Where is everyone #5

I've been there when one was being run. Lol....I gotta hand it to the engineers of the late 60's to the mid 70's. They were some sharp sobs.

All the gear train is in the back on a 1693, and it's a quill drive setup. I bet if you got it outta time, you'd have to turn it about 5 million times till you got it lined up or just disassemble the dam thing and start over, lol.

Alot of today's wrenches would be confuses as a baby racoon trying to work on one of them 1693.

 

I need to get a gauge in here. That’s one gauge this truck didn’t have from the factory and I’ve never added one. I need to add that to the growing list of stuff I need to do. Lol.

 

Industrial side they were D343's. I have always wondered why CAT didn't improve upon that design, but instead chose to go back to a push tube engine.

 

Find an old old D9 or 988 with a 1693 (D343) loader @SAR ....like 60's/70's era machine.

Edit: I mean no insult to anyone that considers those machines NOT old, lol

 

Good save lol

 

I've always wondered that myself. I love a 3406, but I wished they woulda done something with that big 1693. Hell, they went as far as making a 3408E.

 

You know a 3408 with a set twins, and 3421's firing em makes a real distinct sound as it rides by you in the hammer lane coming up Tiger mountain.

 

@Logan76 hows that truck running this morning?

 

Speaking of 988's there is one carrying an 8300 John Deere. Dad was pretty serious that day

 

Well you got me thinking @ShooterK2 .

Years ago i had a 96 IH9300 just like logans, but blue. It had a N14 celect 1844 cpl. Just a celect motor.

One day it developed a slight roughness, kind of a miss. I got to messing around with it and could not figure it out. Put injectors in it, no change. Checked and ohmed all my wiring out, all was good. Found 1 pass through injector plug cracked, changes it still no change though.

A guy said it might be ECM and to check it out or swap it. Well, for some reason he tapped on the bottom of the ECM while it was running with a small hammer and it instantly went to running smooth for a little bit. Then it started acting rougher than before. Tap on it again, it would come out of it. It was very weird, but it ended up needing a ECM. Truck only had around 700,000 original miles on it.

Have you tried a different ECM just for ####s?