Getting the engine in and out of that APC is a hell of a lot quicker than getting the engine in and out of a 2011 1.4 Ford Fiesta. So yes, it makes a hell of a lot of sense as it was designed that way.
@@paralogregt The worst job on a Fiesta is you have to dismantle the entire front end before you even start on disconnecting the ancillaries. Much rather work on a Ford Capri or a British APC.
@@Jin-Ro yeah but you did not have to do it in the middle of the night in October in a german forest with a bunch of shit tools. And it was raining or snowing.
I am surprised that half this show wasn't bleeped out. I know what it is like to go through all that to discover a problem after refitting the donk. Looking forward to the next show. Love your work
Oh no, what a way to spend a day in the cold! Looking forward to seeing the 432 running soon. I think that cane would look awesome with some racing stripes, tinted windows and a spoiler.
Unless you have been there do don't realise how hard it is. So appreciation deserved. I would rather watch you struggle in the cold than to attempt it myself again at 60. I'll wait for spring!
I have a 1966 M151 A1, the 1/4 ton ‘jeep’ that the U.S. and many NATO forces used during Vietnam and the Cold War. It uses the same design criteria where the radiator is bolted to the engine, not the frame, so the entire ‘power pack’ (radiator, engine, transmission, transfer case) come out as a unit, without even spilling any fluids. Motorpools would have power packs at the ready and they could be swapped out in no time. It’s a good idea and interesting to see this in the FV432, and presumably others.
I feel your pain! two years ago I fitted a 3.4 engine into my Mk2 Jaguar restoration project, for some reason I did not think to fit the heater hose that runs from the back of the water pump around the head to the heater, fitted the metal pipe that takes the coolant to a point above the starter motor, just under the rear carb, spent the last three days trying to fit the rubber hose onto that pipe, almost dropped the engine / gearbox out again.......
I know that the REME used to keep a set of leads so that they could run up the pack sitting in front of the 432s before they put the pack back in the vehicle. If you are planning to repair quite a few 430 series of packs, it might be a good idea to make up a set of leads and save some heart ache???? PS Putting a split pin in the gear selector socket on the vehicle will simulate the gear selector being in neutral. Keep up the great work and please keep the videos coming.
Ex REME A mech here. All the leads from the vehicle will reach the pack if you turn it round. It was the Warrior that needed the extended fuel lines for ground running.
@@freeman6659 I was just going to say the same thing. pack out turn round, connect up and run and look for leaks etc. cant quite imagine how many I did lol
Yes, you are correct. It was a very long time ago and my memory is not what it used to be. Actually it was never very good in the first place!! LOL Thank you for your service and for the helpful information.@@freeman6659
As a system it worked well but suffered from a paucity of spare engines! However. The killer was the MoD civvies who kept extending pack hour life so there was a great deal of field repair as you have shown also the life became so extended that nobody ever saw it made! The crane on the 434 could only just manage the pack change after a while. It was a paint to paint job to manage the clearances. Spares were a problem sometimes. I once wired the starter circuit with multiple lengths of Don 10 telephone wire as it was all that was available. I am not sure what the Signaller thought about it, probably blamed some tank movement passing by at time!
Chuffin' cold. Bloody iPhone. Stuff breaks. Crap happens. Still watch and enjoy this over pretty much anything I can wave a spanner at. Always something to learn watching your efforts. Fixin' stuff is what you do well. Tomorrow is another day. We'll still be here. Thanks for sharing, even the crappy times...
Hi guys, real bad luck. Thanks for all. By the the way if you have not already done it, tell us how you guys learned all the knowledge you have on these huge lumps of steel. Many thanks from Nr Chester.
Get your selves some ring spanners with built in ratchet mechanism. Halfords do some superb ones and you’ll have your prop bolts nipped up in a fraction of the time. Just thinking of poor Seb and his cold fingers.
Aw! What a bummer! It's really depressing when you realise you have to backtrack on a job, especially for such a small thing... kudos to Ted for making sure you didn't do anything unsafe!
