In a world where illogic, confusion, tumult and chaos reigns, we can find 15 minutes of shelter in Squatch's shop... an island of mechanical perfection.
VERY personable as always! A true pleasure to see your diligent progress without obnoxious music or foul language. You and your dad are a class acts on TH-cam. I really appreciate all the extra time you dedicate to filming and editing for our pleasure. I look forward to meeting you both during the Pioneer Power Swap Meet at LeSueur April 23-25 this year.
Somewhere somebody is glad facemasks are required right now as they dig thru 70 YEARS of dust to locate a part they were once told is in that back corner of the warehouse. I bet that washer thickness is the same as the wear on the shifting lever. Thank you for these Videos Please keep them up.
Had my first Covid vaccination on Sunday, new Squatch video complete with Cosmolene, life doesn't get much better than that. EDIT: I'm sorry I posted this comment. It was just intended to be appreciative of Squatchs' video, and not to attract stupid responses derived from "social media"
@@flexairz nonsense. No vaccine changes anyone’s DNA. The corn modified to withstand weed killer is actually modified DNA and you eat it every day. Misinformation is a pandemic now.
@@flexairzstop with the bullshit people are losing family members to coronavirus. This this disinformation is very dangerous Think before you comment .
@@waynecummins9713 - The only disinformation out there is from the media and the government who has no long term study effects of how the vaccine will react with the human body. Complicate this with a wildly overblown death rate and a largely unreported number of actual survivors of a pandemic with a 99.5 percent recovery rate. Regardless hopefully Americans are given the choice to take the Vaccine and the ones that want it can access it as quickly as possible.
@@kevinoscarson2941 You have no idea what you're talking about. I have a family member who works in the UK national health service . She has seen the Patients who are dieing and have died from covid. also fellow workers who she worked with have died.
The "old school" packaging foreshadowed the Cosmoline....which if we all paid due attention to Squatch's spare parts which are carefully labeled and lovingly boxed up are...drum roll, please....wrapped in "old school" packaging and slathered in Cosmoline!
@@squatch253 you have to think outside the box sometimes 😆. It's a nice square face for the stem so it was a good choice for that application for sure!
Brother Squatch, where did that introverted no nonsense northwoods mechanic and fabricator go??? When I first stumbled on your channel I felt comfy with your persona which you kept almost hidden by tons of tired iron and early 20th century repair manuals. Perhaps it was a gradual metamorphosis or the shot to your head a work re-routed some neurons but Friend, here we are in 2021 with you talking smart, cracking wise with pregnant, coy pauses before the punch line and treating us YT groupies like old friends from high school or lodge brothers just chewing the fat! You seem to have turned into the gear head version of the late TV painter Bob Ross except with cosmoline and wrenches. It is very gratifying to see you feeling this comfy and affirmed in what you do and how you do it. I think your instincts are dead on (or at least within published factory specs)!
Reading other comments, I can see I'm not the only one who feels like this. 8-) Thank you Squatches, 253 & Senior, for taking the extra time and effort to video what you do. I hope that doing this work provides the same relief and calm in these crazy days to you that watching you carefully going about this rebuild does for me. P.S. it seems that the X25? natives are getting restless, throw them a bone when you can't work on the D2 to keep them relatively quiet. 8-)) (As if that would work, ha!)
My uncles taught me long ago to remove pilot bearings by filling the hole with grease and using either the clutch alignment tool of some other suitable sized slug as a piston. One sharp rap with a hammer and the grease jacks the bearing or sleeve out. That might be a faster way than using a dremel to cut through the sleeve. Thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge!
I, as one, have seen "old -new" parts still wrapped up and coated in cozmoline, when I first bought my 1943 power wagon in 1976 it had a big hole in the single speed transfer case, so I went over to a truck parts yard in Portland Oregon and bought a brand new one "still in the cozmoline for $65.00 !! I figured a new transfer case would have cost me at least $150.00 $200.00. I think you are doing one hell of a good job. Michael said that, bye for now my friend.
78yr old equipment mechanic. Have to tell you a sad story. The mine I worked for in Nevada. Before I retired, I had an old man's job working in the tool room. I also took care of maintaining the hugh library of maintenance manuals. I came to work, after days off to find managment had ordered all of our manuals to be put in the trash. They were going to computer. I asked to get the manuals for my self, they said no. All went to the land fill.
Glad to see you do all welding outside away form any thing that will burn. I do the same. I knew someone that did welding in his shop and went to dinner when he came back there were the fire trucks hard at work, he lost everything. Made a believer out of me. I cringe watching some of these younger Utubers welding inside with all kinds flammable things laying around. Hope they have good fire insurance and no one gets hurt or killed.
