Hi Nick, they sure don't make them like they used to. The old stuff sure is easier to work on than the new stuff. A new car you have to give someone a small fortune and they just replace the whole transmission. Nice you can still get parts. Wow your brother sure has a lot of equipment in the shop, came in handy, hats off to your brother. Shame about the rear end, thanks for the tour in Ole Olive. All the best to you and your Mrs. See you in the next one. Cheers Robert.
Hi Robert, cor you’re right, I guess we bought the old girl just in time to be having to all this stuff to it lol, although the gearbox has been undone and messed around with before, and done by someone who wasn’t too fussy by the looks of the way some of the bits had been put back together again! That is a lifetime’s collection of equipment in my Brothers workshop, a couple of very big lathes picked up from local garages as they closed down, where these are is where the old granite apple crusher used to be many years ago when cider was made on the farm! Hopefully Olive won’t be off the road for another 18 months ( fingers crossed) All the best, Nick.🐸🐸
Great video nick what a lovey place to live l live in the center of Portsmouth close by the dockyard and Southsea l worked in the dockyard when they raised the Mary rose and brought it in the dockyard on a barge and worked on the Royal yacht went in for a refit all the best steve
Thank you Stephen, it is a lovely place though getting somewhat over populated now, the poor old inferstructure is starting to buckle under the weight! We often stay at the Queens hotel in Southsea when we get the morning ferry back to Jersey, and nip the the weatherspoons down the street for our last meal of the holiday! I remember I was working on the farm for my Dad and he unusually gave me most of the day off to watch the raising of the Mary Rose as it happened, it was amazing, I love all that, I did go and see it when it was first put on show and I also saw some of the artifacts from it at the York Museum, really interesting. Wow, that’s cool that you worked on the Royal Yacht! 😊👍 All the best, Nick🐸🐸
Thank you Martin, it was a bit disappointing after all that but these things happen, at least I can replace the shock absorbers at the same time and tidy up the underside of the body whilst the axle is off! Take care, all the best, Nick.🐸🐸
I had subscribed for the diecast restorations but I found this one fun to watch too. After seeing the pretty scenery on your drive I had to finally google to see what Jersey is. Living in the southern US I had never heard of it and was surprised to find out it was an island and read about some of the history. Anyway I enjoyed seeing the road trip at least as much as seeing you do the repairs. It's a very nice looking car and I'm glad it's getting an extension on it's life. Regards, Steve
Thank you Steve, glad you enjoyed the video and finding out about our little old Island, my video in a couple of weeks time will be back to the diecast restorations, occasionally I will upload a video like the Ford Prefect one but I will try to do it as an extra one rather than an instead of one, this time it’s just because I have been too busy to do any diecast restoring😊👍 All the best, Nick🐸🐸🇯🇪
Hi Nick, that was interesting, l too have an old car and as someone has already said they are easier to work on than the modern stuff. I hope you have as much luck with the diff as you did with the gearbox and l look forward to watching that one, and of course the next lorry model restoration. Best wishes Tony. H.
Thank you Tony, the old diff is in a mess, a bearing decided to fall apart and the bits chewed just about every tooth on every gear in the axle, it will need everything replaced, managed to source the parts I need for it so hopefully it won’t be off the road so long! Take care all the best, Nick.🐸🐸
Fascinating video Nick, I love doing a bit of mechanicing myself, I've got a fair few old tractors to restore when I retire. Your brother has a fantastically well equipped workshop there, has he worked in engineering in the past? Hope all goes well with the back axle repair. All the best. Peter.
