Taking the Engine and Gearbox out of a Chieftain Main Battle Tank 

[@jackwilbur9419]

Now that’s a gun ! Would love to hear the story of how you guys got started on working on & rehabing tanks. Been watching for a couple months ,you guys just popped up,,,Great content,love your enthusiasm, keep em coming ,whislin diesel fan , thanks for sharing,,,Ted’s pretty cool too. Upstate New York here

[@markdavis2475]

3:32 I used to make those exhaust flexi/bellows in the late 80,s! We knew they were for Chieftains. I always wondered where they were fitted! We used to make a lot of them!!!

[@MrHewes]

Now you know!

[@formhubfar]

8:14.., it was always the dinner lady.., breakfast dinner and tea.

[@trisrush9155]

Ted is the star of this show, without doubt!

[@stephenclift6421]

I served in Berlin on these and was in the troop that designed the Berlin camouflage. Over the years carried out many of these. A brilliant machine to work and at times live on. Keep up the good work. .

[@MikeDent]

Breakfast, dinner, tea. Spot on. Supper if your Lucky too

[@1chish]

I was always partial to the 'afters' .... Phnar Phnar ..

[@Johnc259]

I’m an old man that just found your channel. I am amazed at the knowledge you folks have. I’ve worked for years to learn about semis and Diesel engines. You are leaps ahead of me at your age. Please be safe. Peace

[@vanman6368]

American vs. British way, perhaps??? What works better, I leave that up to you to decide. :)😊

[@SuperSavage35]

Love the JCB identifying as a Foden 🤣

[@trisrush9155]

They-c-b

[@edwardspencer7714]

@@trisrush9155 underrated comment

[@dreb222]

I’m glad it wasn’t identifying as a DOOSAN.

[@177GearBreak]

Sry for asking, but what is a foden?

[@edwardspencer7714]

@@177GearBreak the 6 wheel green cranes he has

[@hamishsheinkels1478]

This has to be the most entertaining video of 3 blokes taking an engine out I have ever seen

[@nedbell1857]

18:30 the back and forth and jack actually getting pissy about it tickled me more than it should have 🤣

[@lukehann303]

8:30 I will have to agree with Jack. Also love the new Foden telehandler.

[@stevefairbanks835]

Breakfast, dinner, tea. Spot on

[@kreemkrackered3755]

"Make sure it doesn't fall off" 😅😂

[@FrontSideBus]

I bet a certain generation of REME squaddies had that pack lift down to a fine art!

[@TheNapalmFTW]

As a Mancunian, it's breakfast dinner tea, but as an ex pat Brit living in the us it's breakfast lunch and dinner. Smh

[@mikeandhev]

Hi Joe. My job when it was time to take the pack out as a driver was to disconnect the engine coupling bolts to the gearbox (twi flex coupling) and it is so much easier to undo from the access plate underneath the Chieftain than from the top of the vehicle, try it when you put the engine back in!

[@MrHewes]

That’s how I usually do it. However I had parked it right over a wet mud patch 🥲

[@chrissavill8713]

Breakfast, dinner and tea. Lunch is for snobs 🤣

[@richboyo8306]

You guys cheer my day up!! brilliant videos and superb banter!!

[@mattcartwright8272]

Pack lifts...oh happy days (not). Hated the first few on my 432 but in the end was doing them with an oppo in about 45 mins. Never ceased to amaze me the vehicle's ability to throw a pipe and drop all the oil into the bottom of the engine bay on a regular basis.

[@jameszy88]

Video idea… could you give us a insight into the costs of these things? Like purchase cost, restoration then final value? Would be really interesting. 👍 loving the channel keep it up

[@bernehalligan]

BREAKFAST-DINNER-TEA...

[@LostCauseRT]

TINNERFAST!

[@59patrickw]

Food snack food snack food/bear sleep repeat

[@kippamip]

Ah reminds me of the good old days in batus taking chally 2 packs out, only a bit easier as gearbox and engine come out as one. Can't beat a bit of Muff coupling action! Loving the banter.

[@timongryhed1674]

love this kind of vides, Your passion and knowledge for tanks are just amazing, Keep it up

[@tonysharoneubanks2762]

"Get it to where it's safe...then you throw it off the back of the tank.😅😅. That was funny.

