Pete And His Bus, Episode 39: It's alive
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- This time on Pete And His Bus, Lord Barrington and I go back to RM843 to try to finish this job once and for all. As always it proves to be harder than we though. Will we get this poor bus running and driving? Find out now! The feature car this month is a lovely Series 2 Jaguar E type.
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A special thanks go to:
Richard, the owners of RM843 and Lord Barrington Himself!
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About Pete And His Bus: Pete is a normal (ish) guy who has a big passion for old vehicles and particularly old buses. He is NOT a trained mechanic nor is he a professional restorer. He enjoys converting vehicles but he can not promise that what he is doing is going to work on your vehicle. Nor can he promise that you won’t harm yourself if you were you to attempt the things he does. He recommends that you are safe and responsible with machinery and equipment even if you’ve seen him messing about with it. A workshop and it’s content can be a dangerous place. If you are in doubt about your own vehicle, contact a professional for advice.
Oh Jeez, sat on the edge of my seat and screaming for her to start. Well done gents for getting her going. So hope her future will be promising. ❤
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Wow this is awesome stuff
l hope to be back in the UK
in the future, & if you will
have me great 🙄🙄😭😭😁
@@charlesallanstewart-kl2opThis is a great way to scrap an RM. Burn it out, let it cool, and hose out the debris. Then get to work with the torch. All metal exposed. Pull it to pieces with the claw. Quite clean scrap
@@PreservationEnthusiast wtf scrap
not a chance buddy boy , U R
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@@charlesallanstewart-kl2op Yes, this is the way they used to scrap buses and trams. Burn them out first.
At Barnsley when breaking up RMs in the 1990s the burning was frowned upon. But there was still preparatory torch work to cut the upper structure and weaken the floor before the claw went in.
Those RMs were built tough to be rebuilt. Getting them through the shredder was not as easy as other buses.
What an achievement chaps. The next installment of the RM843 saga is eagerly awaited - I do hope the owners will go the whole distance and restore it properly, or failing that sell it as a work in progress to someone who will. We've lost too many of these old girls already - we really need to keep the remaining viable examples running and in use for something.
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Well done. She deserves a second chance. Hopefully you can get hold of the bus to renovate and make roadworthy now.
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Brilliant, hope she is restored back to her former glory.
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Lovely jubley 😊. I do love anything hereatage and nothing smacks as much of hereatage than a goog old bus
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Those old AEC engines really do just keep going.
Yes they really do
Wow. Congratulations to you both .
Thanks
Of course it will start, It's an AEC....
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I'm glad you didn't edit out the drama in getting it started too much, so we could share in the tension, although you had given away the outcome -not that I mind as I love the thumbnail.
That engine would have hardly run since it's 1994 reconditioning. It's almost a new engine really hence its excellent sound. It exceeded my expectations though. It sounded so healthy.
It was in the best capable hands of Tim Barrington to nurse the old lady awake. Nice to hear the gearbox hum as well.
Sadly the thumbnail has to for ultimate view purposes. That’s UA-cam for ya… she exceeded our expectations also! Very pleased
Thank you for the kind words James. I do my best and bringing one back is always more rewarding as that's how it all started for me many years ago.
@@timbarrington3607 good to know you wanted to be there.
I've probably been on that bus. I used to use the 229 from Orpington to school. It just feels really strange. Like seeing a glimpse of my past.
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Well done!!! She Lives!!! (and I can't believe how 'happy' that engine is sounding!)
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I’m from London and it’s funny to think I have probably been on the bus when i was a kid.
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Superb ! i admire your patience and determination. “true grit” - well done 👍
Thank you very much!
5 minutes in and I already love your channel! So glad to see more people taking an interest in the old sweethearts of the golden age!
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Thanks!
Blimey!, thought the motor was going to shake it'self loose! 🙂 Nice one. Nuff said!.
They do do that. Nothing to worry about.
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Oh man I enjoyed that. I've ridden the Africa Twin past this hundreds of times and always glanced over, just wondering. To think of the millions of lives the old girl has touched in her working life - and now she lives again. Fantastic!
That’s nice! I think we all feel the same bud! Time for her to have another go at it.
Loving these videos
Thanks so much!
Loved that. Great progress so looking forward to the next
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Lord Barrington and yourself should be really happy on what you have both achieved on trying to get this bus running. I look forward to watching more videos of it getting moving etc
Thank you
Praise the holy reducer diaphragm! She's mostly alive!!
