Caterpillar D2

[@bruce2357]

I bet your grandpa is someone most of us wish we could have a beer with.

[@bruce2357]

@@squatch253 Thanks so much for taking the time to share that with us. Merry Christmas, here's to hoping you don't get anymore snow for a while.

[@digitalrailroader]

This engine is just about ready to be flipped the correct way up and then we can start the top end work! Loved the solution you devised for the uneven surface for the front suction bell hold down bolts; most other people would have ground those surfaces smooth, but that uneven surface is what that part left the factory with and kudos for retaining that rough patina!

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

digitalrailroader Factory yes, but the residue of a short-cut. Reminds me of Ford engines with all the sharp edges, ... to de-burr, or leave them sharp. My feeling, fix it! Why preserve a budget driven short cut that forces a work-around with added non factory parts?

[@digitalrailroader]

Jennifer WhiteWolf you also have to remember when this machine was manufactured: the 1930s and right smack in the middle of the Great Depression. Any extra manufacturing steps would have added to the final cost of the machine and money and work back then was much harder to come by than during the Great Recession just a few years ago. So caterpillar cut as much unnecessary manufacturing costs they possibly could out so the machine could be affordable.

[@kingcrunch85]

You really are the Jafro of vintage Caterpillar diesel engines. Much appreciated content!

[@bcbloc02]

My guess is that front seal was added after people running the prototype units said the engines weeped oil out the front. No one could see the back so the minor amount of swetting oil was never an eyesore issue. :-) I always take a torch and anneal those copper sealing washers before re-using them. Also I think based on engine rotation that idler gear only pushes against the front cover on deceleration the rest of the time the angle of the gear cut keeps it pulled back.

[@siskiyouwoodsman4279]

Nice explanation of why the locks on the front pickup tube had to be installed 180 out from the way they normally would be. Great detail on this ☝️

[@lukestrasser]

Squatch, thanks for addressing why the fold over lock was positioned the way that it was on the suction bell, saves me asking the question. As for the front seal, I would speculate that given the two unique environments that the crankshaft sees as it interfaces with the cold and cruel outside world might explain the suffering sealing techniques. The rear of the crankshaft lives a posh and pampered life in comparison to the front, it enjoys the shelter and safe harbor of an essentially sealed compartment with little in the way of water and dirt intrusion, sure there's some clutch dust, but nothing like what the front seal area sees. The front end of the crankshaft isn't so lucky, it's under constant assault from the elements, most of which are being accelerated at it by way of the fan. With the inherent dusty nature of dirt work, all being accelerated by the fan, my guess is the engineers decided an extra layer of protection was in order, thus limiting dirt ingestion into the lube oil and crankcase. I'm pleased to see 5J2115SP parts going into 5J1113 to live on, the clean sweep on fold over locks was equally cool, small victories ya know? Finally, (I know, this is already a novel in the comments) the quality in all parts of these machines is really evident when you look at the small details. Take for example the governor linkage assembly, the fact that Cat took the time and expense of adding a bushing to the end of the governor arm for a clevis pin bore is frankly staggering. It just shows their desire to have a life long serviceable component, that can e renewed with simple replacement parts over and over if needed. That's the kind of no corners cut mentality I miss in today's manufacturing and products. Merry Christmas to you and the family as we close out 2019. Sorry for the longest comment ever, I think I spent longer typing than I did watching the video today.

[@clydebalcom8252]

5J2115 will live on in 5J1113. Outstanding.

[@davidbuckoski132]

Your shows are great 🚜

[@markdavis4859]

Looking forward to next (and every) episode. She’ll be purring like a kitten before long. Merry Christmas to you. I appreciate your attention to detail.

[@1crazynordlander]

I was going to leave the comment that your engine was going to gain some weight but you beat me to it. I love cast iron!

[@garyfeltus9801]

Well have do this twice me and my big things. Lol. Little by little it's going back together. It's always interesting watching this go back together. Thanks for sharing and may you and dad and family's have a merry Christmas.

