Sherman tank engine first start 

lol No, Not at all!

I think the coal bin and the fireman would be a giveaway ...

I dream of doing the PITT maneuver on a prius.

As someone who once owned a Prius, I suspect this is actually smoother and quieter than the Prius' 4-banger. That engine was surprisingly rough and noisy, especially at high power on the freeway, had a rather unrefined feel to it.

Quill Maurer It’s only meant to power the car under heavy load and feed the batteries. The same company made the 1-3UZ-FE engines which are known to be some of the smoothest V8’s ever made (The big Lexus use them). It’s all about being purpose built for the Japanese.

"SNB" was the Navy Twin Beech. Most of the ex navy ones I've come across seemed to be SNB-5 or -5B's They really are a wonderful old plane.

It takes up less space and you can air cool it very well

szaki most power , least weight. Cheap, air cooled.

War time requires extreme choices :P

Not all of them did, but a good majority did.

JUrry3, Sho did

JUrry3, when a German anti tank shell hit a Sherman tank. Very very bad outcome. Horrid ! A foot soldier was glad he was a foot soldier. Not to be in one of these poorly armoured tanks

Check out for Chrysler multibank engine, that was a weird alternative to this!

I love the sound of this radial engine

I bet most dont know what engine this is today.

Yeah that is bad form especially when the engine is cold and there's basically no oil in the cylinders or anywhere except in the oil tank (sump).

because these are real mechanics not kids

This thing would probably torque the supports right off!

@@warrenreeves5925 A true mechanic. Methodical. No bullshit emotion. Just the machine

Treat the machine right and it'll treat you right. It hurts when some idiot in an otherwise nice expensive truck goes roaring past me trailing blue smoke.

Brick's Builds 😂😂😂

For real RU-vid has gotten to the place they have because of people like this and now they are a political propaganda machine with more adds then the Sunday paper in a 5 min,video ,the people used to be able to post anything on here that's why I and other like me started using utube,,but I guess may as well go back to regular tv ,it's got the same content now days as youtbe,my roku,can get me just as much entertainment with free apps as RU-vid ever does any more ,,and I never use RU-vid on it wen I use roku,

lol

Just 1 year passed by. LOL

Same here . . never want to see this again . . shouting over this engine

That was very good !

Good one not many got it

I understood that reference...

Given the context of this video, your humor seems to be a little off track.

Tip the wings to you sir!

coolest tank ever made IMO

That's because it's not having to rotate a prop!

Plane radials are tweaked out like a dragster compared to a tank radial engine.

radial engines on planes are meant to operate at high rpm and only at high rpm for long periods of time. therefore they are cammed like dragsters ( except obviously there are cam rings instead of shafts) this engine is obviously cammed for massive low end torque, so idles very smoothly.

@@PotentialAutist42069 not only are they cammed differently they also run different fuel with a rich mixture at idle. This is also to facilitate the running at high rpm for extended periods

I'm 40, I got mine early.

Then what do I do with my suspenders??!

see all the holes drilled in the rotors? I think that's for bolts so the engine can be held in different angles to make it easier to work on

He's listening.

I thought he was dropping a deuce

Manning the throttle

isn't he operating the throttle?

100% defecating

I was thinking the same thing. I clicked on the video expecting to see a fire breathing monster. Looks like it must have been designed to be more reliable than that!

Pretty much the reason a radial was invented

@nordhorny . . . calm down nugget !

Harleys are louder.

@@glassontherocks . . . sure enough , my Sportster was louder .

@Zeksteve yes figgered was raised around a pt19 sterman but this was the first engine seen out of a ole tank like this ,still would be somewhere they have one out ,I'm a retired mechanic ✌by the way seen some downed green Giants in Vietnam, radial eng in front ,too toren up to see much

john needy, 9 cylinder Wright

There's nothing wrong with your English. It's better than a lot of native English speakers in youTube comments! ;->

These engine was in ww2 being used

Sadly we dont get a chance to work on thease engines in america. Would have loved to fix one up. It runs so much smoother then most engines I see.

haha you brits are so pretentious

America intervened in the war on the side of mass murdering international Bolshevism.

