Reviving A 1969 Kenworth Cabover, V8 Detroit 2 Stroke
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Welcome to the channel everyone, if you're new here my name's Jake and in this episode I bring home a couple of new old trucks, one of them being this 1969 Seattle cabover kenworth with a 8v71N Detroit and see if I can get it running, so sit back and enjoy!
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It's not junk bud, just know we appreciate you and the time you put into the videos.
Thanks mate I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
Gday Jake, the smile says it all, it started up clean which was very surprising and sounded strong, Great job mate, cheers
Hey Matty! Hard not to smile messing with these old things! The worst thing is the engine seems to run better than the 692 in the w model! It certainly burns less oil so far!😂
Sounds solid, definitely an upgrade on the 6V71 ! Hey Matty hope you’re doing well
Man i love cabovers good on ya mate for saving the old girl
That cow catcher on the front is badass number 1. Number 2 flat black mad Maxx that one
Thanks mate! Pretty standard equipment over here and definitly needed running at night time, kangaroos cause some major damage to trucks!
Your getting a nice collection now, nice to see another old one breathe some life again 👍🏻
Thanks mate, I need to get them all lined up for a photo
Engine sounds good. Helpin a friend with his 66 cabover k.w. 318 d.d. plumbed in an electric fuel pump at the secondary fuel filter. Engine lit right off after sitting almost fifteen years. Saved a lot of cranking and priming. Glad to see you brought her to life. !
I thanks mate! That’s awesome! I did think about that but I didn’t have enough fittings in hand to make it work but I should get it setup so I can undo the lines and put an electric pump in-line for priming these old engines it would make it easier on the starter!
Thanks for watching!
Great video Jake mate,keep them coming,luv the old GM motors especially there sound.
Thanks mate glad you enjoyed it! Can go wrong with the sound of a GM
Hey man the cab over needs to be a tandem drive
Hey mate if I end up fixing it up I could make it a tandem, it’s not at the top of my list I prefer a bonnet but I’d definitely think about building it
She's a good runner. I think that rusted exhaust elbow was a blessing. Probably kept the exhaust from filling up with water and getting into a cylinder through an open exhaust valve.
The cab over would be nice with a nice little flatbed on it I can visualise it now
It would be great to have ramps on it and use it to take a tractor or two to shows
That Cabover would make a great ute! Somebody will want it.
Man of talent Jake good on ya keep em coming Luv it
Cool old Kenworths. My dad had a laborer with the 8v71. They sound really good with twin pipes.
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Great bit of bed time watching over here. That engine sounds great.
Thanks for watching mate!
great soundin engine
First time I’ve heard an 871 in person and I’m not disappointed
Congrats Mate, on getting the 69 kenny cabover engine running. sounds great. I bet it was cool seeing-it go down the road..
Thanks mate I was surprised how well it run and even more surprised it drove so I’m very happy with it!
That sucker sure looked good under the valve covers but the clear water in the sump is a little weird, hopefully just rain water some how. I haven't worked on a Driptroit for years now, I have a road service business in Idaho & most of the trucks I work on are not very old. It's been years since I worked on a customer's cabover but I have a 68 International co with a Cummins V903.
She sounds sweet. I like the 8V 92s but that ones very similar. Sounds awesome love it when they’re twin stacked . hopefully that’ll be a donor motor.
crikey look at the grin on you mate
Great work, sounds healthy 👏👏
Ooh more Detroit !! They're like a addiction as I seem to have with Land Rovers.
You always want more 😂 regardless of how much work they need.
Cheers, Ard
Thanks Ard, the Detroits keep multiplying I only wanted one to play with and I ended up with about 6 I’m at now😂 oh well we have to keep ourselves entertained with somthing!
Cheers mate
I wonder if those square headlights were added to the w model as I’ve always remembered kenworth for having round lights until about 1980’s
I’m 99% sure that someone has added the square headlights because you can see where they have cut the holes out to make them fit
Good stuff, enjoying the videos mate.
