Will the 52 Year Old Fork Truck RUN? & Can I DRIVE it HOME? ~ RESCUING a 1960's Fork Truck ~ Part 2

and we're going to evaluate whether or not it's going to be worth spending the time to fix it up there are no spark plugs now you can see how much junk is in there can you see the wetness in that cylinder the distributor body was cracked and he had one sitting around there's what it looks like underneath the head [Music] can you see how bad that looks yes oh heck yes that's just awesomeness yes heck yes we'll get the new gasket set on 40 so we'll put in the missing part that ruined so much of the motor i don't want to fight these later so a little copper anti-seize on the threads all right i've already pre-mixed coolant this is another thing that we're gonna flush once we get the machine running flush the coolant system flush the fuel tank to get everything all cleaned the entire wiring harness for this uh machine is really kind of nasty but i am trying to nurse it along so we can get everything figured out and figure out what needs to be fixed first who thought a scotch lock was a good idea here i know it was a quick fix but good gracious just do it right try that for now and see if the points work if they don't they might need to be replaced which is fine i just haven't i don't have them at the moment i have to gap the points to 20 000 and the distributor itself is loosened so i can twist it so i'm going to take it and put this plastic piece right on the tip of one of these cones and i've got this screw right there loosened so the points can move so when we've got it right on the tip [Music] put this feeler gauge in there and i'm going to move the points so that they're contacting the cam now when i pull it out [Music] so what we just did was we set how wide these two pieces right there and there separate and that is uh it pulses so there's six points on this shaft and as each point hits this piece on the points it opens and closes them allowing the signal to get sent to each spark plug as it rotates around so now that we've got that gapped we're going to set this to top dead center which the motor is already at top dead center [Music] and the rotor will tell us which spark plug whichever one is pointing at is the number one cylinder all right now that we've got the points gapped this rotor is pointing right to this direction so whatever wire meets up with that is the number one cylinder wire okay we'll put the cap back on okay so i took the wires off and put a wire on each one of the plugs and the way this works is the rotor is currently pointing right at this plug so this is our number one cylinder so what we do so we take the number one cylinder and plug it in there and then you look at the firing order firing order is one five three six two four so we've got one two three four five and six so one five so so this is one and it goes in a counter-clockwise rotation and so then we go one two three four five this is number five so this is the next one that one gets plugged in there three one two three so three gets plugged in there six number six comes over and gets plugged in there two number two [Music] comes over it's plugged in there and four finally gets plugged in right there so all six plugs and we'll tidy this up all six plugs are on the rotor only left to do is the wire that goes to the ignition coil so you take it it goes in the middle plugs in there and then this one goes over and plugs in to the ignition coil right there right in the middle [Music] so that is just the initial setup for ignition aka spark we will adjust where the distributor is at once we get it running and if we can't get it running we'll adjust it before that but um that's how you do it that's why there's a firing order it tells you it tells the distributor which cylinder to fire in what order so that it can run the way it was designed to run and that's really what's important here is where we're at the motor is completely put back together except for the air filter assembly that goes right here got the fan on coolant hoses carburetors on distributors on all the electronics are hooked up got the alternator back on got the oil line to the oil filter up here uh hooked back up and so we're going to clean the air filter and get that back on and then we're going to fill the fluids up and see if she'll start up see what kind of other problems we run into here's the air filter assembly we're going to take it all apart sounds like it's a rattle meaning it's probably got a wonderful mouse nest in it it's got this like heavy contaminant pre-filter canister kind of thing oh yeah oh look at that completely packed mouse nests nasty gross yeah that's gonna need some major cleaning to get that it's just yeah you can see that now this doesn't matter too much once you get all the rust out of there it's not going to hurt anything just kind of nasty all right well this filters shot it had a mouse nest on the inside of it it's kind of rusty and dirty luckily i was able to find a new filter for it locally so that's what's going in there we go one end has a rubber seal on it the other end is flat with like a little