WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Repairing Stalin's Pickup Truck
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AusArmour Mechanic, Steve, continues our "repairing Soviet vehicles" theme with the Soviet Artillery Tractor!
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I think Steve needs a matching pillow to complete his comfort package. Plus an endless supply of coffee and biscuits just as a reward for squeezing himself in there. One of the best thing to happen to the museum and workshop Wednesday was Steve joining the team. A master mechanic extraordinaire…plus a great sense of humour.
Totally agree, you could almost have a channel just for Steve 🙂
Yep, a Steve channel, entitled Where's Steve? Much like Where's Waldo?
Maybe a hottie if he gets stuck overnight😅?
I think I find the Soviet stuff so fascinating cause it always just seems to manage to be such a paradox.
This thing is somehow both gorgeous, and butt ugly. Rugged and unreliable. Brilliantly conceived and batshit insane. Simple and convoluted.
You can drop the coolant straight out through a hatch, but you have to contort yourself nineteen ways to do the oil filter.
Thanks for persevering through and sharing the journeys with us Steve & AAAM. Really enjoying the presentation style and sharing of the thought process and insights.
I was pleasantly surprised that Comrade 10mm didn't join the countless others when poor Steve was literally contorting himself to get into the engine compartment!
Steve “I’m getting to old for this kind of lark” the heart felt cry of all of us old spanner jockeys.
Here in Oz we’ve had - Steve “the crocodile hunter” Irwin, RIP.
We now have - Steve “the Soviet tank wrangler” FromAusArmour.
Good on ya Steve!
Steve you are the MAN! Spelunking in an old Soviet vehicle does not look like the best job. But many people appreciate the work you guys do. Great job to all connected with Aus armor. Thank you from America.
Steve is like a terrier, he just won't quit.
Greetings from South Carolina, USA! When we captured Al Asad air base in Iraq in 2003, we captured one or two of these with some kind of Soviet era radar unit mounted on it. I have some photos of it if you are interested. Thanks for another great video!!!
Steve suffers Soviet engineering for our entertainment
Can we say masochist boys amd girls?
Great line.😀
Nice to see a soviet vehicle actually designed for ease of maintenance for once.
Soviet vehicles do not need maintenance, comrade as they never break down. Ease of maintenance is only for weak and feeble capitalist machines.
i think the thing was designed to take the whole cab off when working on the engine. You can se the connection points of the cab to the chaises at the @13:00 mark
Earning the Respect of countless Service Mechs everywhere
Damn right
Love it, love it, love it. Steve is quickly becoming my favourite Workshop Wednesday...
By taking us along in your repair adventures, we gain a whole new appreciation for what it takes to keep a museum fleet running.
Well done!!
Your Russian is improving, Kurt!
As for Steve, I'm a retired RAEME Vehicle Mech, whose career was spent working on Armour, so you have my unending sympathy.
Great show, as usual, lads...
AHA one bleep so far!!! AHA TWO BLEEPS!! Me with an afternoon on a Continental in an M3 was all bleeps!!😂 AHA THREE BLEEPS! Good show lads!!
One of the most badass looking military vehicles ever built!
Естет...😂
Once again, Doc Steve tells the Russian Engineers, "Hold my beer," and then digs into a beast of a machine. Despite the tight twists, turns, and the constant ongoing knuckle bruising battle with Stalin's beast, he persevered with only one BLEEP. Great job Steve.
Steve...Mate you are my utter HERO !! And Kurt. How may takes were needed for you to say the name of this awesome machine?
Just one 😉
Was thinking blooper reel the moment he said it.😂
Great video, Steve keeping it real with the bleeps 👍
A friend of mine had a Russian agriculture tractor for his farm, which used the same V12 engine. And as the and couldn't get replacement oil filters and found out that he could use two large tiolet paper rolls end to end as a stop gap measure. Cheers
I think your friend was "mistaken". Using toilet paper rolls would be a good way to ruin even a Russian engine.
@@obsidianjane4413 Are you sure? In America there were toilet paper oil filters used on cars in the fifties/Sixties...
@@ricksmith4736 No there wasn't. There were/are filter systems that use media that resemble TP, but they are not the stuff you wipe your butt with.
@@ricksmith4736 yep pretty sure.
There were Frantz oil bypass filters (still in business I think) which did say in the 1950s and early 1960s that tp rolls could be used but later advised that 'modern' toilet paper was not suitable and would break down. I didn't ever see it in use but some of the government issue tp in use at the time was pretty much indestructible!
Steve taking another hit for the team! Great video, really shows how claustrophobic these jobs can be.
Yes, we do appreciate all the dungeon crawling he does, and great work bringing the cameras in at good spots.
Stunning wagons , many still giving faithful service in Siberia and in the north where they are invaluable in the forests and mud . Pull anything
i love the way you say " WENNNSDAAAY"
What an amazing man Steven is Sing his praises because servicing these beasts is an ordeal!! Well done!!
I know a few people who do that for fun. They call it caving😄
I used to fix M113s' and this reminds me of fixing the TLC (Tracked Load Carrying) or tilley. You had to be half fruit bat to fix them for the amount of time you spent upside down in them.
Steve really seems to see it as his mission to educate the public. I love the First Person Mechanic experience. What a great guy!
Misery loves company. Even if its virtual.
The most well-earned “bleeps” I’ve seen in a while!
Please, please make these videos longer or do Workshop Monday and Friday's 😅 can't get enough of a fix 😮
I second that idea. I love these video's. Very informative and entertaining !
My claustrophobia kicked in just watching you wriggle into position. Rather you than me!
just think steve sometime in the far flung future someone will be looking at this historical document to replicate youre work on this beast!
I have never heard Steve swear so much working on anything else. Must be a right cow of a job. Like a lot of mechanical things the designers seldom, if ever, think about serviceability. Trying to imagine what it would be like working on one of these in the middle of a Russian winter. 🥶
You have to remember that at the time this vehicle was designed and manufactured vehicle life span was measured in hours. A T-34 engine was expected to last 500 hours and so a second spare engine was carried on the back deck. Now with that sort of thinking and being involved in a titanic war of destruction, do you really think that long-term servicing was a consideration?
Personally I am surprised that there were servicing hatches as it was!
Poor Steve, what a nightmare!
@@markfryer9880 It is post-war, and is on a modified T-54 or T-55 chassis, so built AFTER the "titanic war of destruction". Because they were made for 30 years, there may have been design modifications during the production span. Thus, based simply on the video, it is impossible to know if the "early" ones had the oil hatch, as this may be a later one.
Looks perfect to take a few of your mates to Bunnings on a Saturday morning for a sausage sanga
you're a legend Steve...
Fantastic Workshop Wednesday
A good one... And music to match the machine........
Steve, you are a true gem and such a wonderful addition to the team. What a blessed day when you joined the fold.
Excellent! Steve the Mechanic is very entertaining and informative. Thanks guys.
Looks like a cozy place to take a nap!
Not in the Cairns heat mate....too bloody hot!
Well done Steve, you wouldnt be a mechanic if you did not let out the occasional expletive, keep up the good work.
Got to love some good old Soviet engineering!!
Kudos to Steve for going the extra mile to pull that oil filter out despite the horrendous decision by the Soviet designer to make it as inaccessible as possible. 👍 I bet that was the first time it was removed and cleaned since the vehicle was assembled at the factory.
Whoever designed that engine compartment was truly eeeeevil !
Great vehicle with plenty of space to go to supermarket for weekend shopping
Only 5 beeps Steve, looking good.
Has a service pit ever been considered for servicing tanks, etc.? They drive over it, and service personnel can easily access the hull bottom access ports. 🤔 😀
Wow, Steve is nuts (in a good way). I will never, ever, complain about working on my Chevy pick-up again.
Steve's a keeper. I think Aus Armour should provide him with a mechanic's pit somewhere in the shop so he can under the machinery more easily. At the very least get him a new watch. That was a nasty bath it took at 6:10. Cheeers from Canada
You can tell how much the engineers cared about the people using it by seeing how hard it is to change the oil on it.
They were probably designing from prison.
@@busterdee8228 Brotherman you obviously know very little about the Soviet design bureaus.
@@Michael-rr7um Obviously.
people? It is designed for Soviet soldiers, they are not deemed to be humans at all.
@@antontsau Yeah whatever you say.
As a suggestion, something I always found useful for doing up clamps in difficult positions on engines is an electric screwdriver (with a torque setting if you want to get posh), a 1/4 inch drive and a Universal joint between the screwdriver and the socket. Then the spanner-turning just consists of pushing a button on the screwdriver.
Great work Steve. That is just a beast of a vehicle. At least you are not out on the steppe in January. Say safe and healthy, mate.
Артилерийский Тягач тяжолий, I see, I click ‘like’. Amazing work, Steve.
This is a beast I have seen this. The Vehicle that tows the SAM-2 is also great. The place is Fantastic.
Nice video guys!! What a beast that 'truck' is - kind of cramped to work on for such a big vehicle!!! Good on you, Steve to accept the challenge. The information and video is much appreciated! See you next week!! 😀
Another great episode. Ausarmour need to dig a mechanic's pit for Steve!
loved this thing when we visited back in February this year
Great job Steve!
One of the coolest vehicles there.
may be get a hammock fnext rime...lol always great to watch the crew being things back to life and sometimes better.
Omg, fly me from Canada to be Steve's helper. Our combination of curse words will get everything fixed. What a beast of a truck.
Great video lads. I really like that the videos you put out and the videos Bovington put out really compliment each other. Bovington seem to focus on how specific tanks were used in battle and their development, whereas you guys focus on the mechanics and how the vehicles actually work as well as documenting their restoration in detail. There's room on UA-cam for both approaches.
Great video Kurt thank you. Steve certainly had his work cut out on this job.......contortionist comes to mind. Well done Steve!
My favorite channel on UA-cam. Maybe someday I’ll be able to visit.
I want that truck! Love to see a modern version of that!
Not service friendly design. Great job Steve ! 😊👍
There is a very nice 1944 Studebaker 6 wheel done in American livery for sale in Willalooka south Australia apparently has rare pieces.
Excellent mechanical detail.
Its impressive work, Steve, looking forevard to see you finding the Oil leak. Keep up the good work. Thanks a million.
Love this guy's work!😊
Looks very similar to what the soviets used for their antarctic expeditions! Very unique tractor, I love it
Just what I would need for gold mining in Alaska!
My one year anniversary of discovering this channel is about now
That sounds great! Very cool! I am even more envious...
You are very lucky to have such a challenging job love what you do
I like the fact that post-war Soviet military truck designs - to this day - still bear a resemblance to the Studebaker US6 that they relied on in WW2.
Thank you Steve fascinating to watch. Go get a cold one mate.
Steve, you need to start training an apprentice that won't grow more than 50 kg and 5ft. That way you can send him to the hard to get to spots in those tanks.
They used to have Lottie The Tank Whisperer who met the specification, but she seems to have moved on and posts her own videos on YT.
yes it was usual way in Soviet tank forces - select small soldiers (middle-asians preferable) from available recruits to drive and repair all this. Why to make bigger tank if you can choose smaller crew!
wow! nice work Steve! they must have selected the smaller comrades as mechanics!!
I ALWAYS remove my watch before working on equipment like this ... haven't you learned that yet?
This looks like a lovely old beast and I'm loving the vehicle.
I would've gladly donated the comforter my wife chose for our bed..lol...
I have a 1947 Dodge WC pickup truck. During WWII the U.S. sent thousands of Dodge trucks based on the WC to the U.S.S.R. as lend-lease aid. Many were ambulances, others were weapons carriers or searchlight trucks. Looking at this beast I was struck by the similarity of the cab to my 1947 Dodge. The one on "Stalin's pickup" is obviously much wider but one can clearly see that the Soviets did some reverse engineering of those old Dodge truck cabs to build it. The rear window frame looks like it would fit my old Dodge exactly.
Good video, and much enjoyed.
I bet those discs for the oil filter would do pretty well in a ultrasonic cleaner to get all the fine particles out 🙂
I am proposing that Steve be move to Legend Status from now on. I know he had the sheer luxury of the Donia, but squeezing into that maze of an engine bay took nerves of steel and supporting pain killers. My claustrophobia is bad, and I can normally watch without turning away. But this evening's episode had me watching through one eye closed. All Hail Steve the LEGEND. 😇
I never knew I was Clautrophobic until I toured the Submarine at OMSI in Portland, OR..... The Diesel smell ( it was one of the last diesel subs made) and the " electric grease" smell added to my discomfort.....
These are some of the coolest vehicles ever built. Talk about a monster truck! If only they had a bit of modern engineering!
My favorite vehicle at Aus Armour 👌🤙
Well done team!
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks!
Wow Steve - you sure know how to live - and holy crap, changing that filter that looks like fun! Good thing you’re a scrawny little chap!
Amazing work Mates!!!
I had a genuine chuckle at the intro title. Great vid guys. Thanks!
Great job with the variety of camera angles & placements ❤
Another very interesting and "easy" to work on Soviet vehicle. ha
This is my favorite channel to watch. All of the characters are phenomenal. The skill, knowledge and desire to keep history alive is highly visible. It shows in all you do.
Growing up on an Army Proving Ground, armour and artillery mean a great deal to me.
so looking forward to tankfest, been trying to get to cairns since covid started!
"Tasty bits." Museum is in good hands. Not military, but a Kharcovchanka would be an awesome addition. The design proved a little impractical (cabin fumes, poor insulation) and I think was overtaken by a more practical adaptation of your 'truck.' These look soooooo cool. I can hear Steve's job interview: 'How are you with leaks?'
My back hurts just watching him move around under the tanks. Someone get the man a proper service pit!
Great bit of "caving" from Steve, scarily deep inside an engine bay. Great skills!
Steve makes the best vids.
Steve= legend
That's where my doona went! I would know those mildew stains anywhere.
11:23 Run a peice of all tread and two nuts down the center to compress and hold the covers until the keeper rings are installed. Wheels Through Time has some motorcycle repair videos that might give you some handy tips while working on the various machines you encounter.