WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: WWII Grant Tank Restoration UPDATE!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Daryl and Jesse take us through what they've been up to for the past few weeks.
This WWII Grant Tank is part of the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum's restoration program.
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One of the few pleasurers I have during my chemo. And when the body lets me building a 1/35th scale museum version of the M3A3. Only need to use 3 different kits. And then doing one with full interior. Thanks for keeping me sane and able to cope with the cancer battle.
Best of luck for your battle mate and have a ton of fun with your build!🇦🇺👍💪
Wishing you a successful fight in your battle ❤
If you can bash 3 kits into one, nothing would beat you mate .
Knowing what you are going thru due to losing 2 sisters I pray you make a full recovery!
Good luck brother❤ It will get better
Woohoo, Workshop Wednesdays are the best 🎉
I know that your comment is meant to be taken literally but I can't help finding it sarcastic
My Wednesday is complete :)
Likewise
Kurt, even though you may think that you didn't have much to show us. Sometimes the small details are just as important and interesting. Thanks for the update really enjoyed this one. 😀
Greetings from the US. Yall are doing the Lords work. I love to see WW2 equipment restored to it's former glory. Keep it up boys!
Great episode Kurt!
I’m constantly amazed at the amount of improvisation, modification, adapting your boys do to get the job done. It must be the Aussie Way…! Impressive!!!
Great to see the Grant back.
I just love workshop Wednesday, Cheers and thanks for the excellent content.
Kurt, I really like your "daft" questions, what's a bulkhead, what's a cluster - because I don't know either. Always a pleasure to watch your videos!
Another awesome episode, this tank came along way from beeing a farm tractor👍
All of you're men are very talented and can seemingly impossible in making and recreating the needed parts. I love watching WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY.
Great video! Workshop Wednesday 👌👌
Great to see you back
thanks guys , i enjoy seeing how things work and they were made. keep up the good work.
As always the boys do a magnificent job. The adaptation of the CAT engine is a master piece.
Its a 92 series Detroit Diesel
@@duncancameron5468 It's a 71 series. 8V71T to be precise. From 8 Feb 2023, "WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: Fitting the Detroit Diesel 8V71T Engine to our WWII Grant Tank".
@@guyintenn Apologies, was going on the style of rocker covers. Must be an ex highway engine.
Glad you’re back with a proper episode and hopefully fully recovered😊
Absolutely amazing on the way you took pieces and put it together to make a masterpiece.
Thanks lads, another great episode. Have so much sympathy for the tankers in those things in the Western Desert, they must have been stifling inside!
Especially at 12 noon! Now that time of day in the desert is broiling!
@@kristoffermangila Hopefully they had a gentlemen's agreement with the Axis boys to have a siesta during the hottest part of the day then get back to fighting when it cooled off.
@@frostedbutts4340 probably an unspoken agreement.
Aluminum fuel cells, what looks like a K&N filter, Raceworks connectors.......hotrod Grant, sweet!! Love the work you guys do!!!!
''Cluster'' Oz speak for instrument panel 🙂 Great video guys, Darryl and Jessy are doing fantastic work. Adapting that engine and transmission makes a lot of sense.
I have also heard us Americans call it an "Instrument Cluster" so it wasnt too hard to decipher their "Australianese"
This is my favorite TH-cam channel! Thanks, guys.
A number of years ago 1942 I believe Hollywood produced a film Shahara about a M3 tank tring to get to there own after battle loss. They showed the tank driver driver working the controls and looking out his portal with goggles thru a sand storm working on getting sand out the intakes it is my favorite war movie also staring Humphrey Bogart. Thanks for your show you guys work hard in heat and humidity and you are just as devoted as the original crews on all that equipment that is there Thanks Gary
Yeah, grant update, lets gooo!
I reckon you should still put in a clutch pedal, so it looks right. Only with a horn that goes honk/honk when the driver presses it by mistake.
or the sound of the guns firing !
I love this show! Lads, a small bit of advice. Install a manual waste gate control for turbo, and install a boost pressure guage. Replacing an engine because it overspeed and at a minimum threw a rod or blew out the gaskets a royal pain period.. And that of course is a minimum! worse is generally much much worse... Because you want a runner and not just a display piece take the extra steps... of course you'll have to educate visitors on what isn't quite... you know... "stock" .. but that all part of the show after all.. Maybe you could go find the m3 that was used in the film "Sahara" with Jim Belushi (So who has that M-3 Lee(?)? It was shot in Port Stephens, New South Wales and it was provided by Australia for the film. Thats all the information I have on it.. if you gents no more DON"T DON"T SIT THERE AND SMIRK! Tell us! Damn Auzzies! Just you remeber the pacific version of the commonwealth complain.. Americans overe sexed, over paid and over here.. and the amercan (pacific) reply would be to you Auzzies would be under paid, under sexed and under MacArthur!) P.S. All in fun, love ya lads,. great friends to have your back in a fray. Ya ROCK!
