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After a little research (google, lol) the price of diesel in February of 1987 was .495 cents per gallon. OH but those were the days....Great content guys. Thanks.

Off road diesel in 87 was .53 - .59 a gal in its day the 910 was a good little loader run a lot of them

20 plus years ago a D4 at a farm sale . the tag on machine said made in Japan

Hank, if you get me the Serial Number of any Cat machine I'll tell you all about it. One of the perks of working for the great yellow father. Take Care, Jason

3204 !

$1.61

90 cents.

I would love to spend a couple of days with you guys, I have been a diesel/equipment mechanic for 35 years and Y'all always make it fun. So if you give the invitation Hank I would be there with my two crescent wrenches and liquid wrench. Y'all have outdone yourselves on this one with all the laughter and jokes. LOL

A lot of the time why a diesel gets addicted to either is because it brakes the first or first and second piston rings. Have seen some rods get bent just a bit. But very rare. Them rods are tough. Back then either didn’t have oil in it and would wash the cylinders out and scar them. Now it’s usually from broken rings. I call either death to a diesel in a can! Not needed. If it don’t start on its own something is wrong.

Pacific Northwest is looking for a old 4 cylinder cat motor for his dozer....

You two are making quite a team lol!!! Love it and enjoy it. I'm learning some as well. Thank you

I always used WD-40 when I had to start a hard starting or out of fuel semi tractor best stuff I ever found for starting a diesel engine.

15:32 As Peg from Zip Ties And Bias Plys Would say,"You don't need to worry about the EPA!"

May God help you and give you wisdom to get this equipment started in use for your property in Jesus name God bless the wonderful people the wonderful families in Jesus name and God bless your farms

I have an idea that might help on these old diesels. Find the glow plug connection and warm the cylinders up. It might not help, but it probably won't hurt. Just a thought. 😎 It could solve the "ether addiction"...lol! Good job fellas!

4Remember , Lum andAbner. Gas prices in 87 ? 75 cents. Go back to the 50s, 10, 14 cents a gallon. 🐻

I've been watching you a long time and this has been the funniest video yet..you two guys are a hoot..y'all had me rolling with tears in my eyes..I really enjoyed it..keep em coming.

That was awesome. I wore husky jeans when I was little. Was Wylie calling me fat? 😂😂. God bless ya BFF! 🇺🇸

I like watching you to guys getting all them trucks an tractors run you to men are the best😂

A 3204 is half of the 3208. Most truck mechanics considered the 3208 a " throw away" engine. They were both very prone to head gasket failure.that is built on a 910 loader chassis.probably has the old glass water separator on it. Those things suck air when the rubber seals dry out

I use WD40 to start diesels even though I get comments saying WD40 won’t start a diesel. They must have a different WD40 than I do.

Those old cats work circles around these new computer cats and computer controlled equip , like the older equipment easier to work on so much simpler it was .57 cent a gallon for diesel but in January of 87 was .49 cents then .57 cent a gallon in August of 87 was the prices good job fellas ,well done 👍!!!!

3204

Those shoes look factory lmaoo. She was ran hard

great video Hank/Wiley ,when you two get together to work on these old Cats , nothing stop the antics and joking around , just way too funny, green to watch ,first check for wasps, no wasps , step two get the crescent wrench out and go through the steps and eventually get'er done and she fires up 👍 keep me stitches

It was a one dollar or 1.24 a gallon

Them old cat's were darn good motors. That was a fun one.

Liquid Crescent wrench.

Ether will dry the rings out of oil... if you use too much.. it will fry the rings enough that it becomes depended on Ether.. I use gas and rag and put the tag over the intake. Then start.. gas is more explosive and it won't dry out the cylinders..

That's a 518 skidder turned around

Using a crescent wrench as pry bars and hammers is all they're good for. That's why they're called "Swedish Nut Lathes".

You KNOW!!!! that first battery was nOOO good becauz you pounded on it with that d@#*^ wrench!! Seriously tho", I ran an auto, truck & Large marine (130 ' +) electric repair business for a few years... DO you know how many starters, switches, alternators (& especially in Macks.. Starter relay solenoids ) BLEW UP.. both literally & figuratively... because of battery cables that were just pounded on & not tightened properly! I could explain the physics, but just know that as resistance (bad battery cable connections,,,) goes up, AMPERAGE goes up..(IN these big diesels.. up to 1-2000 amps!! (Kill ya in a second!!). Please, don't be like all the rest.. Loosen the bolt, Clean & fully "TAP" the cable end down !!!& then tighten! We made A LOT OF $ because of weak terminals.

