@@jmuller86 dig a small pit for pump, put a tarp on ground so that pit is in low corner and pump that water to icb container. You can let it settle or filter later.
I truly appreciate your sacrifice for our country. My father fought in WWII and was raised with respect for the flag and what it stands for. Take care my friend.
Brand new here. When I first loaded this up it was on mute while I was cooking dinner. I thought 1000% it was Andrew Camarata. Made it 35 minutes in before I realized it was not. Instantly subscribed.
Not gonna lie, i would have preferred to see a much more comprehensive ‘going thru’ video. But i know you are in the middle of a house build and you need that crane for lifts NOW. I hope to see a Clark Crane maintenance video once you have time. Engine oil/filter change, hydraulic filter change(the stuff coming out the hoses to the cylinder you capped off was milky lookin), air filter and housing repair, belts check, grease everything, detailed inspection, a good cleaning to make it comfortable to work in and improve appearances, etc. add heat to the stuck linkage within a linkage. It will help free it up. Make it right. Fix the brakes ‘correctly’ like on the telehandler! I’m sure this vid is coming. These types of vids are my most fav! Well done!
Yeah that was a close call, but it seems like Andrew has learned his lesson, because now he insist about doing maintenance on his equipment before it breaks down, which is quite the opposite his earlier motto: "Why fix it, if it isn't broken!" 😆
Most major oil companies make a 'slushing' treatment that comes in pails or drums. Tarry like. Does a couple of important things. Won't wash off with rain or snow. Lubricates between the strands (important as wire strands are always stretching and shortening rubbing against one another as they go around the drum and blocks) making the wire last much longer and it protects it from the weather also adding to its lifespan. We used to use a pail with a brush in it to apply or in some cases saturate a rag and lightly hold over the wire to saturate it. Paint it on heavily on the coils on the drum. Really soak it in. Use drop clothes as it sticks to everything and is hard to get off. We always recoated on an annual basis. Works good and is proven as it has been around for many decades.
Jesse, repair videos are your jam. Number 1 repair videos on youtube because you are very competent and your calm demeanor makes them so watchable. That crane purchase was a surprise.
If you have AIR BAGS suspension, the dashboard LOAD gauge will tell you the maximum weight on the drivers. An airbag trailer with an optional airbag gauge will tell you the same thing. Many trucker balance a load using these gauges. You can add a kit.
Another great job, Jesse. I appreciate your transparency about the cost of what you do. You tackle some hard stuff seem to have done the homework and present your calculations well. It will be interesting to see the finished building. Some of us may not see the cost/benefit of your project, but your satisfaction will be you did it your way. And we get to watch.
Jesse, mate, fair dinkum, you’d have to be the hardest worker I’ve ever come across mate, you’re a bloody ripper, love your videos, content and just your doggedness to get shit done, no matter what the odds or how big the challenge, you’re dead set bonza mate.
@@jmuller86 good for you mate, your a bloody top bloke and your attitude does you proud, you should be extremely proud of all that you’re achieving and the direction your taking because I’m just an observer on the other side of the world and if you were my son I’d be tickled pink to have a cobber like you
Jesse you continue to amaze me with your knowledge and skills. Every video is so interesting! My wife of 45 years enjoys watching and comparing my behavior and language to yours, when I attempt repairs. “How come Jesse doesn’t grunt, curse and get mad like you do?” 😂
Those 2 stroke detroits are some of the best sounding motors out there. Especially the 8v71 and 8v92. When trucks have them and they're hauling big weights you don't just hear those motors, you feel them in your chest it's crazy. I would love to hear some cold starts with that crane too, it sounds so nice even just the idle is good.
Next time when you are trying to insulate the positive cable. You have kids with means you have inner tubes cut one of the inner tubes up and wrap that around your positive cable. Used to do machine repair. That is how we wired up some of the machines to isolate the wiring.
Nice find Jessie, JIC has been around since WW2 so there pretty popular, if the stud in the cap on your master cylinders come out you may be able to compressed air pressurize the system to bleed without pumping the brake pedal, just a thought.
Wow, amazing work and machine. You live in such beautiful country 😍. Love your videos. Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family. 👌
Glad to see you put on the wire rope on the winch correctly. C&C Equipment needs to view your video. They loaded up a dozer winch the 'easy' way and it got all snarled.
We had a Clark wheel loader with a 2 stroke diesel and you couldn't be anywhere near it without ear protection if it was off idle. But the dam thing always worked. Other than a few leaks nothing ever broke on that thing.