Hmm... good idea, considering the fact that these Detroit Diesel 2-strokers have this nasty tendency to run away like its nobody's business...
m3 lee used in the Jim Belushi version of Sahara, was a grant, turned into a lee and im 90% sure it reside in Canada or the states.
My backpacking sister in law just handed me a DAK cap and thermos from your giftshop. Yeah. She made a pitstop when she came down the Kurunda skyrail. Been to Bovington, Saumur and Munster, but most likely I will never have a change (aka money) to visit ausarmor myself. Greetings from the Netherlands and thanks for your updates!
It takes a different mindset to be recorded and work. I appreciate it all, the hard work good and bad deserves to be showed off to the world
Great video-and to think-the M3 series was a “stopgap” vehicle! So much went into this design; more than I thought. Thanks!
It may seem that you were working on a bunch of odds and ends(of projects, but you've actually made a great deal of progress. Great job, folks!
Your craftmanship is off the scale
Beautiful work guys!
The best day of my week, I will be up to visit the museum in June. Can't wait!
It's really coming together. Kudos to the shop crew for these incredibly clever rebuilds of parts. I'm learning a lot about more than the workings of a Grant. Thank you!
I always look forward to your Wednesday episode of your tank Museum ,guaranteed to Always be interesting and today was no exception ,great show and the explanations are Brilliant thank you
It be unreal to see this m3 grant tank at this Australian armoured artillery museum tank fest this year and I'm going to ride on this m3 grant tank
always great watching the super talented employees restoring what could have been lost forever...Outstanding videos
Thank you for another great video. Amazing the amount of work being done. Looks to be a little warm there.
North Queensland, tropics
Great video. Wasn’t expecting to see a Raiders fan in the shop!
Great, episode guys
Love workshop Wednesday
Adapt and overcome! This thing is going to be awesome. 👍🏻🇦🇺
Great episode! Good progress on the Grant. One thing - could be a problem using a 5" to 3" adapter from 5" turbo outlet to 3"pipe. It may choke the outflow to the point where you lose power and / or overheat the turbo. Probably will need an air blower pushing cool air between the firewall and the 1500 degree F turbo hot side. It's gonna get hot there!
Getting close to the 100k subscbers! Let's go!!
Ooooh, its a restomod now!
Footy is on tomorrow night, tanks on tonight. Thanks for making my week. BTW don’t you have a local ammunition museum up there? Big bangs and lots of smoke are the only experiences missing.
Was waiting, perfect for 4am watch!!! :D
15:30 Hard to imagine they used these in the desert - riding the transmission like that.
Sitting on hot iron, and then to make it worse hit by a german 8.8 Flak
Totally admire the way you guys work . You must be the world's premier armour restorers .
As for the display ammo; can't someone make an STL-file for 3D printing, and post it? As a fan of the channel I don't mind printing a few rounds and sending them over ;-) Might be cool to know the Grant is driving around with some parts I made...
perfect video...shows details that we haven't seen. well worth the wait!!
This would be my dream job restoring military vehicals
Great update Kurt, thanks so much, you're all such a wonderful group, now my Wednesday is complete.
Australia seems to be thee tank Mecca these daze !
Great restoration work as always !. I never knew that the driver of this tank sits in such a position. It's like riding on the big motorcycle !.
Great work mates refitting a different engine and support components in place.
Amazing engineering and ingenuity to restore this tank.
Onya lads, great work.
some amazing work going on with the Grant, really appreciate the effort you guys put in to these amazing restorations
That's a big snail! Great fabrication. Good work lads 👍👍
Most of the Grants would have been used in the desert as well. Really hot for the driver.
I think quite a few of the grants were sent into the China,Burma, India theater as if North Africa wasn’t hot enough.
Attention to detail to recreate what was once but now lost is over the top!!! ….case in point. Bent pipe to recreate the half circle detail on front fender, then slice the bent pipe along its length then weld it in place. With the result being it looks like it just rolled off the assembly line. Fantastic!!!!
Another lot of work done! Please see you next time.
That laugh after “I’ll have a word to him” every job site chuckle 😂
I still remember Darryl’s glee at finding several complete examples of a piece that Jess built from scratch😅!
Great work - awesome video!
I sometimes have to replay it several times to get his meaning. At 16:00 he is talking about (what i thought he said was the clock-set. He actually said "cluster" (instrument panel cluster) .It is so Cool that they have the original pieces for that!! such fun!
