For any who have not watched the Croatia trip it is a must - from start to finish. In my humble opinion the greatest of all of Ian's sagas with an air of manic lunacy and just do it that warms the cockles of your heart. I watched it all with huge anticipation and delight every episode. Pure magic.
Such simplicity, little wonder the 2CV was so effective a car across so many climates. Be that as it may I'll choose my W126 Benz for a long distance trip any day 😂😂
This has been one of the most interesting videos I've watched in a long time - please Ian, don't leave it too long before you fit this to Elly as I'm sure many people are eager to see what this 'new' engine is like!
Hi Mr Hubnut, David from Tasmania here again. A hint to make your life easier, and a bit cleaner. For the last 50 years that I have been working on older cars, especially engines, i have always thoroughly cleaned/degreased them before doing anything. If the motor is in the car, clean it in there before removing it. In the case of your 2CV engine, a trip outside, drown it in degreaser, wait a while, hose it off, and bingo you have a sparkly (?) clean engine to work on. It is much nicer, and probably safer, to do so. I do this for everything. I noticed yesterday watching you replace Ellys exhaust hanger. By the time you had it taken apart your fingers were a black greasy mess. This also helps keep tools and work spaces a lot cleaner. I will now carry on watching the rest of the video. Can't wait to see the internals. Cheers, David (Hillman Imp GT - Hillman Husky - Wolseley 24/80 - six cylinder)
And another bonus is, that on completion of your fantastic rebuild, it is very easy to spot any oil leaks that shouldn't be there. Yet another thing that i do, is to thread clean all the bolts I take out. I have an 8" wire wheel on my bench grinder. A quick whizz around of the bolt, and hey presto, a clean thread ready to go back to work. Only takes a couple of minutes to do all the bolts, but can save more than that when rebuilding.
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Yes, used engine oil is carcinogenic. It should never come into contact with your skin.
I'd definitely have a modified office chair that you can adjust for height but I'm alot older than Colin 😢 Also I do tend to ponder as I go and the radio is usually on... tea isn't far away either 🤗
@@terryatkinson899 When I worked in China the fitters preferred to work on a clean floor and they would either crouch down or sit on the floor to work - they couldn't drop anything on their feet !
@ianmontgomery7534 well, let's just say they're not built like us.... more substantial around the middle and taller😁 When you get older you'll realise you can't be crawling about on the floor 😢
@@terryatkinson899 I'm 69 and I still manage to do gardening etc on my knees. I guess it will catch up with me eventually. We had a lot of tall Chinese working for us - they came from Northern China where people tend to be a lot taller than those from down south.
Loved this video. It is so satisfying seeing an engine being dismantled and faults found. Almost as satisfying as seeing it being rebuilt. I think there is room for a UA-cam channel just showing engines being taken apart and rebuilt!
Absolutely brilliant video Ian ❤👍well done Colin for the repair absolutely brilliant bit of engineering can't wait to see the final when the engine is in brilliant
Gosh Ian your friend was so lucky you were there to help 😂, could never have done it on his own , your technical skills were immeasurable and second to none, WELL DONE that man !! Not you Ian 😂 your friend lol 😂, all very HUBNUT 😉👌🏻.
@@johnbee7729 Yes but I didn’t see Ian make 1 cup of tea ☕️? Most important job for a third hand 🤚 but yeah agree Colin could never have done it without Hubnut ingenuity and know how .
What a fantastic video! Great to see Ellie being brought back........Colin is an absolute hero. Loved watching this and seeing his formidable knowledge and skills being deployed on such a worthy HubNut car.
A great video Ian and Colin. It's great to see how these engines come apart and what to look out for when putting them back together. A really simple engine that reminds me somewhat of the venerable Honda CG125 bike engine that was also push rod with a single cam shaft (actually a single cam lobe if I recall correctly). I look forward to the installation video at some point in the future. Many thanks for sharing.
7:38 a friend of mine is a massive advocate for lightened flywheels and usually does them to his cars himself. Thankfully, he does the job properly and has never had one 'let go', which is a prospect I always find terrifying.
I have never really understood lightened flywheels.Yes they pick up more quickly but the inertia of the crank is compromised heavily.Good for a quick sprint but as I have always said.If they are so good why were they not used on standard production engines.?
