Leopard 1 Overhaul | Ep. 1 | Tank Workshop Diaries | The Tank Museum
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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Great series!
Also: Damn you for setting such high standards!
;) Best wishes from Munster!
Ist bei euch eigentlich auch was eingelagert/ vorhanden aber nicht ausgestellt? Wäre mal ganz spannend. Nicht mal unbedingt als Film (Man weiß ja: BW-Einrichtungen und so) aber ein Überblick wäre wirklich mal nett. :)
Großartige Social-Media-Arbeit btw.
I have visit you in 2014 great ww2 collection
best wishes from Denmark ;)
I love that I'm seeing tank museums talk to each other on UA-cam.
In Deutschland kennen wir nur eines - sparen. Gut das Ursula jetzt ein wenig Geld eingeplant hat für das Panzermuseum. Vermutl. dank Trump! Wird noch ein langer Weg bis Ihr mit dem tankmuseum mithalten könnt. Wünsche das Beste!
@@minimax9452 Das kommt davon wenn man einen Schwaben zum Finanzminister macht ... aber "das Volk" ist auch ziemlich geizig, ich bin schon lange davon überzeugt dass wir den Schotten da den Rang abgelaufen haben.
So begins a golden era of UA-cam! Very interesting episode, and in glorious detail. These episodes will be a true highlight of my sub feed.
Thanks for making!
I really watch UA-cam these days more than normal TV. Just because here is better content, on demand and for free! :)
This Churchill engine has an indirect oil leak... Every person who has ever had a classic British car or bike understands exactly what the gent is talking about. Great videos, thank you.
I've owned a couple classic Brit cars and, as an American, when he said it all I did was simply think "You don't say".
I was confused by lack of flames from electrical system
@@WayneMoyer , I'm a Brit and love my Triumph cars... Oddly I now run an old MX5.
@@alexsmall6850 I had a '74 Spitfire and my Mother had a '72 Spitfire. These weren't our only British cars.
I own an old disco 🤣 the little leaks are a feature 🤘
I had the privilege of going through the Tank Museun 7 years ago. As far as I am concerned the people who work in the museum and in maintenance have the best jobs in the world. Thank you for all you do
Excellent job, no stupid music, repetitive information, just facts and information. So refreshing. Well done fellas!
So in 1978, in Lahr Germany as a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, I took delivery of a brand new Leopard off the tank train from the factory. This was my tank to operate for the next 2 years and I ended up putting the first 2400 k's on it. And what a tank it was. Highly maneuverable, deadly and sooooo much fun to drive. And as described in the video we did in fact manage to do a field replacement of a power pack in 20 minutes. When we went on maneuvers our ARV (armored recovery vehicle) would carry a spare power pack on the rear deck so this task was rather easy. What a joy it is to see these examples being cared for and demonstrated for the public. Brings back a lot of memories of a young man of 18 years.
Great to see the crew at work again and especially great to see new blood joining the ranks to ensure that those beauties will keep running in the future as well. You are doing splendid work!
The Leopard 1 engine setup is very impressive indeed! Wish car manufacturers would have taken a lesson from these engineers. Would make working on vehicles today much more effective.
they could IF only they wanted but they want to force you to bring your car to a dealer workshop and make money withe the cars they already sold. IF only these dealers were competent or trustworthy...
@@spidermann5000 Yup and the very reason I was saying how great it would be. We get ripped off at the sale and we get royally raped with the repair and maintenance. What a racket this is!
The Germans certainly seem to have taken the WW II lessons of the Panther and Tiger - two notorious maintenance hogs - to heart.
As far as the applicability to consumer market road cars, I honestly doubt many people would be willing to pay thousands $$$ extra to have an engine/transmission/cooling/accessory pack that interchanges as a single unit. A feature like that is only worth the $$$ to someone operating a large fleet of identical vehicles, where a motor pool is constantly servicing vehicles on a rotation.
@@paulfrantizek102 no neet to fit it in one big block but if you have to disasemble the whole car to replace a simple part then you sure are trying to cash in on repairs. same thing with brand specific tools... so i guess you are missing the point
@@spidermann5000 Yeah, that's a different point from the one I was addressing. I was speaking specifically to the modular power unit - technically impressive, to be sure, but something very few users outside of a major military are likely to see value in.
Mr. Kneebone, Mr. Hart, and their teams are hard working, knowledgeable and dedicated. Its really great hearing those old engines run and an honor to see the work in progress.
