Use to drive one of these with a passenger body, carrying 17 people, luggage and tents, plus a 50 gal diesel drum on the roof. London to Marakesh. Engine was a Perkins 4.108, 48 hp.
Made when the engine was super easy to get at and to work on with basic tools. After this era we went backwards in every way. Just costs us a small fortune now❤😁
i am sure our boys , over here in England at the "Transit Van Club" would be to impressed with your twin stacked exhaust pipe arrangement though.? 👈😒🚬👺👀👀👍
In the UK, my dad had one of those mk1 Bull nose diesels back in the 70’s, bought off a decorating suppliers store (Art Wallpapers), he converted it into an RV in which we had many happy holidays! He also used it as his daily driver for years.
I'm 64 now but when I was at school here in the UK, our PE teacher would take the lads all over the place in one of those - rock climbing, canoeing, all sorts. UK would be best place to find help on these as they were widely used.
Had the belt go on mine before valves meet pistons but the only damage is bent push rods straighten in a vice and good to go you can still buy original belts over here in the UK.
Those things (in van form) were a favourite for bank robbers and other nefarious peoples (which includes coppers). If you can, watch a few episodes of The Sweeney. A cop series in 1970's London, you'll see a Ford Transit in almost every episode. That one deserves preserving, maybe even a full-on restoration!
Well Mr Edwards Sir you got her, the other type engine they had was a Perkins , they will also fit the OHC Pinto gas engine, wicked to here one of these again, they also used a 4 speed manual with overdrive on 3rd & 4th gear ? looking forward to the next video, ATB Joe, Wayne UK.......PS they are quite slow......ok as long as your not in a hurry to get any where.......
Hi. I had the pinto OHC van. I had to change the motor in & out a couple times. It was a 79 mk2.I too took the front grill/radiator of, after removing a hundred odd bolts, but it was such a breeze taking motor in/out. I put new rings/bearings, head job. sierra 5 speed & that became my daily. Loads of room inside too.Wish I still had that thing. I think it was something like 57kw. Never were going to break your neck from accelleration, & not to mention the "strong arm" power steering. Na, wasnt that bad.Cheers, & nice to see it running. Thats a fixerupper, now.Thanks for the trip Michael NZ
the YORK engine was famous for its power but also for dropping valve seats, when i migrated to Australia i worked for a company that had Transits with the diesel bulge bonnet that ran a six cylinder falcon 200ci engine with a 3 speed transmission, just a complete basic van that was used every day for deliveries, everything was straight forward & easy to work on.
Brings back some great memories. The York was a great work horse and would run even if abused. Well done in bringing it back to life. I would think though that being a left hand drive, it was probably imported from Holland or Germany.
Nice to see a mk1 transit getting some love and they are certainly coming up in value now it would be nice to see it in a safe roadworthy condition with all lights and other bits working as they should but one thing you need to get an extension mic when your away from the camera and not looking at it it's a struggle to hear you talk
Even on a warm day you needed to pre heat them for the first start but if you look under the inlet manifold there is 4 bungs that you can replace with pencil type heat plugs instead of the manifold plug which make starting alot easier. DO NOT get it addicted to either as you will never get it off it that stuff it washes the carbon of the cylinders
If thatis a York engine I worked on many many in the seventies and when they break the belt they either bend push rods or break a couple of rockers . I have never see one with a bent valve .the valves ar at 90 degrees to the head so they are hit flat and the force through the valve to the rockers etc
Looking at this Transit & some of the fitments i'm guessing it's around 1977/early 78 built, the two tone seats, the engine heater element on the dash & the hanging accelerator pedal were all late fitments on a MK1
Ford Transit diesel vans (trucks) used two variants of engine. The earlier vans came with a Perkins unit which we had. I remember it used a cartridge (ether) to start it on colder days. There was a bracket on the dashboard which had a pin in the centre to which you fitted the cartridge. Then a quick turn of the screw pushed the cartridge onto the pin and the gas went through a hole in the pin and directly into the combustion chamber. They did work but the engine suffered as a result.