Toby, update on steering lever bearing. Still available as Consolidated 93420 approx. $16.00. You have to use your zip code to find local distributor. Call and they will ship to you. Ha ! same studs I received from Florin, tough grease to get off! Herb
I kept noticing that fairly obvious weld on the coupling shaft. I don't recall if you commented on it in a previous episode. Assuming it wasn't original manufacture of the part, it could have changed the overall length and contributed to endplay, or lack thereof.
wax paper and cosmoline wraped Cat parts are ALMOST as cool as was paper and cosmoline wrapped guns and parts... Love the feeling of looking inside and knowing that someone long ago took the time to carefully pack that stuff up and store it for when it would be needed down the road...
In 1975 when I was 19yrs old I bought a 1945 H-D 74 CBI Knucklehead .. I have had cosmoline parts fever ever since then from searching out NOS non-exsistant parts and unicorn rumors and dreams of those ever elusive "new in the box and paper and cosmolin treasures" .. Some seek out gold ,, I still look for brown greased steel parts in tattered paper and cardboard boxes that can fulfill the needs of others on their journey ..
Squatch I have been thinking a lot about your remarks regarding scarcity and even irreplaceability for so many of the parts on those old machines. It occurs to me that since SpaceX builds virtually entire rocket engines from exotic alloys that way even the bigger castings that comprise and old tractor or whatever can probably now be replicated by 3D printing. At least one startup called Relativity Space is developing 3D printing technology which is approaching the ability to create an entire reusable rocket the same way. Equally important is that the technology will undoubtedly not only enable reproduction of currently unattainable parts like gears, cylinder blocks, camshafts, heads and so forth but it could be achieved more cost-effectively than ever before. Combined with NC machining I don't see why virtually any part you could possibly encounter a need for could not be replicated cost effectively by modern methods including relatively complex castings. What are your thoughts in that regard?
Funny, the only other group I know of that adores cosmoline are we gun nuts, especially cold war era. That is some very fine work you are doing, keep at er!
i see an issue that was back in episode 13 at 17:12 there is a bearing spacer missing. that may or may NOT have been in the parts manual.. its easy to miss. it goes between the Outer race of the forward bearing and the inside of the seal retainer to lock the outer race in place and stop it from spinning. removing excessive end play from the splined counter shaft that caused the probable kicking out the PTO randomly as the countershaft and front bearing slid forward.. you might be able to measure without tearing the countershaft out.. how much end play there is... so youc can machine a spacer ring to pinch the outer race tight into the bearing holder 4B3424 this removes all the end to end slop in the countershaft thermal expansion can be handled by the roller bearing on the rear. this might require some shimming or different thickness gaskets for between the bearing support and the seal support to hold the bearing OD tight in the housing.
Toby you know what would look good up there on the wall , next to your spring compressor.? Is one of those studs wrapped up in paper and cosmoline?.? One of these days you're really have to put on the wall a testament to the wonders of Cosmoline.!.!.?.? Another great episode in the can, in the old tongue.
If you have nothing to do... Did you ever finish welding the X231 shift fork back together? That was a major cliffhanger when you stopped working on that tractor!!! We need closure!
Well I took your suggestion and subscribed to mr Borks channel he is different but I enjoy his antics and he sure is hard on himself and I heard him say he is 11 miles from you that is a long trip to bale hay at least her in east central illinois
I have been a machinist for almost 40 years made a tool to make a tool to make a part many times get my best ideas between 1:00 and 3:00 am last night I dreamed of making a tool for a D2 not sure that's a good thing LoL
I would love to come over and smell that old cosmolean man that would bring back the memories of my youth wow I must have missed the part about the thrust washer if you said something about it before
It is hard to think of a reason that fork was so messed up. The ONLY 2 reasons I can think of (I used to work on cars a bit, but never touched anything like that...) is... 1. that the detent spring broke a long time ago or the detent gummed up and stopped working. So to make sure the PTO stayed in the right position they strapped the level with bungy. The detent did not stop the fork from pressing on the coupling all the time and wore it out. They then serviced it, fixing the detent, and to make up for the wear on the fork they added the washer... and that chewed up the input shaft. I am kind of surprised there is no form of throughout bearing on that coupling either (like a clutch on a car has). 2. I would think there should be something to make sure that coupling does not move on its own, like a spring behind the coupling to keep it engaged 100%. When it is disengaged by the level the detent just needs to hold the spring back and it should not need a lot of pressure to keep it engaged do to the square coupling teeth. The coupling might have drifted so it was riding against the fork and causing the wear.
Anyone else out there like me, will never own / drive a Cat., and live in a suburban apartment? Just here every upload for the hot lock on bolt action. Curious how many others.
Not an apartment, but a house. But I'll never use a CAT. But I found I like projects. And watching someone else put the money into it saves me from doing it, and I get the enjoyment of seeing it all come together. And my ADD doesn't go hunting squirrels in the middle of the project. I just get notified that it's time to watch another episode.
