Trying to start a CAT D343/1693 that hasn't run in nearly 30 years!

[@RichFife]

The dude is full of knowledge... hopefully his workers are absorbing as much of his wisdom as possible!

[@haroldmedalen6757]

This is one of the all-time great engines from any manufacturer. I've never been around the 1693 version, but have heard nothing but good about them from anyone who has been. Down here in Southeast AK, there were a lot of 343s in cannery tenders and medium size tugs, even in a few seine boats. Sadly, there are getting to be less and less of them. We have one tender in my town that has one still in service, and I can hear it from my shop when it comes into the harbor and maneuvers to get into it's stall. I love that sound, it is like no other. It seems like only yesterday that we were hearing the Atlas and Washington heavy duties in the boats and now they are gone. It wil be a sad day when the last 343 is gone as well! Incidentally, I greatly enjoy your channel, you are carrying on with the great Alaskan can-do tradition. I don't doubt that like all the rest of us, you have something stored under a blue tarp!

[@HOWEES]

I love Atlas-Imperial's, and Murphy diesels.

[@benjurqunov]

That's a thrill I never get enough is getting a long dormant motor fired up again.

[@shitindawoodsbear2798]

I've rebuilt many 343's. Those babies are bulletproof and still used in many applications today especially marine .

[@joecummings1260]

Back in the day when they put them in trucks that was big power. I knew a guy in the mining business who had a DM800 Mack with the early Mack V8. After it blew up a couple of times he repowered it with a D343 I think he did it around 1970. As far as I know that truck is still running today. It had a total frame off restoration like 10 or 15 years ago

[@douglasmeek9774]

They were great engines! I rebuilt many at Ohio Machinery!

[@charleskutrufis9612]

Love this kind of stuff. By the temps looks like all cylinders are doing the job.! Thanks for the video.

[@richardransom7391]

I ran that motor in my Dad's 1982 Peterbilt twin stick. It would walk up hill like nothing else I'd ever drove. Granted it drank fuel but it pulled better than Dad's other truck with a V8 Cat. 1693 also ran cooler than the V8 Cat. Boy That Was The Days "Getter Done" and Talk About It Later 😂

[@Bywater-S]

Glad I found this channel. I’m sitting here in Wasilla and remembering my dad’s passion for repairing heavy equipment. There’s still a few of us Bywater’s floating around up that way. Edited for misspelling

[@GMdieselman]

I sure do love hearing a pre-combustion chamber Cat. Great to see the smile that old engine put on your face too. Looking forward to seeing the progress on this project.

[@marklevesque4131]

Fun, free project. Adjust valves and injectors, that may clean up the exhaust a bit

[@bladewiper]

A quick and dirty way to see if the rad is being pressurized, is to put a nitrile/nylon glove over the rad cap hole. If it puffs up or blows off, you know something is wrong.

[@bent-jl6rc]

From my experience with basically all diesels, you can blow a hole in a piston, candy cane a few pushrods and have 2 dead cylinders, throw a rod through the side of the block etc but as long as you don't shut it down it will probably keep running....with diesels it will usually show any issues when trying to start....if they start up easily they are most likely a good unit....if even one cylinder has low compression, wonky injector or weak or non working glow plug it will be fairly easy to know as they usually don't want to start😂 c'mon Howie....you have to channel your inner peggin leggin, imagine you are downing a cheap beer in one go and feed that unit some rev limiter immediately upon cold startup to clear out its lungs 😂

[@29Mucker]

SWEET! Love the sound of old CAT engines!

[@57chevy-s3e]

Be interesting to see one of them with air to air in a truck !! I used to drive them years ago but with the new technology would be a power change either way air to air and few other mods..

[@scottjones7279]

Unplug the glow plugs if you can hear me😊

[@HOWEES]

We did a couple of minutes in, I forgot & Austin pulled it when the camera was on me on the opposite side.

[@scottjones7279]

@@HOWEES thank goodness

[@adamboylan2307]

Thats a nice sounding engine for it being not run in so long. Great job fellas

[@russellgier5489]

That is music to my ears I worked at a Cat Truck Engine shop in the 80s

[@LW-oq9do]

Couple ounces of two stroke oil or marvels mystery oil in the fuel might clean up the injectors

[@sethgerber2132]

My buddy has one in a long nose mack glider. Overhead cam, neat engine

[@duron700r]

893 cubes? Big engine. Modern to me.

