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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
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.
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.
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 👍🏻
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...
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
Great to see people who are restoring proper British engineering,, man here in northern Ireland has a few old trucks,, restored a scammel explorer 6x6 tank recovery,truck 10,5 litre rolls royce petrol,,,, liking this channel,, ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🚚🚚🚚🚚
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!
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!!
Great to see you messing around with proper engines I grew up around aec Ford coaches I still drive coaches have class one driven seddon Atkinson twin Eaton split you drove then nowadays you just aim and go keep it up lads great to see this
Thankyou for showing the matador engine, using the chance to show a good and bad engine with help needed. Providing a demonstration of testing in all its forms .... I will look forward to what you find out , inspecting the parts, well done 👍
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.
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.
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.
Loved it, did my time on AECs in the 70s, 7.7, 470, 505, and 760s they used them as they always started to tow start all the others with Perkins or Bedford's in the morning. The 7.7 and the 470 ran nice but you needed sandwiches and a thermos to go any were, soo slow. I remember the deluxe 5 speed with overdrive that would not pull the over drive gear unless you were empty. Good days changing clutches on the A4 on the side of the road. I remember the first tilt cab 505 that used to tip its cab going down the road when you applied the brakes.
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.
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!!
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!
Brilliant loved to see the matadors I worked for a tree surgeon in Cambridgeshire back in the 80s they were so strong my boss really looked after his always wondered what happened to it right beast to drive. Anything you try you will always get me watching what you are up to mucker👍
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.
Superb vid as always. Used various things over the years to get things to fire up. Hair spray lighter fuel brake cleaner etc most things you find in a workshop will burn
Thanks for the video, Looks like there is a descriptive word for that engine beginning with f and ending with d to sum up it's condition. Yeah shove the ford engine video up that will be interesting.. It's funny you say about the matador running with the pump 180 out. I helped a buddy with his major puller , we put a newer ford 6 in it after an explosion and put a re machined timing gear on for his original huge Bosch P series/no govenor full fuel deal to run unlimited pro stock "rev limit being internal parts not staying inside the block rules" basically ! The guy that did the machining got the key groove 180 from the original timing mark. We missed it fitting the pump in a rush one night, she ran like that with so much fuel going in, it just didn't start so well. One of my 2704'ET's had the fuel aneroid on for the turbo. I figured it didn't smoke enough in my major so pulled that junk off and threw it under the bench. Oh $#!t she smoked then L.O.L. My shops 50x50 with 10x 300w lights in ,it filled the place so full of black smoke after 2 minutes you couldn't see the light were on !. Take care.
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.
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
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.
Lord Muck another great vid ,Thanks for the Mugs and stickers they top notch , One problem lady Muck would love a Lady Muck mug could add it to the range
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 😉
@@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.
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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
Happy days 👍
I'm perfectly happy to watch you guys buggering about. More entertaining than the crap on tv, that's for sure.
If in doubt “ double can the bastard” excellent
worst thing you could do in the 70's once easy start 's been used it needs to be used more and more.
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.
I only use rendered skunk fat for starting engines; highly flammable, totally safe, and it smells like fresh cut hay...
Jake Paul sent me some of his own brand aftershave...
@@LordMuck easy now, you'll end up in the ring with him. Lol
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
AEC matadors are built to last forever. loved the vid mucker
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.
Guy Fuller 😂😂😂
"This isn't a rebuild in a can." I haven't laughed so hard in weeks
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 👍🏻
As an ex gunner.... lovely to see these old motors preserved😎👍🏼well done youth😂💪🏼
Yes, definitely want to see you run the tractor on various things, the smokier the better!
How DARE you!!!
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...
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
Too right I want to see you start an engine with various “fuels”
Loved the vid. Had me in stitches when you were getting smoked out.Would be good to see different fluids tried.
Yes would love to see what an engine will run on
The genuine love between a man and his dog cannot be beaten....
