$500 Allis Chalmers Crawler, Sitting for Years. (Will It Run?)

hey everybody welcome back to diesel

Creek my name is Matt behind me just

like Britney Spears oops I Did It Again

this is another Alice chers HD 5G track

load this one also came to me for the

low low price of $500 guys for 500 bucks

I just can't turn one of these things

down they are worth more in scrap than

that this one however is not scrap it is

decidedly better than the one that we

did previous on this channel the fell I

just bought this beauty from tells me it

was running about 2 years ago so

theoretically getting it running should

not be too much of an issue but he tells

me there's bigger problems the steering

clutches are all Frozen that could prove

to be quite an issue so with the

steering clutches Frozen basically this

machine should go forward and backward

but will not turn left or right and if

you can look straight ahead pretty much

no way that you could get a trailer

backed into this thing for it to walk

straight up onto a

trailer and of course behind the machine

more trees and no way to get a trailer

into it so we're going to have to try to

get this thing fired up and then get it

spun about 90° so that we can

potentially get it loaded up onto the

trailer that is all of course provided

that this thing even starts because if

the engine doesn't start that means

we've got a loader bucket that is sunk

into the ground and that is going to add

to the complexity of this recovery so

with a little bit of luck and maybe a

little bit of

ether hopefully our little 271 Detroit

that powers this unit will fire right up

boys look at the grease on this engine

tons of debris packed down in there

around the bottom of the engine looks

like a whole belly pans just full of

stuff out of all my machines I think

this one could probably benefit from a

good steam cleaning the most but it's

that time of year where we're not going

to break out the steam cleaner it's

going to uh going to probably be wearing

this grease until spring and it is

getting colder by the minute out here

but let's go ahead and check some fluids

before we get carried away looks like

our dip sticks down in

here

uhhuh oh yeah she's got

and it's also got dirt all over the

dipstick now since I just drug it across

the track we're going to have to wipe

that off this is how you keep your boots

oiled properly just always wipe

dipsticks on

them keeps the leather very Supple

1540 don't tell my wife this is how I

clean off dipsticks

sometimes sorry our engine oil is good

let's have a gander at this

radiator oh look at this it's got some

Dodge superpower on

here what is going on with this thing oh

that's interesting there's no radiator

cap we'll just we'll just use this

thing well it's not ideal and there's

some dead bugs hiding in there but

there's antifreeze and it's green so

when I showed up here to buy this thing

the whole machine was actually covered

with a tarp which was good and he had

this Bucket over the stack which has

been nice of

him so we shouldn't have any issues with

into the engine

hopefully it's been a while I think

since she's

run that's probably the most wallered

out rain cap I think I've ever seen

too yeah everything is definitely in

much better condition on this machine

than the other one that we have so I'm

feeling good about this purchase

hopefully it just comes to freeing up

some steering clutches well that one

actually

moved we'll see what we can do here

let's try to get this thing fired up

first the fuel tank on this machine is

in slightly better condition than the

other hd5 as well these things take a

beating since they're kind of sticking

out proud back here if you know you're

working in the trees or something it's

very easy to back into a tree when

you're not paying attention dent in that

tank and it's definitely it's seen some

abuse over the years too but nothing

like the other one we have

underc Carriage is in pretty good shape

we got a good bit of rail height left

the rail height if you don't know is the

distance between this flat spot and this

guy right here so that looks about I

don't know 60% maybe the sprockets are

pretty good the sprockets still have

nice squared off teeth on them actually

the sprockets look look real

good looks like they welded some new

ones on there this is all weld here and

it's actually cut in half and rewelded

right

there idlers have also been beefed up by

the looks of it they're nice and squared

off that helps keep the

track on the

rails all in all not bad for 500 bucks I

don't think let's break out the jump

pack and see what happens So based upon

my experience with the last one it's

going to be much easier if we just go

