Warren, after watching this I got 2 steel 5/8 plates, 4 -1" grade 8 ready rods and a 20 ton multi position hydraulic jack and made a kick ass pin press for $250.00 Works like a hot damn !

Am I the only one who hits the “like” button before watching Warren in action?

Western , I enjoy your videos I've been a heavy equipment mechanic for 30 years now and basically enjoy the trade. You have the true craftsmanship ability to make your videos interesting to watch. And we can always learn from each other. Thanks

I love watching a artist at work. You use your skills and tools like a great artist. Thank you for the great videos.

As a rookie trying to get a good foothold in the field I just wanted to share my appreciation for what you do here. It really helps me out

Im constantly amazed by your knowledge and skill in repairing this machines and others I’ve watched you fix. Keep up the videos and help us all learn more even if we don’t have the skills to actually do it.

Your skills and perseverance continue to amaze me. You are the perfect example of "work hard - but smart".

Your videos are super helpful. I'm pretty new to this industry, and just recently started in the field. Seeing how to get things done without all the "perfect tools for the job" is exactly what I need! Thanks

Warren, I really enjoy watching your video's . I'm a back yard mechanic , and I love the way you figure out how to get a 2 person job done with just yourself . I work similar. Please continue your video's. They are the best way to teach someone.

Hello Warren. I used to do a lot of track splits and removing a link and putting on new or second hand stuff on dozers excavators track shovels and drag lines. I was shown by an old guy what to do on your own, measure roughly from track plate to bottom of pin nearest track pad, Usually 1.5 inch to 2 inch, get a bit of strong box that thickness and few inches wide, and weld a good strong piece of angle iron to it, so when its laid flat it looks like a house with a pitch roof, tack that with a few bits of weld in line with master pin and it holds the bar for you good and solid. plus its a guide to get old or new pin to reassemble track. just grind off when done and put back in truck for next time. I made three for when I used to split various types of carriage. hope this helps. "keep on keeping on" Warren. top man !!!

Warren all I can say your one hard working tough son of a gun. I'm just like you Warren and we are the same age . I enjoy showing the youngest that I work with. That I can run Circles around them. I work smarter not harder. Lol Great video Warren

Warren you give great hope that hard working people are not a thing of the past. While I am nowhere close to your mechanical abilities I have learned many things from your videos. God Bless!

That yoke has been welded in the past, the idler bearings went out and let the wheel move back far enough it wore a hole in the end of it, at least that’s what it looks like because the exact thing happened to our jd 450h a few years ago but I used the correct welding rods for cast iron and we haven’t had any problems so far....great work getting that pin out by your self!

Love these videos. I am battling to repair a International TD9. Being an Aircraft Mechanic on big jets this all new to me. The more I watch these videos the more confident I will fix this POS. I have too much in it now to walk away. Besides I like a challenge in the Workshop Paddock.

You can tell a proper heavy duty mechanic by the sound of impact when a swing press is involved

You know how many times I said I wish I had a pin press doing that job lol! Nice job thanks for sharing have a good weekend bud colder than shit here this morning sitting in the service trk warming up watching your video while batteries are charging up on this loader 👍

Love you videos mate, was doing that 35 years ago. Hard graft. Total respect to you pal

great video to watch for a novice like me,my mechanic is sick so I have to repair adjuster my self,your easy going language made it easy for me to understand.

Somewhat envious of your office there, it's quite beautiful and scenic. I'm in a cold dark warehouse in downtown Fort Worth, where all I see is other warehouses.

BIN THERE BUDDY! I was heavy equipment mechanic 30 years now to old sit and watch you young guys do it on youtube good luck.

Awesome man! Very smart. I'm a heavy equipment mechanic myself and i work alone and have to figure these types of methods out all the time it's what separates the men from the boys. I'm getting ready to do sprockets and tensioner reseals on 2 cat 311s and i will use the rail road tie punch holder method for sure now. TY

I am impressed. It usually takes two people to drive a pin out.I took a 10 Lb hammer and welded a piece of steel like you was using to drive with.It worked good to knock pins out.

