WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: What's wrong with our CVRT Sabre???

[@aussmith5335]

I was a CVRT Spartan driver back in the 80’s, I had a clutch go in the middle of nowhere… myself and the commander striped the tank down and replaced it. A hell of a job with basic CS tools and some tools from our Techs. Nice to see the original Jaguar engine in place 👍

[@465maltbie]

I was just going to say something about not wanting to do that in the field, have a great New Year. Charles

[@aserta]

What was the ratio? Good team skills or ease of repair of the vehicle?

[@mikef.1000]

Oh yes, you're right... Jag XJ6, correct?

[@johnwolf2829]

I think the reason this tank failed was because it was too twitchy for a conscript; you'd have to love the machine to make it work. In the Army, especially tankers, hitting it twice as hard with a bigger hammer is about as sophisticated as they like to get. Not really their fault when the privates would much rather be somewhere else.... but for a collector this seems to be the ideal tank to have.

[@jeffbarbara9188]

Thanks Graham good to see you again

[@markhorrell9213]

Glad you made the move and landed your dream job! That you had you own channel would make you an ideal candidate for this! Great to see you on screen again!

[@brettjurmann4326]

Awesome to see Graham back making videos! You will be wise-cracking in no time.

[@gagasmancave8859]

Spent 3 years working on cvrt's in a first line LAD pulled many a box and engine out, one suggestion I would make is to fit a spare gen gelt and secure it out of the way , saves a whole load of messing when they snap look forward to having fun when putting the quill shafts back in. If you don't get it back within 5 mins then get some one else to try

[@darcybroom]

Was my absolute honour helping out 🤟

[@Ian-mj4pt]

No worries mate we are happy thst you still did give us a fix . Im not shaking so much now the fix is sorted out now 😅😅😅. Graham did a great job giving us our fix .😅

[@chrishewitt4220]

Brilliant, Graham! Love the sense of humour in the face of engineering challenges.

[@alecfraser1928]

Good effort Graham. I like the CVRT. Could just about fit one in my driveway.

[@johnfirth6809]

Great job Graham, always like your commentary and presentation. Brilliant

[@shanemossmoss]

Great job Graham enjoyed your presentation

[@althrops245]

I feel your pain having done this job in a German wood in the middle of the night!

[@johnanon6938]

Glad someone was able to film in time to stop the riot and letter writing campaign we have planned for missing a Workshop Wednesday. :D

[@robertshemory3541]

Looking forward to seeing more Graham. ❤️✌️😎👍

[@bryanstotts3466]

Pretty awesome that you guys are giving Graham a shot at featuring a tank repair video.

[@chopper7352]

Great to see Graham on camera now that he's made the move to Cairns & AusArmour from SA. I use to watch his work on his own Stuart Tank. Cheers

[@HarrydeLackadais]

Always nice to see with how much desication your crew is working on your collection

[@andrewscott7485]

Take two of the NBC locks of the back door of the spartan to fit the drive splines when you pul them out . Little tip that a cvrt track pin will fit the bolts on the generator if that needs working on in the future.

[@thomasbarker6567]

Gearbox input Oil pump drive shaft. They do fail but not on the extent of what he said. When the Cummings engine was retro fitted to CVR T then they had serious issues with the pump shaft. The Gearbox works on Oil Pressure so once the Input pump drive shaft fails. All gears are lost. It drives all the time the engine is running and independent of the centrifugal clutch. You will always have to remove the drivers seat, Fire Wall and 'T' Piece to remove the Gearbox. Enjoy the experience!

[@Reece_Stewart]

God what a nightmare. Disassemble half the tank just to get the transmission out. Seems like it'll be fun getting it all back in haha

[@seanmalloy7249]

It doesn't compare in difficulty, but I remember the instructions in the owner's manual of the Austin America my mother had in my teens for changing the oil - "Remove the old oil filter, using whatever force may be necessary."

[@adamrudling1339]

Thanks for this episode, absolutely love the cvrt series since having an action man scorpion as a small boy.

[@thecommenter9678]

Graham being a lad and insuring we get our fix for the week 🙏

[@eb-pe8xg]

Still my favorite day of the week! Thanks Graham.

[@---rz5th]

Good luck everyone on it.

[@matthewgillies7509]

My grandfather, whom was later a tech teacher, passed his diagnostic engineering course with 110% final grade. He did so by making his own tools to work out the problem on the broken cars they were given, as there weren't enough to go around for the entire class during their final exam. This reminds me a lot of his stories.

[@sokoloft3]

My Dad passed away in August and I had a bunch of old junky tools I gave to his mechanic friend. I kept the nice matco set he's always had. That kids got a bunch of old tools though to make into whatever he needs when the time comes.

