Caterpillar Parts Pony Motor Teardown

[@Anderzander]

Kyle: No one would ever know the difference .. Squatch: Hold my cosmoline 😊

[@garydavis4982]

I also love dogs. Enjoy your rebuilds.

[@JovinRepairs]

The acetylene/16ths for the win!

[@lukestrasser]

Happy Father’s Day KC!!!

[@kylechrist]

Thanks Luke!

[@theshadow4292]

Beautiful loving dogs, when each has his 12th birthday, you will need to get yourself together mentally because your time together is getting short and the personal loss and hurt are on the way. I know, inasmuch as I deeply loved and cherished all of my loyal pets over the years and you seem to be no different than me in your love of your pets. Keep up the faith with the RD-4 project, it is really coming along at a good pace and the basic parts seem to be in better condition than I and probably you as well had expected.

[@kylechrist]

I'm not looking forward to that, we lost Coby (5 year old german shepherd) last fall to cancer and it hit me hard. Thanks for following along with the project!

[@bcbloc02]

My shop boss pit-lab mix Baily is 17+ and getting less mobile everyday. I know our time together is short but I sure do love that old dog. We have been thru a lot together.

[@theshadow4292]

@@bcbloc02 I lost my last 2 lovable and loving pets each died at the age of 13, but 2 years apart. Their ashes are kept here in their individual urn with/near me in my playroom. At the tender age of 78, I will not have any more sidekicks, but I sincerely wish that I could. Thank you for reading my post. BTW: If you don't already, I would suggest that you should start giving Baily an aspirin with each meal, it really does help with their pain.

[@allanrichards3752]

Well after seeing your tear down and Squatch's tri-build I am now quite familiar with these engines although I have never seen one in the flesh. Back in the 80's I bought a Lister CS (cold start) diesel at an auction for £2, Its a 5 hp single cylinder stationary engine usually coupled to a generator. It was badly frost damaged and seized solid. I fought for ages to get it apart but I just ended up cleaning the bearing surfaces with emery paper, repairing the cracks in the water jacket with JB Weld that I textured to match the cast iron. When painted you could not see the cracks. I splashed out on a new pump and injector and it ran like a Swiss watch for the 20 years I had it. It is surprising how engines can be brought back from the dead, they are actually very tolerant machines

[@mikewednesday8541]

Enjoying the series👍🏼 certainly enjoy the short clips of the dogs at the end! Life is always better with dogs, at least from my perspective!

[@petebrand6661]

Kyle, you are as informative and entertaining as Squatch253 and i love your 4 workshop foremen

[@colin8532]

Oh ya, definitely have to reuse those fold over locks, just to see Squatch's eye twitch! LOL

[@petereldred1541]

You love dogs and old machinery, my kind fellow. love your work.

[@kerrygleeson4409]

Always very interesting Kyle thanks for sharing 🇦🇺🦘👍

[@Stephen-ou4sy]

Hi from Queensland Australia... Great series I reckon the difference in model number will get Squatchs eye twitching....

[@kylechrist]

It may haha

[@ronniewalker2881]

Good job man

[@seniorelectrician6831]

Excellent video, Your dogs look like they are doing good!

[@bcbloc02]

That block is in tons better shape than that one I welded up last year.

[@charleswray404]

Great series. Drain tube that was not broken off!

[@kylechrist]

Surprising, right?!

[@lukestrasser]

Time to call up Florin and get some bearings, rings, valve guides, valve springs and new valves. Might as well get it new while it’s still available. Some day it won’t be.

[@WeeShoeyDugless]

Loving your series Kyle, inspiring to say the least. Keep up the good work (and your references to Squatch 253, I know Toby will be watching and appreciating🤣👍)

[@kylechrist]

Thanks! Hopefully he takes a joke well 🤣

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

@@kylechrist I know you'll make something on him *TWITCH!*

[@brianzaremba5325]

I worked in a machine shop and was given a Corvette Lt1 and had to cut a set of Pink rods in order to save the steel crank and block

[@Fatamus]

More than one way for a cat skiner to skin a cat. 👍👍

[@4051a]

Good tear down video, Kyle. Don't let Luke Stasser know about that block having the wrong number on it. He won't let you forget. LOL

[@markmurphy2758]

Those fold over locks are practically new!

