73 Kenworth W900A Hauls A 20 Ton Bulldozer

[@TheLizzardlicks]

heres a little thing we did back in the day for the jakes ,,, run a loop wier fron the sitch on the dash up the stick and put a toggle switch on the stick , makes life mutch easyer changing the cogs ol mate

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate thanks for the tip! I have seen that on a couple of older trucks but never tried it myself! I just need to put the buffer switch in the governor housing and they will work as they should it’s one of the next jobs on my list!

[@xbgtfella]

Love the sonics that wopper makes. One things for sure, a cellphone on the dash is definitely not in any footage BITD.

[@peterkent4007]

Loved the video mate. I drove gm trucks in the 90,s carting grain in WA. Brought back some great memories. Keep up the good work. Old School Cool 😎😎

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate! That would have been good fun back in the day wish I got to see more of these trucks back in their prime. Thanks for watching mate!

[@Steve-t2o8w]

When I was younger we had v12 Det . Brocways in Michigan in the 1970’s called them Michigan specials for pulling Trains . Nice KW

[@jimdieseldawg3435]

Needle-nose Kenny on Daytons with a 71 Detroit - what’s not to love?! Cheers for sharing 😎🤟🏼

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate! Daytons (spiders) are the only way to go on these old trucks! Anytime mate

[@JohnWheels]

Just watched the whole series on this truck. Beautiful Rig! Keep up the great videos!

[@stevesplacedownunder]

Magnificent mate. I give you a shoutout at the end of my last episode. Hopefully some come over and have a look. Happy new year to you all down there

[@johngibson3837]

Hey up mate

[@stevesplacedownunder]

@ hey John👋

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate I really appreciate that! I’m abit behind on watching KZbin so I’ll get over to your channel and catch up soon, same to you Steve hope this year is filled with new subs and heaps of views for you👌🏻

[@stevesplacedownunder]

@ it’s no problem mate. I haven’t spent a lot of time watching either. All the best again mate and take care

[@weldthatiron3683]

Cool to see a nice long vid of a cool truck etc could listen to those jakes all day

[@dilzy17]

Can't wait to hear this with twin tall stacks 👌

[@dieseldownunder.]

You and me both! It will looks 10x better with two tall pipes aswell!

[@mikewinkelman7015]

Detroit the sweet sound of power.

[@dannyhowell2027]

Awesome sound

[@davidcruse6589]

I remember the days they all sounded like these old girls Music to my ears Is it a two-stroke diesel engine Love inside shots how much you have to work compared to modern trucks Cheers guys 🦘🇦🇺👍

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate I would have loved to have been around when these old girls ruled the road! Yep 2 stroke Detroit 6v92 335HP. Definitly abit more work to drive them than todays trucks haha Thanks for watching! Cheers

[@johngibson3837]

Thanks for the lovely music mate

[@michaelclark4959]

Tough as dub ya! Awesome truck Jake, seems to pull a load no worries. Great job on the resto mate.😊

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate, the little 6v92 handled the weight great I was expecting it to be a lot slower than it was. Cheers mate

[@michaelclark4959]

@dieseldownunder. you're welcome my friend, it's good to see these older girls being kept alive, especially kw- detroits. The sound still gives me butterflies 45 years after my first ride in one . My father was an interstate driver bris-syd for over thirty years, his last ride a 200 , cummins with a clutch, b-double for freedom. Respect mate! I see in the comments that you may have an SAR in the pipeline? I definitely will follow any progress. Something about the SAR makes them my favourite truck. Love your work mate!

[@Kelsv8s]

Outstanding Jake, great inspiration to get my 871T, 77 SAR back on the road 👍

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate! You definitely should, now is a great time so many people are dragging them out of the shed and cleaning them up again Cheers mate

[@evolveausevolveaus]

Looks and sounds awesome buddy 👍

[@PeteWilliams-sb7nf]

That Jimmy sounds awesum,great job Jake.

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate appreciate it!

[@truckflicks]

Thought she looked familiar, got a photo of it heading to Kenworth Klassic last year, nice W model upfront as well hauling it 👌

[@tubbytub2990]

Hi Jake from North Queensland, great Kenworth and looking good with the float hooked up with it. It reminds me of my father's W900 with an 8V92TTA and 15 speed Road Ranger. Keep up the great work.