pull tab to be able to pull it out [Music] and so seal goes against goes on the outlet side of the air filter and then take this slide it like that just like that new filter so i cleaned up this sediment can pretty well it looks good enough inside only problem is there are a few pinholes you can see there's one there one there one down a couple down here so for now i'm not going to worry about it we'll do something about it later when we get it back to the shop changing the oil and man a ton of water came out right off the bat all right so the plan here is i bought the cheapest oil i could find and we're gonna run it for five minutes on this oil and then we're gonna change it due to all the particles in the cylinders due to just the rust and the nature of everything that this machine's been sitting for so long i don't want all that crap and build up continuously running through the system so we're gonna run it for five minutes kind of get all the sediment into the oil and then we're going to drain it and put in some new oil and a new filter then we're going to run it for a while and then we're going to do that a third time so for now this is a round one so right now it's at full a little above so i want to flush the fuel tank before we go using it for actual fuel so instead i brought my moto iv model one it's patent pending essentially it is a small fuel tank filter i did have a shutoff on it but i stole that put it on old red i need to get another one for it but it'll let us gravity feed a little bit of gas from above because the little clickety-clack fuel pump isn't working so we're gonna use this remember patent pending don't steal the idea and then we're gonna give it a try got the jump and carry hooked up to the battery leads oil coolant both installed let's try the key i haven't even tried the key yet so let's see if the key does anything [Music] yep i got a light [Music] awesome [Applause] awesome well it cranks over and it sounds good starter is working well at least working all right well let's put some fuel to it all right now i've got the fuel line the moto iv hooked up i just don't have fuel in it yet all right we're using non-ethanol gas so that we don't have any problems with fuel all right let's see what this baby's got all right we're in neutral we hopefully have fuel at the carb all right send the juice hey oh baby we got something [Applause] [Music] i think we might have a plugged exhaust so there's a mouse nest right here next to the exhaust here trying to get that out of there [Music] so this little clicky clack inline fuel filter doesn't work and so i've got another one rigged up on the moto iv here and i got the ground on the ground the positive over here to the switched contact on the ignition coil and so when i turn the key clickity clack [Music] so hopefully that fixes our problem [Applause] [Music] [Music] let's try a little uh starting fluid first she's gonna smoke like crazy we're getting her though oh um [Music] check it out here's what was causing the problem in the exhaust pipe why it was smoking so bad there was a monster mud dauber nest in there finally spit it out man those have been the killer of so many machines right there so now when we start it it doesn't smoke like that all right my daughter free all right right now it is only running on full choke all right so a friend lent me his carburetor off of uh combine and we're gonna give it a shot here and uh see if it'll work but actually we aren't nope we're not gonna do that because the bolt holes don't line up on the throttle body son of a [Music] well i'm wondering if i could take the top off this put it on my throttle body put it over there but i don't have mine with me i'm going to set this aside i think the plan now i want to test compression in the cylinders just see where they're at we can do that without the carb and so yeah let's let's do that now all right we're hooked up to cylinder number one see what it's got for compression [Music] all right so on that first cylinder we've got a hundred and thirty thirty five hundred and forty psi in that first cylinder cylinder two here we go so that is one 130. 130 psi in cylinder number two cylinder number three here we go see 130 psi cylinder number four here we go that is about 127 psi we're just gonna call it 125. all right these next two are going to be two of the the bad ones so this is number five we'll see how bad it is here's number five wow 125 psi that is actually mind blowing quite surprised that cylinder is that high six is worse so we'll find out at least at least i think it will be it was the worst of the damage but 125 for cylinder five all right the dreaded six cylinder the one that was all rusty and scored up let's see what kind of compression we got from that one i'm thinking 50 but hopefully more oh wow wow you kidding me it's a hundred 102 let's try it again wow yeah i'm going to call that 100 just a bit over awesome that is actually really really good i am excited i've heard these things can run on as low as 50 psi of compression but i was hoping that you know i had at least that that's double what i thought i need or uh