[@tankcommander1]

That was a QOY wagon served on them for years as well as Scimiter

[@StuSaville]

Imagine coming into work to discover that someone had gone all "Uri Geller" on your favourite spanner?

[@stephencox4224]

look up "Woods Metal " and Mr Gellers stunts will become more obvious, You can cast a spoon in woods metal and hand it to somebody to stir the sugar in their coffee and ther look on their face when they see the bottom has melted off the spoon as they stirred their coffee

[@xacoupeguy]

Good thing it was my own spanner

[@BarkingSpyda]

_"benda da bloody spoon"_ ... Luigi 😆

[@jemc4276]

I honestly wish I had just a tenth of the talent these blokes have with machinery. My dad was bloody good at it being a trucker driver. But I'm a mechanical dud. I can sell pretty much anything though...

[@leccybadger]

It's not going back together properly without Ted to supervise...😊

[@fernandochavez4312]

It’s always impressive to see the hard work you all put in these machines, and then think how a drone worth a few hundreds can basically render any of them useless. Thanks for your content.

[@greentree180]

Great vid, can't wait till the next one.

[@russwoodward8251]

Fascinating. Nice work Graham. Thanks.

[@ScottLowery-o3c]

Young fella will be an asset im tipping, Well done Lad

[@janbyrdal645]

Thank you for our Weekly fix, its so much a part of ones week, so its very difficult not to have it, Thank you guys.👌

[@coreyrich2567]

Good to see XA coupe guy doing videos keep up the good work

[@yattaran1484]

It seems it's a long way to go before the CVRT become healthy again !. Nice job Graham ! 👍

[@jeffhoward9186]

I am glad to see the workshop is back to business as usual. I hope that each and everyone there had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! Looking forward to more videos.

[@willwade1101]

I've adapted so many wrenches for specific tasks during my life time. I usually tried to use cheap wrenches, not my expensive ones. I retired in 2016 and gave my shop and tools to my grandson to support his growing family.

[@abbeyhall4624]

Gosh, am keenly eager for the next instalment of this maintenance fix/ repair job.

[@DragonFireEngneering]

Can't miss those valve covers even if they are blue. 4.2L Jag. Cool.

[@3storiesUp]

Well done young man

[@stefantrnacek1394]

Good to see you doing a video, Graham. It is a bit different than a EJ.

[@busterdee8228]

Museum staff all seem to be good presenters. Well done Graham.

[@bigun447]

You can get a set of Starter Wrenches that are made just like you made. They were designed for starter bolts that were back behind the starter. Also, a set of offset open-end wrenches that had one end at almost 90 degrees to the other end are worth their weight in gold. Some old German mechanic is laughing at your getting the short end of the shaft.

[@MatSpeedle]

Happy New year mates! Great to have you guys back on the tools and as always thanks for the great content.

[@martinalford3010]

Great to have Graham there explains thing to the T. Can I ask what he is doing with his tank and jeep.It would be great to do a video on the build of the jeep?

[@TheBigCat2001]

Interesting stuff here boys.

[@aserta]

Kurt's friend did great on the camera work and Graham had "fun" working on the Sabre. Well, we know he bickers, but he loves it.

[@MGB-learning]

Great video

[@bradmccartney187]

Thank you for another great video, I would love to have a autographed photo of the WorkShop Wednesday crew. Keep the videos coming as always Stay Safe and take care.

[@fehuthel]

TBH Graham is kinda my hero. Bro just up and restores his own tank, one day says “eff all this” and drops everything to move away and pursue his dream. You go, dude.

[@aserta]

2:28 you've never worked in a workshop, if you've never made a mess on the floor. Period. I can 100% say this, because even in Bugatti's (from the days of the Veyron) picture perfect shop, with revolving tiles that slide away from the engine rack that's affixed to the floor on a track, and all that jazz and bling... there's puddle stains. :) They cleaned them well, but they're still visible.

[@tdezyn]

Thanks lads, see Darrel still looks a bit rough around the edges, although with the usual smile of confidence 😮😂 Look forward as always to the next video. Best wishes to you all.

[@JonnieComp]

Great vid guys it's not a panzer fix but , it'll do..a cold thank you from Texas

[@johnboy384]

Thanks AAAM. =)

[@davidkimmel5153]

Amazing

[@patchmack4469]

been there seen that, all good fun, some things are bolted in so well, you wonder why bother, and those bolts are usually still there because nobody ever bothered to remove those parts, when replacing the awkward bolts are generally left off which is when that term, 'somebody's been here' comes into play - incidentally, we backward engineer some parts for CVRT, got a load of complete fans and still waiting on belts to come in via Mars i think a good cheat before removing engine and/or gearbox, do laser alignment between input/output where the shaft goes and double check that interconnecting drive shaft is for diesel or petrol respectively, no doubt you know that, i had to learn that one

[@AndrewJones-im1ro]

Love Steve's comment about "these Pommey systems" LOL. Aussies still taking the piss.