[@duanequam7709]

Today is my birthday and watching you do your magic was a perfect birthday gift. Thanks once again.

[@paulhammond7489]

Loving this rebuild. Seasons greetings to Squatch253, Snr and the rest of your family.

[@_P0tat07_]

Wishing you and your family a safe and happy holiday season! Merry Christmas Squatch!

[@robertmailhos8159]

I like you are jumping at the bit to hear that classic engine run like a classic engine should 👍😃😄😀😁

[@mnaeslund]

Nice work Toby! Cheers from Sweden

[@eddiekilby]

Glad parts from ole 5J2115 will live on. Cant wait for the first start.

[@barrywhitley2535]

It's coming along now. Good one Squatch.

[@tenaxxband]

I cant stand to watch your videos....unless I can go out in the shop right afterward! keep up the excellent work. i cant wait to see it run

[@danielhuxley9317]

Loving these videos, been waiting for 1113 to finally get somewhere!! Also looking forward to x231 videos!!

[@MirceaD28]

I just love how you work. After the engine is complete and running, change oil and clean the oil pan.

[@smillsy23]

Great progress! Should have bet the farm on the folding lock results!

[@KennyKizzleRustyNutzRanch]

Awesome work! She's just about to flip over and seal up! Can't wait to see the old girl make smoke again! And with those swampers....... Oops, too soon? :-D

[@MrEski22]

Most of this goes over my head but god I cannot wait for the first start on 1113!

[@markhull1366]

Got a little John Madden goin' on there; Perfectly folded lock...BOOM! Cracked me up.....

[@edlappin7707]

I like your attention to detail! I practice the same in my restoration to a 1912 Oakland automobile. It is much more satisfying knowing the job is done at a more professional level.

[@robertinscoe2379]

Piece by piece its coming right along. Merry Christmas guys and looking forward to next year.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Looking more enginish every time. Good going, Toby and Pop. Remain calm!

[@Pete-from-Tn]

Getting closer each time. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.

[@williambrown1031]

The thinner front crank seal can also allow repositioning of the seal to a different area of the crankshaft in case the original seal area is worn/grooved.

[@MrFHLH]

Always enjoy yours and seniors videos, nice to see you two experts enjoying yourselves. Best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year.

[@sriharim4435]

Good work U R a professional Engine Builder I cannot comment Merry Christmas everyone and God bless !!!

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Looking more like an engine..Wishing you and your father a blessed Christmas.

[@retireddriver16]

Nice job 👍 now waiting on the top end of a awesome rebuild

[@jonsteffen2344]

Love the sound of cast iron clanging to each other!!!

[@ron827]

Beautifully clean looking lower end. Love it. I almost always use one size smaller washers when I can get by with it. Way back when, I had a Ford E-150 that needed a new rear main seal which required lifting the engine slightly to remove the oil pan. To my mechanic's surprise, the oil pump retaining bolts had backed out and the pump was on its way to falling into the pan. Don't know if was OEM to have had retaining clips but seriously doubt it.

[@charlescastle5566]

That engine had came a long way, looking good Squatch!

[@matty2helpfull]

Its starting to look like a engine now love these videos

[@canvids1]

Very interesting watching and listening to you work on that engine. Merry Christmas to you and all your family.

[@thomasmarion3209]

Merry Christmas to your family thanks again for the great video 👍🚜

[@cassiuspuckett8789]

Nice!!! Love the video. On to the next installment....

[@mightymoeexcavating754]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. Thanks for sharing

[@boe4448]

Nice clean, precise work. Great explanation of your steps in reassembly. Happy holidays to you and yours. .

[@aazogbi]

That assembly was a Christmas present to me! Thank you for some many nice videos throughout the year and wish you and yours a Merry Christmas!

[@scruffy6151]

Merry Christmas everybody

[@Stevestractoradventures]

Comeing along nicely!