[@patchmack4469]

i had a handful of them nice chunky connectors - they are pretty and sparkly and all that, like a Christmas tree decoration, but for servicing they are utter hopeless - some of the ones i had had been dropped, so the knurled collar was no longer round, i had to strip them, heat them, bash them best i could, polish them till they looked almost new and flogged 'em for a fortune to some foreign country - anyway great to see you boys playing so nicely together - Ted looks somewhat bemused

[@theflyingfool]

Jeez! The clouds of exhaust smoke drifting across the land in the distance @ 1:50

[@crawlstockrc]

The way he looked in that JCB reminded me of Oddball lol

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

Hilarious! I am sorry but I had a laugh at the beginning of this as it reminded of a time when the Mrs came home from visiting her family a few days early and caught me with a 2 litre Pinto engine stripped down in front of the fire because it was too cold to do it outside, so I did it in the living room back in the 80's - she weren't amused... especially with the mess it left on the carpet..

[@beargritter7618]

Taking of the M-type pump makes access to the twyflex easier.(1/4 UNF bolts if memory serves) Also to speed things up we used to have someone underneath undoing a bolt and another on top undoing a bolt.

[@jfro5867]

Sounds magnificent when that tank fires up 👍

[@paulwalker427]

splendid video chap

[@robleary3353]

Said it before. Always a laugh and always a mechanical education (of sorts!). Nice one!. 🤣 Nuff said!. 🙂

[@murtoasumpoiler]

I love the sound of those engines

[@allensnook7760]

Hello chaps,saying hello from good ole usa!!!just been bing watching ur tank repairs and antics after tripping onto ur site.love this stuff i was an 88 recovery tanker 81 to 87 in us army.we threw a track once after splashing snapping turtles out of there swamp hole.what a royal ass pain fixing that was,anyway wanted to ask have you ever worked on a sherman at all or want too.being they are radial like an airplane would that be beyond ur expertice or do you wish too have that chance.no i dont have one handy mind you.but if i did you fellas can have a go around.snooky pa.💥🤪😜🖐👍💥

[@alanpearson1844]

You guys need tank hub beenies with Tankers on the other side lol Breakfast Dinner Tea Supper lol

[@catlee8064]

Got so used to lifting the pack on my CR1, in the end me and the REME could get it out in around 40 mins....never did find what was wrong with it (over the course of a year) i moved onto recce.

[@farmerlamb2372]

Breakfast, dinner, tea and supper

[@nigelbennett5637]

This brings back a few memories, lifted many a pack and Gearbox as part of 5 Armd Wksp FRG and then as a member of a couple of LAD's. We used to take the M-Type pump (8 bolts If I remember) off the engine made it easier to do the twiflex coupling was being disconnected from the top. Generally, though the driver was sent underneath.

[@petersmithm9]

As a REME tech I did the most important job. Making the egg banjos and NATO standard brews. AeM.

[@beargritter7618]

Nigel, I was 11 Armd FRG, (87-90) Correct on removing the M-type pump. I remember it being 6 bolts tho.

[@Bob-kb5pv]

Interested to know where you chaps got your knowledge from. You certainly know your stuff. Quill shafts and hiw to pull them are deffo insider information 😉

[@Brigadier9]

Literally a video of Bovington on KZbin doing that to a load of Chieftain ARV/Bridgelayers on some firing range where they'd been taken to be dispersed, but just dumped in a thicket and not shot at.

[@Bob-kb5pv]

@@Brigadier9 The Legendary Chatty Taylor from the maintenance crew at Bovington was my Commander. I was his loader at Fallingbostle. I popped in to see him now and again if I was in the area. His knowledge of armoured vehicles was huge, and his pure joy of being around tanks obvious. One one occasion our driver told me that he was urging him on to go faster and asked" How many years have we got left". Sadly he has gone to the "Green Fields Beyond"

[@trisrush9155]

Youw can always tell a brummie, but youw can never tell, him muuch 😂

[@gt3911]

Breakfast, Dinner, Tea. Anyone saying otherwise needs conversion therapy

[@CEngineering-pv8uw]

Thought I was listening to Monty Python discussing lunch and dinner.

[@QALibrary]

another great video - love the editting

[@emersonmsd]

L60 Pack lift. Brings back memories.

[@allthingsmotorized1885]

that intro is the perfect tell me you dont have a girlfreind without telling me moment 🤣

[@MrHewes]

I have 3

[@1chish]

Well I wouldn't know but I have seen a few ladies doing some really shit jobs (as in the jobs are shit not how it turns out) so no 'girlfriends' but a few 'lady friends'. Sorted !👍👍

[@benjamintuck9258]

Greta video, i liked the time lapse of you working, makes sense to have little tripods so you can all get involved and not hold phones. Some of the audio if a bit hard to hear, maybe worth investing in a little shotgun mic for the camera.

