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Uploaded by on Sep 1, 2008

This is a one cylinder Caterpillar diesel engine running at the Portland Indiana tri-State engine show 2008.

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

  • @dragonriversteel I know of only 4 of these.

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

  • @dragonriversteel Fuel tests.

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

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

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  • lol imagine the counter weight to balance the one piston

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

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

  • were richard and sal there?

  • How often does this need to regen? lol

  • 5 strokes per minute

  • Sounds lovely!

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

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

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