She’s lookin real good! It warms my heart to watch you and dad together. Having lost my dad in 2019, what I would give for one more day in the shop with him. Keep up the good work!
That breather plug on the PTO housing is really cool, it must have enough iron to make a dozen of modern breather plugs of the same thread size! Luckily I wasn't drinking when I watched the last few seconds of the video 🎸🤣
That breather plug is a work of art in itself. The best part is no tools necessary to unscrew it. Glad you enjoyed the "shake hands with Danger" riff at the end, 🤣.
Hi Aaron I am so happy for you that you were able to repair the belt pulley and your welding and grinding was so good nobody will ever know that anything happened, but I thought I would mention to maybe give the Cleaner some Imodium or Pepto-Bismol the night before he’s going to do any torquing because if he accidentally goes over 3 grunts and the relief valve blows…….could be trouble! But if that does happen you don’t have to worry about cleaning it up because he’s the Cleaner 😀🇨🇦(just kidding) I think he’s a great guy and you too I just can’t resist being sarcastic!
Enjoy the tear apart and rebuild along with the history of each machine, have a question as to what 4G would have cost new. When you put old iron into today's market value, in my opinion , they are still a better value than their newer counter parts even eith the rebuild cost..just my thoughts. Keep on restoring the old iron..thanks.
Thanks Allan, to tell you the truth I haven't been able to find a cost for a new 4G D4. I've asked a few folks and if I come up with anything will let you know! I've been curious myself. Thanks for watching!
The book says 25 tons. We went to 4,200psi on our 30 ton press which is near 20 tons, we think. One of my older Cat books actually just says to tighten the nut is as tight as you can and hit it with a sledgehammer. It was hard to find consistency for the process except in some of the later books. Thanks for watching!
One thing that has me wondering is how your supposed to press the sprockets on back in the 40s? When most people had very rudimentary tools. I guess if your bellow seal was leaking you just left it and poured more oil into the final housing to make up for the lost fluid? CAT did have a press/ram tool but that thing might have costed a fortune to own. I can imagine someone using a large hammer trying to get this seated? Other thing I was wondering can you but the sprocket in reverse?
So we do revisit the sprocket pushing in a future episode because of issues that we realized. The older books actually say to tighten the nut and hit it with a sledgehammer to drive it back on. When we took apart 7j we found evidence of this. It seems that the process would actually work because it took quite a bit of pressure to take them off. Without proper cat tools a lot of the processes virtually impossible. 😏
Hi My Friend Very Good Job ❤❤❤❤❤
The press is always a cliffhanger - but the tool came through again!
She’s lookin real good! It warms my heart to watch you and dad together. Having lost my dad in 2019, what I would give for one more day in the shop with him. Keep up the good work!
Sorry for your loss and thanks for the kind words.
Thanks! Lookin Good.😅
Thanks again Tom! 😊
Looks great! Keep up the good work.
Thanks Mike!
That breather plug on the PTO housing is really cool, it must have enough iron to make a dozen of modern breather plugs of the same thread size!
Luckily I wasn't drinking when I watched the last few seconds of the video 🎸🤣
That breather plug is a work of art in itself. The best part is no tools necessary to unscrew it. Glad you enjoyed the "shake hands with Danger" riff at the end, 🤣.
Hi Aaron I am so happy for you that you were able to repair the belt pulley and your welding and grinding was so good nobody will ever know that anything happened, but I thought I would mention to maybe give the Cleaner some Imodium or Pepto-Bismol the night before he’s going to do any torquing because if he accidentally goes over 3 grunts and the relief valve blows…….could be trouble!
But if that does happen you don’t have to worry about cleaning it up because he’s the Cleaner 😀🇨🇦(just kidding)
I think he’s a great guy and you too I just can’t resist being sarcastic!
LOL, I love sarcasm! 🤣
Enjoy the tear apart and rebuild along with the history of each machine, have a question as to what 4G would have cost new. When you put old iron into today's market value, in my opinion , they are still a better value than their newer counter parts even eith the rebuild cost..just my thoughts. Keep on restoring the old iron..thanks.
Thanks Allan, to tell you the truth I haven't been able to find a cost for a new 4G D4. I've asked a few folks and if I come up with anything will let you know! I've been curious myself. Thanks for watching!
was thinking thought they were pressed a 5k
The book says 25 tons. We went to 4,200psi on our 30 ton press which is near 20 tons, we think. One of my older Cat books actually just says to tighten the nut is as tight as you can and hit it with a sledgehammer. It was hard to find consistency for the process except in some of the later books. Thanks for watching!
One thing that has me wondering is how your supposed to press the sprockets on back in the 40s? When most people had very rudimentary tools. I guess if your bellow seal was leaking you just left it and poured more oil into the final housing to make up for the lost fluid? CAT did have a press/ram tool but that thing might have costed a fortune to own. I can imagine someone using a large hammer trying to get this seated? Other thing I was wondering can you but the sprocket in reverse?
So we do revisit the sprocket pushing in a future episode because of issues that we realized. The older books actually say to tighten the nut and hit it with a sledgehammer to drive it back on. When we took apart 7j we found evidence of this. It seems that the process would actually work because it took quite a bit of pressure to take them off. Without proper cat tools a lot of the processes virtually impossible. 😏
At 16:30 that piston moved, if the sprocket didn't go on more, something gave.
You're right, I don't think I noticed that before. 🤔