Evil?

Gregory Malchuk but then became an enemy of the communists, don't forget this. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, for a time

Booty call. Sorry fellas gotta take this......

Wondered why none were wearing hearing protection unless already deaf. We rode in a V8 airboat once with just earplugs. It had open headers. Couldn't hear squat for 3 hours.

Those guys are old school. They played out in the streets til dark and didn’t use helmets when they rode their bikes. They also didn’t get participation prizes just for showing up...

Was thinking exactly the same thing after not seeing any ear protectors.

@@adodado1101 ~ So did I. But just like teeth, once their gone, a person sure as hell miss's them. It doesn't take much effort to avoid years of misery.

WHAT?!

Slovflyer it even looks like a radial air plane engine!!

@@johnsadar1743 It _is_ a radial air plane engine....

Pretty sure there were like 4 or 5 different engines in the Shermans

@@internetexpert8153 Yes actually, really interesting, they ofc had this continental engine which was an aircraft engine which was just available. Then there was the GM 6046 engine which was 2 Detroit diesel 6 cylinders put together, then there was the Chrysler multibank which was 5 Chrysler straight 6es put together around a common crankshaft, these where not very good, but still good enough, and there was a Caterpillar conversion of the continental engines and then there was the best of the best the ford GAA v8.

This is why Sherman's were so high....no so compact...

Agreed. A rebuild well done.I would have this in my livingroom as a ventilator because I know damn well the nieghbours wont have one.

Notorious Hacker M 26 Pershing

i searched that tank up and damn thats a great sounding tank.

+Notorious Hacker ford-made twin cam V8* known as the GAF. indeed.

Côme Thiburs man fuck my triton im gonna find a way to put that in my F250

wont fit, that fucker is almost 5ft tall! this engine is on the same scale as an allison V12, if you've seen one before. 1100ci :D

+samuel lubricant you have never seen how the world would have looked if germany won, so noone knows if it would have been a better place or not compared to ours

TONERO Tonero C'est de la pure mécanique de base que malheureusement les jeunes qui sortent de l'école ne connaissent plus. Quand je leurs pose la question, comment régler les soupapes ou me citer les 4 temps d'un moteur, j'ai comme réponse " on apprend plus ça à l'école". C'est l'ère de l'électronique embarquée qui prime de nos jours et les mécaniciens capables de restaurer de tel moteurs se font de plus en plus rare. Merci pour votre commentaire.

I just thought the _exact_ same thing. I'm not a tank aficionado but all these years I'd just assumed that a big V-inline powerplant powered these tanks.

@@TralfazConstruction There were several engines that were chosen for the Sherman, including an all aluminum V-8 Ford with overhead cam and 4 valves per cylinder (GAA) and a very strange motor that took 5 bus engines and somehow put them all together and made it work. They were too complicated in battle. Those were given to the Russians in the Lend/Lease act. They loved them (according to my Dad.) By the way, the radial was an airplane engine, and the Ford V-8 was designed to be a V-12 airplane engine but the RR Merlin was already well accepted so Ford cut down the casting for the Sherman.

I does make a certain amount of sense. Air cooling is less complicated to maintain. Aircraft engines, in general, have a high power to weight ratio. They also tend to be very reliable by design.

They were not meant to idle so plugs fouled constantly

Not to mention an jet engine!

It's air cooled with a large fan.

Air cooled

John Bradley, has a fan

They used it on aircraft, makes it way more efficient to use the same engine if you can

It doesn't just look, it is :). Many WWII era aircraft were fitted with variants of this engine, including turbo-charged variants. What's funny that turbo-charger as it is was first introduced for radial aircraft engines so engine won't suffer from less dense air (=less oxygen per unit of air) as aircraft climbed into higher altitudes (like above 12k ft or so).

sam lyon I believe it is an aircraft engine.

