I Got Two FREE 1960s Caterpillar Pony Engines. Will they Run??
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Watching that jump pack slide across the pallet at 23 minutes while watching Matt ignore it made me want to jump for it to keep it from falling. 😁
Same! I'm like "oh god, that's gonna totally walk off the....yep, it did."
IKR...I was like that thing is gonna walk right off the table...LOL
the battery... the battery... Matt the battery... the bat... THE BATTERY, THE BATTERY, THE BAT... amen...
Oh yeah 👍... I was watching that and thought: 5... 4... 3... 2... LOL! 😂
I laugh because we've all probably had things vibrate off a bench, etc; from just a wrench, to a phone, etc. (And once saw a pancake compressor fall on a job site, which could've ended really, really, badly).
Cheers! (Great vid. I love it when old motors fire off again!)
I see I wasn't the only one. Anxiety level went through the roof. How about that palm hickey trying to starve the engine of oxygen
What a generous gentleman to gift you the pony engines! You have more than loyal subscribers, Matt. You have subscribers who support your restoration work by giving you hard-to-find parts and equipment. A big BRAVO to the gentleman who gave you the engines and other bits and pieces! Great video! Love, love these. Looking forward to the next videos. 👍👏✨😍❤
Well said!
"You have subscribers who support your restoration work by giving you hard-to-find parts and equipment.", 🤨, IS THAT WHAT'S GOING ON HERE,?, 🤔, I also heard a rumor that Matt was doing sexual-favors for some of these items he needed, Matt's friend Watch-Wes-Work said Matt was escorted from the last Richie-Brothers auction, for repeatedly making inappropriate gestures at the auctioneer,✋😘🤚, Skinner-Back Mathew!.🤭
I totally agree! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
So many good people around….and we spend most of our time talking about the bad apples
@@timinclt7895 🙂👍
I enjoy every one of your resurrections and the smile when they first fire up. It must be far nicer in your dream shop than working under a tree.😃
It really is!
@@DieselCreek Matt! The shop is finally built! It looks great. But remember you promised as soon the shop was completed you would bring Eva to fix 57 autocar. Good job👍👍👍👍
Back in 1985 while attending the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, we were testing our 9 cylinder magnetos. Our group connected to the test board and watched the late great Joe Connors start spinning our magneto. At first you could see every individual spark. As it came up to speed there was nothing but a solid blue line of 9 continuous sparks. It was a terrifying sight to see. Just as we were being impressed with ourselves, one of the wires jumped off and attached itself to a guy's belt buckle.
You should have seen him jumping around like a monkey, hollering at the top of his lungs. That's a day none of us will ever forget. Especially Mark B.
You can tell how long he’s had those 2. Shop empty when they showed up. Shop almost set up when he “ fired” them.
It's a Cat allright, it pushes everything of the table. 😊
😂😂 how right you are
Matt is back on his Saturday morning schedule NICE!!!
Sunday mornings with coffee is so great 😂
Heads up its mornin Mat 😅
Midnight over here in Nz can't wait to see more over the D8
Thank the maker he's regular again!
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Those moments of Matt’s excitement followed by tools, jump pack, and cans of ether flying everywhere is awesome!
‘Contact!’ My favourite part, we need this on a merch item.👍🏻
"It is easier to accumulate stuff than to get rid of it." Paraphrased from Henry David Thoreau because I couldn't find the exact wording-but you get the idea. Enjoyed the video, Matt.
We all watched that battery pack going "is he going to notice, is he, well is he.....?"
another fun afternoon with Matt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always looking forward to Saturday mornings with coffee and diesel creek
Enjoy!
Send pony motor.. “ oh she loves it!!” Classic. Cheers my friend!
Oh! The sound of that mandolin reaching for the sky was sweet, this morning. Made me look froward to watching you poke through a couple of old ponies. 😎
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the RUclips community and the generous gifts from subscribers! Make's for excellent content!
Couldn't agree more!
Love the fact that people wrote these engines off as scrap, and Matt reaches into the grave and drags them back out.. “You’ve still got some life left in you yet!” Even the engine he doesn’t need, and is partially locked up gets fixed and forced to run once more.
