Fair to say, along with his previous experience, by working on all these very rare, historical engines and systems Steve is building himself a skillset and knowledge base that very few people in the world have.
Coming in at "0 dark hundred" (before others arrive) to show the spark... priceless and what we've all come to expect and enjoy from the personal of Aus Armour; kudos Steve et al
Not only a bonus video for the week. But a gear head type to boot. That was both informative for those who don't know about such things. But also provided great visuals for those who do to just enjoy looking at a rare engine from ww2. That the general public will never see the inside of in person.
F1 technicians are not allowed to think just change the parts as Engineers make all the decisions, WRC Rally teams however really need Techs who can think outside the square and on the fly to keep them in the events.
While breaker points do take some maintenance compared to the modern electronic counterparts, a spare set in the glove box with a screwdriver meant that almost no matter what you could get the engine running out on the road where today you call the tow truck. Years ago I went for a ride in an old boat on a river in New Jersey and after running a while the engine shut off. Problem was we were in the middle and flowing toward a dam...so it was a problem. Engine was an old Buick and I popped the distributor cap, saw that the points were burned, cleaned them with sandpaper from a book of matches and got us running again before we went over the dam. It's great to understand how things work...might just save your life.
I still remember getting stranded cars going again by borrowing a girlfriend's emery board or rubbing them on the flat side of a concrete lamppost. Advising them to change points and condenser. A get you home tactic not available to modern cars with a module for everything.
Many years ago when I had a Holden with a Chevy V8 and was towing a boat up a steep hill in the dark the engine cut out. Lifted the bonnet and immediately saw that the distributor had spun round away from its normal position. Got out my tools, among which was a 12V lamp with crocodile clips - used that to retime the distributor to the mark on the engine pulley, clamped the distributor nice and tight and away we drove again.
Kurt thank you for the awesome fix it Friday with Steve. Love his calm demeanor and explanation on what he is doing. I would have had a few curse words for sure. Have a great weekend.
The tracks hold a semi liquid grease and there’s a reservoir chamber within the track horn. The track links are fitted with special needle roller bearings with oil seals on either side of each needle roller bearing to prevent the semi liquid grease leaking out. My brother and I rebuilt the basic engine block and cylinder head for this halftrack when it was restored in the UK. All of the cylinder head valve gear rockers had new bronze valve clearance adjusters made along with new overhead camshaft rocker roller bearing pins made . It also had new inlet and exhaust vales with new guides fitted. All the con Rod and main bearings in the engine were re-white metalled and re-machined to fit the newly ground crankshaft . As the engine has wet cylinder liners, new ones were manufactured fitted along with the pistons and rings. All of the insides of Maybach were painted with a high temperature oil resistant paint . We think that the reason for this was due to the porosity of the Maybach castings and this was a way of sealing the internals of the engine.
Delighted to see the engine wizard working his magic. Who else knows how to adjust a magneto that's 80yo...? That sound when the motor starts - when I'm near death, will bring my spirits back again ....
Jack Bradham ‘s first racing car had one of these Maybach donks in his first GP race car, which he aquired post war surplus and came from a captured 251 which was shipped to Oz, then stripped for tech examination. Cheers.
Just a little off topic in a way, but I'm feeding the algorithm with comments so here goes, LoL Another of your videos Beau was cutting up small pieces of battle damaged panzer armour. My thoughts to make revenue for the museum would be to cut up small square pieces of the armour and sell it as paper weights or something like that. I imagine it's pretty rare for people to be able to get ahold of WW2 German tank parts with battle damage! I've seen Beau cut off pretty good sized slices of armor to clean up the mating surfaces,one inch square pieces of American or Australian, German history in chunks at say $10 a piece in the gift shop I'd think will be a good bit of history to take home and display or on the desk at work. Thanks again guys!👍
That is exactly the same process I go through to time the magneto on my 1929 4 cylinder car. I am surprised that a mechanic from the somewhat younger generation knows how to do this. Well done. I always enjoy the videos from Steve.
Steve's explanations make me feel like I could do this myself. That's the mark of a great teacher. Tops stuff. Thanks! P.S. That engine is bloody beautiful.
Having played with bevel drive valve gear on a Ducati and magnetos on an old Norton I really appreciate what Steve achieved here. It is not nearly as easy as he makes it look. Thanks for yet another great video.
If only there existed a catalog of each and every vehicle at Aus Armour with detailed photos of each. I would certainly purchase one and perhaps purchase one for all of my likeminded friends as gifts.
