WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: WWII Grant Tank Restoration UPDATE!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Daryl and Jesse take us through what they've been up to for the past few weeks.
This WWII Grant Tank is part of the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum's restoration program.
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One of the few pleasurers I have during my chemo. And when the body lets me building a 1/35th scale museum version of the M3A3. Only need to use 3 different kits. And then doing one with full interior. Thanks for keeping me sane and able to cope with the cancer battle.
Best of luck for your battle mate and have a ton of fun with your build!🇦🇺👍💪
Wishing you a successful fight in your battle ❤
If you can bash 3 kits into one, nothing would beat you mate .
Knowing what you are going thru due to losing 2 sisters I pray you make a full recovery!
Good luck brother❤ It will get better
My Wednesday is complete :)
Likewise
Woohoo, Workshop Wednesdays are the best 🎉
I know that your comment is meant to be taken literally but I can't help finding it sarcastic
Greetings from the US. Yall are doing the Lords work. I love to see WW2 equipment restored to it's former glory. Keep it up boys!
Kurt, even though you may think that you didn't have much to show us. Sometimes the small details are just as important and interesting. Thanks for the update really enjoyed this one. 😀
Great episode Kurt!
I’m constantly amazed at the amount of improvisation, modification, adapting your boys do to get the job done. It must be the Aussie Way…! Impressive!!!
Great to see the Grant back.
Another awesome episode, this tank came along way from beeing a farm tractor👍
I love this show! Lads, a small bit of advice. Install a manual waste gate control for turbo, and install a boost pressure guage. Replacing an engine because it overspeed and at a minimum threw a rod or blew out the gaskets a royal pain period.. And that of course is a minimum! worse is generally much much worse... Because you want a runner and not just a display piece take the extra steps... of course you'll have to educate visitors on what isn't quite... you know... "stock" .. but that all part of the show after all.. Maybe you could go find the m3 that was used in the film "Sahara" with Jim Belushi (So who has that M-3 Lee(?)? It was shot in Port Stephens, New South Wales and it was provided by Australia for the film. Thats all the information I have on it.. if you gents no more DON"T DON"T SIT THERE AND SMIRK! Tell us! Damn Auzzies! Just you remeber the pacific version of the commonwealth complain.. Americans overe sexed, over paid and over here.. and the amercan (pacific) reply would be to you Auzzies would be under paid, under sexed and under MacArthur!) P.S. All in fun, love ya lads,. great friends to have your back in a fray. Ya ROCK!
Hmm... good idea, considering the fact that these Detroit Diesel 2-strokers have this nasty tendency to run away like its nobody's business...
m3 lee used in the Jim Belushi version of Sahara, was a grant, turned into a lee and im 90% sure it reside in Canada or the states.
As always the boys do a magnificent job. The adaptation of the CAT engine is a master piece.
Its a 92 series Detroit Diesel
@@duncancameron5468 It's a 71 series. 8V71T to be precise. From 8 Feb 2023, "WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Fitting the Detroit Diesel 8V71T Engine to our WWII Grant Tank".
@@guyintenn Apologies, was going on the style of rocker covers. Must be an ex highway engine.
That laugh after “I’ll have a word to him” every job site chuckle 😂
Kurt, I really like your "daft" questions, what's a bulkhead, what's a cluster - because I don't know either. Always a pleasure to watch your videos!
Great to see you back
Your craftmanship is off the scale
I reckon you should still put in a clutch pedal, so it looks right. Only with a horn that goes honk/honk when the driver presses it by mistake.
or the sound of the guns firing !
Great video! Workshop Wednesday 👌👌
Glad you’re back with a proper episode and hopefully fully recovered😊
I just love workshop Wednesday, Cheers and thanks for the excellent content.
Love workshop Wednesday
This would be my dream job restoring military vehicals
Thanks lads, another great episode. Have so much sympathy for the tankers in those things in the Western Desert, they must have been stifling inside!
Especially at 12 noon! Now that time of day in the desert is broiling!
@@kristoffermangila Hopefully they had a gentlemen's agreement with the Axis boys to have a siesta during the hottest part of the day then get back to fighting when it cooled off.
@@frostedbutts4340 probably an unspoken agreement.
It may seem that you were working on a bunch of odds and ends(of projects, but you've actually made a great deal of progress. Great job, folks!
