WILL IT START ? - 82 YEAR OLD TRUCK COLD START

We fire up an 82 year old AEC Matador in a cold start and then try the same on another Matador engine in an old start attempt without much success !
This is a classic old start cold start no start !

[@LordMuck]

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[@progbloke6655]

I'm perfectly happy to watch you guys buggering about. More entertaining than the crap on tv, that's for sure.

[@WatchWesWork]

I only use rendered skunk fat for starting engines; highly flammable, totally safe, and it smells like fresh cut hay...

[@LordMuck]

Jake Paul sent me some of his own brand aftershave...

[@MyLegacyGarage]

@@LordMuck easy now, you'll end up in the ring with him. Lol

[@dodgydruid]

I still have a bottle of strawberry jam smelling 2 stroke oil for my Vespa which pongs like a strawberry petrol bomb and not very good lol

[@cathairmccrory2369]

AEC matadors are built to last forever. loved the vid mucker

[@paddydunne774]

The old fella bought an ex army Matador after the war when he came back from Burma. And it was used on farm for all sorts. Tuesday was market day and he’d take us to school in the lorry as a treat in the 60’s

[@LordMuck]

Happy days 👍

[@jimbaird8976]

If in doubt “ double can the bastard” excellent

[@douglastodd1947]

worst thing you could do in the 70's once easy start 's been used it needs to be used more and more.

[@LordMuck]

No. Easy Start/Ether can be used to start a good engine in cold conditions with no issues. It's when folk neglect and overlook underlying issues and rely on Ether as an easy fix that things deteriorate.

[@guyfuller1369]

I’m ten minutes in and laughing like a fiend. No idea whether she’s going to get a look-in or not, so I’ll just say it: “How f--ing dare you?” Love this channel.

[@johnbarry4562]

Guy Fuller 😂😂😂

[@elborrachogrande]

"This isn't a rebuild in a can." I haven't laughed so hard in weeks

[@chox2001]

Too right I want to see you start an engine with various “fuels”

[@samdawes8927]

There a lovely old truck the matador my great uncle has two, one is a Notts city bus wrecker and the other a military spec gun tractor, before we had them ended up as timber tractors for Gregory's sawmill in Derbyshire and were both restored by our self's, and I have a 6 wheeler aec militant with a atlas crane on awaiting restoration brilliant video as always 👍🏻

[@jamiejones6297]

Looks like you could do with a Detroit powered exhaust fume extractor 😂. See how well the engine runs on cheap vodka.

[@michaelcooke1672]

Loved the vid. Had me in stitches when you were getting smoked out.Would be good to see different fluids tried.

[@billco-9801]

Roger Moore (JAMES BOND) lit up a snake in “live and let die” with aftershave or spray cologne. As a kid I made tennis ball cannons using ladies hair spray (flammable kind) there are so many flammable sprays to try as starting fluid.

[@runesteinsnnkristoffersen5641]

This happen when `the kid `inside us take over :-) Goodigoodi !

[@paulandrews873]

Brill I love the old matadors ,how about trying lynx Africa to start the Ford engine ..

[@neilsb51167]

Yes would love to see what an engine will run on

[@kevinchamberlain7928]

Advice from an old carpenter about dust (exactly the same principle with smoke): The more you breathe in, the less gets in your eyes. You're welcome.

[@jamiieos]

This is what I want to be learning about and doing, not bloody tik toks. Born in the wrong period

[@exileinderby51]

Yes, definitely want to see you run the tractor on various things, the smokier the better!

[@danmackintosh6325]

How DARE you!!!

[@simonperry330]

Que Girly Giggling and Coughs like 60 a Day Park Drive

[@bobcrawford2105]

Sorry stupid question OF COURSE WE DO

[@MrJonah53]

When I was 18, not long having passed my driving test, I had to take a Matador to one of the gangs working on site. 2 miles in, I had to negotiate a busy town, with the high street on a steep hill. Baptism of fire i think it's called. Must have done ok though, because it wasn't long before they put me through my HGV class 1.

[@dieselhatz4247]

Laughed my cock off to this video. Fucked around with old diesels (not old dears), on tracked mainly. That “Are you there” moment, had me. Thank you!!

[@28YorkshireRose12]

Now then, Mucker, I'd love to win a collie! - It's been a few years since we had sheep, but a new collie wouldn't go amiss. Any-way! That AEC out there under the snow is almost as good a Fordson Major, at starting, though I think in all honesty the Major might just have the edge! - Now then (again) I'd like to see you guys buggering about with various fluids/fuels and that old engine, and maybe try Brake Cleaner, and/or Carb Cleaner? Or, how about trying brake fluid? - We had an engine that used to love old fashioned "Girling Crimson" brake fluid, but by God it used to smoke and choke! Paint thinner should also work. On a similar tack, we once ran a Fordson Dexta on paraffin (lamp oil) just to prove a point.