Some of the 225 excavators were made in Belgium they had 3104 engines instead of 3208

The little stem is probably the drive for a tachometer cable. I have an old Cat 3306 on an opal mining rig and it uses a very similar thing.

That has got to be one of the oldest wheeled bunchers around darn near belongs in a museum

FAT guys?? Logging crews always have a skinny guy named Skeeter driving the skidder.I wonder if the engineer who put the engine shut-off on pulling the pedal by hand would have rethought things had he been in an emergency needing a fast shutdown.

Late 60's diesel was 10 CENTS a gallon! Good start and fine old Cat! GBWYall!

Just a bit of information. Back in 1990s I worked in a limestone quarry here in PA. We had half dozen 773b 🐈 rock trucks. Anytime we had to drain cooling system down for any reason,was Very Important to bleed the air out of cooling system,or you risked cooking seals and orings in the cylinder head deck plate. Just sayin.

Best content Ever I've revived a 1989 komatsu wheel loader

Those voltage testers are not that much help testing batterys . I have charge batterys ,that charge up and the charger kick off , many of them only to find out the battery is junk , but the charger says other wise > charged up . The battery load testers , they are only slightly use full and battery gases will explode ,those coils in load testers get hot . I seen a 950 cat battery blow up in a guys face one time , one of the 2 batterys got lower in charge than the other , even a spark around the top area when batterys are under load will explode > they put off more gasses under load and heated up . You may already know that . You also know if acid gets in anyones eyes ( IMMIDATELY >>>> flush holding their eye lids open with a lot of water ,several times ,or you will be blind and a chance of it anyway . The only way I have found to know exactly about a batterys condition is a meter I bought , it will tell you the resistance of a battery and tell you the cold cranking amps a battery is putting out compaired to the batterys stated CCA . If you dont know what a battery is putting out , you dont know jack about the battery . I charged up a battery couple years ago full charge, wouldnt turn the engine over , I checked the 600CCA battery it had 89CCA . I had to replace my harley battery this spring I noticed it seemed a little weak it had lost about 150CCA of 400CCA . I bought a cen-tech digital battery analyzer 66892 from harbor freight . I had advanced auto check a battery with their large expensive meter then checked it with mine same reading . if you charge a battery allow it to settle for 1-2 hours before testing . Anyway do what ever you want , thats what I do ........

I’ve been working on diesels on railroad for well over 20 years my father and grandfather did the same thing. I would never recommend spraying ether into a diesel engine ,can break rings Pistons rods but at the same time I’ve known plenty of guys that do it and don’t have problems but as long as you have good fuel delivery and compression and timing diesel should always fire up even if it Has to crank a little longer. I use wd-40 as a last resort instead of ether. Great videos though guys really enjoy them,brings the joy back into working on things for me. 👍

$0.659 /gal seems to me. That must be a two battery in parallel - both GND to chassis and the PLUS to the world.

Not a great video. Seems like collectively there's only one brain working. So far, no one has bothered to check hydraulic oil. Neither guy seems to know anything about diesel equipment.

Made in America... with 80% foreign parts, built by robots that were made in Japan.

Good to see yall again good luck hank be safe out in the weeds

I am not sure but my guess is that offroad diesel was $1.25 a gallon but I might be wrong hank

Hi guys,new to your site but I have been binge watching all i can find. It appears you can throw out that remote starter switch. I enjoy the videos keep up the good work.

After 40 years I figured out that if I use a directional boat squeeze ball primer in my fuel line and don't get a mouth full of fuel. Old guys learn things the hard way! lol

In 1987 off road diesel was $.50 a gallon in September, and $.56 a gallon.

In 1987 gas ⛽️ prices were 68cents in New Jersey!! Love you guys best videos.

Diesels don’t get addicted to ether , people start using it as they are worn out , and they carry on wearing out so then won’t start with out it

The easiest way to tell between an American made and Japanese made CAT ..is by the way it’s spelled. Caterpillar is American and Caterpilla is Japanese.

awesome video thanks - love those tires, funny you are worried about stating on starting fluid when it hasn't bee started in years.. like you will hurt it..

