BUYING a BURNED CAT Skid Steer With A Perfectly Good Engine 

8 months is just disgusting for a shop to have your old block and then say the basically fked it up. It only takes a few days to do a line bore for most busy shops, in terms fitting in the work with other engines being refurbished. On a positive note at least you have a good engine hopefully now, and enough spare parts to make some money for the project.

Man I really enjoyed the videos about this build and was wondering what happened. Good to see you're back at it and looking forward to its completion. Sure hope you found a new machine shop to work with. 8 months seems a little suspect

Really liked this video man you had me cracking up with ol elrod haha awesome job brother!!

Wow that’s a pretty impressive salvage yard

nice job!! can't wait till you have the cat completed. My brother and I recently finished rebuilding a 3044c for the 287B.

You are very resourceful. I enjoy your videos. You have me scared to death though about my engine in my 246B.

The closeups on elrods face while it was trying to load the block had me dead Wants to watch the world burn lmao

Great video! Laughed way too hard at Elrod angrily trying to unload that engine. Bet he was jealous.

Can't wait for part 2... hopefully it won't be 8 months from now, lol

Dude that beat you're brother made has my subwoofer hitting so low... sweet lol

Subbed, I dig your skid steer videos and your editing style. I have been waiting to see more vid's on the skid steer so thx for the update. Please keep the repair videos coming and keep doing what you are doin, it's great and has a bit of comedy/chill vibe to it.

Hanging onto that miscelanious stuff..that air cleaner housing sells for a couple hundred dollars.

Hi Braden from Queensland, Australia, I’ve watched a couple of your videos now and love what you do, I especially enjoy guys who save old iron, so decided to subscribe. Can’t wait to see how the bobcat ends up. Anyway, we’ll done, love your content and commentaries. Keep having fun. As for Elrod, man I’d give him a wide, safe birth. Man, that’s is a heck of a parts yard, wish I had that close by to me. Love your wheeling and dealing mind

I've welded up bigger holes than thoses and rebuilt it using all the old parts although I had to replace rings 1 piston & rod second hand, set of shell bearings, gaskets set and oil pump and its been working hard ever since 3 years ago lol

This type of engine is borderline impossible to line bore. There is little to no ability to adjust the back lash on the timing gears. When you line bore an engine, the crankshaft moves closer to the cylinder head in the block. That will cause problems with the backlash on the timing gears becoming too tight.

I wanna see more videos. I love your builds man

I,v welded patches in holes in bloke just tidy up hole cut piece too fit preheat use weld all rods = job right GOOD LUCK

Elrod 😂😂😂 my David brown 4600 is an angry ol boy, with questionable brakes

Man you are ambitious and remind me a lot of myself when I was younger. I just discovered your channel and subscribed I wish you all the luck in the world and go get em !!!

Do you have a link for that salvage yard? If you have those chunks of block and they don’t go into oil passages or bearing journals you can braze it epoxy those parts in and the block should be good.

Awesome, there’s someone else on RU-vid machining the block for a turbo, I have a 287 with the same motor, the oil pump issue seems to happen a bit, makes me a little nervous, have you come across a better oil pump or any sort of fix that makes it more reliable?

You do know just that quick connect is worth over $1000 and btw those plastic discs on the flywheel are not cheap don't damage them

Hey man did you ever get this machine running?

I had to sub you’re too damn funny

I love this channel

Impressive Braden! Will I see you at Builders this year?

Did you leave all of those parts out in the rain? Yikes

Aw man I live in Columbus ga you should have stopped by! You really scored on this haul!!

Fix the brakes on Elroy

Make it a high flow while you in there you will not regret it

Finally

got a sub from me! where did you learn all of this? Cant be much older than I am would love to do what you’re doin

You need to fix your windshield first.

So are u waiting for the motor to come back from the machine shop?

Great video! where is this parts yard?? i live in graves county

let me know if you will sell any parts

What happened with the flooded f600?

some progress!

Chop chop where’s my next video bro??

Hey, where is the parts yard you showed in this video?

Man i was really hoping for a 4 bt cummins swap those engines are built to last unlike these ones . Well next timee

Nice. to bad it took them 8 months to get back with you

Is there a fix for the oil pump problem?

10/10/23.. Where is the part 2? or part 5 ? how is this project going ? I was not going to comment but after watching I have to say something . PALEASE GO TO A GOOD MECHANICS SCHOOL ! LEARN IT ALL .

Exiting news i was wondering what happened to the skidsteer

Dude I work at tgc🤣

If its the same machine shop it wont be soon...

Man you have to shut that backhoe off every time you get off the seat, or one day it will kill you. Or better fix it up and post videos but don’t take chances with heavy equipment.

Hope you used a different machine shoo

That is a impressive part yard. Could you possibly give me some more information on it? Where is it at? Or maybe a phone number I’d really appreciate it. Thank you.