I don't understand most of the stuff You are talking about here but I love watching Your videos anyway. Because of Your hard work and the true "Rural America" feeling I get from Your videos! Thank You from Florida! I do miss change of the season :)
Love watching these videos, you’re the reason I started wrenching out of high school three years ago, went to trade school and working in a shop ever since.
Hope you do well brother, finished school in 1980, been welding every since. Can't say where I work, but at a major ammo company. Don't miss work, work hard and you'll be successful.
You make some great videos and your opinions on some of the stuff is brilliant. Your a old school mechanic that’s takes pride in your work and is willing to take the time to explain what your doing .
I actually spat my coffee out laughing at the story of knocking the window out of the pick up while you were drilling when younger ! Love those type of your stories ! LMAO ! x
Warren, you're a real heavy mechanic. You take on projects that we didn't do back on the farm! I watch this with great memories. Thanks for the fine vids. Above all stay safe, we all know the dangers with such heavy equipment
Wow Warren I have never seen a dozer apart like that and your doing it out in the field nice work Hello Clayton have fun a good guy that will teach you the tricks of the trade!
Warren the needed spanner for removing the retainer is of offset design and uses bosses on both ends of wrench to mount it to drive sprocket. Use machine power to turn spanner, on reassembly specific gear and engine rpm for torquing. The blue prints for tooling should be in service manual when you receive it. If shipping didn't cost so much from the other coast I would send you the tools. If you want pictures or measurements of wrench let me know.
Hello I just want to thank you for videoing your work, I find myself going to your channel for hours a day I feel like I am there helping you. There isn't much to watch most of the time on youtube But I look forwards to your videos.Keep up the great work !!!
Cardboard is great for lying on under trucks and machines, back in the 80's we did not have access to that or even safety shoes! I remember with joy working on machines in the hot sun in a tee shirt and shorts, the boss was supportive, he wanted the machine to run, did not worry if I chose to wear short pants ! Everyone has their method of attaching a sub frame, pity you did not have a nice big loader to help lift stuff ! Respect for you working in the outdoors, been there done that , used the tee shirt !
I looked after 4 155 komatsu and 4 D85 komatsu tractors.Strip down and over haul.Plus a lot of other heavy equipment including back hoes screeners ,limbers, graders,skidders,Chippers,Volvo loaders and dump trucks.Thats why everything in my body hurts.
Warren ... Relatively new to the channel. Some of what you do is over my head but I have some older farm equipment skids steer and old IH tractors and your channel has helped a lot. Big thanks to you!
When I was a child,there was a development being put in down the street,and there was an I-H Drott,bulldozer doing the excavation work! Got to see the operation up close,by riding the battery box! Seems the dozer could only run in second gear,due to the fact that before he got to the new job site,he was doing beach erosion duty! Sand in the gear box,and the dozer just ran anyway! Also if you want to trade war stories,check out Aviation and Railroad mechanics,they have tales to tell of slightly bigger equipment! My dad was a flight engineer for Pan Am,and the Wright Cyclones were monsters,and so are Alco 244's,and 251's,and the current GE's aren't small either! So if you have your bad days,others can be doing worse than you know! Thank you for the tutorials,you are a clear,and well presented teacher of some pretty complicated apparatus,which always fascinating! I always been a sidewalk superintendent,since I was in diapers,literally! Thank you!
gotta learn to walk away from shit when youre frustrated, 15min to an hour is decent, usually youll be able to remove whatever you were stuck on in minutes
When I used to work on forestry equipment and replace flanged bearings or pillow block bearings I would save the ball bearings. I am surprised you don't have an assortment of bearings laying around. But I bet you're start saving them now. But I would say majority of the bearings now are roller bearings.
Warren, having seen quite a few of your videos, you never cease to amaze me with your skill. These two fire dozers have certainly been through the wars and I can see your work is definitely cut out for you. I commiserate with you in wishing you could hire Clayton full-time. Kids like him are gems, hard to find, and keepers. Videos such as these walk a fine line in that in the wrong hands they can go deadly dull rather quickly. But you do a great job of keeping us involved with your narration and commentary. I’ve told all my like-minded friends to subscribe; they won’t be disappointed.