Nice buy a little work and your job is ready, good video like how you go into detail and take the time to explain stuff. Well, good luck and I will be watching for the hoist of the beam.🚜
Hey mate, the GM runaway thing is actually caused by leaking blower seals nothing to do with turbo's, when the blower shaft seals wear out engine oil leaks down into the inlet gallery where the liner skirts have their inlet holes ( you can look in there if you take the side covers off), normally any leakage would drip out of those little tiny drain tubes on each side of the block, now if the oil leakage is too much or those little tubes get blocked the oil accumulation in the gallery which isn't draining to the ground starts to dribble thru the air holes in the skirts and into the pots then a runaway starts as the engine consumes it's own oil, the faster the engine runs the more oil leaks in thru the stuffer box seals and the faster it go's, probably won't explode but it will certainly cook itself. Now the best advice I can give you, mainly because that engine sounds like a pretty good one, starts easy and no smoke too ....... is the 6-53 has wet liners and I can't emphasise how important it is to run anti-freeze with inhibitor not just the normal green shit, here's why .... rust nodules form on the outside of the liners without inhibitor, this causes hot spots which intern glazes spots on internal bore and nukes the motor, take my word for it. Oh and that 53 will run all day at 2600 rpm so give it a handful from time to time so we can hear it, I had one of mine rung out to 3100 rpm which I believe is a military spec limit, didn't do it any harm and sounded amazing.
@@jacksonbennett6151 My company's only got one Detroit tug left now. 2nd to last one just got swapped out for crappy electronic john Deeres. Still got a bunch of Detroit barge winches and some bucyrus Erie's.
Big Clark, made in the USA I believe 👍👏. You’ve already collect a lot of big tools. Instead of your thoughts I hope we will see all these also working on other jobs 👊
Greyhound MC-9 buses used a detroit 2 stroke engine. for years. Every bus driver knew how to reset his engine. The buses also had a start trick. Bell and Chimes switch had to be on for the starter to work. Reverse gear on the 4 speeds was shift into 1st, then hit the reverse switch and shift into 2nd gear. You can tell I have driven and repaired a few buses in my day too.
yall work well togeather as a unit... i can tell you 3 have spent many a long days togeather... getting shit done like we all do... ive got a crew thats been togeather for years but i respect that you 3 are much more than that...
I had a Drott ( Clark ) 20 ton years ago.6v53 DD engines are good but loud . Those cylinders on rear axel are for pick and carry which lock rear axel from oscillating. You don't need them for on outrigger picks . Just cap the lines and fittings . I did that on old Grove RT years ago. Simple crane but tippy over side. Check rotek bearing bolts re torque bolts they are known to break on these.Upper House will come off lower carrier if rotek bolts break This s before ATB switch and LMI was required so be careful. Lift of outrigger on diagnol over front avoid lifting heavy swinging over side house will rotate when frame bends.Avoid using 4wd on dry pavement will break axels. NYC/ NYS owner operator since 1981. Good luck. Ps: be prepared to fix seals hoses. I put Lucas Hydraulic oil conditioner in hydraulic tank a few gallons. Stopped all weapage and small leaks in rotary manifold swivel on my 70 ton Grove . Check planetary hub oil in all 4 hubs I see seepage on brake drums . Hercules hydraulic in Florida has every seal and hose o-ring by size and much cheaper than local parts store. Nice find for $5k
Slowly charge the big battery. Ninety feet of stick is great on a wheeled crane. Keep the rotation rollers adjusted and lubed and put that thing to work. I forgot to mention about the Crosby clamps. “Never saddle a dead horse”. Best wishes.
Nice addition Jesse. It's a workhorse for sure and I know you will get everything fixed on it in time. You have bigger fish to fry than working on that crane like getting your roof on.... Appreciate the video.
I do believe it will do everything that your going to need Jessie.. its a money pit to fix up in good shape to put out on some big job but thing is that they just seem to run forever and not ask for much. With prices of oil products, fluid changes would have to really necessary to ever do them.... just filters and run it till something asks for more attention... Its a good buy at twice the price when you need one tho
Its fascinating to se all this. 7 Grand for a 20 ton 90 foot crane seems good value. Not to say the resale value should be more, given the work that has gone into it. All excellent and thanks, this is cracking education for a subject I'll never be involved in, but find very interesting indeed. :)
There are two styles of JIC fittings. 45 deg flare and 37 deg flare. Make sure you know which ones you have. 37 deg is mostly for aircraft, but I have seen them in strange places. Seen them both on the same machine.
First time i saw JIC was when i bought a Bobcat backhoe attachment, here in Holland. Theres one agricultural dealership that stocks JIC press couplings, when i blow a hose. I didnt know there were two types 😅
10/30/22. Watched you work battery/brakes & wire rope on yur 'new' Pettibone 720(?). Rotating cab sounds great...what a big machine! Anxious to see you put it to work! Stay safe & carry on!👍👍👍🛠⚙️😊
Legondary Dietroit Diesel!! Run and run and Run. 100 k on a Greyhound bus and it's time to change the main bearings in the bus! Full access to the rods , crankshaft , crazy. Well lubricated. And it starts on one revolution!
