@@RickBork I know a guy who works on those engines. Big money to fix them. Maybe we could repower it with a Detroit instead, add some class to the machine.
Squatch, I (and others I'm sure) have watched you make practical use of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, physics and chemistry on multiple occasions. Book learning don't count for much if you can't do something with it. Give yourself credit. And thank you for all you do.
Because of your comments about your math ability when you started talking about per degree the first thing that popped in my head was dude it's a circle, it's 360 degrees.
Don't forget to adjust your tin pointer to true TDC using a dial indicator before you put the head back on. :-) Also twisting a heat shrink part is a no no, as sure as you wiggle it once you sit it on that is when it locks and grabs and you are stuck with it in the wrong place. Put it on once and in line and leave it alone. I learned that lesson the hard way. lol
I love your caution when removing the ring gear! I at the shop had a 1 1/2 drive stock round that would walk around the ring gear and just drive it off, worked well for me, but caution on your part was best! Putting the ring gear back on with oven heat worked real well, we just took the torch and heated the ring gear sprayed water on it, when the water dance would then install it. the way you did it insured uniform heat! On the washers that retain the flywheel I would have turned the washer tell the flat was against the outer curve as to try to stop it from getting a start in turning, because it would have been up against a stop to start with! I like your presentation keep it up!
Don't sweat the oven. I've done that before, too. Just cook a batch of lasagna, and no one complains. All the I's are crossed and T's dotted. Well done.
The way to remove ring gear is a torch. Keep heating the gear all the way around. When it gets hot, lift up on gear with pry bar. The gear will lift off. Have other flywheel and gear will drop right on. I usually just flip the gear over.
The bolt with the ground off head for alignment and the simple plate to keep the flywheel in place while torquing were clever timesavers. Won’t be used often but will be really handy when needed. Nice!
Your methods with heating and chilling worked--excellent video. Jet engine mechanics use similar methods with ovens and dry ice baths when sweating on fan blade rings onto engine shafts. Good thing for you that your ambient temperatures there worked perfectly with the assembly and chill down on your sidewalk--loved seeing that! No need for expensive shop tools.
Been watching with great interest. Finally caught up to current activity. Going to help me a lot if ever have to rebuild the engine on the D2 5U15127 I have. My Dad owned it. You remind me a lot of him in how you do things, he would make what he needed if he couldn't buy it, or wasn't available, or didn't exist (tools). Looking forward to see this baby run. Working on putting D3 rollers on the D2, can't seem to find any grease seals, or Cat wants an arm and leg for them. also have 3 rollers in bad shape. Rather have it original, but doesn't look like I can do that.
I appreciate your shout-out for Kenny Kizzle! I enjoy watching the videos he puts out! The Memorial H project is an honor for me to be able to watch. Such a great cause, I know a few people who went that direction but I wasn't as close of course as Kenny and his Mother. I enjoy your videos also, a learning experience. Have a great day!
Your Maths is good! A matter of fact as I also believe is many youngsters don’t understand the function of maths because they cannot apply it then don’t care about about something what they believe is no use to them. However, when later on in life as happened to me I had to use Trigonometry to machine up many very large plates for a colossal undersea plough for laying oil pipe on the ocean floor. I had to learn the functions of Trig to work out the angles which had to be created. Learning how to do Trig again was fun and also satisfying as I had found a use for it and more so made money using it🤓😎👍
Squatch, I have been ardently following the series, and each new video is a treat to look forward to, just like it is for everyone else watching your Channel. Watching your efforts to remove the ring gear in the previous episode, i was thinking how much physical effort and frustration might have gone into it. Thanks to your editing, an armchair enthusiast like me is treated to the end result without needing to be "bored" with every minute of what it took to get there... All I can really say is, you are a true inspiration, and thanks a million for taking us along on this journey of yours.
That ring gear installation worked a treat! I actually have done that before, out in the field,..we used dry ice on the flywheel and a torch on the ring gear,..'clink' dropped right in place. I like how nice and clean you make those parts for installation,..that's the way to go!
Squatch the only video length is forgiven lol . It only felt like it was about 3 minutes for me. I really like the flywheel holding fixture cool tool . And I have been watching Rick Bork . He has given me some good ideas . Just like you and your Dad. 😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍💖
It always seemed to me the hot ring gear would contract a lot sooner and tighten up quicker. It used to make me nervous when the ring gears I installed stayed loose for a longer time than I thought it should. Good Job!