@@HowardLeVert Also its the integral strength of the flyweel that ultimately transmits all the power from the crank through the clutch which is a huge transfer of inertia.If the flywheel is too light it can as you suggested "let go" which will desroy the bell housing like paper and the gearbox.But my point remains on any four stroke engine its the heavy flywheel that carrys the crank through the cylinders when they are on their exhaust stroke.
A much lightened(standard) mini flywheel exploding I'd very scary, and considering it's in line with your feet when in a right hand drive car, can be catastrophic! 30 plus years ago Farndon engineering ultra light weight steel flywheels were the dogs.Still have one being used in a Metro turbo engined mini.
Fantastic bit of Lunchtime Tinkering watching the engine being dismantled and being rebuilt. Looking forward to see Colin and his Austin 7 at Rustival.
Watch and learn, Ian, especially as Colin has his placement of washers and screws and the lot down pat: neatly in separate receptacles. He also has a tidy and quite roomy workspace, not actually that much bigger than yours (but it does seem to be, thanks to the total lack of detritus, car body parts, empty cans of BDX etc.). I always experience vicarious pangs of anguish seeing you put washers, circlips, screws, bolts and whatever, mostly very near to or in the actual place you're tinkering, often accidentally pushing them down workbenches, door gaps, engine bays ... Miss HubNut would heartily concur with my assessment, I'm sure ;)
Fascinating stuff. I'm fascinated by the 2CV, and being as they're scarce here in the US, I'm grateful for your Elly adventures. Sort of fun to think that that tiny little powerplant could throw you down the Autobahn at 80. But again, the 2CV is a pretty fascinating little machine!
Thanks. Don't recall any problem fitting pistons to the cylinders, but it was a 400 something, no filter, centrifugal clutch and a generator on the crank end. New crank & cooler came in a nice form fitted styrofoam box.
I really enjoyed seeing both the stripdown and the rebuild. The 2cv engine is a really remarkable thing. I believe that the crankshaft assembly could be returned to Citroen for refurbishment when the 2cv was still being made.
Ah always good to see someone who knows and can perform 🤣the task with all of the usual dexterity a true professional has.. Thankyou Colin !! This was a pleasure to watch ! I've stripped a few in my time.. ENGINES!!! 🤣I hope 'Mr Bodgeit' once again realised that there are those who are true 'professionals' !
I do love fettling All that was missing Few Hubnut under the swear from banged fingers scraped this and that.But we saved the expense of broken things. Can't Wait for Elllys first road test with the newer engine. And child noises of the driver because of thrill.
Wow brilliant...that is one of best video's I have ever watched on HubNut Ian and I have been subcribed for a good few years. Absolutely fascinating, I am a bit of a home mechanic myself, self taught through the 70's and 80's trying to keep the various family Cortins's, Montego's, Vauxhalls on the road. The scariest job I did on my own was changing a front shock on a Montego in the early 80's and hiring a "spring compressor". Anyway GREAT content and thanks.
I remember removing the manifolds on my old 40 Horse VW engine. Every single bolt came out bringing most of the aluminium threads with it. The rebuilder must have been an arm wrestling champion.
Fantastic video! Was really looking forward to this one. Great to see the Morgan too - One of my best motorsport memories is seeing one of those at a VSCC Meeting at Silverstone in the early 90s dicing with a Napier Bentley. We clocked them at 81mph average, and the Napier only won because of the length of the start finish straight. The Morgan was much quicker through the corners.
Maybe you should add some exhaust ports in the door, so the door can be closed. I did, to the door in my shop. I used random stuff I found in scrap piles, so the price was right. It's nice in winter, and redirects most noise outside.
I am in Melbourne and yesterday I saw a beautiful Austin 7 being driven on main roads near me. I thought there may have been a car show nearby but couldn't find any info on any. A good informative video!
It's a fearsome road car, weighs nothing & has an incredible amount of torque, it's fast enough to frighten most people (even me). The squidgy bit behind the steering wheel gives up long before the car, I got scared at 90mph & it's geared to do over 120.
Having yesterday watched Steph from I drive a classic fit an MGC 6 cylinder engine into their car and today compounded the experience by watching two oily men dissemble an even oilier 2 cylinder engine, I am wondering just why I watch these things, but I do.
