WE FIXED A T-72 FOR £7

In this episode we repair the broken electrical engine oil pressure priming pump on a T-72 fitting it however was a different story..
This video just highlights how such a cheap and small part can cause the whole vehicle to fail.
Fingers crossed the electrical starter motor isn't broken either !

[@tlrfun3]

How is £5 and £3 make £7 😂😂😂😂

[@nickwake5484]

It's maffs init, durrr. Ted needs to have a word with them. 🧐😆

[@blaymeister]

I thought that. And then realised they hadn't included the "Ted discount"

[@schwabrichard9829]

Bulk discount!

[@JamesChurchill]

He never claimed to be a good... maths... guy.

[@JonDingle]

£7+VAT is £8.40 so I presume Mr Hewes quoted £7.00 and didn't add VAT?

[@zogzoogler]

Bloody disassembling stuff and fixing it instead of relying on sponsors to send full assemblies! Call yerself a KZbinr? Great stuff keep it up.

[@user-oo5wh5qr4r]

He is one step ahead he gets the vehicles given to him

[@xanderkey9227]

⁠​⁠@@user-oo5wh5qr4rnot quite sure that is true…

[@megalamanooblol]

@@user-oo5wh5qr4r MrHewes sponsored by Ural Vagon Zavod, epic =D

[@mitchellbennis9236]

He’s not a bloody magician man!

[@megalamanooblol]

Oh lol, KZbin deleted my comment saying that it would be epic if Mr.Hewes was sponsored by UVZ. The levels of censorship on this platform gets truly ridiculous.

[@chrisbartlett6022]

Great that the starter doubles up as an Air Riad Siren. Magic video again. Thanks.

[@572Btriode]

And didn't explode with centrifugal force.

[@MercuryGremlin]

Never underestimate the joy of percussive maintenance ❤

[@Sarge084]

If in doubt, give it a clout!

[@bigtruck57h25]

BFH for the win😁😁

[@2mikulin]

8:26 Labels on the indicators are in Slovak. It is probably a licensed machine produced after 1981 in Czechoslovakia at ZTS Martin.

[@aserta]

Yes. It's a Czech unit.

[@lesliepaulkovacs6442]

Regarding Bearings. Waaaay back in the Day (70s), I worked at a company that made Aircraft Wheels for the Military. One piece Aluminum. But we’d have to fit Steel Bearings onto the Aluminum Wheels. The solution that worked was to place the Bearings in a Freezer, then put the Wheels on a Heated Grill for a few hours on low heat. The Wheels would expand, the Bearings would contract, most of the time they would just fit together perfectly. If they were a little tight, we’d then place them on a Big Arbor Press and, using the appropriate pressing block for the Bearings, put them together. Sometimes, you’d have to have one person pulling down on the Press Handle while someone else would grab the 5 lb Sledge Adjustment Tool and hit the Top of the Press Ram to “Persuade” it to seat. If that didn’t work, we’d bring in the Quality Control Inspector, who would measure the Bearing Well and usually find out that it was Machined wrong. Then the wheel was either re-machined or Scraped. But I say that 99% of the time, they would fit together just fine, and when they came up to Room Temperature together, it was “Bob’s your Uncle!” Also, if you are going to hammer in a Bearing like you did, grab a Socket that covers the outer race and hit that. Much more uniform Force applied all the way around. Hope this helps.

[@johnritchie4801]

Old Trick easy as can be.

[@stevemorris3710]

I'm going to read that again tonight if I can't sleep.

[@philhermetic]

Excellent repair Mr Hewes, apart from the wd40 on the carbon brushes! Commutators and brushes should be bone dry or the carbon dust mixes with whatever you put on them and turns into a form of grinding paste! Those springs look remarkably like Lucas dynamo springs, but i wouldn’t bother taking it out again to check if I were you! Phil

[@carlwilson1772]

Good to see you here Phil. I thought these lads and lasses would be up your street.

[@carlwilson1772]

That was excellent. That oil priming pump is incredibly reminiscent of the hydraulic brake top up pump used on the Nimrod aircraft, that I worked on for many years. That particular unit was built by Lucas. The fitting you can see on your soviet pump in the film even looks a bit like a British AGS (Aircraft General Standard) BSP hydraulic fitting.

