As a Red Seal Technician, a truck push and safety officer on big inch pipeline projects I'm going to start using parts of this video in my site orientation. I was literally yelling at my screen... The fact that all this actually happened and wasn't done by stunt men leaves me amazed.. While entertaining, I'm amazed these gents still have their arms and legs, let alone a heart beat. A little saying we safety professionals tell the cowboys who say I've done it a hundred times without incident and nothing has ever happened... "FOR EVERY TIME IT HASN'T HAPPENED, THAT'S ONE TIME CLOSER TO IT HAPPENING! " Stay safe guys
This guy likes starting fluid. He holds the record. I've seen a few pieces of equipment that had been sitting along time ruined by the hook and drag technique. Always try and turn by hand first. Check oils for both quantity and quality. Fuel same thing. And check the air cleaner . I hope it's repaired to working condition rather than scraped. Back when made in the USA was the norm. Nothing built today will last like that . Good luck with it. It's a beauty
@@mrbrown3462 I agree with that for the most part. However if you don't check things out before dragging cranking pushing or whatever, you can greatly increase your odds of ending up with scrap metal. A stuck valve or hydrolocked cylinder would quickly destroy hard or impossible to find parts. Just a few possible senarios. I've brought back a few engines and machines in my time and caught a couple of disasters before they became one. I hope it's not too expensive of a fix and it lives on instead of going to China and coming back as a bunch of cheap hand tools!
This is very interesting for me, i'm 80yo now and when i was a boy at Westport New Zealand, our family lived near the Government Public Works Dept workshops where servicing was done on D8 Caterpillars, plus other big machines and Dart and Euclid dump trucks used for removing overburden at the Stockton and Millerton open cast coal mines not far from Westport, so we were very familiar with these machines which we played on as kids on Sundays when the mechanical team were not there. Sometimes we managed to start one and didn't know how to stop it, luckily there was a neighbour nearby who did, LOL. Bob. NZ.
Lovely old girl . Bit of love and some hard work and she will be fine and dandy and ready to work again . Built in the day when you didn't scrap you repaired. Seen some sketchy things in my time but standing on the blade arm while the tracks are moving is something I wouldn't recommend .
I have an oil pump from a sb Chevy mounted in a 5 gallon bucket which I run with a cordless drill. I hook an oil line from this to oil pressure switch line and pressurize oil system before ever turning engine over so engine isn’t first turned in possibly dry bearings to prevent damage. I have started ones which have sat 15 to 25 years as long as the exhaust was covered. It’s generally more work to get the pony motor running than the diesel. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for total experience...background explanation... beautiful scenery....my grandpa had 2 D8s loved the music and machinery audio... a trip to a beautiful place l can never see or go to....quite entertaining... Butch from Florence Texas
My mum used to operate a D8 skidder when her and dad were logging over in Fernwood, Idaho in the mid 70's. She was also setting her own chokes with a 42 LB bell.
that little steel chain pulling 25 tons... DAMN! IT SHOULD HAVE SNAPPED ...SOON AS THEY STARTED PULLING! AMAZING TENSILE STRENGTH! interesting video... thanks.
Just watched part 1&2 of the retrieval of the D8....awesome! A great testament to the perseverance and tenacity of the American spirit....great job guys!!!
Lever on the right arm rest to release brake , direction lever back ,third gear,pull the clutch in, decompression lever off then throw over when oil pressure up.
“Could be, haven’t checked, we don’t know......” this old girl was in a better state than your thinking that’s for sure. It is a miracle that you got it running at all and an even bigger miracle if that engine survived after torturing it while running down that hill. This machine is pure quality, reason it started, even by a bunch of guys capable of killing it for ever in just minutes.
I know little to nothing about the workings of an engine even less about heavy plant diesel engines but pulling it along and bump starting it made me cringe to be honest!
It's amazing how you could have turned the engine over backwards that much and not mess anything up to the point where it still started up absolutely amazing piece of equipment there and how they didn't end up dying that's a pretty big accomplishment like holy crap they deserve an award or something
In Seward, Alaska my friend George keeps the 1943 D-8 running good. My mom's dad had the 3rd D-8 thatCaterpillar made, he bought it in 1938, I believe it is still on his farm near Garden Plains, Illinois. D-8's created inprovement on alot of infrastructure around the world. Your D-8 looks like a 1950 model. It will need a full service and repairs, so good luck and Best wishes.
