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@seaworthysloth23752 жыл бұрын
I love your videos, I’m 21 years old and when I was 19 I bought a 1962 Hotchkiss M201 as my first car. Only now am I really starting to take an interest in the mechanical side, your videos are a great help :) thank you and keep up the good work!
@shankarbalan38132 жыл бұрын
This Jeep is just purrrfect…. Such a super restoration and such a fun series of experimentations….and I do appreciate the period costume….
@davidwood13612 жыл бұрын
THIS GUY KNOWS ALOT , GREAT JOB GREENDOT 319
@megadeuz61482 жыл бұрын
So,in other words, the motor is now flooded. Way to go frenchie.
@AJ-qn6gd2 жыл бұрын
Gives the French a good excuse to surrender 😜🇬🇧
@darkwood777 Жыл бұрын
With progress, much knowledge is forgotten. Young drivers today have no understanding of these things. Back when I learned to drive, many cars and trucks still had manual chokes, and you quickly learned the rules for starting the engine when it was hot or cold, and how to start a flooded engine. Now we just press a button and it goes.
@alexandertoshich7652 жыл бұрын
Love your Jeep videos, greetings from across the pond in the Deep South of the US. Driving a Jeep is Sweeeet!
@the_lost_navigator2 жыл бұрын
"It's a piece of junk! The Fuel system leaks all over the place!" - Moriarity (Kelly's Heroes) referring to the Tiger tank and it's Solex carburation... Something about Solex also responsible for starting fires in Panthers... #notsayinjustsayin ;)
@radaraacf2 жыл бұрын
Didn’t German tanks run diesel?
@the_lost_navigator2 жыл бұрын
@@radaraacf Nein... das wort Ivan!
@SteamCrane2 жыл бұрын
@@radaraacf Nope! Weird myth that will not die!
@1djbecker2 жыл бұрын
That was a movie script. A good part of the German tank fuel fire problem was leaking fuel lines. They couldn't get natural rubber and substituted synthetic rubber, which was itself scarce. Fuel lines and oil hoses were made of more fibers and minimum rubber. Using a minimum length of a weak, brittle substitute resulted in the lines leaking or breaking, especially with greater engine movement at start-up or panic driving in combat. Adding to the problem, the heavier tanks were designed to ford streams and rivers rather than crush local bridges. To facilitate this, some had watertight engine compartments undertrays. Something that can keep water out will keep fuel and oil in when hoses burst.
@ElmoUnk19532 жыл бұрын
Always with the negative waves Moriarity, always with the negative waves! 😁😁😁
@martin97112 жыл бұрын
Nice one mr Dot , interesting as usual. It must be hard to keep coming up with material but you always come up with the goods, and long may you.
@jayjenkins47212 жыл бұрын
I was having backfire issues with my 48 2A (all stock 6v) last week and when it did run there was an odd vibration and not much power under load and was sputtering just over idle. I adjusted the timing and it continued. I pulled the plugs to look at them and #3 wasn't nearly as hot as the others. I tracked it down to one of my old plug wires was not bringing all of the spark to #3 so it was missing. Just swapped out standard plugs and wires and she runs great again.
@johndoe43 Жыл бұрын
Great info. You do a great job. As always I love your jeep and dedication
@Grahame59 Жыл бұрын
I have a Hillman Imp which, as standard, is fitted with a Solex carb. The inlet manifold has a small brass tube with a hole at the end, in effect a drain tube to prevent the manifold filling up with a float chamber's worth of fuel. No problems hot starting but could have been a different story without the drain tube.
@Yoda894511 ай бұрын
Surface gap plugs were standard in my 1970 Kawasaki 500 H1 motorcycle. They were used because they are the coldest plug available. They worked well, but I can see no advantage for a 4 stroke engine. They also tended to be short lived and I had to replace them yearly. That may have been an effect of leaded fuel, but I don't know that for certain.
@michaelguerin562 жыл бұрын
Thank for the info. Half pie product substitution but easily overcome by proper driver training courses and workshop modification of inlet manifolds. You have to start with the basics when substituting components or setting up production of brand new kit. The Yanks received the entire technical package for the perfected Hispano Suiza 20mm aircraft cannon form the British BUT failed to get that weapon into service because US Ordnance ‘experts’ decided to ream the chambers too deep for reliable function and reportedly refused to conform to the proven specification. That is why their later WW2 fighters were stuck with .50 cal machine guns instead of the 20mm Hispano Suiza cannons they were designed to carry. The B36 bomber was notorious for engine problems. The piston engines fitted to that aeroplane in a pusher position were reportedly designed and built to work in pull configuration. As designed, the carburettors were behind the exhaust manifolds BUT with the engines installed backwards the carburettors were in front of the exhaust manifolds. Carburettor heaters, according to my understanding, are a backup system for use at high altitude and in abnormally cold conditions; as opposed to being the only means of ensuring reliable carburettor function in cold air conditions. There are no true short cuts in design and manufacturing. When someone’s ‘bright new idea’ fails to work, you return to a proven reliable specification.