May I say if you want to get a super nice finish on a light lathe use a GT (as in CCGT) inserted tool. There for aluminium but give an amazing finish on steel and Stainless steel on shafts for plain bearings.
How square are the teeth on the dog clutch? Could worn teeth been exerting pressure that wore out the shift fork? Without a thrust bearing, even a slight angle on the face of those teeth could wear out the fork again.
Great progress! For the bushing...can't you mill it less deeper on the inside, to take up the space that the washer would use and get rid of the washer? Thx for your vids! :-D
Looks great! I’m overdue for a pause and shop clean up. Winter projects have taken over to the point I can’t find anything. Old parts, new parts, tools. Time for a re set.
Hi Squatch253. I would have removedet the bushing at first, just fill it with grease, put the shaft in it and hit it with a cobberhammer at the end. The bushing will come out easily. Just a hint from an old field engener in Denmark. I just love your videos
While you are shop cleaning, how a bout a shop tour featuring the tools you have and tools you prefer, how you have the shop set up; is there a rhyme or reason or did stuff just end up where it is. Are there any tools you don't have that you wished you did have or will get one day? Thanks!
@@squatch253 Thanks for the reply. Yes could definitely see the dogs coming in contact at times, as that clearance would have been reduced, both by the washer and the extra play in the fork. Not a good idea on their part putting the washer in there to keep the dogs engaged, without adjusting for the reduced clearance. I would think there must be something that limits that free float otherwise it could just float right back into the PTO input, or am I missing something. BTW the PTO on my D2 when disengaged still rotates, varying speeds, but can be stopped by hand. Likely due to oil between the shafts causing friction. Really appreciate all your hard work, on all these videos. Excellent work. Has helped me understand and adjust my D2. One can read all the books in the world on D2's, and not get the information one can get from one of your videos. Not uncommon for me to order parts from the US, and have to wait a week or 2 to get the parts. Unfortunate the machine shop is not getting to your pony motors. One would think being a paying customer, once in the queue, they would get to you sooner rather than later. Unless they are putting more profitable work ahead of you. Which seems a bit unfair. Then someone did say "Where does it say that life has to be fair" lol! Glad to see the eye is clearing up well. have not had any issues like that (TG, KOW). Have bumped my head rather hard a few times working in tight quarters. None as worse as tripping and going head first into a wooden door playing floor hockey. Still have a bump on the top of my head from that. Fortunately I seem to have a hard head. Shrunk about 1/2 an inch that day. lol! Fortunately nothing serious.
I was at an old timers house while helping him work on an old car. I new we need some gaskets cut and started breaking out the gasket material. He ask what I was doing and I told him. He said don't worry about it as he cut them on his wife's machine. He then proceeded to school me. Took out his cell phone, took a picture of the surface we need a gasket for. Then went in the house to his wife's Cricut uploaded the picture and proceeded to have it cut the gasket.
The spacer washer if needed should go between the pto shaft and the coupler not the live feed shaft and coupler! If you fix the play in the fork , moving the dog into the coupler is correct but moving the coupler closer the the pto will take away the disengagement clearance. Also the shimming spacer should be brass! Because that is the rotational wear and thrust is. So you will just re-mare up the pto shaft and coupler, if put bushing shim at live feed shaft!
@@squatch253 All of that is what I took in consideration. Who ever put the spacer between the counter shaft and coupler, pushed the coupler back into the input shaft. The rotation with disengagement between coupler and input is what marked up the end of the shaft and the inside face of coupler. Also I was taking in that in repairing, fork ware, and moving the engagement dog forward. With moving the coupler backwards. You will lose the safe disengagement space, between coupler and engagement sleeve dog. If have an oil feed hole that will be blocked by spacer. Then can drill or cut grove/hole ( like in water thermostats spacer) that will still allow flow. Also if spacer is put at counter shaft what will hold the coupler up tight to the shaft ,not to let it drift back against input shaft? Maybe when make the new bushing cut it longer so will stand proud and contact the input shaft at the spline shoulder? To hold coupler forward and allow disengagement spacing. Was just thinking. Know you can make the proper repair, just old man putting too much thought, into some one else business. But that kind of problem solving (what, why and how to fix it) thinking is part of what I have done all my life! Hard to stop doing it!
Do I remember correctly only two of the three starting motors make their way to the shop. That means one of the “tri-build blocks remains with Squatch. I wonder what is in store for the next component for rebuilding.
oh you got some downtime! Ive got a few cable front shovels, a dragline, autocar, diamond reo's and a few excavators that could use some love. Come on out!
