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What a beautiful beast. That driver absolutely loves his truck, and it shows. And I am betting he was happy to see how the engine looks as clean as the rest of the truck now :)
Bro... Love the way you talk... You sound like an old soul that was reborn in our time... Love watching your videos and you are teaching me a lot... I'm a retired ASE certified mechanic but never a diesel mechanic...!!!! Thank you for being you and keep them videos coming so I can burn my "UNIVERSITY OF JERRY RIGGINS" certificate...!!!!
I’m not (yet) a professional mechanic, but I think I can see the relative fun in having a customer who knows their stuff, and particularly is able to do parts runs for you!
Aside from looking nicer, there's a practical reason for engine paint. If an oil leak develops, it's much easier to see the problem early on. Great video.
As a diesel mechanic, I like customers that appreciate what we do for a living. I did a similar upgrade like that when working at Rush. Great job , love your videos.
Love retrofits! They always make me happy when you can refresh something old and make it better than new. The only retrofits I’ve done are for the interior of my car, and I did projector retrofits on my headlights
I measure where the fan is centered before I retrofit a serpentine belt drive. The most important thing is to center the fan in the shroud. Then fit the belt to that set up. I have done the same conversion on older Detroit 60 series engines
He was a wise man to take it to you. Worth the expense to drive there. There are many good mechanics out there the problem is finding them. Most of the car mechanics around here have taken other jobs that are cleaner and easier on their body so it is hard finding anyone that will work on a vehicle that is not new and knows what they are doing. Great job on the video Joshua. Stay safe and healthy.
That really does look clean. I had forgotten about the radiator vacuum fill system video. Time to rewatch and make one. :) Thanks for all the great information. If you ever need any upholstery done we are behind Dennis Dillon on Orchard. Fish House Upholstery LLC.
As I said in the first part you do a professional job ! Theres only a couple mechanics I let work on my pick up an its because they do a professional job an I trust them ! That is why that guy came to you probably from word of mouth compliments on your service an going an extra step ! 👍👍word of mouth isbyge best advertising in my opinion ! Or at here in Tennessee that is !
I use to work at Peterbilt in Mississauga. You couldn't get the mechanics to wash there hands never mind sweep up after themselves.Shout out Kevin and the OG techs that quite Pete, before it went to the toilet. Great to see a real Diesel tech. Mr.Ape is a real Diesel Technician! 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣%
Absolutely awesome Josh. Great job. The relief you must have felt. Had a great chuckle when you said. Destruction is it from Jeri. Zach has a good submission. That is a niiiiice truck. Love the older well taken care of million mile trucks. Cheers Josh.👍💪🔨🔧🪛🚛
This is a worthwhile upgrade on an older c15/16 with high horsepower. The v belt setup was inadequate when they were new. I remember around 2000 they started putting an optional "power band" (2 vbelts molded to each other) on them because the fan belts just wouldnt stay tight enough (or have enough grip no matter how tight!) to keep the fan spinning in hot weather. They would slip just a little for a few days until the glazed over then would slip alot until they were replaced. Engines would overheat pulling a hill. The power band helped greatly on a stock engine but put some fuel to it and they just cant keep up. Nice job as always!
LOVE watching you at work - this was a lovely job, esthetics are always last so it's wonderful to see such care taken to get perfect appearance as well as perfect function. CRISPY. Thanks for making such great videos!
Informative video 👍 I ran into those Pete trans cooler mounts several times. Finally started welding the nuts to a sheet metal bar. (For the next guy😉)
Congratulations, very neat job, reminds me when I was young, working at Cummins metro power in Newark NJ, we went tru that on daily bases, now I just enjoy seen it, my most expensive thanks for your outstanding video, to you and each and everyone that one way or another collaborated with this great information, from the endless summer paradise Puerto Rico,. Jesús Torres.
I've dealt with both types of belts on various vehicles and belt drive HVAC blowers and I can't think of any instance where I would ever want a V belt. The ribbed setup also looks much cleaner on that truck.
Nice change over. Glad it worked out for you. Those Pete's can be a PIA. We had a few with the shorter nose. One lost a fan drive bearing prematurely and sent the fan into the radiator. They were really close to begin with.
Even if you don't need a custom A/C hose, it is good to know your hose fabricator anyway. When I was doing auto repair, there were 3 times I needed an A/C hose. 1. Mazda 3. $150 at the Mazda dealer. 2. Nissan Sentra. $140 at the dealer. 3. VW Cabrio. $350 at the dealer. That's absurd, the hose was basically the same as the other two. We sent it to a local hose fabricator and paid $100 to have it saved. Well worth it. The host had nothing special in it to make it so different from the Mazda or Nissan hose.
I watch these videos and now I'm getting ads for my local CAT equipment dealer. Somewhere there's an algorithm that say "Hey, he watched a video about serpentine belts. He must want to buy a $50,000 excavator"
Sanden offers many different rear heads for that compressor. You can buy the correct one to fit the original hoses. But since they are 20+ yrs old they are due to be replaced anyway. I make custom and stock replacement ac hoses at home as well as nitrogen pressure testing and charging ac systems.
That is good to know Chris, I know you always comment too. With the type of people that watch this channel, I'm sure a team could be assembled to build a space station faster than NASA
I'd have made the same retrofit choice as no one seems to make a *good* V belt anymore, at least nowhere near as good as the old ones. Whatever compound they're making them out now hardens too fast, glazes no matter what you, ends up squealing and becomes a whole thing fairly quickly. And that makes home mechanics overtighten belts, and that in itself becomes a whole thing rapidly.. wear out the bearings etc. V belts aren't worth it if you *can* swap it over to a serpentine
That's good to know. I also noticed it was much harder to find the right v-belt anywhere same-day in a fairly large town, whereas serpentines have always been in stock when I needed them.
U wouldn't think it, but when the belt squeals its wearing the pulleys, once I replaced the alternator pulley and the ac pulley, no more glazed belts and squeal when the fan comes on at high rpm with ac going. So when it needs a new ac pump I replace the alternator pulley and belts and it's good to go. Roughly every 2yr on a dump truck
@@kwmiked you're lucky you can still get proper parts for it! I do a lot of "future-proofing" myself, thought it was interesting this guy brings a Cat in for a serpentine belt upgrade and I'm sitting here going "that's exactly what I did to my Ford powered boat (old Lima engine)" I can get the entire front drive off a Ranger or T-Bird or Mustang and run the single serpentine not deal with these new junky v belts & try finding new old pulleys once they're too glazed up to use. I don't have anything that big at home (tri axle etc) but I do have a lot of older junk with no other choice but to modify & retrofit as needed.
Pirtek is a company that has shops that can make custom hoses. They also cav mobile vans. I do not know if they are in your area. Their system can let you reuse your hose ends. They cut off the old crimp collar and have replacement collars that will clamp the hose end to the hose assembly.
Measure center of crankshaft to center of old fan hub, so fan will be close to old location. I use 5P4115 washers on the fan shroud. Cat makes a few top mounted A/C compressor setups, 261-7554 MOUNTING GP-REFRIGERANT COMPR, 240-8215 MOUNTING GP-REFRIGERANT COMPR. As you well know, trial and error.