Great video, thanks guys! I'm currently rebuilding my top end and it's reassuring to know that a certain amount of violence is acceptable. There's a degree of tourettes trying to get the valve springs and collets back in situ but that's probably down to my inexperience and crappy cheap spring compressor. Hey ho, I'll have another go in the morning
It sounds like Colin has worked on 2CV engines before, all the details he mentions that you should take into account. Nice that Elly gets her "original" engine back.
It's not her original engine sadly. That was stripped for spares some years ago. We've put the 652 kit I fitted in 2019 to one of Colin's spare crankcases.
I remember the moment when exactly that engine started making some odd noices now and then. I remember very well also when this one was put in Elly before the Croatia trip. You had a test run on which you went for an ice cream, if I remember well. Nice to see you getting on with it.
That was a trip down memorylane. I'm in the category of "homeschooled mechanics". 2CV goes wrong - a lot. Armed with my toolbox, Haynes and a repairguide made by my Citroen club. Every page was in a plasticcover. Clever coming to dirty fingers. I still got my Haynes and it's filled with black fingerprints ❤️'ly 😃
Way back in 1989, I heard from a friend of a friend who's parent's had some property with a ripple bonnet Truckette that was moldering into the fertile soil of Western Oregon. They wanted it gone. It was free, I was driving my '65 SAAB wagon at the time and was going on weekend mid winter junkets of 120 miles round trip to attempt to see if it could be towed or driven home. It was a real lost cause, the body was 50% rust flakes and the engine, although turning freely, would only rotate about 150 or so degrees. They wanted it all gone and I had no place to store the remains and less sources for the rare little 11 HP(?) engine. I had some dingbat idea of just rescuing the engine and transmission and making it power an older bull nose SAAB Wagon as a junkyard tractor for my friend's SAAB shop. Young adult pipe dreams.
Great stuff, thanks for that. I can now mark off my bucket list the innards of a 2CV. The coil suspension Ian has shown us many years ago. Re the crankshaft, some motorbike engines have a pressed fit crankshaft and they can be repaired, but I suppose it would be expensive coz it does require knowledge and special machinery.
Its looking a bit chilly in Wales! I've just added a BA XR6 ute to my fleet! I'm also looking at a Leyland Princess which a friend's dad is looking to part with, as the suspension isn't working properly and has him completely baffled.
Amazing how similar they are to a VW Beetle engine - sort of a 'half' one. Best designs though - no ridiculous cam chains to fail and knacker the engine.
I love the old 2cv’s, but in the United States they are hard to find. A friend of mine imported one out of Canada and he drove it for many years. His didn’t have any options, not even roll up windows(did they even have roll up windows). The ride was surprisingly good but it was too slow to get on the highway.
Hello Colin & Ian, very interesting and enjoyable in seeing the engine being taken apart, just two questions from an "mature mechanic" first, how about giving the engine that is being worked up a good clean, and, what about some sort of barrier cream and gloves?? Nothing like a bit of dermatitis?? Best wishes from Lincolnshire
Quite an awesome thought that here's a nigh on 70 "odd" year old piece of engineering design still in use today. We'll not see the likes of that again when each car is one O.S update away from oblivion.
For any who have not watched the Croatia trip it is a must - from start to finish. In my humble opinion the greatest of all of Ian's sagas with an air of manic lunacy and just do it that warms the cockles of your heart. I watched it all with huge anticipation and delight every episode. Pure magic.
I love them too. Have watched some of the videos many times.
Absolutely. A brilliant adventure and travelogue too.
Such simplicity, little wonder the 2CV was so effective a car across so many climates. Be that as it may I'll choose my W126 Benz for a long distance trip any day 😂😂
Probably my favourite too. That long first video with the engine swap is pure Hub Nut that I've watched/listened to many, many times.
Yes, his most brilliant adventure by far! Hope he does another European one soon ...
I like to think that Colin is a spitfire pilot on his days off
That would explain the Irvin jacket.
Unfortunately not, I have a rather tedious job in reality.
Far too old, we were flying at 18 and 5 years later if you survived thrown out the door to work at some tedious job.
I love this engine. Until you have owned a 2cv, nobody can appreciate how well engineered this engine is.
This has been one of the most interesting videos I've watched in a long time - please Ian, don't leave it too long before you fit this to Elly as I'm sure many people are eager to see what this 'new' engine is like!