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate thankyou for watching! That’s awesome you got to grow up around one back in the day, it would have been a big truck specced up like that! Thanks mate take it easy! Cheers

[@FromLandVegemiteSamich]

Listen to that gearbox whine I love it, you can tell a lot about a gearbox if she whines she’s done some work

[@mikealvarado2369]

Keep up the good work, ive watched every episode on this truck, and uv done a fine job on this truck, thats what it needed, to find all the little things wrong with it

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks heaps for tuning into all the videos I’ve put out on the old girl there’s been quite abit of work to get it to this point. Thanks heaps for watching mate I appreciate it!

[@timhelton5615]

Nice work on the truck! Impressive what you’ve done.

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate!

[@MattysWorkshop]

Gday Jake, well that went well for its first decent load till the end, hopefully it won’t be to expensive to fix, the engine sounds strong and it’ll only get better, top job mate, cheers

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey Matty thanks for watching! Nothing is cheap these days I’ll get it sorted just waiting for the diff place to open up from their Christmas holiday! Getting some heat into the cylinders has definitely helped it a great deal👌🏻 Cheers mate

[@TheEasystart]

Good vid nice to see the old girl working and snorting! Nee stack though is required for 2025!

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks for watching mate! 100% it’s on the list of jobs to do, it will look heaps better with a matching stack! Cheers

[@nikkob1252]

Australia has got to be the most unique place for trucking. Where else could you see something like this on the road and a Scania?

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate we do have a good variety of trucks here you can pretty much get your hands on anything you want! Not many peterbilts tho that’s for sure

[@danmckay2583]

I had a '73 needle nose day cab on factory air ride... miss my truck!

[@dieseldownunder.]

Would have been the same as this then minus the air ride! You might have to find another mate👍🏻

[@jameschapman1072]

Awesome stuff mate, can’t wait to see the SAR build as well

[@gmarshall1026]

Great stuff as usual the old KW working well

[@Mitchkp]

absolutely love hearing that 2 stroke hauling at the start

[@tomwhelan7901]

This thing would look wicked with a taller stack and extra set of tanks to fill that gap 🤙

[@johnbird2703]

Fair old snort from the old gal 👌

[@daleboulton1169]

Perfect section of road to really let it sing, down there near ocean grove. Love it! I notice it’s on club reg, I was told you couldn’t use vehicles on club registration for commercial purposes, but I’ve never researched that, have I been given a bum steer there? Love the videos mate, keep them coming. And LET HER EAT!

[@dieseldownunder.]

@@daleboulton1169 yep it was only like 2km from home but I took it on a joyride to get some heat into the engine! Yep I believe they say it can’t be used for monetary gain on club reg, so the dozer was at a mates block up the road and I picked it up if it was a commercial float shift it would not be aloud but being my machine and not a commercial job it’s no different to moving a vintage tractor for example. That’s my understanding it’s all about not being for monetary gain. Thanks for watching Cheers!

[@peterlittle1903]

Isn't it amazing, you can drive a modern truck all week, but you love to drive old faithful 😊

[@dieseldownunder.]

Very much so mate! I’ll take a truck from the 70s or 80s any day of the week over a truck from today

[@alandawson2813]

Very cool Jake. Love it. Music to my ears. Happy Days from kiwi land.

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey Alan thanks for watching! You and me both there would be something wrong if someone didn’t love that noise😂👌🏻

[@alandawson2813]

@@dieseldownunder.sadly there are some that don’t. Mate love it. Except for the oppsy mr diff or power divider now sad. But it hung in there. It rod smooth with the dozer on it. The phone on the dash moved very little. Not like some you put something on the dash and it bounces around like a flamen yo-yo. Looking forward to the next instalment.

[@dieseldownunder.]

@ there are some softies out there, I love the ones I drive past and they have their ears covered😂 yeah I’m not too happy about the diff but it is what it is, I’ll just have to put a reco in it. I’m impressed with how well it rides with weight on, it’s rough as bobtail but with a trailer on the back I really enjoy driving it! Thanks mate

[@davidanderson2393]

Great sounding Detroit, those old Rockwell SQHD's had a couple different style pinion nuts over the years. We would tack weld them after a rebuild so they wouldn't back off, hope it didn't tear it up to bad.

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate glad I’m not the first one to have this problem! It did abit of damage the front housing was pretty close to having a hole straight through and the carrier and housing also got abit munched by the pinion so currently looking for another one to rebuild! Thanks for watching mate take Cheers

[@davidanderson2393]

@@dieseldownunder. That Detroit is a good power and torque combo for those old SQHD's, getting back to the yard when you did was lucky. Hauling that dozer sucked the last bit of life from that front unit, I started rebuilding SQHD's in the late 70's until the late 90's. Good luck on the hunt, after market gear companies years back made every part for those after Rockwell phased them out

[@mk27wrx]

Good work bloke , good test picking up the dozer an transfer it back

[@dieseldownunder.]