Hey Squatch253 Another TH-camr just got himself a D4 an old one. With a blade and winch. Naturally all the tags are gone. His channel is JonathonW I was wondering if you could tell him find where the numbers are on machine to Tell what year it was. I told him about you that you was the King of Cat basically..LOL..Thank you in advance. He does alot of good things saving old iron and fixing up.. Thank you. Sir...Greatly Appreciate it..Great video...
@@squatch253 Thank You Sir. Hes a Great Guy. And he builds alot of cool stuff and safes alot of old iron like yourself. And when I watched that video. You was the first person I thought of. Sorry to bother you with this, but Johnathon seems like a realky great Guy like yourself. Thank You again Bud. Have a great evening. Cant wait to see your next video...
Repair on that fork was superb 👍 when u peeled that bush out of the shaft what was that tool u used in the Dremel or drill that looked like a really nice piece of kit 💪 I have always used a hacksaw blade to do that before 🤔
Should have sent the fork to This Old Tony so he could build it up with a hard filler. Although it probably would've been a wait. Would've been a neat collab.
Ah, I bet those salesmen are more like, "We finally get to clear out some more old stock that's just cluttering up the shelves". I've actually worked at a hose/gasket company where each square of shelf space had a price. If some part wasn't selling, it got chunked after a couple years and some part that would make us money filled its spot.
Be prepared to find that wear on the dogs will be trying to push the engagement out against the repaired fork. I am tempted to suspect that was why all those other problems had been created. This will only happen under heavy load and will be hidden from view.
Since you need to make a spacer to tighten up end clearance on the coupler could you put the spacer in the bore under the bushing. The bushing would keep the spacer tight so it couldn't move and create any excessive wear.
I thought the same as Tom. You have built up the fork to move the collar towards the shaft and if you put the washer at the other end you are moving the shaft towards the collar. Could this cause clearance issues.
That shift fork looks to be about a quarter inch thick. With the age of that steel and how much work its seen in its life, do you think the weld might have weakened the steel? It doesn't look to be a hardened piece? I know thos machine isn't going to see the life that it once did, but do you think that fork could be weak enough to break?
Squatch, since the engine has been sitting for months since you built it, ¿will there be issues of surface rust on the cylinders or even gunk on the injection pump?, or everything just has a coat of light oil waiting for the final fluids?
In a world where illogic, confusion, tumult and chaos reigns, we can find 15 minutes of shelter in Squatch's shop... an island of mechanical perfection.
An oasis of order in a desert of dysfunction, the way I'd put it.
Love that he is a perfectionist of old metal built when things were built to last by real craftsmen. Nice switch in our throw away crazy world.
You could always chip away at x231 until parts arrive haha
VERY personable as always! A true pleasure to see your diligent progress without obnoxious music or foul language. You and your dad are a class acts on TH-cam. I really appreciate all the extra time you dedicate to filming and editing for our pleasure. I look forward to meeting you both during the Pioneer Power Swap Meet at LeSueur April 23-25 this year.
I love the smell of cosmolene in the morning
yasssssss - whether it's on a gun or NOS parts!
The unwrapping of that candy looks so delicious I bet it makes Tootsie roll jealous
Somewhere somebody is glad facemasks are required right now as they dig thru 70 YEARS of dust to locate a part they were once told is in that back corner of the warehouse. I bet that washer thickness is the same as the wear on the shifting lever. Thank you for these Videos Please keep them up.
As you unwrapped that stud I was thinking "Mmmm tootsie roll"😃
Yep, oowie gooie, rich and chewy
Had my first Covid vaccination on Sunday, new Squatch video complete with Cosmolene, life doesn't get much better than that.
EDIT: I'm sorry I posted this comment. It was just intended to be appreciative of Squatchs' video, and not to attract stupid responses derived from "social media"
It does, without the dna changing vax. Good luck with this lottery.
@@flexairz nonsense. No vaccine changes anyone’s DNA. The corn modified to withstand weed killer is actually modified DNA and you eat it every day. Misinformation is a pandemic now.
@@flexairzstop with the bullshit people are losing family members to coronavirus. This this disinformation is very dangerous Think before you comment .
@@waynecummins9713 - The only disinformation out there is from the media and the government who has no long term study effects of how the vaccine will react with the human body. Complicate this with a wildly overblown death rate and a largely unreported number of actual survivors of a pandemic with a 99.5 percent recovery rate. Regardless hopefully Americans are given the choice to take the Vaccine and the ones that want it can access it as quickly as possible.
@@kevinoscarson2941 You have no idea what you're talking about. I have a family member who works in the UK national health service . She has seen the Patients who are dieing and have died from covid. also fellow workers who she worked with have died.
The "old school" packaging foreshadowed the Cosmoline....which if we all paid due attention to Squatch's spare parts which are carefully labeled and lovingly boxed up are...drum roll, please....wrapped in "old school" packaging and slathered in Cosmoline!