Jessie that is one beast of a machine you have there. Brilliant video and love learning about nachanics even though I’m a 61 year old grandmother ❤. Thank you for sharing love from Australia
Before use you should safety test it by lifting your big excavator - just a few inches I'd also love to see you pull a tree stump straight out the ground with a choker chain
For initial bleeding on a brake system, with the foot off the brake, open the bleeder, push the brake down and tighten the bleeder once it bottoms out the master cylinder. It allows for more volume until you start getting pressure.
Hi Jesse hey on your battery try this 1 cup of sea salt to one cup water mix good and distribute to each cell, and then charge 10 amps or more you will smell the cloride heavey and check acid ph. Worked on my 2006 ram both batteries from new still good! Do not use epsom salts.
I made a HOTSHOT truck (mini semi for smaller loads). I used a 250 hp 6V53 Detroit with a 613 -13 speed transmission. I could outrun any of these duallies super duty Ford and Cummins you have out there now. Put it in a GMC 1 ½ ton truck. added a coffin box for a sleeper. Pulled a flatbed on a 5th wheel with air brakes on 15" tires. Had an electric 2 speed axle for low range torque.
Purpose of three u-blocks is not to add strength but share the pressure so that you don’t need to tighten them so much that you damage the wire coating. You can also beat the coating with hammer :)
In a truck that 6V53 used only 2 of the batteries similar to the ones on the fender 900 CCA or1100 CCA each, would start the engine up here in Delaware and Schoharie county year around. 2/0 will be big enough cable if connections remain good. "Kinda brakes" 😁 should be fine for your location for now. The oil also lubes the wire inside where the individual strands rub against each other any time it flexes, it sould be lubed all the time, A detroit 2 stroke blower seals are a very common sorce of engine oil entering the cylinder causing a runaway, it is scary! I have whitnessed it and also running backwards.
Look at your charts and you will see that you don't need a 2 part line to set those beams, make sure you have good cribbing under your outriggers. looks like a great deal .
I have a large Clark forklift and the SM has you bleed from the wheel cylinder up. Suggests a power bleeder but I use a bleeding bottle from the Mighty Vac with a rubber tip air blower on the compressor. Make sure the MS is open and be gentle with the pressure.
Aerosol cable lube. Spray the rope on the drum with boom all the way extended and a 2 part line all the way to the ground. Then Spray it as the cable spools the rest. make a cover for when it sits and snow piles up on it.
The glazed parking brake shoes won't grab. They must be ruff. You could ruff them up with sand paper. Better to replace them. The bleeding of the brakes will require a vacuum pump to bleed. Most likely going to have to have the master cylinders rebuilt. God bless
Good video. Thanks. 38:00 & 42:50 Very bad to pound on battery posts. They make a tool to expand the battery clamps so they will slide easily onto the posts.
I believe 2/0 welding cable is much less than $15/ft and actually superior to what they sell as 'battery' cable as it has many more strands giving it more surface to carry the load. I have been using it for decades and found it to work well. I solder the ends and vaseline all terminals liberally. Put a $25 battery minder on each battery and you won't be buying replacements. You have a lot of machines which sit idle, the hardest thing on their life span. Battery minders keep them from freezing as well since they maintain a full charge but don't overcharge.
FYI - It's not good to solder the ends. The constant vibration tends to work harden the strands where they are soldered and they break over time, creating resistance. Also the solder itself creates another physical layer for the electricity to pass thru which also created resistance/heat.
@@rushd45 Theoretical at best. They say the same thing about marine wiring yet in sixty years of doing it and repairing old work I have yet to see a failure. The many other people I have talked to agree. These are people in the trades who experience thousands of examples just as I have. Whatever surface area mhoes are lost at the connection is more than made up for by the loss corrosion causes inside a crimp. I have been crimping and soldering my welding leads for more than fifty years and have never had a failure unlike those with crimp only that fail predictably often. When examined the copper corrosion is thick whereas there is none on the soldered areas. Corrosion means high resistance and deterioration starts immediately on unprotected surfaces. That is why all marine wiring is or should be by ABS code tinned completely. Terminations that are crimped also lose flexibility at the crimp if it is done properly. No strands should be loose in a n approved crimp. Thus the loss of flexibility in a soldered joint is actually less because the solder tapers out at its termination creating less of a hard point stress riser. In real world application and testing solder is almost always better. The only real drawback is that it is more costly in time and material but even that quickly amortizes out to solders advantage. If a connection as fail safe as possible is desired crimp, solder, seal with approved sealant in approved heat shrink or liquid insulation. That will last a lifetime but if you want to go even longer exotic high percentage solders are available that almost completely eliminate corrosion. One other advantage is solder penetrates under a properly cut insulation to seal somewhat the jacketed conductor vastly slowing the copper corrosion inside the insulated wire.
Awesome deal I think you got a steal! The positive battery cable you spliced looks like it was rubbing on the cover support. Not sure if you know or not but if you change the oil use straight 40 weight not multi viscosity in that two-stroke - I have no idea why you can't use multi viscosity but the three people I know with two strokes all say the same thing.
