FIXING THE FV 432-30

[@blitfire]

I'm a simple man: Mr Hewes posts, I click

[@alxgu198]

You don’t have to be simple, but it helps 🤪.

[@chrisbacon3071]

Relatable

[@Alexeiiii]

Very Pavlovian 😂

[@MsMarkosas]

Love to see someone who knows what hes doing and sharing his knowledge with everyone else. Top guy and top team.

[@viviangrabowski6506]

With other words: his wish is our command 😅 Vivian Hyde 😊

[@gerryg1056]

"Things don't always go to plan on my channel, in fact very rarely do they go to plan......" That's precisely why we keep watching Joe!

[@HMSConqueror]

Don't say that!!

[@colderwar]

My ex-father in law worked at a fuel pump reconditioners, watching you attacking that plunger with a Leatherman would give him a conniption fit. Which is good because he's a twat, and his daughter is insane 😀

[@JAY61ish]

🤣🤣😂😂

[@chrisdavies1336]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 brilliant

[@johnnunn8688]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnnunn8688]

⁠,

[@johnnunn8688]

@maruiacancer6difficult to see from your picture but you look like a man 🤷‍♂️.

[@brianwadley4633]

Great to see the girls having a go

[@davidrobinson6353]

They can have a go on me again if there up for it again.

[@RangieNZ]

Would love a video showing how all the team came together. There was an earlier video that mentioned Joe and Jack worked at a tank driving place. It would be cool to know the other connections - I guessing a brother, partner & friends, etc.

[@schwabrichard9829]

Excellent job of diagnosing and correcting the problem!!! As always love your videos!!!!

[@Grundag]

AFV Repair and Reconditioning. I reckon any crew with names like Joe and Jack are the men for the Job.

[@alxgu198]

The massive smile at the end says it all. She enjoyed that! 😂

[@Desro1970]

Of all the restorations projects this might be my favorite one. She is an absolute beauty from the poor shape she was in the field in the first clip we saw.

[@feroxsteve]

Great, I was a 432 commander, armoured Signals, 4DSR . Loved these panzas, had a great time working with and on these. Great channel. Nobby

[@glynluff2595]

Bungs, I remember those. First experience nothing happened so we removed the floors. Oh dear two days shovelling and cleaning! First experience in the field and still remembered after 50 years.

[@johnfisher9816]

Super episode Joe!!! Good to see you wearing your Tank Museum jumper. Great explanation on the fuel injector issue. Cheers, John

[@stephenturnbull7542]

Just watched this for the first time. Vrn 10 EA 16... One of the 432s I looked after and drove back in the day was 10 EA 13...this is the closest I've seen to a vehicle I actually drove. Love these vids....so many memories...

[@gusgone4527]

Don't knock the Fox. It gave sterling service as a recce vehicle. Untrained drivers had a tendency to roll them but careful drivers could push them to the limit. That 30mm Rarden cannon was taking out T55's with APSE and APDS during the 1991 Gulf War.

[@wideyxyz2271]

Lol quite a few trained drivers rolled them too!

[@legbreaker2762]

@@wideyxyz2271 but not good, well trained drivers! :D

[@MrSeeuu]

Mr. Hewes, your channel rocks! It’s just simply entertaining at all intellectual levels. Every time I view your program, I always learn something new with a big grin plastered on my face from start to finish!! I’d would love to be the wanker to tell you how to improve your channel, but Mr. Hewes, you seem to have monopolized perfection. 😃👍🏻

[@icewizzard666]

Another cracking vid! Even though I'm still this far back, started at the beginning (I do watch the current ones too) Every one I watch amazes me even more, the fun you lot have, the laughs but more importantly, the knowledge you all have or can assist each other is awesome and really nice to watch and enjoy!

[@brianwillson9567]

Wow. Total respect to you guys. Job needs going it gets done. Even it the method is not quite ‘owners manual’ and even if the job isn’t even in the owners manual.

[@RangieNZ]

Re the jammed injector pump seat, I believe it's down to the fuel quality and storage. Due to poor filtering along the way, fuel has several/many grades within it. After being stored for a while, the more volatile stuff evaporates away, leaving the sticky/ tarry stuff behind. If you are often running the machine (even on the junk fuel), you get away with it as it doesn't get chance to stick, but if you leave it long enough the tiny tolerances get jammed with the rubbish.

