Road train cab ride 18 liter V8 CAT powered Kenworth

Cab ride in 18 liter CAT 3408 powered Kenworth roadtrain grossing 80 tons across the Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia. Full throttle climb up Eucla Pass. A run into Perth after splitting up the trailers. Please rate and comment!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• trucks
• caterpillar
• cat
• 3408
• kenworth
• roadtrain
• cab
• ride
• air
• start

[4800fx]

Googled Lloyd Davies and this popped up, have watched the videos before and just scanned the text. Lloyds old banger? got a photo somewhere of that one at the Melbourne Truck show with the engine hoisted out of the frame on the Kenworth stand. Top bloke by the way met him many years later.

[gm16v149]

@4800fx Lloyd's old truck. I've got the same photo. It's a little different to when he owned it.

[Furmanareus]

This is one awesome video. Gotta love the air starter. THis is kick ass

[johnsenkenn]

Gm.

That's what we got to settle for here in Europe, 88,5 inches cabin, and we live in there for weeks, sometimes two drivers. Those regulators should have tried it themself.

[23xxxbrian]

hola saludos desde panama city panama soy camionero buen motor que caballaje tiene y los diferenciales me gustaria que explicara mas detalladamente como cambiar los 16 belocidades

[gm16v149]

@MattytheDem I'm not sure because the HP has been upped a fair whack.

[MattytheDem]

@gm16v149 what kind of torque does that kit give you

[herefordmsv]

@gm16v149 So 1500 dollars buys you 1048 litres. In the UK diesel is double that price (in UK pounds its £1.40 near me right now), but I'm guessing fuel was cheaper for you too at one time.

[gm16v149]

@herefordmsv  Diesel fuel is $1.43 a litre in Melbourne right now so I'll let you do the maths.

[herefordmsv]

@gm16v149 Lovely sounding motor, and the scenery great.

Out of interest, how many litres of fuel do you get for 1500 dollars?

[gm16v149]

@Drafty01 Cat tool #5P7335 gave me 550HP at the wheels @ 1900 RPM on Cat's dyno or about 600HP at the engine. I usually drive @ 1600 RPM which was 520 HP at the wheels.

[Drafty01]

Just looked your serial no. (prefix 28V) up on TMI (Cat's Technical Marketing Info site). Must be getting on a bit as it's only got 3408Bs from 444bhp to 503bhp. 503's have a Full load speed of 2100 and torque of 1585lb-ft of torque at 1400rpm - probably your sweet spot I reckon. "Red line" is at 2287rpm - pretty high for one of these!

They don't have these in NZ - no large loads allowed - not like Aussie anyway.

Cheers,

Drafty01.