This brought back memories of fitting a clutch on a Bedford CF in the snow, it was so cold I had buckets of warm water to keep putting my hands in, I hate it when it's so cold your brain tells your fingers to start a bolt and they just don't do what you tell them.
I feel your pain, remember fixing various vehicles in the drive way in the dead of winter wearing so many layers under my boiler suit that I could hardly move my arms. Happy days.
I'm guessing you thought twice about posting this video? So glad you did though as it's all part of the journey. I don't know a thing about engines or tanks but your videos are wonderful to watch. Thank you so much for uploading them.
Best thing sometimes it all goes wrong and the spanner is half way down the yard , but finding the fault and curing it is something to talk about once it’s up and running, good video
Am a patient soul and I fix things that run on diesel and petrol. But this sort of fault would do my head in. I hate doing it twice. Best of luck sorting it. Keep an eye on them TED
I suggest you get a Chinese diesel heater. With a tarp to cover the open area. That way you could work underneath the tarp. Not as good as the shop but better than freezing your balls off.
I've been eyeing one up... there's a cheap one that has all replaceable and changeable parts. You can run them on kerosene, veg oil, filter engine oil (with modifications). SSLFamilyDad channel did good experiments with it. They are based on an old German design that's gone out of patent. P.S. Yes, China produces some utter rubbish. Also makes some proper quality gear - it's just harder to find amongst the detritus.
When I had a car breakers for 10 years Jake my Rotti used to love sitting in the JCB 6C Cab with me, I would swing the cab around and he would hop on the track and in the Cab Rip Jake
Remind me of Le Mans race cars, just swap out the complete rear end if you have a drive train issue. However it does mean teams with lots of $$'s benefit over those that don't :)
Good shout on the pack change ideology on the 43's in the field. Never happened to mine but always comforting to see a 434 with a spare pack in the back as it made its way past me, on the way to some other needy wagon. Totally feel your pain on the efforts of a pack lift gone to waste but can't be helped. The cold doesn't make it any more forgiving though. I wonder though, would latex gloves be any use? Even a thin membrane like that might just help keep some heat in your fingers a tad more? I know they'll likely tear after some use but even a short reprieve from ice-block-finger might be comforting... Just a thought.
Can't believe you made Ted and Adam get all cold for naught.... At least it's not snowing, I guess... Anyhoo, onwards and upwards as they keep saying...🤔🤔😲😲🙂🙂👍🏼👍🏼🇳🇿🇳🇿
And this engine-swapping method engendered the Combat Mechanic Corps, leading their Little Yellow Cranes into battle - their catchphrase "Ratchets UP, lads!" 😎 It'll all come right tomorrow. No worries!
What a disaster! - Still swapping an engine in the cold must be better than swapping one under enemy fire! I'm guessing Ted went inside. I'm sure you'd have liked to have saved a fortune on a starter, but you have a spare now, and there won't be any seized bolts to undo. Maybe the phantom sign writer will strike again! 🙂👍
Success is built on failure. Getting knocked down is the easy part. Getting back up is the “way” (the path that can only be experienced and not explained) of the tank mechanic.
Yep that would definitely class as a bad day good job you don’t have many. Relax, regroup and remove. Worse things have happened at sea 🤷♂️ so they say-but i prefer land so could not confirm nor deny this statement lol
I feel your pain. I did the prescribed PM rebuild on my Mercruiser outdrive recently replacing every oil seal and gasket. Put it back on - tested ok but a week later noticed oil level dropping but no evidence of a leak. Eventually had to remove and strip it again to find a new drive shaft oil seal was leaking into an inaccessible space. I may have used some rude words. Sh1t happens - even when you're doing the right thing right😢
I seem to recall that cylindrical shape starter motor was a modification introduced in the 90s, something about the cost or availability of the earlier type. But the mod included changing the end of the neg cable from straight to 90 degree type which fits both types of starter. Not something you could do easily in the field because it needed a big soldering iron we called the cricket bat.
