1 Cylinder Caterpillar diesel

[farmboy3w]

how are all the steps carried out at one time

[KD0IDB]

I love these old engines like this one, they're so cool!

[FrenchValleyAirport]

lol imagine the counter weight to balance the one piston

[1bad55chev]

Cool, It sounds like its only running on one cylinder ;-)

[workensmart]

Is that little Briggs and Stratton engine used to start larger engine?.

[heresyournametagmark]

were richard and sal there?

[MossyOak83]

How often does this need to regen? lol

[MrKarlAschnikov]

5 strokes per minute

[andyskinner75]

Sounds lovely!

[JimPrower]

I know that Caterpillar builds many of these a year as prototypes to test emissions systems. My workplace balances their crankshafts.

[dragonriversteel]

This has to very very rare. Great video,thanks for sharing !

[pileofiron]

@dragonriversteel I know of only 4 of these.

[dragonriversteel]

@pileofiron , Do you know what they were designed to do ? I guess they could have been used for a number of things.

[pileofiron]

@dragonriversteel Fuel tests.

[dragonriversteel]

@pileofiron , Very neat find indeed. That's some piece of history right there.

[Polybun]

Wow, the guys at the cat museum in brooks oregon would kill for this engine.

[jarrod4020]

Nice thanks!

[xmodrock]

id like a diesel lawnmower engine from CAT..... lol

[pivotboy63]

that briggs engine made starter motor wont last long tipped like that

[JeremyL249]

Thats a big engine for a 1 cylinder!

[crazyashell389]

what hp toque and displacement is it 

[foreverthewho]

huge ass one cylinder:P

[Squarerig]

This is as close to perpetual motion as one can get.

[systemisdisturbed]

Awww the wittle smoke stack is so cute lmao

[douro20]

Interesting mule engine...a 3-1/2 hp Briggs.

[pivotboy63]

@douro20 that was a 5hp, you can tell by the muffler

[rowen211]

is it really that hard to start that it need a briggs to start it?

[smacman68]

These are called "one lungers" by the old timers. John Deere, McCormick, Allis-Chalmers and a few others made them. Basically they kept a flywheel spinning, then you could run a baler, water pump, auger, coveyor, etc. They would run forever if you kept fuel supplied to it. Even today, you can still find some still running on farms for pumping well water up for livestock. Farmers love them because they're so reliable.

[chadro85]

you could make a giant chainsaw with that :D

[OWJuggalo]

sounds like its constantly trying to start

[bigboi1245]

What would torque be and that is nice though id liek to have that as a generator motor

[ps3dethman1]

haha i could make a gocart from that starter...

[dtiydr]

Thats a flywheel..

[copperheadmarine]

Ha...Old Cat yellow! Dont see that much any more?

[pivotboy63]

i like the 5 horse briggs starter on there haha

[Hanglands]

Nice condition!

[BlakeMason2]

The pony motor starter was a cool add-on!

[leomarre]

is the engine of the chuck Norris motard!!

[frosty9595]

Im lovin the 5hp Briggs and stratton with a go kart clutch and wheel to start it.

[seapeddler]

That's a Murcielago engine.

[stingraystud]

its funny they have a briggs engine to start the pony engine to start the cat engine, damn you would be cranking shit up all day just to get it going

[SeaDollarsBertram]

@stingraystud the Briggs IS the pony engine

[UpcomingJedi]

Mikholic Jesvarted and....Leftaroum DaVastar! Please pick up the red courtesy phone by baggage claim...That is all..

[LilReddneck]

alright, add 7 piston's and gimme one to make a jeep rock crawlin' machine .. that would be one tough sonofabitch.

[richmistar250]

I think we found our solution to global warming! All semi trucks should be outfitted with these beasts!

[pancakewafflebacon]

haha tick tick tick tick tick

[squiresuzuki]

I just love how there a whole another engine attached just to start this one....

[shadooky]

Sir, your engine has a slight knock, you may want to used a higher octane fuel.

[DrMcelroy]

Mallard92... No need for all that my man, Caterpillar makes some awesome engines so obviously you are NO final authority on the subject. Besides, GM usually does a pretty good job of DiScRaCiNg themselves

[xboxbrasil]

crazy

[TestECull]

Open the tap, man. Let's hear it rev!

On a side note could it even hit 500RPM?

[heresyournametagmark]

reminds me of the old school washing machine engines....