straight to jumping on the

starter which is kind of down in here

really hard to get the camera on you can

barely fish the jumper pack underneath

the boom arm and get it over there on it

but it is possible all right I think

that this machine was originally wired

for two 6vt batteries one in each

armrest here but I just hooked 12 volts

up to one side maybe that'll work

enough get this thing cranking over if I

slide this Rod right here it should

engage the

starter

contact nothing all right that Rod Runs

up here to the operator's platform it's

actually meant to be pushed with your

foot so maybe it just needs a little

more

Jam yet all right hopefully we got our

connected right this time

contact there we go things are happening

all right so we should be ready to turn

this thing over but I know that it's not

going to start at first

because there was no fuel in the tank

the tank was nice and clean but it was

bone dry so I went ahead and dumped a

couple gallon of fuel in

it and now because the tank was empty

we're going to have to Prime the

filters so I have this line right here

open to let the fuel bleed out but it's

after the fuel pump so we're going to

have to crank the engine over to get

that to bleed out all right I'm going to

crank it you guys just holler when you

see

fuel

nothing

yet starting to get a little bit of fuel

fuel starting

to just tighten that back

up fuel should be pretty well primed

up we're going to probably have to help

it out a little bit with The Ether but

hopefully she goes here

contact uh-huh come on

kick the starter

out there we

go oh come on stay

running

h

I

H yeah it's not picking up fuel all the

way I don't know all right it rebled the

fuel system we had an air pocket that I

didn't get

before so hopefully it'll actually take

off this

time

contact come

on yeah we might need some more let me

go see if I have any

more give her another go here got some

more ether and some more

battery still not catching fuel I don't

understand I'm going to try pressurizing

the whole fuel system and force bleeding

it with

air we're getting plenty of fuel coming

out of this fitting it's not making

sense why we're not getting it up to our

injectors I might pull the valve cover

off and check it right there on the

injector see if we're getting fuel right

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there

seems to be moving

freely

all right so this should be your fuel

line coming into the injector this

should be your return line from the

injector I'm going to crank it over and

make sure we got fuel coming out of

those yep getting all kind of fuel

something about this fuel rack doesn't

seem right like we should be able to

shove these in further I think I'm going

to take the control arm off the side of

the rack and run it manually I think we

found our

issue

yep that is the fuel shut down lever and

it was stuck in the on

position there we go now we're giv full

fuel to the injectors that's what we

needed all right I'm feeling confident

that was our issue

here hopefully this thing fires right up

now I'm going to try not to even give it

any

ether all right

contact there we

go

beautiful

all right it

runs that is great news now we just need

to get it out of

here so my plan is I'm going to try to

walk it back and forth here a few times

and then we'll start trying to work on

getting these clutches to break free

maybe we can get lucky if we can get one

of them free we can get this thing on

the trailer real

easy

all right we'll put it in first gear

here should be that guy right

there and we'll engage the

clutch uh-oh shouldn't like

that there we

go

oh yeah these things tracks haven't

turned in a long

time

all right well it doesn't look like I'm

going to have any luck getting the

clutches to steer well to get this thing

out of here here's my plan I've got a

chain hooked on the side of the bucket

there and we're going to improperly use

a yankum rope so I apologize to those

guys in advance and I've got it

connected up to this tree over here and

what I'm hoping is going to happen is

I'm going to start to drive forward

everything's going to tighten up and

that'll just bring the front of the

machine right around the direction I

need it to

to point down the driveway and then I

can just walk it right up there is my My

Hope here goes

nothing he he hey it's

working

all right I'm not going to lie that

worked way better than even I expected

it

to

here's where my smart smart plan comes

to an end how do I get this unhooked

now it's under tension

still yeah not

happening

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well and just like that another Track