[@heybiker]

I did not see a comment about the washers filling the machined indentation for the front oil pickup. I feel the washers lifted the bolts enough to give you the vector to bend the clip perfectly. There must have been similar spacers to prevent the crushing effect evidenced by the old fold over lock tab.

[@jimmarshallman6300]

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all ..... I only wished that to 3 channels this year ...... Yours is one of them ..... A QUALITY one indeed ...... Best wishes ...... Jim 😊🙏👍👍🧡🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🎅🚜

[@scotte2815]

another great video. I have noticed that next size down fitment of washers and I often prefer to use tighter fitting parts. Thanks for bringing us along. wishing you a Merry Christmas

[@MacGyver-1]

Seal on the front keeps dust out, without it the scroll may pull in airborne dust. The other is inside the bell housing and not exposed to the dust.

[@rodneymiddleton9624]

Great attention to detail! Much respect for making sure it's as perfect as possible with all the specs and tolerances. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

[@bradanderson1627]

That's Awesome that Grampas cat will be keeping your cat pumping the life blood of yout engine. Go Grampa 😁🤗

[@chuckhaynes6458]

Thank you for yet another informative video. I would like to wish you, Sr. and the whole family a Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year.

[@ironman3406]

Good morning sir - just curious as to why you elected to use the washers under the bolts on the front oil suction bell? Rather than filing down the high spots to make it flat like you have demonstrated in other videos. I think the solution you used is just fine, but just seems off for the level of detail you have shown us in the past. I am really enjoying the build man, hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas!

[@kevinoscarson2941]

It makes no difference. Why mill or file a factory part? Would do the same thing.

[@ralfie8801]

TheAggromonster You’re right, it’s for him to answer. But this is probably why: the surface around the bolt holes has been spot faced so a bolt or washer can sit flat on the surface. The fold over locks are probably an update implemented after some of those bolts worked their way loose during testing or after the first year or two production runs were complete. So, if you have a perfectly fine machined surface for a washer and/or a bolt head to sit flat on, why mess with doing any more machine work on it?

[@bills6093]

It looked like the depth of the impression was slightly interfering with the foldover locks, so he wanted to create a bit more clearance for the locks to fold over properly.

[@scotte2815]

@@squatch253 makes you wonder why Cat just spot-faced that area rather than take the time to flat-mill the area. I suspect the answer is just that, time in machine setup and operation, and we all know that TIME=MONEY

[@troyduncan7257]

Just wanted to say I am enjoying the rebuild have a Merry Christmas my fellow Caterpillar enthusiasts

[@OC3OliverFan]

Merry Christmas to you and your family

[@robertbaker1914]

Thank you for the excellent videos. Merry Christmas to you and family from Stanbridge East Canada. Looking forward to seeing this machine purr-with no leaks- early in the new year!!

[@johnleake708]

Thanks for another installment. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and family.

[@garyfeltus9801]

Little by little it's going back to get her.

[@olspanner]

Fastidious assembly as usual Squatch. Merry Christmas to you and your family from Australia.

[@bobuk5722]

You know, Squatch, I'm going to get almost as big a kick as you will when you start her up the first time after the overhaul. And yes folks, these machines are definitely female! Happy Christmas everyone. BobUK.

[@octane613]

Machines are always female! I'm glad someone else gets it!

[@ralfie8801]

Tyler Coates All except for the UP 4014 Big Boy.

[@4cclassics]

You mentioned the thickness on the front cover. I am needing to make one and want to confirm the thickness

[@squatch253]

Thanks for watching! That front cover gasket material is .032” thick, and that same thickness is used for probably 80% of all the gaskets in a Cat D2. Only in areas where the gasket flanges aren’t as nicely machined and flat did they use thicker material 👍

[@4cclassics]

@@squatch253 thanks, trying to get my 212 grader engine back together to put back in.