Creative use of a valve grinder to clean up the face of that shaft!
@@squatch253 you have to think outside the box sometimes 😆. It's a nice square face for the stem so it was a good choice for that application for sure!
It make me smile when I saw that, good idea. I'm stealing this one to put in my box of tricks!👍👍
Brother Squatch, where did that introverted no nonsense northwoods mechanic and fabricator go??? When I first stumbled on your channel I felt comfy with your persona which you kept almost hidden by tons of tired iron and early 20th century repair manuals.
Perhaps it was a gradual metamorphosis or the shot to your head a work re-routed some neurons but Friend, here we are in 2021 with you talking smart, cracking wise with pregnant, coy pauses before the punch line and treating us YT groupies like old friends from high school or lodge brothers just chewing the fat! You seem to have turned into the gear head version of the late TV painter Bob Ross except with cosmoline and wrenches.
It is very gratifying to see you feeling this comfy and affirmed in what you do and how you do it. I think your instincts are dead on (or at least within published factory specs)!
Your level of detail is commendable. Well done Sir.
Looking forward to the day the PTO is engaged to power some implement.
Thanks for sharing.
Imagine the d2 running a mix mill. That would be quite a sight
"Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" COSMOLINE !!!
Yep, you make gaskets the way I learned from my Pap. Another great video!
Spectacular job on the fork !
Still would be a great t-shirt. Squatch holding Cat parts and a Soviet rifle with the caption "all the best stuff comes covered in cosmoline"
Reading other comments, I can see I'm not the only one who feels like this. 8-) Thank you Squatches, 253 & Senior, for taking the extra time and effort to video what you do. I hope that doing this work provides the same relief and calm in these crazy days to you that watching you carefully going about this rebuild does for me.
P.S. it seems that the X25? natives are getting restless, throw them a bone when you can't work on the D2 to keep them relatively quiet. 8-)) (As if that would work, ha!)
Nothing better than Cosmoline!!! Another great video!!!
#5J1113, possibly the most loved D2 on the planet !
My uncles taught me long ago to remove pilot bearings by filling the hole with grease and using either the clutch alignment tool of some other suitable sized slug as a piston. One sharp rap with a hammer and the grease jacks the bearing or sleeve out. That might be a faster way than using a dremel to cut through the sleeve. Thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge!
Also work with bread.
Good time to finish the X231 shift fork....
I, as one, have seen "old -new" parts still wrapped up and coated in cozmoline, when I first bought my 1943 power wagon in 1976 it had a big hole in the single speed transfer case, so I went over to a truck parts yard in Portland Oregon and bought a brand new one "still in the cozmoline for $65.00 !! I figured a new transfer case would have cost me at least $150.00 $200.00. I think you are doing one hell of a good job. Michael said that, bye for now my friend.
78yr old equipment mechanic. Have to tell you a sad story. The mine I worked for in Nevada. Before I retired, I had an old man's job working in the tool room. I also took care of maintaining the hugh library of maintenance manuals. I came to work, after days off to find managment had ordered all of our manuals to be put in the trash. They were going to computer. I asked to get the manuals for my self, they said no. All went to the land fill.
Your work ethics and your attention to detail are second to none....thanks as always. On to the next video
Glad to see you do all welding outside away form any thing that will burn. I do the same. I knew someone that did welding in his shop and went to dinner when he came back there were the fire trucks hard at work, he lost everything. Made a believer out of me. I cringe watching some of these younger Utubers welding inside with all kinds flammable things laying around. Hope they have good fire insurance and no one gets hurt or killed.
Toby, update on steering lever bearing. Still available as Consolidated 93420 approx. $16.00. You have to use your zip code to find local distributor. Call and they will ship to you.
Ha ! same studs I received from Florin, tough grease to get off! Herb
I kept noticing that fairly obvious weld on the coupling shaft. I don't recall if you commented on it in a previous episode. Assuming it wasn't original manufacture of the part, it could have changed the overall length and contributed to endplay, or lack thereof.
wax paper and cosmoline wraped Cat parts are ALMOST as cool as was paper and cosmoline wrapped guns and parts... Love the feeling of looking inside and knowing that someone long ago took the time to carefully pack that stuff up and store it for when it would be needed down the road...
Who the hell can downvote someone like Squatch... I mean his work and integrity are flawless and his videos content is downright awesome!
Your eye is really coming along nicely. Just like this project.
In 1975 when I was 19yrs old I bought a 1945 H-D 74 CBI Knucklehead .. I have had cosmoline parts fever ever since then from searching out NOS non-exsistant parts and unicorn rumors and dreams of those ever elusive "new in the box and paper and cosmolin treasures" .. Some seek out gold ,, I still look for brown greased steel parts in tattered paper and cardboard boxes that can fulfill the needs of others on their journey ..
