WILL IT START ? - 82 YEAR OLD TRUCK COLD START
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- Опубликовано: 5 мар 2021
- We fire up an 82 year old AEC Matador in a cold start and then try the same on another Matador engine in an old start attempt without much success !
This is a classic old start cold start no start ! 
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The old fella bought an ex army Matador after the war when he came back from Burma. And it was used on farm for all sorts. Tuesday was market day and he’d take us to school in the lorry as a treat in the 60’s
Happy days 👍
I'm perfectly happy to watch you guys buggering about. More entertaining than the crap on tv, that's for sure.
"This isn't a rebuild in a can." I haven't laughed so hard in weeks
If in doubt “ double can the bastard” excellent
worst thing you could do in the 70's once easy start 's been used it needs to be used more and more.
No. Easy Start/Ether can be used to start a good engine in cold conditions with no issues.
It's when folk neglect and overlook underlying issues and rely on Ether as an easy fix that things deteriorate.
I only use rendered skunk fat for starting engines; highly flammable, totally safe, and it smells like fresh cut hay...
Jake Paul sent me some of his own brand aftershave...
@@LordMuck easy now, you'll end up in the ring with him. Lol
I still have a bottle of strawberry jam smelling 2 stroke oil for my Vespa which pongs like a strawberry petrol bomb and not very good lol
AEC matadors are built to last forever. loved the vid mucker
Brake and Clutch cleaner is demon for getting engines started! And yes let’s see what you can squirt in it 👍🏻
Great to see people who are restoring proper British engineering,, man here in northern Ireland has a few old trucks,, restored a scammel explorer 6x6 tank recovery,truck 10,5 litre rolls royce petrol,,,, liking this channel,, ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🚚🚚🚚🚚
As an owner of a’ fairly’ tidy Matador
I thoroughly enjoy that
Brilliant 👍
As biker myself that ducati 916 in background spoilt the moment 😁😁👍
That engine was so clean I thought it was a rebuild and wouldn't start. i didn't realise it was knackered haha.
Aww love those two lorries @20.00. Looking at the green one its even got its own nose bag in case it gets a little hungry.
Eyup Mucker. Saunders brought me here. Not a truck driver, but love these old trucks. Favourites being AEC Matadors, Militant, or any old Scammell
Yes. Maybe we can even see if whiskey works as a fuel. 😁 95 proof!
Greta was throwing fits with that smoke😄😄😄
Love this video, old is gold 👌
when i was a bairn i would go out with ma da to start our trucks in the morning to cold start,, burning newspaper held against air filter intake hole whilst turning over engine foot hard on accelerator , sometimes with a coal fire on a shovel slide under engine to help thin oil and defrost fuel lines as well.
I'm fine with watching whatever shenanigans you post. 👌🍻
My T Shirt arrived! Many thanks!!! It even fits and the wife didn't laugh at me :-) - "Double can the bastard"!! Brilliant!!!
Glad to hear it 👍
As an ex gunner.... lovely to see these old motors preserved😎👍🏼well done youth😂💪🏼
There a lovely old truck the matador my great uncle has two, one is a Notts city bus wrecker and the other a military spec gun tractor, before we had them ended up as timber tractors for Gregory's sawmill in Derbyshire and were both restored by our self's, and I have a 6 wheeler aec militant with a atlas crane on awaiting restoration brilliant video as always 👍🏻
Feck yeh I'd like to see a beer fueled experiment, ain't that what Saturday afternoons in the workshop all about.
Hi mucker.. A few years ago I put a Scania R420 dc13 engine running only in brake cleaner, men.. That thing was scary!! As soon as the engine stopped all the intake ports were on fire!! I like very much of those kind of trucks!! Real nice video!! In the 60s the Portuguese troops used a truck called Berliet Tramagal they say that sometimes they put them running with wisky! Let's make some experiments!!
Let's see what happens 👍
Yes, definitely want to see you run the tractor on various things, the smokier the better!
How DARE you!!!
Seeing those Matador's, brought back memories, I drove a Matador converted to drag timber when I was 12 yrs old, that darn thing climbed out of a bomb crater on tick-over, the owner thought it was quite funny to see me standing on the clutch pedal with both feet,........ Lovely old things British engineering at its best just like the Gardener Engines they had a kinda mesmerising tick over.. Great video...
