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This video is kind of all over the place, but I think it still was pretty good content. Let me know what you think about the new video style in the First Person perspective. You can check out the Amazon Affiliate Links for tools used in the video to help the channel: DEF Line Plier Tool, Lisle: amzn.to/3mlygtO Piston Ring Compressor, Lisle: amzn.to/40R60hR
I like this view as well. Sometimes a head cam moves too much with peoples natural tendency to look around, and it can get dizzying. But with your calm and precise style- I'd watch anything you put out there. Thanks for your time as I realize editing these takes awhile. Cheers brother
The new camera angle is definitely an improvement. Smart move. Will the “Lucky” valve spring repair require the head to be removed? On gas engines you can often put compressed air into the cylinder and replace valve springs/seals. Have you seen the “I DO CARS” channel? He does engine tear downs that are usually Destruction of the Week candidates. This week he is tearing down a decent looking 3126b. Thought you might find it interesting.
on a diesel you can pull injector out and gut it to make a tool to do it like you would a gas engine or make a air fittin to injector and use a 9volt battery to hold injector open
Tricky with that one. We could bring the piston to TDC and pop the retainers off or use an air tool to hold the valve up. Best thing is to pull the head and make sure that valve hasn't contacted the piston. Want to do the best for the customer and give him a reliable repair as well. Hopefully have more information on the repair in the next video. Another comment was talking about the "I DO CARS" guy so I should check that channel out.
@@shanerussell8894 C15 have bad valve rescission and 9 out of 10 will be cracked. Always pull the head off and if reman check that all the collets are fitted.
Best practice is to remove the head for an inspection. The likely scenario is a reman head. It's a pricey repair but exponentially cheaper than a complete "Cat"astrophic failure if there is something more wrong like a bent valve, valve recession, another spring fails etc.
The small engine you called kubota is actually a ‘ishikawagima’ engine. We do shit loads of injector pumps and injectors on them in Uk. Majority of them are generators on tugs. Also do a lot of c4.4 cats which is a Perkins engine. Just sprayed yellow and banged up as cat
Hey Josh. Thank you so much for answering my email and erasing all of my worries about leaving the college path and going to tech school next year. Talking to the admissions people over at the big three letter tech school everyone gets ads for. Hopefully after a good fishing season this summer I’ll be off to get my diesel mechanic cert!
Just know that after you get the cert that doesn't mean you know everything. Always listen to the other mechanics in the shop first and ask questions after. I wish you well.
Best of luck in school. Tip you will get often is listen to the old guys even if they are repeating things, they want you to never make the mistakes they did and often we add something after repeating stuff. Be safe fishing.
@@markm0000 thank you. the most learning i've done so far is unlearning the typical teenage "I know everything" mindset. Once you accept that, seems like things go easier.
@@badgerpa9 thank you too! like I said in the reply to Mark's comment, getting rid of the " I know everything mindset" gets you far. The old guys, simply because they're older, have seen a lot more and know a lot. I'll be leaning on them as much as I can to get the stuff they don't teach in class.
We aren't gonna talk about tje awesome mustache you are sporting! Looks great. Love the updates on the camera angle too makes my day when you got a new video coming out never fails to disappoint always interesting!
Great find there with the broken valve spring ! You very thorough which is a sign of a good technician one that takes pride in his work ! When I have my 5.9 Cummins worked this is what I want doing work on my pick up truck that being said there's only 2 technicians that I let work on my truck here in Chuch Hill Tenn. I'm very particular I bought my truck new in 2002 it has 328650 miles an still running strong ! 👍👍 Thanks for sharing your videos I do enjoy them !
I worked at a company that make ABS and EBS systems for heavy duty vehicles and half our warranty problems were related to water wicking along harnesses and finding their way in to the ECU. Always amazed me how this happened.
You just saved his bacon. One of my trucks with c15 ACERT is at western states in Pasco complained of noise from high pressure turbo and they found both turbos were ready to go :( lol but they saved me a world of hurt had that low pressure turbo grenaded under load!
Like the camera angle and picture quality. Having been the victim of lined-up ring gaps in a 6-pot Audi diesel, I went searching for answers and found the normal cause is not-round cylinders. Possibly caused by improper hand honing.