[@1chish]

OK being the non PC old dinosaur that I am can I just say the camera lady, needle gun rust remover, muck cleaner and now driver is an utter babe ..? Compliment intended.

[@FrontSideBus]

We want to see more of her!

[@amhjoinery2060]

Here here

[@raytheron]

@@FrontSideBus Hear, hear!!

[@TheSussexpillbox]

Come on guys, have a little respect here. That could be a girlfriend/wife/sister of one of the team and it is a touch lecherous. What you want to see is not necessarily appropriate - this is a channel for military vehicles, not Onlyfans. Maybe the "babe" behind the camera is not as happy as you are being ogled.

[@1chish]

@@TheSussexpillbox Sit down and have a quiet word with yourself dude, go find a sense of humour and stop trying to take offence for someone else. Especially when none was clearly intended. Indeed my comment was very clear on my appreciation of what the lady does around the workshop and behind the camera and I never mentioned 'looks'. But no being the POT (Professional Offence Taker) you are you have to drag in lechery / inappropriateness / OnlyFans / ogling.🤦‍♂ What a sad little article you are. I bet you are a bundle of laughs at parties. By the way what is this 'OnlyFans'? Asking for a lady friend ...

[@ianwestmoreland5950]

Another great video Joe. Good to see Jack assisting Seb at work, easing him closer to the water! You're gaining great knowledge of fuel injection, the engine sounds well, and DIDN'T smoke! 😃 Looking forward to seeing you all on the 5th, my star attractions! 👏👏👍🙂😃

[@jonb3311]

You can always tell when Ted isn't around, the kids start playing.

[@lablackzed]

You Guy's work hard and play hard I would have been proud to have you on my work crew in my old days.👍👍👍👍👍🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

[@douhacomcastnet]

Glad to see that you’’re sharing driving duties.

[@ZeroDi]

I know where there are a lot of fresh spare parts right now. Greetings from Russia, cool videos.

[@digitalbegley]

I was surprised nobody has said yet the trouble that you were having with the clutch on the Fox is that it's not a clutch it's a pre-select gear change pedal. Which I'm sure you know requires you to change gear and then stamp on the gear changer pedal to put it into that gear. I spent a few happy years driving foxes around the uk and Germany.

[@rogerswyer5357]

Should imagine it's quite dangerous being a postman down your way.

[@dazp6002]

loving the just stop oil gloves 😀😀

[@grahamclarke2319]

Someone locked me inside a Fox over lunch one day, when I was an apprentice at Ruddington. I think they were taken out of use, due to being top heavy and being prone to rolling over, with lethal consequences. Some turrets went on Scorpion hulls. This made a Sabre vehicle, if I recall correctly.

[@legbreaker2762]

Love the Fox. Criminally underrated vehicle.

[@cosmiccolonel]

Yes there was a little bit of a drift….. along with a huge smile from the driver!!….👍👍👍

[@paoloviti6156]

As always I see you doing a great job and managed let a wet but pretty girl enjoying driving this tank, great 👍 👌

[@dannyv2335]

“At least this one stops” ouch 😂

[@Tesserae]

I enjoyed the Tank Grrl bit at the end.

[@cogboy302]

"I'm gonna hit you so hard your children will be born bruised."

[@steverichardson1948]

Hallo Mr hewes the steering wheel is just like the wheel on a Alvis Sarican , withe sarican you had to Pump the Cluch at least 5 times in each gear before you start it. Was really fun Driving one while I was in the army in the 70s. Great watching you lot.

[@altruida]

First she gushed and then she squirted! 😂

[@tinymonster9762]

Great video. Loved the family outing at the end.

[@philglover2973]

Awesome video thanks lads very much appreciated top job top team 🇬🇧

[@screwthecabal6453]

He looks like me every other day working on customers cars EVERY FRICKEN DAY!!! HOORAY!!!

[@johneurich8747]

you even put a french flag on it at the end, what a nice guy

[@chrisbacon3071]

I will watch this when I’m back in blighty, right now though it’s the Singapore airport for me! 😅

[@chrisbacon3071]

Alright I’m back now in blighty!

[@gavin1506]

Great channel, great content. I like how you explain the isdues and how to resolve.

[@gavin1506]

Also I'm loving the indepth knowledge of tanks and other vehicles you give. I learn best with humour and this is amazing!