The 9th of Jan was evil cold. It looked lovely out of the window :o) I popped a reverse light on the wife’s Yaris last night (9th) because I thought today might be colder? Winter sucks!
I’m ashamed to say that had I just experienced that level of mechanical face-slap I’d have blown up in a full “thwarted-six-year-old” tantrum of epic and possibly career-best proportions with wailing, foot-stamping and finally, a complete refusal to come out from the cupboard under the stairs even if cleverly tempted with a toffee apple.
When I had a 432, a mate borrowed it, turned the fuel and scavenge pump off without telling me and I ran out of fuel in the middle of the bomb hole in the show arena.
oh i am shocked at you not splashing your paint brush around that engine bay and engine - i was hoping for full on detailing and attention - i'm grumpy now working in the cold is no fun, must admit i done my fair share of that 'back in the day' dragging dead motors round the yard, jumping cables between CVRTs and whatever - the old Eager Beaver became my favourite toy, to access dead vehicles parked against a fairly high bank, we just drove up on top, ran the jump cable and did the job without having to drag loads of other stuff out the way unnecessarily surprised you not pushed that beasty into the workshop, lit up a space heater at the rear to pre warm the vehicle before working on it, all orifices closed - working on cold nuts and bolts makes me shudder now just thinking of it - no wonder my hands hate the cold now, they don't work like they used to, come to think of it, not much else does either
You will not convince me that removing the engine to change a starter is a good idea. More so when you have a crook cable. Only the poms would design something like that.
Chin up lads. Just spen an hour an a half lying on snow, to take the alternator of my wifes Suzuki Jimny. A 5 min job, but the pivot bolt was mullerd so I had to take the mounting bracket off. Thing is there isn't much more than fingertip access to the bolts without stripping out the rad, power steering pipes ect....not doing that in a semi public parking.
Reminds me of my misery of having to put a leyland 4/98 engine in and out a old Jcb 3c3 twice under a tarp in the yard in terrible weather, with Mr Sketchy the slightly bent engine crane blocked up on heavy beams across the loader arms, lift out bay partially, shove beams and cribbing under, shorten chain, relift, slide more beams under etc all the time flying up and down the machine trying not to slip on wet greasy metal footholds. All because I put the flex plate in backwards. Connect everything up after 2 day of struggle, bolt it the torque converter, reconnect all the steering and hydraulics pumps and crank. "thunk thunk thunk" as the torque converter started to hook up and touched the end of the bolts holding the mid plate. Mr Sketchy bent removing it the second time and I gave up not wanting to suffer death by shitty leyland diesel to something vital and bought a fork lift for the re-insertion.
Bummer you guys didn't have the time and resources to spruce the engine pack up, to at least make sure that's reliable. Oh well, time and constraints, it is what it is. Protip (possibly): if your camera doesn't want to focus, just put your hand over it 1-2-3 then pop it off. Dunno if your phone will behave the same, but my old 1020 does the same after about 40 minutes of filming. Starts acting up, doesn't want to focus anymore and that fixes it for a few minutes.
On the bright side: You get another chance to film the engine going back in. 🙂
On the other bright side, maybe another chance to see Ted again
Getting the engine in and out of that APC is a hell of a lot quicker than getting the engine in and out of a 2011 1.4 Ford Fiesta. So yes, it makes a hell of a lot of sense as it was designed that way.
The worst job on a 432 was the steering box. They made the hatch way too small. I would much rather lift a pack.
@@paralogregt The worst job on a Fiesta is you have to dismantle the entire front end before you even start on disconnecting the ancillaries. Much rather work on a Ford Capri or a British APC.
@@Jin-Ro yeah but you did not have to do it in the middle of the night in October in a german forest with a bunch of shit tools. And it was raining or snowing.
@@Jin-Rothe worst job on a fiesta, is driving it!
@@paralogregt But you would wake up to a Blue van in the middle of your area with tea and butties.
Shame Ted can't speak, he had that ''Your starter's fucked' look in his eyes.