The engine was made at Mitsubishi. I new a guy that was a prisoner of war and was forced to work at a Mitsubishi plant stamping out parts for zeros

If those you say junk heavy load.are here in the philippines.oh God it's gems to us .you there you throw it away.

iti is amazing, in several tractor you had already been started, you have never gotten in bearing, although the engine hade stopped for many years??

Gasoline was .92 in central Florida in 1987 don’t know what diesel was.

Up here in Maine we call those skidder bunchers. Some come with a single wheel in the back (FWD) and some come with actual drive tires in the back along with the front for 4WD. Seems like the single wheel ones don’t have the loader style arms on the head that this one does. Cool stuff boys, I’m lovin it!

It's great that you guys got it running and everything but the only thing that you didn't show that you could actually drive it make it move that's the only thing

That motor is a 3204 roughly 87 hp I have a 1978 cat D3 same motor.

Hi guys. NEW SUBSCRIBER.!😁! Just wanted to say, that some companies will use the same temp, fuel, battery gauges on ALL of their machines. Whatever scale they're using. So, looking at the battery guage doesn't necessarily give you the correct voltage. LOVE THE VIDS.🥰🥰.... KEEP'EM COMING.🤞🥰.... RICH(UK).🥰🥰🥰.!.!.!.

Yes that's what I was thinking but I was wondering Rome where I know Rome New York is the home of petabone

Hey hank, imagine you being sponsored by liquid wrench.😂

The reason for the addicton is when you use eather it burns the oil off the cylender walls and that burns the oil ring out then it looses compression.

.69 cents a gallon in south Texas I was 7 years old running cotton strippers.

My guess as to what fuel was in 1987 would be about 0.87 to 0.90 per gallon.

Hank, the engine will be a 3204 317CI (5.2 litre) 4 cylinder

ether washes oil off of cylinder walls so rings have no oil then piston loses compression. Major ring wear.

Is that thing for sale

But you some food grade silicone for starting fluid, not harsh on the injectors at all.

It's for connecting a fuel injector cleaner can and it should have a Schrader valve in it

.495 to .538 per gallon in 1987 for off road diesel fuel. I googled it

Once saw a lady using a aluminum baseball bat to smack the terminals so I dont judge lol

Gasoline retail was $0.90 Diesel Retail was an average of $0.55

Gas back in 1987 about 87 or $0.95 Hank and Wally

Always enjoy watching you and Wiley work on these old machines. Entertaining, enjoyable, and humorous. Enjoyed.

Hey fellas, have a look at the side of the alternator, the plate will tell you what voltage the system is.

Gas prices in 1987 $ .90 a gallon for regular fuel a $1 for diesel

I remember it at about, If I can remember that is, was about 56 cent a gallon.

Fitting on the pump? Older cats used to have fuel pressure gauges

That I looks like a Shrader valve for the injector system!

It's a fuel bleeder so you can drain water or make sure it's getting fuel

That's a 3204. Used to put the same thing in the old 225's of the day

I never suck on a pipe from a can all you need to do is cup hands around tank top and blow into the can forcing the fuel out of the pipe saving you from getting a free drink of fuel oil.

Make sure you do everything right diesel creek will be giving you a test iming this later on this week

the price of diesel in 1987 49.7 cents per gallon

Diesels get addicted to either because it makes the compression just a tad too high and it ends the rod over at the small end. The slightly bent rod reduces the compression just a tad and now when the cylinders are dry you got to have that little extra snoot full of either to pop it off, once it’s running it’ll stay running with out because the cylinders are lubed and sealed up just a little bit more.

Fuiste sigo buscando maquinarias pesadas y echar un poco de esa cosa que le echan

Average diesel price per gallon in 1987 was 49 cents

Hey hank you better fix the tire before you move it bc it's flat

1987 around here, gas was 78 cents per gallon.

Cats are indirect injection which always need pre heating

In 1987 gas was real cheap and in nj we had odd and even days to get gas

You know why I watch your videos? Because you two make me laugh a lot!! I'm a disabled VN veteran and I suffer from deep depression and P.T.S.D and a few more holes in me than when I left for that God forsaken war. But You two reall make my life worth living! Thank you sooooo much and SEMPER FI!! OH Yeah!! Thank you for your service!!!

Hello from Minnesota. Wrenching!

I don’t think they had off road diesel in 1987

That started a lot better than i thought it would. the motor sounds sweet.

in 1987 in Tenn. off road fuel was 0.49.9

I use to start my 78 Olds with WD40.