double what i wanted so perfect all right well that's exciting that that says that what we did as far as honing the cylinders cleaning everything out of there the rings are still in good shape they're still making good compression on the cylinder walls and hopefully we don't even have a smoker hopefully the the rings are gonna make a uh good enough seal that it doesn't smoke burn too much oil so wow i'm actually really optimistic now that is so cool last but not least 100 psi so 140 130 130 125 125 100. it'll be fine so here's the seat assembly and looks like somebody had like a little clipboard memo pad on it yep that's going bye-bye so right here below the seat is the choke lever [Music] and i think it's all seized up in there so i'm going to pull that off we're going to take that back to the shop kind of get it cleaned up i am going to need a new seat at some point just rip this piece off there we go there's a choke cable all right i've got the carburetor just out of the ultrasonic cleaner so right in this port right there is called the accelerator pump and this is what this one looks like it happens to be a metal one and it has should have a rod that would clip right in here and this thing was completely seized up in there and it wasn't pumping and so i ended up having to use a left-handed drill bit and soaking it and kind of scraping the walls finally obviously destroyed the inside of it but i need to clean up the walls on that little uh cylinder in there to make room for the new one so i've just got a little rotary sanding attachment that i'm going to put in the drill and we're just going to real gently clean up the walls okay so the main nozzle is right in that hole there and normally with the nozzles and jets in carburetors you have something that looks like this basically a slotted jet that you can basically get a flat head into and take it out and there are special removal tools for those but the the nozzle in here is the opposite it is instead of it looking like this and eating a flat head it it's basically there's a big flat in the middle and two things on the sides so this tool here is for removing valve cores for from uh tires and this is basically the kind of tool i need so i don't have one but we're gonna make one this is a specialty screwdriver for whatever the heck this fits i've never ever used it so it's gonna be perfect just to cut the middle out we're gonna try that all right here's our product there's our tool see if it works just working it back and forth just trying to free the threads up all the corrosion and whatnot that's built up in there over the years every time i force it out a little bit i go back in oh finally geez that's just a plug in front of the main jet see here's what we had to get out basically this had to go on either side of that i messed it up a little bit but i'm not sure if it's a a jet i mean it's obviously got a metered hole in there but i don't know now i think we can get the main jet out there or the main nozzle i guess i'm not sure what this piece is called all right to get this main jet i had to dress down one of my screwdrivers to get it to go in there and fit but it's actually coming pretty pretty easily just kind of working it a little bit finally there we go and there is our main problem i'm betting see how stopped up that thing is i bet you every one of those holes yeah i had to jam a torque bit into it just to get it out of there it was so corroded i think somebody broke a tip cleaner in there interesting it took some doing but i finally got the main jet opened up see you can see light through that okay i picked up a carb kit for it i wanted to get a different one but we're gonna break the seal which means i can't return it so hopefully everything works all right let's put this accelerator pump in this one is silicone instead of it being metal that's what i wanted to get a better uh i wanted to get a different kit that had a metal one but okay here's how the accelerator pump works basically as it goes up and down it just pumps fuel up and out of that little hole right there and this wasn't working that was one problem all right let's see if we can get this thing to work now all right we're ready to go we got the throttle and governor linkages back on carburetor is set up fuel lines connected the battery and our little clicky clack pump there and of course we got the emoto iv model one patent pending ready to rock and roll so fuel on let's uh fire it up see what happens here we go what am i missing oh no we need fuel [Music] [Laughter] filling up with fuel right here and dumping over makes me want to go back to the old [Music] needle [Music] oh come on old girl oh yeah [Music] [Music] yeah no [Music] well it's idling looks like there's still fuel coming out of the venturi in the carb not sure why yes [Music] it's not even smoking that is incredible all right now since the motor is nice and warm and that was the first real good run i'm gonna change the oil we're gonna get all the [Music] stuff out of it all the fine dust and all the junk from sitting and honing those cylinders all right this is the fuel filter it's a