You have the Best intro, outro, and bumper music of any RUclipsr! I look forward to your videos each week. Keep up the outstanding work!
Thanks! Will do!
Getting those 2 pony motors made my day and by the look on Matt’s face his too. Another great video.
Glad you enjoyed
@@DieselCreek Any update on the 1957 autocar? A lot of want you to start working on it. Now you even have a shop
As someone else mentioned, you need to get that crane installed in the workshop.
agreed!
"Did you guys see that flame ball....That was great!". Oh man, that's such a guy thing to say, absolutely classic. We like loud noises , small explosions and flame balls. We also much prefer to put out a fire by blowing on it. Also, if we cut our finger, the very first thing we do is put it in our mouth, for some bizarre reason, and then fix it with a chunk of paper towel and some duct tape. Wouldn't change any of it for the world.
2 for 2 great to see both of them bark into life. the fire show with the starting fluid on number 2 was impressive :D one of these days i want to grab up a old tracked dozer/loader project.
Do it!!! They need saving!
Howdyyawl from the land down under.just watched your video. Being given those pony engines was a big bonus.getting them going is a bigger bonus. Fantastic, you've got the touch for mechanical units for sure. Thanks for sharing😊.
Forget all that skill and all, I love Matts reaction when an engine actually starts up and lives!!! Matts laugh always has me cracking up! Keep up the good work Matt!
Glad you enjoy it!
@@DieselCreek I enjoy when you bring your wife along with you and fix the 1957 autocar project that we have been waiting on
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Repeating yourself so many times might make Matt a touch, 😡😡😡😡🤬. We don't want to see Matt 😡😡 as might blow a Head Gasket 🤯. It could create a Domino effect with supporters of Diesel Creek! 😉😉😂🙏👍
Matt, i really enjoyed watching you revive these two pony engines. Been lurking alone time so I thought would finally through my hat in the ring. Great videos, keep up the good work!
My anxiety at the jump pack making its way slowly across the table was crazy, lol. When it fell, I twitched a little as if I could catch it, lol. Your excitement and getting these babies up and running is awesome. I have the same reaction. It never gets old.
It's lovely when an old engine comes to life I am the same as you 👍
You are a wizard at getting those motors to run! Best wishes...... and be careful!
42:16 That appears to be a made in the USA StarCraft boat, from the 60s. If it is, I had one them, they're good little boats.
WOOHOOOOO!!!!! I am really excited to see the restoration videos. I sure hope it's worth saving. The D8 is mean!
You and me both!
@@DieselCreek Before you restore the d8 remember that poor old 1957 autocar project. Pls make the 1957 your priority . Thanks
Quality old school American engineering. 👍
For those that are unaware, a wire brush/wheel is most useful to remove Teflon tape from fittings. I've cleaned many a fitting this way in a small engine shop I worked at years ago.
So many cat pony motors ended up in scrap piles when direct start conversions became available. Most pony engine gear drives have overrun sprag clutches in them.
All of the magnetos used on older small engines must be copper core wire, if you use carbon core wire you will have harder starting along with points issues. I learned that after having problems with wico magnetos on many of the Wisconsin engines.
Not sprags! That’s a typical direct electric starter drive technology. Caterpillar always used centrifugal latches to kick the pony pinion out of engagement with the diesel flywheel ring gear.
I agree on the copper core wires, BUT I’ve had pretty good luck with the mags on CAT engines with whatever you can find laying around! Surprisingly, If you don’t pick up a bad one, most anything will work on them.
I love seeing old engines come back to life. I guess I need to get busy on the many projects I have sitting in the shop 😁
Fantastic results ! 🐴 Two Rebuildable ponys . Great Video. Thanks
I was just going out the door for groceries BUT not now. When a Diesel Creek Video comes out everything gets put on hold!
Thank god you changed the intro, for many years I have to pick
myself and dust self down after a variety of vehicles appeared
to want to hasten my demise!
Cant wait to see the D8 running.
Great vid Matt, interesting and entertaining as always.
Matt's manaical laugh is always a bonus...means things are barking off
Good job Matt. Thanks for sharing.