+sam lyon radial was just an all around better option for the odd design of the Sherman. better power band on petrol and generally quieter than the 40's V configurations.

i just thought they were gas or diesel not radial

+sam lyon you can have a diesel in gas or radial

+sam lyon The radial engine was one of the types they used.They had other ones too.

That's right, a radial engine burns about 1L of oil at startup which produces a lot of smoke. Here, I'm talking about a first start after refurbishment. So, as this engine has not yet turned, there is no oil in the lower cylinders, so no smoke at startup. In a radial engine, there is no oil in the crankcase, for the Sherman, it is an external oil tank which is in the hull. The engine oil pump pumps the oil from the tank and lubricates the engine before moving to a filter and back into the tank. This principle can be seen in the video, on the left is the oil tank with one oil supply pipe to the engine and another for the return to the tank. The remaining oil in the engine goes into 2 small tanks below the engine to start lubricating at the next start. The starting smoke is due to the fact that in the 3 cylinders of the bottom, some of the engine oil remaining in the pistons passes through capillary action. The oil in the combustion chambers burns at start-up. I hope these clarifications are instructive and useful. Hello from Brussels (Belgium, Europe for dumies :) PS: translated from French into English by Google

No butt dialing that way.

some people still use flip phones so they aren't as distracted with it as their smart phones with all their social media on it lol

@@AwesomeGamesShow Social media makes people stupid. Enough so that the existence of flip phones are as old as the motor these guys are starting up.

The _M4's_ had a variety of engines.

Nor did I, I thought radials where only used in Air craft

many tanks during WWII used aircraft engines because they were a good mix of high power and low weight. The Comet and Panther both had aircraft engines and the Sherman's later Ford GAA V8 engine was based on an aircraft V12.

dont forget the cromwell also had a merlin engine as well thats right a tank with the P51 mustang engine.

White Chocolate The Cromwell and Comet both had the Merlin and I'm pretty sure there were plans to put one into the Churchill

Yes I do think you are right, Also side fun fact that Continental engine in the sherman was epic for the desert war. It didnt use water it was air cooled and it pulled the air from the inside so it was a makeshift AC.

The Abrams has two turboshaft engines in it. Common to see aviation engines in other stuff. They are reliable, light, and POWERFUL

This type engine was also used in some ww2 airplanes

It was a duel purpose engine plane or tank.

Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me...

Got a little lean on that low idle. POW! SNAP!!

It literally is an aircraft engine. It's the same kind.

was hoping someone else saw, LOL. Hey love, I like keeping young, yep

It is, huh. Believe it or not, I had to set up shelving racks in Larry Harmons warehouse back around '89 or '90. He had tons of Bozo Memorabilia. He autographed a black & white xerox of him for me. My brother didnt think it was real and threw it away. One of these days I'm gonna stop thinking he's real and throw him away.

Hey, he's in another video starting a different engine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8RDoOJB_qno.html at 0:50

I first thought Mickey Mouse hat.

the old guys are already deaf, and, if you listen to it long enough you'll get use to it.

Are you sure theyre not wearing inside the ear plugs...they have them you know.

There is a bug getting around with a radial engine somewhere. Try this: americaloveshorsepower.com/radial-engine-powered-volkswagen-bug/

@@lesfox2010 I read somewhere that a guy installed one in a home built gyrocopter...…...

I believe its adapted to an existing stand that can test fwd axles or similar. Those rotors are bolted to axle hubs.

A fat and long torque curve

You noticed the brake rotors too ;-)

Yeah. A brake rotor for??? Probably just to hold bearing so it can rotate.

If you dont have a prop on it, its quite easy to hold it. You just have to resist the vibrations, and MAYBE a little torque-induced self-rotation.

