It was a pleasure to watch Doc Steve perform surgery on the T55. Great job. I have also added, "fiddle farting around," to my list of phrases to use when dealing with my kids.
I think having Steve on your show is a real benefit as it explains the drive mechanisms of the tanks in your collection and what it takes to keep the runners working for your shows! Good stuff!
Great job Steve! You and Silvio attacked the monster and won. Soviet tank design was make it simple and build a lot. They expected any major repairs to be done in a depot. You are doing repairs never dreamed of by the designers!That 70+ year old tank was designed with a battle life of days and weeks in mind. Not an old age retirement in a world class museum!
I would like to see more videos like this. I enjoy the bodywork restorations too but I especially like the more mechanical stuff like this (since you asked)
I love the intro apologising because of the unplanned video. As it turns out it was one if the best. Trouble shooting soviet armour without a Haines Manual takes real skill and you boys have it in spades. On the plus side you now do working holidays at Aus Armour, nice Keep up the good work, cant wait until next week
I really love to see the guys building something out of sheet metal which looks like the original 80 year old part, but maintenance and repairs are also part of live, so watching those repair episodes are also great. The fried socket on the Leo was something else!
I really enjoyed the different style of this video, including the mobile phone footage shop in cramped spaces. Feels like Steve has been watching Matt @DieselCreek in his spare time. A bit of gonzo style tank maintenance without the OTT humour of @MrHewes. More please.
Nice video and very enjoyable!! Steve solves some serious problems and I enjoy watching his work and learning some techniques!! Silvio is going to be a good help as he learns the ropes from Steve. I think these maintenance and repair videos are a strong addition to the restoration work being done!! That T-55 is a brute to work on I think - the cam cover fitting under the turret looks like a lot of good luck on the Russian's part - too close to call 😂
I thought it was interesting to see the troubleshooting and the requirement to fix stuff in place. As a M60 and M1 tanker, we would just pull packs and we could do it in like 40 minutes or so and the tankers were doing most of the work, the mechanics were just operating the M88 and the civilian contractors were the ones that actually fixed the packs.
Thanks, Steve & Silvio, really enjoyed the episode, reminiscent of the Tank Muesum workshop episodes. I am a fan of that Soviet era amour. The T55 especially has character, which considering it was not made to be pretty, it really looks like a tank should look. Not covered in mesh, reactive armor panels etc. The way Steve explained what he was doing was brilliant as it made total sense, Cheers and thanks for another brilliant Workshop Wednesday.
Steve's incredible wealth of knowledge along with this mechanical genius and wonderful explanation of whats happening and narration of his procedures to fix the hornets nest mechanical craziness that is the T55 was a pleasure to watch. If he can spare the time, more of these episodes would be awesome. Two thumbs up for Steve.
I am a member of the ONTAR museum in Oshawa Ontario. And I leave all the Russian equipment work to those with a higher patience level. American made for this Mechanic. Good job you guys. Russian tech starts every time love the noise and smoke you always know they are running no need for smoke grenades. LOL
Just spent 8 hours fiddling with a selection of Chineseum carbs on my lawnmower trying to get it to run with varying result from nothing to to burning off all the hair on my arm as it ran away, lots of flames and sparks "Cleaned all the carbon out though😂". Nearly rolled the thing out to the middle of the lawn and put a match to it. I don't feel so bad after watching this now😁. Cheers guys.
Yes it's great to see the spanner work and repairs, as well as the restoration work, Steve's a great asset to the team there. I know it's a tank, but should it smoke that much. I know on first start-up it will smoke, but I thought it would clear once started.
Good on you Silvio. Thanks for coming to Australia. This was a real education for me. I have seen working T-55s in places where little else worked, including the sewage system, so assumed they were idiot-proof and meant to leak and sound like a can of nails. The older I get the more I learn about assumptions.
First-person mechanic view was a cinematic masterpiece! What a difference in the engineering between this and the Leopard 1 power pack from a while back. The German and Russian tank engineering ideologies hadn’t changed during the Cold War from WWII.
