Well done on what you are doing, looking forward to seeing it all done, will you keep the cut off bed sides? … why are they like that? - I have seen some other military vehicles like that, think they were in the desert ?

Great selection of original parts and accessories 👌🏻

I did a complete restoration on KHU 323P outside under a tarp in all weathers and sometimes it was really tough going but I got there in the end.. It took around 6 years but was worth it, make sure not to cut corners though it will come back to bite you on the backside. However long you think it's going to take double.. However much you think it's going to cost double it.. Once it's finished it'll be worth it..

Great job. That gearbox is a lovely lump of engineering. Happy new year 🎉

Great stuff. Hopefully it will help out quite a bit. Look forward to updates

Really glad to see you making progress with Bernard. I hope you managed to continue at a steady pace and I really look forward to your future videos

Nothing to worry about! You can't help but notice that state of the woodwork, and I do suppose it will be replaced at some point, but what wood is it, ash? Good vid.

the matador was to produced to be maintained in the field so as you say you don't need a massive shed to do it most jobs are work around on the matador

Slap the top of the injectors if they have not been out sticking needles .

From an old heavy industry maintenance man I found that jobs like that are 80% planning 20% doing and a smidgeon of luck for how well it works out. Excellent work.

I have driven one these trucks, it is very heavy and hard to drive. The gear shift and the clutch are particularly heavy and rough.

There are many reasons why old mechanics of my vintage have back problems. This is one of them.😄

Just found your channel. The Matador is great old beast.

Happy new year all. Interesting view such an old gearbox .Greetings from Germany.

I fitted a gearbox and transfer box in a series 2 landrovers many years ago in the back lane using a trolley jack and wooden chocks to get the height.it was made easier with the floor being out.mind you I was a land rover nut in those days and a lot lot younger.

Nice one, Chap! Well done.

As you say, doing the gearbox not in a workshop isn't easy but they were intended that they could be repaired "in the field", as for the clutch brake I used work at a truck gearbox repair shop and Volvo I-shift boxes had as part of the clutch release bearing operation an input shaft brake (common fault was the pneumatic seals would fail but shifting would try to take place with engine/box still engaged and no slowing of the gearbox internals, consequences is a blown gearbox), great to hear you've maybe found a replacement axle for the Fordson.

Well done.😊

That gearbox looks like work of art with all its brass fittings. The clutch sounds similar to a live drive on a fordson major. Is that a compressor on the side of the box?

Good idea to use a crane to lift the box UP for installation.

Clutch brakes were only necessary on heavy commercial non-synchro gearboxes. So discontinued many decades ago. Most heavies have been automatics of some form for 20 years now. It gives you a 2 stage clutch pedal if you studied the operating linkage. Part way down on the pedal operates the release bearing freeing the clutch drive plate. All the way down on the pedal operates the clutch brake also. There is adjustment in the linkage to allow for brake pad wear. So, DO NOT push the pedal fully down on all up or down changes. Read up on how and when to use it. Then mime the actions to get them fixed in your mind before going crunchies. Once you get used to feeling the feed back from the gear stick for when the transmission is slack between acceleration and deceleration you should be able to change gear without using the clutch pedal using only the strength of 2 fingers to shift gears. Bit late now it is fitted but, having taken time to clean the rusted clutch mating surfaces to ensure it will work freely and the driven plate has plenty of friction material left. Did you check the lining thickness on the brake pad? Did you coat the input shaft splines with a little anti seize compound? Impressive to fit the box on your own.

Improvise adapt and overcome at it’s best 👏👏👏👏👏

Great stuff, lots of useful parts. Does appear to be a Scammell Pioneer cleaner, hope it is. Will solt in nicely with Bernard etc.

The clamp would appear to be for a spare gun barrel but not a 4.5 or a 5.5.

The 5.5inch medium gun ubiquitously towed by the AEC Matador was operated by a team of 10 men, so the gun rack is spot on.

I'd say the project is a Scammell Pioneer. I hope so anyway. 😁😁👍👍

Excellent!! Sounds like you’re living next to a motorway though!!😅

For the rifle butt to sit in.

will cost thousands to restore.good luck

Some useful parts. Hopefully you have most of what you need.

i see a lot of the cab subframe ... i am sure i saw both side sections of bonnet and the top .the inner front wheel arhes i am sure i saw too they are the most challenging to make.as are the one piece outer arch cappings that follow wood frame

I remember in the late 60s we had a matador with a glider winch on the back of it. I was 15 and used to drive it around to get it into the wind for launching. That gear box was something.

You found the missing tow hitch. The 1 gallon oil can is very rare as they are square, rather then the the rectangular ones used by oil companies in the 60s. You have a remaining leather insert in the 303 gun rack clips to use as a pattern (allowing for shrinkage). Then they are just riveted at the tops. Since the gearbox is out,. a future video can be on the clutch brake, its workings and how to use it when driving and why. AEC, the days when British manufacturers were proud to cast their emblems into what they produced.

I'm with you on the mystery item, but what do i know! If the spring clips for the barrels also number 10, then I think you've cracked it.

Thanks.

When you get a new tarp, may I suggest the clear stuff with white string squares that they use on scaffolding, it lasts longer tan most tarps I have had and, if it extends down to the side woodwork it allows light in.

Bostock and Bramley (Stalybridge) would have been able to knock a few of those up no problem but alas like most of the long standing UK engineering firms they where bought out and asset stripped and closed.

Ag shame man after all that work. Hope u come rite.

"Bugger " just about says it all really.

Oh no, that sucks my friend. Great video, the perils of owning any older vehicle. Keep up the outstanding and amazing work. You will get their in the end on the plus side you have some spares that could be handy to you or another collector❤

Unlucky, Keep going it will come good.

Awwwwwwwwwwww.... bugger. With this situation you have to concentrate on the positives - at least you've got some decent spare drums and other bits and bats now (albeit presumably rather exoensive ones!)

Split diff...Ford diffs look very similar across the board from the early to mid 1940s...good luck!

Bad luck.

This is a long shot, but after watching this in my recommendations this video came up kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqS0ipmbmr2ordksi=TSA0eIkI5TpaN3H- Watching this they give a tour round the machine, now I may be wrong but is the axle on a universal (bre gun) carrier the same, just thinking it may widen your search pool for the crownwheel & pinion.

I feel for you in the disappointment (was hoping it was going to be good all the way through the vid), but I'll keep my eyes open for anything that looks hopeful.

Such a shame, so disappointed for you.

Good luck finding one as you need to get one with your other project!!❤

You seem very philosophical about the whole affair. I'd be throwing a burning rag in the fuel tank by now!

Have you considered having new parts made in say Pakistan? They seem to perform machining miracles on machines of the same vintage as the WOT6 virtually at the side of the road and have some very clever machinists. Even with freight charges it could prove more economic. Just a thought in dark times.