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Sy diindonesia salah satu pengemudi yg pernah mengemudikan Bis ini sjk tahun 1993 - 1999. Sgt Mantaaap👍👍👍
Thanks for watching
Thats sounds and runs healthier then some modern new buses i drive 😂😂
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This is brilliant Pete! Both you and Lord Barrington bringing this old routemaster back to life is wonderful! Well done lads!!👏👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
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looking forward to seeing RM843 back in it's old haunt of SE London sometime soon
Fingers crossed
Quite unbelievable to have so much time, dedication, patience for this run down, beyond help, tired out, bad state, ruined Routemaster. It was nerve racking enough and annoying not see the AEC engine start up. But, that was some real bloody effort.
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Really pleased you both got this old girl running again Pete. Looking forward to actually seeing her moving again.
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Love a dirty diesel ❤
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That engine was simply awakening from a very deep slumber. It just woke up tired, aching and confused.
It's happy now!
A testament to the engineering of yesteryear.
Absolutely
A testament to LB diesel engine skills!!! The blokes a genius
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Oh yes! Well done guys, hoping she will now get the restoration she so desperately needs. Will be a crying shame if she doesn’t. 😊
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Brilliant
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Awesome! Hopefully one of you may buy it 😎👍🏻
Haha nah!! Got enough of em 😂👍
@@PeteAndHisBus You know you want to 😂😂
He should get the engine out of it.
I'm good with 4 buses and 2 coaches so I'll stick to convincing the current owner to do it up. 😂🤣
Fantastic work! Hopefully another one saved. I can't help thinking the owners have taken advantage of your time and skills to get the old girl going. She is now worth money rather than scrap value!
Nah!! They had tried several times to sort it and were at the point of giving up.
Excellent…Great job!…lovely to hear her running 👌🏽
The photos of RM843 in service was a lovely addition 👍🏼
Look forward to the next visit 😊👍🏼
Many thanks! 👍
What a great collection of photos to show the bus' journey so far.
Love this channel makes me want one
Thanks, you should get one! I’ve got one for sale (warning, they’re not cheap!
Bloody good work, I was smiling like a Cheshire Cat when that fired up
We have to get the original number plate WLT843 back on her when’s she’s restored someone must know who’s driving around with it on the A class merc 👍🏻
The owner of rm843 has met the chap who has the plate. He turned up there once. Don’t know why he took it but it is around.
@@PeteAndHisBus that’s good to hear, quite a lot of RMs had their plates removed once they were sold I guess it helped with raising cash to run them
Absolutely brilliant 🤩 Lord Barrington is a super hero 👏🏻 Shame Compo didn’t see RM 843 spark up lol 😆 Well done guys 👍🏻
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Detonated up you mean.
The phillip schofield poster made me laugh 😂
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Wow surprise this one just made my boring Sunday night exciting........
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Just stop oil and gretta thunburg is rolling in her grave 😅😅😅😅 , seeing u absolute legends work on this classic beauty
Did she die? Haha we’re recycling mate! It’s less environmentally damaging to use old things again then have some battery powered piece of dung that’ll need replacing in less than 5 years…. Just my opinion though 😂😜👍 thanks for watching
Keep your old banger on the road for as long as possible that’s being sustainable 😂👍
Great episode 😀😀👍👍
Thanks
Absolutely amazing best video ever!!!! She sounds sweet as a nut, congratulations guys!!!!!
Thanks so much! 👍👍
That starter deserves a medal to hang in there for that long. Quality British made. Any post 1990 starters would have gone up in smoke or meltdown.
Yep, it was after all the only thing that was replaced. She did good
I can smell this video
Impressive seeing that we didn’t use smellavision…
Wow, came from a short TikTok and ended up watching all the vids on this bus, a huge congrats, subbed and cant wait for updates 😊
Thanks bud! Your support is much appreciated
Hooray!
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And RM843 is back alive. Now she needs a propper restauration to came back to streets.
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Such a poignant moment when she finally awoke from her enforced hibernation and coughed into life. Well done to you and Lord Barrington. She sounded so sweet too. Looking forward to seeing her move under her own volition
Thanks for watching
It brings back memorys
I joind LT in 1971 as a Garage Trainner and spent 15 years at Peckham bus garage (the old one not the new one) ,
where i think 843 was at one time as one of the photos showed it had 36 as the destination, and the 3 routes 36, 36A and 36B all came out of Peckham
and im sure i would have worked on it at one time
Great work by all of you to get it running agin
Thanks for watching
Great video. I nearly choked on the thumbnail pic 👍
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I've been waiting for this episode thoroughly enjoyed it she sounds beautiful love to see fully restored well done for getting it started. 👏👏👍
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Absolutely chuffed to little mint balls to see this run and run it does. Sounds better than some RMs out there in regular use 😉. Never doubted our Mr Barrington one bit. Hopefully the future is bright for RM843.