@alfiedog29422 жыл бұрын
Great video and knowledge, my Carter had absolutely no issues over a 10 year ownership in fact I never even fiddled with it at all which says a lot in my opinion 💪 well apart from the odd air n fuel adjustment on the screw you’d expect 😀
@G503-e8p2 жыл бұрын
1:48 pass - very cool! Thanks for another interesting video.
@levieilatelier30882 жыл бұрын
i sometimes had some troubles also with Carter carburetor in the past, but run with jeeps is like a bet sometimes... will it run? At the end it always finish fine...
@onetonlandrover2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I wonder how the solex on my landrover will perform once I get it running?
@BilgePump2 жыл бұрын
If it starts better and idles smoother y not try the sparky ⚡️ thingy’s longer term as a test???
@timengineman2nd714 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the guy's timing chain slipped a tooth or two. Sometimes, when you nurse an engine after changing out some parts, you think you've solved the problem when all you've done is masked it by driving it differently! Field fix: How to get it home (for point systems like these jeeps and even into the 1970's! and a bit beyond depending on the engine!!) Emery board like a woman using for her nails, sandpaper, matchbook cover (US or Canadian) Quarter and dime or another coin of similar thickness. Clean the fouling off of the spark plugs with the sandpaper and then use the emery board to ensure flat surfaces. Gap by putting the quarter in-between the plug's spark parts (sorry forget what they call, I mainly work on diesels!) and spike the plug down (gently a little bit at a time works just fine!). If it is a GM "High Energy System" use the quarter and the dime. "Time" the points using the dime to loosen the points, and gap it by using the matchbook cover. The engine will run rough, not like taking a load (i.e. accelerating or going up a hill), but it will limp you back home. Quick fix for a broken fan (or other) belt is to tie a pair of panty-hose around the pulleys!!! Won't last you long, but hopefully it will get you out from where-ever you're stuck... Nylon hose works, but not as well.
@clavius57342 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, I love the practical handson experimentation. Just put some plugs in and take it for a spin. Also really enjoyed the Messerschmitt episode. Keep up the good work!
@robertlewis22 жыл бұрын
Surprising phenomenon for a French design.
@walterzoomie2 жыл бұрын
Holster goes on your right hip, mate! ;)
@donaldasayers11 ай бұрын
I cannot help but think that Jeeps worked well enough as originally built. But then I got into a real argument with some Rolls Royce types over a trip to the arctic in a 70s Rolls Royce; the auto choke wasn't working at the extreme low temperatures, I had the temerity to suggest that a manual choke and electronic ignition might help. Oh dear no, the thought that modern tech might actually be better, resulted in a pile on.
@reccecs43 ай бұрын
This is why you don’t turn your engine on and off in combat, even today. It’s a non issue.
@matthewq4b2 жыл бұрын
This more of a modern day operator issue. Anyone that grew up driving carbed vehicles know if it does not fire off right away on a warm engine, you depress the accelerator while cranking, this will start the engine 100% of the time.
@fishingwithfilitsa2 жыл бұрын
Great video
@calvingreene902 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine jumping in a jeep while running from a tank and not putting the gas peddle to the floor when starting. As soon as the engine is running I'd probably pop the clutch as well.
@AJ-qn6gd2 жыл бұрын
If I were in a combat situation I would have left it running !
@calvingreene902 жыл бұрын
@@AJ-qn6gd Fair point but sometimes you want the quiet and sometimes you don't have the fuel to waste.
@FubarSir2 жыл бұрын
I will purchase a proper fitting jeep cap and send it to you as a gift, if you promise to burn that Keebler Kap🍸
@markrossow63032 жыл бұрын
so the '43 in profile pic has the starter button on dash
@Groomie742 жыл бұрын
Love your vids but you have to drive your mb to Berlin !!!
@rogerbailey21872 жыл бұрын
Hi matt did you recieve the pics of the radio shielding stuff please let me know thanks Roger
@dwightbrown7291 Жыл бұрын
Why is your flag on the wrong side of the window?
@normangover2 жыл бұрын
A big thanks for the video but I'm puzzled by your conclusion. Your Jeep started a lot quicker and idled in a less lumpy fashion yet you put the old plugs back in?? With its woeful 6 volt electrics and primitive carburettor it surely needs all the help it can get. Or do you just prefer the originality?
@Greendot3192 жыл бұрын
There was a possible improvement to the start and idle but it I could have just been imagining it. It looked like the plugs were beginning to foul too on the limited use I put it through so on balance I didn't think it was worth continuing with them ;)
@AJ-qn6gd2 жыл бұрын
They were brand new clean spark plugs you would expect them to start and run well initially the true test would be to put a few thousand miles on them.
@peterrath90972 жыл бұрын
Have a question, why has your paint been getting darker since you painted it? Btw great video!!!
@Greendot3192 жыл бұрын
It matt so it will absorb oil and hand prints and get darker also its moving into Autumn no so the more orange sunlight makes the paint look a bit browner and darker!
@peterrath90972 жыл бұрын
@@Greendot319 ohh so that’s why… thanks for letting me know!!