Thanks for sharing again Warren. You for sure earned your keep on that one. Not that you don't on any thing else you do. Have a great weekend bud.

If there is a will there is a way! A saying I live by! Nice work Warren! Love all of the videos!

Like the way Daisy comes in and out of shot, looks like she's security and keeping the area safe.

Recently worked on my first dozer with a modern joining link.Felt like i'd won the lottery!What a whole different world :D Also, a trick for those not wanting to spend on a new track tensioner,there are alternatives It's easy to pull the track to the right tension using other methods.A jack for example. Then make up a spacer that fits over the old adjuster piston.A suitable sized steel pipe sliced in two works well.Put some clamps around it to keep it in place.So long as its resting against strong parts each end it works great.

I've used liquid propane out of a forklift tank to freeze pins and bearing races.

When i was workuing as a saw mill engineer ,we had repurposed bull dozer tracks as conveyors to bring the logs into the mill . They were very old worn out tracks minus the plates. If a pin broke or the chain needed separating to fix something else,I made a tensioner to pull the links together,using a comealong. this would relive the weight on the pin I wanted to remove .I made a jig to fit on the chains that held a portopower ram with a selection of pins made from car axles turned down to suit. It made splitting the chain very easy and we weren't allowed to use the hot wrench because of fire risk.

i learn lost from how you do things by your self. keep up the good work.

That was fun to watch.... That electronics and CAN stuff is interesting, but this nuts, bolts, and heavy parts diagnostics is great to watch. Thanks for sharing.👍👍👍👍👍

I had a 450G and the chain had a master link, like the alligator you were talking about. I had a friend that worked for the railroad track maintenance dep. This guy gave me a RR drive hammer. This looked like a pick ax, with two harden steel drive pins for ends. One end was flat for hitting with a sledge, the other end was like a punch. One guy would hold the RR hammer while the other guy would smack the hell out of it. I bet you could rig something for one guy to use it. Nice work my friend.

I'm not the only one to hit the like button cause I know I'll learn something new he's such a great great mechanic

Your videos make my day!

And thanks for the lead to David Haley. Pretty good video there!

I remember having to remove the master pin from an old Case 450B more than once. Trouble was, it made it start to slowly wobble out by itself under use. Had to tack weld it to keep it in place then have to grind out the weld when once again needed to drive it. I remember reading about the new machines with the "Alligator" master links and thinking what a great idea that was.

I just wish this guy lived in south alabama as I would feel fine about him working on my international TD15b dozer. What awesome videos!!

New sub here David Haley sent me over . Good to see a working man !!!

Great video, I like your comment "the things you have to work out when you are by yourself". How true that is young man! As a self employed farm repair/welding type of chap I can relate to what you are saying.

Looks good warren. In my jd book it suggests putting the master pin in between the rear sprocket. Holds it to get more force on the pin. That’s how I did it on my 450c

I just had to do this to my td9h i am lucky to have the alligator type instead of pin punching nice job thanks for sharing

Back I the day me and my brother were working on pounding out a track pin on an old JD 450. I smacked the pin and a chunk broke off and flew out cutting out a chunk of my brothers lip! Crazy!

youre getting pretty popular, congratz. It's funny in a couple of days im gonna be doing the same job, thanks for the instruction

Warren, I have a bad memory of helping my dad on a old slide bar d-eight cat. We were using a sledge like you were and a track hammer with the long snout to drive railroad spikes in. Well the short story is dad swinging the sledge and me holding the snout end against the pin so dad could hit my hammer. I thought that was a good deal cause holding another pin and getting hit was on my mind. We were shorting the track so it come time to drive the pin back in... way back in the woods. Dad swung and I told him one more for good measure! So he did and I hollered ow. Dads looking at me an asks are you hurt and at the moment, I didn't think so. I felt my face, arms, sides, on down I went and when I bent over, I felt it again. My ankle was kinda burning so we peeled off my cork boot and looked and there was a pool of blood in my boot and we looked at my foot then I could start to feel it in my ankle, a piece off one of the hammer heads chipped off and went through my boot so slick that you were hard pressed to find it. I had to go to the hospital to find it and they thought they did as the piece was substantial. We didn't xray it at that band aid station. there was a second piece in there and I was walking on it but limping and it was still bleeding. I wasn't but ten or eleven then. So dad runs me by the doctors place and he never had no xray machine so he dug for it and that did hurt. It cut the cartilage in my ankle and left it bumed up

