Sundance Transport 1980 Kenworth W900A CAT 3408 V8 Cold Start 

maybe, until the next golden age of trucking

And peterbilt

Once upon a time before the DEF.....

​@@mewkatlolTHERE WILL NEVER BE A GOLDEN AGE AGAIN 😶

​@@2FLY-gs1qt ppl are looking for these old trucks to run nowadays

Only thing they don't pass is a fuel pump

Thanks for chiming in mate. Sounds llike you have a hell of a work horse!

man y'all boys are badass down there!! I've been watching those videos!!! y'all ain't about nothing but RAW BLOODY ASS POWER!!! I LOVE IT!!!

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pity this bloke doesn't just drive this banger like you do Chris......

very strong cat big block.....17972ccm.....in us gcm just 36300kg.....australia is a heavy weight champion in the world!the Mad Hungarian tipper lorry drivers inside the mine .... my colleague last week 62500kg on gravelmine private weigh bridge....12 tyre,5 axles semi,one drive axles scania r420......

Idled like a washing machine full of bottles

Old school cats are ‐about‐ the only ones we can hear nowadays

One thing that made the distinct sound in the 3408s was they had a different angle on the V that being said when you worked on one the rod journals on the crank looked like they were sheared which gave that engine a very distinct sound

Sexier than any woman I've ever seen lol

Me too, and I've seen a few

Agreed

Yessir! It's done just right, not too much nor too little and everything is exactly where it oughta be.

Steve Mo the KTA 600 was a beast and super reliable motor. I was lucky enough to drive one for a short while. Mechanical motors were great

I run a 1MM 600 Cat c15 block c16 head longer stroke high compression the 8ne Cat built to kick the KTE 600 and it will.

Tim Scott The 6 head monster. Love the Cats but later days a signature 600 would run over a 625 cat

I have too. The KTA 600 was a good engine, but others and I found out about the KTTA 600 and ran them as they were the king of the engines back in the late '70s and early '80s with 1200 hp. If you paid attention you could get 6 miles or a little more to the gallon out of them. You had to run either the 6x4 or 6x5 with them as the 15 speed lower gear bearings would not hold up to those engines.

@@randyrudder2451 Hay randy you are dreaminggggg..

First Cat I drove was in the 80's a KW w/380 first start I thought this things is worn out junk, but when she warmed that thing would outpull any 400 cummins any day. Loved the way on a hill it would seem to fall on it's face, but hold on here came that breath and whisper that made it come alive and start pulling, back then passed a lot on that grade in Needles.

MTH DCS you never drive a turbo 12v then with the governor set at 2400..... would make a cat look like it's standing still

LOL, guess he never run up against a kta 600! No comparison!

A 3406 that has been run threw the doctors office will run with the “never late V8”.

That's a pc motor. The di starts easy and has more power.

Greg P. I had the same experience growing up in the late 90s in Colombia

Greg P. that is a completely true statement for me as well. Pure cool in every aspect.

Yeah a real truck not a show pony ! Only thing I would change would be the bumper. Would much rather it have the classic Gull Wing on it but other than that she is a beauty.

What happened in the 80’s? Did you get sex change operation to be a girl? That’s weird

@@shortthrow50 I knew I wanted to drive a truck when I was a kid and when I became a adult I did. Im still a trucker 30 years later.

Yeah I'd take CAT over Derot any day.

A friend had one they hauled potatoes the 2 guys that ran with him 1 had a 425 Cat the other 400 Cummins Eric would gross 20 to 30,000 heavier and just walk away on hills liked it's fuel but had plenty of power to show for it

Man those 8v92s were some kick butt engines

8V92's were a decent Detroit, at least less oil leakage than the 71 series engines, though in my truck technician days (1978-1983), NOTHING out pulled the Cat 3406's or 08's with the same hp ratings, they always had more torque, especially against the 2stroke Detroits. Only time I ever saw a Detroit come close was an 8V92 who's owner had installed 10mm injectors.

Kool truck :

Which cat engine was the most reliable for semi trucks? Which cat engine had the most horsepower? Would you say any other truck engine manufacturer made a engine that was as reliable as cats best....or had.... Just as good fuel mileage with high horsepower???;

Allis-Chalmers Big Al 450hp was pretty trick too.

