Going thru the gears in a CAT V8 powered 80 ton road train

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  • Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024

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  • @Njesrah79
    @Njesrah79 4 года назад +25

    Even after all this years this sound is a sound of pure power.

  • @dag-uwemaraun7324
    @dag-uwemaraun7324 10 месяцев назад +4

    Still remember the cold morning s in winter just before sunup when you kick her guts and let the bags get air while drinking a nice cup of coffee outside and having a cigarette. It haunts me for over 40 years already. Would love to go to Australia and make a trip as a „tourist driver“! Childhood dream

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад +22

    I've been as low as 2.8 mpg and as high as 5.6 mpg with 2 trailers. The quad trailer roadtrains with Cummins K19 @ 180 tons can go down to 1.5 mpg.

  • @Alex462047
    @Alex462047 5 лет назад +10

    I drove the east coast for 8 years. Those roads never stop calling you. Good on you, trucker!

  • @HighwayHank1
    @HighwayHank1 16 лет назад +7

    Man that's a great sounding engine. I love the sound of the V8. I almost had an 3408 in my 1981 Highway Hilton, but didn't because I couldn't get a Jake Brake. The scenery looks almost like going through parts of Arizona, Nevada and Utah.

  • @dieselbeema4255
    @dieselbeema4255 11 лет назад +25

    I like the driver's style. Moderate revs only, using the torque and clean simple gearchanges. Easy on the vehicle, driver - and fuel!

    • @benmurray8689
      @benmurray8689 8 лет назад +3

      progressive shifting

    • @BPJJohn
      @BPJJohn 7 лет назад +3

      left side is the "right" side :)

    • @Grantsimms
      @Grantsimms 7 лет назад

      Nope, Jimmy's correct.

    • @TheHarry30rb
      @TheHarry30rb 6 лет назад

      Grantsimms it’s Australia we drive on left side steering on right side

    • @petert3355
      @petert3355 6 лет назад +1

      Rule of thumb News Now Adirondacks, always put the driver to the middle of the road and the passenger on the edge.

  • @stefankassbohrer2765
    @stefankassbohrer2765 3 года назад +4

    Love these air starters and engines with a lot of displacement. Nice KW ! Greetings from south Germany

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад +3

    You can still get a KW with airstart in Australia if you want. They recently made a batch of tri-drive twin-steer KWs with QSK 19 liter Cummins with airstarts.

  • @yarleechan
    @yarleechan 10 лет назад +13

    Gday .. totally agree with "Diesel Beema" Good driving habit!! Cheers mate.
    "I like the driver's style. Moderate revs only, using the torque and clean simple gearchanges. Easy on the vehicle, driver - and fuel!'"

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад +17

    In Australia you work your way up from light rigid to heavy rigid to semi-trailer then multi-combination (B-Double and road train). You've got to take a test for each class. You can't just jump straight into a road train.

    • @bh2861
      @bh2861 2 года назад +1

      Incorrect, you can go directly from MR to HC, then after 12 months hit MC. Essentially within 12 months you can be carting triples.

  • @psychotikpaisano
    @psychotikpaisano 13 лет назад +3

    I can hear every single power puls through my subwoofer that is amazing!

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  16 лет назад +3

    That's right, but with CAT's special tool on the fuel rack on the pump you can increase both massively, just got to fine tune it for smoke and fuel economy.

  • @AEI1962
    @AEI1962 16 лет назад +3

    I've seen your truck out on the paddock many times over the years, a tidy unit for its age.
    Gotta love the old 3408's.
    Many fond memories of them.
    They were the absolute ducks guts back in the early 80's.
    I wonder where they all are now?
    Co-ords had a few of them, Lloyd Davies, Barry Cullen, Bob Cepus, Strates Haulage, Selmans are a few names that spring to mind that all owned 3408's.
    Great stuff.

  • @SFtruckerWolf
    @SFtruckerWolf 9 лет назад +14

    I like that airstart. Here in Finland I have been last seen airstart in 60`s M A N long nose.

    • @johnjbarnes78
      @johnjbarnes78 5 лет назад

      I noticed and enjoyed that as well.

  • @ctjmrcsf
    @ctjmrcsf 15 лет назад

    Excellent excellent video!.....wish all the "in cabs" videos would be made in this format: no music,little or no talking,no air horn or wind noise. All you want to hear is the sound of the engine while the driver goes through all the gears!..... That big 3408 just sounds beautiful!!
    Thanks for posting!