So so glad I was not alone with the substitution of numbers for letters in maths👍👍 I am fortunate that I find fractions percentages multiplication an division an addition an subtraction very easy to do mentally but forget the letters 😂 great video so glad that ring gear survived👍👍 bring on the next installment 💪
Great video, bud. I feel like there is a large amount of us who now want a vintage Cat of our own to teardown and rebuild. Or is it just me? Lol. She's getting closer and closer!
“It’ll be fine. Most likely.” BTW, I worked for Snap-On about 30 years ago. That stay that you made for the flywheel would cost about 150 bux if it was sprayed red!
Another great video squatch! I'm the same way with math. And by the looks of it those numbers you did were spot on. Looking forward to hearing that engine run.
That you didn't give up when the ring cocked on the ID was the saving grace, had you stopped, most likely the ring would've cracked. And we're talking down to moments.
3:45 That's how they used to put steel tires on the spoked driving wheels of old locomotives. (Usually steam locomotives but there are examples of electric and diesel locomotives that use the same style of driver)
Put it in place and warm it up with a torch.. It will drop in place when it gets hot enough.....If it is in good shape and the flywheel is, when it cools it will not slip....Cheers. Mike in Louisiana
I have a TD6 and having some electric issues and starting issues that I didn't have a couple weeks ago a was told that you might be able to help me troubleshoot problems. Thank you
So much to enjoy on this vid. I am very guilty of using the freezer and oven to get press fit parts together. Hells; a number of transmissions require hotplating parts to mate them up. Also, I feel a bit called out by this vid. Im definitely a torque monster; too many years with Ma Mopar. I would say dont worry bout vid length but i know what its like to upload vids; it can be painfully long. Greatly enjoying the series!
The retainer locks should have been put on while the ring was still hot anf they would have aligned the notches perfectly and after cooled lock tighted in.
Thank you Squatch for posting this video. I will say despite it is very hard to fit everything into a 20 minutes video. You have done a good job and set a good example for others how to do things. Question what kind of assembly lubrication's to you use? Another one would be I assume all the flywheels are balanced and interchanging them will not affect vibration comming from the engine?
Regarding "torque monsters", from experience on lots of old equipment, it's best to not go crazy torquing old OEM bolts. Many times the old bolts aren't necessarily manufactured with modern alloys and specs. If you try to arbitrarily apply modern torque specs to the old bolts, you may end up with stretched bolts and stripped threads. I do the same as Squatch, unless the OEM is specific, I stay pretty conservative with my bolt torques.
Ooooo what fun with a torch. Love your videos you and onelonlyfarmer . And bus Grease monkey and and harmless farmer you all are giving me inspiration to keep working on my vehicles I need to replace suspension air ride bags and fuel pump sending unit 89 cut chassis RV Ford e350 w 36 gallon fuel tank ooooo what fun I will be having.😂😃😀😭🤔 Jim in Colorado.
Those special tools are the cats meow. Not that it makes any difference since the ring gear went on flawlessly, I would think the expansion per inch was talking about the circumference.
I liked the heating / cooling method. We used it to remove stubborn exhaust valve houses in my marine engineer days. For cooling we would use CO2 fire extinguishers as sort of a last resort. Is that something you could try on those stubborn combustion chambers (heating the head and cooling the chambers with CO2)?
I'm pleased that no good used parts were harmed in the making of this video. Will you make a guest appearance at the Bork compound for installing the 4-71 Detroit in his Model 12 Grader? If nothing else may be you could scavenge Cat parts.
Not sure if my eyes or your camera are playing tricks on me but is that ring gear have helical cut teeth? Thanks for sharing! Full watch and Thumbs Up!
Quick question, have you considered purchasing an inductive heater to use instead of a torch? Would really like to see you use one on some of these projects. I just can bring myself to buy Oxy / Acetylene torch
You did good, I used to run a automotive machine shop, some times I would air hammer off ring gears and flip them because they only wore on one side. Put oil on it and heat with a torch till the oil smoked and drop it back on. You going to the Pioneer Power swap this year?
Was 20 thou a guess for the expansion required to slip the ring gear onto the flywheel considering the potential out of roundness of each? Great series
Just a comment, we have used this technique to set up quick change rear ends. Mom came home once and asked what was cooking in the oven and it was the Franklin housing with the bearings in the freezer!
Really enjoying your videos and working my way through watching them in order. You are a brilliant teacher 👍
Watching some of the older videos.
Thanks for the explanation of how that pilot bearing got greased.