I am a young English engineer living now in N.Z, I would just like to say that these deep walk arounds couldn't be any better, they are so so interesting to me. I grew up in Aldershot & lived about 100m from the war museum - I wish I knew how to appreciate this stuff then. Nice work Gents - please keep it up!!
Those Leopards bring back fond memories...
Of the armoured guys telling us to f*** off as we march by.
If its any consolation, they still continue to do it in the 'new' leopard 2s. At least in Edmonton anyway.
Hahaha, good to know: nothing has changed.
i was told to f off by supply the most in general
ALAPINO I loved doing the Leopard 1 when I was with “B” Sqn, The Royal Canadian Dragoon posted in Lahr during 83-86.
@@stevenball8264 A little before my time, but I have often heard a longingful story told in the mess regaling the youngin's of such far flung posts. A.K.A. How to get in trouble without getting caught, CF Europe Edition.
I never really knew much about the Leopard 1 before this video.
As someone that drives trucks for a living and has watched mechanics struggle to do work on poorly laid out engines and components. I am incredibly glad to see that the designers of the Leopard 1 put ease of maintenance as their #1 priority.
The Leopard must be a dream to work on. I would love to see how other modern MBTs compare. If I was procuring tanks for an army, eith modern MBTs so close in terms of ability and technology downtime would be my deciding factor. No point in having tanks down for hours at a time for simple repairs, needing spare tanks to cover them, when you can clip out and clip in a whole engine block in under an hour.
This is the stuff I care about. I would love the mechanics to rate their 10 best tanks to work on, or do a series comparing the maintenance of opposing tanks. Panzers vs Churchills and Shermans: comparing ease of maintenance, time taken to replace an engine block, replace tracks, etc.
It really seems the Germans took to heart the lessons of WW2. I can imagine there were some stern tankers/mechanics driving the point home to make it easy to repair tanks!
An outstanding comment. It would be fascinating to hear and watch the mechanics discuss how difficult WW2 equipment is to work on, compared to equipment designed and built after the 1970s, when concepts like power packs were found to be the smarter and quicker way of repair.
And a chat about the different repair philosophies adopted by NATO armies and Warsaw Pact forces. And even if possible, what was discovered about Allied and Axis equipment and its repair procedures. I know from working on my own 1958 Ferret Mk2/3 I was dismayed to discover how difficult some repairs were, such as simply accessing parts of the carburettor.
How about hiring me to do storyboards and production...maybe that's the easier way to do this. ;^)
Yes I agree I was extremely impressed with the ease in which you could swap out or repair a leopard engine, as well as putting back the engine deck. Other tanks were in the range of 10 to 15 hours or 24 hours to repair where this one was like 20 minutes that's ridiculous!!! Ridiculous= brilliant. It's German so I'm not surprised.
"I would love to see how other modern MBTs compare." Look at some Panzerhaubitze 2000 Videos, Wiesel or Boxer or whatever. It's the same story. Engines come out and go back in in no time mostly. I guess it's the same thing in all modern Tanks worldwide?
@@Swarm509 The French guys, who operated the panther at tankfest were asked about the maintainability of the panther. They said the panther is one of the better wwii tanks, when it comes down to maintaining it. Especially the engine compartment was mentioned. 15,5 hours to change the engine of the centurion, compared to 8 hours for the panther. They also said, that you have to remove the engine out of most Sherman variants even for simple maintenance, because its engine fit in so tight into the tank, that you can not work on them. For example the radial engines had cylinderheads facing downwards into the hull.
Thanks for keeping these two leopards alive! And for keeping them with Canadian markings. I served while these wee still in service, it was impressive to see them drive past us in the field. Ex LEME with fond memories :)
Leo's are sexy beasts and loved working on them except for the crew heater!!
Excellent series. I enjoy the nuts and bolts descriptions of military vehicles. I worked on the restoration of a Soviet made SU-76 SP gun back in the 1980's. It was a lot of work but very satisfying. Watching the ease with which a Leopard Pac could be pulled made me envious. Getting the twin 6 cylinder flatheads out the SUKA was an all day job. The vehicle was a mess, having been subjected to the elements ever since the NKPA "donated" the piece to the USMC in 1952. She had run over a mine, probably an AP because the damage was relatively minor, but everything was rusted and needed sand blasting and full restoration. Keep it up, I'll be looking forward to your next video.
