WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: WW2 M3 Grant and Lee tank TOUR plus fitting the rear idler wheels

[@kenc3288]

Great to see plenty of lubrication being used in this assembly. So many so called youtube experts assemble shafts and bearings dry. Excellent Aussie fitting on display. 😀😀🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@sg195286]

In Germany we say, wer gut schmiert, der gut fährt 👍🏼 translation: if you lubricate well, you will drive well 👌🏼

[@knexmachina]

Expert = Ex is something that has been. Spurt is a drip under pressure

[@timodeporto686]

Perhaps they know it will break down eventually and has to be worked on, and those guys are the ones who have to do it!

[@mladensosic2280]

@@sg195286 in Croatia same, tko maže taj i vozi.

[@Iaintwoke]

It's relying on clamping force and friction so is it a good idea to lubricate it so much? Maybe not. Maybe in this case a little bit of anti seize may have been better.

[@NSYresearch]

Good morning Australia.... this really is the best way to start a dull, cold day in the UK

[@fredfarnackle5455]

Great commentary on the differences between Grant and Lee tanks.

[@TheGeezzer]

Don't be afraid of making these videos twice as long! They are bloody interesting Bruce! Great to see all the ins and outs of tank technology from the 1940s.

[@N_Wheeler]

'Kurtfromozama' is the guy who decides how long the videos are!

[@Sammelleidenschaft-von-bis]

Meine ehrliche Bewunderung und Hochachtung, Panzerrestauration ist eine Arbeit für geduldige harte Männer. Allein die Arbeit für ein Laufrad ist enorm, nach einem Tag in der Werkstatt hätte ich das Handtuch geschmissen. Super Videos, freue mich schon auf den nächsten Mittwoch. Viele Grüße aus Österreich.

[@Slavvy]

Favorite channel, all killer no filler, quality people doing quality work on incredible vehicles, no bs anywhere in sight. Love you guys, never stop!!

[@MrSdasdasdasdad]

Another awesome vid! awesome to see our aussie history being preserved. Kepp up the awesome work.

[@chris-gh4bf]

The episodes are not long enough. Love the work you are doing to keep these machines alive.

[@MrChrisStarr]

Unusual to see a Lee and Grant side by side! Great video as always. My Wednesday lunchtime treat!

[@andrewtreloar7389]

More great content, a huge thanks!

[@pelonehedd7631]

What I like about about watching these videos is how everyone gets along . There are no hard ass attitudes and drama queens like video’s with American Biker types . No one is trying to prove anything or assert dominance. It really makes watching real professionals a pleasing experience. And this comment is coming from a American.

[@malliz1]

Great episode guys

[@roberthocking9138]

Wow talk about a wealth of knowledge, that he can produce at Will with no notes, unreal . Great vid

[@welshpete12]

These people s knowledge is remarkable !

[@jackeagles1637]

I am amazed how these blokes do what they do . It is almost like were trained in the original factories that made these things.

[@RWJP]

I think it's safe to say that your videos are some of the finest out there in the military vehicle restoration and preservation world, and a LOT of other organisations could learn a thing or two from you!

[@lordsjaak]

i am from the Netherlands. and i love your restoration on the Grant. so keep going with your works and it is really lovely to watch 😃

[@maineoutdoorsman677]

I've watched every video,an does that man own a pair of paints ,he's old school Aussie shorts 24/7

[@Fryns]

This is fast becoming my favourite KZbin channel. Building 1/16 scale model tanks and it is so nice to see you guys do the same in 1/1 scale.

[@investornator]

Good to see the boys saving these national treasures for all future generations to see. I'd say the Boys are national treasures to !

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Workshop Wednesday The best day of the week 😍😍👍👍👍

[@claytonnans5639]

Thanks guys!

[@johnwilliams-sc1vf]

Cotter pins are used on bicycle cranks to secure the cranks

[@adrianabbott4623]

Is there any chance of you doing longer videos? It is absolutely fascinating watching your brilliant guys working and I could watch them for hours. The addition of the explanations of the vehicles is a good idea though. I would love to visit you but it is a bit far, and expensive, to just pop over from the UK!

[@Ronaldl2350]

So true what he said about the silver anti sieze. Great tour of the Grant and Lee tanks.

