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The old fella bought an ex army Matador after the war when he came back from Burma. And it was used on farm for all sorts. Tuesday was market day and he’d take us to school in the lorry as a treat in the 60’s

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Happy days 👍

If in doubt “ double can the bastard” excellent

@douglastodd1947

3 жыл бұрын

worst thing you could do in the 70's once easy start 's been used it needs to be used more and more.

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

No. Easy Start/Ether can be used to start a good engine in cold conditions with no issues. It's when folk neglect and overlook underlying issues and rely on Ether as an easy fix that things deteriorate.

I'm perfectly happy to watch you guys buggering about. More entertaining than the crap on tv, that's for sure.

"This isn't a rebuild in a can." I haven't laughed so hard in weeks

AEC matadors are built to last forever. loved the vid mucker

I only use rendered skunk fat for starting engines; highly flammable, totally safe, and it smells like fresh cut hay...

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Jake Paul sent me some of his own brand aftershave...

@MyLegacyGarage

3 жыл бұрын

@@LordMuck easy now, you'll end up in the ring with him. Lol

@dodgydruid

3 жыл бұрын

I still have a bottle of strawberry jam smelling 2 stroke oil for my Vespa which pongs like a strawberry petrol bomb and not very good lol

That engine was so clean I thought it was a rebuild and wouldn't start. i didn't realise it was knackered haha.

Brake and Clutch cleaner is demon for getting engines started! And yes let’s see what you can squirt in it 👍🏻

I’m ten minutes in and laughing like a fiend. No idea whether she’s going to get a look-in or not, so I’ll just say it: “How f--ing dare you?” Love this channel.

@johnbarry4562

3 жыл бұрын

Guy Fuller 😂😂😂

As an owner of a’ fairly’ tidy Matador I thoroughly enjoy that Brilliant 👍

There a lovely old truck the matador my great uncle has two, one is a Notts city bus wrecker and the other a military spec gun tractor, before we had them ended up as timber tractors for Gregory's sawmill in Derbyshire and were both restored by our self's, and I have a 6 wheeler aec militant with a atlas crane on awaiting restoration brilliant video as always 👍🏻

Yes, definitely want to see you run the tractor on various things, the smokier the better!

@danmackintosh6325

3 жыл бұрын

How DARE you!!!

Aww love those two lorries @20.00. Looking at the green one its even got its own nose bag in case it gets a little hungry.

Seeing those Matador's, brought back memories, I drove a Matador converted to drag timber when I was 12 yrs old, that darn thing climbed out of a bomb crater on tick-over, the owner thought it was quite funny to see me standing on the clutch pedal with both feet,........ Lovely old things British engineering at its best just like the Gardener Engines they had a kinda mesmerising tick over.. Great video...

As an ex gunner.... lovely to see these old motors preserved😎👍🏼well done youth😂💪🏼

Great to see people who are restoring proper British engineering,, man here in northern Ireland has a few old trucks,, restored a scammel explorer 6x6 tank recovery,truck 10,5 litre rolls royce petrol,,,, liking this channel,, ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🚚🚚🚚🚚

The genuine love between a man and his dog cannot be beaten....

Too right I want to see you start an engine with various “fuels”

Just been laughing me nuts off, good crack, can we have more of a laugh and see what you can start that tractor with, Brilliant.

Yes to the “Will it run on any old wank” video. Thanks Mucker 👍🏻

Double can the bar steward 😂😂...... Awesome 😎 Bit windy 🌬 near the end,should of fired up on vapours lol...👌😆

Eyup Mucker. Saunders brought me here. Not a truck driver, but love these old trucks. Favourites being AEC Matadors, Militant, or any old Scammell

when i was a bairn i would go out with ma da to start our trucks in the morning to cold start,, burning newspaper held against air filter intake hole whilst turning over engine foot hard on accelerator , sometimes with a coal fire on a shovel slide under engine to help thin oil and defrost fuel lines as well.