  • @d11rcd
    @d11rcd 17 лет назад +2

    Ahh, thanks man! Got my fix of CAT V-8 power! The 3406 and the current C-15 and C-16 have long ago replaced the 3408 out here in California. I love the song of these engines too, but it's hard to beat the sound of a CAT V-8! That's quite the rig you've got there!

    • @autovag2007
      @autovag2007 3 месяца назад +2

      Прошло 16 лет с момента, как вы оставили здесь свой комментарий, и у вас давно исчезли Cat C15, Cummins N14 и Detroit 60 series. Теперь вам приходится довольствоваться электронным мусором с экологией. Впрочем, в России американские грузовики тоже вымирают. Их прекратили ввозить в 2012 году. Я бы с удовольствием купил бы американский грузовик, особенно с pre emission engine.

    • @d11rcd
      @d11rcd 2 месяца назад

      @@autovag2007 Very sad to hear this. Is it because of emissions?

    • @That2strokeRider
      @That2strokeRider Месяц назад +1

      @@d11rcdyes because of emissions, California started it but it will happen everywhere cat engines are illegal in California unless your are in rural areas emissions exempt then we must out Dpf, filters on our cat engines trucks to filter soot for emissions but we arent aloud to run past a certain place

    • @d11rcd
      @d11rcd Месяц назад

      @@That2strokeRider That totally sucks. I'm for clean air, but there has to be a reasonable compromise. I read one study that the air is so clean in California now that there isn't enough particulate matter in the air for raindrops to form. California has created its own drought.

    • @That2strokeRider
      @That2strokeRider Месяц назад +1

      @@d11rcd yeah and these cat e model engines are already really clean burning engines, also very reliable, just sucks we have to trade off a truck with a cat engine that will last over a million miles before rebuild for a Cummins x15 that needs a rebuild at 500k and then can’t be rebuilt again. People then wonder why everything is so expensive now, pretty much everything at stores is brought on by truck.

  • @bodryn
    @bodryn 15 лет назад

    I love this video. I just set the monitor to full screen and rode along. Sure reminds me of my trucking days 30 years ago. Weird driving on the left side though! Keep 'em coming!

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  17 лет назад +3

    Yeah, Mack had a problem with the V8 here as well, especially when they went to higher HP from 500 to 610. It seems you either got a good one or a bad one. Strangely, they seemed better at heavy weights and stuffed up when they were on lighter loads. Scania also have had reliability problems over here, you rarely see them on roadtrain work any more. But on B Doubles at 62 tonnes, yes.

  • @camilovalenzuela6878
    @camilovalenzuela6878 7 лет назад +7

    the best v8 diesel engine sound..

  • @cliveharman7762
    @cliveharman7762 Год назад +2

    That is one powerhouse of a Kenny.

  • @geoffreywallace9432
    @geoffreywallace9432 3 года назад +1

    I'd love for that engine start to be me 6 am weekly alarm ringtone.

  • @Manorfarmdenton
    @Manorfarmdenton 16 лет назад

    Great vid....thanks. That sound makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck! It also makes our 44 tonne 540hp fully automatic Iveco Stralis look like a ballet dancer's truck! John.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  16 лет назад +4

    Haven't measured it but 520 HP at the wheels straight after engine rebuild, more power now with 70,000 kms since rebuild

  • @AlexRyteuBart
    @AlexRyteuBart 13 лет назад +5

    Lovely twisted road :D and this traffic is killing me :)

  • @fredericia01
    @fredericia01 15 лет назад +1

    I´m still amazed by this video, the last time I drove a 3408 was in Canada. It was an ´85 Freightliner, 110" BBC Coe. We had a good mechanic who could tune those things by ear and a heatmarker. My guess is that the thing made around 750 Hp. Btw. it also had a Fuller RTO 15spd. and 2 speed rearends. It was built to pull super `B`s in western Canada, and could also run express runs with produce out of California to Canada.

  • @wmodel892
    @wmodel892 16 лет назад

    never thought i would like the sound of anyyhing as much as the old 8v92 gm but that really sounds nice good luck mate

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад +1

    The air tank for the air starter is completely independant from the normal air tanks, even if you run out of air overnight the starter air tank holds enough air for weeks.

  • @HillbillyonaYZ
    @HillbillyonaYZ 15 лет назад

    I'd love to come live in Australia. In some ways like the Americas of the 50's. Dreamed about it for several years, but discovered Oz too late in life, and now too old. Got an imigration cut off age of 46 there, and I'm 52. Damn good welder and metal fabricator, been doing it for 30 years, your country says it wants people with my skill, but just past the numbers to come there.
    Maybe in the next life.
    Great vids you post, keep 'em up, I love 'em.

