Reviving A 1969 Kenworth Cabover, V8 Detroit 2 Stroke 

It's not junk bud, just know we appreciate you and the time you put into the videos.

Gday Jake, the smile says it all, it started up clean which was very surprising and sounded strong, Great job mate, cheers

Man i love cabovers good on ya mate for saving the old girl

That cow catcher on the front is badass number 1. Number 2 flat black mad Maxx that one

Your getting a nice collection now, nice to see another old one breathe some life again 👍🏻

Engine sounds good. Helpin a friend with his 66 cabover k.w. 318 d.d. plumbed in an electric fuel pump at the secondary fuel filter. Engine lit right off after sitting almost fifteen years. Saved a lot of cranking and priming. Glad to see you brought her to life. !

Great video Jake mate,keep them coming,luv the old GM motors especially there sound.

She's a good runner. I think that rusted exhaust elbow was a blessing. Probably kept the exhaust from filling up with water and getting into a cylinder through an open exhaust valve.

Hey man the cab over needs to be a tandem drive

That sucker sure looked good under the valve covers but the clear water in the sump is a little weird, hopefully just rain water some how. I haven't worked on a Driptroit for years now, I have a road service business in Idaho & most of the trucks I work on are not very old. It's been years since I worked on a customer's cabover but I have a 68 International co with a Cummins V903.

Congrats Mate, on getting the 69 kenny cabover engine running. sounds great. I bet it was cool seeing-it go down the road..

The cab over would be nice with a nice little flatbed on it I can visualise it now

Man of talent Jake good on ya keep em coming Luv it

That Cabover would make a great ute! Somebody will want it.

Cool old Kenworths. My dad had a laborer with the 8v71. They sound really good with twin pipes.

crikey look at the grin on you mate

Nothing like a screaming Detroit!

Great bit of bed time watching over here. That engine sounds great.

Ooh more Detroit !! They're like a addiction as I seem to have with Land Rovers. You always want more 😂 regardless of how much work they need. Cheers, Ard

She sounds sweet. I like the 8V 92s but that ones very similar. Sounds awesome love it when they’re twin stacked . hopefully that’ll be a donor motor.

great soundin engine

The rip around the paddock sounds exciting with no brakes haha I reckon it will go allright

Good stuff, enjoying the videos mate.

What a video! I could have spent hours walking around that guys yard with his trucks, but I think you have more classics now Jake😁 that V8 sounded great once it fired, bit of persistence and start ya bastard to bring her back to life 🤙🏻 I saw a few comments about it but they start some much easier if you pump the diesel in, we’ve used an airline on a 25ltr drum of diesel to force diesel in, always take quicker. My heart sunk a bit when I saw the compressor missing, thank god for the warmer climate in southern Australia! If that was over here it would be full of sludge and rust 🤣 I’d definitely keep the cab over, find a big cam 14ltr Cummins and use it as a toy😁 the smile on your face said it all when the Detroit was singing😎 brilliant video as always mate! Looking forward to next weeks already 🤙🏻🤙🏻

Newbie here, just found and sub'd as soon as you walked up to that KWhopper! A gem 💎 but as an older fella prefer the orig. 925 round lights...great old iron.

Great work, sounds healthy 👏👏

Hi from France, it's funny you know,but back in the '80's just about all the big fleets ran G.M.'s(Detroit Diesel),those motors just seemed to last forever.There were two schools some had G.M.'s and others had nothing but 903's (who remembers those ?),and now finding an old 871 is hard going?they were pretty driver-proof those old 871's,drive 'em like you hated them was the motto,most of them had 15speed Road-ranger's in them, you know with the deep-reduction switch on the dash....and the obligatory spare belts and spare oil in the tool box,and boy oh boy they went through some oil...I can't help but be impressed by your chanel,great content, have a great week.

Compressor may have been the source of the water in the sump. Hence why it was removed. Great job mate

Keep that engine ! Put it in anything

I wonder if those square headlights were added to the w model as I’ve always remembered kenworth for having round lights until about 1980’s

"Happy Jack" .. so far it seems you scored a "good" cheap motor .. congratulations Mate .. if you don't need to pull the motor bring that little fella back to life, I'd love to watch the process & confident I'm not alone on that. Also good to see the "Ol Boy" a bit more in your videos .. take care Jack & thanks for the content.

Wow, didn't really take that much to get it going, sounds pretty good.

Need longer videos haha loving these kenworths ones

The cab doesn’t seem to have many oil leaks looks pretty good

Great show bud. Great work getting that cab over running. When i first saw it I thought what the f…… did you buy that for but looks like a good investment now. Well done👍

Is that pops helping you out? Internals looked almost new on that Detroit, crazy to see Seattle(born and raised in the area) built trucks down under and even cooler seeing you bring them back to life!! Cheers mate

Had one them rag top Mack's at Iron Baron years ago as water cart thinking at Iron Knob as well

This is excellent stuff mate, rapt to hear the W model has an 871T in it, magic donk in its day👍,late style rocker covers on the 71N, on an 871T N70 signify 335hp,not sure what the purpose of puttin em in a natural would achieve 🤔 , smoke??😅, never the less great score!!👍

Nice work Jake saving another couple trucks it would seem you have more w models in your collection than you see now days at truck shows! I don't know where you keep finding them from but they are all gems that cabover 871 seems like a good runner and a great deal and backup to the w models engine if that doesn't go to plan

Great work cobber, had some treasure at that joint eh🤪

Hey Jake ,how is it all going,the V8 GM sounds like it’s a good runner,plenty of projects on the the go for you,might have to employ an apprentice to help out 🇦🇺🇮🇹😁,Tones trucking stories has some videos of Dicky Becketts collection of Mack trucks who is from Tassie if you haven’t seen them

Stretcher outback truck I ain't never seen

You need one of these, search "scania rak 8". The sound is not of this earth

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Can you do a Will It Start on the old Mack?

Wow Jake that one sounds good. How much oil pressure did it carry? Seemed like it fired right off after you ran it a little. Hope it holds water. 13 speed that’s the old style shifter top. Course that looks to be early 70’s in the states with those style headlight buckets. Would make a neat project truck for someone that had time and was willing to do the work. If you’re lucky the other one will run without much work. Stay cool

Hey brother. American here. Do you guys have any GMC Astro cabovers there? I'm about to get one. 8v71 9spd. KW K100 Detroits are pretty hard to get here.

Just found ur channel.. im in USa. Love me some detroits. I have a few id say. That W900. U said it was late 60's.. early 70's as well?? The hood original. Reason i ask is square headlights.. in US.. they were round i think till 82.. 83 wS option in a glider.. what i was tokd anyways.could be total bs

G’day Jake , the old girl sounded strong once it was running , good job mate 👍🍻. Just a bit off subject but is there any chance of a quick run over of the engine change out you did on your Landcruiser ?

Might be a spicer gear box think the knob is a spicer some one will answer correctly .

What are those old style of wheels called (the 5 and 6-spoke ones)?

I hope that strap over the cabover doors didn’t wreck the cab at all 😬😬😬

Ok

Another old oil leaker Jake. You need to get yourself into a Mack or something Cat powered.👍