2 cycle detroit are famous for running backward. When the smoke is coming out the air cleaner, you hit the kill switch. Usually caused by a bad start out from a stop while using the throttle and clutch....especially up a grade.
I have a hole in the end of my pallet forked drill thru the metal to allow a shackle to be attached for lifting with a chain. Hole allows pinning to stop a bar or plate laid across the forks from pulling off
After you install the block run the cable off the drum on tell you have only 7 to 10 wraps left ,then paint the wire rope red the length of the boom that way you will never run the cable off the drum.
I have been watching Andrew Camarata and now Jesse for several years, and the greatest thing I have learned is that everything is simpler then I first thought, that is not to say it is always easy by any means, but just to say that almost everything was made in a way that made some sense and not harder then it needed to be. When I was younger I never would have even thought about installing a new wire rope in a crane, but now that I have seen it done I see that it was not really that complicated of a process, it looked like hard work, but not complex work. From watching Andrew and Jesse tear into anything and everything I feel so much more confidence to tear into my own projects. Everything was made with a method to the madness and once you see that you can fix anything.
Take the cotter pin out of the brake end to the lever - swing the fork out and rotate it to make it longer on the bolt. adjust the fitting and the cotter pin and check. Seems like the transmission or hydrodrive is shot.
My first impression was that the crane is big enough to knock down your building, however I know you will practice with it until you can safely operate it. Very interesting video on how to fix things without breaking the bank.
I was worried at first, that the failing/unrepairable brakes would be a show stopper. But you got them semi-workable for your project. I am now excitedly waiting to see it lift the main heavy steel I-Beam for your roof. Too bad the Pettibone crane wouldn't work to set the roof beam. I suppose it doesnt pay to sell it, since you mostly got it for free, and who knows how much/little its worth? Good luck!
Didn't he do a shit ton of work on it fixing the cylinders, brakes and a lot of other items (or has my old memory confused it with something else)? 🤷♂ [EDIT] Yes the memory did confuse it with something else and now I forgotten the name of the damn machine but I did remember the nice cage he bought to use it for working from.
Interesting hearing about the runaway plate. Based on how it looked I'm thinking your parking brake may have been the brakes for a while now. Good luck with your new crane!
My first repair is always to pressure wash the thing. Much easier to find leaks and just less miserable work conditions.
I didnt want to get gallons of oil and grease everywhere , I dont have a way to contain it
@@jmuller86 dig a small pit for pump, put a tarp on ground so that pit is in low corner and pump that water to icb container. You can let it settle or filter later.
@@tujuprojects A really great idea
My experience, sometime degreasing before working only washes the dust off the grease making it worse.
Than you for flying my flag. I lost both legs fighting for that flag. This means a lot to me.
thank you for your service
Thank you for your service!
Thanks for your service Jack...
Thank you Jack Walker
I truly appreciate your sacrifice for our country. My father fought in WWII and was raised with respect for the flag and what it stands for. Take care my friend.
Brand new here. When I first loaded this up it was on mute while I was cooking dinner. I thought 1000% it was Andrew Camarata. Made it 35 minutes in before I realized it was not. Instantly subscribed.
Yea he has a similar sized crane that we used to put his roof on
@@jmuller86 love it. I only recently discovered Andrew. Thanks for awesome content Jesse!
Not gonna lie, i would have preferred to see a much more comprehensive ‘going thru’ video. But i know you are in the middle of a house build and you need that crane for lifts NOW. I hope to see a Clark Crane maintenance video once you have time. Engine oil/filter change, hydraulic filter change(the stuff coming out the hoses to the cylinder you capped off was milky lookin), air filter and housing repair, belts check, grease everything, detailed inspection, a good cleaning to make it comfortable to work in and improve appearances, etc. add heat to the stuck linkage within a linkage. It will help free it up. Make it right. Fix the brakes ‘correctly’ like on the telehandler! I’m sure this vid is coming. These types of vids are my most fav! Well done!
Brothers working together tells a stoy without words. Well done.
Everyone knows from Andrew, cranes without braked and hills don’t play well with each other.
Yeah that was a close call, but it seems like Andrew has learned his lesson, because now he insist about doing maintenance on his equipment before it breaks down, which is quite the opposite his earlier motto: "Why fix it, if it isn't broken!" 😆
Yup, I stopped watching the dope.
Yeah that was serious!
I watched that. Also trying to get it fixed. Isnt that the pettybone jesse was using before this?
@@henkoosterhof5947 yep there’s a whole video retrieval and repair
Claw hammer wins again! Love the buy and fix videos Jesse! Keep up the good work brother.
Wire rope scares me. So glad you guys are wearing gloves. I can sleep well tonight.