Love these bonus video's. As an electronics tech one thing I come across is leaky capacitors, not leaking gunk, but leaky electrically. On some vintage capacitors the insulation breaks down or you get moisture ingress, the capacitor then leaks current. This may effect sparking on vintage vehicles.
Old German stuff has the peculiarity that when they just slide smoothly together, everything is lined up and properly adjusted. The slightest deviation from the tolerance and everything gets tangled, they don't want to fit together. When the magnet jumped into place by itself, I thought it would run like clockwork. Nice job as usual.
Watching a Master Mechanic at work from the other side of the planet. Love the dry wit from Steve " Steering Wheel definitely at an unergonomic angle"😉👍🏼 These Maybach engines look so very advanced for their time, I wonder how many running examples are out there?
The steering miracle is in the drive gearbox. It is complicated and very specialized. I've seen the application of this technology in other places that required change of speed of separate drive sprocket with only one power input shaft. Those gear boxes were called PIV. You got to take one of those apart. I'd love to see the guts of it...
This reminds me of my old Car 40 years ago! I didn't know how to fix it... But I tried!!! I eventually figured it out. And I'll bet there's many younger people that have no clue what Points are for!
Great video. Awesome watching someone who knows their stuff this well at work. Those Maybach caps on the various bolts are so cool - this was the luxury FlaK chariot apparently. 😉
After watching this and AW Hewes channel and doing this process for the twin magnetos on a V12 Meteor engine, we need to have more respect for the mechanics of 80 years ago.
Plenty of videos on youtube if you want to see more. They're popular with reenactors and collectors since they're a hell of a lot cheaper to keep running than a tank and a lot were surplused after the war.
Your museum has more Air Defense capability than the Canadian Armed Forces at the moment! Great video. I can only imagine the responsibility weighing on everyone on how unreplaceable many of the parts are.
Steve is a wizard. I love watching him work. He sure knows his stuff.
Fair to say, along with his previous experience, by working on all these very rare, historical engines and systems Steve is building himself a skillset and knowledge base that very few people in the world have.
Coming in at "0 dark hundred" (before others arrive) to show the spark... priceless and what we've all come to expect and enjoy from the personal of Aus Armour; kudos Steve et al
Love how Steve explains what he's doing. What a great teacher.
Not only a bonus video for the week. But a gear head type to boot. That was both informative for those who don't know about such things. But also provided great visuals for those who do to just enjoy looking at a rare engine from ww2. That the general public will never see the inside of in person.
I have nothing but respect for you guys, there are probably F1 mechanics who would envy your knowledge, skill, and patience.
F1 technicians are not allowed to think just change the parts as Engineers make all the decisions, WRC Rally teams however really need Techs who can think outside the square and on the fly to keep them in the events.
How many folks on hear remember the good old days of adjusting a set of points on an engine.
While breaker points do take some maintenance compared to the modern electronic counterparts, a spare set in the glove box with a screwdriver meant that almost no matter what you could get the engine running out on the road where today you call the tow truck.
Years ago I went for a ride in an old boat on a river in New Jersey and after running a while the engine shut off. Problem was we were in the middle and flowing toward a dam...so it was a problem. Engine was an old Buick and I popped the distributor cap, saw that the points were burned, cleaned them with sandpaper from a book of matches and got us running again before we went over the dam. It's great to understand how things work...might just save your life.
I still remember getting stranded cars going again by borrowing a girlfriend's emery board or rubbing them on the flat side of a concrete lamppost. Advising them to change points and condenser. A get you home tactic not available to modern cars with a module for everything.
@@dukwdriver2909 always found a match box was always good to have handy
Yep. Cracked point covers meant no sparks and you could remove the arm to disable you vehicle 😊
Many years ago when I had a Holden with a Chevy V8 and was towing a boat up a steep hill in the dark the engine cut out. Lifted the bonnet and immediately saw that the distributor had spun round away from its normal position. Got out my tools, among which was a 12V lamp with crocodile clips - used that to retime the distributor to the mark on the engine pulley, clamped the distributor nice and tight and away we drove again.
Love the content, I think videos of Steve doing work on these vehicles is honestly important to document
the engineering from back then is truely amazing
Hats off to the one who keeps Steve’s yellow shirt tidy and neat.
Thanks Steve for our Friday Fix.
Kurt thank you for the awesome fix it Friday with Steve. Love his calm demeanor and explanation on what he is doing. I would have had a few curse words for sure. Have a great weekend.
The tracks hold a semi liquid grease and there’s a reservoir chamber within the track horn.