The added element of running the old youtube channel off of the old iPhone just lifts the whole experience
Nothing better than getting home from uni or work, sipping coffee and finding Mr Ted video
I am surprised that half this show wasn't bleeped out. I know what it is like to go through all that to discover a problem after refitting the donk. Looking forward to the next show. Love your work
Oh no, what a way to spend a day in the cold! Looking forward to seeing the 432 running soon. I think that cane would look awesome with some racing stripes, tinted windows and a spoiler.
Black with flames down the side?
And a pair of fluffy dice
a rare lapse from Ted there not biting your leg when he saw the earth terminal & you decided be alright.
Well done lads, shame about the starter!!
Well done it didn't work?! :D
Unless you have been there do don't realise how hard it is.
So appreciation deserved.
I would rather watch you struggle in the cold than to attempt it myself again at 60.
I'll wait for spring!
I have a 1966 M151 A1, the 1/4 ton ‘jeep’ that the U.S. and many NATO forces used during Vietnam and the Cold War. It uses the same design criteria where the radiator is bolted to the engine, not the frame, so the entire ‘power pack’ (radiator, engine, transmission, transfer case) come out as a unit, without even spilling any fluids. Motorpools would have power packs at the ready and they could be swapped out in no time. It’s a good idea and interesting to see this in the FV432, and presumably others.
That's why it sloted in so well and easily! They had a 'professional' working the crane!. On ya Ted!. 🤣🤣 Nuff said.
Easily done, we all make mistakes it's how we learn. Keep warm, at least this cold is better than all the fecking rain.
Hard luck guys- warm up, press on and onwards to victory 👍
I feel your pain! two years ago I fitted a 3.4 engine into my Mk2 Jaguar restoration project, for some reason I did not think to fit the heater hose that runs from the back of the water pump around the head to the heater, fitted the metal pipe that takes the coolant to a point above the starter motor, just under the rear carb, spent the last three days trying to fit the rubber hose onto that pipe, almost dropped the engine / gearbox out again.......
If it's got tits or tyres, it's gonna be trouble
I know that the REME used to keep a set of leads so that they could run up the pack sitting in front of the 432s before they put the pack back in the vehicle. If you are planning to repair quite a few 430 series of packs, it might be a good idea to make up a set of leads and save some heart ache???? PS Putting a split pin in the gear selector socket on the vehicle will simulate the gear selector being in neutral.
Keep up the great work and please keep the videos coming.
Ex REME A mech here. All the leads from the vehicle will reach the pack if you turn it round. It was the Warrior that needed the extended fuel lines for ground running.
@@freeman6659 I was just going to say the same thing. pack out turn round, connect up and run and look for leaks etc. cant quite imagine how many I did lol
Yes, you are correct. It was a very long time ago and my memory is not what it used to be. Actually it was never very good in the first place!! LOL Thank you for your service and for the helpful information.@@freeman6659
As a system it worked well but suffered from a paucity of spare engines! However. The killer was the MoD civvies who kept extending pack hour life so there was a great deal of field repair as you have shown also the life became so extended that nobody ever saw it made! The crane on the 434 could only just manage the pack change after a while. It was a paint to paint job to manage the clearances. Spares were a problem sometimes. I once wired the starter circuit with multiple lengths of Don 10 telephone wire as it was all that was available. I am not sure what the Signaller thought about it, probably blamed some tank movement passing by at time!
Bugger!. Cheers from Adelaide Australia
Chuffin' cold. Bloody iPhone. Stuff breaks. Crap happens. Still watch and enjoy this over pretty much anything I can wave a spanner at. Always something to learn watching your efforts. Fixin' stuff is what you do well. Tomorrow is another day. We'll still be here. Thanks for sharing, even the crappy times...
Hi guys, real bad luck. Thanks for all. By the the way if you have not already done it, tell us how you guys learned all the knowledge you have on these huge lumps of steel. Many thanks from Nr Chester.
Well at least Ted got to drive the little yellow crane.
Just one word in the diary today. It just said .... Bugger!
Problems like this are what keeps us grounded.