[@sethgerber2132]

@@duron700r yes 893 cubes 14.6L

[@Blazefork]

Love the sound of pre cup diesels.....eat your heart out Greta. New fuel filters and feed it plenty of ATF and it might wake up some.

[@alkline2390]

ATF for the win!

[@Failure_Is_An_Option]

Yeah.. nothing like under powered over polluting to really drive a point...

[@duron700r]

Or two cycle oil nowadays. : - )

[@snicks50]

It run better if you unhook the glow plugs

[@CybershamanX]

Apparently they did a couple minutes in. (From another comment.) 😎☮️

[@gradyyokeley9930]

Don't worry about the oil pressure the rack won't open till it gets at least 5 psi

[@russellgier5489]

Unless someone has but a 1/4" washer under the piston

[@TechOne7671]

Need to get myself one of these for the garden. All the best to you.

[@TheZachLife]

Ive got a 1693 in my RV. Pretty cool old engine.

[@HOWEES]

That's a bad-ass rig my man. Very cool. Pretty good documentation too. -Cameraman

[@TheZachLife]

@@HOWEES Thanks.

[@mjkrigging6374]

First thing I thought of was Zach's rv

[@michaelmcclure8673]

​@@TheZachLife But not everyone has your mechanical power as you do . That Rv is nice and the crawler trailer too .😊

[@Mhurtle65]

I saw the pallet of kitty liter. Have you ever tried saw dust for oil dry. If you have a local saw mill they will probably just give it to you just to get rid of it.

[@HOWEES]

They charge for it here, and it is a fire hazard in a shop like mine. I worked in a shop that switched to that for environmental reasons, it took a few fires before they switched back.

[@everettplummer9725]

Brushes come in soft, hard, and full of copper.

[@ericwingseeto3246]

Nice work

[@arlieyatbrough4165]

I had a 1693 in a k100 that originally came with a 9513 speed trans. It just a sorry 13speed but swapped it out and put a 5&4 in put well over a million hard miles on it was I hadn't traded it should have overhauled it.

[@jamessmith7691]

I like seeing these old iron contraptions getting woke up.

[@JustinMiales]

Did you take the lead off the glow plugs ?

[@mattildahubbardo]

I love your videos

[@karlkirchhofer8283]

sounds like timing adv is stuck or a lazy fuel valve

[@randybland9058]

This guy reminds me of Dave Hester on storage wars

[@orangetruckman]

I wonder when the valves were last adjusted 🤔

[@HOWEES]

most likely 1980, but the valve trains on these always sound like that. when we install it, we will do all the standard adjustments & clean the injectors.

[@russlarson3585]

get some stanadyne additive for the fuel it might clean up the injectors

[@silverdrillpickle7596]

Stanadyne makes an amazing product.

[@Failure_Is_An_Option]

Nope. Love the clowns that believe a few ounces of a mystery product cleans anything.

[@dcrog69]

Nice,didn't even need any Cosby sauce

[@Hey_Its_That_Guy]

I'm pretty sure Greta Thunberg's eyes rolled to the back of her head and she passed out watching this video. Hopefully, she's okay... 🤣

[@Failure_Is_An_Option]

It's amazing society continues to carry your sorry ass.

[@stephenrice4554]

Nah

[@Guds777]

It's Bubbles from trailer park boys. And that is meant as a compliment... :D

[@paint52]

I didn’t know Drew Carey had a brother who was a diesel mechanic 😆

[@TeneTsTaroT]

CAT POWER!

[@mauricekeithjohnson2598]

Must be a BILLION of those Delco Remy MT42s around

[@joepaider7895]

Not a diesel tech , but at idle it sound like a couple of stuck valves. Not sure how to describe it but it had a slight blup sound to it. May be normal for that engine., some very old distillate tractor engines make that same sound at idle. Fun to watch either way.

[@allynthompson5587]

They were 24 volts with I think a 50mt starter I owned two trucks with that motor

[@AsharIsaak]

I just wanted to make you aware that at 14:53 The screen goes black until 14:58.