[@davieanderson3856]

Lynx should start a bloody engine it burns everything else 💥

[@deanfryers1407]

Just been laughing me nuts off, good crack, can we have more of a laugh and see what you can start that tractor with, Brilliant.

[@nicolassales8679]

What a great laugh, oh and a perfect explanation of the easy start story. Where did the addiction idea come from? It's an engine!

[@2341jasonb]

The addiction idea comes from people that don't understand how things work well anything really when the engine develops a fault and is hard to start 9 times out ov 10 muckers Cosby giggle gas will get it going as time goes on the fault that caused the hard starting gets worse so you need more and more cosby gas but it's not addicted to it it's just buggered 😉

[@LordMuck]

Exaaaaaactly 😎👌🏼

[@nicolassales8679]

@@2341jasonb Ah that explains it. I come from his lordships background, " why won't that start then?" So I have only used easy start as a diagnostic tool! Don't get me started on people putting " additives" in complex hydraulic systems. I am no lord by the way, just a peasant.

[@nicolassales8679]

Can you try brake cleaner please? Seems to be the latest miracle cure! Watched someone cleaning out the DPF of a large loading shovel with a combination of brake cleaner, compressed air and a blowtorch. It got a bit smokey! Luckily it was not attached to said shovel.

[@douglastodd1947]

when i was a bairn i would go out with ma da to start our trucks in the morning to cold start,, burning newspaper held against air filter intake hole whilst turning over engine foot hard on accelerator , sometimes with a coal fire on a shovel slide under engine to help thin oil and defrost fuel lines as well.

[@tigerspook1]

Seeing those Matador's, brought back memories, I drove a Matador converted to drag timber when I was 12 yrs old, that darn thing climbed out of a bomb crater on tick-over, the owner thought it was quite funny to see me standing on the clutch pedal with both feet,........ Lovely old things British engineering at its best just like the Gardener Engines they had a kinda mesmerising tick over.. Great video...

[@hugueslevistre5519]

We have one matador in the tank museum in Belgium ,it runs and is in great cheap.

[@jackhume4532]

By all means mucker have a go at those different types of possible starter sprays, should be a good laugh 😂 on that one ☝️, as you have mentioned your t-shirts and stickers I received mine from you today and I am super happy about that and I am also very glad to be helping out your wonderful charity to help those retired working collie dogs 🐕 and to see yours always puts a very big smile 😃 on my face as he is a handsome dog (?), anyway here’s looking forward to next time your Lordship.

[@LordMuck]

Cheers Jack, glad you like it 👍

[@brunob442]

Lol great video, love the choking from you two, I think we've all done the " let's run it up" in a confined space 😄 matador mecca for sure

[@DJC995]

Nice video the other video idea sounds good Thanks

[@carlscowen1368]

Great vid mate very funny keep them coming please

[@Risenfoenyx]

Double can the bar steward 😂😂...... Awesome 😎 Bit windy 🌬 near the end,should of fired up on vapours lol...👌😆

[@fsj66]

Yes to the engine starting fluids.

[@v4nd3l39]

Great Video as Normal LM..... That Teenager Snow Flake isn't going to b happy about all that smoke lol 😆😂🤣😅..... Can't wait for Fart2 I mean Part 2 lol 😆😂😅🤣😄😜

[@BuckinBillyRaySmith]

great stuff mucker

[@LordMuck]

I see you've got that lovely truck of yours dialled in again Buckin' 👍

[@zundappz4]

Hi mucker.. A few years ago I put a Scania R420 dc13 engine running only in brake cleaner, men.. That thing was scary!! As soon as the engine stopped all the intake ports were on fire!! I like very much of those kind of trucks!! Real nice video!! In the 60s the Portuguese troops used a truck called Berliet Tramagal they say that sometimes they put them running with wisky! Let's make some experiments!!

[@LordMuck]

Let's see what happens 👍

[@Johnlee-ej7yx]

Honestly ye had me in stitches when trying to get the engine to run, between fleeing the DIY gas chamber and the "double canning." And as for the generator, is that even a question, of course we want to see it. The more exotic the cocktail of propellant the better. (On the subject of alcoholic drinks, any chance you'd try a few in it?)

[@jampot1001]

Its like me it needed a sniff to get interested.

[@johnkemp8549]

Yes would like to see you messing about with the engine, love the channel your comments make laugh

[@robbief5517]

Just subscribed brilliant content 👏

[@101jumpit]

Seems as though everything was firing on all cylinders there M'Lud at the end...PMSL :)

[@michaelfk2548]

Amazing ....who needs high tech !