Such a contrast in design and maintenance between the Leopard and the earlier tanks. Imagine 15 hours for and engine removal verses 20 minutes for the Leopard. For me the most interesting videos of the Tanks Museum's work. Please keep them coming!
And another nice feature of the Leopard`s power-pack is the so called " Standlauf ".It consists of a electrical connector set and a minimalised radiator. This device allows a test-run of the power-pack without installing it in the engine bay so it can be checked for leaks and proper funktion of the entire pack. The same thing can be done in the Marder family.
German mechanical engineers are geniuses. They learned a lot of lessons from World War II.
Wind up a Leo pack and it would "walk" along the ground during runups!
The Leopard was brilliantly engineered. Mighty impressive. Plus it's one sexy beast!
One of the nicest job ever, tons of fine engineering inside those tanks !
What a lovely little Friday surprise! Cheers Tank museum!
Don't let American TV makers take over the video production, or it will turn into 25% work, 75% drama and yelling.
Spot on!
But still outsource the yelling to Britain
American TVs are great at doing TV series. But really really bad in doing documentaries... :-)
@@Spazik86 They destroyed Wheeler Dealers in fairness :(
So true....and I’m an American!
probably you should try to ask the battle tank dismantling gmbh koch in germany for spare parts on leopard 1 and other vehicles.
it would need certifications etc but it could be a source of spares for your workshop
This museum has more operational tanks then the royal dutch army. Good to see some of our engineers over there keeping their skills up to date. With stroopwafels everything runs much better. keep up the good work.
This speaks to my inner geek! All the gentlemen spoke so well and with such knowledge and authority. From the steps to changing a small oil seal to popping cups for a moment of levity, it all works. Well done lads, well done.
I'm genuinely surprized you have a Canadian Leopard running. We usually keep the equipment for decades past its life, and run it into the ground until there is nothing left to squeeze from it.
My father took part in the D Day landings with the 7th Armoured division. When I see a video like this I always find it a pity that he is no longer here to view them.
6:41 Stoopwafels! :D
The secret to a happy Dutch person... Scratch that, Stroopwafels make EVERYONE happy. I'm addicted to this stuff, but being a foreigner I'm cut off from all supplies. :(
@ 18:30 Muff cuplins
That Leo 1 brings back memories of my time in the Norwegian army, we had a Leo 1 based armored recovery vehicle. Great fun to work on.
Better documentary than.... basically ANY documentary I've seen in the years. Carry on!
Top work! Please, more of this, it's solid gold!
Wow! Just amazing how this channel has grown over the years! I feel like I'm not even watching a UA-cam video but a true documentary airing on History Channel (well the true old one). Awesome work! You deserve so many more subscribers! One day, I'll go over seas and visit you guys! Salutations du Québec!
what magnificent work these guys do, and with good old fashioned humour & humility.
glad to see the system where an apprentice works with a skilled engineer who passes on his knowledge and so it passes on I served my time in the mid 60s and we were probably the last of the traditional apprenticeship system before all the day, block, college thing happened nice to see it in operation keep up the good work
As an "old" Leopard C1 & C2 guy, the gentleman misidentified a couple of items, he called the radiators "air-intakes" (the engine air intake is located about the middle of the hull, just behind the turret ring, on each side) , the superchargers "turbochargers", the tank was not "steered" by the brakes, it was done by hydraulic pumps incorporated in the transmission. The final drives are incorporated in the hull, and the "muff-couplings" slide on/off the transmission flanges on the power pack (27-32 full rotations of the "muff-coupling" wrench to release and to reconnect, you would do 32 full rotations and then 'back-off" 5 to allow for some "play" for the splines.
I love the Leopard 1, such impressive tech for that time. Glad it served the Dutch Army.
Stroop wafels and tanks, perfect combination!
Very nice, right team for the jobs, all professionally shot an editing and no dramas thanks for sharing 👍
What a great bunch of Craftsmen - every REME craftsmen should do time there.
Im only 2 min into this, already "liked", and watching with a smile on my face, while my lunch starts to burn!!! Far more than just another UA-cam vid, this is a top quality programme!
The knowledge base at Bovington is astounding. As a country we are so lucky having museums that take such effort to ensure their collections are maintained to such a high standard.
Love the Tank museum, but i also like the fact you are investing in Apprentices and giving them the opportunity to work with really experienced people. Its clear you are taking a long term view and effective planning for the future.