There should be a button on the injector pump below the throttle linkeage ,it's a cold start button ,open throttle fully and press the button you should hear it click , only way to start the old York engines 👍 well done
keep up the good work buddy I live in England and iv had a few of those in my time get it running properly and you Will have good work horse best wishes to you Graham
As the York engine is the predecessor of the Di engine when the timing belt snaps all it does is bends the pushrods, i have even had the belts snap when the vans been doing 50-60mph and all they done is bent the pushrods.
What will drop straight in there having the York nose, is the 4 litre V6 SOHC Cologne as used in some US and South American Ford trucks, was quite a common upgrade to put a British Essex V6 or German Cologne V6 as they used the V4's in the smaller models which are basically a chopped short V6. London's Metropolitan Police operated specially made Ford Transit vans which had Essex 3.0 engines, standard gearboxes and a Jaguar back axle, they were like runny stuff off a shovel and could get a ton up quicker than most cars of that time. Ford also upgraded the suspension for the police specials so they handled superbly too. Lima Pinto 2.3 and 2.5 will also fit as the MK2 Transit had the Lima's little brother in as standard in 1600 and 2000cc variants, in Europe Ford stuff was modular, gearboxes fitted everything, engines fitted everything quite cool when you could drop a 3.0 V6 into a MK1 or MK2 Ford Escort.
I suspect this made its way stateside via the PX, that orangey red is very close to the stuff they had on USAAF air bases in Germany and the UK and some servicemen did opt to buy one to take home being carried on a transport at military's expense too, lots of British campervans ended up over there that way. Spares best place to find is Cyprus and Malta where scrapyards have dozens of old ex services MK1's and MK2's, some even slidey doors and Belgium tail lifts (rare hatchback) and side doors. Slidey door ones are cool in summer as you have them drawn back and loads of air flow :D
@@AngelDjay I wonder if that 3.0 was the same engine used in the US Ford Taurus and a few other models. I've heard it referred to as a "3.0 Essex" and used from the mid 80s up through the 1990s. Not a powerhouse, but a dead solid, reliable engine.
@@lsrx101 no timing belt gear's they were bldy good motor the transits over here either had the York direct injection diesel or the Essex or the 2L pinto which the capri and Escorts and courtinas used so you could get part's for them anywhere.
Ford Capri and Siera used that engine as well as the MK1 and MK2 transits plus they all used the engine we called the pinto I was told it just had number as you actually had the pinto car. @@lsrx101
I remember the first time a saw a mark I Ford transit. It came in a little box that had the name “Matchbox” printed on it. I had it for a long time (in little kid time scale. A year or two. It disappeared one day. I don’t know what happened to it. At the time, I had a slowly growing fleet of match box cars and trucks. Then Hot Wheels came out.
I had one of these engines in a mk2 transit ,2.3 York diesel did what you are doing service new heater plugs cam belt ,ran lovely fir half an hour then cracked the head smoke everywhere ,known problem
I worked for Royal Mail in the early 1980s and their one's had a either pump on the dashboard and the engine got addicted to it and wouldn't start without it
Malta still has a few of these MK1 Fords, most perkins powered though . Were used mainly as minibuses , The york engines werent as favoured prob due to starting when cold and were slower than perkins??? Either was a tweak on the governer to up fuelling made them smoke haha
Neat old truck! I haven't seen one of these before. Thanks for taking the time to give the old girl some TLC and not just leaving her to rot away. Is that a Perkins Diesel in there? Cheers.
There's a guy who lives not far from me , he's got a mk5 Smiley faced Transit camper not bad looking for it's age only problem it's a 2.0L pinto Petrol auto and does 11 mpg , my wife seen a cheap one for sale , I said no chance not with that fuel consumption , we used to have Mitsubishi Delica 2.5 turbo D that did about 25 mpg . I was talking to a scrap man who was restoring a mk1 Transit .
