Caterpillar Twenty-Two

(Restored)

 

Publications

Click the picture to check out the feature article in the September/October 2004 issue of the Antique Caterpillar Machinery Owners Club magazine

 

Restoration Pictures

04-12-03

04-12-03

04-20-03

05-17-03

05-17-03

 

Wide gauge Cat 22

Narrow gauge Cat 22

Tear down of wide 22

Tear down of wide 22

Removal of wide 22 engine (everything else on the machine was junk)

 

 

05-17-03

05-17-03

05-17-03

06-01-03

06-05-03

 

Engine and track frames removed

Narrow engine (notice how you can see the ground through the one piston)

 

Narrow 22 transmission and tracks

This track looks tight

This track is defiantly not suppose to keep its shape like this

 

06-15-03

07-05-03

07-05-03

07-05-03

07-13-03

 

Steering clutch housings and final drives after cleaning and painting

 

Transmission with steering clutches removed

Transmission after cleaning and painting

Ready to assemble

Beautifully rebuilt fuel pump

 

07-13-03

10-14-03

10-26-03

12-28-03

12-28-03

 

Engine parts from the wide 22

Final drives assembled (classic messy shop picture)

Finals installed on transmission (turn around point)

 

First fresh paint this machine has had in decades

Track frames after painting

 

12-17-03

12-28-03

12-28-03

03-10-04

08-11-04

 

It was almost a shame to paint this freshly rebuilt engine

Getting ready to connect the engine and transmission

Engine successfully installed (its starting to look like a cat again)

 

Test fitting of miscellaneous parts

First time this machine has moved under its own power in decades

 

08-17-04

08-17-04

08-17-04

08-17-04

08-17-04

 

Adding another coat of paint the day before we were taking it to a show

 

My brother Matt painting

Almost done (night before the big show)

Me after a long week of trying to finish in time

View of the completed dash

 

08-18-04

08-18-04

08-18-04

08-18-04

08-19-04

 

Day of the show: Finished

Almost a shame to get her dirty

Decals are on (I'm glad they dried in time before I had it on the highway)

Fire extinguisher: Just in case

A young cat skinner checking out the machine at the Rough and Tumble show

 

08-22-04

08-22-04

       

The finished product at my dads shop

The finished product

 

     

 

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