[@1chish]

@@carlwilson1772 Probably 'acquired' by dubious means and reverse engineered. Like they did with the Nene engines we sold them for 'civilian aircraft' that ended up in Mig jets in Korea.

[@iatsd]

Normally a problem in the medium to long terms, yes, but with Russian designed and built tanks it won't affect it in the slightest. It actually does the tank good to occasionally submerge it in salt water and then fill the entire interior with fine silica dust before running it over a 250 mile off road course in summer with no coolant and then just smack the living shite out of random bits for 5 minutes with the biggest hammer you can find. Reminds it who's boss and fills all the gaps in components with solid fused silca fill. That's why T72's are waterproof.

[@mikecrees159]

Another great video, i do admire you guys enthusiastic approach in a world where we just throw engineering away, that could be repaired, well done.

[@steve45]

Lovely bearing press!🤣 I have one just like that! It has never let me down!

[@jamesocker5235]

I have same favorite blue ball-peen hammer.

[@Swatmat]

thats a beast of a starter motor

[@HailHydra27]

Starter motor sounds tougher than some cars

[@Klovaneer]

@@HailHydra27 here is a BMW with a MiG-23's _starter_ motor powering it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZStdIxuoL14odk

[@jamesisaac3369]

I love that despite having walls full of tools Joe refuses to use anything other than an adjustable spanner and a Leatherman

[@MrHewes]

And a hammer 🔨

[@triton401]

@@MrHewes lol

[@robertsneddon731]

@@MrHewes I still remember driving a sheet-metal bearing cap into place using the nearest available tool, a can of WD-40 rather than going and getting a soft mallet or a block of wood and a ball-peen hammer because buggerit.

[@PRC533]

@@MrHewes a big enough spanner is also a hammer

[@simonwood1402]

The thing about the T72 is that it makes you admire the T55 😮

[@zacharyfreelove6101]

And how bad they are.

[@simonwood1402]

@@zacharyfreelove6101 There are one or two issues with the T72 One big problem is that they are Shite 💩 the other big problem is that if you kick one to hard then the turret jumps up in the air and can endanger passing aeroplanes! 💥 ✈ this can be observed in Ukraine 🇺🇦 😳

[@zacharyfreelove6101]

@@simonwood1402 russian tank crews have more flight hours than su 57 pilots

[@simonwood1402]

@@zacharyfreelove6101 🤣 🇷🇺

[@PAUL-ESNEED]

least spiteful HATOdogs:

[@grifa4967]

Saturday morning is complete cos there's a new Mr Hewes video ANS you've fixed a thing! ❤ 😎

[@user-rj5oh2gs2z]

Aaaaahhh, Fabulous. Strong rum an me feet up and a great vid to watch. The Ol' Fella Downunda Greg.

[@davepearce6359]

Loving the pixeling. Going great guns now, well done all 👍🏻😊

[@lucyfiesta]

Was it to cover up the clean bit of his coat 😂

[@GARDENER42]

@@lucyfiesta Not much point in covering the phone number.

[@lucyfiesta]

@@GARDENER42 youve lost me. I was referencing the stick he gets for a dirty coat so for shits n giggles i thought he was blurring the clesn part of the coat

[@963dexter]

Great vid to start my saturday. Love the banter.

[@robleary3353]

Bril!.. Love these vids. That thing sounded soo mechanical, I was expecting to see a huge wind up key in the side of the tank!. 🤣....

[@Flyingunz64D]

I love your channel! You guys are amazing machinists and mechanics! I destroyed 9T-72s one day and 4 BMPs! Keep up the good work!

[@brushnut1909]

You guys never disappoint and are always highly entertaining. Always look forward to your videos

[@spudhauler]

That final bit at the end looking for Adam must be the proper definition of "the lights on but nobody's home". 🤷‍♂️🤣🤣

[@wussup100]

Such a great delight watch these videos keep them up!

[@fresh195]

That tank looks like a nightmare to work on!!!! You guys are amazing at what you do.....

[@douhacomcastnet]

Good to see Ted on the job, supervising your work on the starter motor. 😅😅😅

[@fatherglyn]

wow got a first like - haven’t watched it yet but know it will be good. Saturday morning, bacon sarnie, coffee and a Mr Hawes video - perfect, just need it to stop raining!

[@uk-hon5769]

That T72 alternator could be used as an air raid siren!