[lapulapu12345]

just sounds like a steam piston engine at 3 mph :D

[pvtdinky]

Some egomaniacs are in love with their own voice when they hear it over a loud speaker. I wish the dude in the background on the PA system would have lost his microphone when this vid was made...Other than that....great video.

[jozafax]

Great !

[Bidone1967]

Great diesel sound :)

[gapexxxsuspension]

nice sound taf taf taf taf



[moteuralalsacienne]

Hello,

very nice engine, my Grand-father has the same. It was really rare in our country.

But I have a question. What kind of pump is driven by the little pulley at 0:24 min?

[xxbal1inxx]

like the chrome tip now it needs a turbo

[austinsfarm]

briggs 5 hp? starter

[msyzek1128]

I prefer generac

[decoysk]

whats the horsepower?

[jldwolfe]

ITS BEAUTIFUL! This thing should be hooked to something. Its just begging to be worked.

[scott93257]

VERY nice engine....It's clean enough to eat off of.

[bluejay148]

sounds cool love the sound of it

[jjmqwerty]

what model cat did the cylinder and head come from? thats a fine engine, i like your gas engine starter

[Turbo617]

Just needs a turbo.

[superfunnyman123]

great looking and sounding engine

[MrPower420]

Nice clean Cat runs great. What was it used for in its day? Is that a briggs starter?

[pileofiron]

These were made to test fuel. The starter was added by the current owner!!!

[Alisterwolf66]

I remember my grandfather (engineer for Cat for some 30 years) telling me about those 'little' test engines. He's still got a number of the original blueprints for 'em, dating back to the early '50s. I recall he said they were used for testing any number of things: fuels, oils, piston designs, head designs, etc. Just an all-around test mule to prove or refine a concept before producing it.

[Bobbymitchell10]

hold on too your seats were breaking 400 rpm jk i like the slow rpm high torque engines they sound cool and are fun to watch

[oerllikon2]

@Bobbymitchell10

Haha, sarcasm usually doesnt translate well with text, but that was hillarious. That thing is really cool though

[Hotrodx199]

I guess this would be a little tall to stick in my 68 GMC 3/4 ton pickup...

[pileofiron]

Maybe it would fit in the back!!! LOL

[Hotrodx199]

LOL yeah just like someone did with putting the N14 cummins in the bed of a F150.

[pudops]

hey wat ype of cat would fit in a 00 grad carravan

[mallard92]

@Hotrodx199 Dont disgrace something made by GM with a filthy cat! You my friend need a Cummins!

[joeyteamxracing]

a hit and miss has um weights on the flywheel and when it drops to a point then it tells the magneto to fire and the exhuast valve to open other wise its just adding fuel and compressesing it

[johno2355]

can I have it ? ,just kiding, I wouldn't send it back if you said i could thou

[kraut1948]

Back in the late 80's when I still worked at Caterpillar research in Mossville, IL They still had several one cylinder diesels in the engine lab that they used for test purposes. Don't know if they are still there, but this looks like it could have been one of them.

[pileofiron]

I have seen 2 if these and heard of 2 others. They di have a nice sound!!!

[mytickets]

I would like to find an engine like that

ITS NICE!!

Jeff

[smartepants777]

Haha, wow.

[ozzirt]

That is one very tidy piece of work. I love it.

No doubt it is pretty rare too?

[jeryl1968]

ok i was wondering about that thanks for straitening me out i have an old shad skiff hit and miss it starts right up i just keep it around for the fun of it its a neat old motor tho thanks for the info neat video

[jeryl1968]

thats like the old hit and miss motors without the miss in it ? a hit and miss fires every other stroke and this diesel fires on every stroke its like two hit and miss motors in one hope this wasnt to confusing for everyone nice diesel good video

[Imprezaman555]

a hit and miss motor just fires whenever the speed drops below a certian point I belive. If you put a big enough load on one they would just fire as if it was a throttled engine.

[pileofiron]

Don't think the muffler would allow it...

[TheTerminator310]

i have never seen a 1 cyl cat diesel engine.

[xr100rr]

What the Torque on it

[pileofiron]

Sorry I don't know the RPM's and the H.P. rating on this to fiqurre torque. I would bet that at the slow rated RPM's this engine would have a very high torque rating.

[xr100rr]

Yeah your probably right , Thanks anyway

[jeremya5]

or just low both... ha

wouldn't smetihng with ine cyl, have very low torque, as a 2 cyl, would have the pistons going at oposit times.... where as the one... you get the idea, i might be completely wrong here.