Most major oil companies make a 'slushing' treatment that comes in pails or drums. Tarry like. Does a couple of important things. Won't wash off with rain or snow. Lubricates between the strands (important as wire strands are always stretching and shortening rubbing against one another as they go around the drum and blocks) making the wire last much longer and it protects it from the weather also adding to its lifespan. We used to use a pail with a brush in it to apply or in some cases saturate a rag and lightly hold over the wire to saturate it. Paint it on heavily on the coils on the drum. Really soak it in. Use drop clothes as it sticks to everything and is hard to get off. We always recoated on an annual basis. Works good and is proven as it has been around for many decades.
ok I will check into that
Jesse, repair videos are your jam. Number 1 repair videos on youtube because you are very competent and your calm demeanor makes them so watchable. That crane purchase was a surprise.
thanks, hopefully next year I can bring that thing up to the adirondacks to build up there. might be the following year though
Good to see you Pat and Lucas all working together
If you have AIR BAGS suspension, the dashboard LOAD gauge will tell you the maximum weight on the drivers. An airbag trailer with an optional airbag gauge will tell you the same thing. Many trucker balance a load using these gauges. You can add a kit.
Another great job, Jesse. I appreciate your transparency about the cost of what you do. You tackle some hard stuff seem to have done the homework and present your calculations well. It will be interesting to see the finished building. Some of us may not see the cost/benefit of your project, but your satisfaction will be you did it your way. And we get to watch.
Jesse, mate, fair dinkum, you’d have to be the hardest worker I’ve ever come across mate, you’re a bloody ripper, love your videos, content and just your doggedness to get shit done, no matter what the odds or how big the challenge, you’re dead set bonza mate.
Thanks bud, I appreciate it. I need to get stuff done now while I am still somewhat young so I can relax when I get older
@@jmuller86 good for you mate, your a bloody top bloke and your attitude does you proud, you should be extremely proud of all that you’re achieving and the direction your taking because I’m just an observer on the other side of the world and if you were my son I’d be tickled pink to have a cobber like you
Jesse you continue to amaze me with your knowledge and skills. Every video is so interesting! My wife of 45 years enjoys watching and comparing my behavior and language to yours, when I attempt repairs. “How come Jesse doesn’t grunt, curse and get mad like you do?” 😂
Those 2 stroke detroits are some of the best sounding motors out there. Especially the 8v71 and 8v92. When trucks have them and they're hauling big weights you don't just hear those motors, you feel them in your chest it's crazy. I would love to hear some cold starts with that crane too, it sounds so nice even just the idle is good.
Worked on a lot of these GM-Vs in Marine. Many before they were even called Detroit !!
Do you guys watch Bus Grease Monkey🐒?..its all he works on is old detroits in busses..such good sounding engines
Next time when you are trying to insulate the positive cable. You have kids with means you have inner tubes cut one of the inner tubes up and wrap that around your positive cable. Used to do machine repair. That is how we wired up some of the machines to isolate the wiring.
Your warts and all story appeals to me. Real life is not a bowl of cherries. Appreciate you.
Always enjoy your repairs. May sound odd but always appreciate the effort you take to do a good job. Loved the flag
Old Glory. In'er Glory. Awesome ending.
Thanks Jesse. I’m enjoying your journey. I really like the story and expenditures at the end of your uploads.
Nice find Jessie, JIC has been around since WW2 so there pretty popular, if the stud in the cap on your master cylinders come out you may be able to compressed air pressurize the system to bleed without pumping the brake pedal, just a thought.
They've been in use since 1918. The steel lines had JIC flared connections.
Wow, amazing work and machine. You live in such beautiful country 😍. Love your videos. Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family. 👌
Glad to see you put on the wire rope on the winch correctly. C&C Equipment needs to view your video. They loaded up a dozer winch the 'easy' way and it got all snarled.
Those mufflers on the back add 5 extra tons of counter weight!
JAYDEN - you really want to go there, we can go there!!!!!! Pure Gold!!!!! Oh, the crane video was pretty good to Jesse
We had a Clark wheel loader with a 2 stroke diesel and you couldn't be anywhere near it without ear protection if it was off idle.
But the dam thing always worked. Other than a few leaks nothing ever broke on that thing.
Cool crane- looking forward to seeing it lift stuff.
Great work Jesse. That should do what you need it for
It's a good thing you live near such a busy highway. It makes things go smoother.
Great job,you've got 4 parking brakes....one on each corner!
Nice truck that delivered the crane.
Thanks for the upload.
Nice buy a little work and your job is ready, good video like how you go into detail and take the time to explain stuff. Well, good luck and I will be watching for the hoist of the beam.🚜
Best of luck with your new crane. thanks for sharing your video.
Hey mate, the GM runaway thing is actually caused by leaking blower seals nothing to do with turbo's, when the blower shaft seals wear out engine oil leaks down into the inlet gallery where the liner skirts have their inlet holes ( you can look in there if you take the side covers off), normally any leakage would drip out of those little tiny drain tubes on each side of the block, now if the oil leakage is too much or those little tubes get blocked the oil accumulation in the gallery which isn't draining to the ground starts to dribble thru the air holes in the skirts and into the pots then a runaway starts as the engine consumes it's own oil, the faster the engine runs the more oil leaks in thru the stuffer box seals and the faster it go's, probably won't explode but it will certainly cook itself.
