Vintage 1940 Cat Caterpillar D13000 Generator built for the U. S. Navy, 9200lbs. 

My two favorite things in this world, vintage caterpillar engines and Emmy Lou Harris, "Till I can gain control again"

This beautiful monster displaces 1246 cubic inches! That's 20.4 Liters. I had the pleasure of riding on a D8 as a small kid and it was one of the most memorable things ever

This fellow knows his stuff ,impressive there sir,he followed proper procedures and allowed the wee pup motor to warm up the big main engine for some time then boom the big girl fired up,buddy sure as hell knows what he's doing nice video

So nice to hear a pony motor with a muffler! So much easier on the ears.

Terrific video showing how to properly start the D130000. I have one in my 1926 Chesapeake Bay Oyster. Buyboat. Great Engine! Thank you.

That is one of the Most nicest sounding Diesel engines I have ever heard

Now that's 'music' ! Wonderful engine's in those years,....I worked around diesel engines all my life, and now I think, how stupid I was to not have had one ( at least ) in my retirement, to play with.

I love to awaken to the sound of a healthy diesel engine! Turned 70 on Dec. 16. Thank you very much for a great video! I am retired USAF, and have worked on generator sets, from diesel, to gas, to AE24U-8 turbines, for deployments.

thrilling and a great experience to see such a marvellous piece of old time engineering come back to Life. Just fantastic, thank you, stacks from ZA!

That's a proper start with preheat and all. Well done, nice engine.

Love it Bud! Thank you for sharing

gotta say old fella come to life real good great sound too I love seeing these old engines running so well thanks for showing us

That was real cool. Built to get going in some cold weather. Nice to see it up and running

Longest diesel cranking ever! When it starts, sound is really nice.

I like this video, I watch it time to time and not a dual moment

That thing is just awesome.

Neat piece of History!

That is one nice old machine. Bet it takes a long time to warm up. Cool bucking sound. Nothing will ever be made like that ever. I got a chance to work on proto type diesels.

Love the sound

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sounds awesome

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I kept waiting to see if those jumper cable ends would connect and make a nice flash since they were still hooked up to the battery and kept walking on them.

Very cool 😎👍

Good idea the pony motor, two functions:preheat the main engine and start him

Sick!!Takes a lil dawg to start the big dawg..

That little puffing will stop, at most one or two injectors most likely are a little gummed up. Once that engine fully warms up and a good load is placed on the generator the engine will clear up. You can also bleed each injector individually for any trapped air.

Take a look for the brilliant solution: diesel-starter exhaust preheats mail diesel inlet manifold. Excellent idea!

Holy cow! a sailor's tour would be over before that thing got running!

1936 for the navy???and runs so good???wow!!

my job logging in 66 was to start this engine on a road building dozer, D8, and that pony motor was much louder than this one. Easy to start really.

That's the first pony engine with a muffler that I have ever seen, just gave me an idea for my d7 and my Bucyrus Erie B-38. And very good starting sequence, check for oil pressure, walk around, etc. You need to post a follow up. Love the old US made equipment.

Pony motor sounds good

I have a marine d13000 in a bucyrus dragline, mine was built in the early 30s, no ring gear on pony motor so it's strictly hand crank, my oil filters look completely different than yours, and on the cover of the injection pump it has individual spring loaded shut offs for each injector, does your pony have the huge spark plugs? my pistons have a v cut section cut out, like a slice of pie look, flame out, nice pu

Nice shorts

Nice Gen set-Does the gen set still make voltage? I see it has the old belt drive exciter. I have been with Cat as a gen tech for 5 yrs now total. Love the old stuff too.

Grande maquina. Trabalhei c dois. Nao dao problemas como gerador e motobomba

And it still purrs like a kitty.

we run a sawmill with that exact engine

Part History Right There

Purrs like a kitten... God bless American ingenuity...CATERPILLAR engines built to last...

nice work

Hello, what a great engine, very impressive! How much diesel does the engine use per hour?

That's a beautiful sound! Nice job cleaning and painting it gray. Of the 9200lbs for the genset, how much of that is the engine? Thanks for sharing...

