D3B with Cat 3204 Engine. (Newbie alert!)

[lizrad999]

Thank you Old Magnet. I only had/have 8 total clips (2 per injector) so I'll be ordering replacements from Cat, and might as well get the bolts and spacers from Cat too. They are a few bucks each. Appreciate you taking the time to look up the parts, when I took the head off, the clips were flipped, no spacers were used, just a few washers under the clips, and metric bolts were installed. That head is destined for the scrap bin.....
I got my new to me head all cleaned up and installed with all new Cat head bolts and gaskets. So I pulled the valve cover out of the shed to clean it up and was surprised to find a homemade gasket, somebody had embedded nylon rope (the yellow kind) in RTV to act as a gasket previously....wow.

 

[lizrad999]

Make sure you use the right number of clamps.

All over it Welder Dave!

 

[Old Magnet]

I've been wondering about all that head interchange...yes the castings may interchange but what about the changes in injector arrangements.

 

[Welder Dave]

Thank you Old Magnet. I only had/have 8 total clips (2 per injector) so I'll be ordering replacements from Cat, and might as well get the bolts and spacers from Cat too. They are a few bucks each. Appreciate you taking the time to look up the parts, when I took the head off, the clips were flipped, no spacers were used, just a few washers under the clips, and metric bolts were installed. That head is destined for the scrap bin.....
I got my new to me head all cleaned up and installed with all new Cat head bolts and gaskets. So I pulled the valve cover out of the shed to clean it up and was surprised to find a homemade gasket, somebody had embedded nylon rope (the yellow kind) in RTV to act as a gasket previously....wow.

Some idiot used pieces of plastic and a metal tag to fix hydraulic hoses on my 931B. The fittings were reusable Cat fittings but they used them with non Cat hose and the plastic and metal pieces were used as a spacer because the hose was smaller in diameter. Main hose to valve blew apart while I was digging with the backhoe. No way to move machine. Struggled to get the belly pan off and then had to lay in 60 litres of hyd. oil to take the hose off and then again when I replaced it. Some people are just total morons and/or too cheap to fix important things properly.

 

[lizrad999]

Took some digging but I think I found the parts...
9L8388 is the spacer
9L8134 is the clamp assembly which consists of three hold down clips and one 5/16 UNC x 1-1/4" cap screw.View attachment 354289View attachment 354290

For future reference:
9L8388 is the spacer and is the same part number.
9L8134 is the clamp and it has a new number... 1W2459 according to Cat.

 

[Old Magnet]

Got it, those look much more substantial than the previous stamped versions.

 

[lizrad999]

Got it, those look much more substantial than the previous stamped versions.

Quick followup, I picked up the clamps and spacers from CAT and they are exactly like the photos you posted. Not sure why the image on the CAT site looks so different. Anyways, thanks again!

 

[HarleyHappy]

Just like a nice looking Whopper with chees!
Doesn’t exist in real life, only in photos.
lol