Music to my ears! My dad had one of the first Ergo cabbed Mandators with an AV760 engine. Engine number AV760/152. New in 1966 the reg no was DEN803D. I was only 11 years old at the time but I can still hear that engine in my mind. Am I a sad git or what haha!

@stevetaylor5933

6 жыл бұрын

owdblenky if that's you Martin, how's den now

@stevetaylor5933

5 жыл бұрын

I've got plenty of pictures of den being restored

@TheFlyingBusman

4 жыл бұрын

owdblenky nothing sad about that my friend. I still have Gardner LW’s ringing in my ears from fairground generator sets. I’d have my turn on the dodgems and hook a duck then spend the rest of my time at the fair just looking at the wagons.

they were a great auld engine they were fitted to that lovely crash gear box seen here fitted to the engine in the video this engine was in the AEC Mandator great engine in a lovely tractor unit worked alot on these in the mid to late 70s in the West of Ireland , god be with the days learned SOME my trade on these as an apprentice way back before Hinos and MAN came along

@billalbion

5 жыл бұрын

The gear box is constant mesh, only useless driver's made them into crash gear box's

@edwardkennedy9919

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, aec 6 speed box worked on them myself, the woodruff keys for the main shaft gears sometimes sheared and you would loose that gear, but a reliable box all the same.

@brianosborne9446

2 жыл бұрын

Sliding mesh gearbox was referred to as "crash box". Not used by AEC since 1930s.

loved the way it spat the pipe off attitude !!lol

AEC in good conditioning Will never smoke...

Spitting and spluttering a bit, sounds like it needs a tweak, great engines

that sounds almost like a Leyland 680 but yet sounds completely different and nothing like a Gardner

Injection timing a couple of degrees out,hence grey smoke

Taking some time to get oil to the top end isn't it, Overhauled loads of these in my time & my trainer would have binned me treating one like this, & if oil took that long to get top end would have stopped it straight away & investigated WHY !!. Those strainers in the sump that you had to get the oil pick up pipe into when putting the sump on, when the engine was still in the truck gave some arm aches I tell ya, specially as a young apprentice. Loved these engines though.

hi, whats happened to the rocker covers and the 2 oil bath air cleaners.what will you use this engine for ? i worked at AEC and made loads of these engines and av505s.they did not all have the same sumps or rocker covers. eg the mod engines was a different spec.and so on. pump timing was normaly 15 degrees btdc,and when hot will not smoke

The valve and pump timing are out on that lump, I know as it was a difficult engine to get right as no timing marks on the gears, all done with dial gauges and measures.

sounds like the pump timings out.

Correct me if I am Wrong But Pegaso of Spain used to use AEC engines late 60'searly 70's

Holy Mother of Moses, this is called rebuilt? At least they should have disguised the missing stud or studs.

If this is the rebuild quality God help who ever bought the engine!!!

There does not seem to be much oil around the rocker gear,

Rebuilt, jeez

AV760 is the same as AH760?

@JamesSchem

9 жыл бұрын

No, same as with the AEC 505, one is Veritcal (AV) and the other is horizontal (AH)

@JamesSchem

9 жыл бұрын

James Schembri

@JamesSchem

9 жыл бұрын

BrunoRendezVousAH examples would have been fitted in diesel trains for example, which makes sense when you think about it.

@edwardkennedy9919

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesSchem I think the aec 505 was fitted in the guy big j6 trucks, a good engine from memory.

euro 6 compliant

is this a routemaster engine?

Rebuilt? Looks like a wreck to me.

Some people think when they fit a rocker gasket they have carried out a rebuild. Lazy gits.