It's great to see a maintenance job, don't get me wrong I love the rebuilds but watching a maintenance video is a nice change of pace. Great job on the video! I had to laugh at the valve cover, that background music was perfect 😁
Great video from Steve and Silvio, look forward to more. With the restoration videos and Jason's vehicle reviews, this channel gets better and better. 👍
A just image scenario - Russian tank troop on maneuvers, in a wilderness area of Russia, one tank is having engine issues, the drives has a peek underneath, see oil leaking - tell Tank Commander - "ist Kaput'- Tank Commander picks up cellphone, driver asks, - "Who are you ringing" - Tank Commander says - "Mechanics at Aus Armour, in Cairns, Australia to see if they can supply a mechanic to fix oil leak". For all viewers - RUclips channel - Mr. Hewes, resides in UK, has a fondness for armour - has a video on fixing a Russian Tank engine - same "english" language used during repair.
Some? I think they had to scrap a third of the video they filmed dealing with that death trap. There's a reason they don't bother getting these tanks rescued in the field (now).
@@aserta Yup, the Russian Military found this - on 2 occasions (and maybe at other times) - 1/- the 6 Day war Egypt vs Israel ( the burnt out wrecks of Russian tanks on Sinai, close to Suez canal was interesting); 2/- when the US invaded Iraq and the US Abrams basically "dealt to the Iraq T-55 not only with crew inside, but also after they legged when faced with a superior fire power". Russian Military doctrine is to "deploy tanks into battle, if any are immobilized and/or destroyed there are other tanks & crew at the rear". A doctrine developed during WW2, still used today, but not commonly spoken on by Western sources, but probably well known within NATO. If you got to RUclips/ Mr Hewes - he posted a similar video on a Russian tank engine upgrade (mentioned in this video) and it gives a very clear picture that maintenance of Russian tank engines was "not a high priority at time of construction". Ditto same story with the Aus Armour video. Thanks for your comment.
On the fly ingenuity and resourcefulness of your mechanics is truly remarkable. I like watching them work through the problems and come up with a workable solution.
Ahh nothing beats the joy of a job well done well except knowing that in a few months you have to pull the turret to get the motor pack out to rebuild all the accessories that it runs it's one of those can open worms everywhere situations
Great episode Steve and Silvio! Amazing insights into running and maintaining cold war era Soviet tank. Obviously the brilliant engineers who designed the rocker cover fitment didn't do the coolant pipes, they must of been outsourced to the British. Welcome to the WW team Silvio, some fine work there.
У всех конусных косозубых шестернях есть тепловой зазор который регулируется подкладыванием регулировочных пластин. Учитывая возраст, нужно сразу менять все шланги на системе охлаждения. Советские инженеры разрабатывали военную технику так, чтобы в лесу перекинув через ветку трос с лебедкой снять двигатель, и отремонтировать его.
Translation from above. All bevel helical gears have a thermal gap that is adjusted by placing adjusting plates. Given the age, you need to immediately change all hoses on the cooling system. Soviet engineers developed military equipment so that in the forest, throwing a cable with a winch over a branch, they could remove the engine and repair it.
It's amazing how the engineers designed the t-55. they must have been thinking let's make it as difficult as possible to get some of this stuff fixed. But maybe they did design it so you can get the cover off without removing any items like the turret.
I loved the beginning with Steve compiling the list of problems. He was only half way through at the point us mere mortals would want to curl up into a foetal position and whimper.
Great video it nice when steve explains what is going on, might be interesting to hand him a camera more often and thank him for taking the time to film
Thank Ausarmour for every awesome restoration videos !. Great job you two !. It seems working on the maintenance for the Russian tank is so much stressful.
Excellent video! I've been wrenching a few years now at The Ontario Regiment Tank Museum in Oshawa Ontario Canada. Not a mechanic by trade I do have machine shop and military experience. With 2 other veteran museum mechanics I've been wrenching on one of our T-72's. Your insight and tips on the smallest details helps tremendously, T-55 has similarities to it's younger "Tankinstien" sibling. Tanks!