Top bloke Colin. Brilliantly efficient and very knowledgeable making that look rather too simple. 👍
Get yourself one & take it to bits, it really is as simple as it looks.
A superb vid showing how engineers used to work and be. Brilliant to see Ellie getting reborn.
“We’re going to pull it apart and see what’s wrong” =
Colin > pulling apart
Ian > camera, commentary and good cheer
Good cheer is an important part when working on these.
Hi Mr Hubnut, David from Tasmania here again. A hint to make your life easier, and a bit cleaner. For the last 50 years that I have been working on older cars, especially engines, i have always thoroughly cleaned/degreased them before doing anything. If the motor is in the car, clean it in there before removing it. In the case of your 2CV engine, a trip outside, drown it in degreaser, wait a while, hose it off, and bingo you have a sparkly (?) clean engine to work on. It is much nicer, and probably safer, to do so. I do this for everything. I noticed yesterday watching you replace Ellys exhaust hanger. By the time you had it taken apart your fingers were a black greasy mess. This also helps keep tools and work spaces a lot cleaner. I will now carry on watching the rest of the video. Can't wait to see the internals. Cheers, David (Hillman Imp GT - Hillman Husky - Wolseley 24/80 - six cylinder)
Exactly what I was thinking! Can't stand an oily greasy mess before even starting a job!
And another bonus is, that on completion of your fantastic rebuild, it is very easy to spot any oil leaks that shouldn't be there. Yet another thing that i do, is to thread clean all the bolts I take out. I have an 8" wire wheel on my bench grinder. A quick whizz around of the bolt, and hey presto, a clean thread ready to go back to work. Only takes a couple of minutes to do all the bolts, but can save more than that when rebuilding.
Yes, used engine oil is carcinogenic. It should never come into contact with your skin.
No self respecting mechanic would work on a filthy greasy engine or gear box.
None would reassemble when it's in a filthy greasy state either.
I can hear little Dalek shouting: ELLY-minate...! 😂😂😂
Lol
That bench is just the right height to give you chronic back ache 😮
I'd definitely have a modified office chair that you can adjust for height but I'm alot older than Colin 😢
Also I do tend to ponder as I go and the radio is usually on... tea isn't far away either 🤗
@@terryatkinson899 When I worked in China the fitters preferred to work on a clean floor and they would either crouch down or sit on the floor to work - they couldn't drop anything on their feet !
@ianmontgomery7534 well, let's just say they're not built like us.... more substantial around the middle and taller😁
When you get older you'll realise you can't be crawling about on the floor 😢
@@terryatkinson899 I'm 69 and I still manage to do gardening etc on my knees. I guess it will catch up with me eventually. We had a lot of tall Chinese working for us - they came from Northern China where people tend to be a lot taller than those from down south.
About the Service of the Crank, ALL Cranks is serviceble if you want to, try watching Allen Millyard pull apart cranks and assemble them again.
Great to see a man who knows what he's doing, and a video showing some in-depth tinkering.
Nice to watch Colin working again! Having known him since he was in primary school, funny watching him all these years later! 🤣
Colin, the friend everyone should have
Loved this video. It is so satisfying seeing an engine being dismantled and faults found. Almost as satisfying as seeing it being rebuilt. I think there is room for a UA-cam channel just showing engines being taken apart and rebuilt!
Absolutely brilliant video Ian ❤👍well done Colin for the repair absolutely brilliant bit of engineering can't wait to see the final when the engine is in brilliant
Gosh Ian your friend was so lucky you were there to help 😂, could never have done it on his own , your technical skills were immeasurable and second to none, WELL DONE that man !! Not you Ian 😂 your friend lol 😂, all very HUBNUT 😉👌🏻.
To be fair, Ian did hold some parts once in a while. A career as a third hand should not be overlooked.
@@johnbee7729 Yes but I didn’t see Ian make 1 cup of tea ☕️? Most important job for a third hand 🤚 but yeah agree Colin could never have done it without Hubnut ingenuity and know how .
@@kevinnye5132 I don't drink tea....
@@colinbromley2454 Oh in that case you were lucky Colin, Ian is as good at making tea 🫖 as he is at mechanics 😂👌🏻
Without a doubt , The simplest car engine I know of ! Brilliant ! Thanks for showing ! Scott 🌵
Proper bit of fettling!!❤
Not quite Allen Millyard but nearly as satisfying!
