A friend has this old Insley Excavator & he really doesn't know much about it. So what I'm trying to find out is the year of this machine. Engine size & make & anything else anyone could tell me.
Wow! Looks awesome. Does it run?
My stuff shows it to be a 1988 model. I don't recognize the engine from this angle. Can you take a photo from the other side?
Yes it runs & it's for sale.
I'll try to get one tomorrow.
It runs.
that's a cummins 6bt, methinks. Nice machines. It has a simple thumb weldments on the stick and the circuit for it. cool to have an insley bucket on it That was my first excavator experience, a 1500.
Thanks for help. I'm not sure about the bucket.
It's a 2' 4 tooth with the heavy side cutters on it. Those are worth rebuilding if it is beat.
Cummins 6bt for sure. Anyone know why it would have a manual clutch lever?
gotta have that so you can drop the clutch when you are trying to pull start it with the dozer. I was operating a Komatsu 200 one day when it failed to start. The old pipelayer working with me wondered how fast we would have to drag it to get it started.
Same here 1500 and a 560? The thing I remember most is that Detroit diesel screaming .
Manual clutch lever was to disengage the pumps for a cold start.
I like my answer better. park it on a hill, two guys, some ether, YOLO!!
I had a Bantam C-451 that had a disconnect clutch for the pumps FWD
Koehring juice machines and early Link-Belt hydraulics also had a master clutch. Most were brutal hybrid machines that used a hydraulic motor to turn down shafts and swing mechanisms that were all mechanical. In addition to cold starting of the engines, they were also a safety feature as you didn't want to be around all those spinning gears and shafts if you had to go back and check something out.
I've rebuilt a ton of those master clutches.......it seemed like they were in everything with an engine at one time.
here's one on the derrick Palouse that is air operated.