Your running commentary as you work is precious. That’s one reason I never miss a video. I learn and I’m entertained by your commentary. You tell me the whys and wherefore, the stuff I need to know in order to understand what you’re doing. Don’t see why anyone would complain, since that’s where the learning comes in and the video becomes really interesting. There is nothing more boring that a silent video where nothing is explained. I turn those right off because I know the author doesn’t care about my viewing experience . Keep on doing what you’re doing. It’s obviously working.
Man, I’d love to be an apprentice under you. Infinite level of knowledge under many different areas of the diesel mechanic world... Would be way better than what any tech school could teach somebody
"I'll work on anything": Thats why I respect you, sir. Sharing your knowledge and experience with us as you would a curious friend is a special thing for me. God bless you and yours.
Some days it is the spectacular scenery surrounding you or just barely visible on the horizon. Some days it's the visuals of what is the current project in your garage. Today, it was the narrative of your past employers and your experiences with this equipment. Your story telling is unrivaled in detail, depth, and color. I enjoyed listening.
I used to drive flatbed truck. My boss had loaded up the truck while I was working on another job and didn't know not to over tighten the nylon strap binders to the point where it took more than my own body weight to unbind the load. The ratchet straps were so tight that I had to use my entire body weight to undo the ratchet with the breaker bar while I was pulling the ratchet trying to get the straps off, the bar had a bend in the end of it to give more leverage but it ended up swinging with my body weight on it and my fingers still in the stupid ratchet and crushed two of my fingers to the point of causing me to pass out on the spot. Almost lost my fingers. A week to the day later, that same boss crushed my right hand in a hydraulic lift gate on our box truck. That stupid injury cost me the ability to ever work again. I ended up with a nasty disease out of that injury that left me in debilitating pain for the rest of my life with absolutely no chance of recovering and it caused further damage to the bones in my legs and feet. If you can find a better or I should say, a safer way of doing something, it's far better than to end up crippled for life just to get something done quickly rather than safely.
Hope you sued his stupid ass for that...damn dude that made me cringe reading this...ohh shit 😳 the pain you had to go thru and still be reminded of that every day
Just got done watching Ford vs. Ferarri and had that feeling that Ken Miles, the mechanic/driver, reminded me of someone. Greasy overalls, no shit attitude, and more knowledge of machines than most men he was key to the success of the Ford Cobra and the GT40. If you haven't seen it I encourage you to do so. You will find a man like yourself.
Wow. In all my 25+ years turning wrenches on stuff, one if the more extreme blowouts on the metallic sealing 'combustion' portion of a head gasket I've seen. A small crack is one thing or a blown coolant passage but wow she let loose alright! The 'right' way would be to rebuild it at this point, but as long as the head is true you're in the money for a "gasket slap." Great video man, I really enjoyed this one. Keep it real! 👍😎
@@psygn0sis I remember watching a video of him putting a pto on his deere with his feet.... yet I fight my round baler to put that damn pto on my 1066. I watched that video and every time I hook up a pto I don't think nothiin but someone else has this a lot harder... impressive!
i would measure piston depth make sure you dont have a bent rod and im really surprised a piston didn't grab a cylinder wall. those engines are tough but water and kinetic energy dont mix. dig your videos your an inspiration to us all.
The metal plate at #1 is a guard so you can't get the fuel wrench in there to turn the fuel up from the factory there will be a special bolt that's drilled for a factory wire that has a seal lock on it
Dang Warren. I wish I could stand right there and watch you do your thing. You are a wanted man. Wanted alive my friend. I mean.I know a boat load about riggs but you take it up 10 noches. Wish I had your mechanical knowledge my friend. Awesome video.
I have a 3116 in a M 1078 (96) and was so glad to hear you say it's a good engine. Most of the time people say it's a junk throw away engine and wouldnt own one. I took mine to Cat and had them do an overhead, cost 250 ish then I asked them about injector timing and quoted me 2K so I passed but he said it sounded fine and dont mess with it. DOD is selling a metric butt ton of these things. Maybe you should join steel soldiers and advertise if you want the work, 3116, 3126, C7 etc. Anyway great video, cant wait to see you set the rack up. ETCM/SS John (RET)
It's nice the way that engine sits high and open. Looks like you can get to everything right in front of you. You should pick up one of those fancy air hose eductor fittings to pump out fluid from above. Makes life easy. Never mind, after watching, I noticed you used an eductor sprayer, which is kind of the same thing.
I’ve got the carpenter tool for injector synchronization on the 3114,16, and 26 MUI engines, with the regular dial indicator. I prefer it to digital actually. I think they’re great engines. Seems a lot of people are intimidated about replacing/reaming the injector cups also on those series engines.
Your lighting is a great improvement, know its hard to have lighting that works all over but Hi Bays seem to be working well here. Adjust and adapt, you are a wonderful example, when next you and your wife are in New Zealand fly fishing I'll show you adjust and adapt here. Best to you both.
They were perfect tractors for working on rough ground...farm I worked on had a 45 an three 75E’s the 45 lived on a bed former fitted with Trimble for tomatoes,broccoli,lettuce ground was doing 2200hrs a year, buy the time I left it had 13000hrs not a spanner to it. The 75’s are all retired now they all made it to over 20000hrs only have engines rebuilt 1 had a new transmission.
I understand the small Challengers were built in Winnipeg - the same plant New Holland built the Genesis tractors in prior to the merger with Case IH in 1999. I don't know how long this went on until production moved to Jackson MN (?) for Challenger via AGCO - I always enjoy your videos - you are an old pro who is not afraid of anything - a dying breed. Keep up the good work.