One does not have to be a mechanic to know the machine has to be checked for oil and water. A lot not seen on that video. Who lifted the blade. Surely not held erect for 15 years. Won't be watching part 2. Just couldnt
It is very hard on that turbo having it going full bore and then shutting down the engine. The shaft connecting the compressor and turbine is spinning at 50-75k and is riding on a thin film of pressurized oil which is also helping to dissipate some of the heat. The oil pressure goes away and now that shaft is turning on what's left of the oil which is being heated to coke by residual heat from the turbine and it's housing. I know you guys didn't do it on purpose the second time but that's why you don't want to. Also why it's a good idea to let a turbocharged vehicle sit and idle for a few minutes when working it hard prior to shutting the engine off.
old cats are stout as hell, and will survive being beaten within an inch of their life every day for years. Yeah, its good practice to let the turbo spin down, but it most likely didn't do as much damage as youd think.
@@natehill8069 Yeah very true. I don't understand the way they went about getting that machine. I would have known if it had water or coolant in it before I tried to start it. I don't even think they checked their fuel filters to see if they had diesel or diesel water before trying to start it. Not the best way to save yourself expensive repair parts.
@catmodelt Who are you to this video anyway? Your first post was "They just killed the poor thing a little bit more." and now you seem to be saying they did everything right? So what are you just a troll?
Beating a old machine like that when your clueless should be Criminal The fuel rack is stuck in the IP Glad no one got hurt. The opportunity was sre there.
I think I would have poured in a little diesel on top of the pistons either via the injectors or glow plugs 24 hours before so as to unstick the piston rings, and to help with initial lub...standing for 15 years is a long time.
We have a d9h at work, , it has a hydraulic blade and ripper, we picked it up off the ground and then worked the clutches, set it back down and we determined the left cluthc is shot and so are both brakes, so we jus idle down and shift fnr, and use the right clutch in f and r to steer :) forward right and backward right=left . Still theese are the most awesome machines to run!!!
Wow! Starting before you even knew if you had coolant. Maybe a little bit in a hurry to hear it run? Could have blown it up and wasted all your efforts. Glad you got it going!
@@papasoldmachinegarage2 oh yes. we are watching you from far away. The world is now a small place to live in.we are happy with what you post for us. we take it as a learning platform.
I used to operate a D9 of the same layout . It had a 6V battery for the pilot motor . I do remember the mechanic hooking up a 400 amp DC welder to the main starter.I didn`t see what he connected ,but I do remember he arced a welding rod to the starter. Boy did that spin it .No mucking around with valve lifters either ,just throttle . Hope this idea helps in future.
@catmodelt That would have been a great time , That D9 had more than 21 thousand hours o it & that was nearly 50 years ago (73) I remember the morning starting ritual still , I loved the delicate touch needed for blade work & the whistle of the turbo . My all time favorite machine . I did see a picture of one in a German museum I think , while mine was in outback South Australia . So your own work traveled far & wide across the world helping countries build & rebuild.
Spent a few years in the lower article building log homes. Learned to use a d8 same as this one always ad a sore back never pushed over a big tree .iliked the old thing. Please be kind to these old guys. I was 80 and doing this grading the air field.
Jerry Snoor Jr Almost positive its Utah. Thought I saw a lic plate. And I think I've hired that truck to move an excavator couple times. I live here. A company called Atlas uses an owner operator to move there mid size machines. He's probably moved more excavators with old trailer then any one alive.
@@Peterbilt359 See, this is the fun part of the internet.. Searching really cool places and trying to figure where exit to Union Park Avenue is 1/2 mile off of whichever interstate highway
Cdntrvler54 Rewatched it saw he has Atlas hat. Atlas machinery is equipment dealer in north Salt Lake I was there today and bought a compactor, nice guys. They own about 60 trackhoes and rent them out and sell them. This guy moves most of them, he has old truck and trailer and has probably moved more excavators then any one in the world. I'll bet there are days where he has moved 10 a day and has been there forever. Gave me a bill once, I paid him extra and told him he was to cheap. These are old time Utahns Salt of earth people very self reliant and simple and fun to hang around. People say in comments he could get hurt. He isn't getting hurt.
It's bad enough these guys are using a chain, sorry I thought it was a cable, whatever, but they don't even know that it's pretty close to a runaway diesel. The old guys just standing on the blade frame. Duh, hey George, tell me about the rabbits again, ha ha.