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Pete, you seem to have a pretty ideal lifestyle - you live in a beautiful place, you certainly have a wonderful and lovely wife, and a very gorgeous daughter. You get to drive extremely beautiful cars. I am a good bit older than you (let's not go into details). I wonder if you have any advice for me? Just one thing though. I'd like fewer buses in my ideal life, going forward, as they say. Wonderful news about RMB834. I think the owners should give it to you as recompense. Thanks for a great video. Tom (from France).
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I play your vids back at 1.25speed , and you sound like Cliff Richard in summer holiday like that ( right operator, wrong bus of course !)
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Absolutely brilliant makeshift battery connector! If you can come up with that idea you can probably fix anything. Glad to hear that Compo will be back, I have missed that little terrorist.😃
Hahaha! Thanks for watching
Brilliant really enjoying your channel!!
Thanks so much!’
When you get RM843 driving down the road, remember do NOT under any circumstances....
Pick up two clowns on the side of the road, no matter how excited they seem.
There is a reason their makeup is smeared like that.
😂😂😂😂 they want their den back…
It’s an AEC AV590, why wouldn’t it start.👍
You sir are correct!
@@PeteAndHisBus British engineering at its best, grew up with AEC Regents where I lived, all fitted with the AV 590 engine, now friends with a group that have an ‘66 AEC Renown with the AV 590.
The Regent III (most RTs) had the 9.6 litre known as the metric series.
The imperial series 590 was a reworked version of the 9.6 litre.
Hi Peter when do you think that you will have it out of the field and back on the road again
We’re scheduled to go back soon. It will totally depend on what ells the bud needs
@@PeteAndHisBushi Peter how is the bus and when do you think you will be having it up and running
When i was 10 back in 1970 i got a job working at a garage where i worked for 6 years.
The boss Barry bought an E type jag, we used to go to the chippy every day in it and was the first time i ever been over 100mph, a great motor I loved it.
Lovely experience that. Thanks for sharing
There's nothing like an AEC. They're bullet proof and music to the ears 🎵🎶. Great work by you and Lord Barrington 👏👍
Thank you for watching!
Sorry, they're definitely not. I know of a 1970 -72 AEC Swift 691 with AH 691 engine that sat in a field that had thrown a rod. I think it has to do with it's 2 speed ZF automatic being too much of a strain up hills. They were originally operated on flat terrain only with it's original owner MTT Adelaide.
17:21 a yes startin the engine with a lever
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I can almost taste the smoke !! well done both of you !!!!
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no such thing as bodegry i like to think of it as a strategic modification
Damn right
Youv'e no idea just how hard i was pressing my foot on the floor willing it to start 😂😂😂 great job guy's 🤘🤘🤘
Hahaha well you did good cos it worked 😜
who doesnt love a proper routemaster! saw this in recommended feed and decided to watch it to see how far RM843s pesky rescue is going why do i get the idea that RM843 knows shes being given attention but is being difficult and refusing to budge as shes decided 'nope im not moving with out a fight ''
It’s been a tough one. Thanks for watching 👍
It's muscles have atrophied.
Really good to see RM 843 with a running engine gain, all your hard work has paid off, thank you for getting another Routemaster closer to driving. I noticed that RM843 has had a number plate change to XVS 828 from WLT 843, do you know why?
Someone will have taken it off when it came out of service. It was often employees of a higher rank that fancied an LT plate on their own car..’
Great job on getting the AEC/ PR Routemaster, AV 590 Engine going. AEC Engines have such a sweet sound to them, just love them. Look forward to seeing the Routemaster move again.
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They're very smooth inline six diesels unlike the raucous Leyland engines.
I’ve only discovered your channel recently and really enjoyed and found interesting getting the bus back to life again.
All the best for the future. Wayne
Hey Wayne! Thanks so much for watching. Your support is appreciated
Why was half the photographs of 843 registration but others were 828 registration? Did it have a change of registration at some stage.
Someone took it off the bus when it came out of service
I was sitting on the edge of my chair at every attempt to turn RM843 on. And glad to see you made it, Guys. Good work and congrats!. Hope the new family member will be sitting near Compo soon. Best.
Thanks for watching
Pete, if the owners did restore the bus, with its colourful history which variation would you pick?? Or would you prefer totally original. As always great vid👍
That’s a good question… I’d go with good old London red
Tribute to British engineering
Agreed!
@@PeteAndHisBus Enjoyed watching this, hopefully Pete it’ll be picking up passengers near me soon.
RM 843 is one of my regular fleets from the 25 Stratford route.
Thank you for the picture I'll be adding this to my spotters guide for local buses.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching
The screaming and whooping in the background when it finally started 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I got very excited! 😂😂
Sorry if i missed it but how does someone forget they have a giant red bus
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Such an absolute feel-good moment. It takes a special person to make this effort.