A little "Get By" trick with the old dozers with limited or ocassional use, on leaking final drive seals, is to fill them with gun grease, we have an old Komatsu D68 that's still running after 6 to 7 seasons of greasing. As long as theres not much for metal in them, it works.
We had one of those 446b backhoes at my last job, it was a good machine, pretty big one. It was hard to dig for culverts on narrow roads because you couldn’t dig close enough to the machine to get the middle of the trench without being off the road. That would be nice to have to stop the dozer to run a regen or have it shut down because of a temp sensor.
as a mechanic you cant just start swappin' shit out and ordering stuff etc etc before askin the owner, then the shittier thing is to find parts for these dozers. thats the only thing that sucks on working with old iron on a budget
Iv 2 machines to burn in a fire Don't know how it works in the us but in Australia if you want work clearing tracks in the off season then be fully prepared to drive into a bush fire and put breaks in Old d8 She was a good machine but in the thick smoke she didn't have the power any more to really get moving Our trucks were down to 1/2 power as well Dozer driver jumped in my tuck and we took off Sounds like a crap idea bit having new machines in a fire really make a difference Lots of old machines are very capable but a government organisation cant go round and inspect every machine based on merit of the owner and his maintenece procedures Put in blanket rules that force everyone to have good gear The worst thing about gov organisations Not just fires but everything But I see why they do it Too much messing around otherwise Interestingly the other machine was a new John Deere 2 track The engine threw an emissions code and put it into limp mode Because of all the smoke again It thought the egr was playing up Australia has no emissions laws for off road, so now most manufacturers are importing farm equipment as tier 2 Saves up having to chip them and mess around
@@zimbabwesteve4620 No, in California, it goes back to taxes and registration fees. Old dozers, tractors and rigs aren't a good source of taxes if the business doesn't have to replace them every decade. That's how you get CARB regs that mandate you can't register a rig if it doesn't have 16 character VIN. It doesn't look like it, but the DoD has a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it attitude" on most items.
Yo podria estar equibocado pero ese macanico no me aregla mi maquina no seve que tenga la erramientas adecuadas y que no sea muy experto siempre me an encantado esas maquinas yo pasaba las horas mirandolas trabajar y ahora no me pierdo un programa grasias por traerlos al aire
You can easily make a tool to remove that big nut. Use some 1/2" or 3/4" steel plate and cut out a hex. Make the wrench about 3 feet long and use a hydraulic jack to jack it up using the weight of the machine to break it loose. It would basically look like a big torsion key for a truck.
A HD Chain-type pipe wrench, tack welded to that nut. long pipe handle, and yes, use the engine to turn it. We do the same for car crank bolts. Bump the key, knocks it loose.
your lucky with the drill. I had a one-inch electric drill I am left-handed so somehow I lock the trigger .so it gave me a couple taps in the gonads. that hurt
Used to run an old D85 Komatsu, you could tell when the trany was going to let go, by little noises, when pushing, and by checking the trany screen often for debree.
Largest stuff I've ever worked on were fleet bus (Greyhounds), but damn that tap&die set at 4:04... I didn't even know they made hand tap&die sets that big for anything other than pipes. Largest I ever used on a bus was 1 1/2" for a frame rail bolt that wasn't tapped right the first time. Sure didn't do it by hand either. We had a special tapping air wrench with attachments. I thought that's just how it was done on heavy stuff haha
Hello This is Mike Foyster I’m a welder fabrication guy and work on all kinds of machinery for manufacturing plants, But anyways to get the locknut off the spindle I have made basically a big spanner wrench and then bolt it on the nut were the locknut was
I used to like working on the old D65a komatsu the place where I did my apprenticeship had. I worked with an old jamaican guy who knew these tractors inside out. We over hauled final drives and a new dead shaft had to be fitted. Burnt the old one out and shrunk the new one in liquid nitrogen to fit it. Interesting but heavy old work.
whenever we needed to get something off like that we make a wrench. torch, grinder and some material. we've used the crane to break big stuff like that and cyl nuts loose tooo.
