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- Only watch this if you like big bore V8s and you've got good speakers with the volume cranked right up! Cab ride on the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia near the roadhouse. If you've ever wondered how long it takes to get up to speed @ 80 tons with 600 HP this will give you some idea. More vids to follow later.
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Still remember the cold morning s in winter just before sunup when you kick her guts and let the bags get air while drinking a nice cup of coffee outside and having a cigarette. It haunts me for over 40 years already. Would love to go to Australia and make a trip as a „tourist driver“! Childhood dream
Even after all this years this sound is a sound of pure power.
Especially this one, being a v8 cat.
I have seen lots of custom American owner operator trucks over on my side of the pond and let me tell you, none of them come close to how cool and physically capable your truck is! Thanks for sharing!
I've been as low as 2.8 mpg and as high as 5.6 mpg with 2 trailers. The quad trailer roadtrains with Cummins K19 @ 180 tons can go down to 1.5 mpg.
I drove the east coast for 8 years. Those roads never stop calling you. Good on you, trucker!
Man that's a great sounding engine. I love the sound of the V8. I almost had an 3408 in my 1981 Highway Hilton, but didn't because I couldn't get a Jake Brake. The scenery looks almost like going through parts of Arizona, Nevada and Utah.
Love these air starters and engines with a lot of displacement. Nice KW ! Greetings from south Germany
I love this video. I just set the monitor to full screen and rode along. Sure reminds me of my trucking days 30 years ago. Weird driving on the left side though! Keep 'em coming!
I like the driver's style. Moderate revs only, using the torque and clean simple gearchanges. Easy on the vehicle, driver - and fuel!
progressive shifting
left side is the "right" side :)
Nope, Jimmy's correct.
Grantsimms it’s Australia we drive on left side steering on right side
Rule of thumb News Now Adirondacks, always put the driver to the middle of the road and the passenger on the edge.
Great vid....thanks. That sound makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck! It also makes our 44 tonne 540hp fully automatic Iveco Stralis look like a ballet dancer's truck! John.
Excellent excellent video!.....wish all the "in cabs" videos would be made in this format: no music,little or no talking,no air horn or wind noise. All you want to hear is the sound of the engine while the driver goes through all the gears!..... That big 3408 just sounds beautiful!!
Thanks for posting!
Ahh, thanks man! Got my fix of CAT V-8 power! The 3406 and the current C-15 and C-16 have long ago replaced the 3408 out here in California. I love the song of these engines too, but it's hard to beat the sound of a CAT V-8! That's quite the rig you've got there!
Прошло 16 лет с момента, как вы оставили здесь свой комментарий, и у вас давно исчезли Cat C15, Cummins N14 и Detroit 60 series. Теперь вам приходится довольствоваться электронным мусором с экологией. Впрочем, в России американские грузовики тоже вымирают. Их прекратили ввозить в 2012 году. Я бы с удовольствием купил бы американский грузовик, особенно с pre emission engine.
never thought i would like the sound of anyyhing as much as the old 8v92 gm but that really sounds nice good luck mate
Lovely twisted road :D and this traffic is killing me :)
You can still get a KW with airstart in Australia if you want. They recently made a batch of tri-drive twin-steer KWs with QSK 19 liter Cummins with airstarts.
I've seen your truck out on the paddock many times over the years, a tidy unit for its age.
Gotta love the old 3408's.
Many fond memories of them.
They were the absolute ducks guts back in the early 80's.
I wonder where they all are now?
Co-ords had a few of them, Lloyd Davies, Barry Cullen, Bob Cepus, Strates Haulage, Selmans are a few names that spring to mind that all owned 3408's.
Great stuff.
I can hear every single power puls through my subwoofer that is amazing!
Cool vid! I'd love to visit Australia sometime. Thanks for the vid.
love the sound of a v8 working hard. great vid.gm16v149
I'd love to come live in Australia. In some ways like the Americas of the 50's. Dreamed about it for several years, but discovered Oz too late in life, and now too old. Got an imigration cut off age of 46 there, and I'm 52. Damn good welder and metal fabricator, been doing it for 30 years, your country says it wants people with my skill, but just past the numbers to come there.
Maybe in the next life.
Great vids you post, keep 'em up, I love 'em.
That is one powerhouse of a Kenny.
In Australia you work your way up from light rigid to heavy rigid to semi-trailer then multi-combination (B-Double and road train). You've got to take a test for each class. You can't just jump straight into a road train.
Incorrect, you can go directly from MR to HC, then after 12 months hit MC. Essentially within 12 months you can be carting triples.
Gday .. totally agree with "Diesel Beema" Good driving habit!! Cheers mate.
"I like the driver's style. Moderate revs only, using the torque and clean simple gearchanges. Easy on the vehicle, driver - and fuel!'"
another awesome aussie truckie vid.***** thnx 4 the ride!!..Kool cab over KW btw.