It was only about a km away from the yard so I went the long way round haha

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Well Jake it’s so good to see the old girl doing what it was built to do Haul heavy 💩 Do you have some square tyres on it , seems to be a little bouncy 👍👍

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey David thanks for watching! They are actually new tyres but it does have quite a heavy spring pack in the front which may be contributing to the bounciness, it’s much better with weight in the back that’s for sure!

[@Brad_The_Truckie]

Ha ha fantastic. Made me nostalgic thinking of the early days driving a 80’s w hauling heavy gear. I wish it had a Detroit in it thou :( hopefully the diff isn’t too far gone

[@dieseldownunder.]

That would have been great fun! The w model handles the weight quite well and I really enjoy driving it, the diff is abit sad trying to source another one, I could run this one again but it has had abit of a hard time so I’d like to put a reco one in it hopefully

[@peterselten500]

Hi jake sounds great that brings back memories of 80s when i was a teenager living near the new england hwy if you look up 7 townhead cres singleton that was our place the 60 to 100 was only a 100metres away all the old gals singing. Cheers mate

[@dieseldownunder.]

That would have been so awesome you could have sat there forever watching and listening! There would be some great videos if there were phones around back then👌🏻 phones are part of the reason you can’t have fun now though Cheers mate

[@kennycamshaft2128]

sounds great nearly as as good as a stroked ls3

[@dieseldownunder.]

I’d lose my licence in somthing like that, trucks abit more my speed😂 thanks for watching mate take

[@kennycamshaft2128]

@@dieseldownunder. yah u cang fang the guts out of it all day long im jealous your mate did a good job with the camera enjoy your videos

[@evolveausevolveaus]

You have done a grouse job mate 👍

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate it’s coming along! Keeps me motivated to keep ticking jobs off the list

[@weldthatiron3683]

Very cool

[@wazza33racer]

Diff has a power divider failure. Can be a common problem, someone has left it engaged on bitumen roads.

[@tdotw77]

That rear steer axle trailer is crazy. Id love to see how that operates!👍🏻🛠️🤔

[@dieseldownunder.]

It makes it much more manoeuvrable than a standard quad axle float with no rear steer, they just go with the direction of the trailer so no hydraulics ect, I’ll get a clip one day when I’m working on it

[@user-gf3mu5uc8j]

She sounds sweet!

[@gsd4me00]

Great stuff, you've got to love the sound of a two stroke Detroit. In a normal situation, how high do you take the revs to and how low do you let them down before changing gears?

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate I’m not an experienced driver with these old engines by any means but I tend to sit between 2000-2500 rev out to 2500 and let it lug down to 1800 ish No idea if that’s right😂 Thanks for watching!

[@darrencatenacci2737]

Hi Jake looks great and seems to burn pretty clean. Looked to handle the job great. Too bad about the differential! Gosh wonder how many kilometers it has on it? You’ll probably want to get a reman to replace it then it should be good for a long time. Usually the rear one lasts longer than the front in my experience. Boy looks like it rides much better with a load on it! Stay cool

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey Darren thanks for watching, it did handle it surprisingly well I was quite happy with it. Apparently the front differential was recod before the engine went in the truck and it got parked up so if that’s the case it wouldn’t have done many kms since the diff was out last, but it definitly didn’t have a new gearset. The speedo is reading about 700kms could be original or its second lap around It does ride much better with a load on it, it’s a bone shaker bobtail😂

[@Louie2309]

Just leave that Jake turned while down changing. Not so good when unchanging. Or fit a micro switch to the clutch pedal to disengage the Jake when pushing in clutch. 👍

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate thanks for the tip, I just need to fit the buffer switch to the governor and then it can be all wired up correctly and everything put back to normal and I can leave it switched on then Cheers

[@graemepearson1036]

Gunna need a bigger float

[@dieseldownunder.]

This float is about the max for this old girl but I’ve got another truck that could use a bigger float😎

[@graemepearson1036]

Was joking with ya mate

[@graemegaerth14]

So good to see your dream come to reality. What's with the Jakes, not hooked to brakes/ throttle? A 92 is sweet at any time but exceptional when under load

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate! I’ve spent a lot of time on it to get it to this point so it’s great fun to get out and drive it abit! I havnt put the buffer switch in the governor housing yet so that’s why I’ve got it hard wired to the switch, I’ve got the switch just need to put it in 👌🏻 100% I love it when it’s under load

[@rodneydrew9117]

hi Jake you should put twin stacks and bit higher sound great

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate that’s on the next list of jobs along with sandblasting and painting the back half of the truck👌🏻

[@fredjones1238]

Shes running great are going to take some play out of the steering box ? all the best for new year mate

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks for watching mate! I’ll probably fit a reco box at some point in the future this one is great but it does have some play in it which is a pain but the big steering wheel also makes it look worse than it is too! Same to you mate take it easy.