What a fantastic video! Great to see Ellie being brought back........Colin is an absolute hero. Loved watching this and seeing his formidable knowledge and skills being deployed on such a worthy HubNut car.
Love the older hub nut cars. Thanks, Ian. Reminds of the tuc build. Enjoyed that. 😊
Nice to have a friend who has both the knowledge and the tools. Great shop he's got.
Great video , such an elegantly simple vintage design which still performs it's intended function of being repairable with basic tools .
Everyone should have a Colin!
One wonders how many people could afford it.
Love videos like this when you get to see little businesses and the cars that people are working on themselves etc. Love that Austin seven aswell.
Found these more interesting than most engine re-builds :)
Watching this was the perfect start to my weekend.
A great video Ian and Colin. It's great to see how these engines come apart and what to look out for when putting them back together. A really simple engine that reminds me somewhat of the venerable Honda CG125 bike engine that was also push rod with a single cam shaft (actually a single cam lobe if I recall correctly). I look forward to the installation video at some point in the future. Many thanks for sharing.
Great autopsy and rebuild. With an unexpected dash of Morgan action. Brilliant!!
7:38 a friend of mine is a massive advocate for lightened flywheels and usually does them to his cars himself. Thankfully, he does the job properly and has never had one 'let go', which is a prospect I always find terrifying.
I have never really understood lightened flywheels.Yes they pick up more quickly but the inertia of the crank is compromised heavily.Good for a quick sprint but as I have always said.If they are so good why were they not used on standard production engines.?
@@GlennPowell-ls3lg That's always been my point of view too - if they're so good, why isn't everyone using them?
@@HowardLeVert Also its the integral strength of the flyweel that ultimately transmits all the power from the crank through the clutch which is a huge transfer of inertia.If the flywheel is too light it can as you suggested "let go" which will desroy the bell housing like paper and the gearbox.But my point remains on any four stroke engine its the heavy flywheel that carrys the crank through the cylinders when they are on their exhaust stroke.
A much lightened(standard) mini flywheel exploding I'd very scary, and considering it's in line with your feet when in a right hand drive car, can be catastrophic! 30 plus years ago Farndon engineering ultra light weight steel flywheels were the dogs.Still have one being used in a Metro turbo engined mini.
Nice to see the root cause for the noise, cool video :)
Very interesting thank you, i love the simplicity of the engine while being very clever
Fantastic bit of Lunchtime Tinkering watching the engine being dismantled and being rebuilt. Looking forward to see Colin and his Austin 7 at Rustival.
Watch and learn, Ian, especially as Colin has his placement of washers and screws and the lot down pat: neatly in separate receptacles. He also has a tidy and quite roomy workspace, not actually that much bigger than yours (but it does seem to be, thanks to the total lack of detritus, car body parts, empty cans of BDX etc.). I always experience vicarious pangs of anguish seeing you put washers, circlips, screws, bolts and whatever, mostly very near to or in the actual place you're tinkering, often accidentally pushing them down workbenches, door gaps, engine bays ... Miss HubNut would heartily concur with my assessment, I'm sure ;)
I'm certainly not always that organised or tidy, only when doing engines & gearboxes, anything else is much more chaotic.
Its like pan ing for gold
Fascinating stuff. I'm fascinated by the 2CV, and being as they're scarce here in the US, I'm grateful for your Elly adventures. Sort of fun to think that that tiny little powerplant could throw you down the Autobahn at 80. But again, the 2CV is a pretty fascinating little machine!
Thanks. Don't recall any problem fitting pistons to the cylinders, but it was a 400 something, no filter, centrifugal clutch and a generator on the crank end. New crank & cooler came in a nice form fitted styrofoam box.
Did he put the right exhaust on this one 😁😁😁
Good to see Elly is getting a fresh engine 👌
I really enjoyed seeing both the stripdown and the rebuild. The 2cv engine is a really remarkable thing. I believe that the crankshaft assembly could be returned to Citroen for refurbishment when the 2cv was still being made.
Ah always good to see someone who knows and can perform 🤣the task with all of the usual dexterity a true professional has.. Thankyou Colin !! This was a pleasure to watch ! I've stripped a few in my time.. ENGINES!!! 🤣I hope 'Mr Bodgeit' once again realised that there are those who are true 'professionals' !