Best idea for a series at the museum ever, It is a lot of work to keep these machines functioning so "behind the scenes" is a great idea, looking forward to seeing more of these videos from the shop.
Compliments to all who work at Bovingdon, you all do a stella job and this is going to be another fantastic series.
Love it!.😉👍❤
I see a Leopard, I click LIKE.
Absolutely stunned by the quality of this video. Please, keep making these!
Fantastic! I'd hoped the success of the Matilda Diaries would lead to more and here we are.
Great to see the guys at work again, and to see how good they've gotten on camera. Took me a second to realise what's different about John, the beard suits him!
Love the Leo vs Churchill power pack comparison. Also great to see my old ride (albeit the Canuk version) getting some love.
Your previous diaries were brilliant. This new format is even better! Keep up the great work. BTW I am a yank and understood everything.
Well its about bloody time yanks learnt English.
this is the reason why i don`t watch tv any more, to much drama on it and here i get super intresting stuff that i realy like thank you very much.
Absolutely superb video.
The camera work and commentary was great, just wish top TV programmes could do as good a job of producing footage as you guys.
Good luck with the work, will be following it with interest.
working in that workshop would be such an awesome job.
Thank you! You have helped me to recognize my need to understand the process of power pack replacement in a Leopard 1 tank. How fulfilling. Much obliged.
Visited your museum in 2002 when I was working at Fallingbostel, I liked the cent cut in half.
Oh this has just made my day.. I love to watch professionals restoring/repairing tanks. :)
Amazing stuff
Absolutely brilliant great to see a workshop kept very clean and tidy by the staff, a real testament to the quality of restoration that the museum is world wide recognised for as the best
Thanks.
That Leopard design is inspired!
Well the germans and french wanted a conscript proof Panther. So they basically drafted a spec that fixed all the problems in the MBT60 project. And build two in Leopard 1 and AMX30. Going for example for a 50to design weight chassis in the Leo where Breaks, final Drives etc are concerned while the tank is in the 42to range
I loved learning how all the things work!
'Tank' you very much 👍
Love All types of Armor. But being a Tread Head I know that maintaining the beast is the biggest part. You guys are doing an outstanding job.
This is very nice, but instead of short overviews it would be nice to see more detail about the components and the work that is done to them. You could do a 20min show of making the new coupling alone and people would enjoy to learn about the process. The procedure and tools for the Leopard were nice, but we could have sat still for even more detail about it. Thanks for taking the time to create this video, i am sure it is hard to think up front about what to show. Charles
There are quite a lot of Dutch connections in this video. The Gentleman at the beginning is obviously Dutch, they mention a visit from the Royal Netherlands Army and most importantly STROOPWAFELS!!! Our greatest food accomplishment ;)
Freska on the cheap
I don't understand what you mean by that
@@A.J.K87 Stroopwafels look like a potentially modern/cheaper variant of honey waffles. And these are maybe as old as grain culture itself. Freska is an example of an eastern variant.
hmm, interesting. I'm not familiar with the exact history of stroopwafels, I just know that these days they're a typical dutch treat. But as is the case with so many of these traditional foods the history is often very complicated and convoluted. It could very well be that Dutch traders in the seventeenth century sailed to the far east and brought back these freska's you speak of and that we made our own version somewhere along the way.
Mark, when describing the powerpack, you incorrectly identified the radiators as the air filters. The air filters on a Leopard 1 utilise a cyclonic system of two per side in the sponsons, with 3 filter cassettes per side for a total of 6 in the vehicle. The radiators are mounted on top of the transmission and are also designed to allow water ingress through the radiator fan when fording and then out through the side vents.
Written by someone who obviously has training and experience on this tank.👍🏻
Loved it. Nice to meet the new presenters and the whole vid gave a good sense of the scale of the work being done by the TM.
more of this please!! great to see Bob, remember seeing him on the Tank Overhaul series on tv as a kid. I feel old now 😂
Thank you lads for taking the time to show your great work!
The video is brilliant. I look forward to seeing many more in this series! It was especially nice to see the M60A3 in the first few minutes. I suffered many a bloody knuckle maintaining one of those in the '70s and '80s.