A number of years ago 1942 I believe Hollywood produced a film Shahara about a M3 tank tring to get to there own after battle loss. They showed the tank driver driver working the controls and looking out his portal with goggles thru a sand storm working on getting sand out the intakes it is my favorite war movie also staring Humphrey Bogart. Thanks for your show you guys work hard in heat and humidity and you are just as devoted as the original crews on all that equipment that is there Thanks Gary
Aluminum fuel cells, what looks like a K&N filter, Raceworks connectors.......hotrod Grant, sweet!! Love the work you guys do!!!!
Great, episode guys
''Cluster'' Oz speak for instrument panel 🙂 Great video guys, Darryl and Jessy are doing fantastic work. Adapting that engine and transmission makes a lot of sense.
I have also heard us Americans call it an "Instrument Cluster" so it wasnt too hard to decipher their "Australianese"
This is my favorite UA-cam channel! Thanks, guys.
All of you're men are very talented and can seemingly impossible in making and recreating the needed parts. I love watching WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY.
Getting close to the 100k subscbers! Let's go!!
Great video. Wasn’t expecting to see a Raiders fan in the shop!
It takes a different mindset to be recorded and work. I appreciate it all, the hard work good and bad deserves to be showed off to the world
Great video-and to think-the M3 series was a “stopgap” vehicle! So much went into this design; more than I thought. Thanks!
I still remember Darryl’s glee at finding several complete examples of a piece that Jess built from scratch😅!
Beautiful work guys!
thanks guys , i enjoy seeing how things work and they were made. keep up the good work.
Yeah, grant update, lets gooo!
My backpacking sister in law just handed me a DAK cap and thermos from your giftshop. Yeah. She made a pitstop when she came down the Kurunda skyrail. Been to Bovington, Saumur and Munster, but most likely I will never have a change (aka money) to visit ausarmor myself. Greetings from the Netherlands and thanks for your updates!
It be unreal to see this m3 grant tank at this Australian armoured artillery museum tank fest this year and I'm going to ride on this m3 grant tank
Onya lads, great work.
Adapt and overcome! This thing is going to be awesome. 👍🏻🇦🇺
Absolutely amazing on the way you took pieces and put it together to make a masterpiece.
Ooooh, its a restomod now!
Was waiting, perfect for 4am watch!!! :D
Great restoration work as always !. I never knew that the driver of this tank sits in such a position. It's like riding on the big motorcycle !.
Great episode! Good progress on the Grant. One thing - could be a problem using a 5" to 3" adapter from 5" turbo outlet to 3"pipe. It may choke the outflow to the point where you lose power and / or overheat the turbo. Probably will need an air blower pushing cool air between the firewall and the 1500 degree F turbo hot side. It's gonna get hot there!
Totally admire the way you guys work . You must be the world's premier armour restorers .
So very good!
Footy is on tomorrow night, tanks on tonight. Thanks for making my week. BTW don’t you have a local ammunition museum up there? Big bangs and lots of smoke are the only experiences missing.
I always look forward to your Wednesday episode of your tank Museum ,guaranteed to Always be interesting and today was no exception ,great show and the explanations are Brilliant thank you
Great to see a different shirt today.
It is interesting that you need to be an archaeological engineer to rebuild something like a Grant. Well done!
The best day of my week, I will be up to visit the museum in June. Can't wait!
Great work, good to see the changes you are making, to use that engine and transmission. Are Peter and Lottie still working there, only we haven't seen them for a while?
Great work - awesome video!
My M3 fix for the week.
much appreciated the question: What is a bulkhead? Love those videos
Steel plate divides crew compartment from engine bay
Another lot of work done! Please see you next time.
That's a big snail! Great fabrication. Good work lads 👍👍
It's really coming together. Kudos to the shop crew for these incredibly clever rebuilds of parts. I'm learning a lot about more than the workings of a Grant. Thank you!
Thank you for another great video. Amazing the amount of work being done. Looks to be a little warm there.
North Queensland, tropics
Mint. Any aus armour video is a good aus armour video. Cheers Kurt.
always great watching the super talented employees restoring what could have been lost forever...Outstanding videos
perfect video...shows details that we haven't seen. well worth the wait!!
Great work mates refitting a different engine and support components in place.
10:13 Wow! I slapped my noggin too! An Australian not understanding another Australian's accent. Great video.
Amazing engineering and ingenuity to restore this tank.