canister canister style filter so you take the top cover off got a brand new wix take this old one [Music] so all right i'm putting in diesel oil it's got extra dinosaur bones perfect right at full low on fluid [Music] all right well we're right between add and full i'm gonna leave it there until we get it started so we can check it while it's running most time you check fluid when it's running so right here are the parking brake cables and only this one moves [Music] when i release it this other one doesn't go anywhere so i'm going to soak it with some penetrant see if we can't get it worked in [Music] i've been known to forget oil underneath the machine not this time all right let's see if it'll fire right off i actually removed the fuel pump because i think it might be getting too much here we go all right so right now we got to move a little bit but we've got no breaks let's see if we can get this cap off [Music] [Music] [Music] check it out we moved it [Music] so i am ready to rock and roll home and guess what i'm driving this baby home i don't have brakes but you only kind of need those right on out that way and home [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] all right we got it home without killing anybody including myself so i haven't really messed the hydraulics but as you see this cylinder is already leaking this one has a leak side shift cylinder has a leak i was hoping those weren't going to be leaky but whatever i am much happier to have it here i can work on it better here i got all my tools yeah it's just safer here the motor runs and it drives i mean that's huge so yeah more to come on this old beast i haven't quite figured out a name for it yet but if you got any ideas leave it down in the comments we drove it home how crazy is that with as bad as those cylinders were it's actually mind-blowing that that happened but this machine is so well built i would say this machine probably has better compression now than it did when we tested compression because it's had a chance to run i've changed the oil and the oil filter and gotten a lot of the junk and whatnot out of it but you know we're going to test on that later for now we got it safely home it drove home which means that the transmission at least works okay i haven't really put it under any major test other than driving it uh coming up that hill it was a little bit like it's all it had to get up that that steep part of the hill um on the way home but i mean for a machine that was gonna be scrapped to now be here in running condition is awesome so here's the story of this machine the shop that you saw it at is a project you're going to see on this channel a friend of mine owns it and over the winter we spent about two or three months completely redoing it and we took that whole roof off the back wall fell over we added you know vaulted trusses so that the lifts could get higher new siding all new electrical throughout it well anyway i was down there one day and all of a sudden this machine shows up i didn't see it show up one day it wasn't there i show up next day it's there and so i asked the guy that used that rinse the shop and he basically was like well friend gave it to me it doesn't run and i like to fix it up get it to the point where i can use it here at the shop it'd be nice to have one and so a couple weeks went by and i was like okay cool that's awesome like that's a great purpose for an old machine like this so yeah a couple weeks went by and i went back down there and asked him again what's your plan with it are you still planning to try and fix it or or what's your thing what are you thinking he's like well i don't know if i've got the time to put into it to try and get it running so i think i'm just going to end up scrapping it and i was like whoa whoa whoa whoa what do you want for it what do you think we can get scrap wise i'll pay you for it and so he got it from a friend of his who had it out on farm it sat for quote unquote two years and it very well could be with no spark plugs in it at all outside in the elements with no spark plugs in it mouse infested for two plus years who knows maybe more which is really sad because if you look here i mean as you can tell the motor is not the same color as everything else this may be a replacement motor that's been put in at some point because i mean the machine says that it's got 8178 hours on it but that motor sure doesn't look like it if they left the spark plugs in it nothing would have really been damaged i mean there might be surface rust there might be the plugs might have been stuck in there but at the end of the day having a mouse nest in every single cylinder on top of moisture getting in there is what really caused this thing to have problems and so obviously i am extremely happy to have it extremely happy to have saved it and i don't really know why they took the spark plugs out and didn't put them in most likely it was a deal where they couldn't figure out what was going on i had heard something to the effect of we weren't getting spark and so the distributor collar was cracked when i got to actually pulling it out and so you