The genuine love between a man and his dog cannot be beaten....
Anyone not wanting to see you bugger about with daft stuff needs to lighten up! I'm in 😂 The way that was spinning over, it was clear it was lacking compression, but I was dying for it to miraculously burst into life in a cloud of smoke.
What a lot of folk fail to realise however is that it's easy to jump to conclusions when somethings on a test frame or in a test house. With no ancillaries, pumps, compressors, driveline, clutch etc an engine behaves differently.
We didn't actually think it would fire on ether...
We have one matador in the tank museum in Belgium ,it runs and is in great cheap.
Double can the bar steward 😂😂......
Awesome 😎
Bit windy 🌬 near the end,should of fired up on vapours lol...👌😆
Feed it cooking spray if you have it there. Also those old trucks look fantastic the log hauler. Keep making the videos and I'll stay tuned
I’m ten minutes in and laughing like a fiend. No idea whether she’s going to get a look-in or not, so I’ll just say it: “How f--ing dare you?” Love this channel.
Guy Fuller 😂😂😂
It was cold morning no where near power to plug it in thought I would try either anyway a lesson was learned thanks
It's fine to use Russell, just not too much too often
Yes to the “Will it run on any old wank” video. Thanks Mucker 👍🏻
Tee shirts, cup etc received much appreciated, kids are jealous my 5 yr old is looking for a tee-shirt with Bill Sykes tee shirt
Excellent 👍
If anyone doesn't want to see the engine start experiments they shouldnt be watching this channel!! Of course I want to see it. Lovely seeing the AEC Matadors too. More of them too please!!
Lots of fun. Suggestion put a box fan in the window to draw out the exhaust as well as a piping out the exhaust pipe.
It's not as if we are stood in there for hours and the door was open.
Great to see you messing around with proper engines I grew up around aec Ford coaches I still drive coaches have class one driven seddon Atkinson twin Eaton split you drove then nowadays you just aim and go keep it up lads great to see this
Just been laughing me nuts off, good crack, can we have more of a laugh and see what you can start that tractor with, Brilliant.
I worked in the timber industry in the 1970s, 8os they were great machines could take a lot of stick and lovely sound, you are so lucky to have so many to play with
Too right I want to see you start an engine with various “fuels”
Way back in 1963 (I was 11 at the time) my parents had a spinney of very large elm's taken down as one of them had shown sighns of dutch elm disease, so they sold the lot to a timber company in Bedford,we were living in Waterbeach just outside Cambridge at the time. The timber co came along with an AEC Matador and a trailer on which to haul the trees away with. They loaded four or five of the trees onto the trailer at a time the trees being about four foot in diameter 50 foot or so long by the time they were trimmed. When it came time to haul the trailer away it had sunk up to its axles in the fen type soil so they would go to the length of the winch cable drop the spade and haul the trailer in then repeat until the matador was on the road and the traile was still bogged. The spade was then dropped against the curb and winching began again, well the front wheels would come of the ground and slowly the trailer would move foward while at the same time the matador moved backwards. By the time they had done this arond ten or so times there was a distinct bow in the curb stones and the foot path and there was ruts so deep and wide that I could walk in them and the ground was level with my waist,the ruts were still visable sixteen years later when my parents sold the old Vicarage site for for development which was right in the middle of the village and the curve in the curb is still there or was last time I went through Waterbeach four years ago. I asked about the wich at the time thinking that it must be special for them and was told that it was the same one fitted by AEC the only thing they did was replace the cast drum and axle with a turned steel one. That truck made a deep imppresion on me as well.
I wonder if it's still around ?
@@LordMuck I dont know the name of the timber company just that they came from Bedford or Bedfordshire and they specialised in elms at the time for coffins.
I am jumping the Cummins swap band wagon, I am now a fan of the Matador. ;)
Loved the vid. Had me in stitches when you were getting smoked out.Would be good to see different fluids tried.
Yes all you video are good
Yes would love to see what an engine will run on
Yes let’s see what you can get it to fire up on I’ll get the beer in to watch you 😊😊
Got my t shirts and stickers, well pleased!!