A run away is obviouslly with a fuck ton of smoke the rack is stuck wide open the engines fine just running throttle shes fine ive seen much worse happen and beleive Me this dozer has seen full throttle its whole life and if anything that was good for it it had oil pressure .... spinning it backwards now that may have done something but no full throttle it dont give a flying fuck frankly it spins to slow i dont even think the d342 engine this has goes to 2000rpm as peak power is rated at fucking 1300rpm and I've seen them run at what sounded like 200rpm in a cold start for 2 or 3 minutes till it picked up
@@21babydew Not always, if the racks stuck wide open the governor has no control over the rack so no control of engine rpm - that's still a runaway engine that can rev to destruction, especially if the engines under no load. When an engines governed to say 2100rpm max how do you think that's achieved? The governor pulls the rack back.
Nice suspenders! I just got a set like them. had to make my belt so tight that is was cutting off the circulation to my hips and legs. But I notice it transferred the weight to my aching shoulders now
Its a damn shame. Such beutiful n powerful machines that represents an era in American history. Its very sobering to see that there r ppl like u atleast making an effort to save an era. That our kids n grand kids really should see n learn abt!
Looks like the rings are stuck to the pistons causing all that blowby. Put some oil in the cylinders and run it. They should break free and expand out. Might take a few applications of oil but those 342 engines can take a lot of abuse. The engines with the spacer plate between the head and block are a little higher horsepower and require a little more fuel. Please remember that starting fluid does have some lubricant in it but engine should not be run on starting fluid alone. Prime that fuel system right up to injectors , get some fuel smoke then apply starting fluid. Your engine will thank you for it. Also pull out compression release for a solid 30 seconds to get oil pressure and fuel pressure up. Then let it rip...will sound like a freight train but that is how it is supposed to sound starting up. Good luck with that old girl
I'm going to part 2 now. I was thinking about a runaway when they started tightening that injector. I'm wondering if water didn't get down into the pump and stick the rack open. The smoke looks like blowby, no one mentioned what it smelled like. I ran a newer H model back in the 1980s and found out that the transmission can run out of oil and lose power if you get on too steep of a slope. It's moving, so the transmission is probably ok. I'd say the problems are in the brakes and final drives as seen, I probably would have checked all the oils before moving it. I didn't hear a crankshaft knock. That the old engine tolerated that runaway I'd say makes it probably salvageable, but I would've probably tried to do a fix on the injector pump before moving it more. And yeah, I agree with a lot of others, I probably wouldn't have stood on the blade arm while this tractor was moving. That's another thing, I was waiting to see it go over the side of the road when that guy was walking it down the hill due to not being able to steer it, brake it and with the motor running away- it looked like the clutch was still stiff and iffy. That would have been too bad so I was glad to see him steer it. If you need an economical D8, without seeing the rest of the videos, my guess is that this one will be salvageable. Lets see.
Didn't sound like the motor was running away at all. A diesel running away is hard to mistake and SCARY! I heard a Detroit 4-53 2-Stroke run away. Think the mechanic had screwed up the rack adjustment somehow or maybe injector stuck. They got it shut down by tripping the blower intake but it was pretty interesting for a few seconds. LOL Also worked with a guy that had worked in another shop on the Detroit's. Forget now if it was a 8V-71 or a 16V-71. He said a guy there had all the air box covers off bumping the engine over to check piston rings and it fired up. Not sure why---didn't have the governor lever in the fuel off position or there was a problem with the governor? OR it may have been an electric shut off that doesn't stay in the fuel off position after shutdown. We had equipment with both styles.
Before you tried to turn the engine over by pulling it did you put new oil in the Crankcase and check the oil and fuel pumps to see if they work. I do not know anything about Big Cats but it is interesting to see you try to resurrect the dead so to speak, good luck.
armchair mechanics always know better . Pisses me off that they rip the whole video . Haven't done anything in their life except drink beer and watch tv . Good going guys . Nice video and thank you for sharing . Looking forward to round two .
Not at all, I have owned and worked 5 dozers but no I wouldn't leave any of mymachines with them having a free hand, still was though frustrating a good things not to do watch
No, I'm a forklift/heavy equipment mechanic and all I saw was a mixture of stupid and/or dangerous. Been doing it 20 years for an average of 50 hours a week - that good enough for you? If you not on top of your game, machinery like this will kill you in a heart beat or worse still, hurt you in ways which will make you wish you had been killed. And fucking things up can end up costing more money than many make in a year.
Been logging for over 15 years. Ever re sleeve a big cam cummins in a mudhole on the side of a mountain? Ever rebuild the rear end of a timberjack 450 while it was about to fall off of the edge of a road? I'm an armchair mechanic alright, so much so that I hate doing real wrenching. It's no fun when you aren't making money...