Eyup Mucker. Saunders brought me here. Not a truck driver, but love these old trucks. Favourites being AEC Matadors, Militant, or any old Scammell
That engine was so clean I thought it was a rebuild and wouldn't start. i didn't realise it was knackered haha.
Brake and Clutch cleaner is demon for getting engines started! And yes let’s see what you can squirt in it 👍🏻
As biker myself that ducati 916 in background spoilt the moment 😁😁👍
Great to see people who are restoring proper British engineering,, man here in northern Ireland has a few old trucks,, restored a scammel explorer 6x6 tank recovery,truck 10,5 litre rolls royce petrol,,,, liking this channel,, ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🚚🚚🚚🚚
This is a lot of fun. Thats what you get with getting going old engines.....Fun!
Love this video, old is gold 👌
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!
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!!
Yes to the engine starting fluids.
Yes would like to see you messing about with the engine, love the channel your comments make laugh
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.
Good luck with the engine. It's slways good to see people taking the trouble to save hisoric vehiclrs.
I'm fine with watching whatever shenanigans you post. 👌🍻
Good wholesome fun right there! Brought back some good memories smoking the shed out. Top marks.
Great to see you messing around with proper engines I grew up around aec Ford coaches I still drive coaches have class one driven seddon Atkinson twin Eaton split you drove then nowadays you just aim and go keep it up lads great to see this
Thankyou for showing the matador engine, using the chance to show a good and bad engine with help needed. Providing a demonstration of testing in all its forms .... I will look forward to what you find out , inspecting the parts, well done 👍
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.
Yes all you video are good
As an owner of a’ fairly’ tidy Matador
I thoroughly enjoy that
Brilliant 👍
Double can the bar steward 😂😂......
Awesome 😎
Bit windy 🌬 near the end,should of fired up on vapours lol...👌😆
More entertaining than some of the programmes on TV 👍
Just love the way you tickle trout! Like shelling peas , you draw them in like Ali , then sting like a 🐝 brilliant , first class mucker
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
Aww love those two lorries @20.00. Looking at the green one its even got its own nose bag in case it gets a little hungry.
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.
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.
Loved it, did my time on AECs in the 70s, 7.7, 470, 505, and 760s they used them as they always started to tow start all the others with Perkins or Bedford's in the morning. The 7.7 and the 470 ran nice but you needed sandwiches and a thermos to go any were, soo slow. I remember the deluxe 5 speed with overdrive that would not pull the over drive gear unless you were empty. Good days changing clutches on the A4 on the side of the road. I remember the first tilt cab 505 that used to tip its cab going down the road when you applied the brakes.
Yes to the “Will it run on any old wank” video. Thanks Mucker 👍🏻
It was cold morning no where near power to plug it in thought I would try either anyway a lesson was learned thanks
It's fine to use Russell, just not too much too often
In the TA centre in the 50s and 60s we had 4 sets of these with the 5.5 inch howitzer's towed behind them.
This happen when `the kid `inside us take over :-) Goodigoodi !
One of the best episodes yet 👍🏻
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.
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!!
Let's see what happens 👍
I had great memories of my old dad who used to called a blowtorch a blowlamp bless him. 👍
The proper blowlamps were the big ones run on paraffin.
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!
This is a awsome video again. I was in stitches when it fired and filled the room with smoke. Brilliant video
Lynx should start a bloody engine it burns everything else 💥
Yes be great to see engine played with on different starter mixes...... 👍👍👍👍
Hi Lord Muck, YES! We want to watch you and the old Fudweasel working on the engine. Thanks.
Brilliant loved to see the matadors I worked for a tree surgeon in Cambridgeshire back in the 80s they were so strong my boss really looked after his always wondered what happened to it right beast to drive. Anything you try you will always get me watching what you are up to mucker👍
We as a family have a few AEC’s, (mammoth majors and a mercury) they always run on the first crank every time. Brilliant engines and brilliant trucks.
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.
Brill I love the old matadors ,how about trying lynx Africa to start the Ford engine ..