[@patchmack4469]

ah bless, i like the ol' Fox's, a tad more practical whizzing down the road, only 4 wheels / tyres to change and not full tracks, we had Continentals on ours and it went rather rapidly down the motorway, great to see people smile in traffic when they saw you trundling along - like the ol Ferrets, great off road both forwards and backwards, ours handled very well at speed across the ploughed fields, steady as a rock, and just like the Ferret the steering wheel is set at a stupid angle rather like a submarine but you didn't tend to take skin off the knuckles like in a Ferret but all a question of taste, yep engines are a pain in but Jag 60s, horrible temperamental from what i remember and that ain't a lot now

[@simonholland241]

Brilliant, love watching these guys...

[@darrenwardell3079]

Brilliant always makes a great video when things go tits up

[@AlisonFort]

Thanks for showing what capable drivers we girls are😀 Channel is becoming unmissable…

[@MrHewes]

Often better than male drivers as they actually listen to instructions…

[@1chish]

@@MrHewes What are these 'instructions' of which you speak Sir? Never needed them ... 😂

[@gusgone4527]

The only thing more dangerous than a girl driving a tracked IFV, is a junior officer with a map and a radio!

[@1chish]

@@gusgone4527 Or a Sailor with a gun ....

[@alanmoffat4454]

THAT FOX WILL DO THE SAME IN REVERSE AS YOUR COMMANDER CAN KEEP WHITH THERE NERVES INTACT 😮.😊

[@JAY61ish]

If it don't do a dying fly first..

[@Wayoutthere]

*Takes out the big 'ammer and chisel* OH NO HE WON'T..Oh fk it.

[@major-Kurt]

The girl driving the tank is super !!! ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

[@teamidris]

Nerdfo, information for historic diesel nerds; :o) this one way valve is the one you remove to time the engine. At some point before top dead centre the cam in the injector pump will start to lift the injector pump plunger. During its upward stroke the plunger will go past its inlet port. Without the one way valve fitted diesel will flow out of the pump until the inlet port is covered. That is when it would start injecting. If the flow stopping matches the timing marks you are bob on. Everyone used to have a sawn off bit of injection pipe in their tool box so they could see exactly when the flow stopped. (Drips stop) It was called a swan neck.

[@jonathantarrant2449]

Thats what we call it, is the diesel has gelled. Its the paraffin wax issue. Next to the black algae from the biodiesel, gelling is properly the 2nd thing to plug off filters, or injector lines

[@Iaintwoke]

Diesel bug can be a bitch with modern diesel. A common problem with boats which get treated, sometimes excessively and then sat around for months doing nothing. The treatment needs to be circulated then burned off to work correctly.🙄

[@diabolicalartificer]

Farm trained mechanic: who needs the right tool when you have a #9 twatting hammer & a Chinese screwdriver. Like all farm mechanics the world over too you know how to fix stuff & get the job done. Alan Millyard look away.

[@oWAR1OCKo]

you all should have bottled that up and sold it as Sebs eboy bathwater. Would have made a fortune.

[@oldmanwith]

2:24 Nooooooo, Joe’s sold out and gone commercial, he’s using a sp***er. 2:40 ah that’’s better, he’s using it as a hammer. 3:25 peace and tranquility returns to the farm, he’s stolen a local orphan’s “my first stillsons” to use and then gone all in with the leatherman 👍

[@turnbridge]

Great job Dom 👍👏👏👏👏

[@mikewinston8709]

432….Fox……so many memories…

[@JAY61ish]

Me Too ha ha Although Ferret was still around when i joined up And Saracen and Humber Pig in NI..

[@FrontSideBus]

Amazing what you can do with a hammer and a cold chisel!

[@christaylor6617]

Most people have a day out in their car, but you Joe, have a tank!! Brill

[@markgarvey5859]

Very educational on injections engine sounds awesome

[@user-mjg1067]

Just recently subbed, and I've watched around 30 videos I used to drive the 432 with a L37 turret a smaller turret than the one you are driving in this video, my only gripe is I've not seen anyone use the most important piece of equipment on a British Armoured vehicle, yes the BV it was a lifesaver out on exercise especially when it got down to minus 20 in Germany, otherwise good videos, for a bunch of civvies.

[@PaulMitton-y9x]

Hi Mr hewes, are you ex reme as you are well versed in the Knowledge of many military vehicles?? Mitsy of the Midlands. Love what you and the minions muster. 🤩✌

[@Saint_Vincent1735]

And that's why tanks/tracked military vehicles are awesome.

