Restoring the 70’s Heavy Equipment | Quinn Cat

i was told i need to be more descriptive and that i have limited vocabulary [Music] [Music] hello everybody welcome back to the build it vlog today we are coming to you from pomona california outside of los angeles to go look at some dirt of course i'm joined by my co-host eric jumper hello today's purpose is to check out specifically quincat the southern california la cat dealer and what they do to repower scrapers so the majority of earth moving out here is done by scraper scrapers are an incredible earth moving tool they're very effective they move dirt for a lower cost per yard than just about anything else in the right conditions the thing is the old scrapers need to either get replaced with new scrapers or need to get repowered so that is what we are here to show you today is what scrapers do how they move dirt and more importantly how quinn cat re-powers them to bring old scrapers up to new emission standards so that's what we're doing today to start we're in reverse order we're going gonna be showing the scrapers working first and then we're gonna go to cat's facility at city of industry to talk with their technicians their team and to give you guys an in-depth look as far as what the repower process looks like [Music] [Music] this is a cat 657e scraper previously or at least when it was brand new it didn't have emissions controls on it because that wasn't a thing back in the day when were these how old do you think this thing is these are 1980s really depending on the depending on the serial number okay in the 80s emissions wasn't really a thing and then starting in the 2000s they started the government started to regulate emissions and they started to regulate it in a way that mandated having emissions controls on any piece of diesel heavy equipment you're running so either buy new equipment or since it's so expensive to buy a brand new 657 you can basically just swap out both engines it's a 657 so it's a twin engine machine there's an engine up in front there's an engine in the back it's a roughly about a thousand horsepower so like one's like around 400 1 600 so they basically just swap the engines out so this machine because of the sticker there obviously tier four final compliant has been repowered and is just being worked on right now so we can take a look at it and then we'll go see the scrapers actually running in the fill that top bit so they get a brand new engine and then that top bit is basically the emission system that sits on top of the engine that now makes the air coming out of that stack in theory i've heard cleaner than the air going into it in los angeles yep yeah very true which is wild so this machine essentially has no emissions thanks to the emissions controls and you can see that silver bit there they build an additional i don't know they they do all the metal working to accommodate that because it's not designed for it to begin to begin with hood oh yeah a hood it's a it's a wood so they build they build a new hood see i invited eric here so he could provide me grammar correction expert additional vocab [Music] yeah with the with the repower so a brand new 657 is 2 million plus dollars it's very expensive and even if you want to go buy one if you have the money there are a long ways out you're not getting it tomorrow just to give a little bit of scraper background here the cut is up here the fill is down there they're basically flattening this hill to go put houses here southern california go figure with scrapers they're most efficient when they're going downhill so you want to set your cuts up going downhill so you'll see they're going up and then they're cutting down they're hauling down and they're placing down here that's by far the most effective way to do it with the scraper you're trying to fill the can as quickly as possible so gravity's helping you fill your fill your bowl and you're burning less fuel when you're when you're cutting like this another thing to consider as well is you want your your pattern your cycle times to be as as condensed as possible so you can see they're cutting up here and then they're placing only a few hundred yards away you want that as tight as you can get it because again the faster you can repeat the cycle and the less you have to travel the more your more dirt you're placing the less fuel you're burning [Music] so [Music] why the heck are there so many scrapers in southern california so many people ask this well one there's a lot of people so that means there's a lot of development two there's a lot of hills and to develop the hills you gotta smooth them out and with all of these people in here and as the city and areas grown in southern california you have to develop previously uneconomically possible viable land so the pro the projects right now that they're getting into they involve a lot more dirt and there's a lot more going on to build what they used to build in a lot simpler manner so there's a big demand there next you have the right soil conditions so this stuff is so soft there's no ripping there's no blast and there's no rock there's nothing to worry about here it's just nice dirt and last there's not a lot of rain so you don't have these things slipping we're in the hall road yeah you don't you don't have the rain and you don't have the winters so you can run all year round so scrapers they like that nice soft dry dirt they don't like water they don't like anything hard so as far as conditions go for scrapers southern california is just about unbeatable and that's why just about every earth-moving contractor out here runs these 57s [Music] uh all right so we're all wrapped up here on site special shout out to sukit for having us out really really nice of them to lend us their sights and scrapers to take pictures and videos of to share with all of you now we're going to go to quincat city of industry branch eric what'd you think about the scrapers this morning move big dirt real fast move big dirt real fast let's go see where they get operated on well what we were just talking about was pretty crazy so they're they're loaded at around 40 yards of material and about 3 000 pounds a yard so that's a hundred and twenty thousand pounds of earth being picked up and moved at 30 plus miles per hour every time these things open and close the apron all of it being managed by a guy that's jacked up on monster probably got four hours of sleep last night no it's a radio wrong way to do it but that 120 000 that's a loaded low ball that's a loaded little boy inside of the bowl moving around at anyone moving downhill at 30 miles an hour yeah that's crazy all right let's head to quinn and show you guys how it all comes together at the shop [Music] doing some uh we just finished a uh powertrain rebuild and this is another one that they're doing so doing a complete powertrain plus some hydraulics so these are the 650 c1b repower so some of the unique things about it is where we put the dpf up front right is where the fuel tank originally sits so we take the original fuel tank out we cut it up and open and use it to house the dpf structure and then we add the fuel tank to the rear really and so then we have to add steps and catwalk and rails so you see that's what they're doing on that one there is they're getting ready to mount all that to do the fuel and then run the fuel lines through the can and then we custom do the guard up top wow that's a lot of work so a lot of fabrication and all that's done right out of our weld shop here can you can you just give a brief overview what a repower is and how it works so basically a repower is we're taking the original engine out and we're upgrading it to a brand new emissions engine so in this case it's a tier 4 compliant engine so to meet uh the regulations