Now the best advice I can give you, mainly because that engine sounds like a pretty good one, starts easy and no smoke too ....... is the 6-53 has wet liners and I can't emphasise how important it is to run anti-freeze with inhibitor not just the normal green shit, here's why .... rust nodules form on the outside of the liners without inhibitor, this causes hot spots which intern glazes spots on internal bore and nukes the motor, take my word for it.
Oh and that 53 will run all day at 2600 rpm so give it a handful from time to time so we can hear it, I had one of mine rung out to 3100 rpm which I believe is a military spec limit, didn't do it any harm and sounded amazing.
100%agree,. ...the noise of the 6v53's in the distance at night in the bush, from a APC ,coming to pick you up, is a very comforting feeling!!
Jesse, your practicality constantly prevails in your actions. I could work with you !!
That Detroit is awesome. Working on the river there's a lot of Detroit powered equipment still in use.
There is at least one Detroit in a tug on Boston Harbor, she sounds strong and can be heard from quite a ways away!
Best sounding diesels in my opinion.
@@jacksonbennett6151 My company's only got one Detroit tug left now. 2nd to last one just got swapped out for crappy electronic john Deeres. Still got a bunch of Detroit barge winches and some bucyrus Erie's.
Jesse that’s a great Deal That motor will run on any fuel and oils When you change the motor oil you can put it in the Fuel tank Very KOOL Crane
Cutting a slot into a loose stud to hold it with a screw driver is genius I'll have to remember that.
Always an interesting video. Good fix without breaking your pocket book. Thanks for sharing with us.
Big Clark, made in the USA I believe 👍👏. You’ve already collect a lot of big tools. Instead of your thoughts I hope we will see all these also working on other jobs 👊
Greyhound MC-9 buses used a detroit 2 stroke engine. for years. Every bus driver knew how to reset his engine. The buses also had a start trick. Bell and Chimes switch had to be on for the starter to work. Reverse gear on the 4 speeds was shift into 1st, then hit the reverse switch and shift into 2nd gear. You can tell I have driven and repaired a few buses in my day too.
Well done Mr Muller, that is one good buy Hope it will serve you well.
yall work well togeather as a unit... i can tell you 3 have spent many a long days togeather... getting shit done like we all do... ive got a crew thats been togeather for years but i respect that you 3 are much more than that...
Nice find Jess good luck with it..👍
I had a Drott ( Clark ) 20 ton years ago.6v53 DD engines are good but loud .
Those cylinders on rear axel are for pick and carry which lock rear axel from oscillating.
You don't need them for on outrigger picks . Just cap the lines and fittings .
I did that on old Grove RT years ago.
Simple crane but tippy over side.
Check rotek bearing bolts re torque bolts they are known to break on these.Upper House will come off lower carrier if rotek bolts break
This s before ATB switch and LMI was required so be careful.
Lift of outrigger on diagnol over front avoid lifting heavy swinging over side house will rotate when frame bends.Avoid using 4wd on dry pavement will break axels.
NYC/ NYS owner operator since 1981.
Good luck.
Ps: be prepared to fix seals hoses.
I put Lucas Hydraulic oil conditioner in hydraulic tank a few gallons.
Stopped all weapage and small leaks in rotary manifold swivel on my 70 ton Grove . Check planetary hub oil in all 4 hubs I see seepage on brake drums .
Hercules hydraulic in Florida has every seal and hose o-ring by size and much cheaper than local parts store.
Nice find for $5k
Slowly charge the big battery. Ninety feet of stick is great on a wheeled crane. Keep the rotation rollers adjusted and lubed and put that thing to work. I forgot to mention about the Crosby clamps. “Never saddle a dead horse”. Best wishes.
Correct!
Nice nice one Jesse I love the surprise man I am so happy for you.
Kind regards from London UK God bless you and your family.
Great informative job Jesse, amazing video clarity, i enjoyed this. Bob.
Nice addition Jesse. It's a workhorse for sure and I know you will get everything fixed on it in time. You have bigger fish to fry than working on that crane like getting your roof on.... Appreciate the video.
Nice catch looks like a decent machine for what you got
I do believe it will do everything that your going to need Jessie.. its a money pit to fix up in good shape to put out on some big job but thing is that they just seem to run forever and not ask for much. With prices of oil products, fluid changes would have to really necessary to ever do them.... just filters and run it till something asks for more attention... Its a good buy at twice the price when you need one tho
Great job, Buddy! Looking forward to the pressure wash video
Its fascinating to se all this. 7 Grand for a 20 ton 90 foot crane seems good value. Not to say the resale value should be more, given the work that has gone into it. All excellent and thanks, this is cracking education for a subject I'll never be involved in, but find very interesting indeed. :)
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There are two styles of JIC fittings. 45 deg flare and 37 deg flare. Make sure you know which ones you have. 37 deg is mostly for aircraft, but I have seen them in strange places. Seen them both on the same machine.