Yes to the engine starting fluids.

Loved the vid. Had me in stitches when you were getting smoked out.Would be good to see different fluids tried.

My T Shirt arrived! Many thanks!!! It even fits and the wife didn't laugh at me :-) - "Double can the bastard"!! Brilliant!!!

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it 👍

Love this video, old is gold 👌

Yes. Maybe we can even see if whiskey works as a fuel. 😁 95 proof! Greta was throwing fits with that smoke😄😄😄

I had great memories of my old dad who used to called a blowtorch a blowlamp bless him. 👍

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

The proper blowlamps were the big ones run on paraffin.

Yes would love to see what an engine will run on

No waiting for the smoke to clear, double can and send it,, I nearly choked laughing 😂

Lol great video, love the choking from you two, I think we've all done the " let's run it up" in a confined space 😄 matador mecca for sure

Yes would like to see you messing about with the engine, love the channel your comments make laugh

When I was 18, not long having passed my driving test, I had to take a Matador to one of the gangs working on site. 2 miles in, I had to negotiate a busy town, with the high street on a steep hill. Baptism of fire i think it's called. Must have done ok though, because it wasn't long before they put me through my HGV class 1.

Lynx should start a bloody engine it burns everything else 💥

Dear Sir, regarding starting on ether & so called damage, in the 1980s I drove a Seddon Atkinson 400 I think it had a Cummins 250? it was almost new & came from the factory with an ether cold start fitted, a screw type canister under the flap front of cab with a small chain to operate, realy enjoy your videos please keep posting, admire anyone who rescues dogs I wish you well Edward Thomas

Feck yeh I'd like to see a beer fueled experiment, ain't that what Saturday afternoons in the workshop all about.

I worked in the timber industry in the 1970s, 8os they were great machines could take a lot of stick and lovely sound, you are so lucky to have so many to play with

Good wholesome fun right there! Brought back some good memories smoking the shed out. Top marks.

This happen when `the kid `inside us take over :-) Goodigoodi !

Great to see you messing around with proper engines I grew up around aec Ford coaches I still drive coaches have class one driven seddon Atkinson twin Eaton split you drove then nowadays you just aim and go keep it up lads great to see this

Roger Moore (JAMES BOND) lit up a snake in “live and let die” with aftershave or spray cologne. As a kid I made tennis ball cannons using ladies hair spray (flammable kind) there are so many flammable sprays to try as starting fluid.

If anyone doesn't want to see the engine start experiments they shouldnt be watching this channel!! Of course I want to see it. Lovely seeing the AEC Matadors too. More of them too please!!

Just love the way you tickle trout! Like shelling peas , you draw them in like Ali , then sting like a 🐝 brilliant , first class mucker

In the TA centre in the 50s and 60s we had 4 sets of these with the 5.5 inch howitzer's towed behind them.

@14.46, lol 'party gas' love it!

Anyone not wanting to see you bugger about with daft stuff needs to lighten up! I'm in 😂 The way that was spinning over, it was clear it was lacking compression, but I was dying for it to miraculously burst into life in a cloud of smoke.

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

What a lot of folk fail to realise however is that it's easy to jump to conclusions when somethings on a test frame or in a test house. With no ancillaries, pumps, compressors, driveline, clutch etc an engine behaves differently. We didn't actually think it would fire on ether...

We have one matador in the tank museum in Belgium ,it runs and is in great cheap.

It was cold morning no where near power to plug it in thought I would try either anyway a lesson was learned thanks

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

It's fine to use Russell, just not too much too often

Just what I needed today bloody good laugh thanks Lord muck

Hi mate interesting stuff, i started my driving career in the early 70;s and used to drive two different matadors up and down the roads of oxfordshire fetching and loading timber, brilliant days!

