Mk2 Stalwart Restoration Project First Look. Part 1.

[@johndeere1951a]

Mr Hewes sent me over here ✌️ Retired 73 year old master MB and BMW technician watching from New HampShire 🇺🇸 Love watching other blokes bashing their knuckles and bathing in nasty lubricants. Crack on. Bob's yer Uncle 👍

[@BenoCam]

🙂👍 cheers hopefully more military vehicle videos on the way

[@shoots2001]

Great video, found you through Joe Hewes video when he sold the stolwart. Glad its getting some tlc after the 'test' it got with Joe lol.

[@BenoCam]

Cheers. It’s taken me a while to get around to it but part 2 is almost filmed too… it’s all blasted off and painted this week and the petrol engine is out !

[@benjaminbenson8714]

Same here. Watched loads of your mining videos aswell.

[@wideyxyz2271]

Ben o Cam, Mr Hewes, Marty T, Tanks-a -Lot, Lord Muck and Armourgeddon are my heavy plant/tractor/tank restoration KZbinrs. They keep me topped up with mechanical goodness. Great Video Ben.

[@Notjustgardening]

Nice to see them getting the attention they deserve. I've watched them sit in a field for years, covered in brambles

[@bumpy955i]

stalwarts and bedford TKs were great to keep us poor skint squaddies civi cars on the road although the guard duties we had to do to acquire said fuel was crap.... ex 27 lsg regt, 7 sqn

[@davidgibbings6085]

Glad to see a diesel going in , I thing the rolls engine was its demise specially when carrying petrol , combined with manifold that glows cherry red on full chat , 🙂👍

[@BenoCam]

Cheers, I know a lot won’t agree but I really think it makes them a much more useable vehicle. Running them on premium unleaded has got rather expensive these days !

[@stevehill4615]

@@BenoCam Was thinking the same thing, out of interest how does the power output of the Bedford engine compare with the Rolls Royce?

[@CiaranInIreland]

As the D1 is above the licence plate it may refer the to Driving Licence category I think.

[@derekjones1659]

Favourite truck, on my list if I win the lottery 😮

[@BenoCam]

You can buy one pretty cheap there’s usually a few kicking about. It’s the space and the equipment needed to work on them that makes them so limiting.

[@MichaelSmith-qv4yn]

Love Stalwarts, always reminds me of something Gerry Anderson designed

[@johnd7288]

Little bit of welding and t cut it will look as good as new ! Great video !

[@twin40dave]

Great work Ben , looks like you got lots of work to do 😊

[@BenoCam]

Done a lot of it, hopefully the rest this week if it stays dry !

[@twin40dave]

@@BenoCam hmmm dry in Cornwall 😄 🤣 good luck 👍

[@kite7214]

Well done, Ben. I am in Falmouth too. Must pop up and see you sometime. 🙂

[@darrenhawken9766]

Great work, Cornish man not doing it dreckly, thanks for sharing 👍💨💨

[@Calonius32]

Thats where the staly went! cant wait to see the results

[@dennisvandermarkt8263]

Gonna subscribe. Cool vehicles. Love from Michigan

[@BenoCam]

Cheers. More on the way shortly !

[@tom_123]

Interesting to see the common points of failure between the two models.

[@SiaVids]

One of my all time favourite military vehicles, I'm looking forward to watching the progress on this. 😎

[@lablackzed]

100% a Mr hewes gift.👍

[@QALibrary]

looking good

[@kernow..exp.]

Hi Ben that's going to make a nice project mate sorry I didn't speak to you very long in ASDA few days ago I was on a mission but I will make contact with you soon all the best

[@BenoCam]

Yeeep no worries I was on a bit of a mission myself, catch you soon for a proper yap 👍

[@stephenparkes626]

Love the stally should never have got rid of them

[@Mltemple8333]

Great to see another video!

[@aserta]

Nice job! Can't wait for part2.

[@BenoCam]

Filmed most of part 2, just finishing it this week !

