We finally get round to fixing the engine for Diane Abbot (SPG) Thanks to Midland military vehicles for the extra help. Follow me on Instagram for Daily Updates MrHewess
Good effort with the heat exchanger. Although I wouldn't hold your breath.. I always thought they were the Achilles heel of the K60.. I've even seen them come out of their wooden crates "brand spankers" , fitted to the pack, run the pack up outside the hull and immediately rupture.. Seems that even in storage they seemed to build up condensation and rot from the inside out.. Always a nightmare because they tend to start mixing all the fluids when they blow internally.. Enjoy watching your channel, brings back memories. Thanks
Just started watching, yep a newbie!! 23 years in a tank regiment, mostly chieftain, then challenger 1, you guys are doing exactly what i would have done if i could when i finnished!! Brilliant fun, well done !! Dont think you need it but i do have some chieftain info !! very impressed with Cent engine work!!
after military service retrained as a mechanic and worked in Bovington overhauling heavy armour, my claim to fame is I rebuilt the Tiger. You guys have so much fun, as we did in our early years but you get the job done! enjoyed the FIP work on T34, learned lots! thank you .
My Dad and then my elder brother were both in the REME and as a young lad I lived at various army bases (Larkhill springs to mind) and I climbed over virtually every tracked vehicle I could. I know it’s just an engine but they have a specific noise that brings back all sorts of memories.
🎶🎤Karaoke time… “ I’m so young, And you’re so old, Oh my howitzer, I’ve been told. I don’t care just what they say, Cause my big gun I will stay, You and I will be as free, As two love birds in a tree, Oh, Please, Start for Me, Diana…….” Paul Anka, American Singer, Nineteen Fiftysometime.
Popping the engine in for a quick test is a good idea and something I have never done. By the time the engine is back in a duetz tractor it’s 90% done :o)
5am get ready for move out. Gunners had a night’s sleep sort of and REME are roused off the warm engine covers from another all nighter. Gun fire tea and an egg banjo. How we lived in the seventies!
Always interesting vlogs from Joe, it all looks so casual but these lads get the job done and do not watch the clock 'cos they are enjoying themselves. (or so it seems thanks to the editing!!)
Back when these things were being beasted across the Plain, by the RAC, how many hours would these engines/g-boxes do on average, before needing swapped?
Would it not have been easier to slightly bend the metal to weld on the pipe 😅 Can I ask what is the colours of paint you use and where can you get the. 😂 just in case I buy a tank. No seriously what are the colours. My garage needs painting. 😊
I'm told by an old FV433 gunner that their party piece was to have six rounds in the air at the same time! Also, that they practiced direct fire so they could engage vehicles. Can anyone confirm this.
Part of the CES for one of these came with a direct fire sight system, so I would imagine they practiced it but if it got to that it was pretty much your end of days lol
Former is probably MRSI. Different elevations and probably incremental charges to get all the rounds down on the target simultaneously. Major first-impact force multiplier.
@@Brigadier9 Yes, that's what I thought. I know it's possible with SP90 but the range is greater and the flight time to target longer.. Doing it with a 105mm is bloody amazing! Hats off to them. Well trained and drilled gun crew. Just goes to show how good things were during the cold war BAOR days.
Is that a Abbot SPG? The gun is different. It has no muzzle brake. To me it looks like it has got a smoothbore gun that you would see on light tanks and main battle tanks.
I'll see your african kids fixing swimming pools at three in the morning videos and raise you those teams of pakistani dudes with no safety gear and minimal tools in a dusty, backstreet workshop welding together a huge, broken caterpillar crankshaft or somesuch before a complete engine rebuild. Way more absorbing! (Your videos are ace btw)
@@bert26a L60 had a myriad of problems that were mainly due to all the bolted on ancillaries. The engine itself was quite robust and reliable as a generator unit. In a ever increasing weighty tank it was under powered. The K60 suffered less but still had its issues. Again mainly ancillaries like gennies, heat exchangers, starters and fan drives.
The Diane Abbot hate is pretty disgusting. She's the first black woman elected to UK parliament and has been enduring this kind of unwarranted abuse since day one, almost 40 years ago. Do better.
Where exactly Is the hate? The vehicle is called an Abbot, I can name my vehicles whatever I wish. Also the lady your referring to is actually spelt Abbott. Do better.
Don’t see any hate from them and whilst I don’t hate her she is an absolute lunatic irrespective of her skin colour, which should neither be the reason for hate nor the reason not to.
I don't care that she's Black, I care that she's anti-NATO and therefore effectively pro-Putin. Also, why didn't you capitalize Black? It's 2023, DO BETTER.