[@stephenparkes626]

Tank you for my weekly tank fix great 👍 work

[@kiwifruit27]

Great to see the Steyr in the background, it’s looking awesome. Are we going to get an update sometime, please

[@nickraschke4737]

Those big bearings are incredible.

[@gerardhogan3]

Jason you're a bloody legend. Nice drills mate. I love your stories because you tell a good yarn and....it's bloody interesting!

[@yattaran1484]

Another amazing hard works on Wednesday !. Thanks to those heavy machines, this kind of serious restoration become possible. Without them, it would be a nightmare. Can't wait next week !😊

[@timwerner7771]

I am an optician and regularly work with 1.1mm drill bits. It is so much fun to see nuts as big as a fist and cotter pins the size of a pinky! LOve your channel and the great work ethic!

[@tracker1265]

REALLY enjoying watching the team rebuild the tanks

[@Chris-yy7qc]

I love how these guys take a moment and put grease and antiseize on everything. Its just very good practice.

[@P-J-W-777]

It’s a blessing to know that the US and Australia have worked so closely for so long and have been such great allies. I really don’t see you guys as just Allie’s but more as distant family.

[@kenkan6837]

Well, it's easy to be mates w/an Aussie!

[@markrhodes1717]

Right back at ya'!

[@jimtekkit]

We had a prickly relationship during the occupancy of American soldiers over here in WW2 (cultural differences), so I wouldn't say we always get along. But generally when everyone regards themselves as equal human beings then we get along famously.

[@P-J-W-777]

@@jimtekkit I apologize that some of my fellow Americans didn’t respect the fact that they were in another country with a few cultural differences just as they would have expected your fellow Australians to respect ours if the situation had been reversed. There’s no one single Nation that’s invincible no matter how strong some Americans think we may be but together we are stronger and can accomplish anything if we work together as one. After all we are all related somehow if you did back far enough in history. It’s just the water that’s kept us separated for so many years that’s caused us to forget that. I hope that one day I’ll get to come visit your beautiful country as it’s one of only a very very few that I would choose to live in if I were to ever desire to move.🇺🇸🇦🇺

[@doughudgens9275]

It’s great to see parts go back on!

[@OgdenTunkRR]

I absolutely love your channel and look forward every Wednesday here in America to watch the next one. Sometimes I even stay up late on Tuesday so I can catch it and I also love the fact that you’re restoring, a Grant tank it’s my all-time favorite vehicle from the second world war One day maybe I’ll get a chance to visit your tank fest and get a ride in one of these iconic vehicles keep up the great presentations one of your loyal followers, Frank

[@vicnoel45662]

You fellas really have me looking forward to Wednesday mornings!

[@theessexhunter1305]

Nice work, good to see hands on work as it seems to be going the push button direction for many.

[@waynevictory5208]

It’s great to see y’all fix these as we must remember what great things our grandfather did to give the world freedom!!!

[@ethanferguson1550]

Hey Aus Armour! Just wanted to say I love your videos and they are very informative and entertaining. I did want to say to be careful of those mushroomed punches/drifts/chisels I see scattered through your series! The striking head of the tool when it is the badly mushroomed can actually start sending tool steel-projectiles around the workshop that are super sharp and hold so much velocity!

[@HK94]

Excellent video...

[@patraic5241]

I think the men and women who built those vehicles would be proud to know there are people today trying to preserve them. Well done.

[@jamesneveaux4892]

Amazing work, cheers from Edmonton, Canada.

[@tommytaylor4458]

Another good one guys👍👍Always looking forward to the video updates!!!😁👍

[@kiwifruit27]

Awesome as always 😊

[@davemiller6893]

You lads are the best.

[@lloydgoldston3620]

Cracking video Gents! Love it when Jason gives us the history on your survivors. Great to hear we’ll get a Stug update soon!! Wednesday updates are the absolute best part of the work week. Thank you for doing them for us all to enjoy

[@bobkohl6779]

Nice to know you're actually reading the comments. I've worked on fair amount of WW II Vehicles. Continental engines are my nemesis. Horizontal springs are HVSS suspension.

[@DavidCulshawmer-r]

i get excited when i'm at work and get a notification of the latest update on my phone 😄, get home and put the big computer on and watch it 👍😊, keep up the good work lads , just loving these vids 😉

[@steveyountz9184]

Great video and a really great way to start my Wednesday. Thank you very much.😎

[@look4truth480]

excellent comments from the asistant manager! Awesome! TY Jason

[@johnboy384]

Thanks again!