[@michaelfk2548]

So interesting ...thanks guys !

[@pyrodrifter3445]

No waiting for the smoke to clear, double can and send it,, I nearly choked laughing 😂

[@shawnhake6115]

Not only had an email to say my shirt is on its way but also a FB message and a picture of the package. Can’t ask for better service then that and for a good cause. Get your orders in lads!

[@jamiedykes6382]

Would be good to see, perhaps a wee sniff of Acetlyene/Oxygen :) have spare rods on stand by ! great vid as always!!!

[@snocrushr]

I want to see you start an engine with various “fuels” like vegetable oil or bacon grease

[@trevormansfield6740]

Double can it. Fucking Legend 😆😆

[@stuartrance277]

Great video as ever , I would of suggested some of my late dads home made wine, deadly unrefined stuff that had me running ok 🥴🥴

[@dannichol3181]

Just what I needed today bloody good laugh thanks Lord muck

[@rcaddict69]

It's not a cold start old start without the hot fart at the end, nearly spat my coffee out from laughing.

[@billyjoel747]

Yes to the “Will it run on any old wank” video. Thanks Mucker 👍🏻

[@fredscratchet1355]

That engine was so clean I thought it was a rebuild and wouldn't start. i didn't realise it was knackered haha.

[@jamesmichael3998]

I'd like to see you run the engine on good old Moonshine. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida

[@amandajones3422]

Yes film it should be a laugh, most things say highly flammable on the tin😀🚜👍

[@ianwallett7438]

Sherpa! Yep.... Christmas aftershave???? 👍

[@ianwallett7438]

A fencing company by us has a couple of Matadors standing in the yard slowly rotting away.

[@davidgibbings6085]

Nice video mucker , love them matadors ,I recon RC nitro fuel , well that’s got to work or pig shit gas , seemed good on mad max 🙂👍

[@colinblick4903]

As an ex gunner.... lovely to see these old motors preserved😎👍🏼well done youth😂💪🏼

[@malcolmgreenhill4955]

I remember ( as a kid) living in the Midlands, seeing a heck of a lot of AEC MATADORS in brown and written up in cream . They were road construction. The company was, PRESS, ever see any of these sir???

[@malcolmgreenhill4955]

😎

[@LordMuck]

We worked for Press sometimes in their oilfield work.

[@russellcranton8955]

It was cold morning no where near power to plug it in thought I would try either anyway a lesson was learned thanks

[@LordMuck]

It's fine to use Russell, just not too much too often

[@mikejh321]

Yet another top vid and yes to the start using various sprays and potions 😂😂😂😂 can’t wait 👍🏼👍🏼

[@LoggerWade]

Hahaha!!! Perfect buddy

[@LordMuck]

It was an interesting day !

[@DDSpeedShop]

thats a good looking engine despite it wont run.

[@LordMuck]

I dunno if you could hear the 12 valve running in the background ?

[@vintagetractorollie9421]

Yes all you video are good

[@philipthomas9309]

what's the point % wise that petrol and diesel mixed won't run.?

[@LordMuck]

That is a very good question... 🤔

[@gavinbrown2160]

Great vid did make laugh especially when you two went outside coughing your guts up would also love to see you start an engine with the virgins favourite lynx Africa

[@HarryStephenson]

Instant like love Matadors and old trucks in general. My great grandad actually drove matadors and Scammell pioneers for a living during ww2. He then kept driving trucks till he died Foden s39 8x4 tippers mainly with Gardiner 180 engines or the famous 2 stroke engines. The video for the question sounds like it would be funny and interesting so give it a go.

[@LordMuck]

Same as my grandad, he drove Matadors, Pioneers, Diamond-T's etc hauling dozers, cranes and plant with the Royal Engineers in the 8th Army up through Italy 1944/45

[@HarryStephenson]

@@LordMuckYeah great old stories both of my great grandads did actually one in El Alamein Egypt one in Greece and Italy.

[@TheGingerGenius78]

Definitely want to see what the Ford lump will run on ! I’ve used WD40 and most of the others to give things life ! Brake cleaners a fairly good one for will it or won’t it fire ! Maybe try some pain thinners ??

[@MADKIWI]

Great vid my Lord, over here in NZ we have "Start ya Barstard" go juice. Also yes to having film the poor engine running on anything 👍🏼👍🏼🙈🙈🙈

[@LesThompson-i3t]

yes why not .

[@dodgydruid]

Soon as saw the smoke in the valvegear I thought "yep, rings gone or a polo'd piston" and thinking of the age and load, its prob done far far better than ever expected. I remember a couple of these lurking about at Woolwich barracks prob for the Rotunda museum no doubt displaced by the worthy TK Bedfords. I like these as they look like their cousins the Regent III bus which I thought was far cooler than the Routemaster if not a little wheezy by the 70's.