Good work warren keep it up i knew warren you are super busy so i hope i dont sound rude but pleas could you make a toolbox tour one day and awsome video i love it when you tell storys you are one of the best mechanic's i knew hopfully one day i can be half the man you are
Make a spanner to fit the nut.made my own 130mm spanner for zx330 dipper arm nut.i used some 30mm plate and gas cut it.then I use a 8 ton kobelco to push on the spanner.works a treat.
Have seen the same sort of hub but removal done with two lengths of square tubing (heavy duty stuff) connected with 4 lengths of threaded rods and 4 plates They also strapped it up with a ratchet strap to stop it popping off
I wouldn't worry about what someone says how you should have done something . Theses always going to be someone like that , you do it just how you want as long as you can get it done . You work hard enough do it the easyes way you can .. Nice job warren
Hey Warren, seems like you have an opportunity to spread some knowledge with that young man. Where’s Blake at? Hope you’re doing well and physically feeling better. God bless
As an engineer I would make a spanner or wrench, as you guys say out of a half inch sheet steel sheet. With a 2 ft handle it can be hit with a sledge or pulled with machine power. Why do you not have a bucket, with one of each size of old ball bearing, that you have removed over the years These come in very handy as you have discovered. Mike
gobs of torque on that nut. My 32k lb machine from 1959 has over 4 thousand lbs applied using drive train reduction on a stationary wrench, so your thoughts are likely correct.
The owner is a clown to wait so long to work on that ancient iron. Fixing that old off-brand iron can take months. He's lucky to have found someone willing to work on it at all.
In your last video my stomach turned a bit when you said the customer wants to "check out the final drives". I had a strong suspicion that he didn't really understand what that involves. This set up seems like a nightmare compared to a low track Cat.
I doubt it will take even a tiny portion of the Cat price to overhaul both these machines. Screw the USFS and commiefornia. Always plenty of work for big old dozers in Texas.........
Those machines cost alot more to work on. Parts are hard to find and bad expensive. Caterpillar of the same vintage are way cheaper to fix as far as parts go
What we do herein australia when we strike that is make a box ring like a ring spanner end then weld a long peice of steel on to bring it out further then weld a long solid bar on to swing on with a long heavy pipe needed. You would do it in an hour or a bit more.
Both lowes and home depot sell numerous different sizes of individual ball bearings. If I am ever short on check balls for transmissions I run to those stores when in a pinch. When I had my electrical contracting business I seen many helpers end up with broken wrists from getting jammed against a stud or joyce with Milwaukee hole hawgs.
If you have a piece of steel plate about 3ft. Long torch it to go around that big old bolt half way. Then weld it, then use the boom on that backhoe to break it free and turn it. You don't have to worry about the seal getting fried cause it's already bad. Use a grinder to take the plate off so the new seal doesn't get messed up.
Just a thought. How about welding scrap steel to fabricate a socket of sorts to remove the nut? You're a pretty fine welder. I'm thinkin you could glue some steel together and get er done.
I feal your pain on parts availability, we too are in a geographic oddity, two weeks from everywhere. No one stocks anything these days and on top of it they seem to think you should have to pay the freight on top of your two week wait
The owner should have built up the grossers, pressure wash it and paint. Other than the hose leak repair repair stuff, that's what I would have done for the inspection.
Hello there your videos are awesome I like watching your video and you dog ,I have a question I have a D8H 46A its been sitting for 10 years I started it last week it fires really easy I got her running for a bit , I want to know how to maintain this machine oil change and stuff will do it but it there any other things to maintain??? filters antifreeze hydraulic filters?? other oil ??it has a ripper parallelogram with only two cylinders just if you know things hidden secrets to maintain b4 worming it up and cause something wrong thank you for your advices
The owner of these dozers obviously has more money than brains but that's good for the Warrens of this world. I certainly give you Warren credit for taking this one on.
