Saving a D2 5U

[ianoz]

That's interesting, because I know it cost $500 just to have the local Engineer (Joe's brother Mick) come over, measure everything and cut the hole, you have to remember Joe doesn't own a computer or cell phone, and has never heard of ACMOC, so a lot of times like fitting a starter to a D2 it's a matter of starting from scratch, he doesn't have access to the wealth of experience you folks can offer.
regards
Mike

So Mike , Why didn't you have a laptop with you, to show Joe the magic of forums ?

[Mike Meyer]

So Mike , Why didn't you have a laptop with you, to show Joe the magic of forums ?

Hi Ian, you are talking to a guy who quit using cell phones in 2002 after 20 years of using them 24/7, because I wanted to get stuff done in a day, and not spend all day shooting the breeze with buddies who seem to have time to burn, so no, I don't have a laptop and never will, even though we have four in the house already, my work environment around greasy, rusty, heavy old Cats isn't a safe place for a delicate little puter, I have a habit of stepping on things!
regards
Mike

[callan]

Yes, every day as we were gas axing rusted parts or arc welding and molten steel would be falling all around us, I'd say, "now Boss, tell me again how you got through life with all ten toes, you must step on red hot steel every day?", Joe would reply, "I'm not the Boss, your'e the Boss, your'e the fella paying the bill, anyways, you just gotta watch where you put your feet, that's all"! I said to him one day, "Hey Joe, when you are clearing 100 foot high rain forest with that D8, what happens when a deadly Taipan snake comes flying out of the falling branches and lands in the cockpit with you trying to take a bite out of those pretty toes?" "Well, I always carry a 2 foot long sugar cane knife in my Cats Mike, and as soon as the mongrel snakes hits the plates I grab me knife and off with his head"! All this while negotiating often near vertical hills too step for the D8H to reverse up under it's own traction.

I added a few more schnapps of Joe in his day to day Workplace Safety Gear, I'm sure the Cat. Inc. Lawyers and Insurers will faint when they see Joe heating up a bearing reading for fitting to my D2, on his toy, the D8H, he has a D7 too, and working on a D2 3J fitting aftermarket 24 volt electric starter and alternator.
regards
Mike

watching joe kick a lump of steel out of the way one day with his bare foot made me shiver with pain !
i"m sure the steel had a dent in it from joes toenails ! haha.

[callan]

brilliant job by the way mike,

I had the chance of seeing this d2 before the pulldown and seeing it in the photos now is just incredible.
allot of hard work in between snaps is always the other parts mates you show the photos to cant comprehend.

[Old Magnet]

If you want to get the correct scoop on Zenith TU pony carbs. get a copy of this manual. It will tell you things Cat didn't even know or care to tell.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zenith-TU-Cr...item53ec292b3a

I'm so sick of hearing about these carbs that I rarely respond anymore. Kind of wonder how some folks even keep a lawn mower going.

Here is a bunch of photos on the topic, don't know for sure who provided them but I was thinking it was "kidnevada"????

[Old Magnet]

Couple more pics: