In a garage I worked at in the 80’s and 90’s on those leyland engines if they didn’t start was have you checked the dashpot got oil in it?.. it used to be a running joke.
Chris, the cf Bedford, because the fuel pump is on its end , you need to bleed the fuel pump at the 5 mm Allen key in between the injector pipes on the fuel pump. Also old diesel starts to smell like brush cleaner when it is old & gone off ..generally when the diesel goes off the fuel pump would be knackered inside ..🧨
Hi Chris love the honesty from you mate we only human and this is the real life struggles. Ino your a busy man but you been a miss lately not post often enough I need the struggler to get me through the week. Keep it real mate whoop whoop!!!
Yo chris m8 those Bedford cf diesels are cxxts to bleed !!!!i made a cap to pressurerise the fuel tank and push the fuel where it needs to go and the air out but b4 that i used to put a rope on em and drag em till they fired up with someone piloting the cf obviously 😅😅TOP MAN M8 listen in this game we all make mistakes especially the shit they make nowadays cheap nasty penny pinching litter 😅😅😅 keep em coming m8 love a new struggler vid 😊😊😊😊😊
Ay up Chris, was just wondering if you could say a happy birthday for my father in law Dave Clarke (raggy) from Leicester. It's his 70th birthday on April 21st, he loves your videos and has watched you from the early days. He was the one who put us onto you and we sit pissing ourselves at your struggles 😂😂😂. Jon
@@Professional-struggler i was talking with mechanics on a company i go they got a couple of them vans and theres never a day one isnt in garage pal , get it somewhere near sorted and go littlest hobo pal
Good afternoon Chris....nice to see you return to a job and be accountable....most these days make up a pile of excuses ....so good on you pal as per. ..old school !! That Bedford van of Joe's .....a choke .....my god takes me back .....my dad's old triumph stag ..... Your days I know are challenging at times but always interesting pal....the people you meet are genuine , down to earth like yourself and sadly this new generation is nowhere near ! Someone has misfuelled that tank surely .... That battery booster looks mega mate ! It'll definitely come in handy for sure. Not so certain washing your clothes then storing them "teenager" style on the floor of the van works 😂😂😂😂 But as it's you mate ....it actually makes sense. Thanks for cheering us all up on this actually dry and sunny Friday ... Have a great weekend Gary 🦉 🦉
Had one them Bedford s with the Opel motors like Joe's soon as it got bit cold had to 24v every day .my misses make me get undressed in the workshop if I have owt to do with gear oil 🤣🤣 keep it up mate ⚓🛠️🤠 JB
Great video Chris and always nice that you stand behind all your work. Hi Al nice to see you, and of course Lil’l dog what a strapping little dog. 👏👍🇨🇦💕
Evening Chris…..Joe must have 25hrs a day in his yard, I don’t know how he gets through so many projects….ps, that hub design is shite, and it’s as you suspect, so they sell more seals…..😳😉….have a great weekend, whoop whoop 👍🇮🇲😜
Years ago, mate had a mini van that he shared with his girlfriend, then she bought a Mini car for herself, but always had trouble starting it. She used to ring him, he'd drive over and it started first time. With her being used to the old van, she'd been pulling on the heater knob, thinking it was the choke ! When I've been trying to prime some of our diesel stuff in the middle of a forest and the battery's getting low, I find if you block off the air intake with a bit of wood or thick card, the engine will turn over quicker as it's not having to compress loads of air ? Also have a Garret metal detecting pinpointer, absolutely great for finding small stuff that you've dropped in the grass.
According to google Chris, 411 is the old US telephone number for the information operator (directory enquiries to us). So the 411 just became slang for information.
If your ever unsure about the seal position been right Chris put grease on the axle where the seal should ride push the hub on the axle fully home and when you pull you can then see where the seal has gone up to. Had to do loads of the things on optre solo buses even if you used the proper tool that set the depth for you the bloody things used to piss out in the end you just used it as an indicator as to when the diff needed filling up
Chris your right mate I've been subscribed since the first van tour video an I've just checked when you said an I had been unsubscribed livid. Love the vids
Great video Chris, Unusual to see you going back to jobs but like you said no one is perfect and hopefully fingers crossed it's sorted now, It's Friday ye it is and Fosters o'clock Have a great weekend mate, See you on the next one Whoop whoop.
would have thought you would have a second washing machine for work clothes, you must be able to find a second hand one on your travels. chuck in some vanish and work clothes come up loverly.
411 was to receive information from your landline I believe but people use it for slang for give me the information or I'll give you the information (give or receive the four one one)
The use of “411” also emerged with the dial era. “0” became universal for operator assistance and “411” was the number for directory assistance. In later years, if you dialed “0 and asked for directory assistance, the operator would transfer you over to “411.”
“411” is a slang term that originated in North America, particularly in the United States and Canada. It's used informally to refer to information, news, or updates about a particular topic or situation. Essentially, it means “What's the latest information on this?”
"Directory assistance" came to be known as "Information," and by the early 1980s, 411 (usually pronounced "four-one-one") was being used as a slang term for just that-information-and usually in the phrase "give me the 411 (on)."
Chris put a stand under, lost a good friend a good few years back when a bottle jack let go, not nice watching Firmen lifting unit to get his body out.
I remember fondly my first nail into floorboard without checking that a divvy plumber hadn't run his pipe on the edge of the board instead of the middle as should be 😢😢😢😢😢
That jump pack is awfully familiar, place I worked had the same one except red and viking branded from harbor freight. I was in disbelief when I that eclipse charges £550.00 and in the US for the exact same Chinese jump box its $329 (£265.00) what a markup. They do work well if you keep them charged. And as said 411 is or was the the number for information in the US, Weather, Time, and directory assistance. Any mechanic that says they've never had a job go bad is full of it.
In reference to the t20s the engine is exactly the same for the 12v and 6v mounting wise only things that are different are regulator starter dynamo coil and condenser The difference between a straight petrol engine and petrol tvo engine is the thickness of the head gasket petrol had 5mm tvo had 7mm A diesel engine will fit but clutch flywheel and all the electrics are different who ever told you they were all different was full of 5h1t
No body is perfect (But some people think so) 😂 so your going to make some mistakes but at least you owned up and paying for the mistake thats a honest mechanic fair place to you there is not alot of honest ones left that joe has got a expensive hobby but at least he restores hes vehicles the new project van is rare i would had that my self being petrol van 🤠👍🍺🍻
Since I started operating equipment I decided paid for everything I've run over or hit, it didn't take me long to get really good at not hitting things. Haha true story
Class chris. It happens to all good fitters, big firm small firm. Proper old school
Cheers mate 👍👍
Big man Chris admitting admitting our fk ups 👍👍
Great video Chris is foster Friday yeah it is
We do love a FRIDAY mate 😊🤠
We all make mistakes onley the best owns up to it ones would hide this your still the best chris 👍👍👍👍👍
Cheers mate very true 👍
Like your new video, my father in law would have a field day in the ‘truck museum’ he’s a proper old school lorry driver who’s first lorry was a GUY 😊
Oww he would love it there then mate
Like if you’ve watched our podcast with Chris! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Listened to it the other day. Then DC European and now listening to gold mining at moment. Spot on great podcasts make me laugh!😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Chris the Legend brilliant pal your good for my mental health 👍 ❤
👌👌 cheers you lot
started to miss you Chris you have rescued my Friday before kids arrive 😂😂
😂😂 before the kids turn your weekend upside down 😂 I know the feeling mate
Bloody good show 👍👍😊
A thank you Dan mate 👌
Love the snatch reference! Heavy is good, heavy is reliable 😂😂
😂👌👌
Another brilliant video Chris and it’s Friday whoop whoop 👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
We do love a FRIDAY!!! Mate
The man is a legend cheers a shit Friday up
😂 we do like a Friday mate 👌
In a garage I worked at in the 80’s and 90’s on those leyland engines if they didn’t start was have you checked the dashpot got oil in it?.. it used to be a running joke.
Awesome video thanks struggler top job have a great weekend buddy 🇬🇧🇺🇲🚜🚛🚜🚛🚜🚛
Cheers phil you to mate enjoy the rest of the week 💪👍
18:42 bleed the injectors Chris
Injector pipes are not connected ? so will have a job to do that lol
Nice little borris the blade reference there chris 😂😂
😂 you know it mate 👌
Chris, the cf Bedford, because the fuel pump is on its end , you need to bleed the fuel pump at the 5 mm Allen key in between the injector pipes on the fuel pump. Also old diesel starts to smell like brush cleaner when it is old & gone off ..generally when the diesel goes off the fuel pump would be knackered inside ..🧨
Cheers Ian mate that’s the bit of advice a wanted I’ll try to bleed it there first then mate! Yeah deffo think that was gone off then mate
5:13 Chris what can't kill us makes us stronger 👋🤠👍
True mate true 👌👍
Good on ya Chris boo boo fixed and total respect to ya showing it on ya channel
Chris has a look at annt"s pants"s, from lituania he is a one man struggler, he has got my respect. i watch all the vids"
I’ve just subbed to him I’ll have a look 👌👍
lol....Excellent..Have a great weekend Mr Struggler....
Cheers mate you to have a good week 💪👍👍
Bloody good show Chris the P3 will fit your in buddy.😊
😊👍
Nice one chris👊have a good week👍
You to mark mate 👍
Hi Chris love the honesty from you mate we only human and this is the real life struggles. Ino your a busy man but you been a miss lately not post often enough I need the struggler to get me through the week. Keep it real mate whoop whoop!!!
😂😂 cheers Dean mate! I’m slacking on the old editing mate
Yo chris m8 those Bedford cf diesels are cxxts to bleed !!!!i made a cap to pressurerise the fuel tank and push the fuel where it needs to go and the air out but b4 that i used to put a rope on em and drag em till they fired up with someone piloting the cf obviously 😅😅TOP MAN M8 listen in this game we all make mistakes especially the shit they make nowadays cheap nasty penny pinching litter 😅😅😅 keep em coming m8 love a new struggler vid 😊😊😊😊😊
Cheers for the heads up mate I’ll try that pal 👌 have a good rest of the week mate
@@Professional-strugglerno problems m8 glad to help out a hard working legend of a geeza 😊😊😊take care m8 u 2 av a good week
Bloody good show Chris
🫣 Bedford cf diesel I had lots of dealing with them
☘️☘️🇮🇪
Cheers James mate
I remember those Bedfords cf with the opel diesel could only get them to start with a tow round the yard mate 😂
We’re going to try that mate 👌👌
Joe has some great trucks and seems a bloody good bloke , good upload Chris
Yeah he’s a good one is our joe 👌
just one of them things...catch u on the next one brilliant..
Yeah I will mate 💪👍👍
Spring is here so you’ll find it , when you fitted the new one 😂😂😂 , brilliant video Chris 👍👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🏴
😂😂🤣 about right there mate
Ay up Chris, was just wondering if you could say a happy birthday for my father in law Dave Clarke (raggy) from Leicester. It's his 70th birthday on April 21st, he loves your videos and has watched you from the early days. He was the one who put us onto you and we sit pissing ourselves at your struggles 😂😂😂. Jon
Cheers Jon I’ve screen shot your comment so I’ll give him a shout out pal 😊👍 tell him thanks for watching from me
That's brilliant Chris, you'll make his day.😁👍
Great to see you again Chris, it's FRIDAY YEAH IT IS
Soon be there again mate 👌👌
Chris.. There’s a diesel Fergie for sale at my local auction. It needs restoring.
They bring good money now days mate
@@Professional-struggler £1000 send me your number for a photo of it
Nice to see you in my area silly Suffolk yep yep ❤😂😂😂
😂😂 cheers Mark
You should have got involved with that hub job chris ,absolute heap of shit them renault,vauxhall things
Umm I’m finding that out mate 🤦🏼♂️😂😂
@@Professional-struggler i was talking with mechanics on a company i go they got a couple of them vans and theres never a day one isnt in garage pal , get it somewhere near sorted and go littlest hobo pal
Warmer this week,Yeah it is .have a struggle free weekend Chris
Summer is a coming ☀️☀️☀️👌
Great video Chris, av a good weekend 👍
Cheers Benno mate, hope your week is going good pal
Keep em coming Chris yeh ya will 👍👍👍👍👍
Yeh I will mate 🤠
I know who sent the DEAD BLOWS, 😁 it was Micheal Holden from Waddington.
He thought the amazon parcel would of said his name. ❤
Cheers mate I’ll make sure I give him a shout out 👌
Great vlog mate as always…give AVF a kick up ars to get a vlog out pal 😃👍
😂😂🤣 will do mate
Great video bud anther struggling job done well done stay safe all in the Allen family. 👍👍👍🍺🍺🍺🌹🌹🌹🤣🤣🤣
Cheers Garry mate 👌👍👍
Good afternoon Chris....nice to see you return to a job and be accountable....most these days make up a pile of excuses ....so good on you pal as per. ..old school !!
That Bedford van of Joe's .....a choke .....my god takes me back .....my dad's old triumph stag .....
Your days I know are challenging at times but always interesting pal....the people you meet are genuine , down to earth like yourself and sadly this new generation is nowhere near !
Someone has misfuelled that tank surely ....
That battery booster looks mega mate ! It'll definitely come in handy for sure.
Not so certain washing your clothes then storing them "teenager" style on the floor of the van works 😂😂😂😂
But as it's you mate ....it actually makes sense.
Thanks for cheering us all up on this actually dry and sunny Friday ...
Have a great weekend
Gary 🦉 🦉
Cheers Garry mate 👍 hope your week is going splendid pal we’ve got a bit of sun today 👌
Had one them Bedford s with the Opel motors like Joe's soon as it got bit cold had to 24v every day .my misses make me get undressed in the workshop if I have owt to do with gear oil 🤣🤣 keep it up mate ⚓🛠️🤠 JB
That would turn it over quicker mate! Nothing worse than gear oil smell mate it’s a nightmare to get out 🤦🏼♂️👍
To bleed a Bedford CF years ago my boss use to put an airline in the fuel tank to push the fuel out of the pump.....could try this trick Chris?
Cheers John I’ll give it a go mate 👌👌
Chris ure a supper star, keep up good work hope you're family are well ,
You only watch him at ‘supper’?
Cheers Denise mate! All well here 👌👍👍
Joe bilton is a legend 🙌
😊👌👍
Great video mate 👍
Cheers Steve mate
Great video pal, that cheered me up no end…my cat died this morning……😭, gonna miss the little bugger, had him 18 years……
Sorry to here that mate 😌 18 years is a good age, must of had some adventures in his time mate 😊
@@Professional-struggler yes, think he used up all his 9 lives and then some….but guess old age got him in the end, as it will us all, take care pal….
Great video Chris and always nice that you stand behind all your work. Hi Al nice to see you, and of course Lil’l dog what a strapping little dog. 👏👍🇨🇦💕
Cheers Roxanne! He’s a grafter that lil dog is 😂😂
Still making time to watch the struggler in Thailand… bosh!! 😂
Cheers Craig mate! Have a good one 👌
Always a bloody good laugh watching your video's 😂😂keep the brilliant struggles going 💪💪👍👍
Cheers phil mate 👍
Evening Chris…..Joe must have 25hrs a day in his yard, I don’t know how he gets through so many projects….ps, that hub design is shite, and it’s as you suspect, so they sell more seals…..😳😉….have a great weekend, whoop whoop 👍🇮🇲😜
He’s a busy man Andy 😅 nice to see the old trucks getting looked after, you mate have a good week mate
Great conten as always
Cheers Patrick mate
How do you protect your van from these tool thieves breaking into vans ?
Another great video has always chris and leahdag and family 👍
Cheers Tony! I put 4000volts through the body when parked up 😂🤣 I just park it as close to the house as possible mate
😅 cheers mate
Chris,check out Norfolk man cave ....His visit to a branshatch cafe,unbelievable
I’ll have a look mate 👌
Chris. That rubber pipe have collapsed inside due to the diesel perishing it.
Bit perished mate wasn’t it 👍
2:25 seals on backwards Chris
😂😂 you made me look
Years ago, mate had a mini van that he shared with his girlfriend, then she bought a Mini car for herself, but always had trouble starting it. She used to ring him, he'd drive over and it started first time. With her being used to the old van, she'd been pulling on the heater knob, thinking it was the choke !
When I've been trying to prime some of our diesel stuff in the middle of a forest and the battery's getting low, I find if you block off the air intake with a bit of wood or thick card, the engine will turn over quicker as it's not having to compress loads of air ?
Also have a Garret metal detecting pinpointer, absolutely great for finding small stuff that you've dropped in the grass.
Cheers Graeme mate that’s a good bit of advice there mate! I like the detector idea 👌👌
Good Friday are Chris. Hope you and the family are well 🎉🎉
Cheers Daz mate have a good rest of the week mate
Hey Chris,
411 telephone directory 👍
👌👌 cheers mate
Mate, the "411" here in the states is where you used to be able to dial 411 on your phone and get the local time and temp info. Cheers
Aaar that’s where that term comes from! Cheers mate 👌
According to google Chris, 411 is the old US telephone number for the information operator (directory enquiries to us). So the 411 just became slang for information.
👌👌 cheers mate
Morning Chris
Morning mate 🤙 ☀️ suns out
411 in America was a directory. As a kid I remember people dialing thay or A similar # for date, time & temperature.
Umm interesting mate 👍
If your ever unsure about the seal position been right Chris put grease on the axle where the seal should ride push the hub on the axle fully home and when you pull you can then see where the seal has gone up to. Had to do loads of the things on optre solo buses even if you used the proper tool that set the depth for you the bloody things used to piss out in the end you just used it as an indicator as to when the diff needed filling up
Thats a very good idea with the grease, but i allways knock the seal down to the bearing as thats were it should be ?
Cheers mate nice bit of advice there 👌👌
No Brian it would be to far from the lip then, it’s a shit design really mate
411 is what you dial for director inquiries in USA
Now I know mate cheers 👍👍
Chris your right mate I've been subscribed since the first van tour video an I've just checked when you said an I had been unsubscribed livid. Love the vids
Welcome back then mate 😂👌👍
keep on struggling 👊💪🤙👍👌
We can do nothing more my friend 😊👍
Great watch Chris. Live and learn I suppose but that design is ridiculous
Cheers Jerry mate 👍
Great video Chris,
Unusual to see you going back to jobs but like you said no one is perfect and hopefully fingers crossed it's sorted now,
It's Friday ye it is and Fosters o'clock
Have a great weekend mate,
See you on the next one
Whoop whoop.
Cheers mate 👍 we do love a FRIDAY mate
would have thought you would have a second washing machine for work clothes, you must be able to find a second hand one on your travels. chuck in some vanish and work clothes come up loverly.
I should do mate really be a good idea that 👍
Better out than in
😂👍
He who never made a mistake never made anything.
Very true mate 👌👍
I bought three dead blow hammers off Amazon £15 for all three. They're a great bitter kit.
You can get some right bargains on there sometimes mate
U should do full days of the life of the struggler with no editing 😊 (LIMITED) 😂
😂😂🤣👌👌
I've the same fuel issue on my 90 which has stood for a year,even tried injector cleaner directly into pump but still nothing out of it
Umm it’s a strange one mate
Could you have not drilled a couple of holes opposite each other in that cup what the abs ring is on and levered the thing off?