[@bobpaterson1845]

Brilliant series this always looking forward to seein the next installment 👍 Merry Christmas to you and your family👍

[@regsparkes6507]

Always good to watch this engine come together. Very interesting video today,..thanks for your time to do this and give me this 'entertainment' too. I'd like to wish you Toby and Sr. and indeed all your family,..the Merriest of Christmas's and a happy and healthy New Year in 2020.

[@3cl1]

Very nice work, great video.

[@jankotze1959]

Very nice

[@raycollington4310]

There was me thinking Squatch has forgotten to secure the idler gear before fitting the cover. I'm in UK and despite seeing inside a lot of old engines, I've never seen this arrangement before!

[@antoniolepore6875]

From your 5j2115 teardown video we can see the interior of the oil pan has 2 compartments, thus the need for 2 suction points. Can you please explain in your next video the purpose of that set up and maybe show more details about the oil pan construction?

[@veiledzorba]

Paint, paint, paint! Wouldn't it have been easier to paint the parts before assy? Great video though - as they all are. Blessed Solstice and Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[@ralfie8801]

Hey Squatch, On your oil pickup tube, using the flat washers against the round gaskets is fine, but have you considered using structural flat washers in place of just plain old thin washers? The structural washers are about twice as thick as regular washers and would be less susceptible to collapsing in the center from vibration or over tightening like the original washers appeared to have done. It’s just a thought, and something I tend to do with critical parts like that pickup tube. Keep the great videos coming, I’m really enjoying them.

[@nickhill3362]

Hi them gaskets look perfect could you show us one time you making a difficult gasket thanks

[@lukestrasser]

He covered making gaskets in detail in a previous episode, about 4 or so back.

[@nickhill3362]

@@lukestrasser thanks luke

[@lukestrasser]

@@nickhill3362 you're very welcome, Merry Christmas!

[@evankibbe590]

I've been looking forward to seeing this one. 😊😊😊👍

[@docpalazola491]

Watched every one of your videos on the Cat D2 rebuild. So interesting and happy that you go into detail every step of the rebuilt. So...what's your next interesting project that I can look forward to?

[@d6joe]

Surprised you didn’t just file down the surface on the pickup mount to get the lock tab to sit square. Edit: but washers work fine, looks good too.

[@lwilton]

I was surprised for about 5 seconds. Then it occured to me that Cat made it this way 50 or 80 or whatever years ago, and it has been working that way ever since, just fine. Are you restoring something like it was when new or building a new machine from old parts? If you are restoring it, you probably want to leave it the way it was, unless you KNOW there is some really good reason the old way should be changed.

[@timmayer8723]

Never saw cotter pins used on main Bering cap bolt/nut.

[@joelmollenkopf3767]

Excellent

[@ShainAndrews]

I like the idea of placing a flat washer under the oil pickup bolts. I would have filed off the nubs fretting about maintaining a parallel surface. I subscribe to KISS methodology and would have missed that opportunity.

[@aserta]

From experience with mechanical locks (keys, tabs, the whole lot) regardless of where you place the fold, it won't twist. It can't. Unless it's a bolt/screw that's going into a rotational type part, the forces involved in overcoming that much material are astronomical at that scale. Static and non-axial rotational motions, just can't do it, if the fold is done right.

[@paulsilva3346]

I MAY BE LATE, BUT did you GREASE the shaft bearings at 11:00, or are they Sealed.???

[@billhartl6601]

Why dont you use a sticky gasket spray on both sides of your gaskets before installing them?

[@larrysellers4941]

I really like your show, I really appreciate your attention for detail, and how well thought-out caterpillar was when they built their engines. I was just wondering if you rotated the needle bearings a quarter or a half of a turn to give them a new Surface also?

[@pauljanssen2624]

When in doubt always resolder your pick up tube? I learned that from a radiator Rebuilder

[@andrewmacdougall5987]

I got a 22 gas cat I'd love to restore someday just not sure when lol. Never have any time...