Newbie here, just found and sub'd as soon as you walked up to that KWhopper! A gem 💎 but as an older fella prefer the orig. 925 round lights...great old iron.
Thanks for watching mate good to have you here! Don’t worry I prefer the round lights aswell especially on an early one like this! I’ll put it back to how it should be
@@dieseldownunder. Yay, especially where y'all got them larger, better lights there. BTW, I'm in Seattle area and the COE is a very rare sight these days so I specifically watch certain YT driving or restoring them as they were dominant back when I was a kid, so nice to see the orphan too. Later
Nothing like a screaming Detroit!
The Two Stoke Joke!
Compressor may have been the source of the water in the sump. Hence why it was removed. Great job mate
I did think that may have been the case! I have a spare one here I could put on it when I have a chance
The rip around the paddock sounds exciting with no brakes haha I reckon it will go allright
What a video! I could have spent hours walking around that guys yard with his trucks, but I think you have more classics now Jake😁 that V8 sounded great once it fired, bit of persistence and start ya bastard to bring her back to life 🤙🏻 I saw a few comments about it but they start some much easier if you pump the diesel in, we’ve used an airline on a 25ltr drum of diesel to force diesel in, always take quicker. My heart sunk a bit when I saw the compressor missing, thank god for the warmer climate in southern Australia! If that was over here it would be full of sludge and rust 🤣 I’d definitely keep the cab over, find a big cam 14ltr Cummins and use it as a toy😁 the smile on your face said it all when the Detroit was singing😎 brilliant video as always mate! Looking forward to next weeks already 🤙🏻🤙🏻
That’s only his junk yard aswell he has a massive collection that I havnt seen yet! It did sound quite good I was impressed I wasn’t expecting it to run without any issues really, good idea that would have worked aswell some of them I’ve had prime really easy and others have been a little more challenging. Yeah I wasn’t too excited about the water in it either but I’ve had water in the radiator and it doesn’t seem to be a liner so it must have just been rain water getting in through the compressor hole I’d say.
Thanks for watching mate I’ll get another one ready for you to watch this weekend!
Cheers
Hi from France, it's funny you know,but back in the '80's just about all the big fleets ran G.M.'s(Detroit Diesel),those motors just seemed to last forever.There were two schools some had G.M.'s and others had nothing but 903's (who remembers those ?),and now finding an old 871 is hard going?they were pretty driver-proof those old 871's,drive 'em like you hated them was the motto,most of them had 15speed Road-ranger's in them, you know with the deep-reduction switch on the dash....and the obligatory spare belts and spare oil in the tool box,and boy oh boy they went through some oil...I can't help but be impressed by your chanel,great content, have a great week.
Hey mate, I can only imagine how many would have been around back in the day! I really would have loved to have been around back then. My s2 with the crane on the back has a 903!
I don’t have anything with a 15 speed and deep reduction yet!
Thanks heaps for watching I’m glad you’re enjoying it
Had one them rag top Mack's at Iron Baron years ago as water cart thinking at Iron Knob as well
I don’t know much about them! It was very cool are they a 40s-50s model?
"Happy Jack" .. so far it seems you scored a "good" cheap motor .. congratulations Mate .. if you don't need to pull the motor bring that little fella back to life, I'd love to watch the process & confident I'm not alone on that. Also good to see the "Ol Boy" a bit more in your videos .. take care Jack & thanks for the content.
Thanks mate! If I don’t have to pull the engine I’ll definitely leave it in the cabover for sure, haha dad try’s to hide as much as possible😂
Keep that engine ! Put it in anything
Need longer videos haha loving these kenworths ones
Haha thanks mate! If you want longer I may aswell just live stream the whole day then I don’t have to edit anything!😂 thanks for watching!