Thank you Peter, when I was farming I always was restoring or making one tractor out of two or three, when I drove for a local agricultural merchant I used to go to loads of farms blowing cattle feed into the silos and lofts, I picked up quite a few old tractors on my rounds, usually for nothing, my lorry had a crane on it so it was easy for me to pick them up and bring them back to the farm😊👍 My brother hasn’t worked in engineering before, he’s always been on the Farm since leaving school, but he has always been a natural and very talented with this kind of thing, he has learned a lot from friends in engineering over the years👌👍😊 Hopefully the old prefect won’t be on axle stands for so long this time.🤞👍😊 All the best, Nick🐸🐸
Great video Nick you was lucky to get them bits for the gearbox will you have to send off for same more part or have you got another diff . I remember my Uncle had a car just like that and that of the whining sound when driving along , hope you can get the parts or repair it. Looking forward to seeing your next video. Take care mate
Thanks Ralph, we got all the bits from Small Ford Spares in England, most of the stuff is readily available from them luckily, some is new old stock, some are repro parts, one of which we did have an issue with due to poor casting on some of the gear teeth. As soon as I have the axle dismantled we will know what we have to replace, I have looked on line and we can get everything that goes inside, but it could get pretty expensive all according to how many parts we need! Take care, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🐸
Well, I guess you 'll be looking for broken teeth in the Diff, or maybe broken cross pins in the spider gears. Whilst you have the axle off take the chance to replace the hub bearings with needle roller ones. They run in the cast axle end and always wear at the bottom. That might be the cause of the diff trouble (Though having never been near the car this is all psychic mechanics! 😅😉) I look forward to the next video on this 👍
Hi Bill, goodness knows what we will find, but we might end up replacing most of it, there’s a possibility either one or both of the half shafts could be damaged too, we’ll have to see once it is undone! We will change the hub bearings whilst it’s all apart, if I can get some, most of the stuff is available from Small Ford Spares although the roller bearings you mention do not fit the 100e, only the 105e by their website, I think it could well be pretty expensive whatever the case! 🤦🏻♂☹
@@crapaudnicksdiecastrenovat1739 If you get accurate dimensions any good industrial bearing supplier should be able to sell you the right size. (They need to be loctited into the axle 😉). I almost had a heart attack when I priced a set to replace stub pins on an LDV Convoy (LDV parts) "no thanks!" said I 😆 Same bearings from an Industrial bearing supplier and all of a sudden The gripping pain around my wallet disappeared!! 🤣 And I could afford a spare set and a few pints! 😉 You seem to know what you're doing anyway, just get the inner, outer, and depth dimensions for what you need and have a google or call around. I can guarantee it'll be cheaper than a specialist classic car parts supplier 🤞👌
@@billforrest4205 thanks for that Bill, I will do that, thanks for the advice, best to replace everything we can whilst we’re at it, save more problems later on, if we can still afford the petrol lol😊👍
Make your own sandwiches for work tomorrow, was your wife ill or something? 😃 Enjoyed that Nick, that bloody camera must have been annoying at times when trying to progress with the job, so thanks for sharing. I would stick with bikes mate, you don't have to crawl underneath them..
Ooh no Mr. P. I’ve always made my own sandwiches for work, like that I never get something I don’t like for my lunch lol! I suppose I should strap a go pro to my chest or head but the sound always comes out rubbish on mine and I would probably end up wrecking it anyway lol, that’s why most of the video was “now what we are going to do next is….and ok we’ve just got this back on” The poor old bikes haven’t been out all summer this year😢 But I do have a nice big bike lift so I don’t have to bend down to do anything to them😉😊 All the best, Nick.
Olá!! Obrigado por seus ensinamentos; Poderia me ajudar? Sou mecânico Brasileiro, moro em Portugal no momento e comprei um Ford Prefect 1949, sou apaixonado por carros antigos, ele está com o motor avariado uma caixa de velocidades original, comprei um conjunto recuperado totalmente de um Prefect de outro modelo, com embreagem hidráulica, existe alguma maneira de eu colocar esse conjunto e adaptar o funcionamento da embreagem? Ou até quem sabe, passar as peças da caixa de velocidades que comprei, para a caixa original do Prefect 1949? Poderia me ajudar amigo!! Obrigado e que Deus te abençoe!! Hello!! Thank you for your teachings; Would you help me? I'm a Brazilian mechanic, I live in Portugal at the moment and I bought a 1949 Ford Prefect, I'm passionate about old cars, it has a broken engine and an original gearbox, I bought a set completely recovered from a Prefect of another model, with hydraulic clutch, Is there any way I can put this set and adapt the clutch operation? Or maybe even transfer the gearbox parts I bought to the original Prefect 1949 gearbox? Could you help me friend!! Thank you and may God bless you!!
It’s just the bit done with the go pro, it recorded like that and that noise was the case of the camera vibrating , it was only me talking rubbish to my Mrs anyway so no great loss lol, the rest of the video has normal sound.😊👍
Excellent video, Nick. Nice to see a car as old as me, still rolling down the streets.
Thanks Nick for another nice and interesting video, all my best to you and your family, have a great day!
Thank you Andy😊👍
Wow, very cool vintage.🐸🐸🐸
Hi Nick, they sure don't make them like they used to. The old stuff sure is easier to work on than the new stuff. A new car you have to give someone a small fortune and they just replace the whole transmission. Nice you can still get parts. Wow your brother sure has a lot of equipment in the shop, came in handy, hats off to your brother.