I love the sound of this monster v8 stright piped, I drive a 379 Pete 500 HP c15 cat 13 speed pulling a 50 ft 8 axle in Michigan with 100,000 lbs of steel on deck I know the feeling
Good to see this video again...
I´m still amazed by this video, the last time I drove a 3408 was in Canada. It was an ´85 Freightliner, 110" BBC Coe. We had a good mechanic who could tune those things by ear and a heatmarker. My guess is that the thing made around 750 Hp. Btw. it also had a Fuller RTO 15spd. and 2 speed rearends. It was built to pull super `B`s in western Canada, and could also run express runs with produce out of California to Canada.
haha wow!
quite incredible, those things scared the crap outa me when I went from Bris to Melb :P
I'd love for that engine start to be me 6 am weekly alarm ringtone.
I never tire of listening to that V8 rumble. Guess you must be on the Trans Access Road. I have some family who lived in Adelaide and are now in Kapunda.
"you had me at hello"
the noise of the air starter was enough for me!
my couson had one believe it only one in nz pulled like a train all good stuff keep it up
Beautiful sound
Another great video , great work.
I love the sound of those air starters probably scares the crap out of people not paying attention.
This was one of my first vids and if I did it again I'd use a camera tripod or something.
If you like the sound of the engine, check out my vids Big V8s and Mackjack's Exhaust Note Challenge, they're in HD.
very nice sound off the big v8
the best v8 diesel engine sound..
love the sound
I like that airstart. Here in Finland I have been last seen airstart in 60`s M A N long nose.
I noticed and enjoyed that as well.
must admit that you can't beat the sound of a v8 be it a cat or cummins or mack or even a merc.
That's right, but with CAT's special tool on the fuel rack on the pump you can increase both massively, just got to fine tune it for smoke and fuel economy.
love ya trucks incab on the nullarbor stretch and all kenworth trucks cool mate keep em up
holy flat terrain... nice shifting and nice truck
You're right about the 3408E - it and it's bigger brother, the 3508E, power Caterpillar's biggest mine haul trucks, the 777C and the 793C!
I'm not a fan of the spicer box, you hit them cogs sweet and I absolutely love the cat, thanks mate.
Hey Donk you're on the wrong side of the road. lol Great video.
Ex Backpacker.....been along this road!!!! Awesome!!
Great video..
The open road..what a ride..
It was put on the road in 1980 but Kenworth had it for a while to show off the engine which was the first 3408 in a KW in Australia. It's had a major cab and chassis re-furbish over the last couple of years
Mate, you'd leave a lot of the guys with the modern electronic C16 600 Cats in ya dust with that thing! What an awesome drive ya did for us... that truck is just amazing! The 45' trailers are about the biggest that you can go, aren't they?
They are 3.73s which is a bit high for 2 trailers but it handles it OK.
The engine used to smoke but we changed it to B-series fuel injection so it is a lot better now.
It would look very blurry in full screen !
My last vids are in HD and you can watch in full screen and the resolution is sharp.
This was one of my first vids and I should have used a tripod.
Love the air starter!!!
I do know my Cat engines, I´ve worked for a smaller Canadian outfit where we had 3 of them, and we also had 2 big bore Cummins KTA-600. we were pulling Super B´s from Alberta to Vancouver BC on a regular basis. 63.500kg´s GVW --
nice driving mate my old man has been a truck driver all his life and i plan to do the same u like the detroits
My truck is Lloyd Davies old truck......first KW with a 3408 in Australia. We made it into a Co-ord spec a few years ago. Strait's truck belongs to a bloke in Perth, a guy from Geelong and a guy in Pt Hedland own a couple of ex Co-ord's, I'd say most of them are still working. There's quite a few in Victoria.
Great vid!
Great Video! so exciting
this endless road,
thanks for ride.
Yeah, 637's, 988's and I believe the D8's still star this marvelous engine. I'm into those too! Hope they don't go the way of the 1693's and D series' (D432's, 346's, etc.) Hard to get over a CAT!
I have driven that road Melbourne to Perth !! and the Stuart highway all the way to Darwin and some of the road train dirt tracks I want to live there in the NT one day .
@llib245 Yeah mate and the steering wheel is on the wrong side too, and I get too much sleep if anything, but thank you for your concern.
Haven't measured it but 520 HP at the wheels straight after engine rebuild, more power now with 70,000 kms since rebuild
@scorelvor The step down ratio between the drive shaft and the wheels. so if my truck has 3:7 diff. ratios, then the drive shaft turns at say 1600 rpm and the wheels turn 3.7 times slower thru the diffs.