[@hereintranzit]

Good ole Screamin’ Jimmy turning diesel fuel into noise at a very high rate, right? To me it’s very weird to see an old W9oo drive on the wrong side of the road, from what it would be to me, the passenger seat. LOL

[@dieseldownunder.]

It’s all about the smiles per gallon right! Haha I can imagine I feel the same way watching you guys drive your a models on the wrong side 😂

[@Brad_The_Truckie]

Oh yeah this is going to be a pissa

[@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248]

Drivin that mofo come on frickin awesome driv,ah

[@dieseldownunder.]

Everyone told me I’d have to drive it like I stole it😉😂

[@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248]

@dieseldownunder. most definitely bro

[@MichaelHartzog]

That sounds like a Detroit 238 is that a 10speed it sounds good.

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate it’s a Detroit 6V92 and a 13 speed Cheers!

[@JacksonGuitarsPlayer03]

Hard to shift it with the engine brake on? Looks like a old spicer transmission

[@damienodonohue1327]

Great video mate, but that tiny little picture part is pretty ordinary!! Keep it safe 👍

[@alanlanghorn9528]

He sure does need a switch on the gear stick for the jakes makes it much easier then reaching the dash all the time for the switch m

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate, the watermark in the corner of the video? It’s just there as people like to chop videos up and use them on Instagram tik tok ect as their own and this deters that abit but if everyone finds it annoying I can come up with somthing else

[@damienodonohue1327]

@@dieseldownunder. Ummmh, burnt out old Truckdriver cobber, don't know what any of that means, but a couple of times video was goin well then the picture was chopped both sides and it ended up small as flea shit!!

[@dieseldownunder.]

@ ah gotcha yes sorry! Just clips with the phone standing up, sorry about that we take a few videos standing up for KZbin shorts and Instagram that I chucked in the KZbin video

[@damienodonohue1327]

@dieseldownunder. Good on you cobber, the V6 sounds chirpy 👌

[@CurlysRanchInAus]

Good lord that sound is enough to make a jelly fish hard 😂🍻👌🏼

[@dieseldownunder.]

Pretty hard not to love the sound isn’t it👌🏻

[@catdiesel7143]

You guys are on the wrong side of the road lol

[@Huntinghogs]

Always something.

[@MrJimsparky]

What gearbox?

[@dieseldownunder.]

RTO9513

[@A-EfarmsTV]

Is there an SAR in the background haha

[@dieseldownunder.]

Sure is mate! Next project 😉

[@sean9733]

@@dieseldownunder. AKA SHINY

[@tubbytub2990]

P.S. what happened to your black Scania?

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate still got it sitting in the yard I havnt done anything else with it yet

[@toddgittins5692]

40,000 lbs. of load, with the racket engine? Right arm workout. If there's a hill 5 miles away, the engine will start to pull down.

[@snakebite2841]

👍👍👊

[@unhippy1]

2 smoking across the universe.......

[@noshsreqd]

Ah well, by the time you get though fixing all the components it'll be like a new truck. Meanwhile we get more good videos of repairs.

[@dieseldownunder.]

Thanks mate that’s true! More videos and I’ll have an awesome truck by the end of it👌🏻

[@chuckberg8828]

Isn’t there a switch on the throttle pedal?

[@franko69]

Hey Jake, What's with the Cummins sticker??

[@dieseldownunder.]

Hey mate it would have been on there from back in the day as it had a 290 Cummins small can in it, I just havnt taken the sticker off yet as it’s well and truly stuck on there

[@franko69]

@@dieseldownunder. Ok mate no worries.

[@TrevorProctor]

Typical 13 speed they love to wine in over drive

[@dieseldownunder.]

Do you think the whine is excessive? It’s very loud in the cab, is it something I should be worried about?

[@FLYBOY409]

​@@dieseldownunder.Not at all. I do like it because it makes you feel like you're going faster. Ever since I watched Steven Spielberg's Duel and some TV shows from the 70s and 80s I've been fascinated with that sweet sound of that howling because it feels that you're catching up to someone that you're chasing just like in Duel. BTW that's one sweet Kenny you're driving there and for that you have yourself a like and a subscriber keep it up mate.

[@IsambardKingdom]

@@dieseldownunder.don’t remember OD whining that much