Squatch I have been thinking a lot about your remarks regarding scarcity and even irreplaceability for so many of the parts on those old machines.
It occurs to me that since SpaceX builds virtually entire rocket engines from exotic alloys that way even the bigger castings that comprise and old tractor or whatever can probably now be replicated by 3D printing.
At least one startup called Relativity Space is developing 3D printing technology which is approaching the ability to create an entire reusable rocket the same way.
Equally important is that the technology will undoubtedly not only enable reproduction of currently unattainable parts like gears, cylinder blocks, camshafts, heads and so forth but it could be achieved more cost-effectively than ever before.
Combined with NC machining I don't see why virtually any part you could possibly encounter a need for could not be replicated cost effectively by modern methods including relatively complex castings.
What are your thoughts in that regard?
Funny, the only other group I know of that adores cosmoline are we gun nuts, especially cold war era. That is some very fine work you are doing, keep at er!
i see an issue that was back in episode 13 at 17:12 there is a bearing spacer missing. that may or may NOT have been in the parts manual.. its easy to miss. it goes between the Outer race of the forward bearing and the inside of the seal retainer to lock the outer race in place and stop it from spinning. removing excessive end play from the splined counter shaft that caused the probable kicking out the PTO randomly as the countershaft and front bearing slid forward.. you might be able to measure without tearing the countershaft out.. how much end play there is... so youc can machine a spacer ring to pinch the outer race tight into the bearing holder 4B3424 this removes all the end to end slop in the countershaft thermal expansion can be handled by the roller bearing on the rear. this might require some shimming or different thickness gaskets for between the bearing support and the seal support to hold the bearing OD tight in the housing.
I love the small of cosmoline in the morning...
Toby you know what would look good up there on the wall , next to your spring compressor.? Is one of those studs wrapped up in paper and cosmoline?.? One of these days you're really have to put on the wall a testament to the wonders of Cosmoline.!.!.?.? Another great episode in the can, in the old tongue.
Squatch probably has a tub of cosmoline in the fridge.
Good aviation snips work better than scissors for gasket paper
Setting at home before work with no power other than a generator. You videos are a welcome diversion.
Sometime you just have to clean the shop to get more parts in and no I did not say waiting for parts to get in lol. Have a great day.
If you have nothing to do... Did you ever finish welding the X231 shift fork back together? That was a major cliffhanger when you stopped working on that tractor!!! We need closure!
Well I took your suggestion and subscribed to mr Borks channel he is different but I enjoy his antics and he sure is hard on himself and I heard him say he is 11 miles from you that is a long trip to bale hay at least her in east central illinois
Love this channel. I'm sure Senior has something on the burner. LOL
CSI: CAT. You have unique knowledge of what can, will, and might go awry in a machine.
You just love that cosmoline, nothing wrong with that though. I’ll wait patiently until next time. Thanks for the video.
As soon as I saw the hand grinder I thought 'UhOh, stay away from the pistons'. Lol
How about painting the clutch lever where you did weld repair? Can't leave it raw steel.
You make it look so easy,,,,enjoyed watching tonight,,awaiting the next episode,,sit back have a coke and a smile,,or ☕️☕️🍩🍩
I have been a machinist for almost 40 years made a tool to make a tool to make a part many times get my best ideas between 1:00 and 3:00 am last night I dreamed of making a tool for a D2 not sure that's a good thing LoL
I would love to come over and smell that old cosmolean man that would bring back the memories of my youth wow I must have missed the part about the thrust washer if you said something about it before
It is hard to think of a reason that fork was so messed up. The ONLY 2 reasons I can think of (I used to work on cars a bit, but never touched anything like that...) is...
1. that the detent spring broke a long time ago or the detent gummed up and stopped working. So to make sure the PTO stayed in the right position they strapped the level with bungy. The detent did not stop the fork from pressing on the coupling all the time and wore it out. They then serviced it, fixing the detent, and to make up for the wear on the fork they added the washer... and that chewed up the input shaft. I am kind of surprised there is no form of throughout bearing on that coupling either (like a clutch on a car has).
2. I would think there should be something to make sure that coupling does not move on its own, like a spring behind the coupling to keep it engaged 100%. When it is disengaged by the level the detent just needs to hold the spring back and it should not need a lot of pressure to keep it engaged do to the square coupling teeth. The coupling might have drifted so it was riding against the fork and causing the wear.
All this talk about worn out shift forks gave me some déjà vu of x231.
Excellent video
Anyone else out there like me, will never own / drive a Cat., and live in a suburban apartment? Just here every upload for the hot lock on bolt action. Curious how many others.
Not an apartment, but a house. But I'll never use a CAT. But I found I like projects. And watching someone else put the money into it saves me from doing it, and I get the enjoyment of seeing it all come together. And my ADD doesn't go hunting squirrels in the middle of the project. I just get notified that it's time to watch another episode.