Thanks for the shout out man I much appreciate it. Like the holding fixture for the flywheel. Working on a possible cat 12 trade as we speak 🤞
G'day
Model 12 Grader? Gas or diesel?
Diesel says it needs rebuild. If the trade is right we'll see what happens.
@@RickBork I know a guy who works on those engines. Big money to fix them. Maybe we could repower it with a Detroit instead, add some class to the machine.
@@lukestrasser definitely a repower the crossover videos would be great lol.
Squatch, I (and others I'm sure) have watched you make practical use of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, physics and chemistry on multiple occasions. Book learning don't count for much if you can't do something with it. Give yourself credit. And thank you for all you do.
Because of your comments about your math ability when you started talking about per degree the first thing that popped in my head was dude it's a circle, it's 360 degrees.
Well he still has a good grasp of any math that's tangible to what he does. That's all that matters
@@skookumbuilds3282
I'm not sure of the relevance of your comment in regards to mine.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Young's modulus of thermal expansion is magic.
Don't forget to adjust your tin pointer to true TDC using a dial indicator before you put the head back on. :-) Also twisting a heat shrink part is a no no, as sure as you wiggle it once you sit it on that is when it locks and grabs and you are stuck with it in the wrong place. Put it on once and in line and leave it alone. I learned that lesson the hard way. lol
I love your caution when removing the ring gear! I at the shop had a 1 1/2 drive stock round that would walk around the ring gear and just drive it off, worked well for me, but caution on your part was best! Putting the ring gear back on with oven heat worked real well, we just took the torch and heated the ring gear sprayed water on it, when the water dance would then install it. the way you did it insured uniform heat! On the washers that retain the flywheel I would have turned the washer tell the flat was against the outer curve as to try to stop it from getting a start in turning, because it would have been up against a stop to start with! I like your presentation keep it up!
Ring gear casserole coming right up!
Don't sweat the oven. I've done that before, too. Just cook a batch of lasagna, and no one complains. All the I's are crossed and T's dotted. Well done.
You broke into a neat *Paul Harrell* when talking about the torque spec. Funny that.
I can't wait to hear that thing run
Your an amazing teacher, keeping detailed notes puts you in the top 1 % of tradesman.
The way to remove ring gear is a torch. Keep heating the gear all the way around. When it gets hot, lift up on gear with pry bar. The gear will lift off. Have other flywheel and gear will drop right on. I usually just flip the gear over.
Squatch put the flat crust pizza on top of the ring gear til it cooked, that's how he knew the ring gear was ready!
Love your video's. Not to long so stop worrying. From the UK. North Wales.
The bolt with the ground off head for alignment and the simple plate to keep the flywheel in place while torquing were clever timesavers. Won’t be used often but will be really handy when needed. Nice!
Your methods with heating and chilling worked--excellent video. Jet engine mechanics use similar methods with ovens and dry ice baths when sweating on fan blade rings onto engine shafts. Good thing for you that your ambient temperatures there worked perfectly with the assembly and chill down on your sidewalk--loved seeing that! No need for expensive shop tools.
Been watching with great interest. Finally caught up to current activity. Going to help me a lot if ever have to rebuild the engine on the D2 5U15127 I have. My Dad owned it. You remind me a lot of him in how you do things, he would make what he needed if he couldn't buy it, or wasn't available, or didn't exist (tools). Looking forward to see this baby run. Working on putting D3 rollers on the D2, can't seem to find any grease seals, or Cat wants an arm and leg for them. also have 3 rollers in bad shape. Rather have it original, but doesn't look like I can do that.
Absolutely fascinating!!! Been binge watching this for almost 2 days
I appreciate your shout-out for Kenny Kizzle! I enjoy watching the videos he puts out! The Memorial H project is an honor for me to be able to watch. Such a great cause, I know a few people who went that direction but I wasn't as close of course as Kenny and his Mother. I enjoy your videos also, a learning experience. Have a great day!
That’s a great little tool you made to hold the flywheel. I will keep that in mind for my next flywheel.
Your Maths is good! A matter of fact as I also believe is many youngsters don’t understand the function of maths because they cannot apply it then don’t care about about something what they believe is no use to them. However, when later on in life as happened to me I had to use Trigonometry to machine up many very large plates for a colossal undersea plough for laying oil pipe on the ocean floor. I had to learn the functions of Trig to work out the angles which had to be created. Learning how to do Trig again was fun and also satisfying as I had found a use for it and more so made money using it🤓😎👍
Sending the first batch of cookies to Rick. 🤣🤣🤣 love it. 👍👍
Another awesome day with the D2 rebuilt
Squatch, I have been ardently following the series, and each new video is a treat to look forward to, just like it is for everyone else watching your Channel.