By recovery do you mean scrappers? 15 year old fuel (bad) 15 year old oil (bad) 15 year old hydraulic oil (bad) Check coolant after it runs away to redline? (bad) If someone leaves a D8 somewhere there is probably a really good reason which means it likely had a big problem.
It seems like a lot of people are very critical of these guys it seems to me they are using what they have and getting the job done that's all that matters a lot of the negative comments seem to be like people who's don't use what they have and they want to go out and buy a brand new one
As a retired Diesel tech this was painful. Clean fuel++ change out all the fuel filters the right way. Change the engine oil before anything..
Do you need to be a ’retired diesel mechanic’ to know of this wisdom?
As a Red Seal Technician, a truck push and safety officer on big inch pipeline projects I'm going to start using parts of this video in my site orientation. I was literally yelling at my screen... The fact that all this actually happened and wasn't done by stunt men leaves me amazed.. While entertaining, I'm amazed these gents still have their arms and legs, let alone a heart beat. A little saying we safety professionals tell the cowboys who say I've done it a hundred times without incident and nothing has ever happened... "FOR EVERY TIME IT HASN'T HAPPENED, THAT'S ONE TIME CLOSER TO IT HAPPENING! "
Stay safe guys
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Success is another name for luck, when it comes to dumb people doing dumb things.
STFU about safety ya girl
@@Gus1966-c9o safety first
Yep, that was so stupid.
As soon as I saw you coasting the wheel loader off the trailer I knew this was going to be entertaining.
My thoughts exactly. Little or no brakes, but it is an old Case.........…….
@Eric Belinc my dad’s case backhoe is similar except it does have one of its brakes working
Will never cease to amaze me how such a small link chain can take all that strain
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This guy likes starting fluid. He holds the record. I've seen a few pieces of equipment that had been sitting along time ruined by the hook and drag technique. Always try and turn by hand first. Check oils for both quantity and quality. Fuel same thing. And check the air cleaner . I hope it's repaired to working condition rather than scraped. Back when made in the USA was the norm. Nothing built today will last like that . Good luck with it. It's a beauty
Mean looking bucket she carries
I agree 100% with the technique and ideas. Good to know I am not the only one. I operated a D7 in the 70's. Thanks.
It either runs or it's scrap metal only one way to tell fire it up hook and chain or starter doesn't matter just fire it up.
@@mrbrown3462 I agree with that for the most part. However if you don't check things out before dragging cranking pushing or whatever, you can greatly increase your odds of ending up with scrap metal. A stuck valve or hydrolocked cylinder would quickly destroy hard or impossible to find parts. Just a few possible senarios. I've brought back a few engines and machines in my time and caught a couple of disasters before they became one. I hope it's not too expensive of a fix and it lives on instead of going to China and coming back as a bunch of cheap hand tools!
@@jimmotormedic , agreed again. You got it right. My respect to one who knows and cares.
This is very interesting for me, i'm 80yo now and when i was a boy at Westport New Zealand, our family lived near the Government Public Works Dept workshops
where servicing was done on D8 Caterpillars, plus other big machines and Dart and Euclid dump trucks used for removing overburden at the Stockton and Millerton open cast coal mines not far from Westport, so we were very familiar with these machines which we played on as kids on Sundays when the mechanical team were not there. Sometimes we managed to start one and didn't know how to stop it, luckily there was a neighbour nearby who did, LOL. Bob. NZ.
Lovely old girl . Bit of love and some hard work and she will be fine and dandy and ready to work again . Built in the day when you didn't scrap you repaired. Seen some sketchy things in my time but standing on the blade arm while the tracks are moving is something I wouldn't recommend .
I have an oil pump from a sb Chevy mounted in a 5 gallon bucket which I run with a cordless drill. I hook an oil line from this to oil pressure switch line and pressurize oil system before ever turning engine over so engine isn’t first turned in possibly dry bearings to prevent damage. I have started ones which have sat 15 to 25 years as long as the exhaust was covered. It’s generally more work to get the pony motor running than the diesel. Keep up the good work.
Reminds me of the old Caterpillars video,Shake hands with Danger lol
Thanks for total experience...background explanation... beautiful scenery....my grandpa had 2 D8s loved the music and machinery audio... a trip to a beautiful place l can never see or go to....quite entertaining... Butch from Florence Texas
Nice mountain scenery on the horizon :)
My mum used to operate a D8 skidder when her and dad were logging over in Fernwood, Idaho in the mid 70's. She was also setting her own chokes with a 42 LB bell.
The turbo spooling up at 18:17 sounded awesome! I absolutely love the way those old tractors and their turbos sound!