My godfather had a gasoline version vith V4. I belive it was made in Gologne Germany. Here we got the both UK Fords and the German Fords they had some differences. It is funny that Finnish Ford subdiary Oy Ford Ab imported the both. And the American Fords. And in 80`s they even imported Escorts made in Brazil. It was the baseline model "LX". It had even Renault based engine ;) . Transits were used as police "paddywagons" with the VW Transporters. As a kid in kindergarten the police came to PR visit and they gave us kids a ride in Ford Transit paddywagon too with lights and siren on. So it was in 70`s. ;) I moved once my girlfriends stuff with an similar old naturally aspirated diesel Transit for some 500 km one way. It was with dual rearwheels and registered as a commercial truck (gross weight over 3500 kg). It was slow! I remember that only few times I got over 85 km/h. In steep downhill it ran a bit faster by appaying the clutch/ switching to neutral... ;) Not a sports car. I belive that those diesels ran 100 km/h (60 Mph) max.
those belts are the only belts i ever fit german quality my brother once worked for another branch of that compant ae payen flexitallic in cleckheaton he inforned me of the quality
Also luv running Pure mazola folk used to get hold o 5 gallins of new stuff at rite price and dump into fuel tank as long you know that crap in fuel system gets dragged into filters so keep spare as does really good job o cleaning tank fuel lines pump and injectors when first used in older vehicle also few litres o atf or 2stroke oil will do better job than any overpriced injectors cleaning crap
This really takes me back . I served as a ford apprentice in the seventies and did these jobs . Do not remember the york engine in a MK1 transit thought they came out with the MK2 . Remember the perkins engine in the MK1 were dire , poor starting and poor reliability . Petrol engines were much more common , it was only when the 2.5 DI engine came out that much more Diesels were sold.
I’m pretty sure that’s the wrong engine in there for it’s year. I’m sure the mk1 bull nose transit was fitted with a York diesel engine. The one you have there is the early version of the banana engine. It’s a better engine than the York engine but they are no power horse the York was even lower in horsepower. As a kid I remember my old man out side house in middle of winter with a blow lamp down air intake and about 4 jumper batteries the York engine had the air intake heater only where you would turn it over to get fuel to it then wait till you hear it ignite in air intake and start it up as you can tell it was a failure in a cold winter. And back in the day a fire under the fuel tank was a normal start up routine.
Not very good in their day,if it was cold they would not start,only way was with either easy start,once you did that they became addicted to easy start some of them you could tow for miles trying to get them to start.they were very good for me with a breakdown truck ,made loads of money in the winter!
Back in the day them engines and it's successor the Di were the most sought after thus most stolen engine in the UK, Doesn't it have a blanking plate down the back end on the engine block on the exhaust side, on the European version a mechanical fuel pump was run off the back end of the camshaft.
This is why I stay away from British cars, nothing against them but they tend to over complicate things they build. I guess to each their own there’s just no need for that. Nice work getting it running, my hat goes off to you.🎉
I was told the first owner bought them in England to import over here. There were 8-12 total. The others probably rotted away if they stayed by the gulf.
Well I think ya wrong above the starter is a hole what takes a 13 mm bit cam is 8 I think pump 9 locks it all up put belt on that’s called packin all them pulley wants cleaning. Right tension on belt is half a twist on long run of belt don’t b paint them teeth
"english ford" it says on the rad could you feel all that power ?, 60bhp + 100 ft lbs, that's all we got to pull 3.5 tons [7,700lbs] you could get a massive 88bhp out of the 6cyl version, used in our "A" series trucks, which was a weird "american" looking version, not loved by anybody, rated up to 7.5 tons [16,500lbs]
Use to drive one of these with a passenger body, carrying 17 people, luggage and tents, plus a 50 gal diesel drum on the roof.
London to Marakesh. Engine was a Perkins 4.108, 48 hp.
The York engine was famous for its almost indestructible nature, they were loud and slow but they would run and run
The hardest part was getting them started
If you could get it started.