Watching your efforts to remove the ring gear in the previous episode, i was thinking how much physical effort and frustration might have gone into it. Thanks to your editing, an armchair enthusiast like me is treated to the end result without needing to be "bored" with every minute of what it took to get there...
All I can really say is, you are a true inspiration, and thanks a million for taking us along on this journey of yours.
That ring gear installation worked a treat!
I actually have done that before, out in the field,..we used dry ice on the flywheel and a torch on the ring gear,..'clink' dropped right in place.
I like how nice and clean you make those parts for installation,..that's the way to go!
Squatch the only video length is forgiven lol . It only felt like it was about 3 minutes for me.
I really like the flywheel holding fixture cool tool .
And I have been watching Rick Bork . He has given me some good ideas . Just like you and your Dad. 😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍💖
Lol...you don't give up on anything.....great job so far. Liked that flywheel holder....nice fabrication.
Thanks! This video is just what I needed today. Love when a new episode gets uploaded.
Ain't nothing tighter than a cross threaded bolt! Go for it :-D
It always seemed to me the hot ring gear would contract a lot sooner and tighten up quicker. It used to make me nervous when the ring gears I installed stayed loose for a longer time than I thought it should. Good Job!
Great information about the Caterpillar engine as usual. 😎😎😁
Thank you for the video.appreciate the tip about dressing the holes in the flywheel.
So so glad I was not alone with the substitution of numbers for letters in maths👍👍 I am fortunate that I find fractions percentages multiplication an division an addition an subtraction very easy to do mentally but forget the letters 😂 great video so glad that ring gear survived👍👍 bring on the next installment 💪
A+ for cleaning those parts Toby! Good video, thanks for bringing us along!
Wow, man that ring gear dropped on sweet. Great work as always.
Great video, bud. I feel like there is a large amount of us who now want a vintage Cat of our own to teardown and rebuild. Or is it just me? Lol. She's getting closer and closer!
“It’ll be fine. Most likely.”
BTW, I worked for Snap-On about 30 years ago. That stay that you made for the flywheel would cost about 150 bux if it was sprayed red!
Having changed over 50 ring gears, heat the ring gear till a drop of oil smokes. Drop it on and walk away.
Your videos are always the perfect length
Flywheel holding tool and the location dowel, great ideas.
Love the flywheel holding fixture. You be the real D2 man! :-)
You do such a great job explaining things, wish I could speak that easily on my videos...
Well done. I will never rebuild one but it's sure a very interesting series.
Thanks
You are great at explaining your process!
General torque fastener guidelines: “Tighten ‘er until she strips, then back her off, half a turn.”
Another great video squatch! I'm the same way with math. And by the looks of it those numbers you did were spot on. Looking forward to hearing that engine run.
You are doing a great job with that engine! Great job with videos as well. 👍
That you didn't give up when the ring cocked on the ID was the saving grace, had you stopped, most likely the ring would've cracked. And we're talking down to moments.
That’s awesome you made your own flywheel holder, but I gotta say I come to expect perfection outta you. Another great video can’t wait for the next!
This was another outstanding video. It sure is nice when things go as planned.
Concise, yet thorough. Good content.
Good job👍 Greatings from Poland
enjoy your work and video thanks for taking the time to show us,
Another superb video! Love it when you "torque" about the D2 engine!
3:45 That's how they used to put steel tires on the spoked driving wheels of old locomotives. (Usually steam locomotives but there are examples of electric and diesel locomotives that use the same style of driver)
they still do it that way, the tires still wear.
Well yeah, but there aren't many spoke-wheeled lovomotives around any more
Thanks Squatch, made my day (of big boys stuff), enjoyed watching.
Put it in place and warm it up with a torch.. It will drop in place when it gets hot enough.....If it is in good shape and the flywheel is, when it cools it will not slip....Cheers. Mike in Louisiana
Nice work once again...
That ring gear job was to easy!
I have a TD6 and having some electric issues and starting issues that I didn't have a couple weeks ago a was told that you might be able to help me troubleshoot problems. Thank you
Nice work o the math!!! Another fine video.
That went smooth and you made it look easy.