One of the culprits of the second pony engine smoking so badly is because you put quite a lot of penetrating oil in the cylinders. It'll probably run less smokey once all of that is burned off.
24:37 that's why you ALWAYS have a fire extinguisher on hand even if there's no fire, you can starve an engine of oxygen with one if it won't shut off
Love these resurrections. Hey Matt, one little tool I always found handy was a push button starter switch with alligator clip leads. I hated doing that flashing the wire against the positive stud. You can stand back a little from the engine and see what's going on.
I like the proper terms: crank, start, run, !!
Watching these videos are really motivating me to try to fix stuff like this myself.
Can't complain about free. That's awesome. I was a little concerned when the starting fluid lit up from several points, lol. Atleast they both ran.
Love this old school big engine stuff. I had no idea they used a petrol pony motor to start a larger diesel engine. I love your genuine enthusiasm when the engine starts I had the same feeling it's alive ..... it's alive... Great content .
Thanks for watching!
Old Soviet crawlers and dozers of the same era used 2-stroke pony engines. It's neat watching someone in Eastern Europe getting one started, the pony engines sound like big weed whackers/trimmers. :)
@@DieselCreek Can you finish the 1957 autocar truck before moving on to the D8 because we have been waiting for that project for years. Pls make your next video on the 57 because that truck is sweet!
Like Frankenstein with the monster lol.
I wonder if you have a serious infatuation with Auto Cars😂😂😂😂 not that it's a bad thing.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😉
Forgot to mention.....I noticed the hydronic floor heat manifolds behind you. When you get a boiler connected you are gonna love the warm floor in the wintertime.
Love the Saturday morning videos Matt reminds me of waking up as a kid watching the powerblock on tv!
THAT is exactly what Im going for!!!!! I loved powerblock!!! hahaha
Yep another one here with Diesel Creek bringing back the Saturday morning sitting in front of the TV vibe though showing my age a bit it was the animated Beatles, Wacky Racers and first season Scooby-Doo.
@@DieselCreek you just need a hot co host like Courtney Hanson 😂
Yup, fond memories for woofing down Sugary Cereal to Road Runner Cartoons!!!
@@DieselCreek When are you going to start restoring the autocar can u pls start soon
What you called the "venturi tube" as actually called the emulation tube.
Spend and extra 15 minutes and clean the mating surfaces of the carburetor halves and make a new gasket !
Rest easy my friend, you couldn't do a bad video, or at least not from all I've watched so far.
07:00 new Zealand time, Sunday the 18th. Let's go 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Great score! Never have enough parts.👍
You got that right!
Can't wait to see what that big wheeled toy is in the background is gonna be.. Hope to see it soon.
I always enjoy your reaction when things go right.
Good to see them saved from the scrap yard and both runners as well
Just watching you in your shop. Makes me think of how far you have come. Very nice to see.
That loader in the background has Indian River on it. I grew up not far from there and fished endlessly on Burt Lake right there!! Beautiful area!!
Keep up the great work!!
Very cool!
Hard to kill those pony motors. Haven't run one since the mid 70's. Really nice of the viewer to offer those to you. I am sure that they will not go to waste. Thanks for sharing.
"...under no circumstance should all four valves be open..." I Laughed!
Very pleased when I got up today you had a new video. Needless to say, you have a vast audience for a reason, thanks and hope you continue. As a guy who loves anything mechanical and who got yelled at as a kid for taking stuff apart I sure appreciate watching and listening to you during your adventures.
You know it really amazes me just how many people absolutely love to watch people like Matt fire off old motors and equipment. The views and likes youtubers get from these type videos is mind boggling
Looks like a job for your bridge crane! 👆
Great little engines and very generous of the man to let you have them, with three engines and only needing one you will need to make something wild for at least one "spare", we wait and see!☺.
Congrats on a super find.
Looking forward to seeing more.
Man
Wouldn't a crane be better than jury rigging with the fork truck.
Lol
Keep up the great work.
You got that right!
Wow that was super cool save. Great work.
Love your videos Matt ❤
Hope you make more video about your draglines
More to come!
38:43 This is the best part of the video!