You could cut / weld a open ended wrench out of a piece of thick plate steel so that you can undo the big nut, then weld a long rod to it for a handle/lever, But if you ask me, that looks like a job he should have started last autumn to allow for time for parts. in a previous video, I'm not sure on the economics of getting machines on fire duty, But i can see them moving to emissions as a way of filtering out everything of a certain age. some of this maybe a push by the state enviro, and some can even be by the manufactures themselves so they can sell new machines.
I'd mod that to a 1" plated torched into a closed end and use chain to prevent rotation, but yes for the immediate need. Could be a nice piece if there was time to have one CNC plasma cut.
Yrs ago my dad was using one of them pistol grip 1/2 drills hanging some shelves in our shop the concrete bit hit a piece of rebar kicked back and damn near broke his nose ...he turned to me and said yeah go ahead and laugh dammit ...im sorry i couldnt help myself 🤣🤣
i watched a machinist make a monster wrench using a plasma cutter. you could make your own wrench just need a 8 ft piece of i beam 8" wide flang. Use the backhoe for torque. It has plenty.
I've had a similar situation with a drill like that it got away from me and hit me square in the rib cage. Thought I broke some I was on all fours in the shop gasping for air and of course everybody was pointing and laughing lol 😂
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I don't understand most of the stuff You are talking about here but I love watching Your videos anyway. Because of Your hard work and the true "Rural America" feeling I get from Your videos! Thank You from Florida! I do miss change of the season :)
Love watching these videos, you’re the reason I started wrenching out of high school three years ago, went to trade school and working in a shop ever since.
Hope you do well brother, finished school in 1980, been welding every since. Can't say where I work, but at a major ammo company. Don't miss work, work hard and you'll be successful.
You make some great videos and your opinions on some of the stuff is brilliant. Your a old school mechanic that’s takes pride in your work and is willing to take the time to explain what your doing .
Wow what a job. Lots a work thanks for sharing your work with us always makes my day to watch one of your video. Especially the big cats .
I actually spat my coffee out laughing at the story of knocking the window out of the pick up while you were drilling when younger ! Love those type of your stories ! LMAO ! x
I love your channel. Great content and I enjoy watching how you do your day to day job. 👍🏻👍🏻
Warren, you're a real heavy mechanic. You take on projects that we didn't do back on the farm! I watch this with great memories. Thanks for the fine vids. Above all stay safe, we all know the dangers with such heavy equipment
Warren keep the videos coming these dozers are right up my alley thank-you
Hey Clayton great to meet you. Pretty lucky guy to be with Warren amazing man.
Warren we love it man ,keep up the good work
Take my hat of to ya buddy, never cease to amaze me with the great work you do. Thanks for video's really enjoy them 🏴
This is my favorite type of video, out in the field with stories.
I will second that comment...thanks for all you teach us out here warren!!
Agreed
Really like these dozer videos. Would like them longer if you can. Don’t worry about editing mate. Everyone will watch it all 👍👍
Wow Warren I have never seen a dozer apart like that and your doing it out in the field nice work
Hello Clayton have fun a good guy that will teach you the tricks of the trade!
Warren the needed spanner for removing the retainer is of offset design and uses bosses on both ends of wrench to mount it to drive sprocket. Use machine power to turn spanner, on reassembly specific gear and engine rpm for torquing. The blue prints for tooling should be in service manual when you receive it. If shipping didn't cost so much from the other coast I would send you the tools. If you want pictures or measurements of wrench let me know.
What a gem you are. We need more people like you.
I'm impressed with their torquing method.Clever!
Hello I just want to thank you for videoing your work, I find myself going to your channel for hours a day I feel like I am there helping you. There isn't much to watch most of the time on youtube But I look forwards to your videos.Keep up the great work !!!