[@fireabend_1226]

very nice presentation

[@RobertJohnson-gi3sl]

WE LOVE YOU AND YOUR WORK, FOREVER. PRESERVING HISTORY.

[@raymondswarmer1433]

Jason is like a walking encyclopedia of tank and armored vehicles. Amazing!!!

[@TAFFY5652]

Smashing work as always boys!

[@michaelguerin56]

Good work. Nice to see the new idlers go on with the cleaned up and regreased bearings/seals. Also a nice bit of history re. the various Lees and Grants. I understand that there is a trick for new players with the 6046 (twin 6-71) engine set. The Bus Grease Monkey was invited to do some work on a Sherman with that setup and initially could not get it to turn over but he read the manual overnight and worked out what was happening. It was, if I recall correctly, an issue with the clutch arrangement that allows the tank to drive with either one or both engines going. I also understand that you always have to start the same engine first. I can see why you intend to go with a single Scania four stroke engine to move this beast. One engine instead of two. One turbocharger (presumably) that does not need to be on for the engine to run instead of one supercharger per engine, that has to run because a two stroke diesel cannot suck in air; and finally, an engine that does not have to be run very few weeks, in order to prevent injectors from sticking. Detroit Diesel runaways are not a good thing and … you would get sick of recharging CO2 extinguishers!😊 Thank you again for a positive update and the history lesson, complete with anecdotes about agricultural modifications to surplus Australian Army tanks. That cutdown and converted surplus vehicle is a good part of the story; and also a reminder that not every military workshop modification of an obsolete vehicle makes it into the history books. There might well be some oddball RAEME creations still to be recorded. Cheers from NZ🇳🇿!

[@deancoley7987]

Fantastic work all the best to the team

[@norsehall309]

G'day mates from an old grunt, thumbs up to all the hard work on the tanks, cheers boys.

[@neilfairless4589]

Stug, Grant, we love em all Kurt. Cheers fella's.

[@2025-n2g]

Outstanding. Keep up the good work

[@dukeallen432]

Wonderful production. So enjoy the dirty rusty work.

[@jeffussery4884]

I repair factory machines for a living. The hydraulic press chattering reminds me of pushing bearings off a 3'' or bigger shaft that have been there for 50 years plus years. I had one oilite bronze bushing that froze to the shaft and spun in the outer journal. When I went to press the bushing off the shaft it DID NOT want to move. I soaked everything down with PB Blaster and let it sit over night. I cranking up the press pressure to 50 tons ( it had a 4" ram) when that bushing finely broke lose, BOOM. Everything jumped the shaft hit the floor. I ended up making a new shaft also.

[@WardMacaulay]

Simply amazing dedication to preserving/restoring history! Bravo Zulu!

[@americanpatriot2422]

Outstanding video and presentation.

[@safetyharborfirearms]

Good info on the differences in the models

[@andrewsteele7663]

Thanks Team, I just love Workshop Wednesday, I wait until all the jobs are done so I can watch without distractions, Cheers

[@bvalt1]

You guys are amazing!! True enlightened brutes using all your strength and mental faculties to get the job done, BRAVO!!

[@Slaktrax]

Thanks Karl, Jess and Daryl. I spent ten years working on tanks; smelling of diesel, eating processed (hard) cheese and jam sandwiches that were permeated with diesel flavour and hands and finger nails that were ingrained with oily dirt and no thoughts of dermatitis or a protective hand cream, even if it was available ...and that would only be used by ''pussies'' if it was. And yet I look for ward to your videos every week and love seeing the guys doing this kind of work with unaccountable interest! A lot of the older guys used to miss the Cents (Centurions) that were reliable, clean and didn't need so much attention.

[@Elvis20101]

Thank you

[@kenkan6837]

I'd like to give a shout-out to the musicians who created the music for this production, to me it seems that they poured their hearts into every note!

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

More great work by the boys!

[@manyfaces2614]

That desert camo is sweet

[@USMC--me3ig]

Love this series.. is the welded grant roomier than the riveted grant? And who funds these restoration projects? Thanks for keeping the history alive.