One of the best episodes yet 👍🏻

You know what I wanna come out and see you two

That starts better than my Detroit.:)

Love those old engine

I am jumping the Cummins swap band wagon, I am now a fan of the Matador. ;)

Lots of fun. Suggestion put a box fan in the window to draw out the exhaust as well as a piping out the exhaust pipe.

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

It's not as if we are stood in there for hours and the door was open.

Another great video! Yes for the engine video.

Great vid mate very funny keep them coming please

Great vid Mucker. We had an old Matador at the garage where I started my apprenticeship. Well explained and well diagnosed 👍

So interesting ...thanks guys !

Way back in 1963 (I was 11 at the time) my parents had a spinney of very large elm's taken down as one of them had shown sighns of dutch elm disease, so they sold the lot to a timber company in Bedford,we were living in Waterbeach just outside Cambridge at the time. The timber co came along with an AEC Matador and a trailer on which to haul the trees away with. They loaded four or five of the trees onto the trailer at a time the trees being about four foot in diameter 50 foot or so long by the time they were trimmed. When it came time to haul the trailer away it had sunk up to its axles in the fen type soil so they would go to the length of the winch cable drop the spade and haul the trailer in then repeat until the matador was on the road and the traile was still bogged. The spade was then dropped against the curb and winching began again, well the front wheels would come of the ground and slowly the trailer would move foward while at the same time the matador moved backwards. By the time they had done this arond ten or so times there was a distinct bow in the curb stones and the foot path and there was ruts so deep and wide that I could walk in them and the ground was level with my waist,the ruts were still visable sixteen years later when my parents sold the old Vicarage site for for development which was right in the middle of the village and the curve in the curb is still there or was last time I went through Waterbeach four years ago. I asked about the wich at the time thinking that it must be special for them and was told that it was the same one fitted by AEC the only thing they did was replace the cast drum and axle with a turned steel one. That truck made a deep imppresion on me as well.

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it's still around ?

@Equiluxe1

3 жыл бұрын

@@LordMuck I dont know the name of the timber company just that they came from Bedford or Bedfordshire and they specialised in elms at the time for coffins.

What a great laugh, oh and a perfect explanation of the easy start story. Where did the addiction idea come from? It's an engine!

@2341jasonb

3 жыл бұрын

The addiction idea comes from people that don't understand how things work well anything really when the engine develops a fault and is hard to start 9 times out ov 10 muckers Cosby giggle gas will get it going as time goes on the fault that caused the hard starting gets worse so you need more and more cosby gas but it's not addicted to it it's just buggered 😉

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Exaaaaaactly 😎👌🏼

@nicolassales8679

3 жыл бұрын

@@2341jasonb Ah that explains it. I come from his lordships background, " why won't that start then?" So I have only used easy start as a diagnostic tool! Don't get me started on people putting " additives" in complex hydraulic systems. I am no lord by the way, just a peasant.

THAT was entertaining, amusing, educational, and brought back memories of similar shenanigans 👍

Hi mucker.. A few years ago I put a Scania R420 dc13 engine running only in brake cleaner, men.. That thing was scary!! As soon as the engine stopped all the intake ports were on fire!! I like very much of those kind of trucks!! Real nice video!! In the 60s the Portuguese troops used a truck called Berliet Tramagal they say that sometimes they put them running with wisky! Let's make some experiments!!

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Let's see what happens 👍

Yet another top vid and yes to the start using various sprays and potions 😂😂😂😂 can’t wait 👍🏼👍🏼

Another brilliant post thanks.

Love the tee shirt and mug cheers Look forward to the spray and go

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff Rodney glad you got it 👍

Thankyou for showing the matador engine, using the chance to show a good and bad engine with help needed. Providing a demonstration of testing in all its forms .... I will look forward to what you find out , inspecting the parts, well done 👍

Another great episode. Thank you. Yeah, that would be interesting trying to get an engine running on ‘alternative’ fuels.

Brilliant video love the old matadors makes me want to get dads old one back that was in a bad way when he got it, looking forward to seeing more of the AEC content👍👍

Holy smoke , a great will it start video . Lovely bit if history on the AEC 👍.