[@kylechrist]

Definitely reusable 🤣👍

[@tmscheum]

@@kylechrist yeah, let’s run that by Squatch253! We’ve had his eyelid twitching before and probably will never stop messing with him! Good stuff as always!

[@mentaldemise]

What's the opposite of ASMR? That's what watching the first crank pully attempt was for me. Who doesn't love it when something goes from tight to squishy?

[@amyjojinkerson-b6o]

you have to do what you had to do

[@larrydavidson3402]

That was worth sacrificing those two rods to get the crank out. Hopefully the block checks out and you wiil have a good motor from the two.

[@shaneharrison4775]

The boys be loveing poppa

[@SuperMAZ007]

For a bone dry engine most parts look still useable. The rods do look bad like they have been in salt water. So cutting them was not a huge loss. The crank is whats worth big money. I think Squatch mentioned you can put the timing gear on backwards when reassembling the pony engine?

[@kylechrist]

You can yes, there are timing marks for reassembling though 👍

[@waynep343]

What about the antique cat parts supplier the squatch mentioned is closing . Too early to order Rd4 parts yet perhaps..

[@E300B]

My pony motor on my 36 rd4 is a 2a part numberd

[@kylechrist]

Are you talking the block or the head? Machine 4G1-4G2267 would have a 3B1238 block with 2A3929 heads. Machine 4G2268-4G5915 would have a 3B7633 block with 2A3929 heads. Machine 4G5916-4G9999 would have a 4B671 block with 2A3929 heads

[@E300B]

@@kylechrist Ahh yep your correct mine is 4g3288 serial number with 2a heads and 3b block

[@kylechrist]

@@E300B 👍

[@E300B]

@@kylechrist upon further inspection today my starting engine block has no part number at all I can only see a g stamped into the top where the top cover gasket sits

[@shaneharrison4775]

For as trusted as that pony is I'm surprised it's not a whole lot worse for wear

[@eweunkettles8207]

bmw boxer be good for that

[@geoffweinstock6846]

Kyle, thanks for sharing. How is your Spanish??

[@kylechrist]

Geoff, talk about spam in the comment section, wow!

[@npalen]

Kyle, I'm wondering why you don't tap on the end of the puller bolt after putting pressure on with the thread. I've always thought that was the trick to breaking the part loose?

[@kylechrist]

I was never able to get enough pressure on it, with the grade 5 bolts it just distorted the washers, with the grade 8 it started popping and moving before the puller was tight

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

Don't you just love the Chinese hardware?

[@evankibbe590]

Nice 👌 😊👍👍🌎🌞

[@kylechrist]

Thanks Evan!

[@beginlivinglikeaboss]

The flywheel had no puller holes? I am surprised it came off that easily.

[@kylechrist]

No, it didn't have holes and quite honestly I thought it would break that lip off, I would never pull there on a good flywheel

[@darploin5071]

I saw the tractor you blocked when it was at the swap meat squatch 253 profile that instead he would you would probably buy it I mean it's a nice one

[@paulsilva3346]

REMEMBER FLORIN CATERPILLAR in west Sacramento, IS GOING OUTTA Business.!.!.?

[@art1muz13]

SO UR UP LATE! HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

[@NuffMan_]

lol i suggest you ban these bots in the comment section

[@kylechrist]

I do, they come back under a different name. I'm surprised youtube can't keep those under control 🙄

[@donaldwallace7934]

I’m guessing you sprayed penetrating fluid on, and then went right to it trying to remove that flywheel nut? Sorry, penetrating fluid is NOT an instantaneous results product. Never has been!! Penetrating fluid has to be given time….Hours, sometimes days to be effective on loosening rusted parts. It DOES work as intended if it’s given time to work. I understand the time required for those results isn’t always there, and you need to get things apart…..Hence the necessity for heat! I’m not trying to be argumentative, because I know your position on using penetrating fluids, but to say they do not work is false. They will work if they’re given time. I do enjoy your videos by the way…. I really like the old Caterpillar content.

[@kylechrist]

In this particular instance I was using the penetrant as more of a lubricant as the nut was already moving, unfortunately without the heat it was still too tight. I agree that penetrants work if given time, but as you said, most people can't wait hours to days to take things apart. If you do read most cans, they say wait several minutes, so obviously the marketing teams think they have magical products haha