Seems you've got the same problem as me, everything requires 2 try's so far this year haha, but it'll run no doubt!
Kind regards, Martin
Get your selves some ring spanners with built in ratchet mechanism. Halfords do some superb ones and you’ll have your prop bolts nipped up in a fraction of the time. Just thinking of poor Seb and his cold fingers.
Aw! What a bummer! It's really depressing when you realise you have to backtrack on a job, especially for such a small thing... kudos to Ted for making sure you didn't do anything unsafe!
Love how you guys are always running on a wing and a prayer AND it always works out in the end 👌👍👍
This brought back memories of fitting a clutch on a Bedford CF in the snow, it was so cold I had buckets of warm water to keep putting my hands in, I hate it when it's so cold your brain tells your fingers to start a bolt and they just don't do what you tell them.
I feel ya working in the cold . But you guys are working circles around me. It’s awesome to see
I feel your pain, remember fixing various vehicles in the drive way in the dead of winter wearing so many layers under my boiler suit that I could hardly move my arms. Happy days.
I'm guessing you thought twice about posting this video? So glad you did though as it's all part of the journey.
I don't know a thing about engines or tanks but your videos are wonderful to watch. Thank you so much for uploading them.
Best thing sometimes it all goes wrong and the spanner is half way down the yard , but finding the fault and curing it is something to talk about once it’s up and running, good video
Am a patient soul and I fix things that run on diesel and petrol. But this sort of fault would do my head in.
I hate doing it twice.
Best of luck sorting it. Keep an eye on them TED
Some days you get the bear,some days the bear gets you. So close but no cigar!!!
I suggest you get a Chinese diesel heater. With a tarp to cover the open area. That way you could work underneath the tarp. Not as good as the shop but better than freezing your balls off.
Is Chinese diesel OK ? why not one that heats British Diesel?
A chinese device that heats diesel. They think of everything these days.
I've been eyeing one up... there's a cheap one that has all replaceable and changeable parts. You can run them on kerosene, veg oil, filter engine oil (with modifications). SSLFamilyDad channel did good experiments with it. They are based on an old German design that's gone out of patent.
P.S. Yes, China produces some utter rubbish. Also makes some proper quality gear - it's just harder to find amongst the detritus.
@@Mercmad
Simply cost difference between expensive English or economic Chinese diesel heater. Both do the job.
Damn good friend, the face after “one more blip”. Brilliant
I say, Jolly good effort you chaps! What awful luck!
Never mind. At least you get to practice working under a shonky old crane carrying a big heavy engine pack again. Good luck 👷♀
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Keep at it guys. Love your work!
aah bummer ... but good to see Ted sharing his skill & experience as a crane op .. lol
Yes well done it's all a learning curve and not a disaster, two steps forward and one step back , or two steps forward and do it again !!
When I had a car breakers for 10 years Jake my Rotti used to love sitting in the JCB 6C Cab with me, I would swing the cab around and he would hop on the track and in the Cab Rip Jake
Remind me of Le Mans race cars, just swap out the complete rear end if you have a drive train issue. However it does mean teams with lots of $$'s benefit over those that don't :)
It's good to have a practice run mate. Just part of the fun working with machinery.
thank you very much for good entertainment. 👍🤗👍
Good shout on the pack change ideology on the 43's in the field. Never happened to mine but always comforting to see a 434 with a spare pack in the back as it made its way past me, on the way to some other needy wagon.
Totally feel your pain on the efforts of a pack lift gone to waste but can't be helped. The cold doesn't make it any more forgiving though.
I wonder though, would latex gloves be any use? Even a thin membrane like that might just help keep some heat in your fingers a tad more? I know they'll likely tear after some use but even a short reprieve from ice-block-finger might be comforting... Just a thought.
That little crane is actually pretty fecking good.
As the great man once said, 'We do it right, because we do it twice'. Grand crane action. Cheers
Can't believe you made Ted and Adam get all cold for naught....
At least it's not snowing, I guess...
