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Post by Butcher on Mar 4, 2024 19:45:55 GMT -6
Rain and cold and sleet to boot today. Working on a 800 horse power V-8 Cat engine and a 10 inch by 4 foot booster pump trying to get things ready for production. Thank God for left over Sundays fried chicken and Andy Griffith on the tube and good driy farwood for the wood stove.
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Post by f2036 on Mar 4, 2024 20:05:23 GMT -6
just being home settin' in your chair havin' a bite to eat and a good old tv show is sometimes priceless.
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Post by haywood on Mar 5, 2024 12:38:44 GMT -6
Big bore V-8 Cats have a special kind of sound.
Last Cat I repaired was a 275hp 3176 I-6 in an Autocar County plow truck with a Front Engine Hydraulic pump and the Snowplow mounting. Removed CAM to replace the seal on the Front Cover. Had to remove front and rear half of the front cover. The hardest part of the entire process was removing the cat cemented gasket sandwich between the Cast Aluminum front cover sections. I was over bid by several hours but having never worked on that engine model before I took the extra time to get done right the first and final time. The failure was a leaking Camshaft seal between the block and the rear section of the front cover assy. Success...
...That being said, I have a sneaky admiration for Folks tossed into the Ring to fight with a Cat.
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Post by olfolks on Mar 5, 2024 22:27:25 GMT -6
My cousin had a peterbuilt road tractor with a 3408 in it. On the cat dealer Dino it put out something over 825 to the rear wheels. Yes it had been tweaked about as much as it could be without loosing its cookies.
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Post by kevinj54 on Mar 6, 2024 8:30:52 GMT -6
Ya, and that kind of power makes for short drive tire life!!!!!!
A guy here had one of them big cats in a KW, pulled a Michigan Train, think 161,000# gross
Drive tire life was about 20,000 unless he babied it. It would however snake that train down the highway at 70 mph all day long.
I could not keep up with him pulling just a lead trailer.
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Post by olfolks on Mar 6, 2024 9:33:09 GMT -6
He once got a ticket in Texas for 132 mph and over weight at 128k they charged him with resisting arrest because it took him 2 miles to stop. He said he thought he had shut it down fairy fast from that speed lol , they later dropped that charge. Bad part was it only got 3 mpg if you babied it and 1 to1 if you put it to work
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Post by Butcher on Mar 6, 2024 18:12:59 GMT -6
He once got a ticket in Texas for 132 mph and over weight at 128k they charged him with resisting arrest because it took him 2 miles to stop. He said he thought he had shut it down fairy fast from that speed lol , they later dropped that charge. Bad part was it only got 3 mpg if you babied it and 1 to1 if you put it to work I was informed that this kitty i got on this booster pump tied to the dredge will most likely use 250 to 300 gals. a 10 hour day. Add to that the cat engine on the dredge that uses 200 gals. a day. I wunder if solar or wind power would be a viable option to keep production costs down? Dont answer that I was jokeing. |
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Post by sandbur on Mar 6, 2024 18:48:19 GMT -6
He once got a ticket in Texas for 132 mph and over weight at 128k they charged him with resisting arrest because it took him 2 miles to stop. He said he thought he had shut it down fairy fast from that speed lol , they later dropped that charge. Bad part was it only got 3 mpg if you babied it and 1 to1 if you put it to work I was informed that this kitty i got on this booster pump tied to the dredge will most likely use 250 to 300 gals. a 10 hour day. Add to that the cat engine on the dredge that uses 200 gals. a day. I wunder if solar or wind power would be a viable option to keep production costs down? Dont answer that I was jokeing. I am thinking battery power...yeah....that'll do it...Savin the planet........ |
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Post by olfolks on Mar 6, 2024 19:17:42 GMT -6
Yeah batteries with a 16v92 Detroit diesel running the generator that way you can use less fuel a day but more oil
250 gallons of fuel and 300 of oil per day
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Post by Erstwhile on Mar 6, 2024 19:24:47 GMT -6
Yeahbut, my Exxon stock is smiling.
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