Absolutely! See what that had boy actually WILL run on. I love videos like that.👍😁
Just what I needed today bloody good laugh thanks Lord muck
Love to see that your mate over the water has done it and it funny as to watch cool video the matodor looks like a right beast of a machine
We have one matador in the tank museum in Belgium ,it runs and is in great cheap.
Feed it cooking spray if you have it there. Also those old trucks look fantastic the log hauler. Keep making the videos and I'll stay tuned
So interesting ...thanks guys !
You know what I wanna come out and see you two
Holy smoke , a great will it start video . Lovely bit if history on the AEC 👍.
Another great video! Yes for the engine video.
Another brilliant post thanks.
Lots of fun. Suggestion put a box fan in the window to draw out the exhaust as well as a piping out the exhaust pipe.
It's not as if we are stood in there for hours and the door was open.
Also great website, I get a reminder and watch it as soon as possible, makes my day.
Looks like you could do with a Detroit powered exhaust fume extractor 😂. See how well the engine runs on cheap vodka.
Great vid mate very funny keep them coming please
Superb vid as always.
Used various things over the years to get things to fire up.
Hair spray lighter fuel brake cleaner etc most things you find in a workshop will burn
Thanks for the ether break down. Mom was a school bus driver and She used it but didn’t know why it worked.
Of course we do want to watch that engine start with various fuels and methods of starting 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for the video, Looks like there is a descriptive word for that engine beginning with f and ending with d to sum up it's condition. Yeah shove the ford engine video up that will be interesting.. It's funny you say about the matador running with the pump 180 out. I helped a buddy with his major puller , we put a newer ford 6 in it after an explosion and put a re machined timing gear on for his original huge Bosch P series/no govenor full fuel deal to run unlimited pro stock "rev limit being internal parts not staying inside the block rules" basically !
The guy that did the machining got the key groove 180 from the original timing mark. We missed it fitting the pump in a rush one night, she ran like that with so much fuel going in, it just didn't start so well. One of my 2704'ET's had the fuel aneroid on for the turbo. I figured it didn't smoke enough in my major so pulled that junk off and threw it under the bench. Oh $#!t she smoked then L.O.L. My shops 50x50 with 10x 300w lights in ,it filled the place so full of black smoke after 2 minutes you couldn't see the light were on !. Take care.
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.
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
@@LordMuckYeah great old stories both of my great grandads did actually one in El Alamein Egypt one in Greece and Italy.
The matador was a great timber tractor Enjoyed the video cheers 👍🌲🌲🌲
There is an air of invincibility about old british diesel's, proper stuff with a glorious smell.
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.
Love the old trucks even the Duke in the corner as for ur seating arrangement health & safety at its best lol engine start vodka yessss
I like the idea of going through the optics with an engine. Cheers
Go for it mucker,what a bloody good idea love to see what it’ll run on. Stay safe 👍👍🚜🚜
Good job. Love the real fault finding with no computers 😆. Stay safe 🏴
Brilliant, I thought Matt had let go a 2nd hand vindaloo!
Much appreciated. Ian.
Nice video the other video idea sounds good Thanks
Lord Muck another great vid ,Thanks for the Mugs and stickers they top notch , One problem lady Muck would love a Lady Muck mug could add it to the range
Glad you like them
Love the tee shirt and mug cheers
Look forward to the spray and go
Good stuff Rodney glad you got it 👍
I am jumping the Cummins swap band wagon, I am now a fan of the Matador. ;)
Double canning then leg it out side . Fabulous vid 👍
I was amazed with the cold start. Some engine. Class 👍
What a collection 🤪 wow. I will have one someday 👍🏻
Great craic that vid. Looking forward to the next one. I used cárb cleaner once to get an engine started. Did the trick, 👍
Love those old engine
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!
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 😉
Exaaaaaactly 😎👌🏼
@@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.
Awesome Vid, Love the old AEC's. Good banter with your mate 👍 Cheers.