Yep, the sound of a dry turbo. You can hear it rubbing as it spools back down.
don't know anything about wheel loaders but i would have NEVER imagine that loader would have budged that dozen a single inch. very impressive.
you'd be surprised how easily a bulldozer rolls in neutral
@@orion4s982 haha i guess.
Awesome , She looks like she's in good shape for the age . Glad you saved it .
I love the view of all the snow covered mountains.
Those are the type of videos I really enjoy watching.
Cliffhangers are great.
filters coolant and oil check might have been a good idea?
that little steel chain pulling 25 tons... DAMN! IT SHOULD HAVE SNAPPED ...SOON AS THEY STARTED PULLING! AMAZING TENSILE STRENGTH! interesting video... thanks.
Cable's plenty good. He wasn't lifting it.
Great old tool , drove one similar many years ago . Brings back good memories Good luck from UK
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Just watched part 1&2 of the retrieval of the D8....awesome! A great testament to the perseverance and tenacity of the American spirit....great job guys!!!
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Congratulations. Boy those are such a good tractor.
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Thank you it’s a great tractor. Hopefully we can get it running right.
@@papasoldmachinegarage2 do you still have this old D8?
Lever on the right arm rest to release brake , direction lever back ,third gear,pull the clutch in, decompression lever off then throw over when oil pressure up.
What?
@@gumelini1 I think that's some kind of cheat code.
“Could be, haven’t checked, we don’t know......” this old girl was in a better state than your thinking that’s for sure. It is a miracle that you got it running at all and an even bigger miracle if that engine survived after torturing it while running down that hill. This machine is pure quality, reason it started, even by a bunch of guys capable of killing it for ever in just minutes.
Let's see you do it. THAT would be comedy
I know little to nothing about the workings of an engine even less about heavy plant diesel engines but pulling it along and bump starting it made me cringe to be honest!
Whooaaa!🤯that wasn't very safe at 19:15! That coulda ended up in some serious injuries! But great video none the less! Next time safety first!
It's amazing how you could have turned the engine over backwards that much and not mess anything up to the point where it still started up absolutely amazing piece of equipment there and how they didn't end up dying that's a pretty big accomplishment like holy crap they deserve an award or something
In Seward, Alaska my friend George keeps the 1943 D-8 running good. My mom's dad had the 3rd D-8 thatCaterpillar made, he bought it in 1938, I believe it is still on his farm near Garden Plains, Illinois. D-8's created inprovement on alot of infrastructure around the world. Your D-8 looks like a 1950 model. It will need a full service and repairs, so good luck and Best wishes.
He admitted they didn’t even check oil levels. Jeeez!!
I’m no armchair mechanic. I’m a damned good mechanic!
I didn't see anyone with a grease gun, either. The way that poor thing was squeeking ...
One does not have to be a mechanic to know the machine has to be checked for oil and water. A lot not seen on that video. Who lifted the blade. Surely not held erect for 15 years. Won't be watching part 2. Just couldnt
What an amazing piece of iron...congratulations!
I used to be an engineer on V24 BIG CATS they were something else LOVE my big Cats!!
It is very hard on that turbo having it going full bore and then shutting down the engine. The shaft connecting the compressor and turbine is spinning at 50-75k and is riding on a thin film of pressurized oil which is also helping to dissipate some of the heat. The oil pressure goes away and now that shaft is turning on what's left of the oil which is being heated to coke by residual heat from the turbine and it's housing. I know you guys didn't do it on purpose the second time but that's why you don't want to. Also why it's a good idea to let a turbocharged vehicle sit and idle for a few minutes when working it hard prior to shutting the engine off.
old cats are stout as hell, and will survive being beaten within an inch of their life every day for years. Yeah, its good practice to let the turbo spin down, but it most likely didn't do as much damage as youd think.
Sitting for 15 years, Id be reluctant to call whats in those lines "oil"...
@@natehill8069 Yeah very true. I don't understand the way they went about getting that machine. I would have known if it had water or coolant in it before I tried to start it. I don't even think they checked their fuel filters to see if they had diesel or diesel water before trying to start it. Not the best way to save yourself expensive repair parts.
@catmodelt Then why does he kill the engine and is surprised by the fact that there is water in the radiator?
@catmodelt Who are you to this video anyway? Your first post was "They just killed the poor thing a little bit more." and now you seem to be saying they did everything right? So what are you just a troll?
That chain you got around the blade looks dangerously close to going under the tracks! Lol
Beating a old machine like that when your clueless should be Criminal The fuel rack is stuck in the IP Glad no one got hurt. The opportunity was sre there.