Shame about the rear end, thanks for the tour in Ole Olive. All the best to you and your Mrs. See you in the next one.
Cheers Robert.
Hi Robert, cor you’re right, I guess we bought the old girl just in time to be having to all this stuff to it lol, although the gearbox has been undone and messed around with before, and done by someone who wasn’t too fussy by the looks of the way some of the bits had been put back together again! That is a lifetime’s collection of equipment in my Brothers workshop, a couple of very big lathes picked up from local garages as they closed down, where these are is where the old granite apple crusher used to be many years ago when cider was made on the farm! Hopefully Olive won’t be off the road for another 18 months ( fingers crossed)
All the best, Nick.🐸🐸
Hello Nick great video like the trip in the country don’t work so hard hope your and your family are keeping well regards Glyn
Hi Glyn and thank you, all well here thanks, I hope you and yours are too!😊👍
All the best, Nick.🐸🐸
hi again nick.a beautifull car well done good work again.
Thank you John, hopefully I can tidy up the underside whilst the axle is off.😊👍🐸🐸
Great video nick what a lovey place to live l live in the center of Portsmouth close by the dockyard and Southsea l worked in the dockyard when they raised the Mary rose and brought it in the dockyard on a barge and worked on the Royal yacht went in for a refit all the best steve
Thank you Stephen, it is a lovely place though getting somewhat over populated now, the poor old inferstructure is starting to buckle under the weight!
We often stay at the Queens hotel in Southsea when we get the morning ferry back to Jersey, and nip the the weatherspoons down the street for our last meal of the holiday! I remember I was working on the farm for my Dad and he unusually gave me most of the day off to watch the raising of the Mary Rose as it happened, it was amazing, I love all that, I did go and see it when it was first put on show and I also saw some of the artifacts from it at the York Museum, really interesting. Wow, that’s cool that you worked on the Royal Yacht! 😊👍
All the best, Nick🐸🐸
Excellent video nick that's a flipping shame having took remove the diff ,but good work on a this lovely classic,.
All the best Martin 👍
Thank you Martin, it was a bit disappointing after all that but these things happen, at least I can replace the shock absorbers at the same time and tidy up the underside of the body whilst the axle is off! Take care, all the best, Nick.🐸🐸
I had subscribed for the diecast restorations but I found this one fun to watch too. After seeing the pretty scenery on your drive I had to finally google to see what Jersey is. Living in the southern US I had never heard of it and was surprised to find out it was an island and read about some of the history.
Anyway I enjoyed seeing the road trip at least as much as seeing you do the repairs. It's a very nice looking car and I'm glad it's getting an extension on it's life.
Regards, Steve
Thank you Steve, glad you enjoyed the video and finding out about our little old Island, my video in a couple of weeks time will be back to the diecast restorations, occasionally I will upload a video like the Ford Prefect one but I will try to do it as an extra one rather than an instead of one, this time it’s just because I have been too busy to do any diecast restoring😊👍
All the best, Nick🐸🐸🇯🇪
Hi Nick, that was interesting, l too have an old car and as someone has already said they are easier to work on than the modern stuff. I hope you have as much luck with the diff as you did with the gearbox and l look forward to watching that one, and of course the next lorry model restoration. Best wishes Tony. H.
Thank you Tony, the old diff is in a mess, a bearing decided to fall apart and the bits chewed just about every tooth on every gear in the axle, it will need everything replaced, managed to source the parts I need for it so hopefully it won’t be off the road so long!
Take care all the best, Nick.🐸🐸
life can be just so worth it sometimes...
Fascinating video Nick, I love doing a bit of mechanicing myself, I've got a fair few old tractors to restore when I retire. Your brother has a fantastically well equipped workshop there, has he worked in engineering in the past? Hope all goes well with the back axle repair. All the best. Peter.
Thank you Peter, when I was farming I always was restoring or making one tractor out of two or three, when I drove for a local agricultural merchant I used to go to loads of farms blowing cattle feed into the silos and lofts, I picked up quite a few old tractors on my rounds, usually for nothing, my lorry had a crane on it so it was easy for me to pick them up and bring them back to the farm😊👍 My brother hasn’t worked in engineering before, he’s always been on the Farm since leaving school, but he has always been a natural and very talented with this kind of thing, he has learned a lot from friends in engineering over the years👌👍😊 Hopefully the old prefect won’t be on axle stands for so long this time.🤞👍😊
All the best, Nick🐸🐸
Great video Nick you was lucky to get them bits for the gearbox will you have to send off for same more part or have you got another diff . I remember my Uncle had a car just like that and that of the whining sound when driving along , hope you can get the parts or repair it. Looking forward to seeing your next video.