Could of done mate but I would still have to get a new one or the oil would go on the brakes 👍
411 was to receive information from your landline I believe but people use it for slang for give me the information or I'll give you the information (give or receive the four one one)
Cheers Dan mate 👍👌👌📞☎️
I love my parkside plasma chris. Bought it after seeing it on your channel.😊
Yeah I’ve heard good reports of them mate 👌👌
The use of “411” also emerged with the dial era. “0” became universal for operator assistance and “411” was the number for directory assistance. In later years, if you dialed “0 and asked for directory assistance, the operator would transfer you over to “411.”
Cheers Glenn mate 👌👌👍
6:52 4,1,1 description chris
Cheers mate
“411” is a slang term that originated in North America, particularly in the United States and Canada. It's used informally to refer to information, news, or updates about a particular topic or situation. Essentially, it means “What's the latest information on this?”
Very interesting mate 👌👍 that’s a big 10/4
Love the ginger lives matter hat. 😎👍
😂😂 good roof that mate
"Directory assistance" came to be known as "Information," and by the early 1980s, 411 (usually pronounced "four-one-one") was being used as a slang term for just that-information-and usually in the phrase "give me the 411 (on)."
Cheers mate 👌 there’s a wealth of info you find out on the comments
Chris and his FUNNY BONE
😂 🦴
C'mon,, lets ride this train🤣🤣👍 Love those old Lorrys Chris
😂😂🎶🎵
Chris put a stand under, lost a good friend a good few years back when a bottle jack let go, not nice watching Firmen lifting unit to get his body out.
True mate 👌 sounds terrible
Its Friday !
And it will soon be here again mate 👌🤠😊
We all have learn some how Chris . Made plenty of mistakes in my time.
To right mate we all have 👍
Wooooowooooooo
👍👍
I remember fondly my first nail into floorboard without checking that a divvy plumber hadn't run his pipe on the edge of the board instead of the middle as should be 😢😢😢😢😢
🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🥲
That jump pack is awfully familiar, place I worked had the same one except red and viking branded from harbor freight. I was in disbelief when I that eclipse charges £550.00 and in the US for the exact same Chinese jump box its $329 (£265.00) what a markup. They do work well if you keep them charged. And as said 411 is or was the the number for information in the US, Weather, Time, and directory assistance. Any mechanic that says they've never had a job go bad is full of it.
Bit over priced I think to mate good job a got a discount or I wouldn’t of got it! Have a good week mate 👌👍👍
In reference to the t20s the engine is exactly the same for the 12v and 6v mounting wise only things that are different are regulator starter dynamo coil and condenser
The difference between a straight petrol engine and petrol tvo engine is the thickness of the head gasket petrol had 5mm tvo had 7mm
A diesel engine will fit but clutch flywheel and all the electrics are different who ever told you they were all different was full of 5h1t
Cheers Peter mate that’s cleared that up then mate 👌👍 I’ll keep my eye out for them 👌
We all make mistakes Chris it's how you learn buddy don't take any crap from them who say you don't loving the videos 😂❤
Cheers Darren mate 💪👍
Nice one. Shit happens to the best of us.
It unfortunately does mate 👍
That's why they put rubbers on the end of pencils....😁😁😁
😱😂😂
No body is perfect (But some people think so) 😂 so your going to make some mistakes but at least you owned up and paying for the mistake thats a honest mechanic fair place to you there is not alot of honest ones left that joe has got a expensive hobby but at least he restores hes vehicles the new project van is rare i would had that my self being petrol van 🤠👍🍺🍻
Very true mate! Joe loves the old ones nice to see them being looked after 👍 have a good week Peter
Since I started operating equipment I decided paid for everything I've run over or hit, it didn't take me long to get really good at not hitting things. Haha true story
😂🤣 yeah that’s a good why to learn quicker mate 👌
apparently 411 was the telephone directory number for Information
👌👌Cheers mate
Sometimes the job was so good you have to do it twice 🤣🤣
😂😂 yeah that’s it mate… we just love it to much
🤘😎🤘
👍🤠👍