Great flyover! Love that new shop! I was yelling "JUMP PACK! JUMP PACK!" but I guess you couldn't hear me over the engine running. Nice guy to give you the pony engines. Not a lot of people like that around here. Thanks for taking us along! J.W. EDIT: Looks like you're going to float us a new video soon! OK...that was bad. I admit it.
Good deal. You got your two pony motors now. Set them over to the side. Great parts to have for free
Watching from AUS love it been following from the start 👍
Finding 2 of those pony motors in the same place, that actually run with a bit of work, is almost unheard of! Most of them have either been changed out for electric starters, or blown up for one reason or another. These are really the proper way to start a big Cat, especially in colder climates where you can spin the main engine slowly, to allow it to build oil pressure, and warm the block a bit before putting the fuel to it.😉 Nice work Matt!😄👍
Can’t get enough of your content Matt!!!!
Life is like what comes around goes around.
Nice
Another great revival, nice to have folks that will donate pieces to keep your old iron fresh and usable!! Great video man!!
Thanks 👍
@@DieselCreek You know what would be nice to take to the steam show??? The old 1957 autocar! Pls get to work on it soon we all want to see that thing restored!
I cracked up when #2 took off like a bat outta hell on that snort of ether...looks like you found it amusing as well. Super content, Matt!
I'll be honest Matt you have some really great human beings as followers. To have saved those 2 beautiful pieces of artwork form the scrap man, really great of your subscriber to have called you to come get those. Man that's just great to see.. I'm 31 minutes in and the second one so far looks like she needs a little work, but man I'm SURE it's nothing you can't handle. Worst case it's FULL of parts to save any other Pony Motors you come across in life! Great video this is GREAT to see!
Poor jump pack. LoL
Man every time you get an engine to fire up, your face looks like a kid on Christmas, and I absolute love it
WOW that was great very good of buddy to give you them and now we know they are runners .Well done sir Matt thank you for sharing
Mason bees love any little 5/16”hole to lay their eggs. Good pollinators but good saboteurs too. 😊
Matt u bringing those old pony motors back to life is awesome....it shows that someone still cares about the old equipment and making it run and operate like there new again thanks for the awesome video
We had a guy at work who hooked 24v machine up to the 12v side of the jump box and it blew up with a huge bang soon as he unplugged it after realizing what he did.
Those are some cool little motors and they sound strong. I bet one of those would be a beast of a motor to use on a homemade tractor project or something similar to that. From the scrap heap to Diesel Creek, two more cast iron creatures have come back to life! Two thumbs up Matt! :)
The pony motors weren't designed to be long lasting, just like an electric starter motor is not for continuous use. Although the ponys can stand turning the diesel engine under compression and no fuel injection for five minutes or whatever it takes to build heat in the block, so the diesel fires right up. Watch Squatch253 starting his D3 and D2's. That's the way to do it
Cool seeing those engines start up after sitting for a while
Gosh you’re new shed makes the old one look tiny another great video cheers
Lol.... I had that exact same thought when I started to watch the beginning of the video! It does look so tiny compared to the big, shinny new one! 😅🛠️🚜📐✏️
Pony motors such as these were notorious for having fuel contaminated motor oil because historically they were not given the most love (periodic maintenance) and hence were often run with the choke on to keep the engine running just long enough to start the “big engine.” In the case of the Cat pony engine in general they were not the best designed engine and were fairly inexpensive back in the day as a result more often than not if the piece of equipment was part of a company’s fleet of equipment the pony motor maintenance was run it until the thing either physically broke (a fairly often occurrence) or refused to run regardless of how much ether the thing was sprayed down its throat hole. A neighbor of mine who is a spry 92 and can outwork still today most people in his gardens was heavy equipment operator until he retired at age 82 has told me the first big company he worked for used to replace the pony motors on their equipment yearly as a maintenance item. He said they would sell the ones that were still running good and scrap the ones that weren’t. I really didn’t understand why they did that until I watched Squatch’s series of videos on Cat pony motors and say what junk they were design wise and much less production wise. My neighbor said they still ran equipment with pony motors on them instead of converting them to electric start because they did a lot of work in remote areas and drug addicts, bums, and thieves would steal batteries almost instantly so equipment with pony motor were desirable because they didn’t need a good battery. He said they used to stick junk batteries in the equipment so the animals had something to steal. He also said they they would leave cans of bad fuel around job sites for them to steal along with a other “prank” to screw with the A, B &T as he said they called them in polite company
I’m thoroughly convinced Matt can make anything run 😂!
