Marcoten-

Find the story on the TD 18x2 at:
kingofobsolete.ca/V12_GMC_KoO_WEBSITE.htm
kingofobsolete.ca/TD-18X2_WEBPAGE.htm

CS

Leuk fotojes daar! (Nice photos there) Marcoten! Hier eindigd mijn Nederlands...
(At least you write my name the proper Dutch way, and you'll also pronounce it properly!)

It actually makes sense: Perkins in a Cat, as Cat own Perkins...

27 years ago we bought a SAXBY forklift from a scrap dealer with 3 cyl P144 (144cu in) Perkins, double wheels at front, and a manual gearbox (H/L, F/R) for use on our apple farm. The Perkins in the Saxby was the same as the one in your 15! (Saxby was/is a French manufacturer?)
Don't ask me how I remember that!

Apart from the gearbox and running gear, we overhauled/replaced just about everything else on it over the next 2 years: Electricals, hydraulics, then the clutch went north, and eventually the engine was overhauled: cracked cyl head. I could load a 1 ton (3bulk bins) of apples at an idle on her, as we overspecked the hydraulic pump.
Every time I hear a 3 cyl Perkins motor, I'm reminded of that forklift!
Now I'd also recall a Cat 15 purring the Perkins way!

Dewets-"clutch went north"...sounds funny, but I guess it makes sense-here in the US, mechanical things "go south" when they die...)

ronm
If stuff does "south" from here, they end up in Antarctica and become part of the melting ice cap, so you'll never see them again, or able to "fix-em-up" again!

With it going north, it can only warm up on its travels, and maybe before it reaches the GWN of King of Obsolescence, it will return southward again to be fixed up, or thrown out...

latest pic of the perkins conversion

Here is a diesel-conversion found in Jim Zimmerman's salvage yard at Orchard, Iowa, a few days ago (Monday, April 14, 2008). You will note that someone had removed the gasoline motor from the Sixty, and replaced it with a diesel engine from an RD7 or D7. Also replaced was the radiator, and note the "elephant ears" dashboard that was imported with the motor.

Here are some photos taken in poor light of my diesel-conversion Sixty that Jim Zimmerman recently refurbished. It was a sea of mud outside, so I did not take the newly painted tractor out into the daylight to take photos. However, if you squint hard enough, you can probably make out some of the major features of the tractor.