Anyhoo, onwards and upwards as they keep saying...🤔🤔😲😲🙂🙂👍🏼👍🏼🇳🇿🇳🇿
And this engine-swapping method engendered the Combat Mechanic Corps, leading their Little Yellow Cranes into battle - their catchphrase "Ratchets UP, lads!" 😎
It'll all come right tomorrow. No worries!
What a disaster! - Still swapping an engine in the cold must be better than swapping one under enemy fire! I'm guessing Ted went inside. I'm sure you'd have liked to have saved a fortune on a starter, but you have a spare now, and there won't be any seized bolts to undo. Maybe the phantom sign writer will strike again! 🙂👍
Despite the failure', Ted did a marvelous job on the crane! Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. Tomorrow is another day!
Success is built on failure. Getting knocked down is the easy part. Getting back up is the “way” (the path that can only be experienced and not explained) of the tank mechanic.
At least Ted is now fully trained on the crane.
I will buy some of that Cold Weather from you guys. Do you ship Express to Australia?
Canberra is cold,Cold as a prime ministers smile.
On behalf of the UK i'll do you a swap, 6 months of our weather for 6 months of your weather!
You can keep the spiders and snakes though 😋
There’s at least one antipodean FantaPants that would and has vehemently disagrees about this being a good idea - though she’s quite wrong.
Yep that would definitely class as a bad day good job you don’t have many.
Relax, regroup and remove.
Worse things have happened at sea 🤷♂️ so they say-but i prefer land so could not confirm nor deny this statement lol
Too bad , So sad! great perseverance! Better luck next time!
I feel your pain. I did the prescribed PM rebuild on my Mercruiser outdrive recently replacing every oil seal and gasket. Put it back on - tested ok but a week later noticed oil level dropping but no evidence of a leak. Eventually had to remove and strip it again to find a new drive shaft oil seal was leaking into an inaccessible space. I may have used some rude words.
Sh1t happens - even when you're doing the right thing right😢
Good news. I watched this while waiting for my car MOT. It passed 🎉🎉
1:30 Well that's a setup I've not seen before.... rear engined, FWD!!!! 😂😂😂😂
I seem to recall that cylindrical shape starter motor was a modification introduced in the 90s, something about the cost or availability of the earlier type. But the mod included changing the end of the neg cable from straight to 90 degree type which fits both types of starter. Not something you could do easily in the field because it needed a big soldering iron we called the cricket bat.
Just one of those days. Good luck!
Oh Bugger! Shit happens. Tomorrow is another day.
The 9th of Jan was evil cold. It looked lovely out of the window :o) I popped a reverse light on the wife’s Yaris last night (9th) because I thought today might be colder? Winter sucks!
Well atleast they didn't have to work on the engine here in Sweden last weekend, when I had - 26
I don’t know what happens to the U.K. at -26? :o) @@kittehgo
@@teamidris People call for a tempixt? 😄
LOL yes. Fararge would strait on TV claiming global warming was a hoax :o) @@kittehgo
Ace. Would a chest or head mount, be a good idea? Or even, (shock-horror!) a camera?
duct tape?
Ouch. Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear...
One bright point, the head lights worked.
I’m ashamed to say that had I just experienced that level of mechanical face-slap I’d have blown up in a full “thwarted-six-year-old” tantrum of epic and possibly career-best proportions with wailing, foot-stamping and finally, a complete refusal to come out from the cupboard under the stairs even if cleverly tempted with a toffee apple.
Ah... them famous words of yours.
