WILL IT START?? Galion T500 Motor Grader

all right guys here's the new galleon t500 motor grader we just got out here today this thing has been sitting back here in the woods since 2007 so it's been sitting out here about at least 14 years [Music] the old man that owned it got cancer and passed away and it's been sitting out here on his daughter's property it was supposedly running whenever he got sick and um has just been sitting out here for 14 years so everything looks pretty good front tires flat on it so we're gonna have to air that up but the back tires are actually all holding air from what it appears everything looks to be there like i said according to the daughter it was running whenever he passed away but it's got an international harvester 175 horsepower engine on it t500 today's the first day out here so we're gonna check all the fluids on it kind of do an inventory and start going through the process of trying to get this thing cranked up and see what all works or doesn't work on it all right so i've been working on cutting down all the trees and getting all the brush and stuff back off of it but just before i cut these last couple trees out of the way before any of the naysayers say it was planted we got right here on this front tire we got this tree growing right up against it then come back here to the back we got this big old tree growing literally growing up around that back tire there so this thing's been sitting here every bit of 14 years but we're gonna see if we can't change that today all right i got so there's two fuel filters on this thing i've only got one new one so i'm gonna go ahead and just pull the second one off and replace it just in case there's any water or trash in there this new filter will catch it go ahead and fill it up with diesel so i don't have to prime it that long there we go check the oil on it we go been sitting there for 14 years still full of oil the oil actually isn't even i mean it's black but i've definitely seen worse everything looks good i'm gonna climb up there well first i guess i'm gonna go ahead and check and see if there's any water in the fuel tank over here that ain't good there's a lot of junk in there but that thing is bone dry all right i'm gonna pull the cover off the air filter and check that next things actually super clean in there [Music] this thing almost looks brand new it's crazy that internal filter looks good i'm gonna leave that off just in case we need to shoot some ether in there or something all right i guess next we're going to go ahead and put some diesel in it check the hydraulic fluid we got to hook the batteries up back here um somebody cut the ends off of the batteries and took the batteries so i got some ends in the truck i'm gonna grab those put the ends on it fill up the fuel check the hydraulic fluid and we'll be ready to crank on this thing [Applause] all right got 15 gallons of fuel in it that should be plenty to get it going i just got to check the hydraulic fluid and hook up the battery all right got to put these terminals on and hook up the battery i know this isn't probably the right size battery but it's what i had with me so right now at least try and see if it'll crank over with that battery on there so all right let's see what that'll do for us here we go a little bit of power [Music] see if i can hook up another battery to it all right so so i tried cranking on it a couple times and it was just clicking and i saw that this wire right here was just kind of sitting on there i guess the nut on the back fell off or something so i'm gonna try to get that tightened down i don't know if that's the problem but i know i need a good connection there so we're gonna try that see what happens all right got me a little 10 millimeter wrench gets you every time okay see if that helps anything it's turning again i'm gonna try to put some ether in there and see what that'll do all right there we go try again [Music] well it actually sounded like it was about to fire off right there and as soon as it got pressure it already blew one of those hydraulic lines so that's not good but at least it sounded like it's gonna fire looks like there's a bunch of water in there anyway let's check on that see where that's coming from got to kind of backtrack a little bit one thing i did not do was drain the water out of the bottom of the hydraulics fluid and it does appear that there is some in [Music] there [Music] [Music] dancer [Music] [Music] let's go ahead and drain all that out of there that's stuff's nasty all right so it's day two out here trying to get this galleon uh motor grader running last night i kind of ran out of daylight on it found a couple issues with it when i started to crank on it as you can see it would fire over on the ether but it wouldn't stay running i also noticed the hose that goes from the radiator to the engine it was all messed up and leaking so i've got to replace that and then there was a hydraulic line um that started to leak real bad whenever i was cranking on it so i pulled the uh the throttle on the fuel pump didn't seem to be working right so i pulled the fuel pump off and i took it back to my shop and i cleaned it all out today and it seems to be working better there was some gunk and stuff in there so i got that cleaned out so i'm hoping that once we get this put back on and we fire on it it'll uh it'll start up for us so um i'm gonna get this put back on there i can't run it for very long because like i said i don't have the hoses hooked up to the radiator and we're got a busted hydraulic line but i just want to see if i can get it to fire off and run and then on monday we can go get the parts we need to get it put back together okay [Applause] [Applause] all right guys so i'm back out here today it's like day three or four working on this motor grader i've had to pull off and put back on this fuel pump like three times i'm not a diesel mechanic i don't claim to be and i pulled the pump off and i didn't realize that it the fuel pump was had to be timed so when i put it back on i had it out of timing um pulled it off again thought i had the timing right got it put back on and i was like 180 degrees out of time so i finally think i got the timing figured out on it i got the pump put back on all everything hooked up probably going to have to bleed the air out of the lines again i still need to put on the new radiator hose that i got up here and then put on a couple hydraulic lines down underneath and then we should be ready to fire this thing up hopefully this time it starts right up all right so i just got the radiator hose put back on and those two hydraulic lines that were busted last thing i got to do before we crank on it is get up there and fill it up with some hydraulic fluid so i'm going to do that real quick and then we'll fire this thing up all right here we go first start i think it's gonna go [Music] oh maybe [Music] all right so i just remembered i had shut the fuel off yesterday when we were taking the pump off so i didn't have the fuel on right there but it really sounded like it was going to fire off there so i got the fuel turned on now and i'm going to crank on it some more there we go there we go hey guys thanks for watching if you like this video please hit that subscribe button and like it we got more videos like this coming out soon we've actually at this same property we got a d6 dozer that we're going to try to get starting it's been sitting for at least 14 years also so you guys stay tuned and that'll be coming up shortly thanks [Music]

Channel: Justin Stokes Outdoors

Views: 890,536

Rating: 4.8402548 out of 5

Keywords: Abandoned dozer, Abandoned motor grader, First start, First start 14 years, Forgotten Equipment, GALION MOTOR GRADER, Galion T500, Sitting 14 years, Will it start

Id: oKQpog6pnuM

Length: 20min 33sec (1233 seconds)

Published: Wed May 12 2021