[@ianb6595]

Bit of comedy in the morning, top job poor old Adam a sense of humour failure 😂

[@johnshaw4140]

nice one ladz , not having the engine as a removable pack is a big drawback

[@Seafish84]

Can always tell the best designs when engineers hide cheap and replaceable parts in places that require 10+ hours to get at them. Soviets were clearly just ahead of the curve on that planned obsolescence thing, or drunk, maybe both. Who knows?

[@572Btriode]

The latter more like.

[@nikoBNR1]

These tanks were not intended for repair. They were mass-produced on the assembly line. The USSR produced tens of thousands of these tanks. In addition, the service life of the tank engine was only 10 thousand kilometers. After which the tank was sold for scrap. So there was no point in making the rest of its parts more durable and repairable...

[@megalamanooblol]

In fact, I bet that in military use this engine goes out for overhaul waaaaaaaay before any of those bearings will even start to think about wearing out. It will be something like 500 hours usage = full depot maintenance.

[@thomasschumacher5318]

@@nikoBNR1 >me when i pull shit out of my ass these tanks were not scrapped after 10k km. what are you on, seriously

[@femboyshitposter676]

Cheap and replacable beats expensive and innefficient.

[@lordcaptainvonthrust3rd]

Very nice job chaps 👍

[@MrOddball63]

The craftsmanship is one thing, but I also appreciate the shenanigans :)

[@sukijaka]

Great work as usual 👌🏻👍🏻

[@THEVROD64]

Love your channel ...Texas USA

[@davegreenwood7575]

WHAT A GIT OF A TANK!!!. But you always get there in the end by shere bloody mindedness. It's the only way to get stuff done...Well done again boys.

[@jaroslavdurcany3728]

according to the descriptions on the instruments, the T-72 tank comes from the Slovak Republic

[@chopper7352]

...& the search for Adam continues. He was last seen throwing a sledge hammer back towards the T-72...& wearing his standard Olive Drab Overalls that he's not taken off in 6 months. 😂

[@clungepoker6749]

Very well done comrades 👍🏻

[@SiaVids]

Now that is a result, the use of a copper hammer for the bearing fitment may have been a good idea though. 👍

[@Spartan902]

So great to see your channel going gang busters unlike so many other channels that KZbin is strangling out of existence. I learn something new all the time watching you guys fix stuff that a lot of people would throw out and replace. Talk about a loud starter motor! More like a air raid siren.😁👍 You guys need to have a TV show now I reckon such is the popularity of the program.

[@carlwilson1772]

How do you mean they are strangling them out of existence?

[@Spartan902]

@@carlwilson1772 From what I have been hearing from these channels is that KZbin isn't notifying their subscribers about new posts and therefore aren't getting anywhere near the amount of views they were getting 6 months ago. Because of this their income has dropped off to the point where they are stopping the channel.

[@carlwilson1772]

@@Spartan902 That's interesting. I have a modest little workshop engineering channel. Nothing like the league of these guys. But I have noticed over the last few months that many of my subscribers are not receiving notifications of my new films, even when they have clicked the notifications bell. If this sort of thing happens to channels with tens of thousands of subs, then people like me stand no chance.

[@Spartan902]

@@carlwilson1772 Sorry to hear that it's happening to your channel as well. Some of the channels I know it's happening to have been around a few years and have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. I don't know enough about KZbin to understand what is going on but it's hurting a lot of channels.

[@cls9876]

unadulterated bodging with the bearing! I love it!

[@johnd7288]

The t72 looks like it was made by British Leyland! Great video again Ted !

[@dartmoordave]

Like a RED L60, and probably no better.

[@888johnmac]

bloody hell , that starter / generator sounds scary .. Mr Best's face said it all

[@JonDingle]

Sounds great as the motor winds itself up ready for the start. Let us hope there isn't an anticlimax when at peak motor speed the engine is engaged and it doesn't bring it to straining painful stop Moskvitch style!

[@GabbleFolk]

I feel like I helped by talking at my phone while watching this in bed. You are welcome.

[@rocksnot952]

I would have thrown that oil pump rotor out, but you made it work. Well done.

[@brianwillson9567]

Its so good that you guys are on our side. If you had been working for mr poo tin, his SMO would have succeeded within the month. Some jobs are easy, some are harder, But NONE are impossible. You guys are SO SO good but if you ever come across a problem seemingly beyond you, Ted comes up with the answer immediately.