Silvio flies halfway around the world to help and you immediately throw him under the tank....(bus). Great video but I wonder why they didn't make the tank a bit longer to make working on it a bit easier. Hope you eventually have time to sort things out and maybe you can call the tank 'Silvio' for all his help.😎
5:52 As you can see, the soviet designers clearly made sure to think of little things like that to make repairs easier.... Cause they knew you'd need to be working on it quite a lot 😂😂😂😂
Master Milo in Holland has a whole series of restoring one of these that was repatriated by the British army after first Gulf war. It covers all these things. Maybe Silvio can understand Dutch well enough to understand what Milo and Dirk are saying
That tank is a Chinese T69 used by Iraq, which has a very similar enginecompartment as this Russian T55. The Mastermilo tank also rattles a lot and was producing a lot of smoke, when he drove it using the original engine. Luckily he replaced it with a much better engine now.
I always enjoy seeing Steve doing repairs, so a mix of running repairs and restoration would be a good thing in my opinion 👍
Steve is a fantastic presenter, yes. Got a great presence.
Agrees much better than Kurt !
These repairs and maintenance seem nightmarish though.
It was a pleasure to watch Doc Steve perform surgery on the T55. Great job. I have also added, "fiddle farting around," to my list of phrases to use when dealing with my kids.
Steve's new name..... Doc Steve. It is well earned.
I wonder if "fiddle-farting around" is in the Soviet service manual.
Avoid the finest measuring instrument known to man "one RCH".
Stevo and Silvio killed it. Great job.
I think having Steve on your show is a real benefit as it explains the drive mechanisms of the tanks in your collection and what it takes to keep the runners working for your shows! Good stuff!
For a tank repair genius Steve did a great job filming
Great show, yes I would like to see more of the maintenance.
Welcome Silvio. I hope you enjoy your stay. Steve has done a great job. Nice and neat and good clean work.
Great job Steve! You and Silvio attacked the monster and won. Soviet tank design was make it simple and build a lot. They expected any major repairs to be done in a depot. You are doing repairs never dreamed of by the designers!That 70+ year old tank was designed with a battle life of days and weeks in mind. Not an old age retirement in a world class museum!
Nice shout out to Mr. Hewes. Great video!
Joe Hewes has a cracking channel.
I like the addition of filming some stationary shots where the camera is positioned to show the work being done.
Excellent camerawork by Steve! Thanks!
Another great video! Steve and Silvio also are doing a wonderful job. I definitely would like to see more of that.
I would like to see more videos like this. I enjoy the bodywork restorations too but I especially like the more mechanical stuff like this (since you asked)
Another great Workshop Wednesday. Definitely add Steve to your regulars. Guess you can't just pop in to Jiffy Lube with your T-55 for a checkup.
One of the best Workshop Wednesday
I love the intro apologising because of the unplanned video. As it turns out it was one if the best. Trouble shooting soviet armour without a Haines Manual takes real skill and you boys have it in spades. On the plus side you now do working holidays at Aus Armour, nice Keep up the good work, cant wait until next week
Without a Haines manual AND more importantly, without 10 liters of vodka. Very important.
You should hand the camera to Steve more often! Great episode. Good to see more of the mechanical issues.
Fascinating. Understandable and well explained commentary. This video deserves not just one but at least 👍👍.
Steve's cool. Enjoying his servicing video's. Learning alot about Soviet equipment. Keep more of these video's coming. Thanks
Great job Steve and Silvio . Steve you explain the problems and fixes with the T55 Really well top notch mate .
I would describe maintenance of this tank as shocking before Steve took over.
His ability to diagnose, explain clearly, and make the repair without the factory manuals (or even a shitty Chiltons) is impressive, in deed!!
Aus Armour is very lucky to have Steve working on the vehicles, such patience and skill with great presenting style.
Steve did a helluva job of cinematography and his usual excellent explanantions and fixing. Thanks for taking the trouble to film your work, Sir!
You could have Mechanic’s Monday 😂, I would watch it
YES !!
Oh, the nightmares of Tank Mechanics, eh? Steve is as solid as a... T-55. Respect
Absolutely more Steve, he’s a natural, his explanations and experience are wonderful. It brings a whole new element to the Ausarmour channel.