A very interesting video. Hopefully the engine will get a nice clean-up before it gets fitted.
That Morgan is bloody glorious!
Don't be careful with the aluminium threads. Helicoil them preemptively.
Great to see some wrenching and engine work
Now that’s Olympic gold, copper bottomed tinkering right there by Colin.
Brilliant video, I really enjoyed this and the bonus Morgan start. I also love the idea of an LN Q-Car.
I do love fettling All that was missing Few Hubnut under the swear from banged fingers scraped this and that.But we saved the expense of broken things. Can't Wait for Elllys first road test with the newer engine. And child noises of the driver because of thrill.
Lovely stuff. Blokes doing blokey stuff. Here's to Elllie being back on the road! 👏👏👏👏
Wow brilliant...that is one of best video's I have ever watched on HubNut Ian and I have been subcribed for a good few years. Absolutely fascinating, I am a bit of a home mechanic myself, self taught through the 70's and 80's trying to keep the various family Cortins's, Montego's, Vauxhalls on the road. The scariest job I did on my own was changing a front shock on a Montego in the early 80's and hiring a "spring compressor". Anyway GREAT content and thanks.
Your a lucky man Ian that you know who will help you out.
Result. It'll be great to hear this beastie running and see how it fares in Elly
I remember removing the manifolds on my old 40 Horse VW engine. Every single bolt came out bringing most of the aluminium threads with it. The rebuilder must have been an arm wrestling champion.
Fantastic video! Was really looking forward to this one. Great to see the Morgan too - One of my best motorsport memories is seeing one of those at a VSCC Meeting at Silverstone in the early 90s dicing with a Napier Bentley. We clocked them at 81mph average, and the Napier only won because of the length of the start finish straight. The Morgan was much quicker through the corners.
Maybe you should add some exhaust ports in the door, so the door can be closed.
I did, to the door in my shop. I used random stuff I found in scrap piles, so the price was right. It's nice in winter, and redirects most noise outside.
I am in Melbourne and yesterday I saw a beautiful Austin 7 being driven on main roads near me. I thought there may have been a car show nearby but couldn't find any info on any.
A good informative video!
look how tiny it is. i love how he has a can for each type of nut / bolt
Brilliant, a nice bit tinkering to watch during Saturday lunchtime. Hope you can do a road test on the old Morgan one day.
Engine on that Morgan sounds lovely. Ticks over like a sewing machine, throttles up with a roar
It's a fearsome road car, weighs nothing & has an incredible amount of torque, it's fast enough to frighten most people (even me). The squidgy bit behind the steering wheel gives up long before the car, I got scared at 90mph & it's geared to do over 120.
I rarely comment on videos but I really enjoyed watching this 👀👍
Ducati's bevel singles also have this head gasket-less interference seal between the head and barrel. Seems to work OK.
Thanks for this video, I never took mine appart this far.
Lovely to see you again Hubzzzz… for some reason I don’t get notifications from YT so issued so many of my subscriptions
Enjoyed that. See you at Rustival😊
Having yesterday watched Steph from I drive a classic fit an MGC 6 cylinder engine into their car and today compounded the experience by watching two oily men dissemble an even oilier 2 cylinder engine, I am wondering just why I watch these things, but I do.
Great video, thanks guys! I'm currently rebuilding my top end and it's reassuring to know that a certain amount of violence is acceptable. There's a degree of tourettes trying to get the valve springs and collets back in situ but that's probably down to my inexperience and crappy cheap spring compressor. Hey ho, I'll have another go in the morning
It sounds like Colin has worked on 2CV engines before, all the details he mentions that you should take into account.
Nice that Elly gets her "original" engine back.
It's not her original engine sadly. That was stripped for spares some years ago. We've put the 652 kit I fitted in 2019 to one of Colin's spare crankcases.
Is there anything you have to do, with the DVLA, when you do this?
Such a simple engine is a joy to see. 👍🏼
yes I have a 550 kit to one day put on my 425 I also don't know when but hope I find a knowledgeable friend to help .
Nice to see new motor , Great job
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
Hi from Croatia 😊 🇭🇷👍🍀
I remember the moment when exactly that engine started making some odd noices now and then.
I remember very well also when this one was put in Elly before the Croatia trip. You had a test run on which you went for an ice cream, if I remember well.