Went to school many year ago for auto / diesel one of the training engines was an old inline cat used to power a mine shaft winch it was from the 1930s ?? it also had a prony motor to start it but this one had wrap around a pull rope to start it

Here's another one of my Caterpillar refurbs, 1955 Cat / lincoln 600 AMP welding machine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-97ek-6gsQt4.html&t

1940 this engine is good!

'Small Engine Mechanic' is slowly working on getting a similar generator running which came out of a dairy (if I remember right). It has two stuck pistons.

I sure enjoy the sound of this old CAT diesel gen set. You go a jewl in your hand. Got a question: what is that electric motor on top of the generator for? Thanks for the upload.

Congratulation generation on yes

The early CAT engines were low compression. Because of low compression they would not start until warmed up. The pony motor should have been run for at least 10 minutes before using it to turn over the main engine. The main engine would start immediately. Why wear out the starting gears??? Remember, the pony motor is used to also warm up the main engine.

i want one of these for my standby generator

so 8600 hours@ 900 rpm by my calculations is 464.4 million revolutions. nothing short of amazing and when you consider running time wise it's early middle age could be around for a long time still I'm curious how's fuel consumption at load if you ever worked it out either way they certainly knew how to build durable, reliable engine / generator set's

Super generator. How much does it cost.?

Like my second wife, not the easiest starting old girl, but she'll do.

Just kidding I cant cut straight either! Nice engine by the way

Is there a small engine which is used to crank the large caterpillar engine?

I have one of these. It came without oil in both engines. What is the best oil to use and the quantity needed for each?

Yes it's called a pony motor

Did you cut your own shorts or did someone who didn't like you do it?

La cosa estaba en convencer el pony motor ,nunca dispuesto a trabajar despues hacer arrancar el diesel era facil

Can that same engine be converted to run off natural gas? What is the max size generator that can be put on it? Any other info you got on it.

I really like it, but it is 7200 watts with a 121 hp motor, not 72,000, that would take a much larger hp engine. very nice genset.

can anyone tell me the torque specs for the head and the rod caps for a d13000

Having one these things around might be nice whats the point owning one these large generators unless your starting some ammunition factory.

whups, my bad, it is 72,000. regards

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Where is the oil filter on the diesel engine? I don't have a manual.

If it belonged to the Navy in 1940s, the SEABEEs ran it. Retired CE !

proper pony shut down idle back shut off gas let gas run out shut off mag save,s washdown of pony cyl. wall,s

8600 hrs = 500,000 miles you can put another 8600 hrs or 500,000 miles

did caterpillar make a v8 version of this?

Caterpillar didn’t use anyone’s proven design of combustion chamber and injection equipment , as they designed their own . as a result the engines couldn’t be started by hand or electric . The only way to start them was with another engine . The large engines like this one have a small steel disc bolted in the middle of the piston crown . This was to stop it burning a hole in the top of the piston , due to poor combustion . Caterpillar lost a few good engineers over their stubbornness to change . It was the Japanese that finally booted them into the 21st century . If only they had used a somebody else’s patent like freeman sanders or Harry Ricardo’s patents , there would’ve been no competition as these engines are very well built , and they had the market captured .

Very nice genset you have. How did you get it Sir ???

Hate to have to see you pull start the pony motor.Hell I had to fire my D-8 up with the rope pull.You have an electric starter and had issues.

That's a lot of iron to make only 120 hp!

The good old GM 671 2 stroke would have eaten it for breakfast !,the engine the won the war for the USA ?

Didn't they use these to power old air raid sirens too?

50 or 60 Hertz? great vid.

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dam she's fine!!

Might of been used as a ships service generator, ships electrical power.....

Robust and cumbersome.

Where’s the DPF and EGR coolers?

Nice engine. Geez I don't know man. That's an awfully low horsepower rating for an engine that size even at 921 rpm and not tubocharged. Even for the early years.

Hasn't he heard of ether? Hope he never has to start that up in a winter emergency.

That is one noisy pony!

WELDER

revvv itttttt

Ran the pony way too long. No water pump

Problem of the starter

Go Trump

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