WE FIXED A T-72 FOR £7 

How is £5 and £3 make £7 😂😂😂😂

Bloody disassembling stuff and fixing it instead of relying on sponsors to send full assemblies! Call yerself a RU-vidr? Great stuff keep it up.

Great that the starter doubles up as an Air Riad Siren. Magic video again. Thanks.

Never underestimate the joy of percussive maintenance ❤

Regarding Bearings. Waaaay back in the Day (70s), I worked at a company that made Aircraft Wheels for the Military. One piece Aluminum. But we’d have to fit Steel Bearings onto the Aluminum Wheels. The solution that worked was to place the Bearings in a Freezer, then put the Wheels on a Heated Grill for a few hours on low heat. The Wheels would expand, the Bearings would contract, most of the time they would just fit together perfectly. If they were a little tight, we’d then place them on a Big Arbor Press and, using the appropriate pressing block for the Bearings, put them together. Sometimes, you’d have to have one person pulling down on the Press Handle while someone else would grab the 5 lb Sledge Adjustment Tool and hit the Top of the Press Ram to “Persuade” it to seat. If that didn’t work, we’d bring in the Quality Control Inspector, who would measure the Bearing Well and usually find out that it was Machined wrong. Then the wheel was either re-machined or Scraped. But I say that 99% of the time, they would fit together just fine, and when they came up to Room Temperature together, it was “Bob’s your Uncle!” Also, if you are going to hammer in a Bearing like you did, grab a Socket that covers the outer race and hit that. Much more uniform Force applied all the way around. Hope this helps.

Excellent repair Mr Hewes, apart from the wd40 on the carbon brushes! Commutators and brushes should be bone dry or the carbon dust mixes with whatever you put on them and turns into a form of grinding paste! Those springs look remarkably like Lucas dynamo springs, but i wouldn’t bother taking it out again to check if I were you! Phil

thats a beast of a starter motor

The thing about the T72 is that it makes you admire the T55 😮

8:26 Labels on the indicators are in Slovak. It is probably a licensed machine produced after 1981 in Czechoslovakia at ZTS Martin.

Another great video, i do admire you guys enthusiastic approach in a world where we just throw engineering away, that could be repaired, well done.

Lovely bearing press!🤣 I have one just like that! It has never let me down!

I love that despite having walls full of tools Joe refuses to use anything other than an adjustable spanner and a Leatherman

That final bit at the end looking for Adam must be the proper definition of "the lights on but nobody's home". 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣

Saturday morning is complete cos there's a new Mr Hewes video ANS you've fixed a thing! ❤ 😎

Loving the pixeling. Going great guns now, well done all 👍🏻😊

Aaaaahhh, Fabulous. Strong rum an me feet up and a great vid to watch. The Ol' Fella Downunda Greg.

Its so good that you guys are on our side. If you had been working for mr poo tin, his SMO would have succeeded within the month. Some jobs are easy, some are harder, But NONE are impossible. You guys are SO SO good but if you ever come across a problem seemingly beyond you, Ted comes up with the answer immediately.

Can always tell the best designs when engineers hide cheap and replaceable parts in places that require 10+ hours to get at them. Soviets were clearly just ahead of the curve on that planned obsolescence thing, or drunk, maybe both. Who knows?

...& the search for Adam continues. He was last seen throwing a sledge hammer back towards the T-72...& wearing his standard Olive Drab Overalls that he's not taken off in 6 months. 😂

Bril!.. Love these vids. That thing sounded soo mechanical, I was expecting to see a huge wind up key in the side of the tank!. 🤣....

I feel like I helped by talking at my phone while watching this in bed. You are welcome.

Great vid to start my saturday. Love the banter.

Bit of comedy in the morning, top job poor old Adam a sense of humour failure 😂

You guys never disappoint and are always highly entertaining. Always look forward to your videos

Good to see Ted on the job, supervising your work on the starter motor. 😅😅😅

That tank looks like a nightmare to work on!!!! You guys are amazing at what you do.....

That T72 alternator could be used as an air raid siren!

Such a great delight watch these videos keep them up!

according to the descriptions on the instruments, the T-72 tank comes from the Slovak Republic

Over in US before we would start our detroit 149 fracturing pumps from Canada we always pull starter before ignition to get oil pres up before engaging ignition. Russians knowing their soldiers couldn't be bothered made sure oil was moving before starting engine

£7. Is that enough coin for the fuel to burn it.?? 😂 Jokes aside, you guys have the right amount of patience for this work.

8:34 I see that there are Czech descriptions. So the tank was made under license. In ZŤS Martin (slovakia).

wow got a first like - haven’t watched it yet but know it will be good. Saturday morning, bacon sarnie, coffee and a Mr Hawes video - perfect, just need it to stop raining!

As Moriarty the mechanical genius(Adam😂) said in Kelly's Heroes when they bought the Tiger off the Kraut which I believe was a converted T34 ,quote " it's a piece of junk."Seems the name still fits to all russian tanks after the T34.😂😂😂

I love your channel! You guys are amazing machinists and mechanics! I destroyed 9T-72s one day and 4 BMPs! Keep up the good work!

nice one ladz , not having the engine as a removable pack is a big drawback

bloody hell , that starter / generator sounds scary .. Mr Best's face said it all

Now that is a result, the use of a copper hammer for the bearing fitment may have been a good idea though. 👍

Very nice job chaps 👍

Sounds great as the motor winds itself up ready for the start. Let us hope there isn't an anticlimax when at peak motor speed the engine is engaged and it doesn't bring it to straining painful stop Moskvitch style!

