Oh hell yes!!! Dad and I just bought an old cat grader to take care of our multiple properties! Can’t wait to fire up that old beast and get to work!

Beast.😮 I want

453?

Interesting gears, with teeth one after the other. Probably for better smooth power transfer?

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I miss that sound

😊 'Murica

The big KBs are the best looking trucks.

That KB is a dream truck of mine. Would love to know more about it.

so cute!

Cody!!!!

awww

Cool !!!! 😊

This is one cool sounding truck looks good and sounds great

8 gallons of oil later they arrive at the top.

I noticed that he only pressed the clutch while changing the first few gears and then he dry changed the gears after that.

So, how do you hook up the tach.?

How come the tach doesn't work?

I want one and put it on a heavy steel boat

Motor grader has plenty of life left.

A fellow up the road had one. I probably sold on his estate sale.

These trucks are an American classic These trucks deserves to be recognized for making trucking a part of the American way

these trucks were monsters super reliable machines

Detroit Diesel is not made to be idle they are made to be set wide open otherwise you can make some serious damage to the bottom and a two stroke diesel is made to be run wide open full throttle all the time on a 2-stroke

The carburetors on those gas-start diesels can best be described as controlled slobber.

I found 2 yellow traffic cones that says flex-o-lite. Are those rare?

Love to hear these old disels running I am glad to hear that engine sounds like a symphony orchestra

First time seeing a beautiful lady riding in an old school truck I wish her the best of luck with her marriage may God warmly bless her and her husband

I am glad people are interested in running the old trucks I could listen to this all day it's music to my ears

40 below you would need both heaters and still have frozen feet. Nice old truck

Music

My father owned CMC 1982 through 1991. He bought the company located in Waterloo Iowa from Warren Holden. I believe Warren was the original owner and inventor of most of the mixers manufactured by CMC. My father also owned Ericson and Lull. The Waterloo plant was used to manufacture certain models of all three. In 1991 my father, Alex Stamatakis, lost everything following a Ponzi scam, the market crash, and the failure of his bank in Chicago, Continental. My brother and I worked for him. My brother John ran the Waterloo plant for several years.

Hello, my name is Devin and I’m working on one of these right now it’s a 1906 natural gas Samson, I was hoping to pick your brain about jetting and setup as the jets are missing as is the rest of the intake manifold in front of the governor

That engine would be good in a small boot

Over charged? A short? What number is this one its in such nice shape. My mity kat is 348 approx 1956 production date? Allmost operational again. Love just seeing one that works. Cheers

Very impressive! Very smooth for a single cylinder. I guess it's because it's a two-stroke.

Detroit power!! My dad was a trucker. The first truck he drove was a 1967 Kenworth W900 with a 318 Detroit in it. Some years later, he was driving for Elliott Bay Trucking out of Seattle and his boss put him in a 1979 Peterbilt 359 with a Detroit Silver 92 in it.

That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful countryside where he is driving love to hear old disels running

I LOVE the sound of a GM Detroit diesel 2 stroke normally aspirated with a roots scavenging blower! You can hear the whine of the Roots Blower! And they smell good too.

I would like this to work the ports just to be different and make as much noise as possible 😊

I'm not "picking apart" things on your work but I'm only trying to help you in case it needs attention. The generator belt appears to be loose.

@BobbyTucker 0 seconds ago Sounds about like a John Deere "G" Model, I used to drive one down in Cherry Valley, Arkansas, for my Uncle Bob, he had a Plantation there. This brought back a lot of old memories. Will this run on 'white gas', 'kerosene', and 'diesel' too? I probably won't get a reply but, if there's anyone out there who knows, feel free to answer. Thanks.

I own a 1973 Freightliner with a 318 Detroit if that damn thing wasn't leaking oil it was because they was no oil in. it

These trucks purr like a kitten

I too remember seeing highway torches in use in southern Calif. in the 1960s -I especially remember seeing them set up in lines along the edge of the road. makes me nostalgic. I work for the Colorado Department of Transportation and would like to find one that the old Colorado Highway Department used to use.

Where do you get those old railroad signals from? How much do they cost?

Very few hydraulics, no cushion hitch, no enclosed cab, but theres that bone grinding grizzlybear jaw deisel engine! 😊 Immuteable

This truck has a nice sound to it. Very nice!

Thank you for the cab ride that Detroit delsel sounds good 👍👍👍