Cardboard is great for lying on under trucks and machines, back in the 80's we did not have access to that or even safety shoes! I remember with joy working on machines in the hot sun in a tee shirt and shorts, the boss was supportive, he wanted the machine to run, did not worry if I chose to wear short pants ! Everyone has their method of attaching a sub frame, pity you did not have a nice big loader to help lift stuff ! Respect for you working in the outdoors, been there done that , used the tee shirt !
I looked after 4 155 komatsu and 4 D85 komatsu tractors.Strip down and over haul.Plus a lot of other heavy equipment including back hoes screeners ,limbers, graders,skidders,Chippers,Volvo loaders and dump trucks.Thats why everything in my body hurts.
Warren ... Relatively new to the channel. Some of what you do is over my head but I have some older farm equipment skids steer and old IH tractors and your channel has helped a lot.
Big thanks to you!
YOU ARE ONE HARD WORKING GUY, AMERICA NEES MORE LIKE YOU
When I was a child,there was a development being put in down the street,and there was an I-H Drott,bulldozer doing the excavation work! Got to see the operation up close,by riding the battery box! Seems the dozer could only run in second gear,due to the fact that before he got to the new job site,he was doing beach erosion duty! Sand in the gear box,and the dozer just ran anyway! Also if you want to trade war stories,check out Aviation and Railroad mechanics,they have tales to tell of slightly bigger equipment! My dad was a flight engineer for Pan Am,and the Wright Cyclones were monsters,and so are Alco 244's,and 251's,and the current GE's aren't small either! So if you have your bad days,others can be doing worse than you know! Thank you for the tutorials,you are a clear,and well presented teacher of some pretty complicated apparatus,which always fascinating! I always been a sidewalk superintendent,since I was in diapers,literally! Thank you!
Always good to find someone that wants to learn and WORK! Make use of Clayton and keep him working!
Always interesting thanks for sharing Warren 👍🇦🇺👀
Warren must have a lot of patience. I throw crap out of frustration just trying to take a mower tire off a rim.
Maybe you should get a job at hair salon or massage parlor .
gotta learn to walk away from shit when youre
frustrated, 15min to an hour is decent, usually youll be able to remove whatever you were stuck on in minutes
Thanks for all your vidios
When I used to work on forestry equipment and replace flanged bearings or pillow block bearings I would save the ball bearings. I am surprised you don't have an assortment of bearings laying around. But I bet you're start saving them now. But I would say majority of the bearings now are roller bearings.
Hey Warren keep up the great work man. You are earning every penny on this ONE. 💪👍
I was so happy to see this video come up!!! Thanks Warren!
Warren, having seen quite a few of your videos, you never cease to amaze me with your skill. These two fire dozers have certainly been through the wars and I can see your work is definitely cut out for you. I commiserate with you in wishing you could hire Clayton full-time. Kids like him are gems, hard to find, and keepers. Videos such as these walk a fine line in that in the wrong hands they can go deadly dull rather quickly. But you do a great job of keeping us involved with your narration and commentary. I’ve told all my like-minded friends to subscribe; they won’t be disappointed.
Wow.
I realized some time back you were very good.
But.
Now you are attempting miracles.
I always enjoy your content.
A little "Get By" trick with the old dozers with limited or ocassional use, on leaking final drive seals, is to fill them with gun grease, we have an old Komatsu D68 that's still running after 6 to 7 seasons of greasing. As long as theres not much for metal in them, it works.
You have got a nice helper there 👍👍
We had one of those 446b backhoes at my last job, it was a good machine, pretty big one. It was hard to dig for culverts on narrow roads because you couldn’t dig close enough to the machine to get the middle of the trench without being off the road. That would be nice to have to stop the dozer to run a regen or have it shut down because of a temp sensor.
Man is that heavy work!!! Sounds like a lot indecision going on? Hope it all works out!!