The guard on that shield, originally has a wire that goes through both the bolt head and the little shield. It’s supposed to be a tamper proof shield for the main fuel set screw, so nobody turns the fuel up, and if they did then you would know. You can’t adjust the main fuel setting with that guard in place
I worked for Cat and I hated them things and so did everybody else I worked with and we had all the special tools they were always screwing up . Several customers replaced them with Cummins engines especially in the yard dogs boats and gensets . I was happy when they went heui. The one cool thing about the 3116 mechanical though is you can crank up the power safely on a higher hp model by adjusting the rack .
I'd be a betting man theres some piston scuffing if she got that hot, or a cracked head, maybe even a slightly bent rod from a hydrolock. . Big variable is how long it ran. Hopefully the guy understands if it just gets a head gasket, it's a "till it gets out the door" warranty as I say. I dont mind patch jobs as long as that's understood.
Great picture Warren...Great work my friend...looking forward to November for you to come help us on staring our 671 Detroit Diesel in our 1952 Greyhound Bus....We are also having challenges with memory space on rendering with the memory it takes with the higher resolution videos...But what a picture!!!!
Those new lights really make things bright. I am sure you wish they had come around sooner. So much more efficient not chasing around looking for the work light
My grandfather never owned a crawler tractor, but he did borrow a John Deere 40 crawler to pull the disk harrow in some of the tomato fields that were swampy. Our ground in southern New Jersey is sandy and swampy, so crawler tractors aren't an uncommon sight.
I normally watch car repair, and small engine repair stuff (SMA and Taryl fan here). I have no clue why I am about to watch this but I bet its gonna be great!!
This remind me of a 2LT (2.4L Diesel turbo) we had come in in a toyota hiace Van. It took full throttle to get it up the driveway and into the shop and it wouldn't rev over 2000rpm and had a rough idle. It only goes through 3 litres a day doing 120 kilometers distance, he said as if it was something good.. We said before we even opened the seat/engine access panel that it will need another head or motor. It was spitting water out the tailpipe. So I pulled the head off and looked at the chambers to see which one was cracked. They all were between the seats and the seats were proud of the chambers by an 1/8 of an inch (3mm) and I realised the surface of the chambers was rough/eroded. and there were no fire ring marks from the gasket on the surface of the head. So I had a look at the block after peeling off the gasket The fire rings on the gasket were exposed both sides The bores were 6 mm wider from the top edge of the block down tapering down to where the top piston stops on its upward travel. You could see the broken rings down the sides of the pistons. there was a 3mm gap either side of the piston. They had to roll start it down the hill in front of their house to start it. it was basiclly running on the turbo to get enough compression up. We put a second hand motor in that one. LOL
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I had a tandem freightliner business class with a 3126 ,my only complaints were no power on hills and no Jake
The video was good and sharp, and the sound was good (even when it was bad). And, it's funny, I have kin in Coos Bay, and in San Diego/El Centro, so, I have to shift mental gears when you talk about "down south."
Sounds like shop very busy I dont think people realize how much repair work is out there keep you going 24 hr if you want. Take it easy dont work to many hrs.
I can remember back in 1980, when the 3408 cat needed lower end bearings, about midlife, that we brought her in and did just that without doing the top. When she was at her end, we would go through her completely.
I'm pretty sure those earlier Challenger tractors were built by New Holland/Versatile.
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I'm 6'2" 300lbs and I forget when I'm training the little guys , every now and then I see one releasing one of my binders and flying over the trailer bodily lol
Brings back lots of memories of field calls back when. Customer would say they think they have a bad fuel pump and we would show up with the little transfer pump. Then they were all irritated saying no, the main fuel pump. I'd say... thats the governor. Cat shouldn't have put that governor in the spot where fuel injection pumps usually go haha. It's so much easier nowadays cuz the customers can just send you a picture of what they're talkin about.
A friend of mine was a agricultural professor at Cal Poly, he once told me tracks came out because of the softer soil out west , hence you have Holt (which became Cat )I think the original manufacturers of track equipment.
Customer brpught in a Freightliner box truck said it went to knocking ,, then skipping real bad ..... well popped the cover off the top of the engine spun it over and #4 wasnt blowing anything out the exhaust .... pulled the head #4 piston was in the oil pan rod was still intact slightly bent but not broke ..head was pitted real bad on #4 didnt bust the block ...but it was too far gone to do anything with ....i found a good 3126 at a salvage yard down in myrtle beach sc heard it run ,holding 50 lbs of oil pressure at idle and only had 50,000 miles on it put in my customers truck I got paid i was happy custer got his truck running and was happy he headed back to California and i moved to the next job lol
Uh oh.. guess I am going to have to pay attention to 3116 videos close. Might end up buying one that needs rebuilt. Will be interesting to dive into this assuming I buy it.
I ran the racks a lot when i was in Cat field service... Some customers were put the injectors & rack in then call us to run the rack..they used this engine in a lot of stuff.
Those old bucking dogs will hurt you bad. Half assing stuff will bite you in the ass every time and it's your fault when it fails according to the customer. Those old Cats remind me of Detroits. Thanks for the video!!!!
I really love today's classroom sessionif I could talk you into digging up a whole bunch more of these caterpillars like this unit I'm anxious to learn more about these cats built like a Detroit
Hi Warren, it wasn't until i looked at another uTube channel, Millenium Farmer, that i found out that Cat of loaded the manufacture of the challengers to AGCO.