@@cheeto4493 Thanks, I got here because I like tanks. Over the top restoration / things mechanical being well done kept me here
May I say if you want to get a super nice finish on a light lathe use a GT (as in CCGT) inserted tool. There for aluminium but give an amazing finish on steel and Stainless steel on shafts for plain bearings.
How square are the teeth on the dog clutch? Could worn teeth been exerting pressure that wore out the shift fork? Without a thrust bearing, even a slight angle on the face of those teeth could wear out the fork again.
Great work buddy. I immediately thought of the belt pulleys on the Farmalls. Looking forward to the next one!
Great progress!
For the bushing...can't you mill it less deeper on the inside, to take up the space that the washer would use and get rid of the washer?
Thx for your vids!
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I wish i had a experimental Minneapolis too work on🤔🤔👍👍
Take some time for you and the family!
A little time on mini mo?
Looks great!
I’m overdue for a pause and shop clean up. Winter projects have taken over to the point I can’t find anything. Old parts, new parts, tools. Time for a re set.
Thanks again for the treats!
J.F🇨🇦
Hi Squatch253.
I would have removedet the bushing at first, just fill it with grease, put the shaft in it and hit it with a cobberhammer at the end. The bushing will come out easily.
Just a hint from an old field engener in Denmark.
I just love your videos
Love the smell of cosmoline!
Project Binky has hand-built brackets and Sqatch has hand-built gaskets. My engineering nerdism is satisfied.
While you are shop cleaning, how a bout a shop tour featuring the tools you have and tools you prefer, how you have the shop set up; is there a rhyme or reason or did stuff just end up where it is. Are there any tools you don't have that you wished you did have or will get one day? Thanks!
I've been following the project and progress, love the job your doing. 👌😎👍looking forward to the next video!
That eye is looking pretty good. Probably time to go borrow Bork's greasy pickle fork and have a go at the other side of that pickup.
So is the fork a forging or a casting?
Might as well get started on those final drives. :-)
@@jolo7965 Not sure how many people would watch a 2 pixel live stream. I think that is about what both our internets could handle. LOL
When you put it all together, can you show what holds the coupling shaft to the counter shaft so it does not float back into the pto coupling. Thanks.
@@squatch253 Thanks for the reply. Yes could definitely see the dogs coming in contact at times, as that clearance would have been reduced, both by the washer and the extra play in the fork. Not a good idea on their part putting the washer in there to keep the dogs engaged, without adjusting for the reduced clearance. I would think there must be something that limits that free float otherwise it could just float right back into the PTO input, or am I missing something. BTW the PTO on my D2 when disengaged still rotates, varying speeds, but can be stopped by hand. Likely due to oil between the shafts causing friction.
Really appreciate all your hard work, on all these videos. Excellent work. Has helped me understand and adjust my D2. One can read all the books in the world on D2's, and not get the information one can get from one of your videos.
Not uncommon for me to order parts from the US, and have to wait a week or 2 to get the parts. Unfortunate the machine shop is not getting to your pony motors. One would think being a paying customer, once in the queue, they would get to you sooner rather than later. Unless they are putting more profitable work ahead of you. Which seems a bit unfair. Then someone did say "Where does it say that life has to be fair" lol!
Glad to see the eye is clearing up well. have not had any issues like that (TG, KOW). Have bumped my head rather hard a few times working in tight quarters. None as worse as tripping and going head first into a wooden door playing floor hockey. Still have a bump on the top of my head from that. Fortunately I seem to have a hard head. Shrunk about 1/2 an inch that day. lol! Fortunately nothing serious.
Eye is looking alot better!!!!
When i makes a gasket , i use a steel ball, to make the holes, it is easier than your way.
I was at an old timers house while helping him work on an old car. I new we need some gaskets cut and started breaking out the gasket material. He ask what I was doing and I told him. He said don't worry about it as he cut them on his wife's machine. He then proceeded to school me. Took out his cell phone, took a picture of the surface we need a gasket for. Then went in the house to his wife's Cricut uploaded the picture and proceeded to have it cut the gasket.
Perseverance Rover landing mars or Squatch assembling D2 - Caterpilar won :D
The spacer washer if needed should go between the pto shaft and the coupler not the live feed shaft and coupler! If you fix the play in the fork , moving the dog into the coupler is correct but moving the coupler closer the the pto will take away the disengagement clearance. Also the shimming spacer should be brass! Because that is the rotational wear and thrust is. So you will just re-mare up the pto shaft and coupler, if put bushing shim at live feed shaft!