It is interesting that you need to be an archaeological engineer to rebuild something like a Grant. Well done!
Great to see a different shirt today.
Great work, good to see the changes you are making, to use that engine and transmission. Are Peter and Lottie still working there, only we haven't seen them for a while?
So very good!
My M3 fix for the week.
I'm a little concerned about how close that turbo is to the firewall, and while the firewall will definitely take the heat coming off the turbo, it may also spread the heat to places you don't want such as wiring or pipework in the vicinity.
I'm not knowledgeable about turbos. I thought they got hot, and that inlet filter may be a fire risk?
@@SmedleyDouwright They get extremely hot, the inlet should be ok, but the metalwork of the body is a concern. If you look at a trucks engine bay there's usually a fair bit of clearance around the turbo housing for this reason.
much appreciated the question: What is a bulkhead? Love those videos
Steel plate divides crew compartment from engine bay
Mint. Any aus armour video is a good aus armour video. Cheers Kurt.
The rarest G-PED Lights indeed!
Great video. From Syracuse NY
10:13 Wow! I slapped my noggin too! An Australian not understanding another Australian's accent. Great video.
The thing that takes the linkage from the throttle in the clutch we call those a bell crank here in the USA.
Worth the wait, great work guys
Like the Raiders hat touch!
Thank you, great progress 👍👍
All this and an old school Raiders cap...damn. You guys just keep gettin' better . By the way, I know a guy that knows a guy that's making those replica J-Peds. drop a line; I'll send 'is address over. Wizard of Oz, oi.
Great channel, Kurt! Fascinating.
Yet another great episode.
I have liked the Grant/Lee since I first saw The old black and white movie Sahara. So I have been waiting for an update.:)
Nice job!
Should speak with the boss to get the boys a proper roller for sheet and rod. It cannot be overstated, just how useful it is for fabrication to have one. So many things that can be solved with such a machine in the pocket of tricks. And i'm sure that the boys could restore one to schmick status if it was second hand.
Recommend putting a removable pan under the batteries in case of acid leak.
Totally amazing guys, keep up the great work, just imagine how hot it got inside it ,ok in winter when its snowing, but in summer months mate you would lose your mind, especially if not drinking any water during a battle back then? Plus the water is hot as well, would have been at least 60 degrees c inside in summer months if not more? 🚙🚙😀😀😎😎
I'm seeing a lot of guns used where the ammo is loaded using an arm, then a 'chain' pushes the ammo into the barrel, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere in the arm for the chain, any chance of an explanation sometime ?
Just want to know how that works.
It sounds like you are describing an “auto loader”. That is a device that loads the gun using machinery, and is a more modern feature. Back in WWII, everything was loaded by hand by a crew member (appropriately called the loader). This feature is a hotly debated topic as to which is better: a mechanism or a person.
I don't know if you have ever seen any of the work that is going on to reconstruct the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Obviously there are a lot of missing parts for it but what they do in the reconstruction, rather than trying to match the newly made parts to the old by colour and texture, they make the new parts with subtle but obvious difference so that they can be identified.
The reason I bring this up is because I think it would be a nice touch in restorations like this to have the newly fabricated parts a slightly different colour to the original parts for three reasons:
Firstly, it would highlight the tremendous amount of work that the lads have put in in creating the restoration.
Secondly, it would help the newcomers to tanks and mechanics in general, to understand how difficult a task like this is.
Lastly (and probably most importantly) it would shut up the nitpickers that would be out with their clipboards to point out everything that's not original.
I realize its a lot of work, but it would be so worth while. I would volunteer to do it myself if I lived a bit closer .
Nice work, lads!
See you next time…looking forward to it 👍🇺🇦👍🇺🇦
Love your work 👍
@ 10:05 Even you guys can't understand each other, LOL!😜
0:44 that sign in the back :O
Good episode it made a change from repetitious work
Awwww, 14:00 a chapter of the Grant LOST to The Sands of Time... I WAS so looking forward to that episode where Jesse refits those floor plates in... Especially after ironically finding those at the sites... sigh. 15:35 oh nooo, a Oakland Raiders cap.? Perverted foot ball at its best. Lol
Why are you hating the Oakland (now Las Vegas) Raiders? Just asking...
@@kristoffermangila Ahhh, now las Vegas.... Answered your own question, you did. Actually I'm just amazed at Jesse's attire selection. Is I grew up about 20 miles from Oakland.
@@paulsilva3346 oh, I understand.
It's like a resto mod but in a tank 😅
You can get the raceworks logos off the silicone with brake cleaner and a rag.
All going good guys can see you haven't got the mega rust grief we have in rainy uk