Daniel Cannata Yeah, it’s that torque-induced self-rotation you have to watch out for 😝

Radial and rotary are different things

Radial is pistons, rotary is blades. But I see why you thought it might be the same

He was joking holy shit

Au contraire, mon frère! Rotary engines are also piston engines and were that way long before the Wankel rotary engine came about. Think Fokker Dr1 and Sopwith Camel, to name a few rotary-engined planes.

@@Hjerte_Verke Those are radial engine planes.

looks kind of like a gargoyle to me.

No. The radial was the hardest to work on, had the least power, and worst reliability in that use. The Ford GAA was a far better tank engine.

The GAA was considered best and went on to power several other tanks like the m26 next. It was the most powerful by a good margin and very reliable. It was rate at 500 hp and over 1000lb ft. The Chrysler a57 was said to be able to move the tank even with as few as 18 of its 30 cylinders working. Maintenance was a concern with such a motor and it was underpowered at 375. The 6 cylinder Chrysler motors that made up the a57 were flatheads so it wasn’t really advanced, just unique. The diesel was two motors put together too but o think it one went to the Marines and I believe was the least preferable. I understand it was aircraft demand that made them go for a different motor than the continental radial here. Also it has a tendency to foul the lower plugs. You also have to hand crank a radial to start after cold soak. This will make sure you don’t hydrolock a lower cylinder with oil. Only if you are scrambling to get into your tank you won’t take that time, they hit the electric starter when they’re trying to get into the fight.

+Ben M It you think about it the idea of using a air cooled radial engine in a tank made a lot of sense back then before compact high horsepower diesel engine. To start off with no cooling system to deal with even today cooling system on tanks are a pain in the butt. Radial engines were certainly lighter than inline engines of the day and while taller than they were much shorter meaning a more compact drivetrain assembly. Additionally the radial engines had much higher horsepower ratings and were meant to be field serviceable. The big downfall of all gasoline powered tanks is just that gasoline. The Shermans nickname was the Ronson because it caught fire so easily

The Sherman's nickname was the Sherman.

If you say so but to the WWII veterans that lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in as a kid they had plenty of names for the M4 and they normally all started with F@#king and commonly ended with piece of S#!t. The nicknames like "Ronson", "Tommy Cooker", and "The Burning Grave" were ones that could be said in polite company that referred to how easily they caught fire (gas engines) many times with their crew being burned to death. As a side note the US Army did not give the moniker \ name Sherman to the "Medium Tank, during WWII nor did the US Army give the name Stuart to the Light Tank M3\M5 or the names Lee \ Grant to the Medium Tank M3. The credit of naming of US Army WWII tanks after American Civil War generals goes to the British and it was later (post WWII) that the practice of referring to a M4 as a Sherman became popular \ standard practice.

Strange what envious assholes so many English vets turned into after the war. Might explain why Britain spun into decline for the next few decades.

+gullreefclub No, no, no. Ronson was post-war. Tommy Cooker referred to British tanks, not the Sherman in particular. "Burning grave", I have not heard that one before. The fuel wasn't the problem in early variants or in any for that matter. That was ammunition stowage.

It certainly has that radial hum that sounds completely absent of resistance.

Actually the Germans also had gas power tanks as well, and there were a few Shermans late in the war re-powered with Diesel engines.

Tanks (shermans included) catching on fire rarely had anything to do with the fuel used. More often, fires were the result of burning ammunition.

zippo yep nice try they were call ronsons mate

Actually it was the ammo storage that was the problem not the fuel...they changed the ammo storage in later models....

Gasoline has a vapor flash point of around -40F, and diesel +100F, which explains why gasoline powered armored vehicles presented a greater fire hazard.

And people shooting at you with an 88mm gun.

running on gasoline / benzine ...

Dude you forget something, you forget that there is no exhaust silencer on the vidéo

Air cooled as well , meaning there was a fierce draught through the hatch.

@@Alfa75V6 Your point being?

mark jeffels These are actually tank engines. Not air craft. Crazy enough haha

@@jeffyboyist AMAZING!!