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The one thing I will dog my beloved Caterpillar's on, their lovely front and rear structures.

Brakesavers are nice though. They take a little to keep sealed up but they're sure nice to have, I enjoy having mine on my tractor I pull a lowboy with.

 

I should never have seen this. That's gonna cost me a pretty penny and take up space in my shop for a while once I am to the point in my life where I've got play money in that volume. Motor would look good in a old cleaned up C5 or LW Kenworth.

 

What is a wjac?

 

Been a while since I was looking right at the Brakesaver under there. I tried thinking back and had about a paragraph written out, but wasn't sure if I was remembering right exactly, and I don't want to give out bad information.

A few old boys told me though when I asked them about it, they'll leak about anywhere there's an o-ring or a gasket.

 

I got mine completely overhauled last year. Anywhere where there is an 0 ring it can leak. The control module under the brakesaver, the big oil pipes to the oil cooler, the big oil pipes to the brakesaver from the engine block. It's not that hard to reseal them with new CAT O rings and Loctite 515 or 518 and the parts book/engine manual. You can get all the info/part numbers from CAT website also.

 

Anyone have a pic of how the radiator mounts on these older KW's? Going to look at a 1966 W921 Tomorrow. And its going to have to have motor, trans and Radiator on it.

Its easy done, along with being done every week. How do you think these guys take a 220" Wheelbase tractor and turn them into a 300"+ Wheelbase? They cut the frame add rail material. Then weld it up and there you have just done the same thing as fixing a cracked frame. Now they don't want Bubba welding up his cracked frame. And not doing it right, but frames are cut welded every day.
Pete