Hey, Whats up Guys? Thanks for watching this video. I am sure tired of workin on this engine hahaha when you're finished watching this one go check out the will it start adventure of Marla the 1985 Aerodyne cabover kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJuUmJx13ajclps.html

You crack me up James, you don’t wanna get squished by a bc Cummins but a Cat might be ok…LOL!

Great video James, hang in there it's just going to get better!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

I had a 335 big cam. They can be set all kind of ways.

You can always tell a GOOD engine shop...Never enough room nor time to clean it up...always an engine or truck to work on...The best shop I ever worked in, only had walking room between the engines. OUTSTANDING

😊😊If you did get squashed by a Cummins at least you would leave this world doing something you love!! Please don't though, the thought of no James Pretty Channel is too frightening to contemplate .Cheers, Bob

Good to see you again good luck with the trucks

She’s gonna go James , it will run on sheer determination, great video and learned smiting new again ! Thank you 👍🇨🇦

THE BREAKER BAR !!!!

I use the brake parts cleaner off the shelf from Walmart. The Supretech stuff works good. I'm with you about working under a motor hanging from a chain like that. That'd be a NOPE! not gonna happen.

Great video James your getting closer to see if it will run. Looking forward to your next video stay safe James.

You could try 24 volt lol, there’s no truck electronics to mess up. You’ve became one of my favorite channels. I greatly respect your care and tenacity. Someday you’ll have 200k, you sure deserve it.

41:55 Git yer workout on! Woo-hoo, haha good vid m8 - hope u get it sorted it soon!

Cummins engines was also used by foden and ERF here in the UK up until 2006 . Foden was also a big Caterpillar engine user as well ...

Morning JP ! It's a pleasant 55deg in beautiful Montana ! You have a really nice shop but I'm thinkin maybe you have way to much stuff. You're only the second person I've ever heard use the term "dinkin around". I'll say one thing for you though. When it comes to working on these projects you keep at it , and you're not afraid to tackle any job. I guess tenacious is the word that best describes your work ethic !

An exploded parts book is your friend. Take care.

Damn Cummins universal OEM parts

All that trouble to get out that fancy mat, just to lay on the box, ha.

Good video James! You figured out u r engine locked up problem! I photocopied the valve n injector sequence from my Cummins manual n put it in a document protector to keep it clean. Used a lumber crayon to mark valve/injectors that I had set. No mixups that way!

Belle vidéo 👌 😉. Une sacrée connaissance en mécanique et Bcp de patience. Respect 😉 👌

Good luck James at least you know it’s not froze up that’s part of the battle have a great day we’re looking forward to seeing episode two

Well at least you found out what happened to this engine seems fixable ...

ya the cats are cool but really as a old school trucker the only ones that had cats back then where owner ops it seemed otherwise it was 350 cummins or detroits or the hand me down 400 cummins that where soon to head for auction

Check your bell housing alignment too.

Sooner or later it’ll run. I’m with you on working on engines hanging on chains too dangerous. Could you see the headline man dies by 365 Cummins news at 11. Also with hope I pass peacefully while sleeping in my bed somewhere just peacefully please. Don’t think I’d take a chance on cobbling the oil line either. Stay safe

Good luck with getting the Cummings engine started

Hi James & Jessica. I bin wactchin your stuff. Twin stick. The Detroit guys & it makes me feel I need to get over but in reality I’m dreaming if I ever come into money ie lotto. Il b over there as quick as. In mean time in the real world I’m going to watch all the stuff reagards Les 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️👍🇬🇧

James, I ain't no go to guy... what worked for me was ignorance. I just kept trying till things worked and that was that. I did have to use the spacer on the starters for sure. I was told so did it that way every time possible as some things are just never in your favor... I was told to dial indicate the flywheel when installing and it did make a difference.. I was real surprised at how much it did make to have it done that way but that said, the few I didn't do that ... they ran out great. I used to have a air starter for the shop as its easier to drag a airline than batteries. And then here comes story time.. I built a 350 and had it ready to install in a rig when time came to need one. It sat on a stand for most probably three or four months. Guess what... locked up tighter than dicks hat band! Old guy came over laughing at me frustrated thinking I did something bad wrong putting it together. He told me that even engines that have ran a bit which I did start them after building one, he told me that everything is tight on a fresh engine so they do stick if sat for a bit. Best to go over and just turn it over every now an then.... he said that after they were well broke in, it didn't happen as often but if still fairly new, they will still stick... after worn in good, they don't tend to stick. Clearances are greater after worn a hundred thousand miles. Back to those flywheels, I seen them run out a quite a bit even though tightened proper an not over tightened. Just recently my boy changed the tire on his shit pile ranger... a hundred dollar get you there maybe truck.. he just walked that rim on going in a perfect circle, I know thats not what you did on the flywheel, anyway I told him to just loosen it back up and do it right... well he said hell its fine so off to walmart for watermelon an some cookies for me. (hell of a sweet tooth in my old age) That front end on the shit pile shook me in my seat but he is damn near sixty now so its one of those he knows best things... I jacked the damn thing up and turned the wheel with him looking at it... .he said its bent... I tightened it right an it turned just fine... did he learn anything??? I would put dollars against dog crap he never... and his job is building huge convery and overhead cranes,, stuff like that including he was the lead on the harley shop in Minnesota... he ain't no dummy but he sure can try me... I do have a funny story about my age and birth certificate.... takes a bit to tell but might explain the age of my boy compared to my age/LOL