[@Discoveryjamie]

Just want to apologise I’ve been watching your content for a few weeks and wasn’t even subbed, I’ve rectified ❤❤

[@peterwall9896]

Top content again boys 😎❤️👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 and Yorkshire tea bags

[@peterwall9896]

Go to bed now...LOL

[@nriqueog]

I like how Jack got the "Special" Intro & graphics this time.

[@NUTTER8291]

OK so without you guys Arguing about whether luch comes before dinner ( sorry but I follow Jack on that matter !! ) .. How long ( on a good day) would it take to pull out an engine and gearbox out of that old beast ?

[@MrHewes]

About 2 hours

[@NUTTER8291]

So 3 hours + for you guys then !! Lol 🤪

[@MrHewes]

11 hours

[@NUTTER8291]

Sounds reasonable 🤣

[@FrontSideBus]

Breakfast. Dinner. Tea. BARM CAKE!

[@patchmack4469]

breaky, tiffin, tea and suffa!! hehe

[@Brigadier9]

I need a 50 cal on my mantlepiece. Love that he is live watching the tutorial on how to start his own Chieftain... filmed in his own Chieftain. Can't get over that look you're giving the camera at 2:44. At least you've got another Foden for the collection. "Easy easy!" "Carefulcarefulcareful" "Make sure it doesn't fall off" "Let's get it so it's safe" "Quite a valuable piece" "Bye. Fucking scrap!" Am I seeing a smiley face on the radiator at 4:35 Lunch is at noon, tea is something you drink, and dinner/supper is at the end of the day. Wow, even cleaned your own tank engine rather than getting another KZbinr in! My father can do a great Rhodesian impression for impersonating Ian Smith. "Some absolute infidel-" crusade time against fitters of badly fitted shims and washers?

[@MrHewes]

Whoever put the Smiley face on the rad is a legend

[@tunepatrol]

Ex Brummie here watching in Thailand. Keep up the good work mocking their ridiculous accent!

[@frankboff8185]

Good video. Very interesting and funny. We need more Jack and Ted.

[@TheRunner1996]

Cool video, really liked the edit. Keep it up!

[@11mroscar]

I’m jealous of jacks hat. Does he do only-tanks?

[@MrHewes]

🤣

[@11mroscar]

@@MrHewes love the vids pl, wish my work banta was like urs!

[@minmog]

He's this channels fluffer

[@peterlarkin762]

I also think hubs are pornographic.

[@11mroscar]

@@minmog u gotta keep em ready otherwise they will underperform!

[@eMGunslinger]

A L60 in its natural habitat, taken out of a Chieftain for work.

[@Foster_85]

What do you have to eat on Xmas day? Argument closed 😂

[@shoots2001]

I've just realised rewatching this that Seb reminds me of Paddy from Emmerdale for some reason lol.

[@OutofTownwithRobinBell]

Excellent vid !!!!

[@FrontSideBus]

Just a quick question. What sort of stuff is it that you use to foam up and degrease engines ect. It looks like it does a good job!

[@stevefairbanks835]

Do K&N do an after market air filter for a Chieftain? 😁

[@MrHewes]

🤣

[@markphillips6998]

Go with matt's cherry bomb from one of his videos 😉😂😂

[@martinjohnharley202]

Breakfast - Dinner - Tea 👌

[@simonwoodward438]

Videos get better everytime

[@AIaskan]

Im gonna be honest , I didn’t know you Europeans got down like this 🤘🏼🤘🏼 I live in Alaska , US and this doesn’t look to much different then what goes down in my town … badass videos man

[@MrHewes]

Sounds like you live with my sort of people!

[@MaxKingsley72]

Got down like what exactly?

[@robertdonnell8114]

I was in the US Army's Berlin Brigade and many a time I came around the corner to see a chieftain parked in the middle of the road.

[@haalstaag]

Not a Chieftain but it still brings back memories of changing a 432 pack in BATUS

[@latheadventures1390]

Il stick to welding rotten vehicles and leave the big mechanical work to yourselves lol don’t think my 2 ton engine hoist would lift said engines nor even reach over a tank haha love the videos MR Hewes, on a positive note if you ever need any rotten vehicles welding/ restoring I’m in North Yorkshire !

[@prodigalespace7299]

BEST COFFEE TABLE EVER!!!!

[@martincherry6921]

Breakfast, dinner and tea

[@cowkiller2189]

I like how its like you guys are a bunch of kids working on a tank.

[@MrHewes]

Never grow up

[@zephyro76]

man I love the Chieftain tanks

[@christophermann804]

This is the Bloke That has been turning rolls. Royce Tank engines stripping them down when they brand new. Engine And he has done that Three of the suns tank engine engines. Veteran Royal

[@richarnold8951]

whats the name of the song your using?? it gives a proper throaty feel to the video!