15 years???? Thing looks mint!! Look at the rear Rams! Must just be extremely dry there and not to much heat as the paint looks sweet
Grew up around these machines, never mechaniced on them but my Grandpa, dad and oldest brother did, love hearing these old CAT’s start up and run
That bulldozer is a beast. Awesome video
I think I would have poured in a little diesel on top of the pistons either via the injectors or glow plugs 24 hours before so as to unstick the piston rings, and to help with initial lub...standing for 15 years is a long time.
Man i give that chain props too!! Has to be one hell of a chain lol!!!
Definitely wasn’t a Harbor Freight chain lol 😂
Wouldn't it be a good idea to check the oils and coolant before you tried starting it.
Right!
Yoop, absolutely, first things to do. Those guys have big machines but totally unprofessional ...
We have a d9h at work, , it has a hydraulic blade and ripper, we picked it up off the ground and then worked the clutches, set it back down and we determined the left cluthc is shot and so are both brakes, so we jus idle down and shift fnr, and use the right clutch in f and r to steer :) forward right and backward right=left . Still theese are the most awesome machines to run!!!
I enjoyed the video, nice country, thank you.
Just like my old mower...started right up on the fifth or sixth pull.
Wow! Starting before you even knew if you had coolant. Maybe a little bit in a hurry to hear it run? Could have blown it up and wasted all your efforts. Glad you got it going!
Cant believe they did'tn check the engine oil & radiator water
Jesus. Can’t believe y’all are just filling that thing full of ether right off the bat. Poor old girl
It probably needed it due to sitting for around 15+ years
That's a nice looking old machine ,it just needs a little TLC, once you get it going it'll go for ya
It looks in pretty good condition
Good old machine. im watching from Nairobi-Kenya.Good effort.
Francis Malonza isn’t the internet amazing. My little video has gone international.
@@papasoldmachinegarage2 oh yes. we are watching you from far away. The world is now a small place to live in.we are happy with what you post for us. we take it as a learning platform.
I used to operate a D9 of the same layout . It had a 6V battery for the pilot motor . I do remember the mechanic hooking up a 400 amp DC welder to the main starter.I didn`t see what he connected ,but I do remember he arced a welding rod to the starter. Boy did that spin it .No mucking around with valve lifters either ,just throttle . Hope this idea helps in future.
@catmodelt That would have been a great time , That D9 had more than 21 thousand hours o it & that was nearly 50 years ago (73) I remember the morning starting ritual still , I loved the delicate touch needed for blade work & the whistle of the turbo . My all time favorite machine . I did see a picture of one in a German museum I think , while mine was in outback South Australia . So your own work traveled far & wide across the world helping countries build & rebuild.
Hello I'm from peru and Tmb I operate that kind of machinery cat d8 old cordial greetings. Good very entertaining video have Facebook page to share.
Fun to watch, but gee, guys, don't you do the obvious like checking coolant and oil BEFORE you try to start it?
Spent a few years in the lower article building log homes. Learned to use a d8 same as this one always ad a sore back never pushed over a big tree .iliked the old thing. Please be kind to these old guys. I was 80 and doing this grading the air field.
18:19 it runs .... *AWAY* !!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 always keep your choke board handy!
Wherever that is, I'd have been stuck on the side of the road staring at those mountains. They're beautiful.
@rats arsed Trying to GOOGLE all Union Park Avenues, from a highway turnoff point of view.. Nothing yet..lol
Jerry Snoor Jr Almost positive its Utah. Thought I saw a lic plate. And I think I've hired that truck to move an excavator couple times. I live here. A company called Atlas uses an owner operator to move there mid size machines. He's probably moved more excavators with old trailer then any one alive.
Those are foothills...
@@Peterbilt359 See, this is the fun part of the internet.. Searching really cool places and trying to figure where exit to Union Park Avenue is 1/2 mile off of whichever interstate highway
Cdntrvler54 Rewatched it saw he has Atlas hat. Atlas machinery is equipment dealer in north Salt Lake I was there today and bought a compactor, nice guys. They own about 60 trackhoes and rent them out and sell them. This guy moves most of them, he has old truck and trailer and has probably moved more excavators then any one in the world. I'll bet there are days where he has moved 10 a day and has been there forever. Gave me a bill once, I paid him extra and told him he was to cheap. These are old time Utahns Salt of earth people very self reliant and simple and fun to hang around. People say in comments he could get hurt. He isn't getting hurt.
Kids beatin the crap out of each other in the back seat. Dads oblivious!
That tiny little chain pulling that scared me
said the same thing to meself...