Take care mate
Thanks Ralph, we got all the bits from Small Ford Spares in England, most of the stuff is readily available from them luckily, some is new old stock, some are repro parts, one of which we did have an issue with due to poor casting on some of the gear teeth. As soon as I have the axle dismantled we will know what we have to replace, I have looked on line and we can get everything that goes inside, but it could get pretty expensive all according to how many parts we need!
Take care, all the best, Nick🐸🐸🐸
1956. Ford. Prefect. 100E. Gearbox. Overhaul
Well, I guess you 'll be looking for broken teeth in the Diff, or maybe broken cross pins in the spider gears.
Whilst you have the axle off take the chance to replace the hub bearings with needle roller ones. They run in the cast axle end and always wear at the bottom. That might be the cause of the diff trouble (Though having never been near the car this is all psychic mechanics! 😅😉) I look forward to the next video on this 👍
Hi Bill, goodness knows what we will find, but we might end up replacing most of it, there’s a possibility either one or both of the half shafts could be damaged too, we’ll have to see once it is undone! We will change the hub bearings whilst it’s all apart, if I can get some, most of the stuff is available from Small Ford Spares although the roller bearings you mention do not fit the 100e, only the 105e by their website, I think it could well be pretty expensive whatever the case! 🤦🏻♂☹
The roller needle bearings they supply I mean don’t fit the 100e, may be able to get some somewhere else!😊👍
@@crapaudnicksdiecastrenovat1739 If you get accurate dimensions any good industrial bearing supplier should be able to sell you the right size. (They need to be loctited into the axle 😉). I almost had a heart attack when I priced a set to replace stub pins on an LDV Convoy (LDV parts) "no thanks!" said I 😆 Same bearings from an Industrial bearing supplier and all of a sudden The gripping pain around my wallet disappeared!! 🤣 And I could afford a spare set and a few pints! 😉
You seem to know what you're doing anyway, just get the inner, outer, and depth dimensions for what you need and have a google or call around. I can guarantee it'll be cheaper than a specialist classic car parts supplier 🤞👌
@@billforrest4205 thanks for that Bill, I will do that, thanks for the advice, best to replace everything we can whilst we’re at it, save more problems later on, if we can still afford the petrol lol😊👍
Make your own sandwiches for work tomorrow, was your wife ill or something? 😃 Enjoyed that Nick, that bloody camera must have been annoying at times when trying to progress with the job, so thanks for sharing. I would stick with bikes mate, you don't have to crawl underneath them..
Ooh no Mr. P. I’ve always made my own sandwiches for work, like that I never get something I don’t like for my lunch lol! I suppose I should strap a go pro to my chest or head but the sound always comes out rubbish on mine and I would probably end up wrecking it anyway lol, that’s why most of the video was “now what we are going to do next is….and ok we’ve just got this back on” The poor old bikes haven’t been out all summer this year😢 But I do have a nice big bike lift so I don’t have to bend down to do anything to them😉😊
All the best,
Nick.
i got a 101e from 1958
Cool, an old Anglia👍😊
Olá!! Obrigado por seus ensinamentos; Poderia me ajudar? Sou mecânico Brasileiro, moro em Portugal no momento e comprei um Ford Prefect 1949, sou apaixonado por carros antigos, ele está com o motor avariado uma caixa de velocidades original, comprei um conjunto recuperado totalmente de um Prefect de outro modelo, com embreagem hidráulica, existe alguma maneira de eu colocar esse conjunto e adaptar o funcionamento da embreagem? Ou até quem sabe, passar as peças da caixa de velocidades que comprei, para a caixa original do Prefect 1949? Poderia me ajudar amigo!! Obrigado e que Deus te abençoe!!
Hello!! Thank you for your teachings; Would you help me? I'm a Brazilian mechanic, I live in Portugal at the moment and I bought a 1949 Ford Prefect, I'm passionate about old cars, it has a broken engine and an original gearbox, I bought a set completely recovered from a Prefect of another model, with hydraulic clutch, Is there any way I can put this set and adapt the clutch operation? Or maybe even transfer the gearbox parts I bought to the original Prefect 1949 gearbox? Could you help me friend!! Thank you and may God bless you!!
No audio/sound Nick
It’s just the bit done with the go pro, it recorded like that and that noise was the case of the camera vibrating , it was only me talking rubbish to my Mrs anyway so no great loss lol, the rest of the video has normal sound.😊👍