  • @m0dthunder
    @m0dthunder 12 лет назад

    I love the sound of this monster v8 stright piped, I drive a 379 Pete 500 HP c15 cat 13 speed pulling a 50 ft 8 axle in Michigan with 100,000 lbs of steel on deck I know the feeling

  • @toptrucker2k8
    @toptrucker2k8 15 лет назад +1

    very nice sound off the big v8

  • @tonyreaper9486
    @tonyreaper9486 11 лет назад +1

    love the sound of a v8 working hard. great vid.gm16v149

  • @leokimvideo
    @leokimvideo 14 лет назад +10

    never knew it took so long to get up to speed, look that dead straight road, if your not used to it that air start can scare the crap out of you in real life
    seems truck videos are hugely popular, something I never knew.

  • @smiftie
    @smiftie 17 лет назад +1

    haha wow!
    quite incredible, those things scared the crap outa me when I went from Bris to Melb :P

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  16 лет назад

    My truck is Lloyd Davies old truck......first KW with a 3408 in Australia. We made it into a Co-ord spec a few years ago. Strait's truck belongs to a bloke in Perth, a guy from Geelong and a guy in Pt Hedland own a couple of ex Co-ord's, I'd say most of them are still working. There's quite a few in Victoria.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  16 лет назад +1

    It was put on the road in 1980 but Kenworth had it for a while to show off the engine which was the first 3408 in a KW in Australia. It's had a major cab and chassis re-furbish over the last couple of years

  • @GreenEyesRedBeams
    @GreenEyesRedBeams 13 лет назад

    I love the sound of those air starters probably scares the crap out of people not paying attention.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  13 лет назад +4

    @blobby1972 The starter air tank is independant from the main air tanks. The starter air tank holds enough air to start the truck even if the truck hasn't run for weeks. If it runs out of air because of a problem, you run an air line to a couple of tyres to fill the tank. Much easier than if you had a flat battery with electric start.

  • @cmeonthemove
    @cmeonthemove 14 лет назад

    I never tire of listening to that V8 rumble. Guess you must be on the Trans Access Road. I have some family who lived in Adelaide and are now in Kapunda.

  • @JoeHupp
    @JoeHupp 16 лет назад +1

    You're right about the 3408E - it and it's bigger brother, the 3508E, power Caterpillar's biggest mine haul trucks, the 777C and the 793C!

  • @cheeptorque
    @cheeptorque 17 лет назад

    another awesome aussie truckie vid.***** thnx 4 the ride!!..Kool cab over KW btw.

  • @alwaysoffroad
    @alwaysoffroad 17 лет назад

    must admit that you can't beat the sound of a v8 be it a cat or cummins or mack or even a merc.

  • @JoeHupp
    @JoeHupp 17 лет назад +1

    Mate, you'd leave a lot of the guys with the modern electronic C16 600 Cats in ya dust with that thing! What an awesome drive ya did for us... that truck is just amazing! The 45' trailers are about the biggest that you can go, aren't they?

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад +1

    You can drive 12 hrs a day normal, or 14 hrs if you do a fatigue managment course

  • @jrmathes6567
    @jrmathes6567 5 лет назад +1

    I'm not a fan of the spicer box, you hit them cogs sweet and I absolutely love the cat, thanks mate.

  • @garyskowbo3564
    @garyskowbo3564 3 года назад +1

    Always like coming back to your videos! I like the looks of the outback. How are things over there in the land down under,are you still running the highways. Hope so. Thanks for sharing your videos with us!👍😎😎

    • @gm16v149
      @gm16v149  3 года назад

      I just put up a recent video, so yes still getting around.

  • @lachygoldsworthy4226
    @lachygoldsworthy4226 6 лет назад +2

    love the sound

  • @aid2003
    @aid2003 16 лет назад

    Great video..
    The open road..what a ride..

  • @categoryD
    @categoryD 16 лет назад

    "you had me at hello"
    the noise of the air starter was enough for me!

  • @bobbarnes3018
    @bobbarnes3018 8 лет назад +7

    dam I love the air starter

    • @bobbarnes3018
      @bobbarnes3018 6 лет назад

      Don't think there is any tbh, I guess there is no starter motor and or battery to go dead

    • @jenst1688
      @jenst1688 5 лет назад

      But if you have an air leak then you also cant start the engine

    • @cheetahcoats4923
      @cheetahcoats4923 5 лет назад

      Just makes me think straight off - “Mad Max II” Road Warrior,
      that sound

  • @d11rcd
    @d11rcd 17 лет назад +1

    Yeah, 637's, 988's and I believe the D8's still star this marvelous engine. I'm into those too! Hope they don't go the way of the 1693's and D series' (D432's, 346's, etc.) Hard to get over a CAT!