There is just so much wrong happening in this video it’s funny
So bad, things run away completely the guys just looking at it, if it was just him he would’ve just sat there until it seized...
Run it until it seizes mentality.
Shake hands with danger😂
@@michaelsclark lol looks like they’ve never watched that video.
LoL to the "Shake Hands With Danger" reference.... The SHWD series of videos are timeless and done extremely well. I show them quite a bit.
Nobody heard of blocking the inlet?! Good call on stalling it but with people standing on the tracks??
It's bad enough these guys are using a chain, sorry I thought it was a cable, whatever, but they don't even know that it's pretty close to a runaway diesel. The old guys just standing on the blade frame. Duh, hey George, tell me about the rabbits again, ha ha.
A run away is obviouslly with a fuck ton of smoke the rack is stuck wide open the engines fine just running throttle shes fine ive seen much worse happen and beleive Me this dozer has seen full throttle its whole life and if anything that was good for it it had oil pressure .... spinning it backwards now that may have done something but no full throttle it dont give a flying fuck frankly it spins to slow i dont even think the d342 engine this has goes to 2000rpm as peak power is rated at fucking 1300rpm and I've seen them run at what sounded like 200rpm in a cold start for 2 or 3 minutes till it picked up
@@21babydew Not always, if the racks stuck wide open the governor has no control over the rack so no control of engine rpm - that's still a runaway engine that can rev to destruction, especially if the engines under no load.
When an engines governed to say 2100rpm max how do you think that's achieved? The governor pulls the rack back.
@@21babydew Do you know how to talk without cursing? I'd respect what you are saying better if you did.
Could have been a bad sad deal standing on and over the tracks
At 18:20 or so; "IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIIIIIVE!"
17:50 - my testes crawled back inside my body cavity to escape that noise... only to be drawn back out by that amazing turbo whine. 👀😎👍🏻
Great video the scenery was tremendous also
Love the video great to see big cats come to life.
That Case is a real beauty!
Loader guy saved the day!!!
Excellent video...
Such an awesome video! Man that old wheel loader had its work cut out for it that day! I hope this video gets 1 million views cuz it deserves it!
Yep she deff needs some love but it runs godbless
Everything screams NO! I literally yelled it's running away! Cool video though.
Nice job getting it running.
This looks like so much fun.... Wish i had the time and resources to do this...
Looks like they should have done some research on D8s first and checked it over thoroughly before trying to start it.
The problem was the DPF sensor feed from the control module.
@@jimmycricket5366 lol. Yes, should have plugged in a Fault Code reader.
@@johnsomerset1510 Duh... Exactly! 😜
Dam i surprise after 15 years it’s start on the turbo sound great
He bout throwed his ass off 😂😂😂😂
Goddamit boy, you nearly killed your Paw. Not to mention the engine revving it that high when it's not been run for so long.
10:45 - am I the only only guy that winced at that black cloud and hoped we did not see anyone decapitated today? 🤣
Funny thats how it ran when they were new no brakes loud shaky manuel everything what a machine though nothing will stop em
I still believe analog is better than digital for so many things, and I'm a "youngin".
Next video: How to operate a Caterpillar D8 H from a wheel chair!
Shake hands with danger guitar riff
Beautiful tractor
Hey, Papa! During the intro, it looks like your little helper has to go potty!
gcflower99 all young helpers and Papa had a mandatory potty break before we hit the road 😉
Nice suspenders! I just got a set like them. had to make my belt so tight that is was cutting off the circulation to my hips and legs. But I notice it transferred the weight to my aching shoulders now
Clipon in suspenders are for girls.. men wear button suspenders....
@@elonmust7470 men don’t worry about what people say they should or shouldn’t wear. They just wear what works for them
@@4477superman Yeah, clipon suspenders don't work very well at all...
Its a damn shame. Such beutiful n powerful machines that represents an era in American history. Its very sobering to see that there r ppl like u atleast making an effort to save an era. That our kids n grand kids really should see n learn abt!
You guys are brilliant
Looks like the rings are stuck to the pistons causing all that blowby. Put some oil in the cylinders and run it. They should break free and expand out. Might take a few applications of oil but those 342 engines can take a lot of abuse. The engines with the spacer plate between the head and block are a little higher horsepower and require a little more fuel. Please remember that starting fluid does have some lubricant in it but engine should not be run on starting fluid alone. Prime that fuel system right up to injectors , get some fuel smoke then apply starting fluid. Your engine will thank you for it. Also pull out compression release for a solid 30 seconds to get oil pressure and fuel pressure up. Then let it rip...will sound like a freight train but that is how it is supposed to sound starting up. Good luck with that old girl
That old loader is in great shape for her age
Once started I would have shut it off... pulled it down almost to the trailer then started it up again.