I think the Buzz' Dozen V12 Detroit is a great engine though

These were new when I was a ASE certified diesel/truck tech in the late '70s early '80s; they were the gold standard engine option to have. That distinct high pitched rattle would set all the driver's and tech's hearts aflutter. They usually dominated the truck drag races here in South Jersey, with the exception of an occasional V-12 Detroit . Remember a long nose Pete with a 3408 doing burnouts, then turn a 10.1 sec quarter-mile....nuts

@@TuffBurnOutTeam I take it you never ran with an E9 Mack setup right or an Allis-Chalmers 725. Have run the engines listed by farmerallis and can say they all were very good engines that setup right would do the job. I've even run a KTTA 600 I had in an 80 ext/hood Pete with a 6x4 that put out over 800 hp. But to say KTA would kill them all is not correct. Been there did that back in the day. You can have a big engine, but the trans, gears, and driver make the truck.

The E9 bottom ends Would fuck out on them all the time pulling road trains i have had them many blokes in Australia would Back me up to what im saying thats why they all use K.Ts in Australia and there still using them over here still but we have replaced them now With newer tipe of QSK 19

Never late V8... never fix straight 6... hard to miss either way

@@kevinrice4909 no it's straight six, you like dicks

YOU obviously have not driven a modern big power motor. That motor did not last either.

D9R ran the 3408.

your not missing much now brother, the good ol'days are dead and gone.

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Defintly sucking air at start I ran lots of asphalt grinders and they started as soon as you hit the go button love em 👍

She should have lit off as soon as you touch the key. Definitely fuel timing problem.

He’s too worried about everybody looking at it and telling them they got wood to worry about the mechanics of the engine or smoking the starter to get it to hit or slobbering white smoke when it fires 😂

Yep, old mechanical 08s usally start at a sniff of a key, needs some fuel system love. And the white smoke is a good telltale things arent right

Billy Bob : When one of your those that you Dearly Love, comes down with IRREVERSIBLE LUNG DISEASE, after longterm exposure to the sickening fumes and smoke. ( C.O.P.D. ) and they wind up in a nursing home and are attached to an oxygen machine via an surgical openening in their throat where an oxygen delivering hose is inserted down into the lung, THEN you will PROFUSELY THANK those that serve in the environmental protection movement !! As much as I did not care for his policies "I NOW" offer my deepest RESPECTS, for the then ( Conservative Republican, in the 1970s ) President of the U.S.A. Richard Milhouse Nixon, ( May he and his Devoted Wife, Mrs. Reagan, Rest In Peace ) for his support of of the U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. I do not offer any disrespect to you sir, but as a nursing home patient ( attached to an oxygen machine, forever ) I urge all of you truck and car enthusiasts ( like myself ) to re-think your attitudes. Sign Me: Living in a nursing home FLAT on my back for the rest of my life attached to an oxygen concentrator !!! 😭😢😩 P.S. Beautiful antique trucks and autos appearing at special antique fairs, may BRIEFLY ( but no more )be given ( I am a B series Mack lover, since childhood ) a moment to show off those great sounding monster diesel engines. Like wise the great 427 Chevys and Hemi Chryslers, and Shelby 500 hundred Mustang Cobras.

WHO & What Trucker dies HEALTHY, dont know anyone dieing healthy, Trucking is way to much fun 2WORRY.

Maybe u shouldve left the cigarettes alone. EPA is a worthless government made up excuse of an organization.

Billy Bob you got that right

that's a real truck

some Ataks with no cats

LOL good catch Tommy. For some reason the SRT8 was louder in this video (more than a year ago) than the videos now.

no he needs a louder one!!!. .. and if DOT don't like it then they can kiss his ass!!! #double stacks built America! !!

BigRig Videos​ I've noticed the SRT8's seem to "settle" a bit and the exhaust quiets down a bit

BigRig Videos It sounds like a Mopar... Direct-connection.... but I always thought you were running Magnaflows for some reason. I know your ride is in Hot Rod mode, no doubt... gotta be to keep up with these straps, right? ;p

all day? pay?

jff id rather much drive instead of listening😅

Drove a Super Liner Freightliner back in the 90's with the 3408 dumping into a can then straight pipes. It would roar! Great sound at idle too, echoing in that can. How to spot a superliner: Cab widened, vertical stack on head lights for radiator clearance, narrow foot wells, ah never mind you'll never see one.

When I worked for Caterpillar in Portland Oregon, these original trucks were called Superliners, later changed to Power liners I think for legal reasons. The development work was done at the Cat dyno facility. Interestingly although they look like a regular freighliner none of the body panels are the same! So don't wreck one.

Holy geeze we got half the TTR crew here lol.