[@SteveMillar-t3f]

Leyland never learn,t anything from AEC if they did they would still be making lorries, I drove some of the AEC,s the would outrun, out pull, more or less any anything else on the road I also liked the 2 stroke Commer, Albion, but my favourite overall was the Bedford

[@royjacques5650]

I worked in the timber industry in the 1970s, 8os they were great machines could take a lot of stick and lovely sound, you are so lucky to have so many to play with

[@davidnorthrup3674]

Thanks for the video. I understand Gasoline engines fairly well. Yet I know very little about diesel engines. I knew that they use compression to cause ignition, but that's about it. Now I have a much better idea. I drive a truck for a living and have for about 20 years. I have used either a lot in the mountains of Colorado in the winter. I never had a problem, but my goal was always to see how little I could use. Now I see exactly how it works. So thanks again!

[@ClarenceFudWeasel]

I had a moped that ran on a very specific monkey-derived fuel. I traded it in for an equally unusually-fuelled car.

[@moneyprofessional]

If anyone doesn't want to see the engine start experiments they shouldnt be watching this channel!! Of course I want to see it. Lovely seeing the AEC Matadors too. More of them too please!!

[@hsagri69]

So uv started a new series. Will it kill us 🤣. That was some smoke. Interesting vid. Something a bit different 🤔 them aec always looked a great machine

[@andyshepherd5067]

hell yes will be a great laugh

[@Oliver66FarmBoy]

Sneaky bastard. As clean as that engine was I figured it had already been overhauled and still wouldn’t start. Lol. Sad that with so many built so few remain.

[@LordMuck]

It's been cleaned but not rebuilt (lord knows why) All the bits are back now ready to get put back in.

[@theprojectcollector7260]

Sure this isn’t Wesley Pandy’s motorhome engine lol.

[@davidcarver9587]

Definitely film it ....you could try different lynx smells .....my moneys on black "frozen pear and cedarwood "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@himmanbloke]

Good wholesome fun right there! Brought back some good memories smoking the shed out. Top marks.

[@astravanmk2]

Sounds good to me, it’ll be interesting to see. I used to start my old 4 stroke mower using lynx africa - from one of the many obligatory Xmas gift sets. 😂

[@mikepascoe5670]

You and nutty professor do it let's see how many things actually work and don't spare the smoke. Roll some coal 🤪☠️🌋

[@billco-9801]

Good afternoon from Ohio USA. I kept saying…”COMPRESSION”!

[@andyberrows8885]

Hi mate interesting stuff, i started my driving career in the early 70;s and used to drive two different matadors up and down the roads of oxfordshire fetching and loading timber, brilliant days!

[@basiltaylor8910]

7.7 Litres of Southall iron refusing to start or even run, what would John Rackham think, love the smoke the coughing and spluttering the mechanics not the engine.

[@noonsight2010]

Good luck with the engine. It's slways good to see people taking the trouble to save hisoric vehiclrs.

[@andrewbowman7631]

AEC one of the finest vehicle and engine manufacturers from Great Britain, there's nothing sounds as good as an on song 7.7, I'm in the process of fitting one in a Fordson Major.

[@Tuscaforge]

Always wanted to know if the WD40 worked as starting fluid, so Muck yes... love to see it.

[@steamfan7147]

A low compression reading on a gasoline engine and the question then is valves, rings, or both? If rings, a shot of motor oil in the bore and the compression would jump up on the next test. If not, then it was usually valves more often than not. I've never tried that on a diesel though. Given all the things Peg has dumped in Slave Lake for it to run on, that's going to be a pretty long list coming up 😄

[@brianmeattey4151]

Allways enjoyable to watch your vids..on whith the vid ....yep great and informative

[@DroneLearner]

I was informed that an engine needing ether to start will always need it once used. Some people saw it as an addiction and steered away from its use. I now know, thanks to your video, it was the demise of the engine and the ether was just a way of getting it started rather than carrying out the repairs required. Some people are old school. Donkey jackets, now there's a topic to do; the yanks call them pony starts, I'm not confortable wearing a pony jacket but please do an historical approach. Big engine cold starts !

[@richardb2382]

Eyup Mucker. Saunders brought me here. Not a truck driver, but love these old trucks. Favourites being AEC Matadors, Militant, or any old Scammell

[@jamesanderton344]

Ether isn’t just for diesels...used to use it to start my Mini 1000 in -20 weather.....the SU needed an oil change to ATF first and sometimes I would heat the bell with a propane torch. At -30 and colder, the engine would overcool and produce no cabin heat even with the rad completely blocked off. Fun times.

[@charliehewitt873]

Yeah definitely