Eek never throw your power tools into the dust, it gets inside and will scour your armature. Put a cloth down. Autodic sell the mk1 timing belt kit
@@MrJimbaloidMy dad got one when I was 12. He soon learnt to park on a hill. Our childhoods were scarred push starting that pos around Ireland.
My brother had the York and swapped it for Perkins , I loved the York bit of a plodder but reliable mk1 transit.
Awsome dude we love the old transits here uk I have one myself great vid
Those things run forever. The bodies rotted badly but the diesel engines never died.
Made when the engine was super easy to get at and to work on with basic tools. After this era we went backwards in every way. Just costs us a small fortune now❤😁
i am sure our boys , over here in England at the "Transit Van Club" would be to impressed with your twin stacked exhaust pipe arrangement though.? 👈😒🚬👺👀👀👍
In the UK, my dad had one of those mk1 Bull nose diesels back in the 70’s, bought off a decorating suppliers store (Art Wallpapers), he converted it into an RV in which we had many happy holidays! He also used it as his daily driver for years.
I'm 64 now but when I was at school here in the UK, our PE teacher would take the lads all over the place in one of those - rock climbing, canoeing, all sorts. UK would be best place to find help on these as they were widely used.
Had the belt go on mine before valves meet pistons but the only damage is bent push rods straighten in a vice and good to go you can still buy original belts over here in the UK.
Those things (in van form) were a favourite for bank robbers and other nefarious peoples (which includes coppers). If you can, watch a few episodes of The Sweeney. A cop series in 1970's London, you'll see a Ford Transit in almost every episode.
That one deserves preserving, maybe even a full-on restoration!
Well Mr Edwards Sir you got her, the other type engine they had was a Perkins , they will also fit the OHC Pinto gas engine, wicked to here one of these again, they also used a 4 speed manual with overdrive on 3rd & 4th gear ? looking forward to the next video, ATB Joe, Wayne UK.......PS they are quite slow......ok as long as your not in a hurry to get any where.......
Hi. I had the pinto OHC van. I had to change the motor in & out a couple times. It was a 79 mk2.I too took the front grill/radiator of, after removing a hundred odd bolts, but it was such a breeze taking motor in/out. I put new rings/bearings, head job. sierra 5 speed & that became my daily. Loads of room inside too.Wish I still had that thing. I think it was something like 57kw. Never were going to break your neck from accelleration, & not to mention the "strong arm" power steering. Na, wasnt that bad.Cheers, & nice to see it running. Thats a fixerupper, now.Thanks for the trip Michael NZ
the YORK engine was famous for its power but also for dropping valve seats, when i migrated to Australia i worked for a company that had Transits with the diesel bulge bonnet that ran a six cylinder falcon 200ci engine with a 3 speed transmission, just a complete basic van that was used every day for deliveries, everything was straight forward & easy to work on.
Here in Europe there were gasoline V6 Transits too. I don`t know were they made in Dagenham or Gologne? Or dealer istallations?
Brings back some great memories. The York was a great work horse and would run even if abused. Well done in bringing it back to life. I would think though that being a left hand drive, it was probably imported from Holland or Germany.
In England that truck would be worth a fortune . Hold on to it these transits value have only one thing . Up and up in money 🎉
Nice to see a mk1 transit getting some love and they are certainly coming up in value now it would be nice to see it in a safe roadworthy condition with all lights and other bits working as they should but one thing you need to get an extension mic when your away from the camera and not looking at it it's a struggle to hear you talk
Noticed the same thing when I edited. Mic is on the list.
Even on a warm day you needed to pre heat them for the first start but if you look under the inlet manifold there is 4 bungs that you can replace with pencil type heat plugs instead of the manifold plug which make starting alot easier. DO NOT get it addicted to either as you will never get it off it that stuff it washes the carbon of the cylinders
If thatis a York engine I worked on many many in the seventies and when they break the belt they either bend push rods or break a couple of rockers . I have never see one with a bent valve .the valves ar at 90 degrees to the head so they are hit flat and the force through the valve to the rockers etc
Awesome truck, please rebuild and keep it.