Love to see more videos with Steve...🔧🧰
I really love to see the guys building something out of sheet metal which looks like the original 80 year old part, but maintenance and repairs are also part of live, so watching those repair episodes are also great. The fried socket on the Leo was something else!
I really enjoyed the different style of this video, including the mobile phone footage shop in cramped spaces. Feels like Steve has been watching Matt @DieselCreek in his spare time. A bit of gonzo style tank maintenance without the OTT humour of @MrHewes. More please.
It is a joy to watch theses episodes- i can watch your cheerful approach to any task, welding, grinding, bending, maintaining….
Thanks
Kurt this type of video is interesting to watch. Great job mates.
hope everyone feels better down that neck of the woods soon!
got her purring like a bear! great work guys!
T 55 = a plumbers nightmare 😮 Steve is great, love his enthusiasm and explanation of what and how it works 👍
Love Steve's vids, explains stuff well and and always has a smile . More please
Doesn't matter what it is, all the videos produced by you and the team are always top notch. Keep em' coming!
Steve is exactly the guy you want to work on your car. Does a good job filming too.
Nice video and very enjoyable!! Steve solves some serious problems and I enjoy watching his work and learning some techniques!! Silvio is going to be a good help as he learns the ropes from Steve. I think these maintenance and repair videos are a strong addition to the restoration work being done!! That T-55 is a brute to work on I think - the cam cover fitting under the turret looks like a lot of good luck on the Russian's part - too close to call 😂
Steve is so understatededly (sp?) funny as he sees dirt everywhere as he tries to get the cleaned filters back inside the housing.
Steve holding the oil filter:.."A fantastic array of different contaminents,...gasket material good old fashioned dirt.." HA! LOve this
I thought it was interesting to see the troubleshooting and the requirement to fix stuff in place. As a M60 and M1 tanker, we would just pull packs and we could do it in like 40 minutes or so and the tankers were doing most of the work, the mechanics were just operating the M88 and the civilian contractors were the ones that actually fixed the packs.
Thanks
Thanks, Steve & Silvio, really enjoyed the episode, reminiscent of the Tank Muesum workshop episodes. I am a fan of that Soviet era amour. The T55 especially has character, which considering it was not made to be pretty, it really looks like a tank should look. Not covered in mesh, reactive armor panels etc. The way Steve explained what he was doing was brilliant as it made total sense, Cheers and thanks for another brilliant Workshop Wednesday.
Steve's incredible wealth of knowledge along with this mechanical genius and wonderful explanation of whats happening and narration of his procedures to fix the hornets nest mechanical craziness that is the T55 was a pleasure to watch.
If he can spare the time, more of these episodes would be awesome. Two thumbs up for Steve.
Steve is excellent as are all of you, just love your workshop Wednesdays and always happy to watch anything from you guys.
More Steve segments would really be great. Keep up the great work!
Congratulations!!! Steve and Silvio is a example for all....
Steve is a great addition to the awesome AA and A team. I thoroughly enjoy watching the videos on this channel. You guys are bloody amazing!!!
Steve’s presenting is amazing! You guys smashed it!
That was done beautifully- hats off to Steve and Silvio for this one!
All hail steve, and his helper Silvio. Can't wait for fix it Friday.
That T-55 is the lucky one and living it's best life.
Yeah relaxing in sunny Queensland is much nicer than dodging drones.
When I retire, I want to move to Australia an volunteer full time in this shop and tinker on tanks with these awesome guys!
I am a member of the ONTAR museum in Oshawa Ontario. And I leave all the Russian equipment work to those with a higher patience level. American made for this Mechanic. Good job you guys. Russian tech starts every time love the noise and smoke you always know they are running no need for smoke grenades. LOL
kidding aside, steve did a great job here - and i also enjoyed his vid with the schwimmwagen
Great video by Steve. Please make more like this.
Just spent 8 hours fiddling with a selection of Chineseum carbs on my lawnmower trying to get it to run with varying result from nothing to to burning off all the hair on my arm as it ran away, lots of flames and sparks "Cleaned all the carbon out though😂". Nearly rolled the thing out to the middle of the lawn and put a match to it. I don't feel so bad after watching this now😁. Cheers guys.