[pileofiron]

jeremya5, this engine was not built to run any type of equipment. It was built by Cat to run cetane tests on diesel fuel. You are rught 2 cylinders would be better, but this I bet still has enough power and torque to do a lot of work.

[llelica9]

doesnt sound so good if it had two piston and not one would sound better i think

[raduvas90]

what an engine

you can count the explosions of the cyllinder

propably the idle is about 150 rpm

[douro20]

So where is the lever to adjust the compression?

[pileofiron]

Don't think it needs one. This is a cold start engine. If any thing it could use a glow plug. Thanks for commenting. Fred

[jeremya5]

compression for what on a desile engin might i ask?

[douro20]

The cylinder...test engines often have them.

[BarneySaysHi]

It has a nice relaxing sound almost. Kinda reminds me of those old handdriven sewingmachines. And I'm not kidding about that.

[JRC808]

good fuel economy.... one lunger yeah

[fettedum]

oh what an awesome sond.

[mingu89]

hp???

[pileofiron]

Sorry but I don't know :(

[nisachick]

Gardener hav one in ther factory its a cracker and just as oild

[derneuschooer]

sweeeeeeeet!!

[jmagic32971]

you got to give cat a hats off to them engines now they still have machines running even the 1 cylinder what other engine you know of other than cummins has a engine that old and still running

[Mackiebrat]

Very Special I like yer starter set-up ,lol Check out the starter-generator on my SABB engine vid.

[intermissionbuffalo]

its the most boring engine ever to listen to run. If you hear two seconds, you've heard it all.

[pileofiron]

I see this movie has over 20 times the views of all yours put together. Yours was the first negative post in 29. Is is nice that you can stop listening after 2 seconds is you want. Thanks for posting.

[bigchevy80]

Then don't listen to it. Go be an idiot somewhere else...

[9020powrmax]

If you are so bored then "" jump on the fan pto shaft"" I see nothing wrong with this engine...

[twano8]

In the early thities Cat built some one cylinder engines for use by oil companies to test high detergent motor oil. This might e one of them

[pileofiron]

Yes, you are correct. They might have used them also to test the cetane rating of diesel also?

[ovationrob]

wow thats awesome!!!! you do not see these every day. very cool!

[bigtank2185]

Do you have an idea on when this particular engine was manufactured?

[lehungsouthbay]

here in usa you do not see a lot o 1 piston diesel, but in vn we have alot of YAMAR....diesel 1 piston .

[j45007]

Nice, i love caterpillar Diesels.

[douro20]

These are still in production; they are used for fuel and lubrication testing.

[pileofiron]

There are as of now only 4 of these known. I have been in contact with the Caterpillar plant hear in town and they don't know much about it. Will try to keep everone posted.

[foreverthewho]

THIS ONE IS BEAUTIFUL, plofplof

[cbrsportbikef4]

this looks like a pony motor off of the first generation caterpillar tractors. when the engines came to big to crank over by hand they mounted these little engines to start the big engine of the tractor. i seen one on a old cat tractor :)

[allenjanoch]

what dos it mean when the fule is in the red and not the green

[pileofiron]

Sorry I don't know.

[tomterahedrob]

HP?also sounds beautiful.

[AlchemistHawk]

thats one BIG piston

[EMLIOMELERO]

hola de que año es ese motor se montaba en algua maquina o es un motor para cualquier uso

[CascadiaTrucker]

Ha I'd like to see one of them on a lawn mower!

[D342DIESEL]

I never new caterpillar made single cylinders,thats cool.

[pileofiron]

They made a few of these. I am under the impressioon they were used to test fiels and cetane rating of diesel.

[northerbrewer]

You are correct this is one of 3 I know of.

The other two are in the uk and were used for fuel testing

[pileofiron]

There is another one that is owned by a club in southern Indiana. So I know of 4.

[angamoos]

thats a great sounding engine! sounds like a gardner 1l2

[DanielJaegerFilms]

That's Cool! I didn't know they made those, it sounds like a hit and miss!

[retrochad]

Is the small gasoline engine used for starting purposes? I have seen this set-up on some old oil drilling rig engines.

[pileofiron]

Yes, it is for starting the engine.

[1944johndeerel]

what would this be used to power its really quite something! do you know the year or hp

[pileofiron]

I think that Cat used these to run fuel tests.

[1944johndeerel]

what a cool engine i hope you can get more of it!

[andrewflywhl]

another great video thanks