Good to hear Trevor 👍
Love those old engine
No waiting for the smoke to clear, double can and send it,, I nearly choked laughing 😂
@14.46, lol 'party gas' love it!
You know what I wanna come out and see you two
When I was 18, not long having passed my driving test, I had to take a Matador to one of the gangs working on site. 2 miles in, I had to negotiate a busy town, with the high street on a steep hill. Baptism of fire i think it's called. Must have done ok though, because it wasn't long before they put me through my HGV class 1.
A guy I used to know had a pulling lawn tractor, old John Deere 110,with a Kohler motor that was rebuilt to make about 25 or 30 horse power at about 10000 rpms!! He ran half 95 octane gas and nitro methane RC car gas! It was scary evil! Would love to see a big engine run on that shit!
That starts better than my Detroit.:)
I was informed that an engine needing ether to start will always need it once used. Some people saw it as an addiction and steered away from its use. I now know, thanks to your video, it was the demise of the engine and the ether was just a way of getting it started rather than carrying out the repairs required. Some people are old school.
Donkey jackets, now there's a topic to do; the yanks call them pony starts, I'm not confortable wearing a pony jacket but please do an historical approach. Big engine cold starts !
So interesting ...thanks guys !
Lol great video, love the choking from you two, I think we've all done the " let's run it up" in a confined space 😄 matador mecca for sure
Yes to the engine starting fluids.
CANT beat the smell of noxious diesel fumes in the morning .... makes you feel alive .... well for a while anyway !! lol
American or UK-dian....we all love cold starts. My Timberjack 225E cold starts all winter here in Michigan
I love a Timberjack. I'll have to have a go on one some day.
I had great memories of my old dad who used to called a blowtorch a blowlamp bless him. 👍
The proper blowlamps were the big ones run on paraffin.
Yes would like to see you messing about with the engine, love the channel your comments make laugh
Hi mate interesting stuff, i started my driving career in the early 70;s and used to drive two different matadors up and down the roads of oxfordshire fetching and loading timber, brilliant days!
Advice from an old carpenter about dust (exactly the same principle with smoke): The more you breathe in, the less gets in your eyes. You're welcome.
Any man who has a Ducati 916 in his garage gets my vote. That's pure motorcycling porn there! 😎
And a LDV tipper
Just love the way you tickle trout! Like shelling peas , you draw them in like Ali , then sting like a 🐝 brilliant , first class mucker
Another great video! Yes for the engine video.
Good wholesome fun right there! Brought back some good memories smoking the shed out. Top marks.
laughing out side and chocking to death. i cant stop laughing to. great vids cheers. nelson
I bloody love them wagons proper beast them and the scammel wrecker 🇬🇧👍🏼
Lynx should start a bloody engine it burns everything else 💥
Lord Muck another great vid ,Thanks for the Mugs and stickers they top notch , One problem lady Muck would love a Lady Muck mug could add it to the range
Glad you like them
Great vid Mucker. We had an old Matador at the garage where I started my apprenticeship. Well explained and well diagnosed 👍
Thanks for the video, Looks like there is a descriptive word for that engine beginning with f and ending with d to sum up it's condition. Yeah shove the ford engine video up that will be interesting.. It's funny you say about the matador running with the pump 180 out. I helped a buddy with his major puller , we put a newer ford 6 in it after an explosion and put a re machined timing gear on for his original huge Bosch P series/no govenor full fuel deal to run unlimited pro stock "rev limit being internal parts not staying inside the block rules" basically !
The guy that did the machining got the key groove 180 from the original timing mark. We missed it fitting the pump in a rush one night, she ran like that with so much fuel going in, it just didn't start so well. One of my 2704'ET's had the fuel aneroid on for the turbo. I figured it didn't smoke enough in my major so pulled that junk off and threw it under the bench. Oh $#!t she smoked then L.O.L. My shops 50x50 with 10x 300w lights in ,it filled the place so full of black smoke after 2 minutes you couldn't see the light were on !. Take care.
Another brilliant post thanks.
This happen when `the kid `inside us take over :-) Goodigoodi !
Holy smoke , a great will it start video . Lovely bit if history on the AEC 👍.
