Stalwart Mk2 Restoration Part 3: Engine Swap and Crane Test

[@benjaminbenson8714]

Love the casual "lift something heavy. How about my ww1 naval gun just lying over here"

[@BenoCam]

It was either that or the helicopter ! 🤣

[@benjaminbenson8714]

@@BenoCamdecisions decisions. Haha.

[@derekjones1659]

Couldn’t help but notice the Lynx helicopter in the background, I guess it won’t be long before you get that flying. You’re a clever guy, keep the videos coming.

[@BenoCam]

😍 haha cheers. That’s sadly just an empty airframe although I do keep looking at engines 🤣🙈

[@gregedmand9939]

Excellent Stolly projects! I've always found their engineering lineage fascinating as the basic suspension and drive train concept is shared with the Saladin. There are few vehicles in NATO logistics history, that have been as useful and served so long. Owning and operating one of these for fun, makes a lot more sense that many other military vehicles.

[@BenoCam]

Yes it’s a bit more useful than a lot of things that’s for sure !

[@darrenjones3681]

Saladin , Saracen , Salamander and Stalwart all shared the same platform , Saladin being a recce turreted armoured car with the 76mm gun , Saracen an APC some with a machine gun turret, Salamander was the fire engine and of course Stalwart was the do it al amphibious logistics support truck

[@jasonhatton2122]

Really like this channel, it's raw and pure.

[@BenoCam]

Cheers. I know it’s a random mix of subjects and I should probably just stick to one thing but I just find it fun doing the military vehicles /mine exploring/diving combo all in one place 🤣

[@lawrencedriver623]

Hi Ben lovely vehicles you have restored well done, I remember stollys from my army days, I thought they all had what they called swim boards on the front of them, and wondered where yours had gone, its only a piece of ply board but helps when they swim on entering the water and stops water from coming over the roof. Please keep up the great work your doing. Best wishes and kindest regards.

[@BenoCam]

They did have swim boards but when the army decided they no longer needed them to swim in the later days they chopped off all the brackets where they fit on the cab! I have got one to fit on the mk1 which is now a full swimmer so I will get that on at some point 🙂

[@lawrencedriver623]

@@BenoCam Thank you for your reply Ben.

[@trevor20988]

You've really turned that around from the scabby thing it was originally, and pretty quickly too. Great work, especially single-handed.

[@BenoCam]

😍👍👍

[@twin40dave]

Epic Ben can't believe you fitted that engine on your own , well done 👏 it's a great Stolly with the ihab working 👍

[@BenoCam]

It wasn’t too bad. It had come out another mk2 so it was fairly straight forward ish … 🤣

[@markclifton14]

You have done a great job on both those stollys . Hopefully now they will be reliable with diesel engines in and a bit cheaper to run. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@BenoCam]

Cheers. I think putting diesels in them makes them fantastic vehicles but I know they are not original. It would be quite simple to re instal the Petrol engine if anyone ever wanted to.

[@davidgibbings6085]

Always loved stollys , glad you replaced them with diesel units as petrols were shite , great vid beno 👍😉

[@BenoCam]

The petrol that was in it sounded lovely but it was the refusing to tick over for a while which was breaking me. Particularly mid job on the hiab !!

[@davidgibbings6085]

@@BenoCamI might be ring but I’m sure the military at the end tried a few or one with a diesel in it , it may even still be a Tewksbury storage. , great vid beno 👍👍

[@johnd7288]

Handy tool the crane on the stolly ! Great video !

[@BenoCam]

Cheers, yeah certainly going to be useful

[@kite7214]

Well done Ben.

[@Studio-gp4nk]

Great work chap 👏👏👏

[@Mr_Springy]

Good video thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@BenoCam]

Cheers 🙂👍

[@22terrytibbs]

Not too shabby!

[@ruaraidhmcdonald-walker9524]

Wonderful stuff.

[@RJM1011]

Well done. 👍

[@stevensmith9895]

Im impressed by that crane, no stabilizers, and lifting a reasonable weight off the side, you should try that gun either over the front or over the rear where you best lifting points are.

[@BenoCam]

I quite fancy making a few outriggers wouldn’t take much but can’t afford to go out much else it won’t lift as much. Been told acro props under the sides in between the wheels work well as it stops the suspension dipping !

[@jackmckinnon8256]

really nice job Ben, what's next ??

[@BenoCam]

Not given up on the dream of having a chieftain main battle tank just yet 🙈🤣

[@kernow..exp.]

the engine sounds good ben

[@BenoCam]

The original petrols sound lovely but they are expensive to run. It’s the reliability of the diesel im looking forward to !

[@philipspencer1834]

Excellent! Are you going to put decks back in the load beds of the Stalwarts?