for california state of california and while it's in here you guys will do hoses and wiring harnesses and that kind of stuff there's a lot of customization with the new engine because the new engine's all going to be run on a lot of electronics a lot of computer a lot of sensors so all that's upgraded and then we have to custom fabricate a lot of harnesses to make all the systems work together um and then yes while it's in any time that we see any hoses or components we'll end up doing them at the time of the the repower so we could end up doing transmission torque converters yeah um a lot if you that job site you were just on with sukit we went through most of those components to see the diff so that's original untouched with the fuel tank and the air filter now this is our modified where we cut open the fuel tank house the dpf right in here that's fascinating by keeping the same footprint wow so the dpf has kind of set off to the side it's right in here where the fuel tank would be and then we add the fuel with adding the fuel tank to the rear it keeps that same footprint keeps moses all in the same spot that is so fascinating whereas to the 57s you see all that was we've pretty much created that structure there we use we cut it in half and use pieces we have these pieces keep the front and back isn't that wacky i was telling them one of my first projects out in the shop from crt was we had to do 47 backhoes that we had to modify with a hoose filter and so that was the design we put it where the battery box was and we modified that to take the dpf and put a stack up and if you look at the f models that's the exact design caterpillar went with is that right yeah so that's a tier three that that was a tier three with the dpf wow so department of water and power [Applause] this is wacky man look at this i'm sitting in the cab that looks straight out of the 70s straight out of the 70s and then i look over and it's all brand new all brand new this machine they said could have between 50 60 70 000 frame hours on it so you can see here this machine has been in this shop and has been repowered so they've gone tier one two three four and then tier four final now is where we're at so this was modified and repowered as a tier three machine many many many years ago and is now back in the shop to get repowered again as a tier 4 final machine so you can see this is the old tier 3 engine this scraper it's a little ways behind this one so they're going to take this whole engine out and then that one has that new engine back in there most fun we get is after halloween i always buy the girls in the office everyone in the office pumpkins and we let them run them over with a roller that fuel tank that we cut open this is what sits inside that houses the the dps so we make a frame like this and that houses all that stuff and then that fuel uh tank is the enclosure around it and you guys fabricate all this so we fabricate all this here so they essentially because the machine's not designed to have the dpf and this new engine in there they have to modify the machine to accommodate everything they need in there quinn has this enormous weld shop run right now and they fabricate everything from scratch here so this is the kit to put it all together and then these are pieces for actually 57 repowers not the 51s but it's it's very similar it was a cat 992 bucket they converted it they cut the back off to convert it to run on a komatsu loader they got rid of the kamatsu loader went back to cat so what they've done is they've taken that whole back section off and they've rebuilt it entirely to fit onto a cat loader again so this is kind of the last step he's line boring in the back before this bucket will be ready to go back out into the field the other thing that we do a lot for public works and all them the municipalities is vandalism guarding so we make the aluminum guards that cover that cover the windows so when they have them parked to the other on the off the road so these are all for those three powers so these are the different pieces those are the feet that the the frames that we make mount to and then some of the racks and then the the uh the def uh tanks enclosure all right so we saw one that just got pulled into the shop under the knife still has the old tier three set up within it one that's been on the knife for a while has the new tier four final set up and it's getting the finishing touches and then right here is one that's completed right this one's totally done well with the exception of a paint job butt paint job so the only thing left on this machine is paint but otherwise it's repowered tier four final compliant it's ready to go back in the dirt look at that machine yeah skid steer height score [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this machine mid 70s but the hour meter says 2.2 because it's a brand new engine what we try to do when we do two of them at a time is the technicians will come in they'll strip it down and then the welders will start on it and then they'll go on to the second machine and do the same thing and then kind of bounce back and forth between by the time they get back the welders already have the mounts all set in so then we can mock the engine up and start moving forward with that the delay on these were unfortunately both of the two machines needed radiators and they just don't make this radiator anymore so we had a little difficulty finding the radiator we can get one custom made but that was our last you know choice this is really just a southern california thing or just a california thing they have it's very hilly around here so there's a lot of slopes and this is a slope board so uh anything from a d1 to a d10 can have slope boards on it and what this does is as the machine is driving along a slope it can articulate this blade up and down and cut the slope alongside the machine gives it giving it just a nice perfect slope all the way down because there's so many slopes out here a lot of dozers run these but you don't see them anywhere else in the country is it what what do you guys have to do to it how messed up is it so it was completely submerged so pretty much yeah there's video of the guys jumping off the roof into the surf so that's how high it was up mid cap or at least to the bottom of that window and uh oh boy yeah so pretty much a full powertrain and hydraulic every hose but you know it's sat in salt water overnight so the corrosive effect in the wiring harnesses and stuff so it's best on this one we would do what's called a cat certified rebuild strip it down to a frame all new hoses electrical harnesses and go through all the components holy smokes so are you just kind of waiting on them to decide yes we're quoting that i mean you see just from that how quick all the fittings wow already rusted the rust on a uh fire uh grader whoa whoa so we've after we paint it red we put an anti-graffiti clear coat over it and that helps it from turning pink oh right because it's a uv protectant yeah oh yeah they do turn yeah we like the fire because we get to to build cool stuff for them yeah we're just repainting this yes prior to us doing like the uv and all that so is it is it la county l.a county yeah we are all done here at quinn cap i'm gonna put my running shorts away like so repack and go to lax to go to bozeman montana so hopefully you enjoyed this one probably our most most in-depth cat dealer caterpillar any kind of behind the scenes equipment video i think we've done so i really enjoyed that hopefully you enjoyed it too and with that stay dirty we'll see on the next one good bye goodbye good goodbye bye goodbye [Music] you

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Length: 22min 34sec (1354 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 23 2022