No photos today... I brought the camera, and left the memory sticks at home...

Dur.

Fortunately I was on the road getting parts for the engine today.

Tomorrow I have to go in briefly and will post pictures then.

Sorry.

Carl - Here you go .. details from the engine sales brochure dated around 1941 .. the D17000 is the only Cat engine, never to have been used to power an item of Cat equipment.

The D17000's were used as stationary power units, marine engines, supplied as gensets, and quite a few were sold as prime motive power for small locos and switchers.

LeTourneau produced a small number of his famous Tournapulls (the Model A) powered by the D17000 engine, between 1938 and 1940. Only about 10 of these machines appear to have been produced.

The famous Aussie 8R series "V8 D8" features on a YouTube video. This is the WW2 D8 that has been repowered with a D17000, and which provided a crowd-pleasing spectacle at the Toowoomba Heritage Days Show, in Queensland, Australia, in 2006 ..
The famous Mr Deas Plant, also features in this clip - he's the bloke in the blue shirt, ably assisting on the elevating grader ..

Thanks for the diagrams!

Hi, Folks.
As I understand it, the D17000 diesel was the first engine that Cat made without a specific application. It was designed and built as a power source for whoever and whatever could find a use for it. They sure did find their way into a LOTTA different places and applications.

My understanding was Cat put the D17000 into early RD8s...

True?

Myth?

Here’s the real McCoy. Power for a 1920 Page Dragline Model 222

D17000
Kelly

Kelly - That ole Page Dragline must have had a later re-power, because the D17000 wasn't released until 1935. The last D17000 was produced in 1955 ..

I read or was told (CRS) That this power plant was detuned ?
Due to crankshaft twisting , because of lenght and space between jornunals
any merit to this tail?

"OzDozer" wrote:

Kelly - That ole Page Dragline must have had a later re-power, because the D17000 wasn't released until 1935. The last D17000 was produced in 1955 ..

Am sure it was re-powered. My guess would be steam at first, but I don’t know that.
Kelly

Hi, Locodriver.
To the best of my knowledge, as OzDozer mentioned above, Cat themselves didn't put the D17000 into ANYTHING. It was designed and built as a power source for anyone or anything that had a need for it.

Peterson Engineering, a Cat dealer in California, started retro-fitting Cat D17000's to 2U series D8's and, later, to 13A series D8's in an effort to make a more effective tractor for push-loading the scrapers of the day.

The YouTube video that OzDozer posted a link to in his earlier post is of a Cat D8 8R series tractor which has had a D17000 transplant. This transplant was done within about 5 miles of where I live. To the best of my knowledge, which is NOT encyclopaedic, nobody did this conversion commercially on any D8's earlier than the 2U series.

BTW, I do appear in that video but I was hardly 'ably assisting'. Operation of the elevating grader itself only requires one able-bodied person on the grader and another on the pulling tractor. Both of those people were present, accounted for and doing their jobs. I was simply along for the ride to take photos and videos of the rig in operation.