Great show bud. Great work getting that cab over running. When i first saw it I thought what the f…… did you buy that for but looks like a good investment now. Well done👍
Haha don’t worry I wonder that myself sometimes! It was abit of a gamble as if the engine was junk it would be lucky to be worth scrap price but hopefully I got lucky👍🏻
This is excellent stuff mate, rapt to hear the W model has an 871T in it, magic donk in its day👍,late style rocker covers on the 71N, on an 871T N70 signify 335hp,not sure what the purpose of puttin em in a natural would achieve 🤔 , smoke??😅, never the less great score!!👍
The W model would have been a big truck in its day, it’s double chassis rail right through, 6 rod rear end and a 13 speed as well! I’m pretty excited to work on that one!
Thanks for the info I’m still learning about these, sounds like someone might have been trying to get a abit more power out of it! But your probably right abit more smoke would be what they got!😂
Wow, didn't really take that much to get it going, sounds pretty good.
The cab doesn’t seem to have many oil leaks looks pretty good
Nice work Jake saving another couple trucks it would seem you have more w models in your collection than you see now days at truck shows! I don't know where you keep finding them from but they are all gems that cabover 871 seems like a good runner and a great deal and backup to the w models engine if that doesn't go to plan
I probably have a little bit of a problem😂 I’ve got 3 at the moment and two s2’s, I just like the hunt and saving them, thanks for watching mate!
Is that pops helping you out? Internals looked almost new on that Detroit, crazy to see Seattle(born and raised in the area) built trucks down under and even cooler seeing you bring them back to life!! Cheers mate
Yeah that’s my old man the one helping when we were getting ready to start it but not the bloke when we were loading up, he owns the white k108. That’s awesome I imagine being in Seattle you might have seen some kenworths come off the assembly line there?
Hey Jake ,how is it all going,the V8 GM sounds like it’s a good runner,plenty of projects on the the go for you,might have to employ an apprentice to help out 🇦🇺🇮🇹😁,Tones trucking stories has some videos of Dicky Becketts collection of Mack trucks who is from Tassie if you haven’t seen them
Thanks Frank yep it seems like a pretty good engine, more than enough projects to choose from. I went and watched that video after you mentioned it, what a great collection he has!
Great work cobber, had some treasure at that joint eh🤪
Yep and that’s only the junk yard they have a huge collection! I’d love to bring the pete home but I’ve got my hands full with what I’ve already got!
You're doing a great job at the moment Cobber, and oh hell yes, people bag em out but they forget a NTC350 was 1444nm of torque and the 871T was 1309nm, while the 8V71TA 370hp was 1443nm and would stick with the 350 and 3406A
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Wow Jake that one sounds good. How much oil pressure did it carry? Seemed like it fired right off after you ran it a little. Hope it holds water. 13 speed that’s the old style shifter top. Course that looks to be early 70’s in the states with those style headlight buckets. Would make a neat project truck for someone that had time and was willing to do the work. If you’re lucky the other one will run without much work. Stay cool
Hey mate 50psi at a cold idle and dropped down to 30 once it warmed up abit, so I’d say the motor is pretty healthy with those numbers.
I think it will hold water it seems pretty good so far, yep so this is an American built truck we call them Seattle’s as they were built in the Seattle factory as right hand drives.
I hope the other one runs too because I don’t really want to pull the engine out of this if I don’t have to, I think it could definitely be saved and is worth saving, I need to find out some of the original specs for the truck and see if it’s the original engine and if it was factory single drive.
Thanks for watching mate!
@@dieseldownunder. Yes those are good numbers the motor sounds healthy. An American truck built with right hand drive. Ok that explains all the similarities. When did Kenworth start building trucks in Australia? I know you guys down there still get cab overs we don’t have them in the states anymore. Hope it all comes out good. Keep up the good work 👍👍
@@darrencatenacci2737 the factory was built in Bayswater Victoria in 1970 and first truck rolled off the line in 1971
They just released the k220 here in aus which is pretty cool so I’d say we will still get new cab overs for many years to come!