[@timmayer8723]

Never saw cotter pins used on the

[@rolliekelly6783]

Mr. Squatch, could it be that when the tractor is working down hill the oil level might cover the front main journal and overcome the Archimedes seal?

[@mikemilburn7823]

Question re the two oil pickups. If one pickup drew all the oil out if its respective sump and the other was still submerged in oil, wouldn't the dry one start sucking air since there's a common pump? All the best for you and yours over Christmas..........Mike

[@lukestrasser]

Mike, recommend watching the previous oil pump video. Short answer, the front suction bell has a separate oil pump section and only moves oil from the front of the pan to the rear sump to be picked up and pumped under pressure by the main pressure oil pump. So it's ok if it sucks air since it's just essentially a transfer pump.

[@mikemilburn7823]

@@lukestrasser Ahhh, I missed that Luke, thanks.............Mike

[@charlieharper981]

Nice update. Where did you purchase the puzzle design gasket cutter? Thanks.

[@charlieharper981]

@@squatch253 Thanks. I was thinking it might have been an heirloom tool.

[@seniorelectrician6831]

Squatch, do you when you rebuild a engine in your shop prime or prelube the engine before starting know that there was a prelude pump (as worthless as it was) on the cummins KTA3800 and there was something similar on the EMD that we ran.

[@davidpierce3386]

Squatch, it's great to see the D3400 coming together like it is. The only question that I keep asking myself is, you reference the Cat workshop manual for clearances, but you never mention the torque values of the bolts. Does Cat eliminate the torque value by using the bolt lock?

[@thefretfiend]

I'm guessing that those copper washers are NLA. Do you anneal old washers?

[@lwilton]

A quick check in the Grainger catalog shows lots of annealed copper washers available. Unfortunately all metric, but you could probably find one "close enough" and not have to turn your own from sheet stock. Something about that size is about a buck a washer in packs of 25.

[@fortnoxz71]

**** hello there, fantastic build, are you going to show anything on rebuilding the injection pump or injectors? Or have any videos on it? I replaced a injector plunger on the pump and now it runs like a slight miss or uneven... I have a 7J d4. Is there a way to match the plungers together other than the rail? I see there is is a collar on the plunger that can turn (plunger and barrel assembly) Info on this would be great, I can’t find any info on this any where.

[@fortnoxz71]

Squatch253 what is a quadrant? Is that the aluminum collar that rides the gear rail or the pump and cylinder?

[@fortnoxz71]

Squatch253 thanks! Looks like I need them to get them matched at a injection shop somewhere. I was hoping I could turn the plunger while it was running to see if it smoothed out. Is there a way to send you a personal video on KZbin?

[@beginlivinglikeaboss]

On the suction bell why would not cat machine the mount holes flat to accept a fold over lock properly? We're the locks installed on factory build?

[@johnpreisler6713]

Thank you for using the word "oriented" instead of the non-word "orientated"

[@jdsmort]

I was always told to at least grease the cork gaskets, rather than putting them on dry.. don't you use any form of sealant on them??

[@DjFr1nge]

Hi there mate, i love watching your build vids, just wanted to ask a stupid question.....do you use a torque wrench off cam? or is it me just missing somthing?

[@claysmagicalland9097]

‘Eight billion bolts’ LOL

[@Stevestractoradventures]

That had me laughing too. Also thought guess im not the only one to say things like this lol

[@rickbrandt9559]

Vid , it is a LIKE !!

[@michaelscriffiano8765]

Why do you not "glue" the gasket to the block instead of the cover? And why no "glue" on the small front cover? Just askin.

[@MoparNewport]

Looking very nice! So, how nervous you feeling about flipping that block back up?

[@MoparNewport]

@@squatch253 I know that feeling! I still get a touch queezy when it comes time to roll - or start for the first time!

[@jonathanstancil8544]

Do you make your cork gaskets the same as with paper? If so, how well does the hammer/witness mark technique work with cork?

[@akallio9000]

Why use folding locks now that we have Loctite?