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Lord muck channel is involved with restoring AEC's (matadores and buses) he'd probably be helpful with finding parts.
My stores are pretty full of Routemaster parts and what I don't have I know where to get. 🤣😂
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Eagerly awaited episode! 😉
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I was almost in tears when she finally fired up and started running. What a fantastic episode, Pete. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. It was a brilliant moment
I was so happy to hear that engine run again, I must have travelled on that bus at sometime in my 20 years living London. You cannot mistake the sound of a Routemaster.
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Great to know that this fine old lady will be preserved. It could so easily have gone the other way with some cretin setting fire to her, or causing yet more brainless damage. It is a shame that the number plate rapists have stolen her original plate. Not a priority at the moment, but quite a few robbed RMs have had their original VRMs restored to them, even after years with replacement numbers. I expect WLT843 is on some w#*#er's Porsche or Mercedes by now!
Haha she’s still glorious without her plate. 👍👍
Did Lord Barrington explain why it took so long to start? I guess it all has to get up to temperature, sticky injectors, air locks? What else is there in such a basic engine?
It was the injectors.
HAHA I WISH YOU CAN DO THIS IN AFRICA,FROM TIK TOK FOLLOW U HERE
Ya man!
Pete, I have this Jaguar on my model railway layout, mine is RED ;0
Very cool! 👍👍
OMG, bravo to you and Lord Barrington, brought a tear to my eye watching the photos of her in her prime. Good on you blokes, take a bow.
Thanks so much
Woohoo, that's what we have been waiting for, fantastic!
Driving one of the flattest cars to visit one of the tallest vehicles got me laughing out loud right away!
This bus oozes liquids, but history as well. ❤ the future is bright.
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It was a lupanar before it ended in the fields or what, what is this awful interior decoration of a coach bar lol.
At one time it was the typical souvenir from England, my cousin had brought me when i was child a red bus like this one from Corgy toys, it is wisely stored in a box, yes the miniatures are pretty but they are dust nests.
For me these buses are really iconic of your country, good vehicle restoration to you in any case =)
Have a nice day , from South France !
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You're not the only one as I was screaming and hoping it will run too. Knew you guys will do it and really can't wait to see you driving it now.
Really am pleased the future is good for that fabulous bus.
I will always say this but roll on for the next episode guys
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Another victory for Lord Barrngton! he knows his stuff for sure! love seeing this old girl come back to life!
That’s why I talked him into it! He is the guy for the job
You both make me miss being in the U.K so much i enjoy watching your video so much have a good day!!
I’m glad you enjoyed it! You can always come and visit 👍😂
Congratulations getting her running again. Hopefully the next episode will be her driving.
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Lord Barrington? I think you mean Lord Busington the Bus Whisperer
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I see this bus quite often as I live close by and have always wanted to go and have an xplore of it and the cars arround it or that used to be arround it
Enjoy because it won’t be there for all that much longer.
Yahoooooooo I was sat here clenching my butt cheeks willing to to start...😂😂😂
Weird image but hey, thanks for watching! 😂
It sure did sound good. Amazingly smooth. Must have been in great condition when parked?
Re built in 1994, parked up in 1997
@@PeteAndHisBus confused. You said it was withdrawn in 1992..Who arranged the rebuilt engine?
@@jamesfrench7299 it was looked after and garaged at Stockwell after sale to timewarp TV so the engine was doubtless supplied and fitted by London general for timewarp.
Pete
Sorry I didnt add an encouraging comment while you did the last two episodes of hard work which could have gone nowhere at all.
I play with old motorbikes and was with you all the way.
Probably a waste of time.
Probably a waste of effort.
Probably a waste of money.
Then.
Chuggitty chugg splitter pop.........
Then nothing.
Then...........
The same.
But then.....
Nothing.
But finally
Varrrroooommchuggitychuggityytickticktick.
I was willing this to work and after you disappointed me a couple more times...
Was dancing about like an idiot who has forgotten that the Spice Girls best times are behind them.
Sir, I salute your indifatigability.
So, what next?
We’re going to get her driving obviously
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Obviously.
You definitely have the right people working on this old girl. I was hoping the starter didn't crap out before you actually got it started! It was dicey there for a bit until it started picking up cylinders one after the other. Those old buses must have a monster of a flywheel considering how long the engine takes to coast down to idle!😉
The starter was actually replaced 7 years ago and because it was wired in incorrectly it had never turned so pretty much new. So with double the batteries we knew she’d do it!
I don't think one could just abandon a modern diesel for decades and it will start with just a bit of coaxing, all the electronic controls would have disintegrated years ago. A lot of work and many cans of worms to get through on her before back to her former glory.
Think your right there
I won't be there trying I promise you that. 🤣😂
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