[@PeterNissen878112]

I like listening to Graham's running commentary

[@sortius_]

Aww, it's the foxy scimitar!

[@paoloviti6156]

A bit of a job going on this CVRT that needs to be done. Sometimes I think you need long spaghetti size fingers to work on the very narrow points 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️! But you guys are already doing a great job 👍👍👍

[@JohnPine13]

I agree with the comment below...more Graham please.

[@scottcrawford7310]

Job well done

[@craigtomkinson2837]

Cool ep guys

[@ChristopherBourseau]

Great video work

[@mikef.1000]

9:31 "and then we can test the tensile strength of anything that's still attached!" Funny fella

[@gadgetfellow]

nice work

[@timwerner7771]

HA!..."and then we can test the tensile strength of anything that is attached" fun!

[@simonmarsden66]

If you don't get the gearbox alignmnt spot on when reconstructing you will never get the quill shafts back in, they can be an absolute nightmare

[@youtubecomedy5289]

Nice work Graham.

[@georgefrancisyoung3702]

Once fixed and running a do not tow sign might be handy?

[@contributor7219]

A really interesting episode. I never knew these things are powered by a Jaguar XK engine. It looks to be based on the later 'long stud' 4.2.

[@Daniel-S1]

Not all of them had the XK engine - I think some had diesels. Maybe this is an early one.

[@contributor7219]

@@Daniel-S1 Yes, I had a look after seeing this. It seems there was an upgrade program for the CVRT that included a diesel engine and automatic transmission.

[@scrumpydrinker]

@@contributor7219 yes Cummins B series, probably turbocharged

[@MrManHawk]

"...test the tensile strength of anything that's still attached." 😂

[@thehairygolfer]

Next job - pulling the transmission on a panzer 3. That could be fun.

[@pallas_wept]

Aww no "welcome to Workshop Wednnnnnnnesday" intro :D

[@BF5player]

Some hard work ahead of you graham, 221’s looking great nearly finished

[@erikdekuil4629]

“Shouldn’t wobble like this and be an inch longer” that’s what the wife said……………I’ll get my coat…..

[@arffadailey8055]

Needs a 351 C out of XA coup.

[@orionbirch2705]

Is the presenter's name Graham? Good job.

[@54mgtf22]

Cool 😎

[@stephencox4224]

Make sure the coolant is always up to spec on that Jaguar Engine because they have very long head studs that go all the way down to the Main bearing area and guess what when they snap and they do they almost always snap way down the bottom. That of course requires some home made very long extensions to drill and remove the broken stud, Almost as bad as the pages in the Workshop manual on the Jaguar V 12's where they show you where to take the hacksaw to the heads to cut them into three pieces when they just will not come off. Not as concerning as having to use alloy plates and panelbeaters hydraulic spreaders to remove Ferrari Cylinder heads if they have been neglected coolant wise. So Guys you have been warned be totally anal when it comes to coolant in those Saracen Alvis Sabre variants to save yourselves future grief

[@ReneNvt-se5lj]

Good job Graham, by the way how is your Stuart restoration going

[@agn855]

Oh well. My fellow German Gepard at 11:03 (in the background) 😊

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks.

[@wekker090]

Curved spanners are for sale in in ratchet version.

[@samleigh7817]

4:18 would those choice words include, Biff, Bash, Pow, splat, Kapow, Thump, Blam?

[@yaronscholtena6019]

I heard you guys bought a type 69-II from the netherlands

[@jerryprice5484]

You need to get yourself a set of spanners with a ratchet on one end

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

On my first 1970 BMW, I had to remove the horrible short and flat seat and replace it with a better and adjustable one, so I needed a very slim top to do it. An ordinary top couldn't do it!

[@OneRoundDown]

Nice jab at Toyota 😂

[@markgallagher2386]

Mr Hewes channel might be able to give advice on this one.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Good to see Graham in front of the camera again 👍👍

[@highlander147]

There are days when I reckon some of these designers just did things to be mean… starter motor in the valley of a V8, starter under the exhaust manifold (of course, if the starter isn’t working, odds are the manifold will be cold, but still)… thanks Graham and all at AAAM.

[@mgbrv8]

So is that a jaguar or Daimler based engine?

[@kestasskamarocius7331]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@garynew9637]

Is this the best they make?

[@hopper1415]

Question? I Darrall the shop supervisor?

[@joey243win]

So much Jaguar XK and Leyland in there Small wonder everything is in a dog of a spot and a pain to work on

[@georgedistel1203]

Third, you two fight over first

[@mikeschillinger4427]

You can always contact Joe Hewes, he's somewhat of an authority on these machines.😂