Nice job

Solid motors for sure and pretty dependable but I have to say, the sound of the Cat motors... there's that low frequency burbble when they first belch to life lol Great sounding motors and equally as time tested and true as the Big Cam 400's and 350's. All cool. :-)

Good video again my friend I cannot blame you not wanting to get under The motor when it is chained up be safe is always a good job to do and you will get it Runing you are a good mechanic my friend and my copperhead snake bit is getting better Man I tell you what my friend that hurt when that snake bit me my arm look like The Incredible Hulk I was going racing this weekend but I don’t think so now my right arm I can’t hardly move it but I will make it thank God be safe keep up the hard work

That funny your working on that Cummins the other my buddy Pete came over the other day and readjusted the rack on my small cam 400 that's in my pete thats on my channel he said you did good with tools I got cause ever single valve just need a 1/4 turn tighter and he adjust the injectors in the down or fire position cause he said sometimes the cam lobes are not always the same

I get a kick how you name all your equipment and trucks old lady names probably somebody You once knew Way you work you don't even need to go to a gym everything you do is hard work my hats off to you thanks for the videos always cool

Great to see another sweet video from my hero

Thank You for this “training” Video !! H.

It's a 3headed monster ,I would part it out ,seen to many bad uppercounterbores and uneven decks ,junk the pile

Man that motor is huge, I need a forklift and a shop like you lol.

Hey James, pull the injectors out and put in some Marvel Mystery Oil. Let it sit a day or so then try cranking it over.

Love those old cab overs. There are 2 or 3 of those kw setting going to rot at a old grocery store that I drive by plus a freightliner cab over graveyard

Right on bubba hope it’s running now! U think having that rocker cover sitting all weird in the engine is safe to try nd turn it over

Don't just wish all of them starters are that easy to put in

Looks like that motor sat outside for quite a while....

That's weird never seen anything like that

Do a good job james

Can't wait for the next episode now I can't figure out or I didn't hear what caused it to lock up when you put the new starter in your head to have the Is fly wheel in again

Sup James pretty doing with all these your beautiful machines on wheels and I like the names of the semi trucks it perterbilt mike and tiwn stick grange and old stork 12 Dave trucker lounge and I do know a KZfaq that goes to salvage semi truck for parts dude

love the videos

Just think James, how fast you would have all these classics up and running smoothly if you could actually work as fast as in the time lapse sequences, ha ha.

Northing worse than an engine that just keeps giving grief! she'll run good by the end of it though!

U have forklift.. stand it up on bellhousing.. have to throw blocks under head or rocker box so it will sit..

James you may have a 15 1/2 inch flywheel in a flywheel housing that is set up for a fourteen inch flywheel. Also did you dial in your flywheel housing? Best of luck to you. Love your videos.

happy happy 4th be good dont blow any fingers off lol lol. ohio V

Hi

What's up

May have to much end play in crank

I never heard of a 365, Heard of a 290, 350, 400 and 475, (400 with twin turbos) in a 855 configuration but never heard of a 365.

It must be bent

👍👍

Are you going to rebuild the cat engine n put it back in the freightliner conventional

Ya it will run with lots of money

Hey James I know you fly Commercial airplanes but do you know how to work on The Engines

Hi I sale 1985 Kenworth k 100 cat 3406 b engine starting good . Project truck . 15.000 truck in New Jersey.

hi james is that a big cam 3 400 ? mine is is the big 1 400 purs like a kitten , the engine has 75,000 the truck its selfhas a million and a half

Get yourself a good set ok knee pads and wear them. When you get older you will be thankful you did.

have you thought a bout getting a young fella to train working on these engines?? it will become a lost art if someone doeslt learn..

It was junk when it was new.

Didn’t show valve adjustment 🤦‍♂️

i drove in the 70s and 80s and that motor never failed me only once in nebraska and it wasnt engines fault it was the fuel pump dyed at 600,000 miles.but back then I had a good old lifer mechanic at shop that probaly did things i didnt see in my hometime.jour company had almost 200 trucks most international transtars one long nosed pete black.3 ford short noses 5 359 petes 10 362s pete cabovers plainjaners and the new batch of whites.ya whites.cabovers i asked my boss why are you buying these white cabovers he said they cheap and if in a accident cheap to fix recab new frame whatever.i found out the hard way that was so true.I dont like to talk about it but my friend my trainer my best friend that cared about people dyed in one 2 weeks from retirement in 1987.ill never forget it.one day at shop he stopped me on my way to the 359 and he said look!.see that brand new white leaving yard? I said ya he said thats the truck your friend dyed in its just a new frame and cab its just buisness as he was hanging his arm over my right shoulder.when he said that i spun around threw his arm away from me and ran to my car and just cryed.i left trucking that day never to return but i still love trucks/my best friend drove for that ahole for 35 years and never got to relax he was pushed 12 14 hours a day lie on logs.his acciedent wasnt even his fault a long nosed pete him head on as he crested a hill.the guy in the pete hit him head on fell asleep crossed down through ditch and as my friend crested hill bam.no match their