All the best from Canada
as a mechanic you cant just start swappin' shit out and ordering stuff etc etc before askin the owner, then the shittier thing is to find parts for these dozers. thats the only thing that sucks on working with old iron on a budget
@@johndowe7003 yes, thats true, i'm a heavy equipment mechanic, greetings from Slovenia 🇸🇮
@@gasperajdnik5627 awesome👍
@@johndowe7003 thanks 👍
You guys work together well.👍👍👍👍👍
Keep going warren your sort it out YOUR way !!! Thanks for sharing 🇬🇧
Awesome video mate! I said the same thing when you pulled the clutch material out of the transmission! Looks like you've got a great helper to👍🏼
A helper? A helper? Two sun's in the sky folks!
Not before time Warren.
You guys always do down in my heart good jobs no matter what they always say
CalFire wants the dozer to meet CARB during a wild fire...yea, that sounds about right.
Surprised they didn't want the Dozers to be Vegan as well.
Iv 2 machines to burn in a fire
Don't know how it works in the us but in Australia if you want work clearing tracks in the off season then be fully prepared to drive into a bush fire and put breaks in
Old d8
She was a good machine but in the thick smoke she didn't have the power any more to really get moving
Our trucks were down to 1/2 power as well
Dozer driver jumped in my tuck and we took off
Sounds like a crap idea bit having new machines in a fire really make a difference
Lots of old machines are very capable but a government organisation cant go round and inspect every machine based on merit of the owner and his maintenece procedures
Put in blanket rules that force everyone to have good gear
The worst thing about gov organisations
Not just fires but everything
But I see why they do it
Too much messing around otherwise
Interestingly the other machine was a new John Deere 2 track
The engine threw an emissions code and put it into limp mode
Because of all the smoke again
It thought the egr was playing up
Australia has no emissions laws for off road, so now most manufacturers are importing farm equipment as tier 2
Saves up having to chip them and mess around
@@zimbabwesteve4620 No, in California, it goes back to taxes and registration fees. Old dozers, tractors and rigs aren't a good source of taxes if the business doesn't have to replace them every decade. That's how you get CARB regs that mandate you can't register a rig if it doesn't have 16 character VIN.
It doesn't look like it, but the DoD has a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it attitude" on most items.
@@fowletm1992 I don't know how much dozers cost, but I wouldn't want to be driving a new one near a fire.
My experience working fires is the Feds are worse then CalFire.
Yo podria estar equibocado pero ese macanico no me aregla mi maquina no seve que tenga la erramientas adecuadas y que no sea muy experto siempre me an encantado esas maquinas yo pasaba las horas mirandolas trabajar y ahora no me pierdo un programa grasias por traerlos al aire
You can easily make a tool to remove that big nut. Use some 1/2" or 3/4" steel plate and cut out a hex. Make the wrench about 3 feet long and use a hydraulic jack to jack it up using the weight of the machine to break it loose. It would basically look like a big torsion key for a truck.
It nice that you got some good help to help you ..
Your patience astounds me, mate. That entire job makes me mad just watching you do it haha.
A HD Chain-type pipe wrench, tack welded to that nut.
long pipe handle, and yes, use the engine to turn it.
We do the same for car crank bolts. Bump the key, knocks it loose.
your lucky with the drill. I had a one-inch electric drill I am left-handed so somehow I lock the trigger .so it gave me a couple taps in the gonads. that hurt
We've all been there with one tool or another :/
Saw a gay filp right around useing 5/8 drill
probably the most action they seen all year
That Calfire requirement is utterly hilarious. Next thing? Fully Electric 'Dozers =;-))
Used to run an old D85 Komatsu, you could tell when the trany was going to let go, by little noises, when pushing, and by checking the trany screen often for debree.
Largest stuff I've ever worked on were fleet bus (Greyhounds), but damn that tap&die set at 4:04... I didn't even know they made hand tap&die sets that big for anything other than pipes. Largest I ever used on a bus was 1 1/2" for a frame rail bolt that wasn't tapped right the first time. Sure didn't do it by hand either. We had a special tapping air wrench with attachments. I thought that's just how it was done on heavy stuff haha
Hello This is Mike Foyster I’m a welder fabrication guy and work on all kinds of machinery for manufacturing plants,
But anyways to get the locknut off the spindle I have made basically a big spanner wrench and then bolt it on the nut were the locknut was
That looks like some seriously hard work. Watch those fingers!