"It will be alright" 😂
Sure was eh.... 🤣
But don't fret... it will be alright 🤪
I think the phrase is oh bugger!. Still happens to us all
When I had a 432, a mate borrowed it, turned the fuel and scavenge pump off without telling me and I ran out of fuel in the middle of the bomb hole in the show arena.
oh i am shocked at you not splashing your paint brush around that engine bay and engine - i was hoping for full on detailing and attention - i'm grumpy now
working in the cold is no fun, must admit i done my fair share of that 'back in the day' dragging dead motors round the yard, jumping cables between CVRTs and whatever - the old Eager Beaver became my favourite toy, to access dead vehicles parked against a fairly high bank, we just drove up on top, ran the jump cable and did the job without having to drag loads of other stuff out the way unnecessarily
surprised you not pushed that beasty into the workshop, lit up a space heater at the rear to pre warm the vehicle before working on it, all orifices closed - working on cold nuts and bolts makes me shudder now just thinking of it - no wonder my hands hate the cold now, they don't work like they used to, come to think of it, not much else does either
At least we know that you will not turn away from the job, you always finish what you start, or try to start!
You will not convince me that removing the engine to change a starter is a good idea. More so when you have a crook cable. Only the poms would design something like that.
That was bad luck joe
But the more I see you use the little crane the more I think it need to stay and get a refresh #savethecrane
When I saw the title I was thinking "it can't be that bad, nothing is on fire in the thumbnail"
Sometimes no matter how hard one tries, the best laid plans can sometimes become completely bullocks!😢
Only ever did one 4 pack change and it was a pain in the arse. Worse bit was the piano boards. Give me a challenger anyday
doesn't that engine compartment look so clean!
Far too clean
Chin up lads. Just spen an hour an a half lying on snow, to take the alternator of my wifes Suzuki Jimny. A 5 min job, but the pivot bolt was mullerd so I had to take the mounting bracket off. Thing is there isn't much more than fingertip access to the bolts without stripping out the rad, power steering pipes ect....not doing that in a semi public parking.
Such a shame, hope you have better luck tomorrow. 🤞🤞
Shame about the Earth wire. I bet there was a lot of swearing went on lol 😂 . Earth wires the Bain of any vehicle. 👍
Oh dear ! But well done with everything else. 👍
Oh Joe 🤦🏻. What a ball ache.
Should have used a block & tackle in that weather as the effort would have kept you warm. Well done guys love your videos.
Nothing like doing the Same shit job twice instead of just never ….glad it’s not just me
Reminds me of my misery of having to put a leyland 4/98 engine in and out a old Jcb 3c3 twice under a tarp in the yard in terrible weather, with Mr Sketchy the slightly bent engine crane blocked up on heavy beams across the loader arms, lift out bay partially, shove beams and cribbing under, shorten chain, relift, slide more beams under etc all the time flying up and down the machine trying not to slip on wet greasy metal footholds. All because I put the flex plate in backwards. Connect everything up after 2 day of struggle, bolt it the torque converter, reconnect all the steering and hydraulics pumps and crank. "thunk thunk thunk" as the torque converter started to hook up and touched the end of the bolts holding the mid plate. Mr Sketchy bent removing it the second time and I gave up not wanting to suffer death by shitty leyland diesel to something vital and bought a fork lift for the re-insertion.
That oh f*** moment when you just want to reach for a pint of petrol and a match...
That starter on yellow crane didn't sound to good either,That's be some fun for another day,
Its all character building.... that's what we were told anyway lol. Good work though, enjoying yourself in the cold.
What's the story with the Yellow crane , it looks like something from an aircraft carrier?
That little yellow crane is well handy who needs an engine hoist when you got that
Great effort boys. Doesn't that piss you off.
Welcome to my world of mechanics.
Never mind it is character building ? - If at first you don't succed, TRY< TRY < AGAIN. Well done lads
Good job you get everything given cos you broke it mending it 😂😂😂
Nice episode, Joe
Wot a lovely little yellow crane , you could write a song about it ...🤔
Did not realise your name was apple. Apple hewes, how sweetie 😂😂
Bummer you guys didn't have the time and resources to spruce the engine pack up, to at least make sure that's reliable. Oh well, time and constraints, it is what it is.
Protip (possibly): if your camera doesn't want to focus, just put your hand over it 1-2-3 then pop it off. Dunno if your phone will behave the same, but my old 1020 does the same after about 40 minutes of filming. Starts acting up, doesn't want to focus anymore and that fixes it for a few minutes.