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад

    Actually they were in US trucks first because the guy who originally bought this truck was in the US and saw these working and wanted one. KW Australia were thinking about it and later built it for him. (This truck was the first KW in Aus with the 3408). They built about 30 in Australia but a lot more were put in KWs & Peterbilts in the US.

  • @KohalaIronWorksCase
    @KohalaIronWorksCase 10 лет назад +2

    Good to see this video again...

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  16 лет назад

    That's right, you can't get a Jake on the V8 but it's got the Cat Brakesaver which is a hydraulic retarder, it has about the same amount of engine braking.
    Only problem is, it's heavy and an expensive option. But it's quiet and reliable.

  • @jlopes00
    @jlopes00 14 лет назад

    Cool vid! I'd love to visit Australia sometime. Thanks for the vid.

  • @MovieMad007
    @MovieMad007 14 лет назад +1

    Ex Backpacker.....been along this road!!!! Awesome!!

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад

    Depends what state you are in.
    WA & NT is 100 k's
    SA, Qld, NSW 90 k's
    Trucks bigger than triples usually have special conditions.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад

    You mean the mesh net? Or the bull bar? The mesh net keeps the bugs out of the radiator but U.S. trucks got them as well I think.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад

    They do sound good, there's still a lot of V8 Macks in Australia, not so many left in the U.S. I think.
    They're all sixes now.

  • @stronzer59
    @stronzer59 6 лет назад +2

    The Bore looks even bigger sitting in a Rig 10 feet off the road. Looks like you were coasting along at about $1.30?

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  13 лет назад

    @4fun2w It disappeared but I saw it being built up in Adelaide and it had twin compound turbos and yes it was putting out around the HP you mentioned. I saw it a few times, it was quick. You wouldn't get away with that these days.

  • @coewee
    @coewee 16 лет назад

    love ya trucks incab on the nullarbor stretch and all kenworth trucks cool mate keep em up

  • @paulchappell9606
    @paulchappell9606 6 лет назад

    Oh my the memories of those roads in Oz. I drove half way round beautiful Australia. The road that nearly killed me was the Stuart Highway. Asked the misses do you see any cars (pulled over for a break) no she says, so I pull out at that split second a road train comes screaming past. Those beasts can fly when not interrupted by a Mitsubishi 4x4. Would haves ended up like all the dead Roos and camels on the side of the road. If your that driver SORRY. it was the Wife not me 😔

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  11 лет назад +1

    It is from Joe Satriani's album Surfing With the Aliens, Ice9 is the track

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад

    We call them Bull Lights for the big lights, they are Lightforce brand & they have a long range, just right for picking out the bulls in the north.
    Further south we only have to worry about kangaroos & emus which are a lot smaller.

  • @douglaspaltridge509
    @douglaspaltridge509 6 лет назад +1

    Beautiful sound

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад +1

    Well, they make 'em in the U.S.!
    But they're more common in earthmoving and marine. There's still a few around over here on the highway.

  • @fredericia01
    @fredericia01 15 лет назад

    I do know my Cat engines, I´ve worked for a smaller Canadian outfit where we had 3 of them, and we also had 2 big bore Cummins KTA-600. we were pulling Super B´s from Alberta to Vancouver BC on a regular basis. 63.500kg´s GVW --

  • @docholiday456456456
    @docholiday456456456 13 лет назад

    holy flat terrain... nice shifting and nice truck

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад

    Quad roadtrains are usually speed limited to about 85 km/h which is a condition of their permit.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  16 лет назад

    Mine's a 3408B with mechanical fuel injection. I think the latest 3408E is a HUEI engine, not in highway trucks.

  • @stevesprinceofsteaks
    @stevesprinceofsteaks 15 лет назад

    Hey Donk you're on the wrong side of the road. lol Great video.

  • @jhonsiders6077
    @jhonsiders6077 5 лет назад

    I have driven that road Melbourne to Perth !! and the Stuart highway all the way to Darwin and some of the road train dirt tracks I want to live there in the NT one day .

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад +1

    @m648mvp No, the V8s use a Caterpillar Brakesaver which is a hydraulic retarder.