I have liked the Grant/Lee since I first saw The old black and white movie Sahara. So I have been waiting for an update.:)
I sometimes have to replay it several times to get his meaning. At 16:00 he is talking about (what i thought he said was the clock-set. He actually said "cluster" (instrument panel cluster) .It is so Cool that they have the original pieces for that!! such fun!
Great channel, Kurt! Fascinating.
Yet another great episode.
Thank you, great progress 👍👍
Attention to detail to recreate what was once but now lost is over the top!!! ….case in point. Bent pipe to recreate the half circle detail on front fender, then slice the bent pipe along its length then weld it in place. With the result being it looks like it just rolled off the assembly line. Fantastic!!!!
Great update Kurt, thanks so much, you're all such a wonderful group, now my Wednesday is complete.
Australia seems to be thee tank Mecca these daze !
Nice job!
Nice work, lads!
The thing that takes the linkage from the throttle in the clutch we call those a bell crank here in the USA.
Worth the wait, great work guys
some amazing work going on with the Grant, really appreciate the effort you guys put in to these amazing restorations
See you next time…looking forward to it 👍🇺🇦👍🇺🇦
Love your work 👍
Totally amazing guys, keep up the great work, just imagine how hot it got inside it ,ok in winter when its snowing, but in summer months mate you would lose your mind, especially if not drinking any water during a battle back then? Plus the water is hot as well, would have been at least 60 degrees c inside in summer months if not more? 🚙🚙😀😀😎😎
15:30 Hard to imagine they used these in the desert - riding the transmission like that.
Sitting on hot iron, and then to make it worse hit by a german 8.8 Flak
@ 10:05 Even you guys can't understand each other, LOL!😜
All this and an old school Raiders cap...damn. You guys just keep gettin' better . By the way, I know a guy that knows a guy that's making those replica J-Peds. drop a line; I'll send 'is address over. Wizard of Oz, oi.
I don't know if you have ever seen any of the work that is going on to reconstruct the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Obviously there are a lot of missing parts for it but what they do in the reconstruction, rather than trying to match the newly made parts to the old by colour and texture, they make the new parts with subtle but obvious difference so that they can be identified.
The reason I bring this up is because I think it would be a nice touch in restorations like this to have the newly fabricated parts a slightly different colour to the original parts for three reasons:
Firstly, it would highlight the tremendous amount of work that the lads have put in in creating the restoration.
Secondly, it would help the newcomers to tanks and mechanics in general, to understand how difficult a task like this is.
Lastly (and probably most importantly) it would shut up the nitpickers that would be out with their clipboards to point out everything that's not original.
I realize its a lot of work, but it would be so worth while. I would volunteer to do it myself if I lived a bit closer .
As for the display ammo; can't someone make an STL-file for 3D printing, and post it? As a fan of the channel I don't mind printing a few rounds and sending them over ;-) Might be cool to know the Grant is driving around with some parts I made...
Recommend putting a removable pan under the batteries in case of acid leak.
Should speak with the boss to get the boys a proper roller for sheet and rod. It cannot be overstated, just how useful it is for fabrication to have one. So many things that can be solved with such a machine in the pocket of tricks. And i'm sure that the boys could restore one to schmick status if it was second hand.
All going good guys can see you haven't got the mega rust grief we have in rainy uk
Wish one day could see you guys fixing panther or tiger engine and transmission. Just need some wire and pipe details for modeling.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.....and his name is Curt and he brings us Workshop Wednesdays!!!
Today I Need to ask. When they did the "Farm Flashback" from the earlier episode it made me think. I spent time in the U.S. Air Force and ended up out in the Nevada Desert. We were in an area with "Critters". Are there any Snakes or other Critters out at the Farm?
Good episode it made a change from repetitious work
It's like a resto mod but in a tank 😅
You can get the raceworks logos off the silicone with brake cleaner and a rag.
As always, you guys are doing a great job! Probably I missed somewhere one of your previous videos regarding this engine, so out of curiosity, what engine you have installed and how many horse power it has?
With those two aluminum headlight thingies are you guys going to attach a sacrificial anode to protect the aluminum?
Most of the Grants would have been used in the desert as well. Really hot for the driver.
I think quite a few of the grants were sent into the China,Burma, India theater as if North Africa wasn’t hot enough.
0:44 that sign in the back :O
Did the grant originally have the Chrysler multibank engine? If so, it was a good idea to replace it with a more modern single block engine. Just the maintenance would be intensive on the multibank.
I believe most of the export models that made it to Aus had the petrol radial engine