@@squatch253 All of that is what I took in consideration. Who ever put the spacer between the counter shaft and coupler, pushed the coupler back into the input shaft. The rotation with disengagement between coupler and input is what marked up the end of the shaft and the inside face of coupler. Also I was taking in that in repairing, fork ware, and moving the engagement dog forward. With moving the coupler backwards. You will lose the safe disengagement space, between coupler and engagement sleeve dog. If have an oil feed hole that will be blocked by spacer. Then can drill or cut grove/hole ( like in water thermostats spacer) that will still allow flow. Also if spacer is put at counter shaft what will hold the coupler up tight to the shaft ,not to let it drift back against input shaft? Maybe when make the new bushing cut it longer so will stand proud and contact the input shaft at the spline shoulder? To hold coupler forward and allow disengagement spacing. Was just thinking. Know you can make the proper repair, just old man putting too much thought, into some one else business. But that kind of problem solving (what, why and how to fix it) thinking is part of what I have done all my life! Hard to stop doing it!
Do I remember correctly only two of the three starting motors make their way to the shop. That means one of the “tri-build blocks remains with Squatch. I wonder what is in store for the next component for rebuilding.
Theres just one signature quote missing "I made a tool" :)
When can you come to Oregon and work on my T-20 . Mabe some day, can"t wait till you get that D2 running, great job .
This was great video squatch253! So far the end results are perfect. And as for cleaning up the shop I'm in the process of doing so now.
oh you got some downtime! Ive got a few cable front shovels, a dragline, autocar, diamond reo's and a few excavators that could use some love. Come on out!
Morning it seems like they didn't use a gasket last time
What happened to the X231 project? Did the shift fork get finished, or did I miss it somewhere?
He has stated he ran out of steam. It really is a massively greater project than say the Farmall.
Hey Squatch253 Another TH-camr just got himself a D4 an old one. With a blade and winch. Naturally all the tags are gone. His channel is JonathonW I was wondering if you could tell him find where the numbers are on machine to Tell what year it was. I told him about you that you was the King of Cat basically..LOL..Thank you in advance. He does alot of good things saving old iron and fixing up.. Thank you. Sir...Greatly Appreciate it..Great video...
@@squatch253 Thank You Sir. Hes a Great Guy. And he builds alot of cool stuff and safes alot of old iron like yourself. And when I watched that video. You was the first person I thought of. Sorry to bother you with this, but Johnathon seems like a realky great Guy like yourself. Thank You again Bud. Have a great evening. Cant wait to see your next video...
Great job as always 👌
Repair on that fork was superb 👍 when u peeled that bush out of the shaft what was that tool u used in the Dremel or drill that looked like a really nice piece of kit 💪 I have always used a hacksaw blade to do that before 🤔
@@squatch253 certainly looks like a worthwhile attachment to have ty👍
Should have sent the fork to This Old Tony so he could build it up with a hard filler. Although it probably would've been a wait. Would've been a neat collab.
Seems there is alot of the Minne-Mo in the background as he was saying he had nothing to do.
What do you use for parts cleaning and rust converting/removing?
Ah, I bet those salesmen are more like, "We finally get to clear out some more old stock that's just cluttering up the shelves". I've actually worked at a hose/gasket company where each square of shelf space had a price. If some part wasn't selling, it got chunked after a couple years and some part that would make us money filled its spot.
So what's going on with your Pony motors that you want to put on your machine
Be prepared to find that wear on the dogs will be trying to push the engagement out against the repaired fork. I am tempted to suspect that was why all those other problems had been created. This will only happen under heavy load and will be hidden from view.
????shouldn't you put the spacer washer in the bushing end between the input shaft and the coupler????
To keep the spacing right !!
Nice job😊👍👍👍👍
That is where the wear is so it should be, unless the fork was adjusted to move the locking collar back the same amount.
@@ericpaul4575 yes Exactly
@@squatch253 I wondered about that !! Hummm 👍👍
Will you press the bush in then turn it out?
6:52: Of course the dogs are lined up on the input shaft! You expect anything else from Squatch?!?!?
Since you need to make a spacer to tighten up end clearance on the coupler could you put the spacer in the bore under the bushing. The bushing would keep the spacer tight so it couldn't move and create any excessive wear.
Ah something I missed. Been here since you started your channel used many of your tips and tricks thank you.
I thought the same as Tom. You have built up the fork to move the collar towards the shaft and if you put the washer at the other end you are moving the shaft towards the collar. Could this cause clearance issues.
Heard good things about ya so I subbed .
That shift fork looks to be about a quarter inch thick. With the age of that steel and how much work its seen in its life, do you think the weld might have weakened the steel? It doesn't look to be a hardened piece? I know thos machine isn't going to see the life that it once did, but do you think that fork could be weak enough to break?
Squatch, since the engine has been sitting for months since you built it, ¿will there be issues of surface rust on the cylinders or even gunk on the injection pump?, or everything just has a coat of light oil waiting for the final fluids?