Good catch. You’ve got common sense mechanic skills something you can’t teach. I try to teach my guys to look at everything and visually pay attention and care about your work. Most think I’m just gonna do and fix what I’m told they don’t care to find the how and why something isn’t right just fix what I’m told to fix. I tell them treat each truck like you own it but nah they still don’t care
He probably doesn't feel that way, when you call and say you found a major problem, but obviously it is much better than what was about to happen to that engine.
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I suspect the motor on top of the generator unit is actually a permanent magnetic alternator (PMA) that’s used to excite the field on the generator. We had something like that on my last ship, but that generator was vintage 1966.
I can’t believe you had two car carriers in a row. As a 28 year veteran of car hauling I can attest to how much of a pain in the butt they can be to work on lol. Always hitting your head on something and if you want to get under it for anything you have to raise it one way or another.
The stash is looking good. Going for the handlebars? Nothing like doing a bearing roll in and get that drip of oil in the stash. Smelling it all day. Good catch on the spring.
There were rumors floating around regarding what you were doing with your “off screen hand” and now those nasty rumors can be put to rest. please continue with the new recording format
I like these Kubota engines, the 2203's in transport refrigeration would easily run 25000 hours before needing work. It seems like Cat are giving up building engines, just buying them in from anybody. Thanks Josh, like your content.
Just my opinion, but if you're gonna just buy them in from anybody, might as well go with Kubota, as those things are well thought out, almost bullet-proof.
@@stanpatterson5033 I just think Cat doesn't make an engine this small. Kubota has a whole line of small diesel engines and nothing large, while Cat is probably the opposite.
@@stanpatterson5033 Well said. I knew Cat bought Perkins engines, didn't know about Kubota and the new 13 litre Josh showed us recently looks like it could be a PACCAR (DAF) unit. If true at least they would have a truck engine again.
The main cap design on that “CatBota” is also done in exotic high performance engines and I believe also in some aviation engines as well by making the main caps part of the bottom section of the block it is providing the bottom end a lot more rigidity but with far less weight. The only major downside to this design is oil leaks however if the mating surfaces are not perfectly square and flat. Not surprisingly the main causes for oil between the bottom section of the block and the center/top section of the block is use of the incorrect gasket maker (personally I like Honda-Bond or Three-Bond which is the company that makes Honda/Yama-bond) and idiots that use die-drinkers and “oatmeal” cookies to clean gaskets surfaces. ( one tool I cannot live without for cleaning gasket surfaces is “Super-Scraper” which is a piece of squared up carbide attached to wooden handle, there only downside is if you drop it more than likely you will break the carbide) I do have a question about the pistons in that “Bota” the first being was the ring gap end gaps checked and were the cylinders bores checked for roundness
Love your videos. With the new camera, be careful of too much movement for too long. It's easy to induce motion sickness in the viewer if you're not careful (I was on the edge towards the end when the rockers came out). If there's a way to enable image stabilization in the camera, please try that (it helps a lot). Not trying to be whiney....want to make sure your viewership stays high. Keep up the great work....
considering how much trouble just the blade nuts are on a Kubota mower deck for an old B6200, I can imagine the squeeze trouble you had with those rings. that maker has pretty tight tolerances. we racked up 3000 hours on one of the little 883 3 cylinder diesels before handing her off mostly just mowing and a little tilling.
I have had Lycoming, Continental and Briggs Stratton engineers tell me that weirdly ring gaps aligned has least blowby. Make of that what you will. 50 years of engines never saw rings line up and become a problem - so there's that, too.
It is common for really big industrial engines (think locomotive and up) to have an arrow on the piston pointing sideways, usually towards the camshaft.
I know im late to the party but on the cat bota if you do a bunch of service work on them in cold enviroments CHECK THE CCV HEATERS in cold temps they will freze and back fill the intake with oil hydrolocking the engine, figured id make this comment and hopefully save someone greif of a ruined motor.
Good catch on the broken spring. I always replace inner also and the other side. Don't like a new and old spring under the same arm. Engine looks like a illegal rerate and FLS/FTS adjustment. You would not like the way I fix internal harness's to prevent oil seeping into the connector. Coolant line appears to be rubbing on air compressor hose. I put a 45 degree elbow to swing the hose down. Just ordered the removal tool.
