Santa came early!

My neighbor has been great about giving me anything CAT related from what is left of the old gent that I had befriended a few years ago. George is long gone, but not forgotten. He did ALL of the repairs on his equipment.

His tools might be homemade, but they worked. If I ever need to get my hands dirty, it will be easier now.

Transmission lifting device for a U series D6 I’m told, plus spanners for a D4, D6 clutch tool and 4.5” sleeve driver for 315/318 engines. I don’t know what the triangle tool is for or the block of wood.

I would buy a lotto ticket, but someone gave me some last week to celebrate Lunar New Year! JM

One of these appears to be a dry air cleaner, not oil bath.

JM,

You might want to consider setting up a tool rental agency for those in need of special tools!!

Looks like those tools went to a good home. I recognized the D6 transmission lifting plate. When my grandfather and great uncles retired I had to make one of those since we no longer had one. This time of year they would probably pull 3 of those a year for maintenance. That seasonal practice ended probably 30 years ago when that particular operation changed and we no longer got that use and wear out of the transmission. The D4 / D6 spanner we had one with a hole in it where you put a bar in from the side, copied from Holt brothers. I recall it was one notch on the left and three on the right any more than that usually meant problems.

JM nice neighbour you definitely have, I would suggest as a rough guess the triangle and angle iron to be a head lifting tool, have seen a few made very similar to that style, the wood block could be for pushing in pistons ? a workshop I was in for a while we used a block much the same to push by hand the piston in to the crank laying the block on its side, we had ours painted pink from surveyors rattle can paint

I think my neighbor is an okay person lol. When he first purchased the property he "let me" disk next door, as he did not own a machine big enough. Considering the amount of "pickers" he had go through his buildings, anything that looked like Caterpillar was off limits I found out from some..."saving for the guy next door" they were told. Very thoughtful of him!

I love collecting tools, especially when there is a use for them. I am glad that "George" had wrote on them what they were for. One of the spanners is for a Philift forklift, if anyone on this forum has a use for it. I was guessing same on the chunk of wood. Thanks on the triangle tool.

As far as the air cleaner bodies go, one is for a D4 and the others D6. The oddity (to me anyways) I swear one has a dry element inside of it, not an oil bath. Time to study the parts books and tech library. JM