Building New Caterpillar Diesel Engines and Running Old Junk Ones

well i've got a giant conglomeration of fire hazard and stupidity here this is a 1 million 195 000 mile all original nbn z15 it's in here for a complete bear block rebuild but right now i know everybody wants to see this greasy old piece run so here you go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right it's a couple months later and this is that same nbn that you were just looking at got the block and the crank back from the machine shop and i've already put the crank in it right now i want to show you these liners these are a brand new liner from ipd and they've got a 10 000 raised edge or raised lip that goes all the way around the circumference of the liner so what i'm doing right now is checking liner protrusion and the reason i've got these copper washers in here is just to protect that raised lip on these liners you wouldn't need those on a normal liner but to explain the idea behind this lip i'm sure a lot of you have seen these cylinder heads that they're calling o-ring cylinder heads and what they're doing is machining a groove in the head around each cylinder and then they're putting an insert into that groove this is the same concept this is just a cheaper and easier way to do it instead of putting that insert in the cylinder head they're just machining the actual raised area right into the liner flange itself so what it does you've got your firing and the head gasket that's going to seat in here and then this lip is going to surround that firing and keep it from being able to push and blow out well i've been shut down for quite a while on this one waiting on parts and i finally got my timing gears back from the machine shop so they've got new bushings in them and i've got quite a few other parts here enough stuff to go a pretty good way so this engine is the priority i'm going to quit on that one for now go back to work on this one and try to get it knocked out getting ready to clean the blue off this new cam and then i'll stick it in the head i've got the injectors ready to go in too these are not ipd injectors ipd doesn't offer injectors these are done by another company and this is what the 70 pin cam gear looks like all disassembled [Music] all right i've come a pretty good way since you saw it last got the cam in it it's in time backlash set on the adjustable idler flywheel's on brand new injector harness in it got one of ipd's new c15 acer water pumps here looks like their flow pressure and leak checking each one before they ship let me get this out of the box and i'll give you a better look at it yep looks like an acer water pump these are 100 brand new and you'll be able to buy them a little bit cheaper than a cat remand and i guarantee they're every bit as good here's what the impeller side looks like all right i've got a coat of primer on it now and it's had plenty of time to dry so i'm getting ready to start with the top coat it'll get a couple coats of top coat and i'll be adding some pieces as i go along well the paint turned out pretty good considering the guy who painted it got the correct serpentine bracket and ac bracket on for the application that we're going into and using one of these one-piece steed speed manifolds this is the first one of these that i've ever used this is what the guy brought to me so we'll try her out i'm a little worried that it may try to break manifold studs off since it's one piece and it doesn't have any slip joints in it but apparently it's made out of some kind of alloy that won't expand and contract so i don't know see what happens pretty much all that's left to do is mount the turbo i've still got to put the top end stuff in it so i'm getting ready to rebuild the jake housings right now okay i've got it all together got the overhead run everything's adjusted up so this will be the last look in here before i put the valve covers on seems like these jake solenoids just never stop in the right spot but as long as you get the wires connected you get them clipped in and they're not rubbing anywhere you're good to go and you cannot hook those up backwards by the way it doesn't matter which way they go got 10 gallons of oil here i'm getting ready to dump in and i'll put the valve covers on hang the turbo and it'll be a done deal so so she done just plugged in here i'm gonna check on some of these sensors they're not all brand new we put a new cam and crank sensor in and the rest of them are used so i want to make sure they're all reading like they should see here boost pressure showing zero oil pressure zero coolant temperature 73 intake manifold air temp 72 an atmospheric is showing 15 that's all good normal uh c fuel temp i think that's here fuel temp showing 73 so those are all matching each other that's what we wanted to see everything looks good there [Music] this active code should be a throttle position invalid yes that's because we don't have a fuel pedal hook to it yet so now for the part that everybody wants to see i've done this before and i already know the comments that i'm going to get so i might as well address them right now no i'm not going to cook the liner o-rings i'm not going to hurt anything at all by running this for a short period of time with no cooling in it i've done this probably 30 times and a lot of those engines i've torn down afterwards never seen anything that didn't look normal the only concern with running a brand new engine with no coolant would be the seal and the water pump it's kind of hard on those seals to run them dry but there was enough lube in that water pump i mean it was just running out so i'm not concerned about