Brilliant video love the old matadors makes me want to get dads old one back that was in a bad way when he got it, looking forward to seeing more of the AEC content👍👍
nice to hear the histories
Alternative fuels,
I've run lawnmower engines on used cellulose paint thinners that had been used for cleaning spray guns.
I've used unlit blow touches down air intakes, best not to look down the manifold when doing this, they backfire quite spectacularly.
I also ran a lawnmower engine with no carb using some tf90 mould tool cleaning spray, basically acetone in an aerosol can.
I tried running a land rover 2 1/4 petrol engine on diesel.
On diesel engines I've tried wd-40, silicone oil and unless I lit them they didn't work as cold starting aids. Spraying a 4 foot long flame down the manifold was pretty cool, the flames were coming out of the exhaust for the second or so before the engine fired up.
If your engine is half decent it might run on these. The engines I was working with had probably done as many hours after they needed rebuilding as they had before their rebuild was due.
An engine should pretty much run to a degree on anything you can light with a match or lighter.
Roger Moore (JAMES BOND) lit up a snake in “live and let die” with aftershave or spray cologne. As a kid I made tennis ball cannons using ladies hair spray (flammable kind) there are so many flammable sprays to try as starting fluid.
Awesome Vid, Love the old AEC's. Good banter with your mate 👍 Cheers.
Ether isn’t just for diesels...used to use it to start my Mini 1000 in -20 weather.....the SU needed an oil change to ATF first and sometimes I would heat the bell with a propane torch. At -30 and colder, the engine would overcool and produce no cabin heat even with the rad completely blocked off. Fun times.
Not only had an email to say my shirt is on its way but also a FB message and a picture of the package. Can’t ask for better service then that and for a good cause. Get your orders in lads!
THAT was entertaining, amusing, educational, and brought back memories of similar shenanigans 👍
This is a awsome video again. I was in stitches when it fired and filled the room with smoke. Brilliant video
Good grief, I'd put it back to work. Just a bit of polish. Always a good video.
Hi Mucker I think it would be a great video to see you and the old fudweasel uking about with that engine trying to get it to start on different fluids, I got ta say you and the Cosby juices on the matador engine had me ni on -issing myself laughing at you 2 doing a runner and coughing your guts up that Cosby juice is some good tackle, well it got me laughing on a Sunday morning, thanks another great video.
In the TA centre in the 50s and 60s we had 4 sets of these with the 5.5 inch howitzer's towed behind them.
Dual wield that Cosby sauce! Mint!
Love the tee shirt and mug cheers
Look forward to the spray and go
Good stuff Rodney glad you got it 👍
We had a rescue lab he had been through the wars the poor boy, some shit decided he would see how sharp his knife was on him, it took three years until I could touch his stomach or tail as his tail had been broken, once he learnt to trust us he was a lovely dog, he had about ten good years with us
That's wonderful 😎
We as a family have a few AEC’s, (mammoth majors and a mercury) they always run on the first crank every time. Brilliant engines and brilliant trucks.
Thankyou for showing the matador engine, using the chance to show a good and bad engine with help needed. Providing a demonstration of testing in all its forms .... I will look forward to what you find out , inspecting the parts, well done 👍
Another great video... Can't wait to see what starts and what doesn't using the various concoctions.. Keep them coming👍
Really enjoyed this one, and waiting with baited breath for the next one, there was some great kit built during the war
One of the best episodes yet 👍🏻
Great video. Feels more like home. -12 c again here this morning. Found myself leaning toward screen trying to help will the old Matador to life from 4:30 to 4:55 on video.
I need help..
Not familiar with these engines, but the easy roll-over and the expressions on your face kinda hinted what was up and that you knew from the get-go and just went with it for fun. Definitely a chuckle (ps you really hate mosquitoes don't you... haha )
Give Lysol Spray a go, just to keep the Covid at bay.
Cut some used motor oil with some diesel for a fuel & give Gretta the fits
Cheers
Go for it mucker,what a bloody good idea love to see what it’ll run on. Stay safe 👍👍🚜🚜
Great video Mucka!, learnt a lot about the Matador engine in this excellent informative video, keep it up! 👍