D see
No fun.
It was runaway... they couldn't shut it off. They had so use the transmission to kill the engine because it wouldn't shut off.
Had no coolant
I'm going to part 2 now. I was thinking about a runaway when they started tightening that injector. I'm wondering if water didn't get down into the pump and stick the rack open. The smoke looks like blowby, no one mentioned what it smelled like. I ran a newer H model back in the 1980s and found out that the transmission can run out of oil and lose power if you get on too steep of a slope. It's moving, so the transmission is probably ok. I'd say the problems are in the brakes and final drives as seen, I probably would have checked all the oils before moving it. I didn't hear a crankshaft knock. That the old engine tolerated that runaway I'd say makes it probably salvageable, but I would've probably tried to do a fix on the injector pump before moving it more.
And yeah, I agree with a lot of others, I probably wouldn't have stood on the blade arm while this tractor was moving. That's another thing, I was waiting to see it go over the side of the road when that guy was walking it down the hill due to not being able to steer it, brake it and with the motor running away- it looked like the clutch was still stiff and iffy. That would have been too bad so I was glad to see him steer it.
If you need an economical D8, without seeing the rest of the videos, my guess is that this one will be salvageable. Lets see.
Didn't sound like the motor was running away at all. A diesel running away is hard to mistake and SCARY! I heard a Detroit 4-53 2-Stroke run away. Think the mechanic had screwed up the rack adjustment somehow or maybe injector stuck. They got it shut down by tripping the blower intake but it was pretty interesting for a few seconds. LOL Also worked with a guy that had worked in another shop on the Detroit's. Forget now if it was a 8V-71 or a 16V-71. He said a guy there had all the air box covers off bumping the engine over to check piston rings and it fired up. Not sure why---didn't have the governor lever in the fuel off position or there was a problem with the governor? OR it may have been an electric shut off that doesn't stay in the fuel off position after shutdown. We had equipment with both styles.
Good video. Tell that young guy no touch, wow someone could get hurt.
Before you tried to turn the engine over by pulling it did you put new oil in the Crankcase and check the oil and fuel pumps to see if they work. I do not know anything about Big Cats but it is interesting to see you try to resurrect the dead so to speak, good luck.
19:15 DON'T SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER
This is 'Ol Three Finger Joe. That old film was the first thing I thought of watching this.
@@needsaride15126 same lol
[guitar riff plays]
Seems like the guy driving the loader knows more than the old man....
I wonder if we say "hmmmm" or "thats good" and stare at it long enough itll fix itself
The old man is a fucking poser....
armchair mechanics always know better . Pisses me off that they rip the whole video . Haven't done anything in their life except drink beer and watch tv . Good going guys . Nice video and thank you for sharing . Looking forward to round two .
Not at all, I have owned and worked 5 dozers but no I wouldn't leave any of mymachines with them having a free hand, still was though frustrating a good things not to do watch
No, I'm a forklift/heavy equipment mechanic and all I saw was a mixture of stupid and/or dangerous.
Been doing it 20 years for an average of 50 hours a week - that good enough for you?
If you not on top of your game, machinery like this will kill you in a heart beat or worse still, hurt you in ways which will make you wish you had been killed.
And fucking things up can end up costing more money than many make in a year.
Been logging for over 15 years.
Ever re sleeve a big cam cummins in a mudhole on the side of a mountain?
Ever rebuild the rear end of a timberjack 450 while it was about to fall off of the edge of a road?
I'm an armchair mechanic alright, so much so that I hate doing real wrenching. It's no fun when you aren't making money...
By recovery do you mean scrappers?
15 year old fuel (bad)
15 year old oil (bad)
15 year old hydraulic oil (bad)
Check coolant after it runs away to redline? (bad)
If someone leaves a D8 somewhere there is probably a really good reason which means it likely had a big problem.
That was real cool, thanks for sharing.
It seems like a lot of people are very critical of these guys it seems to me they are using what they have and getting the job done that's all that matters a lot of the negative comments seem to be like people who's don't use what they have and they want to go out and buy a brand new one
Best part of the video, 19min, 15 sec.
Good luck pulling that one
Wow 15 and the beasts still runs
Now I know who not to call to recover an old diesel.
That thing is clean !!!
Beautiful part of our country. Where is this?
Im amazed it started up without flushing the fuel tank , fresh fuel and filters ect.