I would have thrown that oil pump rotor out, but you made it work. Well done.

unadulterated bodging with the bearing! I love it!

I live 1 hour drive from factory where this particular tank was built - clearly markings inside the cabin are in Slovak language, that means it is from ZŤS Martin factory plant (no longer existing). You made a point in video before - some of those electrical components are oversised for what they do - explanation is easy: electroengineering and components back in the day were lacking from funding, know how and obsolete manufacturing processes, so they had to use not very optimised components. You can look at Czechoslovak refridgerator same way, bulky, noisy, powerhungry. But cheap.

Very well done comrades 👍🏻

Beautiful tank

Great work as usual 👌🏻👍🏻

I seem to have missed the episode where you successfully make two T34 scrap engines into a good one. I want to seeee!

So great to see your channel going gang busters unlike so many other channels that RU-vid is strangling out of existence. I learn something new all the time watching you guys fix stuff that a lot of people would throw out and replace. Talk about a loud starter motor! More like a air raid siren.😁👍 You guys need to have a TV show now I reckon such is the popularity of the program.

WHAT A GIT OF A TANK!!!. But you always get there in the end by shere bloody mindedness. It's the only way to get stuff done...Well done again boys.

WD and carbon brushes don't mix boys and girls 😬😬, it eventually turns the carbon to mush.... Gas turbine starter motors rule 😂😂😂 HELLFIRE ! ! A few ex BR loco's have oil prime starter circuits featuring SOPS (Start oil pressure switch) and ROPS ( Run oil pressure switch), press the start button, oil prime pump kicks in, pressure increases to 12 psi ish, pressure switch interlock pulls and energises the start contactor, engine motors and engine oil pump takes over, pressure builds faster then it opens the engine governor and away she goes ❤, love stuff like this 👍

Love your channel ...Texas USA

The t72 looks like it was made by British Leyland! Great video again Ted !

Toptastic well done Wish unimog bearings were £7 😂

The hammer the most valuable piece of equipment in a toolbox !

I love how they tried to hide the phone number on his back then where like ehhh i cant be bothered but then where like ahh crap i better hide it again lol

nice, amazed every time.....

Another great video, brought back memories of dismantling the dynamo on my A40 to fit new brushes. FV4005 next?

Hammering the centre of the bearing 😂 never change

Always good mate 🇦🇺

Jeezus, is that a starter motor or a jet engine?

Great work, that's some starter motor !!! Komrade it works very well you make great engineer 1st class👌 .Thanks for the insight to these mischievous mechanics ....hope vodka was drunk afterwards, thanks for sharing 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃👍

We need some longer vids. 😊

Lovely tapping hammer tapping 👌😆. I’m guessing Greta has been trying to call you recently 🤔🤣🤦‍♂

Starter motors like that power airliners!!

It’s been a right pain the arse but the combo of the priming pump and the starter sounded amazing 👍🏻. Shame we never saw Adam losing his 💩, my old boss used to do that all the time, literally dodged hammers, spanner’s, low flying grinders pretty much anything he could get his hands on when things went wrong in the workshop😂 happy days though.

My favorite part is when they tighten something that's loose but they don't use loctite to keep it in place 😂

Supervisor Teddy is hard at work keeping his humans in line, Hewes, you make more weird noises with a holler in the background, you guys have too much fun but in the end get things working !

When I was an apprentice rebuilding starters and alternators, small ride on buggies had "dynastarts" which is pretty much what the t-72 has

The knackerater 5000 always makes short work of bearing installs😅.

How a Leatherman Marketing person has not come out with a "Tank Repair Edition" is a mystery to me. 😄

Nice job on the T-72 you did, tractors are not that fussy.

How I like this guy's. Great movies. By the way... Any body was last Saturday on Tiger day at the Bovington Tank Museum?

What an ominous sound the pump and starter make

I need a T72 . I know they aren’t the best but they certainly look the part

Only a one coffee video but appreciated nonetheless 🤪 no idea what your doing but tank stuff is good 🤩😂

love the new jacket 😂😂 green one that is😬

Good fix, I would have skimmed the com on the lathe to make it a flat profile so better contact with the brushes.

You guys 😂 are really awesome, were was supervisor ted ,what does he think about the language you were useing?😮😅

Bloody simply Saturday morning and mr hews 😉😉😉😉

I laughed like fuck when you started to hit the bearing centre 🤣

Hi, good job on motor you just need a com stone to bed, the brushes in the good job, and a few them in me time all best steve

Dear Joe, Fixing a T72 for only £7 won’t be a pain in the ash at all. I look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands

Just needed some patience 😂. A series wound motor could throw the windings out of the armature 😂😂

That starter motor sound like an air raid siren

Top Notch.

Top of the morning to ya.

Looks mint

4:17 When Mum says we can get KFC on the way home.

purring like a kitten.....amazing what a bit of tactical hammering can do lol

that starter motor sounds like air raid siren 🤣🤣

Nice description. whats going on with the jacket pixel?

#outstanding👌😎

Good job it's a diesel with that brushless technology

T 72 is becoming my favourite tank. Ive learnt compact is means saving on weight, coolant pipes so it can drive underwater and dig its own trench( or grave for crew). It proved superior to British tanks in 81. I read wiki for 10 minutes so now im a expert.

Very nice

Great stuff seen the shorts with it moving good repairs now are you keeping it or moving it on for somthing easier to work on lol 😂😂

Large bearing £5, smaller bearing £3, total £7... lol

Did you pay with a nine pound note?

I hope you guys will bench test a start to before you install it in the tank it'll be kind of messed up if you installed it and it wouldn't work

Thanks :)