Lot of work there bud , hope all is well take care now thanks for sharing 👍
I used to like working on the old D65a komatsu the place where I did my apprenticeship had. I worked with an old jamaican guy who knew these tractors inside out. We over hauled final drives and a new dead shaft had to be fitted. Burnt the old one out and shrunk the new one in liquid nitrogen to fit it. Interesting but heavy old work.
whenever we needed to get something off like that we make a wrench. torch, grinder and some material. we've used the crane to break big stuff like that and cyl nuts loose tooo.
Love the drill thru the ol back window story!
Makes life easy to have a Helper who just gets it .
Good work warren keep it up i knew warren you are super busy so i hope i dont sound rude but pleas could you make a toolbox tour one day and awsome video i love it when you tell storys you are one of the best mechanic's i knew hopfully one day i can be half the man you are
some customers want everything now but when you have`nt all information is hard to know what is and what goes where hope you have the book in time
Warren, get ahold of C&C equipment in Indiana. Clinton works on a lot of those Dresser dozers.
In these areas we have to “Boy Scout”stuff….you make the part or you make it work….don’t throw your old bearings away! Cut the cage apart ti find one😂
Make a spanner to fit the nut.made my own 130mm spanner for zx330 dipper arm nut.i used some 30mm plate and gas cut it.then I use a 8 ton kobelco to push on the spanner.works a treat.
Have seen the same sort of hub but removal done with two lengths of square tubing (heavy duty stuff) connected with 4 lengths of threaded rods and 4 plates
They also strapped it up with a ratchet strap to stop it popping off
You got your work cut out for you on this dozer Warren. But. As usual. your getting er done.Good job bud.
I wouldn't worry about what someone says how you should have done something . Theses always going to be someone like that , you do it just how you want as long as you can get it done . You work hard enough do it the easyes way you can .. Nice job warren
Its the same rule writing guy that said you must swab the arm before lethal injection needle gets stuck in the convict.
I used to rig, like cranes. I would be using straps with hooks. For all that pulling.
Great to see you with a great helper that knows what to do. Keep him about i would you probably not going to find great help like that again.
Hey Warren, seems like you have an opportunity to spread some knowledge with that young man. Where’s Blake at? Hope you’re doing well and physically feeling better. God bless
First backhoe I was taught on was a CAT, and with a 3-way bucket like that one. memories.
As an engineer I would make a spanner or wrench, as you guys say out of a half inch sheet steel sheet. With a 2 ft handle it can be hit with a sledge or pulled with machine power.
Why do you not have a bucket, with one of each size of old ball bearing, that you have removed over the years These come in very handy as you have discovered. Mike
Where in the hell am I going to store all this stuff people want me to pack around?
gobs of torque on that nut. My 32k lb machine from 1959 has over 4 thousand lbs applied using drive train reduction on a stationary wrench, so your thoughts are likely correct.
Hey I have dozers you can work on! Thanks Warren!
Great story about the drill! Anyone who has run one knows exactly what you were talking about....
Hey Warren. Love your videos. If I had a tractor or semi I'd bring it out to you to fix. Can you give us some background on how your got your start?
The owner is a clown to wait so long to work on that ancient iron. Fixing that old off-brand iron can take months. He's lucky to have found someone willing to work on it at all.
In your last video my stomach turned a bit when you said the customer wants to "check out the final drives". I had a strong suspicion that he didn't really understand what that involves.
This set up seems like a nightmare compared to a low track Cat.
I doubt it will take even a tiny portion of the Cat price to overhaul both these machines. Screw the USFS and commiefornia. Always plenty of work for big old dozers in Texas.........
Those machines cost alot more to work on. Parts are hard to find and bad expensive. Caterpillar of the same vintage are way cheaper to fix as far as parts go
Looks expensive and my back hurts for you guys just by watching it.