Good work, we used to farm in our area with direct transmission Cats wish I had a nickel for all the swings I've taken at a master pin. Thought we died and went to heaven when the alligator links came out. Still have 60s era D6 in running order. Don't think anyone at the Local Cat dealership would know how to work on one. Enjoy your work.

Good looking little dozer.

Some day when I get the time, I have every intention of taking a vacation, just to come out to you and work with you for a few days, for free of course

Was thinking about how super careful you must be while working on heavy equipment without someone to get help were you to get trapped or injured! You'd be strictly on your own

Like Duke and Daisy I like the service calls a bit more. Thanks.

What ya need a hydraulic pin press for? You have got yourself a genuine vintage pin punch right there.

# 1 / track fun Yha ! ,oh ? Watch out don't get pinched or worse , good job ,you make it look easy ,thanks i'll watch this & see how its done .

Another awesome video, Warren. If I may make a suggestion, I noticed the track moved sideways with every blow from hammer. If you put a block of wood between the track and frame, it'll keep the track from bouncing so much, and you may not have to reset the punch every swing. Just a thought. Still enjoyed video!!

Dang workout for sure, we made a press to install them at the scrap yard. Couple times my buddy said just torch the whole thing. Lol . Warren you must have one hell of a long drive playing golf. 🤔

G'day thank you for telling me about David Haley mate.

Couple old guys do cat repair where I live. If didn't have a gator they would unbolt pad take torch and cut link right through center web. When done bolt pad on tack weld remove pad and weld up. First time I saw them do this to one of mine I thought they were crazy but it works great I got use to it. Never had an issue. They were real deal had presses but didn't like to use them.

For next time, cut a "v" notch on the side of the top block so the driving pin you are hitting sits in the notch, and the block should stay in place better allowing more hits before having to reset the driving pin.

Been there done that I have also took final drives apart with heat and a hammer. You have to do what you have to do when you are in the field and don't have the tools. 👍

Honest days work right their

That's a cute little dozer, wish I had it for my little place.

Awesome video. Good job.

I tell you they are some lovely presses out there

Another great video warren. Those pins are always easier to beat out over the sprocket.

Warren, I love your "Can Do" attitude. You're one hard workin' sumbitch! I love that "custom" exhaust on that thing lol.

Done the same on several JD 350's and a 450. Never easy. I do the pin whacking in the sprocket area though.

Warren, there could be a piston up that tube as well in that yolk tube probably about 3” long with pressure seals on it to adjust the tracks , (not real sure on this model though) which buts up to that adjuster rod sticking out of the recoil spring

Well done swinging that hammer the blocks to hold the punch in place is a good idea.

Another good video Warren. Can you show reassembly please.👍

That wasn't to bad to get out. I like your idea to hold the bar. I'm going to look a round my area for a track press. I can make one In my shop I have a cad drawing I made for a 50 ton a couple years ago.

The joys of working by yourself.

Knew an ol boy who used to do just what your doing !! splitting the tracks !! all you need is a golfball size bit of gelignite , light the fuse ,stand back BANG !! never failed , pin used to come straight out , no smashing shit out of it , just BANG , job done , and you had to stand well back !!!!!

old school tanker style! i like it!

Warren, I too have been looking for a track press. How about we go half's on it. You can just bring it to me when I need it 😁

I think you are suppose to position the master pin at the rear sprocket at about 8 o'clock and also remove the track pads on each side of the master pin. This gives access and gives rigidity while driving the pin.

Clever . Keeps the hammer from flying too far as well.