[@HOWEES]

Thanks Ash. It's a rendering error with the software I use - it's been a long time since it last happened, so I had stopped checking for it. I'll start checking again. -Cameraman

[@johnwalker2371]

1693 was a whiskey drinking cat

[@karlkirchhofer8283]

manual shutoff on scroll style pump

[@fyfo1432]

field winding are different 12/24 volts

[@allynthompson5587]

I think it needs a super tune

[@karlkirchhofer8283]

make sure rack is free

[@damianbrennan2258]

There's something blocking intake 😮

[@beyondmiddleagedman7240]

Won't it run without constant glow plug? Used to have a 1693/RTO13 in my 77 K100-VIT.

[@HOWEES]

Yes it will, we left the wire on a little long, but only a couple of minutes, I missed it & Austin removed it while I was on the other side, so you don't see it getting unhooked.

[@johne189]

The "same" engines can be of different build arrangements such that swapping one component affects another, and another... Soon the engines are torn down so far for the changeover that it might've been easier to just repair the original engine.

[@HOWEES]

It's not about easier, it's about the cost of parts, the engine in the loader currently has a bad block.

[@johne189]

@@HOWEES Bad block is another story, of course. Carry on. BTW I wasn't criticizing the M O., just commenting how different the "same" engines can be.

[@williamwood6531]

How about using a starter button instead of screwdriver fireworks? Do the professional operation to get the engine turning over!

[@johne189]

@@williamwood6531 Micrometer anvil sparks less. That was proven in previous videos. 😅

[@joedirt5378]

Yep, that head gaskets getting bad

[@richardphelan8414]

Area diesel service ,get your injectors serviced

[@HOWEES]

When we install it, I will clean/set all6, we have the tools here for that.

[@andrewcrawley4429]

It looks like the gear box on the rear of the engine has hydraulic pumps on it. If that is true then you now have bad hydraulic pumps, if they were good before. Hydraulic pumps do not like running without oil, just like engines.

[@HOWEES]

The clutch was disengaged precisely for that reason. -Cameraman

[@JustinMiales]

Injectors are mock-up

[@jeffdymarczyk4413]

Reason they got rid of it!!! Needs complete rebuild.Engines don’t need to be hotter to run!!!!

[@460faceplant]

Do you have the hydraulics isolated?

[@HOWEES]

Yes -Cameraman

[@boatlover2296]

Back when they knew how to build them

[@cavitbayar754]

3306.cet 631c engine❤

[@jasonmorris2813]

Laptop scan and compression test

[@justiningram2380]

Sounds like you pump is not getting enough fuel to the injection pump like the lift pump is weak

[@stevenherner298]

Where are u from

[@jasonwilson1677]

Is the Turbo stuck

[@HOWEES]

No, I could hear it spinning.

[@brycegisselbeck6548]

Fan is on backwards Prolly a precup loose causing bubbles

[@HOWEES]

Had a leaking water hose, it was letting water out & air in.

[@ebayselle]

24 volts will burn at starter up at no time I've been there done that

[@jims6323]

Is that crap from the turbo? That would explain why it runs like shit!

[@bob-the-Millwright]

Looks and sounds to me like you have low compression on 1 or 2 cylinders.

[@jamesbjorlie]

He passed 10,000 hours a long time ago

[@ebayselle]

You're not connecting a solenoid you got to connect the solenoid all you're doing is spinning the starter you got to engage the solenoid

[@gradyyokeley9930]

That's not looking good in the radeator looks like a head gasket or bad oil cooler

[@hh-qc7rp]

Algorithm booster

[@karlkirchhofer8283]

fire ring leaking

[@shitindawoodsbear2798]

You're jumping that starter wrong dude...all you're doing is spinning the motor ya goofball. The solenoid has to pull the gear out . Same starter that's used in modern engines.

[@HOWEES]

What I am jumping is a solenoid that engages the pinion, then makes the contacts close for motor rotation. At the very first it appeared the pinion was bad, what it was instead was the wrong size pinion gear, it totally missed the ring gear. We changed to a different starter, with a larger pinion.

[@tas32engineering]

Not a carbon monoxide fan.

[@franklinwhite5392]

Its called a engine not a motor! Please learn the difference! Glad your not working on my equipment!

[@justwastingtimeonyt9952]

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