[@ianatkinson8464]

😎👍

[@daz575]

Was hoping to see the welding and the body work repairs,

[@BenoCam]

I have a video online of the mk1 restoration project where it had just as many holes and I welded all of those up and made it swim again. I just really needed this asap to do a few engine lifts so I needed to get it diesel engined and reliable as soon as I could so that I could do those lifts. And it’s been great so far!

[@zeberdee1972]

Well done she looks and sounds good , never really came across a Stalwart in my time in the services but then I was RAF . Was mostly Harrier Force so saw plenty of the work that the REME did , they worked hard I must say not forgetting the Pioneers if they still exist . Not sure if there is a replacement for the Stalwart in modern times but it does remind me of a Mk-6 Crash truck , way before my time I only go as far back as a MK-9 , another beast . How ever the MK-6 was legendary , so might have been old and to modern standards clunky but it worked . I some times think that modern computerised vehicles are shall we say .....useless when it comes to field conditions . I am 52 so maybe just a bit bias , but these beasts work well . If you get a ECU failure well can you fix it in the field ?

[@joeparker5536]

Great video. Any update on the scorpion?

[@BenoCam]

Slowly getting there. Been aquiring lots of parts in the background. I can start putting the engine and gearbox in soon as I have most of what I need

[@joeparker5536]

@@BenoCam ah good stuff. I’m currently working on a LEP for scorpion

[@QALibrary]

If I am remembering correctly the crane version were built for the Royal Artillery Regiment so they designed to lift 105mm & 155mm NATO shells in palate system

[@wideyxyz2271]

❤

[@herman7661]

The problem with these petrol to diesel conversions is not that the diesel is somewhat less powerful than the petrol engine but it (the diesel) typically has a max. RPM of 2500-2800 rpm and usually runs at around 1800-2000 RPM during operation. The B81 turns up to 3750 RPM and usually operates at about 2800-3000 RPM. This means the road speed of the dieselized Stollie is markedly less than the original version.

[@johnsingleton2001]

Ok very good overhaul but where is the barge board.

[@BenoCam]

🙈🙈🙈

[@Daniel-S1]

Thanks + Wikipedia says the Hiab will lift 3 tons (and I guess it is tons not tonnes) and the petrol engine was good (or bad?) for 4 mpg.

[@DrivermanO]

Tons and Tonnes are only a few pounds apart. 1 ton = 2240 pounds. 1 tonne = 1000kg = 2204.6 pounds, so 35 pounds difference.

[@BenoCam]

There is a plate on the crane with the different weights it can lift and distances away, it should lift the abbot engine if I can get nice and close. We will soon see !

[@EvelynWalton-m8c]

What I difference with the diesel engine.tw

[@BenoCam]

It’s much more useful and reliable !

[@somerandomguy563]

I have scrolled through this channel's recent restoration vehicles and my biggest question is how'd you start collecting all of these? I am 17 and would love to get into military vehicle restoration in the future, however, I am from Wales and worry it may be implausible for me. Any advice to help me?

[@BenoCam]

Well I didn’t buy my first vehicle until I was well in my 30s … a total rusty wreck that I was warned I would never get going. Sometimes the only thing you can afford is a rust bucket but if your thinking long term it won’t matter. Just buy any project you can afford or find that’s interesting to you want work out how to do it along the way. It’s not easy for people starting out now as there is not so many cheap projects but you do find a few. Keep a look out on marketplace and milweb and word of mouth from others. The Facebook groups are really good also especially for finding parts. There’s a lot of groups now dedicated to each vehicle type and they are full of really helpful people. Also I’m down in deepest darkest Cornwall so wales can’t be any worse !

[@somerandomguy563]

@@BenoCam Thank you for your response. that'll give me a lot to think about for the future and keep me more optimistic

[@gowdsake7103]

Why are military engines that colour ?

[@BenoCam]

I have no idea ! It’s called duck egg blue !

[@craigwelsh]

The Duck egg Blue, is not the right name for the army engine colour, prior to about 1950, they used Eau-de-Nil, which is shown as BS381216 and after 1950 and onwards they used Sky Blue which is BS381101. I believe these shades were to help spot fluid leaks and visibility working on the engines

[@johnpayne3953]

Remember how you did it with that much grease you will probably soon have to replace the clutch sorry!

[@BenoCam]

I don’t think it will get in to the plate , from what I can see from the inspection hole in the top of the bell housing most of it has spun off in there. It did make sliding the engine into the gearbox nice and smooth so it did it’s job.

[@johnpayne3953]

@@BenoCamthe part that “spun off” directly onto the centre plate you couldn’t see inside the pressure plate is the bit in question the fact that you saw the rest fly off says you used to much!

[@ruudvanschijndel]

2:12 Why grease everywhere ? It whill just fly a round, and if it hit's your clutch plate, your going to be happy. The bearing has grease inside, only the shaft where it glides on has to have some grease.

[@BenoCam]

I wiped most of it off it was just nice to have everything all lubed up as it was sitting out in the rain for a while and everything was starting to go a little orange !