[@paulwalker427]

Beautiful tank

[@TheNickerCz]

8:34 I see that there are Czech descriptions. So the tank was made under license. In ZŤS Martin (slovakia).

[@GlideYNRG]

£7. Is that enough coin for the fuel to burn it.?? 😂 Jokes aside, you guys have the right amount of patience for this work.

[@bobfry5267]

I seem to have missed the episode where you successfully make two T34 scrap engines into a good one. I want to seeee!

[@jamesocker5235]

Yes where is that or is it yet to be done, that engine is quite the beast

[@darrenhawken9766]

Great work, that's some starter motor !!! Komrade it works very well you make great engineer 1st class👌 .Thanks for the insight to these mischievous mechanics ....hope vodka was drunk afterwards, thanks for sharing 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃👍

[@petervanveen9238]

nice, amazed every time.....

[@alanbates1471]

Another great video, brought back memories of dismantling the dynamo on my A40 to fit new brushes. FV4005 next?

[@31144]

WD and carbon brushes don't mix boys and girls 😬😬, it eventually turns the carbon to mush.... Gas turbine starter motors rule 😂😂😂 HELLFIRE ! ! A few ex BR loco's have oil prime starter circuits featuring SOPS (Start oil pressure switch) and ROPS ( Run oil pressure switch), press the start button, oil prime pump kicks in, pressure increases to 12 psi ish, pressure switch interlock pulls and energises the start contactor, engine motors and engine oil pump takes over, pressure builds faster then it opens the engine governor and away she goes ❤, love stuff like this 👍

[@richardjoseph9002]

As a non-engineer, I have to ask - why not just put them together like a car engine where you - wait for it - just turn the key?

[@31144]

Big bearings require lots of oil on initial start up to stave off premature wear due to the masses involved

[@marcusfenix891]

The hammer the most valuable piece of equipment in a toolbox !

[@larsbkurin1740]

Nice job on the T-72 you did, tractors are not that fussy.

[@RemingtonSVK]

I live 1 hour drive from factory where this particular tank was built - clearly markings inside the cabin are in Slovak language, that means it is from ZŤS Martin factory plant (no longer existing). You made a point in video before - some of those electrical components are oversised for what they do - explanation is easy: electroengineering and components back in the day were lacking from funding, know how and obsolete manufacturing processes, so they had to use not very optimised components. You can look at Czechoslovak refridgerator same way, bulky, noisy, powerhungry. But cheap.

[@cdgncgn]

and lasting 30 years.

[@lancecluster]

How a Leatherman Marketing person has not come out with a "Tank Repair Edition" is a mystery to me. 😄

[@MrHewes]

Get Leatherman‘s attention!! Great tool 🔨

[@lancecluster]

@@MrHewes I sent them an email with a link to this video and mentioned that a leatherman tool seems to be frequently used. Still think Ted is my favorite.

[@pezz779]

Always good mate 🇦🇺

[@johngell4842]

Toptastic well done Wish unimog bearings were £7 😂

[@jamesocker5235]

Over in US before we would start our detroit 149 fracturing pumps from Canada we always pull starter before ignition to get oil pres up before engaging ignition. Russians knowing their soldiers couldn't be bothered made sure oil was moving before starting engine

[@femboyshitposter676]

It's simple and easy maintnance wonder what your US shit box is doing in Ukraine other than being hit by drones,dying to artillery and basic Kornets from the 80's.

[@-kabepugs3009]

We need some longer vids. 😊

[@EQINOX187]

I love how they tried to hide the phone number on his back then where like ehhh i cant be bothered but then where like ahh crap i better hide it again lol

[@gagatube]

Yeah, duct tape would have been easier... 😆

[@johnblunt1834]

Starter motors like that power airliners!!

[@aserta]

7:12 use a bamboo stick (or anything non conductive that's stiff) to push the brushes is while you're moving the motor. Not a stupid amount of force, just enough to make the brushes compliant with the shape. Also, given how shoite this thing was, covered in schmuck, it would've been a good idea to scrape the brush faces a bit to dispose of the old material in case crud got impregnated in them.

[@jackbolton8061]

Bloody simply Saturday morning and mr hews 😉😉😉😉

[@57northphoto32]

It’s been a right pain the arse but the combo of the priming pump and the starter sounded amazing 👍🏻. Shame we never saw Adam losing his 💩, my old boss used to do that all the time, literally dodged hammers, spanner’s, low flying grinders pretty much anything he could get his hands on when things went wrong in the workshop😂 happy days though.