Warren sure wish you were in Oklahoma, i could use your talents and skill. Thank s for the video..

all us subscribers should start a fund and buy this man a pin press

You've done this before. Bravo

the very first time i seen a hydraulic press was when our mechanic at the coal company i was working at borrowed it to break the track on the Fiat-Allis 31 i was running then. boy i thought i was in heaven that day. as i thought i was gonna have to break the track the way we had done on the D-9G, and the Komatsu -355's. a BO-with a 20 lb swing press-lol worst pin i ever had to sledge back in-was when i made the mistake of leaving the pin in my pickup cab in the heat in the wintertime. mechanic had sent me to town to get a new one, when i got back , boy did i get a chewing out for leaving the pin in the cab, with heat. one of the worse pins to drive in i ever saw-of course i did all the swinging too. mechanic said that will teach me for leaving it in heated cab for 40 miles in the wintertime. boy he was right. we heated it with a rose bud-ended up mushrooming the head from beating on it so long. pretty much ruined the end of pin. but it ran a long time like that. great video-thanks!

i just watched that video about camp fire paradise c.a. that is some scary shit. especially from a firefighters view .the loss of life was terrible. i used to use drill chill to cool bearing races .

Taking a little frustration out I see lol... That's awesome :-)

Dry Ice and Rubbing Alcohol are colder, last longer, and can cover the pin better. Use to use this putting milk bottle pins in aircraft wings.

Three years ago had a customer call about track tensioner leaking on his old Samsung excavator. I went out, split the track, resealed and reinstalled the tensioner, and reconnected the track only to find grease still escaping past the seal. That's when I noticed the track was worn so far that the idler yoke was almost out of the front of the guide in the tack frame. The grease was escaping because the tensioner rod was being pushed past the seals. Cut two links out of both tracks and the problem was solved. Tried to talk him into new rails, but he said he'd worry about it went they fell right off. Last spring he blew a line which sprayed the exhaust manifold and turbo with hot hydraulic oil, caught fire and burned the machine to the ground. I couldn't argue when he proudly told me those old rails outlasted the machine.

We had to do that one are old cat D7 cable blade couple of times to replace too and bottom rollers

Dave Haley made a video thanking you.

People that sit on equipment for a long time and think it appreciates really puzzle me..... I sold motor-coaches for MCI and Prevost. They are a good asset to a point. As engineering changes how efficient machines have become old is old. They certainly can work well for low demand.

Did the just get the piston assembly welded up again? Or just find a used one to replace it with? I wouldve been inclined to try and weld it once it was cleaned.

i put a smaller pin in and a little weld front and back works great just grind the weld of and slide pin out

Can you steam clean the tensioner and weld the end piece back in place ?

Sir on your side. Love your work and grateful you take the time to put yourself out there. But honesty is great in your work with customer. You need to be carefull on given too much info on somethings. Not your fault, but can and will come back to bite you. You are too good of a worker and caring, others will take advantages and will burn you cause they can. Please give all the teaching and advise, you can. Just don't give away too much. Keep personal info on your customers to you. I know its hard just think more. Love your work and care about you as a person working and doing good. Just don't want to see unnecessary crap happen. Over a misspoke or too much info let out. Be you but be careful.

I need to do this to my old case 850. Show me the pin install!!!

Warren I had question older farm tractor not sure of his model the rear hitch does not want to go up and dnow could it be sticking valve s in valve body.

Been here done that. Thankful it is not -20 with snow on the ground. I sweat just watching.

Hardest working guy on KZfaq

You motivate me.

At least that punch holder doesn't flinch

Yep, done this many times!

Ok Warren... You're a talent enough guy, make your own pin press😎 Put your fabrication skills to work 😁 Of course, if you are anything like me, you're too busy to get around to it.... But if you get it drawn up in your head, you can always work on it here and there 😎

Hi Warren, did not see an update on trouble is he ok after going to the vet with the cut leg.

Hey thanks for all your video man specially the 7.3L powertroke . Question! ...Would you rebuild my Cummins N14 on my Western Star ???

good mechanic

I would mail you my press but it's the same make and model yours is. In those older days I would rather pull the motor, rebuild cylinders, wash them, anything rather than bust the tracks. It's like splitting fire wood, you always knew your going to be one tired SOB after that day was done.