Very nice. Could I hear a turbo whistling away there too? I can see this was posted a while ago, so how's its wheel-nuts...oh, that was Scammell, not AEC! Cheers! [Edit: SCammell has two "L's"]
This is where scania got its V8 from....the AEC... I may be wrong,but scania bought the rights from AEC to build the V8,and scania have just kept improving it.
I’ve heard that as well . As far as I’m aware the AEC V8 engine was problematic with crankshaft failure when British Leyland was formed , they ditched that engine and sold the patents to Scania . Scania sorted out the crank problem with bigger bearings and that engine was in production up until the mid 2000’s when they changed it .
@splitters2477 @bonusnudges Both of you have clearly not looked at either AEC, Scania, or both V8's. Apart from both being water-cooled V8 diesel engines, they have nothing in common! Their construction is complete different.
A myth which is simply that - a myth. Scania's engine was & is completely different and never shared any design or componentry with the AV740/800 series of engines.
I live in Central Illinois and there were so many small trucking co. That had Mack trucks you didn't go anywhere that you didn't see one and this rig sounds exactly like them .
Fair Play Lads, And Another Thing hook That Trailer Into A Scania 164 , And It’s Well Able To Do a Days Graft, That Trailer Is Sheffield Steel , Hard as a jockey’s 🏈, Not Like The Modern ABS Crap , Pure Air Brakes Stick You To The Road With a Load On It,
En Chile leylan fué un rotundo fracaso... no subian los andes ni con 5 toneladas. El fiat 619 de la misma epoca subia hasta con 20 toneladas con doble eje.
Well that brings back memories! Found some pictures at home of the Unipower HET and Nicolas trailer in the workshop shortly before trials and thought I’d look on RU-vid to see if still exists. Thanks for the trip down memory lane….
We replaced our fleet of Guy Warriors, both tippers and truckmixers, with AECs in the late 60s and early 70s. The AECs scrubbed out front tyres in about 10,000 miles, and they went through balance beam pins and bushes too quickly, but they were less likely to turn over than the Guys.
@@chillired5389 Always Get a Certificate of Destruction Nowadays or The Bailiffs Will Be Coming For Your Telly Some Morning , It Just Keeps Clicking Up, 💴 🪙
If the info above is correct, then this AEC would have been re-engined at some point. The original would likely have been an AEC AV760 in/around 1970 for the original UK 'H' registration. The Leyland L12 was the naturally aspirated version of the TL12, developed in the mid1970s from the AV 760 AEC engine. Apparently this, and along with the LT11, were hasty developments due to the failure of the AEC V8s and the Leyland fixed head 500 series.