Make a big spanner with a plasma cutter. I have seen huge spanners like that in rail yards used to bolt nuts onto buffers.
What we do herein australia when we strike that is make a box ring like a ring spanner end then weld a long peice of steel on to bring it out further then weld a long solid bar on to swing on with a long heavy pipe needed. You would do it in an hour or a bit more.
Both lowes and home depot sell numerous different sizes of individual ball bearings. If I am ever short on check balls for transmissions I run to those stores when in a pinch. When I had my electrical contracting business I seen many helpers end up with broken wrists from getting jammed against a stud or joyce with Milwaukee hole hawgs.
If you have a piece of steel plate about 3ft. Long torch it to go around that big old bolt half way. Then weld it, then use the boom on that backhoe to break it free and turn it. You don't have to worry about the seal getting fried cause it's already bad. Use a grinder to take the plate off so the new seal doesn't get messed up.
This guy is way better than your other hand! He seems alittle to into his phone!
There should be a Fastenal in Klamath Falls. They usually have any bearing you need.
Oh dam you stopped just as it was getting exciting? Well have to come back and watch the rest thanks
Good teamwork. Just couldn't catch a break.
Just a thought. How about welding scrap steel to fabricate a socket of sorts to remove the nut? You're a pretty fine welder. I'm thinkin you could glue some steel together and get er done.
I feal your pain on parts availability, we too are in a geographic oddity, two weeks from everywhere. No one stocks anything these days and on top of it they seem to think you should have to pay the freight on top of your two week wait
Good old 855 Cummins. They run forever. No matter what the HP is
The owner should have built up the grossers, pressure wash it and paint. Other than the hose leak repair repair stuff, that's what I would have done for the inspection.
Hello there your videos are awesome I like watching your video and you dog ,I have a question I have a D8H 46A its been sitting for 10 years I started it last week it fires really easy I got her running for a bit , I want to know how to maintain this machine oil change and stuff will do it but it there any other things to maintain??? filters antifreeze hydraulic filters?? other oil ??it has a ripper parallelogram with only two cylinders just if you know things hidden secrets to maintain b4 worming it up and cause something wrong thank you for your advices
The owner of these dozers obviously has more money than brains but that's good for the Warrens of this world. I certainly give you Warren credit for taking this one on.
You could cut / weld a open ended wrench out of a piece of thick plate steel so that you can undo the big nut, then weld a long rod to it for a handle/lever,
But if you ask me,
that looks like a job he should have started last autumn to allow for time for parts. in a previous video, I'm not sure on the economics of getting machines on fire duty, But i can see them moving to emissions as a way of filtering out everything of a certain age. some of this maybe a push by the state enviro, and some can even be by the manufactures themselves so they can sell new machines.
I'd mod that to a 1" plated torched into a closed end and use chain to prevent rotation, but yes for the immediate need. Could be a nice piece if there was time to have one CNC plasma cut.
Yrs ago my dad was using one of them pistol grip 1/2 drills hanging some shelves in our shop the concrete bit hit a piece of rebar kicked back and damn near broke his nose ...he turned to me and said yeah go ahead and laugh dammit ...im sorry i couldnt help myself 🤣🤣
I have a Milwaukee Hole Hog drill. nasty when you get the bit stuck.
Also good work on the videos.
i watched a machinist make a monster wrench using a plasma cutter. you could make your own wrench just need a 8 ft piece of i beam 8" wide flang. Use the backhoe for torque. It has plenty.
Of course! Let's add reliability-killing emissions equipment to the fire dozer to make it CARB compliant! Lmao classic kalifornia.
Just wait, half the state will burn the ground while the heavy equipment fighting the fire limps along derated due to DPF and doser faults.
I've had a similar situation with a drill like that it got away from me and hit me square in the rib cage. Thought I broke some I was on all fours in the shop gasping for air and of course everybody was pointing and laughing lol 😂
Like this kind of work
Great video.