Looking at this Transit & some of the fitments i'm guessing it's around 1977/early 78 built, the two tone seats, the engine heater element on the dash & the hanging accelerator pedal were all late fitments on a MK1
Ford Transit diesel vans (trucks) used two variants of engine. The earlier vans came with a Perkins unit which we had. I remember it used a cartridge (ether) to start it on colder days. There was a bracket on the dashboard which had a pin in the centre to which you fitted the cartridge. Then a quick turn of the screw pushed the cartridge onto the pin and the gas went through a hole in the pin and directly into the combustion chamber. They did work but the engine suffered as a result.
There should be a button on the injector pump below the throttle linkeage ,it's a cold start button ,open throttle fully and press the button you should hear it click , only way to start the old York engines 👍 well done
Mate everything rusts like mad here, I've always wanted a MK1 transit. They're sooooooooo expensive now. A clean one sold for £10,000 a few weeks ago.
MK1 Transit's fetch very good money in the UK now, people are Importing them back from Malta too
The drill size for the injection pump is, I think, 5/16” or 8mm.
Great Video! I'm waiting for next videos of that transit, I have one that I want to start, your videos are very helpful to me, keep it up, greetings!
I'm happy to hear it's helping you out!
Very healthy engine. Good Job!!
keep up the good work buddy I live in England and iv had a few of those in my time get it running properly and you Will have good work horse best wishes to you Graham
Thanks!
I think I would enjoy a little truck like this.
That's one really cool truck.
You have a very sought after and very rare transit mate
As the York engine is the predecessor of the Di engine when the timing belt snaps all it does is bends the pushrods, i have even had the belts snap when the vans been doing 50-60mph and all they done is bent the pushrods.
Well done Sir !
Excellent Vid, Thank you!
Remove tensioner pulley with out pulling springs only wheel. You can read number of the bearing and replace only bearing by pressing it out.
What will drop straight in there having the York nose, is the 4 litre V6 SOHC Cologne as used in some US and South American Ford trucks, was quite a common upgrade to put a British Essex V6 or German Cologne V6 as they used the V4's in the smaller models which are basically a chopped short V6. London's Metropolitan Police operated specially made Ford Transit vans which had Essex 3.0 engines, standard gearboxes and a Jaguar back axle, they were like runny stuff off a shovel and could get a ton up quicker than most cars of that time. Ford also upgraded the suspension for the police specials so they handled superbly too. Lima Pinto 2.3 and 2.5 will also fit as the MK2 Transit had the Lima's little brother in as standard in 1600 and 2000cc variants, in Europe Ford stuff was modular, gearboxes fitted everything, engines fitted everything quite cool when you could drop a 3.0 V6 into a MK1 or MK2 Ford Escort.
I suspect this made its way stateside via the PX, that orangey red is very close to the stuff they had on USAAF air bases in Germany and the UK and some servicemen did opt to buy one to take home being carried on a transport at military's expense too, lots of British campervans ended up over there that way. Spares best place to find is Cyprus and Malta where scrapyards have dozens of old ex services MK1's and MK2's, some even slidey doors and Belgium tail lifts (rare hatchback) and side doors. Slidey door ones are cool in summer as you have them drawn back and loads of air flow :D
Loved those original Transits so much charecter in the styling and the Diesel was great cus it gave room for a very easy 3.0 V6 upgrade very nice
Ambulance in the 70s in the UK had the V6 3L Essex engine as we called them.
@@AngelDjay I wonder if that 3.0 was the same engine used in the US Ford Taurus and a few other models. I've heard it referred to as a "3.0 Essex" and used from the mid 80s up through the 1990s. Not a powerhouse, but a dead solid, reliable engine.
@@lsrx101 no timing belt gear's they were bldy good motor the transits over here either had the York direct injection diesel or the Essex or the 2L pinto which the capri and Escorts and courtinas used so you could get part's for them anywhere.