[@petersmith4455]

hi there, what make of engine is it ? i know we had rolls royce in the centurion tanks back in 1967 when we went to Lulworth gunnery school and loads of series 2a land-rovers

[@MrHewes]

Leyland L60

[@mikefoley360]

You should really have many more subs.

[@mitchs2148]

just found your channel recently and it looks like a fun place to work, i work on cranes in Australia and I like tanks so it's cool to see

[@dreb222]

Fuucckinnnn ehhl mate, y’all forgot brunch, secondies, and supper.

[@spherx.imperatix5012]

Fuck im laughing so hard please don’t stop swearing Jack. Also never cut out this hilarious banter. You are so OG and that’s what I once loved so much about YT just join someone doing his thing not this scripted softwashed family friendly shit. Anyways really appreciate your work keep it up.

[@nonamediankem]

nice beanie bro 15:42

[@dirtywetdogboatsandsailing6805]

Whatever happened to second breakfast ?

[@philleeson7835]

Straight piped Fastrack sounded great.was it in the Archers xmas run?

[@steveash8480]

Remove the M type pump, makes the clutch bolts much easier,,,,,

[@tonysmyth1767]

God how many times did i do this job on soltau!

[@beargritter7618]

You n me both mate

[@LostCauseRT]

Just comedy gold

[@Tofflus]

Its lunch, not dinner.... 🤣

[@markcherriman6136]

You boys from Dudley then .

[@johnnunn8688]

That air cleaner, is that one of those that has those swirly/spinney/centrifugal dodads that spin the crap out before it enters the donk?

[@MrHewes]

Yes

[@johnnunn8688]

@@MrHewes, ah, the Pumas I worked on had the same.

[@paulwalker427]

brunch or brinner? case closed

[@SCKB]

I am probably going to get some heavy repercussions for saying this, and I will not be responding to hate before anyone tries, so bear this in mind… I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this channel and it's content… I cannot state that enough!… You guys work super hard, and it is an absolute privilege to see into the finer details of the greatest machines in the world that we as Civvies NEVER get the chance to see. Not only this, but the knowledge that comes with it is beyond incredible. I just have one small complaint, and that is the amount of offensive language and “P--n Hub” branded clothing some of you wear. I get life as a working Briton in these kinds of environments has its quirks, and you do have the rights to say and wear whatever you wish… I have no argument there as it is your choice… but I just think it may be a better experience for us to maybe be more self-aware of these. If you are doing this as a purpose to show professionalism and encourage learning by sharing all the skills and knowledge you have acquired in this particular line of work, then it needs to be presented more respectfully. It is possible that children are a huge presence here and particularly those who are extremely enthusiastic about Tanks, Military Vehicles, Engineering, Workshops, etc etc… so this is more of a reason than any to just be more mindful. If it is age restricted, then parents may allow their children to watch this as a method to satisfy their interests further, so again it is important to uphold a level of professionalism. Please don't hate, as this is only advice and input from a newly following subscriber. It is not meant to harm or cause trouble for anyone at all. To you, Family, Friends, and all the crew @Mr Hewes… Stay Safe!… Stay Well!… Stay Positive! Stewart.

[@ruuman]

You know the tank museum has a KZbin channel which also covers builds, all very friendly, my kids love watching some of those. These boys are doing their own thing.

[@philleeson7835]

You don't have to watch if it offends you. And let others make their own mind up. These lads are making a great channel with good banter and very good humour. It's also very much local humour to the area the lads live in. About 15 miles up the road from me.

[@gowithbazza]

No dinner is around 6 /8pm and lunch is around 12/2pm get it right lad 😂

[@johnnunn8688]

Back in the day, before COSHH, Elf etc and PPE and all that, you’d be working sans gloves and shit and be able to grip stuff.

[@front2760]

A young T. Rex fan?Nice.

[@Bob-kb5pv]

I see the V bellows on the roots blower is missing. A pig to fit.

[@jameswright9214]

Make sure it doesn’t fall off., they throws it lmao 🦾💎

[@Sledgie555]

This channel is awesome....Just what I love watching. Tank f uc kery

[@mikedowland9949]

You boys should be teaching the mod how to do it properly😉

[@Salty3439]

New Sub

[@idrisddraig2]

Thats not a chisel, thats a drift!

[@MrHewes]

Your not wrong!

[@sararedfearn4691]

Hi Ted. Very nice removal. Bye Ted.