[@bb21again.67]

Love those orange gloves you should paint the engine that colour to brighten up the engine bay.😅

[@SgHawk144]

That trailer is some bit of kit.

[@bobbymccourt6794]

That burgundy t-shirt is THE BEST!!

[@evulclown]

Kind of wish they made a few more of these before switching over to the Warrior as there's something quaint about them!

[@nigelsears7191]

clearly having far too much fun !😁

[@colvinator1611]

Fantastic ! I can almost smell that historic pollution. Thanks a lot.

[@Paul-xe8li]

Enjoyed the video thanks for sharing. No ted this video though.

[@JAY61ish]

He's on holiday in the Bahamas 😂😂

[@CJRicher]

Love the t shirt, class.

[@stephendavis7616]

Thanks Team, being a mechanic I realy enjoy your Chanel. Question, Could you please tell me the Model & Code of the Alison transmission in the FV432? As a mate, has one which needs to come out for a rebuild, due to water contamination. Most likely from the heat exchanger. Thank you in advance for your or anyone else that answers my question.

[@NottsAndDerbyLHG39-45]

the gunner and commanders seats in the fox are in the standing position hence they're on the floor. the pre select gearbox is an interesting set up in the fox but i do love em

[@Tarten21]

Awesome work hard play hard

[@ianwood9457]

It's a dirty job , but someone's got to do it 🤪🤘🏻🇬🇧😎 well done lads

[@raytheron]

Yet another fab video! Love 'em all!

[@alexwood5777]

FV432-30 Pretty rare beast. I think about 13 FV432’s were converted by slapping a 30mmRarden turret from the Fox (your nemesis😀) and were used by the Berlin Infantry Brigade as fire support vehicle. Quite what 13 were going to achieve against a soviet tank army is the ultimate triumph of optimism over reality🤦‍♂️

[@johngell4842]

Cracking video gang especially the drift 🤠 Seb can you come do our stolly bungs for us 😅

[@landrelarose745]

When the fuel changes into a thin film, this causes the seizure of part. The other word for this film is called shellac. After it scraped or whatever words you want to use, it doesn't cause those components to be seized together after it is.

[@NUTTER8291]

Seb getting wet !! Pff5 he didn't even get mildly moist under there lol Thought you was going to attack him with a fire hose or something Exciting 🤣 Though he DID HAVE A BETTER expression on his face than he did on the last video when you dragged the guys up to pick up that engine He DID look like he was going to kill someone lol Poor old boy

[@babaganoush6106]

i identify as a caveman too

[@farmerfuller87]

Been here from the tic toks to this epic channel thanks lads 👌

[@paulwalker427]

Cracking video chaps and chapess

[@Iaintwoke]

Im a little confused. What's this got to do with the rack getting stuck in the stop position which absolutely does happen. Ive personally seen it and fixed the problem.

[@Mag_Aoidh]

Why not leave the bungs out, unless you’re driving through water or at least make one that drains but protects the threads?

[@steven.ghodgson765]

i like their style !

[@viviangrabowski6506]

Let me come to your farm please.. - it is the paradise for me ❤❤❤ Vivian Hyde 😊

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Drives great Weather not so good Nice and sunny then raining 😂😂

[@MrHewes]

This is England

[@leoroverman4541]

what can one say, Mad as they come, tonka toys.Sheer pleasure

[@deedoor30]

The T-shirts get better and better.

[@kreemkrackered3755]

Best content on YT without a doubt. Absolutely love the vids. Kinda reminds me of Dirty Sanchez but with heavy armour..!

[@Paddington60]

I do like the reduced size Yellow Foden, ace!!!

[@stevenblyth6493]

Wont the exhaust fill with water?

[@screwthecabal6453]

Like my wife says "you got your sheeeet together". Which I say" easy peasy moefoe yadayada"

[@screwthecabal6453]

When he asked "where are you goin, did I hear you say" I'm goin to plow the cornfield"???

[@jimmydignan9269]

The XCLs still look good on the Fox. They must be ancient.

[@sagecouncil]

Good effort..

[@copee2960]

Good job...sorted.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

gotta love a fox! green or blonde is all good ;)

[@MrGmanGB]

The stuff of nightmares on exercise in Germany! Pack swap

[@totalutternutter]

If things ever went to plan there'd be no content, tune in next time to see nothing catch fire, get stuck or break.

[@PaulMitton-y9x]

When your in the fox mr hewes, the back of i think the seat...looks very sad. 😥