The track links are fitted with special needle roller bearings with oil seals on either side of each needle roller bearing to prevent the semi liquid grease leaking out.
My brother and I rebuilt the basic engine block and cylinder head for this halftrack when it was restored in the UK.
All of the cylinder head valve gear rockers had new bronze valve clearance adjusters made along with new overhead camshaft rocker roller bearing pins made .
It also had new inlet and exhaust vales with new guides fitted.
All the con Rod and main bearings in the engine were re-white metalled and re-machined to fit the newly ground crankshaft .
As the engine has wet cylinder liners, new ones were manufactured fitted along with the pistons and rings.
All of the insides of Maybach were painted with a high temperature oil resistant paint .
We think that the reason for this was due to the porosity of the Maybach castings and this was a way of sealing the internals of the engine.
Delighted to see the engine wizard working his magic.
Who else knows how to adjust a magneto that's 80yo...?
That sound when the motor starts - when I'm near death, will bring my spirits back again ....
Plenty of people do, nothing he's doing here is rocket science and there's decades of reference material available
The MASTER at work, marvelous sounds of working engine.
Jack Bradham ‘s first racing car had one of these Maybach donks in his first GP race car, which he aquired post war surplus and came from a captured 251 which was shipped to Oz, then stripped for tech examination. Cheers.
Fixin' it Friday is a new thing. Love it. The Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251 is a legendary vehicle.
Just a little off topic in a way, but I'm feeding the algorithm with comments so here goes, LoL
Another of your videos Beau was cutting up small pieces of battle damaged panzer armour. My thoughts to make revenue for the museum would be to cut up small square pieces of the armour and sell it as paper weights or something like that.
I imagine it's pretty rare for people to be able to get ahold of WW2 German tank parts with battle damage!
I've seen Beau cut off pretty good sized slices of armor to clean up the mating surfaces,one inch square pieces of American or Australian, German history in chunks at say $10 a piece in the gift shop I'd think will be a good bit of history to take home and display or on the desk at work. Thanks again guys!👍
That is exactly the same process I go through to time the magneto on my 1929 4 cylinder car. I am surprised that a mechanic from the somewhat younger generation knows how to do this. Well done. I always enjoy the videos from Steve.
How are you surprised? Have you seen the things Steve works on.
Why would you think that a highly skilled mechanic from a 'younger generation' wouldn't be able to do this? It's not rocket science
@@lastguy8613 Yes not rocket science but a lost art. Mechanics these days are lost of there is no OBD port available. Steve is exceptional.
Well done. A mechanics life - dexterity and persistence. Great work.
Friday bonus day!!!!
- = Welcome to bonus video Friday = -
Awesome!! What a wonderful surprise! 👍👍😊
Whist out the front of the museum testing it, Steve should've taken it for a Maccas run around the corner.
I didn't understand a bit of that but watching Steve work is amazing
What a wonderful old machine, and that engine is beautiful. 🙂
I am amazed at how knowledgeable Steve is about engines. He truly is a wizard and very fun to watch work.
Steve's explanations make me feel like I could do this myself. That's the mark of a great teacher. Tops stuff. Thanks!
P.S. That engine is bloody beautiful.
The thing I like about this site is that everyone knows what they are talking about
That halftrack engine sound is so soothing!
Epic Steve, used to work with magnetos on aeroplanes, so it was fun, Thanks!!!
I'm no gearhead but these are fascinating to watch and learn how much work & expertise is needed to keep these vehicles running!
Having played with bevel drive valve gear on a Ducati and magnetos on an old Norton I really appreciate what Steve achieved here. It is not nearly as easy as he makes it look. Thanks for yet another great video.
Oh what a wonderful treat a long clip on Friday wonderful
Great video with super content. Steve is terrific at working out the details, so it starts immediately. Thanks
What a treat! Those engines are just a jewel
You have the coolest 😎 job in the world 👍
Love these How To Fix videos on these classic machines.
Tank you for a extra tank fix that just gives one spark to better carry on the day!
I didn't understand much of the 'Mech - talk' but it must be so satisfying to get this artifact running again. WELL DONE GUYS.
Always an outstanding video and presentation. Great work Steve.
GREAT BONUS VIDEO .... Thank You .... I was born in 1957, this stuff is so close
Hard to believe that cylinder head was 80 years old! Beautiful. Great job as ever, folks. 🎉
If only there existed a catalog of each and every vehicle at Aus Armour with detailed photos of each. I would certainly purchase one and perhaps purchase one for all of my likeminded friends as gifts.
Great work by Steve. Love the engine, at a time when cars were running side valves and the like!