Can you do a Will It Start on the old Mack?
I would love to but sadly it’s not mine
Just found ur channel.. im in USa. Love me some detroits. I have a few id say. That W900. U said it was late 60's.. early 70's as well?? The hood original. Reason i ask is square headlights.. in US.. they were round i think till 82.. 83 wS option in a glider.. what i was tokd anyways.could be total bs
Thanks for watching mate! Yep the w900 is a 1970 I believe, it should have round headlights someone has retrofitted the squares at some point in it’s life they arnt original, cheers mate!
@@dieseldownunder. i have 2 ford L9000 with 6v92.. one dump. Other i bought as spare for it.. said getting water in oil on spare. Bought a firetruck just because it has a 6v92. Got a 1980 International 2275 with turbo 671. Think down to 11 or 12 buses with detroits. 4 1947 Gmc Silversides. 4 GMC Scenicruisers. A GMC 4104. A Fishbowl. A 75 GMC Buffalo. A Ddec 6v92 in a TMC transit. Old NYC bus. 1/2 a 4104 bus. Prob 8 random detroit engines. Some for buses.couple for trucks
Also got a 79 Kw k100 cabover with a 8v92.. all the detroit Nd big truck content u have ..now i have to binge watch a bunch..great stuff..
Bloody awesome mate! You’ve got quite the collection going on there, I’m glad you’ve found the channel and enjoy the videos. Thankyou for keeping these old trucks alive aswell!
You need one of these, search "scania rak 8". The sound is not of this earth
I just watched a few videos of them, I never knew they existed they truly sound awesome!
Hey brother. American here. Do you guys have any GMC Astro cabovers there? I'm about to get one. 8v71 9spd.
KW K100 Detroits are pretty hard to get here.
Hey mate no I don’t believe we had any gmc trucks at all, I’ve never seen one. That will be a great project I’d be keen to see it if you post up a video let me know!
Might be a spicer gear box think the knob is a spicer some one will answer correctly .
Hey mate I think the spicer knobs were blue, I really want a spicer in something! This is pretty much the same gear knob as the w model but that is an overdrive box and this is direct I think
@@dieseldownunder. not sure jake mainly driven old macks and 9 speed and 13 speed look on the box when you get time it may still have a tag on it .
G’day Jake , the old girl sounded strong once it was running , good job mate 👍🍻. Just a bit off subject but is there any chance of a quick run over of the engine change out you did on your Landcruiser ?
Hey mate thanks for watching! All good mate plenty of people want to see that and I’ve been meaning to do a video on it!
Have you had a look on my tik tok I’ve got a few videos of it over there the link is in the description, if you’ve already seen those I’ll pull my finger out and make a video of the swap!
Cheers mate
@@dieseldownunder. Thanks Jake 👍 I’m a bit old school so I don’t have tik tok or anything like that I’m afraid so I’ll just wait for a video lol .
Kim.
@@2UZFE all good mate, you don’t need an account you can just click the link and it should take you through google, but all good I’ll start working on a video of it!
Are you sure that's a cab over to me it looks like it has a hood cab over mens cab over engine
What are those old style of wheels called (the 5 and 6-spoke ones)?
We call them spider hubs mate, I think the rest of the world calls them daytons?
I hope that strap over the cabover doors didn’t wreck the cab at all 😬😬😬
Nah it was barely tight the doors have no handles or latches so they were swinging open it was just to hold them shut👌🏻
@@dieseldownunder. did they have handles on the inside??? I would have just used a motorbike strap inside but all good
Ok
Another old oil leaker Jake. You need to get yourself into a Mack or something Cat powered.👍
Yep I’m enjoying them so far! Lucky for you the first kenworth I put on UA-cam the white day cab W model is getting a cat 3406A so I will have a cat in the fleet! And as for a mack I’d love a super liner or value liner with an e9 but they are so expensive!