That is one Bas ass KW! My uncle used a 57 KW in his logging company from 1970 until the 90's. I really loved that truck. It was a triple stick with a 270 Cummiins and was streched out to fit a log loader on the back. Thank you for reminding me of him. Regards from Ody Slim
O-H-I-O Porter greetings 🇺🇸 I was feeling quite bone-chilling cold for you & I noticed you had only 1 battery in that old beast. WOW! I expected plenty of cranking for sure, but you got her running without too much of an issue. Well, it seemed that way, but when you’re COLD, working around cold metal is longer than desired. She sounds rather good & moved as well. Does that Cummins have a compression lever as well? I’m not too familiar with them as you can tell. You had fun & had more fellowship as well. All good stuff! Love the old trucks! Happy New Year my friend! 🥰😎✌️
to think I used to work on those KW, 230 Cummins, back in the day, worked at Empire White Trucks in Syracuse NY, yet while it was still viable City, back in the late 60's to the early 70's like that old tractor, they be gone now. lots of king pins bearings suspension work. general service and clutch R&R jobs. The company would broker glider kits, piggy back them in. three at a time. Caterpillar was my main line of work, went back in to the dirt.
@Steve Vaught. I had a feeling you'd be here. How have you been? I just hope no raccoons get in it. I've had bad experiences with raccoons getting into vehicles, won't go into full detail. I'll let your imagination run wild.
Mostly tweaked out because the suspension is absolutely toasted. Those torsion bars are real bad about it. I got a 64 925 also with this 59 and it’s not much better suspension wise
What motor does she have? But man I love that Kenworth, that's my favorite year of Kenworth when it comes to conventional Kenworths. And is she a twin or triple stick? But I really can't say enough how much I love that ol Kenworth love that she's original too.
855 series cummins, not sure exactly which one, 230 or 270 we think, no twin sticks, it's just a roadranger 10 speed, we think someone swapped it long ago
In europe we still use tachograph on the trucks but you need special card for the tachograph idont how the works in usa today i hope at you have great celerbration on new years :)
Well it was a $300 auction buy. The amount of work that would have to be done is just something I don’t wanna do when I’ve got other trucks that need less work. I like it the way it is
@@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 yah but not until more die. I had to put gasoline and diesel in it to get it fire up. It had straight used oil in it with no fuel filter on the truck.
As an old Cummins man I’m thinking a sized injector, or bent push tube. If you get it running ( when the weather is warm enough you don’t need to torture it with either 👎) and as it’s just starting to warm up, take you bare hand and touch the exhaust manifold on each exhaust port with your fingers. You will feel to see which one is cool longer than the others. 1 and 6 will take a little longer to heat up. Eventually they will get too hot to touch. The one that’s cool is the cylinder your problem lies with. To get that far won’t cost you anything. Please don’t rev up a cold engine. Pushing the full pedal down when cranking the engine over tells old timers you don’t know how a PT fuel pump works. It’s a nice old truck. Hasn’t been loved, though.
Да уж, сейчас такое не делают - тягачу уже 63 года, а он заводится практически как новый.... И такое повсеместно..... Очень сильно сомневаюсь, что любой современный автомобиль будет заводиться через 60 лет. Он скорее разрушится от коррозии