[@theackshow5048]

Interesting Hollywood factoid: A Stolly (in a slightly altered configuration) appears in the opening scene of episode one of Firefly - a Sci-Fi series that lasted 14 episodes on Fox Television in the US way back in 2002

[@BenoCam]

Ha I didn’t know that will look it up 👍

[@theackshow5048]

Yeah, I found the open on KZbin. It’s Mark 2 with a big box over the back bed…

[@KeithWebb-cl1ld]

Hiab is one make and Atlas is another 👍🏻

[@BenoCam]

I have an Atlas mini digger too, it’s quite old… from 1997! They didn’t make them for long. It’s a R404. You don’t see many of them about but you still see a lot of their cranes.

[@Chambers101]

Hi Ben , there's footage of this Stalwart swimming at Avon Dassett, on the Unusual Locomotion channel, on KZbin. Good luck with the restoration.

[@BenoCam]

Really ? Awesome I will check it out !!

[@marknewell7355]

So glad your doing a diesel swap i would have used a 6.7 Cummins 6bt

[@BenoCam]

That would be a lovely engine but I wouldn’t know where to get a converter plate made/copied to connect it onto the stolly gearbox

[@marknewell7355]

@BenoCam this is the dream project for if only I had the space if did get the chance I would have gone down the route of the 6bt either 6.7 or 8.3 been a while since I've seen a bedford engine but their bell housing are not too far off the 6bt my thinking was to use a SAE bellhousing adapter but having never had the thing to look at could be way off but there is loads of companies online that will build you one to fit the engine and gearbox you choose just come down to budget but the 500 isn't a bad engine just old and not many parts perkins Cummins are still pretty much still in plant and machinery also trucks so there is plenty of parts to go at. Thanks for the reply will be watching regardless mate

[@marknewell7355]

I think the L10 and 8.3 Cummins are the same bellhousing as the bedford turbo 500 they all was used in a the bedford TM with the Heaton and fuller gearbox

[@gowdsake7103]

Good luck with it Mr Hews drilled a load of holes in it just for badness I am presuming you are going to use 2 to make 1

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks.

[@sailingona]

Nice one Ben :)

[@gagasmancave8859]

The Mk2 was also used by REME first line fitter sections attached to recce troops i was A Sqn 9/12 in Hohne in the early 80's we akso had a spartanwith our tiffie sleeping in it and a Fsc with me (sparky) and Mark (B Mech) as flyjng fitters

[@BenoCam]

I totally forgot to say this one’s army reg I will do it in the next one , but it’s 90ET06 ! Incase anyone out there recognises it

[@ianatkinson8464]

😎👍

[@tom_123]

The front windows immediately made me think of the DOOM logo.

[@allannorman2359]

Excellent do you have a spare fold down seat?

[@BenoCam]

I don’t have any spares and they are all pretty knackered… but I did see there is some on eBay !

[@andrewhenly9057]

Whats the reason for swapping out the engine?

[@BenoCam]

I don’t like petrols !

[@chiswolfenden2400]

See you have a Abbot i trained as a loader or Gunny Bunny 😂😂😂😂😂

[@BenoCam]

Got a few other videos of that on my channel if your interested. Bought it a non running wreck and restored it. Took a while but I have it road legal now 😍

[@chrisst8922]

Designed by Derek Meddings.

[@BenoCam]

The engineering side of them is absolutely fantastic. I dread to think what something like that would cost to design and build now !

[@Herbybandit]

Is this one of the two Mr Hewes picked up from Wycombe?

[@BenoCam]

Yes

[@jacobcox198]

yes show us the lot please huggs from usa

[@stretch3281]

First

[@QALibrary]

show off

[@BenoCam]

It had only been up 4 minutes so you couldn’t have even watched it 🤣

[@stretch3281]

On my feed it said 27 seconds 😆. But i have watched it all now. Looking forward to stolie vs ducku racing to the Mount an back 🏁😁

[@stephransley4371]

Very interesting thanks.

[@Daniel-S1]

Many of the first will be last.