that no longer that i'm going to run this probably no more than 30 seconds that's not going to hurt a thing okay i'm just getting it primed up here you don't want to dry crank these engines any longer than you have to because it's hard on the injectors so what i normally do is take an air nozzle and a rag i'll put a little pressure in my bucket that'll help push fuel through the lines and up through the system so i should have fuel here when i pump the hand primer i'll probably fill that cup up one more time just to flush it out good and get as much of the air out as i can got all this garbage rigged up finally i'm hoping that giant wad of junk batteries is going to be enough to get it going it probably won't be but i'll give it a shot got an oil pressure gauge rigged up here it's actually a fuel pressure gauge out of a peat cab but it's going to be an oil pressure gauge right now there's my lone wolf 6000 or whatever he calls it i guess let's see if this piece of will start well it's a runner i was just watching up here to make sure i had a little getting to the top end as soon as i saw it i shut it down so i'm gonna let it cool down for a few more minutes and then i'll start it up one more time and give her a little [Music] hmm [Music] well there's nothing left to do to this it's ready to go to work hauling some of those 93 mile an hour loads of meat around so i guess back to this now just gonna show you these washers i had made those little copper washers i had on here before were just a makeshift solution until i came up with something better so i had the machine shop in town make me these big thick brass washers um with a regular liner i've always just used steel washers and i've never had a problem with it they won't even leave a mark on the liner as long as you don't over torque these bolts but with these raised edge liners you're going to need something softer so i think ipd is talking about maybe sending some felt washers with these liners i don't know yet what they're going to decide to do but you're going to need some felt washers or something similar to these in order to keep from screwing that raised edge up all right i've got liner protrusion checked out and it's all good to go so i'm putting the liners in for good now [Music] [Laughter] okay i've got all the liners in the block now got my piston pins pistons and rods all weighed up and got them matched together based on weight so i'm putting rod piston assemblies together now i've already got one in the engine but here's the other five rods so this is a 14.6 liter engine that i'm building right now uses a two bolt rod this is the rod you'll find in every single 3406e that exists even if it's a 15.8 liter you'll also find this rod in the 14.6 liter c15 truck engine so the 6nz's and nbns and you'll also find this rod in every single c16 that exists so they made up for the difference in stroke in the 15.8 liter engines with the pin height and the piston not the rod but anyway that's enough engine building for now bought this thing like a month and a half ago and it's still sitting out there on the trailer so i'm gonna drag it in here and see if i can get it running well she ain't pretty but she was pretty cheap i have no idea if it runs the hillbilly i bought it off of told me it did but that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot he probably wasn't lying though oh yeah i forgot about that he wanted to keep the flywheel for some reason luckily i know where there's about 10 of them and they're only about 100 feet away so i'll get to work here and we'll find out what we've got well it's raining so hard i'm pretty much gonna have to yell at this camera but there's been some progress made i've got all the junk batteries moved down here got a flywheel on it i put a third of the bolts in so it probably won't even fly off fuel lines are on it's got the wrong fuel filter on it so that should work just fine starters on battery cables are hooked up got all this nonsense rigged up coil pressure gauge is rigged up it's got oil in it it looks like it hadn't been changed in about 275 000 miles but at least it's got some and i'm just gonna have to hope this oil filter doesn't spray oil everywhere it's obviously seen better days so i've got pretty much nothing on my side but i think i'm ready to start cranking and see what's going to happen all right here we go thing ain't got no oil pressure well i swapped the oil filtered out and i didn't find anything very scary inside of it so i'm not totally sure yet it's probably had some kind of internal failure but i'm going to give it one more try and if i don't get some oil pressure pretty quick i'm going to shut it down and i'll have to abandon this operation nope i almost gave up on this and then i realized it wouldn't even be right if i didn't go ahead and thrash on this thing just a little bit anyway it's a cat we don't need oil pressure that bad don't well that's all she's got maybe i'll show you what was wrong with it when i get it torn down or maybe i won't if i forget kind of sucks i couldn't thrash on it a little bit more but that's the way she goes sometimes i guess that's all i've got for this one thanks for watching and i'll see you next time

Channel: KT3406E

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Keywords: kt3406e, kt3406, diesel engine, 3406 cat, cat 3406, 3406e, 3406e cat, cat 3406e, c-15, c15, c15 cat, c-15 cat, 6nz, 6nz cat, engine rebuild, engine overhaul, diesel rebuild, peterbilt, kenworth, detroit diesel, cummins

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Length: 20min 43sec (1243 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2020