You filled your tea mug with Smoke! See one of these on e-bay at the moment and wonder would it be any good to replace a TVO tractor engine - Allis-Chalmers WC.
I thought the tea tasted a bit funny... It’s an ideal engine for a canal boat, puttering along, quite quiet for a diesel, nice small size etc but a bit gutless for a working tractor I’d say but ok for just taking to shows, retro looking.
@@tractorhead971 The WC was only rated at 25 hp so wouldn't take much to replace it, I think the 4.108 was rated at 50hp but probably at fairly high revs. That's what I like about that engine - it looks old because it is fairly plain and has very little on the R/H side where my steering column would be in the way. What were you going to do with your engine or are you restoring the Transit?
Ah so a 4108 sounds ideal for you. Nice project. Yes I’m restoring the transit. I was planning to fit a ‘banana’ but if the Perkins is ok I think it can stay original.
Sounds like a fun project you have. This one was diesel auto from the factory, coach built body for the local Mothers Pride bakery, sliding door on the driver’s side.
@@tractorhead971 I might of spoken to you on forum if your the owner that put it away because neighbours were throwing bricks at it? Or it the same van, different owner now, was a few years ago?, my name on forum was ex aa 120 Adam, I had an ex AA mk2 panel van
Yes I remember your name, I was Tranorak on the forum, probably still am if I ever log in. This old bread van did get vandalised by irate Neighbourhood Watch types and to be fair it is atrociously ugly but clubbing the F out of all the lights and windows is a bit rich. The windscreen didn’t bust though, they left the brick on the bonnet after they gave up. It’s been off the road since 2007. I’ve got an early cab back and roof to make it a pickup and keep the body as a shed but someone on the forum said it MUST be preserved as a bread van with original Perkins engine not anything modernised so it’s in limbo now. I’d quite like the space in my shed for something more worthy to come indoors actually 😂
@@tractorhead971 thing is its your van, you do as you think is fit to do with it, all very well someone saying what you should do with it, uts not there van, i had similar comments with mine your ruin it don't do this etc, then you look at what they've done with there's a bogged up mess, there skill level is obviously low, so when they look at yours they think it can't be done because they don't have the capability to do it them self, so they think you can't either, i had loads of comments on my van what I should do should be kept original bla bla, so is your van single wheel or twin? Did u say it was march 67? Before
Nice to see someone actually keeping the starter motor going instead of stopping after every two cranks!
Now thats a great starter motor!
My dad put one of these engines into a Vauxhall Victor in the 80s . It was like riding in a tank .
You filled your tea mug with Smoke! See one of these on e-bay at the moment and wonder would it be any good to replace a TVO tractor engine - Allis-Chalmers WC.
I thought the tea tasted a bit funny...
It’s an ideal engine for a canal boat, puttering along, quite quiet for a diesel, nice small size etc but a bit gutless for a working tractor I’d say but ok for just taking to shows, retro looking.
@@tractorhead971 The WC was only rated at 25 hp so wouldn't take much to replace it, I think the 4.108 was rated at 50hp but probably at fairly high revs. That's what I like about that engine - it looks old because it is fairly plain and has very little on the R/H side where my steering column would be in the way. What were you going to do with your engine or are you restoring the Transit?
Ah so a 4108 sounds ideal for you. Nice project. Yes I’m restoring the transit. I was planning to fit a ‘banana’ but if the Perkins is ok I think it can stay original.
@@tractorhead971 Banana?
Ah yes, that’ll be the famous Transit diesel of the 90s with air intakes looking like a bunch of bananas hence nickname 😆
I've also got an early mk1 swb panel van with twin sliding doors I'm putting turbo diesel automatic from a mk5 but keeping it flat front
Sounds like a fun project you have. This one was diesel auto from the factory, coach built body for the local Mothers Pride bakery, sliding door on the driver’s side.
@@tractorhead971 I might of spoken to you on forum if your the owner that put it away because neighbours were throwing bricks at it? Or it the same van, different owner now, was a few years ago?, my name on forum was ex aa 120 Adam, I had an ex AA mk2 panel van
Yes I remember your name, I was Tranorak on the forum, probably still am if I ever log in. This old bread van did get vandalised by irate Neighbourhood Watch types and to be fair it is atrociously ugly but clubbing the F out of all the lights and windows is a bit rich. The windscreen didn’t bust though, they left the brick on the bonnet after they gave up. It’s been off the road since 2007. I’ve got an early cab back and roof to make it a pickup and keep the body as a shed but someone on the forum said it MUST be preserved as a bread van with original Perkins engine not anything modernised so it’s in limbo now. I’d quite like the space in my shed for something more worthy to come indoors actually 😂
@@tractorhead971 thing is its your van, you do as you think is fit to do with it, all very well someone saying what you should do with it, uts not there van, i had similar comments with mine your ruin it don't do this etc, then you look at what they've done with there's a bogged up mess, there skill level is obviously low, so when they look at yours they think it can't be done because they don't have the capability to do it them self, so they think you can't either, i had loads of comments on my van what I should do should be kept original bla bla, so is your van single wheel or twin? Did u say it was march 67? Before
V5 says first registered 12-02-1969 (that’s February for any Americans btw) 😎
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not diesel, gasoline
Eh? It’s a diesel.
I can see the fuel injectors, its definitely a diesel