First time i saw JIC was when i bought a Bobcat backhoe attachment, here in Holland. Theres one agricultural dealership that stocks JIC press couplings, when i blow a hose. I didnt know there were two types 😅
10/30/22. Watched you work battery/brakes & wire rope on yur 'new' Pettibone 720(?). Rotating cab sounds great...what a big machine! Anxious to see you put it to work! Stay safe & carry on!👍👍👍🛠⚙️😊
Legondary Dietroit Diesel!! Run and run and Run. 100 k on a Greyhound bus and it's time to change the main bearings in the bus! Full access to the rods , crankshaft , crazy. Well lubricated. And it starts on one revolution!
Jessie that is one beast of a machine you have there. Brilliant video and love learning about nachanics even though I’m a 61 year old grandmother ❤. Thank you for sharing love from Australia
Before use you should safety test it by lifting your big excavator - just a few inches I'd also love to see you pull a tree stump straight out the ground with a choker chain
For a good initial start spin, many trucker are using a group 31 battery size capacitor in parallel with their battery bank.
For initial bleeding on a brake system, with the foot off the brake, open the bleeder, push the brake down and tighten the bleeder once it bottoms out the master cylinder. It allows for more volume until you start getting pressure.
when u put in and out batteries wit fork lift u know u have big machines! wow! i hope it work well
Hi Jesse hey on your battery try this 1 cup of sea salt to one cup water mix good and distribute to each cell, and then charge 10 amps or more you will smell the cloride heavey and check acid ph. Worked on my 2006 ram both batteries from new still good! Do not use epsom salts.
Nice crane... Good job getting stuff to work...
I made a HOTSHOT truck (mini semi for smaller loads). I used a 250 hp 6V53 Detroit with a 613 -13 speed transmission. I could outrun any of these duallies super duty Ford and Cummins you have out there now. Put it in a GMC 1 ½ ton truck. added a coffin box for a sleeper. Pulled a flatbed on a 5th wheel with air brakes on 15" tires. Had an electric 2 speed axle for low range torque.
that sounds like a neat rig
engine sounds really good!
Purpose of three u-blocks is not to add strength but share the pressure so that you don’t need to tighten them so much that you damage the wire coating. You can also beat the coating with hammer :)
In a truck that 6V53 used only 2 of the batteries similar to the ones on the fender 900 CCA or1100 CCA each, would start the engine up here in Delaware and Schoharie county year around. 2/0 will be big enough cable if connections remain good. "Kinda brakes" 😁 should be fine for your location for now. The oil also lubes the wire inside where the individual strands rub against each other any time it flexes, it sould be lubed all the time, A detroit 2 stroke blower seals are a very common sorce of engine oil entering the cylinder causing a runaway, it is scary! I have whitnessed it and also running backwards.
Look at your charts and you will see that you don't need a 2 part line to set those beams, make sure you have good cribbing under your outriggers. looks like a great deal .
I have a large Clark forklift and the SM has you bleed from the wheel cylinder up. Suggests a power bleeder but I use a bleeding bottle from the Mighty Vac with a rubber tip air blower on the compressor. Make sure the MS is open and be gentle with the pressure.
Great Job.
I've seen people grease that cable, or metal rope.... It's a mess, but well worth it....
Aerosol cable lube. Spray the rope on the drum with boom all the way extended and a 2 part line all the way to the ground. Then Spray it as the cable spools the rest. make a cover for when it sits and snow piles up on it.
Brilliant video Jesse 🙂
Flag looks great Jesse.
The glazed parking brake shoes won't grab. They must be ruff. You could ruff them up with sand paper. Better to replace them. The bleeding of the brakes will require a vacuum pump to bleed. Most likely going to have to have the master cylinders rebuilt. God bless
Your determination is impressive.
It will most likely save you some money in the end we hope all the best sir Jesse well done
Good video. Thanks.
38:00 & 42:50 Very bad to pound on battery posts. They make a tool to expand the battery clamps so they will slide easily onto the posts.
I think that was a good deal on that machine, love the flag.
I believe 2/0 welding cable is much less than $15/ft and actually superior to what they sell as 'battery' cable as it has many more strands giving it more surface to carry the load. I have been using it for decades and found it to work well. I solder the ends and vaseline all terminals liberally. Put a $25 battery minder on each battery and you won't be buying replacements. You have a lot of machines which sit idle, the hardest thing on their life span. Battery minders keep them from freezing as well since they maintain a full charge but don't overcharge.
yea I should grab a dozen of those things, but ones that are solar powered
FYI - It's not good to solder the ends. The constant vibration tends to work harden the strands where they are soldered and they break over time, creating resistance. Also the solder itself creates another physical layer for the electricity to pass thru which also created resistance/heat.