  • @reefready9284
    @reefready9284 6 лет назад +1

    Well they say "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line", you definitely have that down.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад +9

    Too heavy, too expensive, too complicated.
    Diesel-electric's OK on locos because weight isn't a problem and they've got such high HP.
    Manual trans works just fine on trucks.

  • @dunkie007
    @dunkie007 14 лет назад

    nice driving mate my old man has been a truck driver all his life and i plan to do the same u like the detroits

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад

    That's the main road that goes across Australia, the Eyre Hwy. As you can see, there isn't a lot of traffic.

  • @hmr9147
    @hmr9147 6 лет назад +2

    That starter reminds me of the Stephen king movie maximum overdrive.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад

    They make them for the mining and oil industries in the US and Australia and you can option them on a new KW in Australia but they are expensive.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  17 лет назад

    We can have 48 footers in this country but you need a real short wheelbase prime mover to tow them, you don't see many around

  • @Wolfgang46
    @Wolfgang46 16 лет назад +1

    Great Video! so exciting
    this endless road,
    thanks for ride.

  • @danegerous88
    @danegerous88 16 лет назад

    Real nice vid there mate.I might have missed it in the comments but what year is your KW?
    I remember seeing about twelve months ago a brown cabover Kenny in town on B-double work running the 3408.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  16 лет назад +5

    The first few gears I go easy but after 5 or 6 gears I give it to her.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад

    Actually we're probably one of the most urbanised countries on earth and very few Australians ever see the outback except on TV. But a lot of places in the sticks are like a time warp.

  • @bigcarle
    @bigcarle 14 лет назад

    sounds like a spicer gearbox?
    great vid
    nothing beats the sound of a great V8 and the turbo whistle

  • @VOLVOFH16FAN
    @VOLVOFH16FAN 15 лет назад

    hey... sounds good...
    how many hours are your driving on an normal day??

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад

    They are 3.73s which is a bit high for 2 trailers but it handles it OK.
    The engine used to smoke but we changed it to B-series fuel injection so it is a lot better now.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  17 лет назад +1

    They're OK at 60 tonnes but not 160 tonnes! When they're constantly under full load in +100*F heat things seem to break. The Cummins Signature engines also have problems. CAT & Detroit seem to be OK. We're talking extreme conditions here.

  • @Sjanzo
    @Sjanzo 15 лет назад

    I believe you when you say that you only see Scanias locally, not on the long haul road trains. But thats not because they blow up, its because the KW and petes have larger cabs and sleepers and Scania has a better, more compact daycab for local traffic.

  • @RexCars1
    @RexCars1 15 лет назад

    Very cool... Lots of power.. But man even with 600hp.. You can really hear the weight.. Good driver too... Not his first bbq... Great sound...also.. Well done.

  • @spencnaz
    @spencnaz 15 лет назад

    I really like the sound of V8 turbo diesels.

  • @jdknetts
    @jdknetts 14 лет назад +1

    I'm surprised how many gears you got through before you can really hear the turbo pulling its weight. But then again, I'm used to the newer detroits that sound like jet engines. Nothing like the "growl" of a big cat though!

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад

    @scorelvor The step down ratio between the drive shaft and the wheels. so if my truck has 3:7 diff. ratios, then the drive shaft turns at say 1600 rpm and the wheels turn 3.7 times slower thru the diffs.

  • @spcascades
    @spcascades 14 лет назад

    Hey Chris! How are things down under? The railroad is still the same old RR here in Oregon and the ex SP Cascade Line has very little snow. I don't think we'll run the plow train this year unless we get a huge amount of snow real quick.

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  14 лет назад

    Does about 5.4 mpg with one trailer and 3.8 mpg with two. That's average, but a lot depends on the wind, height of load etc.

  • @AEI1962
    @AEI1962 16 лет назад

    Well there ya go... Its a small world.
    I've actually driven your truck back when Lloyd owned it.
    Where you heading west with 2 loads of pipes yesterday?
    I reckon I saw you, if it wasnt you it was another old cabover similar to yours.

  • @gideonstrydom8242
    @gideonstrydom8242 8 месяцев назад

    What torque figure did these 3408's put out?
    What's diff ratios were the most common?

  • @gm16v149
    @gm16v149  15 лет назад

    It's the same pattern as for you guys in the U.S., except the gear shift is on our left.

  • @gzwbyc
    @gzwbyc 16 лет назад +1

    Love the air starter!!!

  • @aussiebigbangers
    @aussiebigbangers 11 лет назад

    Another great video , great work.