So much to enjoy on this vid. I am very guilty of using the freezer and oven to get press fit parts together. Hells; a number of transmissions require hotplating parts to mate them up. Also, I feel a bit called out by this vid. Im definitely a torque monster; too many years with Ma Mopar. I would say dont worry bout vid length but i know what its like to upload vids; it can be painfully long. Greatly enjoying the series!
The retainer locks should have been put on while the ring was still hot anf they would have aligned the notches perfectly and after cooled lock tighted in.
The right torque spec for any bolt is a quarter turn before it breaks . ;)
As always great video super informative
Thank you Squatch for posting this video. I will say despite it is very hard to fit everything into a 20 minutes video. You have done a good job and set a good example for others how to do things. Question what kind of assembly lubrication's to you use? Another one would be I assume all the flywheels are balanced and interchanging them will not affect vibration comming from the engine?
Oooh good question, flywheel balance.
Regarding "torque monsters", from experience on lots of old equipment, it's best to not go crazy torquing old OEM bolts. Many times the old bolts aren't necessarily manufactured with modern alloys and specs. If you try to arbitrarily apply modern torque specs to the old bolts, you may end up with stretched bolts and stripped threads. I do the same as Squatch, unless the OEM is specific, I stay pretty conservative with my bolt torques.
Nice video
Ooooo what fun with a torch. Love your videos you and onelonlyfarmer . And bus Grease monkey and and harmless farmer you all are giving me inspiration to keep working on my vehicles I need to replace suspension air ride bags and fuel pump sending unit 89 cut chassis RV Ford e350 w 36 gallon fuel tank ooooo what fun I will be having.😂😃😀😭🤔 Jim in Colorado.
Those special tools are the cats meow. Not that it makes any difference since the ring gear went on flawlessly, I would think the expansion per inch was talking about the circumference.
I liked the heating / cooling method. We used it to remove stubborn exhaust valve houses in my marine engineer days. For cooling we would use CO2 fire extinguishers as sort of a last resort. Is that something you could try on those stubborn combustion chambers (heating the head and cooling the chambers with CO2)?
A can of air duster turned upside down works well too....and cheaper...
Ahhh.... what's the ETA on the cookies🤔
When you go over with a case of beer, would be my wager.
@@MoparNewport dry household at the Squatch compound. Plus I'm stingy with my beer lol🍺
@@RickBork OK, then a case of his preferred ammo then. I mean shit he's an American farmer, he's gotta shoot SOMEthing! ;)
@@RickBork You'll need your beer to wash those cookies down!
shake n' bake ! good job!
You are a genius.
Spigot bearing lubricator is a 1st for me.
Great job 💪🖒
I really liked the flywheel lock tool, which answered the question, how you gonna hold the flywheel still for tightening?
Tighten it until it breaks, then back of 1/8th of a turn! ;)
Your math seems just fine.
I'm pleased that no good used parts were harmed in the making of this video. Will you make a guest appearance at the Bork compound for installing the 4-71 Detroit in his Model 12 Grader? If nothing else may be you could scavenge Cat parts.
CAT still does that with some bolts general torq spec
Not sure if my eyes or your camera are playing tricks on me but is that ring gear have helical cut teeth?
Thanks for sharing! Full watch and Thumbs Up!
Quick question, have you considered purchasing an inductive heater to use instead of a torch? Would really like to see you use one on some of these projects. I just can bring myself to buy Oxy / Acetylene torch
Great researching the expanded diameter with heat... Did you calculate the contracted diameter from cooling the F/W? My brain works funny sometimes.
Awesome
Question I didn't see the rear main seal?
You did good, I used to run a automotive machine shop, some times I would air hammer off ring gears and flip them because they only wore on one side. Put oil on it and heat with a torch till the oil smoked and drop it back on. You going to the Pioneer Power swap this year?
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Make perfect sense to me.
I am betting you could add another 5 minutes to all the videos no problem. May be even 10, and it would be a perfect 30 minute episode.
Physics. It's works, b1+ches!
Was 20 thou a guess for the expansion required to slip the ring gear onto the flywheel considering the potential out of roundness of each? Great series
Nice slip fit lol.
I have a 1944 Cat D4 2T. Its grinds/squeals in reverse...can you help me? Seems u saved quite a few of these machines
The old timers would build a wide shallow fire to re fit steel rims on buggy wheels.
Maybe your fellow prisoner would enjoy crumpets instead of cookies? They could be shop furniture specials....
Just a comment, we have used this technique to set up quick change rear ends. Mom came home once and asked what was cooking in the oven and it was the Franklin housing with the bearings in the freezer!