Yeah, Mack had a problem with the V8 here as well, especially when they went to higher HP from 500 to 610. It seems you either got a good one or a bad one. Strangely, they seemed better at heavy weights and stuffed up when they were on lighter loads. Scania also have had reliability problems over here, you rarely see them on roadtrain work any more. But on B Doubles at 62 tonnes, yes.
sounds like a spicer gearbox?
great vid
nothing beats the sound of a great V8 and the turbo whistle
What torque figure did these 3408's put out?
What's diff ratios were the most common?
cool sound! my 660 volvo fh16 sounds fine but this v8 is nice! i sure like to drive in australia sometime.the airstarter is cool...this is different driving then in europe...
The air tank for the air starter is completely independant from the normal air tanks, even if you run out of air overnight the starter air tank holds enough air for weeks.
Very cool... Lots of power.. But man even with 600hp.. You can really hear the weight.. Good driver too... Not his first bbq... Great sound...also.. Well done.
Is 15/40 run down there as oil as well? or does it get too runny?
We call them Bull Lights for the big lights, they are Lightforce brand & they have a long range, just right for picking out the bulls in the north.
Further south we only have to worry about kangaroos & emus which are a lot smaller.
By the way, sounds awesome with the sub rockin' the bass with this motor :)
@m648mvp No, the V8s use a Caterpillar Brakesaver which is a hydraulic retarder.
Oh my the memories of those roads in Oz. I drove half way round beautiful Australia. The road that nearly killed me was the Stuart Highway. Asked the misses do you see any cars (pulled over for a break) no she says, so I pull out at that split second a road train comes screaming past. Those beasts can fly when not interrupted by a Mitsubishi 4x4. Would haves ended up like all the dead Roos and camels on the side of the road. If your that driver SORRY. it was the Wife not me 😔
@4fun2w It disappeared but I saw it being built up in Adelaide and it had twin compound turbos and yes it was putting out around the HP you mentioned. I saw it a few times, it was quick. You wouldn't get away with that these days.
The Bore looks even bigger sitting in a Rig 10 feet off the road. Looks like you were coasting along at about $1.30?
Actually they were in US trucks first because the guy who originally bought this truck was in the US and saw these working and wanted one. KW Australia were thinking about it and later built it for him. (This truck was the first KW in Aus with the 3408). They built about 30 in Australia but a lot more were put in KWs & Peterbilts in the US.
Just pullin your leg,Good video
scania's do have roadtrains in australia. esprance freight and O.D transport have loads of them
was that air start on thing?
What do you call the big driving lights on your bull bar? Here in Alaska we call them Moose lights.
They do sound good, there's still a lot of V8 Macks in Australia, not so many left in the U.S. I think.
They're all sixes now.
i know a bloke at home in SW vic with one of these, got the long wheel base like yours, just has a single 6 inch pipe and does it thump, used to do a lot of road train work but unsure what its up to now
Well, they make 'em in the U.S.!
But they're more common in earthmoving and marine. There's still a few around over here on the highway.
@leokimvideo - "... look that dead straight road, ..." According to the description accompanying the video this was taken in South Australia. On the same road (Eyre Highway) in Western Australia is, apparently, the longest straight stretch of road in the world. It is 90 miles of absolutely gun barrel straight road. Just for good measure, the railway line just north of the highway has a stretch that is 350 miles dead straight.
That starter reminds me of the Stephen king movie maximum overdrive.
dam I love the air starter
Don't think there is any tbh, I guess there is no starter motor and or battery to go dead
But if you have an air leak then you also cant start the engine
Just makes me think straight off - “Mad Max II” Road Warrior,
that sound
They make them for the mining and oil industries in the US and Australia and you can option them on a new KW in Australia but they are expensive.
Depends what state you are in.
WA & NT is 100 k's
SA, Qld, NSW 90 k's
Trucks bigger than triples usually have special conditions.
@blobby1972 The starter air tank is independant from the main air tanks. The starter air tank holds enough air to start the truck even if the truck hasn't run for weeks. If it runs out of air because of a problem, you run an air line to a couple of tyres to fill the tank. Much easier than if you had a flat battery with electric start.
was that air power i heard to start the engine???
Hey... Do you need a special driver licens to drive a road train in australia??
hahahahaha
it's rumbling my floor.
what better way to pass the boring time of driving than to film it. gives you something to do. better than falling asleep
@gm16v149 right :) as good as a jake or what ? what kind of hp is she kicking out ?
Spicer gearbox?
hey... sounds good...
how many hours are your driving on an normal day??
Hi,
what is the songs name at the end? :)
That's right, you can't get a Jake on the V8 but it's got the Cat Brakesaver which is a hydraulic retarder, it has about the same amount of engine braking.
Only problem is, it's heavy and an expensive option. But it's quiet and reliable.
@scorelvor Diff ratios? 3.7:1 Eaton diffs.