know maybe that's why it's sat maybe there's also other problems here so this hydraulic cylinder here for the tilt it leaks as you can see the lift cylinder is leaking i was uh kind of disappointed to see that the side shift cylinder leaks and then there's a pretty decent leak of some kind [Music] right here underneath the actual controls for the hydraulics so these are the three controls one of them goes up and down one of them tilts back and forth and the other one here is side shift to be able to move the forks side to side so that is absolutely something i mean all this you see here this is all hydraulic oil that has leaked since i've gotten back so yeah the hydraulic issues are definitely going to be next i need to get those sorted out i don't know how bad the leaks are on the cylinders if it's just a gentle weeping that's one thing if it's completely leaking which i think the lift cylinder is that's got to be gone through the brake situation is that it has none and so that'll be next i want to get brakes going i want to get the parking brake working the high low is not move at all so it's just in high and i want to add a set of gauges i want to have [Music] water temperature volts and engine oil pressure and so i'm not sure if i'm gonna make holes in the dash itself or mount them on a gauge cluster above or below it and honestly after that the transmission assuming it's as good as i think it's going to be that was what i was really worried about i mean after i got the motor working after i had the motor working i mean obviously that's the initial problem but the transmission i didn't have to do anything i filled it up with atf i'm going to do a little bit more work i'm going to see if there's anything else i can adjust or clean or evaluate but it ran really well i mean i didn't have any problems going out of you know forward or reverse and it's just a hydro static transmission where you just push this lever forward neutral is in the middle and reverse and so and there's no clutch probably from the late 70s early 80s there is the basically the details so another thing if you have any access to telling what year this is it's a c5d 95 32 n model or serial the model is the h60c machine weighs 11 000 pounds it lifts to 122 inches and is rated for 7 000 pounds which they always say less than the actual max on this sheet and obviously higher you go the less you can lift that's just common sense so what do you guys think huh what do you guys think huh hi lena [Music] so yeah absolutely exciting i am so pumped to have this thing not only is it going to be a beast but the big reason that i wanted another forklift was because of that right there the air tires this thing can drive on gravel if it's not too wet it could probably even drive through some grass but the ability to drive on a gravel driveway like right there and up my gravel drive is what i've been wanting a big machine like this for because my other one it gets stuck in only a second you get it into that gravel it digs in it's only got ground clearance of like an inch or two and it's just stuck this thing i mean it's got six eight inches of ground clearance and air tires in the front the rear tires are the steer tires they are solid rubber one thing i've thought about doing is if i can find them and if it works out is adding a set of tires on the front to the outside so there's dual wheels in the front and then that would give me even better maneuverability in unstable ground because then i'd have even more flotation with the actual drive tires and so um what are your thoughts on adding those and should i add air tires to the back would it really even do anything would it make any difference i mean right off the bat it's definitely not going to happen unless i find a machine with parts that are used um i'm not going to buy them new i can only imagine they're going to be expensive if i did it but um i have to find a donor machine or if you know of anybody that's got parts for from old forklifts let me know but yeah i am pumped to have it obviously we've got some work to do still i'm going to replace the seat i want to add lights to it front and back so that it can run um at night time and give me good visibility when i'm maneuvering at night and other than that i don't think there's a whole lot more that it needs maybe paint we'll see i've got an idea for that but this thing is going to be awesome working on old red awesome working on other big machines where i've got big monster heavy pieces to lift off or or get moved around so yeah any ideas on the name anybody what do you think we should call it wait thanks scout yes well scout likes it she wants to hang out right here [Music] yeah yeah [Music] yeah you're a good girl yeah good girl scout all right come on good girl yeah come on go go well heck yeah baby we rescued another old monster so thanks for joining me here at salvage workshop and the dogs come here bowdoin they say thanks too all right scout right right no don't jump good dogs

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Id: YbEDHNzc3kg

Length: 54min 51sec (3291 seconds)

Published: Sun May 09 2021