AEC one of the finest vehicle and engine manufacturers from Great Britain, there's nothing sounds as good as an on song 7.7, I'm in the process of fitting one in a Fordson Major.

Tee shirts, cup etc received much appreciated, kids are jealous my 5 yr old is looking for a tee-shirt with Bill Sykes tee shirt

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍

Feed it cooking spray if you have it there. Also those old trucks look fantastic the log hauler. Keep making the videos and I'll stay tuned

Advice from an old carpenter about dust (exactly the same principle with smoke): The more you breathe in, the less gets in your eyes. You're welcome.

This is a lot of fun. Thats what you get with getting going old engines.....Fun!

Awesome Vid, Love the old AEC's. Good banter with your mate 👍 Cheers.

Now then, Mucker, I'd love to win a collie! - It's been a few years since we had sheep, but a new collie wouldn't go amiss. Any-way! That AEC out there under the snow is almost as good a Fordson Major, at starting, though I think in all honesty the Major might just have the edge! - Now then (again) I'd like to see you guys buggering about with various fluids/fuels and that old engine, and maybe try Brake Cleaner, and/or Carb Cleaner? Or, how about trying brake fluid? - We had an engine that used to love old fashioned "Girling Crimson" brake fluid, but by God it used to smoke and choke! Paint thinner should also work. On a similar tack, we once ran a Fordson Dexta on paraffin (lamp oil) just to prove a point.

Loved it, did my time on AECs in the 70s, 7.7, 470, 505, and 760s they used them as they always started to tow start all the others with Perkins or Bedford's in the morning. The 7.7 and the 470 ran nice but you needed sandwiches and a thermos to go any were, soo slow. I remember the deluxe 5 speed with overdrive that would not pull the over drive gear unless you were empty. Good days changing clutches on the A4 on the side of the road. I remember the first tilt cab 505 that used to tip its cab going down the road when you applied the brakes.

Yes let’s see what you can get it to fire up on I’ll get the beer in to watch you 😊😊

Another great video... Can't wait to see what starts and what doesn't using the various concoctions.. Keep them coming👍

This is a awsome video again. I was in stitches when it fired and filled the room with smoke. Brilliant video

As biker myself that ducati 916 in background spoilt the moment 😁😁👍

It's not a cold start old start without the hot fart at the end, nearly spat my coffee out from laughing.

Really enjoyed this one, and waiting with baited breath for the next one, there was some great kit built during the war

We as a family have a few AEC’s, (mammoth majors and a mercury) they always run on the first crank every time. Brilliant engines and brilliant trucks.

Lol when the smoke gets too thick "Get the MUCK Out "!!!! I want to see more! I have not stopped laughing at this video!! As far as the various starts on different things Go for it!!!

Go for it mucker,what a bloody good idea love to see what it’ll run on. Stay safe 👍👍🚜🚜

Double can, love it👍 Can’t wait to see the engine running on different fuels Brake cleaner is good 👌

Hi Lord Muck, YES! We want to watch you and the old Fudweasel working on the engine. Thanks.

Absolutely! See what that had boy actually WILL run on. I love videos like that.👍😁

Nice video the other video idea sounds good Thanks

Got my t shirts and stickers, well pleased!!

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear Trevor 👍

Definitely want to see the various different fuel sources for starting an engine. 😁😁 Thanks for sharing the fantastic video ☺️

Brilliant old AEC we had lots in the 70s stay safe mate

Fantastic video! Absolutely love a matador

Great video Mucka!, learnt a lot about the Matador engine in this excellent informative video, keep it up! 👍

i love that you call it cosby in a can too

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

It's an oilfield term that went about when he was on trial.

@levonschaftin3676

3 жыл бұрын

@@LordMuck i know, i first heard it from peg but it's just perfect.

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

Where do you think he heard it ?... 😉👌🏼