@@rushd45 Theoretical at best. They say the same thing about marine wiring yet in sixty years of doing it and repairing old work I have yet to see a failure. The many other people I have talked to agree. These are people in the trades who experience thousands of examples just as I have. Whatever surface area mhoes are lost at the connection is more than made up for by the loss corrosion causes inside a crimp. I have been crimping and soldering my welding leads for more than fifty years and have never had a failure unlike those with crimp only that fail predictably often. When examined the copper corrosion is thick whereas there is none on the soldered areas. Corrosion means high resistance and deterioration starts immediately on unprotected surfaces. That is why all marine wiring is or should be by ABS code tinned completely. Terminations that are crimped also lose flexibility at the crimp if it is done properly. No strands should be loose in a n approved crimp. Thus the loss of flexibility in a soldered joint is actually less because the solder tapers out at its termination creating less of a hard point stress riser.
In real world application and testing solder is almost always better. The only real drawback is that it is more costly in time and material but even that quickly amortizes out to solders advantage. If a connection as fail safe as possible is desired crimp, solder, seal with approved sealant in approved heat shrink or liquid insulation. That will last a lifetime but if you want to go even longer exotic high percentage solders are available that almost completely eliminate corrosion. One other advantage is solder penetrates under a properly cut insulation to seal somewhat the jacketed conductor vastly slowing the copper corrosion inside the insulated wire.
Awesome deal I think you got a steal! The positive battery cable you spliced looks like it was rubbing on the cover support. Not sure if you know or not but if you change the oil use straight 40 weight not multi viscosity in that two-stroke - I have no idea why you can't use multi viscosity but the three people I know with two strokes all say the same thing.
ok thats good to know thanks
An oil pan heater might be a lot less expensive than another battery, and it's cheap to run.
Jesse you have to turn it at least 2, that is to stabilize the pulley system.
Good job! And good buy!👍👍! Thanks for sharing!
2 cycle detroit are famous for running backward. When the smoke is coming out the air cleaner, you hit the kill switch. Usually caused by a bad start out from a stop while using the throttle and clutch....especially up a grade.
Been there, done that. 😎
Detroit powered tugs will actually internally run one side backwards
Those hydro values are balanced flow, like a shower faucet
I have a hole in the end of my pallet forked drill thru the metal to allow a shackle to be attached for lifting with a chain. Hole allows pinning to stop a bar or plate laid across the forks from pulling off
Another great vid Jesse!
It's a shame I can give just 1 thumb up, awesome videos. Thanks for sharing.
Seems like a good machine for setting trusses , you should be able to reach out there with a lighter load
It's a Six V Fifty three. 53 cu. in./cylinder. 'Screamin' Jimmy" All the 2 stroke GMC's scream. Good Video.
After all these machines, all u need is a 10/12 wheeler Dump truck 👍
Nice adjustable flag pole ! Pilgrim.
After you install the block run the cable off the drum on tell you have only 7 to 10 wraps left ,then paint the wire rope red the length of the boom that way you will never run the cable off the drum.
good idea
I have been watching Andrew Camarata and now Jesse for several years, and the greatest thing I have learned is that everything is simpler then I first thought, that is not to say it is always easy by any means, but just to say that almost everything was made in a way that made some sense and not harder then it needed to be.
When I was younger I never would have even thought about installing a new wire rope in a crane, but now that I have seen it done I see that it was not really that complicated of a process, it looked like hard work, but not complex work.
From watching Andrew and Jesse tear into anything and everything I feel so much more confidence to tear into my own projects.
Everything was made with a method to the madness and once you see that you can fix anything.
yea, sometimes people just need to know its possible and they can accomplish things that otherwise seemed impossible
movie and popcorn great one be safe
The BIG A agricultural spreader and sprayers used V6 Detroit Diesel two stroke and the engine noise would knock like two hammers hitting together.
Take the cotter pin out of the brake end to the lever - swing the fork out and rotate it to make it longer on the bolt. adjust the fitting and the cotter pin and check. Seems like the transmission or hydrodrive is shot.
I was tempted to try that but I was thinking I might not be able to get it in without some serious power to move that lever on the drum
My first impression was that the crane is big enough to knock down your building, however I know you will practice with it until you can safely operate it. Very interesting video on how to fix things without breaking the bank.
I was worried at first, that the failing/unrepairable brakes would be a show stopper. But you got them semi-workable for your project.
I am now excitedly waiting to see it lift the main heavy steel I-Beam for your roof.
Too bad the Pettibone crane wouldn't work to set the roof beam. I suppose it doesnt pay to sell it, since you mostly got it for free, and who knows how much/little its worth? Good luck!
Didn't he do a shit ton of work on it fixing the cylinders, brakes and a lot of other items (or has my old memory confused it with something else)? 🤷♂
[EDIT] Yes the memory did confuse it with something else and now I forgotten the name of the damn machine but I did remember the nice cage he bought to use it for working from.
Interesting hearing about the runaway plate. Based on how it looked I'm thinking your parking brake may have been the brakes for a while now. Good luck with your new crane!