Older Catapillar 12' Road Grader

[oldermfer]

I purchased an older Cat Grader,it proabably is a 1950's Model.It starts with a pony starter engine.My question is, can you replace the pony starter with an electric one?

 

[DrRick]

depending on the engine and year model you should be able to convert to electric start. The old caterpiller forum should be of help. I think it is acmoc.com .

 

[gghb]

you may be able to get electric starter for the pony motor but the pony exhaust heats the intake manifold on my old cat 12 8t it takes forever to tow start unless you heat the manifold

greg

 

[Bob Rooks]

you may be able to get electric starter for the pony motor but the pony exhaust heats the intake manifold on my old cat 12 8t it takes forever to tow start unless you heat the manifold

greg

Seems to me it also warmed the cooling system. I'd go with the electric start conversion for the pony. Good luck.

 

[MikeD74T]

Check the forum on ACMOC.org, you can buy conversions there. MikeD74t

 

[Soundguy]

seems we had an old dozer.. a d69u that had that setup..

soudnguy

 

[cowpatty]

Any pics? Old graders are sweet

 

[MtnViewRanch]

The pony motor heats up the cooling system of the main engine. If you are having trouble starting the pony motor, it may need a tune up or you just need to play with the settings. Get the choke and the throttle just right and they will usually fire right off. I have run our old D6 when it was 20 degrees out and the pony motor will usually start with 2 or 3 pulls. If you can't get it started with say 10 pulls, time to walk away and try later. I grease the machine while the pony motor does it's job (warming everything up) Water gets up to 100* and the main engine fires right off and I'm off to work for 8-10 hours. :thumbsup: There were a lot of people that put electric starters on their ponies, but we have just never felt like there was a need to.

Good luck with your new grader.

 

[Renze]

There were a lot of people that put electric starters on their ponies, but we have just never felt like there was a need to.

How do they hand start ? with a hand crank, a ratchet rope like a lawn mower, or with a rope you wrap around the flywheel, like my fathers old Slanzi 2 cylinder diesel irrigation pump ?

 

[MtnViewRanch]

How do they hand start ? with a hand crank, a ratchet rope like a lawn mower, or with a rope you wrap around the flywheel, like my fathers old Slanzi 2 cylinder diesel irrigation pump ?

You wrap a rope around the flywheel with ours.