Loader

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saved

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what a sweetheart this one runs a heck

of a lot better than the other one

did not nearly as abused or beat up or

clapped

out we get those steering clutches freed

up it might be a decent little

machine there we

go we made her

home okay here we are back with the hd5

a few months later and I want to try to

see if we can get these clutches freed

up today so what actually happens in

there when the clutches stick is that

the friction plates stick to the steel

plates um and basically the clutch pack

just won't separate it doesn't have any

tension on it that's holding it it's

just kind of stition or rust or whatever

it may be in there um so sometimes you

can get lucky and break those clutch

packs free by shock loading the clutches

now you can do that a couple different

ways um but you basically just pull the

clutches and disengage them and then

because you're going no matter what you

pull those and you'll still keep going

and then you can run it into a tree

stump or something hard or hook a chain

to it which is I believe what we're

going to try today and hook it to an

immovable object so that when you get to

the end of the chain it induces a shock

load into that drive line and can break

those clutches free sometimes if you're

lucky that's what I was trying to do the

day we got this thing running

by stabbing the brakes because that can

do it if they're not stuck very bad

sometimes you can just stab the brakes

really hard while you have the clutches

pulled and in our case all I did was

break the the brake linkage on that left

side so let's hook the jump pack up see

if this thing fires up and see what's

going to happen okay here we go

contact bad ground

shocked

Bo it wants to

go get a switcher over to 24 volt real

quick just to make it spin a little bit

faster I bet it goes ready

contact yeah it either goes or we smoke

our

connection come on

t

all right so the old crawler's been

warming up for a little while it's time

to see what we can do about those

steering clutches now remember both

steering clutches are frozen unlike the

other hd5 we worked on a while back so

I've got two choices when operating this

thing I can go forward or I can go

backwards I cannot steer either

direction you're just on a fixed path

so the old cabelo here is going to have

to provide the steering for us today and

I think that we're also going to use it

as the immovable object for to attach

the chain

to

all right so we got the

hd5 tethered off to the bucket of the

cabelo and if you'll notice I have all

the weight of the cabelo actually

sitting on the bucket so we're not

pulling against the Hydraulics really

all as much as uh the ground or at least

the ground is helping quite a bit I'm

not just shock loading that

boom so yeah let's back up and give her

a go

here

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all right I'm going to hold off on this

for a second I don't like this apparatus

here I didn't even pull on it super hard

I just gave her a few tugs

and I don't like this chain I this

thing's actually pulling a bit harder

than I thought it was going to be able

to let me try to find a heavier cable or

something to put in between there chains

or cables when they snap can come up and

do some radical stuff and that's why I

have the Anchor Point uh about even with

the hitch point on the machine because

if it snaps theoretically it goes

straight you know if you have it on an

angle it can break and go uh on that

angle

a

well

guys that didn't

work that's the extent of my bag of

tricks on trying to get these clutches

freed up so unfortunately we're going to

have to dive into this thing we're going

to actually have to pull off the fuel

tank the seat all that assembly and the

top of the clutch covers there and

hopefully we can break the clutch packs

free with a pry bar or something without

to actually disconnect and remove the

clutches but if it comes to that you

know that's the next step I think we do

have a pretty good loader here though

for what a paid 500 bucks really can't

go wrong like I said at the beginning of

the video I think that it's worth more

in scrap so we have a good running 271

Detroit I was really impressed it

actually started without any ether and

it was pretty cold when I started this

the engine seems pretty strong pushing

Against the Machine here I mean it it's

spinning the track so nothing's uh

slipping the engine wasn't bogging down

or dying out I think the engine's pretty

good the Hydraulics they seem to

function pretty quickly I really can't

complain too much about them I mean the

cylinders aren't dumping fluid out on

the ground or anything I think the

packing is bypassing internally pretty

good but for what this machine is we

really can't complain about that if you

were going to take this machine and you

know use it a lot or try to restore it

or something sure we would take those

cylinders down and repack them reseal

them and all that jazz but for my

personal needs and what we're going to

do with this machine I'm not going to

worry about those cylinders they're

going to be just fine for now if they

start leaking real bad that'll be a

different story so all that being said I

think it's going to be a little bit of

time before you guys see this unit again

but when you see it we're probably going

to be steam cleaning it all off so we

can actually see what's going on

underneath the engine there cuz it is

just covered in grease and grime and oil

after that's all done I think we're

probably going to pull it into the shop

and see what we can't do about those

clutches if we get the clutches freed up

we'll give the whole thing a complete

service from end to end and uh make sure

there's nothing else critically wrong

with it I think this machine's going to

be be ready for action after that

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