that looks to be a beautiful job you have done, enjoy the fruits of your labours!
Andy, that's cool to me for two reasons in addition to what you've accomplished (well done!): Cat owns Perkins engines, and that emblem on the radiator reminds me of my great-uncle's E29 Fordson tractors (one wheel and one County) that had P6 engines in them
Top job I reckon and despite what a lot of die hard Cat people will say or think the Perkins is much better motor in this size than a Cat ever was
thanks for sharing
Paul
Very nicely done!
I bought a 922b CAT loader that the previous owner had installed a Perkins in. Not sure what the difficulty was, but he had given up and removed all the Perkins bits and I got all the CAT stuff including the headless D320 with a bad crankshaft. It got a D320 industrial and ran a while about 10 years ago. Steering went out and it sat until I am reviving it here lately. So I guess it will have been brought back from the weeds two or three times now!
Great conversion!
Those 3 main-bearing engines were prone to breaking crankshafts when they over revved... By allowing running the old MF165/265/ series tractor downhill and not slowing them down...
Perkins engines is now owned by Cat AFAIK?
That D2 will now be quite perky with all those extra UK-'orses under her bonnet...
The big deal with any Perkins engine was the cost of overhauls: Cheap.
During the late 70's and early 80's under the threatening UN sanctions, an engine manufacturing plant was built here in Atlantis, (near Cape Town), South Africa. Engines were manufactured under license from Perkins and Daimler-Benz, and the engines were referred to as ADE engines (Atlantis Diesel Engines).
We had a Saxby forklift (French made) with a 3-cyl P-144 Perkins engine. We bought the forklift as scrap, and new that we'd have to overhaul the engine soon. Well, long story short, in 1983 the cost of a complete overhaul, with new cyl-head included, worked out to ZARand 1800.00, (equiv of about US$600.00 in those days) and we used only ADE spare parts in it.
The production stopped some time in the early '90s, and the plant carried on manufacturing spare parts for the Perkins and Daimler-Benz engines.
That is well done. What is the HP and torque compared to the Cat engine it replaced? Thanks Jim
Hi There Tractor Doctor
not sure what the torque output is but the hp is around 60 as far as I can tell from searching around
Andy
Hi Andy
Great job, well done.
Makes us want to get started on our 22!
Trish
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