Well done Steve, I do like how you aligned all the hose clamps, it's small thing and it really annoys me when they are facing all directions
Yes it's great to see the spanner work and repairs, as well as the restoration work, Steve's a great asset to the team there. I know it's a tank, but should it smoke that much. I know on first start-up it will smoke, but I thought it would clear once started.
🤠KURT…
Thank you for scraping together something to watch. You understand the addiction we have to Workshop Wednesday, and you did NOT disappoint 👍🏽😉
How the hell does Steve work on those tanks without cussing!!! Great job Steve and team!!
He might need to learn some choice Russian words!
That was a gr8 video from Steve . I thoroughly enjoyed it. All I can suggest is Restoration Wednesdays and Running repairs Friday
Good on you Silvio. Thanks for coming to Australia. This was a real education for me. I have seen working T-55s in places where little else worked, including the sewage system, so assumed they were idiot-proof and meant to leak and sound like a can of nails. The older I get the more I learn about assumptions.
Great job Steve and Silvio! The whole crew is fun and informative, Always!
Steve has the patience of Jobe working on that T55 requires skills which Steve has what a asset he is to Auz Armor
First-person mechanic view was a cinematic masterpiece! What a difference in the engineering between this and the Leopard 1 power pack from a while back. The German and Russian tank engineering ideologies hadn’t changed during the Cold War from WWII.
It's great to see a maintenance job, don't get me wrong I love the rebuilds but watching a maintenance video is a nice change of pace. Great job on the video! I had to laugh at the valve cover, that background music was perfect 😁
Nice work as always Steve, and herzlich wilkommen Silvio. Is it just me or does that donk need a set of rings too?
Steve's skill and patience is inspiring.
Steve has certainly been a fantastic addition to the Aus Armour team. Great work
Well done, waiting for the engine-drivetrain restoration vid...
Great video from Steve and Silvio, look forward to more.
With the restoration videos and Jason's vehicle reviews, this channel gets better and better. 👍
A just image scenario - Russian tank troop on maneuvers, in a wilderness area of Russia, one tank is having engine issues, the drives has a peek underneath, see oil leaking - tell Tank Commander - "ist Kaput'- Tank Commander picks up cellphone, driver asks, - "Who are you ringing" - Tank Commander says - "Mechanics at Aus Armour, in Cairns, Australia to see if they can supply a mechanic to fix oil leak".
For all viewers - RUclips channel - Mr. Hewes, resides in UK, has a fondness for armour - has a video on fixing a Russian Tank engine - same "english" language used during repair.
Some? I think they had to scrap a third of the video they filmed dealing with that death trap. There's a reason they don't bother getting these tanks rescued in the field (now).
@@aserta Yup, the Russian Military found this - on 2 occasions (and maybe at other times) - 1/- the 6 Day war Egypt vs Israel ( the burnt out wrecks of Russian tanks on Sinai, close to Suez canal was interesting); 2/- when the US invaded Iraq and the US Abrams basically "dealt to the Iraq T-55 not only with crew inside, but also after they legged when faced with a superior fire power".
Russian Military doctrine is to "deploy tanks into battle, if any are immobilized and/or destroyed there are other tanks & crew at the rear". A doctrine developed during WW2, still used today, but not commonly spoken on by Western sources, but probably well known within NATO.
If you got to RUclips/ Mr Hewes - he posted a similar video on a Russian tank engine upgrade (mentioned in this video) and it gives a very clear picture that maintenance of Russian tank engines was "not a high priority at time of construction". Ditto same story with the Aus Armour video.
Thanks for your comment.
Well done Steve and Silvio. Really good video by Steve...keep Kurt on his toes as a presenter, though I can't see Kurt taking on Steve's role 😂
On the fly ingenuity and resourcefulness of your mechanics is truly remarkable. I like watching them work through the problems and come up with a workable solution.
Great job Stevie und viel gluck und Spass zu Silvio.
Good job boys. Definitely want to see more Steve mechanical episodes.