You`re a legend mate.
Amazing work Steve, a great asset to the museum. I do not miss the days of setting points!
That engine is pretty cool
And so clean inside
Amazing display of knowledge! “Too easy”? Magic hands. Thanks for the video.
Love these bonus video's. As an electronics tech one thing I come across is leaky capacitors, not leaking gunk, but leaky electrically. On some vintage capacitors the insulation breaks down or you get moisture ingress, the capacitor then leaks current. This may effect sparking on vintage vehicles.
The gift that keeps on giving.
Old German stuff has the peculiarity that when they just slide smoothly together, everything is lined up and properly adjusted. The slightest deviation from the tolerance and everything gets tangled, they don't want to fit together. When the magnet jumped into place by itself, I thought it would run like clockwork. Nice job as usual.
Love your channel ❤️ it'll be appreciated if there'd be a "bonus video" every week 😁
A great masterclass in magneto ignition
Holy Hanna that engine practically looks new! TGIF for bonus videos.
Thanks!
Thanks David! How generous!
Watching a Master Mechanic at work from the other side of the planet.
Love the dry wit from Steve " Steering Wheel definitely at an unergonomic angle"😉👍🏼
These Maybach engines look so very advanced for their time, I wonder how many running examples are out there?
Another fantastic video and I also love hearing from Steve on what he is actually doing. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Yes! Please keep the extras coming.
Steve is magical!
The steering miracle is in the drive gearbox. It is complicated and very specialized. I've seen the application of this technology in other places that required change of speed of separate drive sprocket with only one power input shaft. Those gear boxes were called PIV. You got to take one of those apart. I'd love to see the guts of it...
What a magnificent vehicle - I couldn't guess at the value of such a survivor - Maybach and Bosch equipped - astonishing . . Fascinating video . .
Love seeing a master mechanic at work
I bet you Steve would make an exellent teacher!. Great stuff.
Purring like a kitten lol. Amazing video Steve.
Yet another exceedingly cool video, Steve!
As always Steve has done a great job! I really enjoyed it! I couldn't mind to drive it home 😅😅
Awesome vehicle to see driving around
A true professional
Excellent work Steve! Nice camera angles!
That is fantastic, great explanation of what you were checking. Charles
What a beauty!
Magnificent German engineering.
Great episode. Thanks.
Thanks for the bonus video Kurt!!! It made my morning coffee taste even better!!!! 😃👍🏻🤪
Master Class Friday with Professor Steve!
This reminds me of my old Car 40 years ago! I didn't know how to fix it... But I tried!!! I eventually figured it out. And I'll bet there's many younger people that have no clue what Points are for!
Fantastic video. Love these tinkering with Steve videos.
great job and dare i say a very pretty example for the Aus collection
Kurt, you're spoiling us mate!!! But I am not complaining!!! Nice one.
On the button! Steve, You beauty!
Great video. Awesome watching someone who knows their stuff this well at work. Those Maybach caps on the various bolts are so cool - this was the luxury FlaK chariot apparently. 😉
A master class sir. Many thanks.
Fantastic. Kicked in first time too .. must have done something right 😉
Absolutely brilliant, once again!
After watching this and AW Hewes channel and doing this process for the twin magnetos on a V12 Meteor engine, we need to have more respect for the mechanics of 80 years ago.
Love ya work. What a gem to have in the collection.
Beautiful engine!
Its missing the starterfluid container (anlass kraftstoff) they are easy to find here in the eu, hope it will have one once again
Watching at expert work , it look's so easy !!!
He’s done it again 😊
Fixin Friday, perfect!
Yeah, the best intern is back! 🙂
that sounds so sweet well done
1st time I've seen any half track moving under it's own power moreover with it's original or original type of engine.
Plenty of videos on youtube if you want to see more.
They're popular with reenactors and collectors since they're a hell of a lot cheaper to keep running than a tank and a lot were surplused after the war.
Your museum has more Air Defense capability than the Canadian Armed Forces at the moment! Great video. I can only imagine the responsibility weighing on everyone on how unreplaceable many of the parts are.
That Maybach HL 42 engine really is beautifully engineered
Making even servicing a magneto fascinating!
Great bonus, not that any of the team don’t do cracking videos! 😀
Wow, started right up and sounds great. Nice job team. Lubing every track pad sounds like not fun. Thanks for another great video.
Very cool piece of history Thanks
I like “Flak Fridays” can we have “Tiger Tuesday” next week? 😂😂 😂 Great video thanks everyone involved.
Great video, what a beautiful engine. Great job Steve