn't you Kyle