[@frostedbutts4340]

The museum is privately owned, so they're paying for it out of pocket. I have no idea if it runs at a profit or they're lucky enough to have a rich owner with a passion.

[@juanvargaschavarria8772]

Great work Greetings from COSTARICA 🇨🇷⚔👏

[@caliber_560]

It would be a dream to come work with you guys restoring one of these beautiful machines, even just for a day.

[@russwoodward8251]

How has this been out a whole day and I have not seen it yet? Thank you, great stuff!

[@ditzydoo4378]

US Marines were issued the diesel Shermans for use in the Pacific theater.

[@billybobwombat2231]

Going to Cairns in May, looking forward to seeing all this metal under one roof, thanks for the vid 🤙

[@boomerdiorama]

What a beast this beautiful machine is. Cheers.😁

[@Happenedin62]

Hello Kurt!!! Love the show so keep it coming mate!!

[@Kwqr_1996]

Thanks for history.

[@chrispiazza7487]

You read my mind regarding the Stug!

[@nevillegoddard4966]

Hi guys! Great video! No wonder the old wheel bearings were in such good condition! They were protected by the cast steel wheels, grease seals, multi-bolt gasketed front cap, & about 2kg of grease! Phew! That looks like marine grease youse have used in the idlers ay? Good one👍! Just one thing though - I never actually saw the spacer being installed between the inner & outer bearings of the second idler wheel. Hopefully it was installed? I'm glad you showed both idlers spinning with their newly packed bearings; that was reassuring & satisfying to see! But maan! Those idlers with those huge bearings look indestructable! And so - they were not destroyed, in fact youse got to reuse old the grease seals so I was right - so they ARE virtually indestructable! That hammered-on toothed plate that locks in the track tension setting - is that pretty easy to remove again, cos you may need to remove it to adjust it once the tracks are on? I'd have thought it would have been stored somewhere safe til then - maybe in one of the M3's toolboxes, or in Darryl's toolbox! Thanks fellas!

[@patrickporter6536]

Bloody marvellous, mate!

[@KubotaManDan]

Fantastic, loved the tour

[@Search4TruthReality]

Awesome!

[@davidlawrencebanks4610]

Outstanding work! Brill guys

[@alexandermccarthy]

Superlative work. Keep it up fellas!

[@joesanchez979]

Love that tank👍

[@pvtmalo3217]

Thanks for sharing =)

[@paoloviti6156]

A dumb question: will you install the Twin GM 6-71 diesel variant, or the more ubiquitous Continental Motors built the R-975 under license? Please keep going on as always doing a great job 👍 👍👍

[@genesmolko8113]

Love the M3, it's a wonderfully weird tank.

[@mongolike513]

Great work boys. We must have been overrun by Lees to have cancelled our own Cruiser production and experiments with mounting the 17pdr.

[@captiannemo1587]

With the twin 6-71s you can change the up gear ratios from 1:1.2 to 1:1.6 and push the A5 to 36 mph at the expense of acceleration.

[@aserta]

One solution to use rubber seals made in the same fashion as the OG ones, would be to try and get your rubber cut with a waterjet. You'd need a rubber mat that's specific to your needs (so likely something pliable) but if you cut it a few mm smaller on the ID you could repack the seal with new rubber.

[@davidperry970]

You guys should do a few antique Caterpillar rebuilds.

[@cameronb2765]

Great job, 👍 I can hear the chieftain already 🤣

[@paulmanson253]

Hey guys. There is brief discussion here about tracks,oh about the 25 minute mark. If you wish detailed meticulous information on what it takes to service the actual track chains,here on YT there is Squatch253, complete rebuild on a Caterpillar D2,and his disassembly and turn/reassemble of track chains components is as meticulous as the rest of what he does. From the video shot here,the track chain of the tank looks to be a right mess. Unlikely there is any New Old Stock stuff available. Be interesting to see what these resourceful lads come up with.

[@ray.shoesmith]

lol the grease 'mmmmmmmm' cracked me up 🤣

[@jimmcfee3488]

For the amount of work this will do if you couldn't have sourced original idler wheel seals for the light duty this will probably do a simple turned shell with a felt shaft seal would have been adequete(like in old pre WW2 bearing pillow blocks), had to do it as a temporary measure for fan shafts in the past.