Loved that engine pack tutorial
Thankfully the Germans didn't make tanks so easy to maintain for WW2
OUTSTANDINGLY AMAZING EPISODE!!!!!! Having a person who adores heavy machinery, but not being mechanically inclined, which is purely due from lack of experiences, and you folks are running them through an apprenticeship, AMAZING!!! Showing the nitty gritty of what you folks get to do, could be understood that it is not important, but this episode did show this, and by requests, you have showed the inner details, AMAZING!!!! what you folks are doing which I believe plays a huge role in educating the following generations to not make the same mistakes in human history of our failures of mankind, AMAZING!!!! I really enjoy watching this channel, but this episode showing the details in the "clock-works" or the guts of these pieces of history, AMAZING!!! I thank all of you for the efforts to save this machine of man minds history, and for educating people to upon how to think for themselves, and to be able to be self sufficient and reliant as a mechanic to the highest degree. These people you are teaching will be able to grow, and be able to benefit the world, with the skill sets they learn from this museum, even if they work at the museum for the rest of their days.... sorry for the novel, but this was an amazing episode, on the fact that sure, the machines are just cool, but when a person gets to see the engineering that is required to find a delicate balance of armor to weight ratio, while having to consider the drive line components being strong enough to handle the loads, like wise the suspension and power plant and some early manufactures for their time frame, either for it right and some did get it wrong... I suppose one can think about the challenges of said "delicate balance", armor, weight factor, power of the engine for simply being able to roll, let alone get up to speed for safety, size of the machine, firepower of protect in either offensive more of defensive mode of to say it purpose, ease of manufacturing and servicing out in the battle field in what is likely to be not so good conditions, and things I am not even thinking of, but each one of those can spiral out of control on the drawing table... Again, the delicate balance of what makes an effective piece of machinery pending what it's purpose was or is... I am excited now, and I am going to have a great day today.. thank you for the inspiration, what a way to start my day. I think from now on ,I will save your new videos to watch the following day in the morning while I said up drinking coffee, even though, I want to watch it the second it is showing the new released video... Again, sorry for the novel, just excited now... Dru
Absolutely great to listen to you. Simple, direct, eloquent explanation of your expertise.
Impressive facility and talented, dedicated technicians. Need to plan a visit next time I'm in England.
Excellent feature, more please, when convenient.
Outstanding work. Now this is the sort of video that just puts "The Tank Museum" in a different level from the rest.
As an Engineer myself, this series is already brilliant. More technical videos like this in the future
Great to see the workshops back!
What a brilliant idea. Sadly a year later COVID struckso I just hope all the brilliant fitters and technicians doing this work all kept safe and well.
Nearly back to normal in mid 2022. Or rather the New Normal.
MY JOY IS IMMEASURABLE, AND MY DAY HAS BEEN MADE.
That was amazing, I love these in-depth videos. Thank you.
Thanks to All ,for all the hard work ,
I really enjoyed watching you guys. Here's to many more.
Best museum I have ever been too
Absolutely banging lads! Nothing compares to actually visiting the museum but these vids offer an extra dimension and insight.
Many thanks and keep up the brilliant work.
I appreciate this in depth look at maintenance/repair in your museum, very interesting, love it! Please do more!
All I can say is Bravo!
The guide strip and spigots for the installation of the Leopard 1 engine pack was explained by Mark Hart exceptionally well and I've always wondered the system the German's incorporated for the quick field engine change.
Thank you guys so much for these videos. This is all very interesting and just in-depth enough for a layman like myself to understand it. Excellent work guys
I like your stuff I like your no-nonsense method explaining things
Great job folks and thank you for all the glimpses!
You provide an El-Dorado for us technical minded not so lucky beeing able to visit your place :-)
The power pack change process/tooling was amazing to learn about. Thank you so much for this video! :)
Please keep doing more of these I really enjoy them
Fantastic work,they are doing!
Excellent video. This sort of stuff is enthralling!
designed for ease of service, what a good idea.
I look forward to the next episode. Well done.
9:20 - those are the radiators and not the air filters, air filtration is hull mounted which directly connects to turbo charger intakes.
Great vid.
I do like the effort you put into those. For a layman like me, the camera work looks very good. Sound is good as well. Overall realy good production value.
Also, the guys of the workshop are clearly getting more comfortable in front of the camera. Relaxed and authentic. They do a great job.
Thanks for the great work you all do! I enjoy the maintenance in all it’s detail, I could watch for hours.
I loved this. You do a fantastic job. Well Done.
I don't think I have ever learned so much interesting information in 23 minutes before in my life!!
Thank you so much for these videos and please keep them coming.
Have Fun Guys,
Joe
Amazing series! Looking forward to watch the next episodes
Great video folks! This is going to be a hell of a series!