Nice to see you getting on with it.
The ice cream test run is actually when I met Miss HubNut for the first time! That test run revealed issues so we fitted the 652 kit.
That was a trip down memorylane. I'm in the category of "homeschooled mechanics". 2CV goes wrong - a lot. Armed with my toolbox, Haynes and a repairguide made by my Citroen club. Every page was in a plasticcover. Clever coming to dirty fingers. I still got my Haynes and it's filled with black fingerprints ❤️'ly 😃
Way back in 1989, I heard from a friend of a friend who's parent's had some property with a ripple bonnet Truckette that was moldering into the fertile soil of Western Oregon. They wanted it gone. It was free, I was driving my '65 SAAB wagon at the time and was going on weekend mid winter junkets of 120 miles round trip to attempt to see if it could be towed or driven home. It was a real lost cause, the body was 50% rust flakes and the engine, although turning freely, would only rotate about 150 or so degrees. They wanted it all gone and I had no place to store the remains and less sources for the rare little 11 HP(?) engine. I had some dingbat idea of just rescuing the engine and transmission and making it power an older bull nose SAAB Wagon as a junkyard tractor for my friend's SAAB shop. Young adult pipe dreams.
Had plenty of those!
Great stuff, thanks for that. I can now mark off my bucket list the innards of a 2CV. The coil suspension Ian has shown us many years ago. Re the crankshaft, some motorbike engines have a pressed fit crankshaft and they can be repaired, but I suppose it would be expensive coz it does require knowledge and special machinery.
@@retiredbore378 Which I get the feeling we've *both* watched him do!!
Hello from an LNA owner (sadly the 1124cc x engine, but tempted to see what else might fit)
Its great to have good mates Ian. Aussie Graham.
What is great is the attention to keep all the original old mix of 50 years of oil and dirt on the engine, clean it would lose a lot of value !
Love the opening shot, a flat twin with 2 flying jackets, You just need a propeller on Elly now :)
@@retiredbore378 It is a brand-new JAP JTORS manufactured by Cameron Engineering in Malvern.
Impressive amount of tapping (large copper faced lump) hammers as a back drop
Its looking a bit chilly in Wales! I've just added a BA XR6 ute to my fleet! I'm also looking at a Leyland Princess which a friend's dad is looking to part with, as the suspension isn't working properly and has him completely baffled.
It's a two cylinder Beetle engine! I never knew the 2CV was a horizontally opposed air-cooled unit. Well,well, you live and learn !
Way better than a Beetle engine. 😉
Amazing how similar they are to a VW Beetle engine - sort of a 'half' one. Best designs though - no ridiculous cam chains to fail and knacker the engine.
AMO MI CITROEN 2CV SALUDOS DESDE MENDOZA ARGENTINA
Does that make it an .... Elly-coil repair? :) Thanks for the look at a 2CV engine!
Brilliant video and some workshop your in, great seeing the repair
What a weird engine 😂 that thing confuses the heck outta folks just looking at the disassembly process 🤣
I love the old 2cv’s, but in the United States they are hard to find. A friend of mine imported one out of Canada and he drove it for many years. His didn’t have any options, not even roll up windows(did they even have roll up windows). The ride was surprisingly good but it was too slow to get on the highway.
2CVs never did have rolling windows, even in 1990!
Being spoilt for Citroen A Series engine tear downs. Makes me want to buy one just to take it apart and rebuild one.
Cranks are serviceable, just use a press
That was fascinating - what a novel little engine!
Hello Colin & Ian, very interesting and enjoyable in seeing the engine being taken apart, just two questions from an "mature mechanic" first, how about giving the engine that is being worked up a good clean, and, what about some sort of barrier cream and gloves?? Nothing like a bit of dermatitis?? Best wishes from Lincolnshire
Awesaome work by Cool Colin.
Fascinating!
so,why was it broken,great video.
We don't know what caused it but one rod bearing has very much failed.
An enjoyable watch akin to mustie1 and his vw motors
Quite an awesome thought that here's a nigh on 70 "odd" year old piece of engineering design still in use today.
We'll not see the likes of that again when each car is one O.S update away from oblivion.
Or one obsolete FPGA in a module.
I like an engine that you can physically lift and move.
The styer opposed engine in tuch is a cool engine