[@XFC443]

Copper mallet maybe? Good video. Thanks

[@3dwrecker_4660]

Looks mint

[@nonyanks2510]

Supervisor Teddy is hard at work keeping his humans in line, Hewes, you make more weird noises with a holler in the background, you guys have too much fun but in the end get things working !

[@pawemus3990]

How I like this guy's. Great movies. By the way... Any body was last Saturday on Tiger day at the Bovington Tank Museum?

[@casto-]

Lovely tapping hammer tapping 👌😆. I’m guessing Greta has been trying to call you recently 🤔🤣🤦‍♂

[@tonynicholson3328]

The knackerater 5000 always makes short work of bearing installs😅.

[@harleycooper7105]

When I was an apprentice rebuilding starters and alternators, small ride on buggies had "dynastarts" which is pretty much what the t-72 has

[@Fedorovich_Ivan]

Very nice

[@stranskyv452]

love the new jacket 😂😂 green one that is😬

[@beckyrichmond2046]

Only a one coffee video but appreciated nonetheless 🤪 no idea what your doing but tank stuff is good 🤩😂

[@theessexhunter1305]

Good fix, I would have skimmed the com on the lathe to make it a flat profile so better contact with the brushes.

[@MrHewes]

I don’t have a lathe yet

[@dickdegraaff5452]

Dear Joe, Fixing a T72 for only £7 won’t be a pain in the ash at all. I look forward to your next vlog and send you love from the Netherlands

[@ChaosPootato]

What an ominous sound the pump and starter make

[@ningen1980]

The Clarkson school of mechanics. "Right. Where's the hammer?"

[@Odowdrj]

You guys 😂 are really awesome, were was supervisor ted ,what does he think about the language you were useing?😮😅

[@bushcraftstevesonnyokeeffe]

Hi, good job on motor you just need a com stone to bed, the brushes in the good job, and a few them in me time all best steve

[@nikitamckeever5403]

I need a T72 . I know they aren’t the best but they certainly look the part

[@femboyshitposter676]

They preform like any other tank the Abrams got absolutely destroyed in Ukraine so i'd say a tank is a tank it just depends on how you use it.

[@The-Mighty-Orange]

Top of the morning to ya.

[@stevechopping3021]

Good job it's a diesel with that brushless technology

[@ceflapoid5701]

What nice slovakian machine(acording to the labels on the instruments). Like true east designed machine if you cant fix it with hammer, pliers, oily rug and pice of wire, it will burn down itself to protect the soviet secrets...

[@martystacey4429]

#outstanding👌😎

[@kabalsekirei]

На самом деле отремонтировать Т-72 можно и за 0£, способ следующий: Если имеющийся Т-72 обездвижен и не едет, а в радиусе 2 километров есть танки противника то достаточно уничтожить один любой танк, снять с него запчасти, и с помощью молотка, кувалды и чьей то матери, это все легко и незатейливо подгоняется для применения😎👍

[@emunmoo]

Nice description. whats going on with the jacket pixel?

[@MicaAvali]

Hammering the centre of the bearing 😂 never change

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

Jeezus, is that a starter motor or a jet engine?

[@Klovaneer]

in (not so soviet) russia they put fighter jet starter motors in cars: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZStdIxuoL14odk

[@KaggE_wn]

Honest question I really really want to buy either an just armored transport vehicle OR AN tank where do you buy them If I can ask😬

[@darploin5071]

I hope you guys will bench test a start to before you install it in the tank it'll be kind of messed up if you installed it and it wouldn't work

[@1701enter]

At some point a mash up of all the times the toys get tossed out of the pram?

[@bigmac60]

Just needed some patience 😂. A series wound motor could throw the windings out of the armature 😂😂

[@georgecastiblanco2978]

La libra esterlina al cambio en Colombia está a $ COP. A cinco mil y ese y72 lo compro por 7 a ese vato le salió súper barato ese cacharro en COP $ 35.000. que vato tan afortunado.

[@allanisaacs4835]

Top Notch.

[@smalcolmbrown]

Thanks :)

[@formhubfar]

3:10.., Michael Barrymore teaching Jack to swim? 👀

[@markwilson7788]

Admire your skill and patience for mending that starter motor yourself.