I couldn't or can't wait to hear those old engines fire up. Especially when there is so much prep work to get there and hear no knocking from the bottom end. You were lucky on that last one after it was in the scrap heap. "One mans junk is another man's treasure".
Matt, another great video. Even though I don't do much mechanical work anymore, I really enjoy your channel and content!
Matt I've been trying to get you to reply to me with your email address so that I could reach out and do almost the same exact thing but not for pony engines and I'm about out of time so if you can reply with your email address asap please and thank you hope to talk soon
lol, tension and drama in this video is watching the battery box slowly vibrate off the work surface while the engine is running, and mat doesn't notice... =)
These engines are sooo well designed. Can you determine based on serial numbers how old these engines are?
Don’t think the ponies ever had serial numbers. But the castings should have NUMERALCOD casting dates on them.
23:25 the jump box: " ight imma head out"
I had no doubts that both engines would work, considering your skills and luck. Thanks for great content Matt! Best wishes from Russia!
That pony motor has an electric starting motor on it. Talk about crazy town! I wonder if Matt has ever thought of taking the electric starter off the pony motor and replacing it with another pony motor that of course has an electric starting motor on it. So diesel with a pony starter that is started with a pony starter that is started with an electric starter motor. Sounds about right for Diesel Creek. Best wishes from 'merika, home of the africans.
@@thinkcasting3182 The machines needed all that because of the high compression of the diesel motor is hard to overcome otherwise. We have electric motors that are high torque now, and just plain way better all around nowadays. Imagine how big of a lever would be needed to turn that big diesel over to start w\out these other starting engines/components. 🛠️👍🤔
I wish I had a pony engine too! Oh, wait I live in a condo they might frown upon that! LOL Cool video so far!
Great that a subscriber gave you not one, but two working pony motors. That should keep you in business w/ your dozer forever. While watching you try to determine the status of the second pony motor. I was thinking how nice it would be to have a bore scope to look into the cylinder to determine what might be happening in there. I also watch a RUclips channel for small engine and generator repair by James Condon. I purchased a Depstech three view bore scope w/ video camera from his web store and this thing is super. It has an HD camera w/ zoom and several accessories, definitely worth the price. The first thing I used it on was an old Chain saw that I have and found out why it was low on power, the cylinder was badly scored. Very handy for many other things also, like when you drop a part or tool and can’t find it. It will not only help you find it, but w/ the accessories that come w/it you can also retrieve it. It can also be used to check in the bottom of oil, transmission, hydraulic pans for any parts or pieces that should not be there. Hope this helps?
One good thing about those 'L' head engines is if the valves do hang up they don't punch through the pistons. I cracked up when I saw all 4 open....yup, they were stuck all right!! I admire your persistence and ability to see worth where others see scrap metal. Although I don't blame people for scrapping things, there is a point where the cost of repair is prohibitive, its better to recycle the metal than have it laying around, slowly being reclaimed by our earth and looking sad and ugly all at the same time. That being said, I've Got to go...my 454 IH is needing some doctoring.
both engines was runing, saved from scrap nice 🤠
Awesome awesome job u did Matt on getting them running can't wait till the next video be safe and always be careful doing what you do each and every day buddy
38:22 heck, id pull it apart, lightly hone it, clean the rings with steel wool, and put it back together! It should be like a brand new engibe after 50 hours! Id love to have that ol engine! The was stuck one!
Well that was quite satisfying and well worth spending part of a lazy Saturday morning watching. Well done, Matt, and thanks to the fellow who hooked you up with these ponies. I'm sure with a little TLC that the second one will one day be ready to go to work.
I became a lot less concerned about debris in the cylinders when I learned Ford’s procedure for removing broken plugs in the 3 valve.