Really enjoyed this video. Been a mechanic for several decades and if I ever visit to help out I will refuse to work on a soviet specimen!! haha
Steve is great at what he does and would love to see more of his mechanical repairs.
Great job Steve and Silvio! 👍
Ahh nothing beats the joy of a job well done well except knowing that in a few months you have to pull the turret to get the motor pack out to rebuild all the accessories that it runs it's one of those can open worms everywhere situations
That's a better maintained T55 than ever was in service! Nice job.
Great job Steve and Silvio got her worked out beautifully , go through the start up procedure a puff of smoke and away you go
Great to see the blue hose seems to be universal as I have seen it in Mr Hewes videos as well.
Great episode Steve and Silvio! Amazing insights into running and maintaining cold war era Soviet tank. Obviously the brilliant engineers who designed the rocker cover fitment didn't do the coolant pipes, they must of been outsourced to the British. Welcome to the WW team Silvio, some fine work there.
Stevo and Silvio thank you guys for this video.
У всех конусных косозубых шестернях есть тепловой зазор который регулируется подкладыванием регулировочных пластин. Учитывая возраст, нужно сразу менять все шланги на системе охлаждения. Советские инженеры разрабатывали военную технику так, чтобы в лесу перекинув через ветку трос с лебедкой снять двигатель, и отремонтировать его.
U moey 62-ki dvizhok snimalsya bez snyatia bashni
Translation from above.
All bevel helical gears have a thermal gap that is adjusted by placing adjusting plates. Given the age, you need to immediately change all hoses on the cooling system. Soviet engineers developed military equipment so that in the forest, throwing a cable with a winch over a branch, they could remove the engine and repair it.
Translation from above.
On my 62, the engine was removed without removing the turret
Excellent job Steve. Thanks for all the hard work you and the crew have put into keeping these marvelous machines in running condition.
It's amazing how the engineers designed the t-55. they must have been thinking let's make it as difficult as possible to get some of this stuff fixed. But maybe they did design it so you can get the cover off without removing any items like the turret.
I loved the beginning with Steve compiling the list of problems. He was only half way through at the point us mere mortals would want to curl up into a foetal position and whimper.
It was amazing to see t55 running and I can't wait to go ride it at this year's Australian armoured artillery museum tank fest this year
I also enjoyed my holiday in Austria. Skiing and drinking beer with you fellas was most excellent
Good job Mr Wenzday!
As much as a PITA the maintenance seemed to be the reward of driving a T- 55 around the grounds priceless, you boys get to have all the fun.
Great video it nice when steve explains what is going on, might be interesting to hand him a camera more often and thank him for taking the time to film
'Driving a T-55 would send Quasimodo to the Chiropractor' I laughed OUT LOUD.
Thank Ausarmour for every awesome restoration videos !. Great job you two !. It seems working on the maintenance for the Russian tank is so much stressful.
Excellent video! I've been wrenching a few years now at The Ontario Regiment Tank Museum in Oshawa Ontario Canada. Not a mechanic by trade I do have machine shop and military experience. With 2 other veteran museum mechanics I've been wrenching on one of our T-72's. Your insight and tips on the smallest details helps tremendously, T-55 has similarities to it's younger "Tankinstien" sibling. Tanks!
Silvio flies halfway around the world to help and you immediately throw him under the
tank....(bus). Great video but I wonder why they didn't make the tank a bit longer to make
working on it a bit easier. Hope you eventually have time to sort things out and maybe you
can call the tank 'Silvio' for all his help.😎
5:52
As you can see, the soviet designers clearly made sure to think of little things like that to make repairs easier....
Cause they knew you'd need to be working on it quite a lot 😂😂😂😂
Master Milo in Holland has a whole series of restoring one of these that was repatriated by the British army after first Gulf war. It covers all these things. Maybe Silvio can understand Dutch well enough to understand what Milo and Dirk are saying
That tank is a Chinese T69 used by Iraq, which has a very similar enginecompartment as this Russian T55. The Mastermilo tank also rattles a lot and was producing a lot of smoke, when he drove it using the original engine. Luckily he replaced it with a much better engine now.