kshansen
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- Joined
- Mar 11, 2012
- Messages
- 11,177
- Location
- Central New York, USA
- Occupation
- Retired Mechanic in Stone Quarry
Wish I could answer that, it was strange to me too. Maybe the mine was up at the top of a mountain?Hopefully the altitude doesn't matter much for this engine. My survey last year put my altitude at 700ft. I wonder why the engine would spec out as a high compression engine when it was supposedly a mining crane that would almost be assured to be low altitude? Unless they just spec high compression and more fuel to get 150hp out of it? I was also told it had some sort of air scrubber behind it also for mining, not that it really matters for what I'm doing though.
Good day Ferrret, just want to know whether you finally completed your installation of 3306 engine on your 966B wheel loader. Did it work well on the 966B after installationMore pictures of the project. I also need to repack one of the lift cylinders on this machine so if anybody knows the seal kit number for one of these I would appreciate that too. It seems that putting the engine in was the easy part but hooking up the weird accessories to the engine is the hard part. It also has a cab heater but I think I can tie that into the coolant lines that come off of the exhaust manifold. The one is close to the cab so it wouldn't be too bad to hook another steel braided line to the heater in the cab and return it to the block I could put a bypass valve on it too so it didn't have to go to the cab heater for warming up the engine.
thanks for your response , I bought a 966 machine two weeks ago and I got to know some days ago that it's a 1967 966B. The machine runs fine with enough power. I want to know whether the engine parts are readily available like 3306 and whether the engine is workable just like the 3306 engineI did but it has issues. It doesn't have quite the power that the owner seems to think it used to with the d333. Even though the hp is close to the same maybe the turbo gave it a snappier response. It moves good and has quite a bit of torque but I think it could dig better also. The owner seems to think that it would spin all 4 tires when digging into a pile of dirt but I don't see that happening with a 32,000 lb machine. It still has 100 lbs of oil pressure which is a little issue but it runs. I was discussing it with some mechanics and was possibly thinking that maybe 100lbs of oil pressure was hindering it from producing more power as it was robbing combustion but not really sure. We were also possibly thinking of tapping a oil pressure regulator or a flow control into the pressure line on the side of the block to reduce the oil pressure and see if it has a little more power. I had to fix the air brakes a while back so its been a off and on project for the last year. The mechanics and me were also wondering if the D333 with the turbo revved a little higher than the 3306 and maybe this would cause the transmission pressures to be different and make it a little slower and slip some?