Ford Capri and Siera used that engine as well as the MK1 and MK2 transits plus they all used the engine we called the pinto I was told it just had number as you actually had the pinto car. @@lsrx101
@@lsrx101 Same name different engine, the Taurus v6 is 90degrees while the older british Essex were 60degrees.
get a 250 crossflow motor from australia they came out with them over here love your channel
Well done that Man 💯🙏
Looks like there's enough room underneath the hood for a small block which might make it more useful
I remember the first time a saw a mark I Ford transit. It came in a little box that had the name “Matchbox” printed on it. I had it for a long time (in little kid time scale. A year or two. It disappeared one day. I don’t know what happened to it. At the time, I had a slowly growing fleet of match box cars and trucks. Then Hot Wheels came out.
I had one of these engines in a mk2 transit ,2.3 York diesel did what you are doing service new heater plugs cam belt ,ran lovely fir half an hour then cracked the head smoke everywhere ,known problem
One thing that are major PIA's on the MK1 and MK2 is the blasted kingpins, abs pig to change out.
Nice work
@14.55, There are no glow plugs on a 'York' Transit, there was a useless heater element in the opening of the inlet manifold
I worked for Royal Mail in the early 1980s and their one's had a either pump on the dashboard and the engine got addicted to it and wouldn't start without it
Malta still has a few of these MK1 Fords, most perkins powered though . Were used mainly as minibuses , The york engines werent as favoured prob due to starting when cold and were slower than perkins??? Either was a tweak on the governer to up fuelling made them smoke haha
Neat old truck! I haven't seen one of these before. Thanks for taking the time to give the old girl some TLC and not just leaving her to rot away. Is that a Perkins Diesel in there? Cheers.
York 2.4 diesel
I have this very same engine in a Vermeer trencher and I am in desperate need of a water pump replacement. Do you know of any where that may have one
Definately a very early banana with that inline minimec pump !
That's one keen cat.
There's a guy who lives not far from me , he's got a mk5 Smiley faced Transit camper not bad looking for it's age only problem it's a 2.0L pinto Petrol auto and does 11 mpg , my wife seen a cheap one for sale , I said no chance not with that fuel consumption , we used to have Mitsubishi Delica 2.5 turbo D that did about 25 mpg . I was talking to a scrap man who was restoring a mk1 Transit .
Transits increasingly melt into their environment until they are gone but they keep going until they're gone.
the york, always needed ether from cold but great once started
We rebuilt a engine completely and it would not start with out using the kygas factory fitted pump😊
My godfather had a gasoline version vith V4. I belive it was made in Gologne Germany. Here we got the both UK Fords and the German Fords they had some differences. It is funny that Finnish Ford subdiary Oy Ford Ab imported the both. And the American Fords. And in 80`s they even imported Escorts made in Brazil. It was the baseline model "LX". It had even Renault based engine ;) . Transits were used as police "paddywagons" with the VW Transporters. As a kid in kindergarten the police came to PR visit and they gave us kids a ride in Ford Transit paddywagon too with lights and siren on. So it was in 70`s. ;)
I moved once my girlfriends stuff with an similar old naturally aspirated diesel Transit for some 500 km one way. It was with dual rearwheels and registered as a commercial truck (gross weight over 3500 kg). It was slow! I remember that only few times I got over 85 km/h. In steep downhill it ran a bit faster by appaying the clutch/ switching to neutral... ;) Not a sports car. I belive that those diesels ran 100 km/h (60 Mph) max.
U can only bend push rods pull them out straten. Them on bench done tons
Watch any early-mid 70's English TV, you'll see loads of these. I recommend "The Sweeney."
And there is a little door u undo so then u don’t take bottom pulley of and they usually just bend push rods
I put a tuned one into a ser 2 Landover.
Add to upgrade the rear axle to take the 130hp.
Sure😂
usually they also had the perkins 4108 engine which I believe they were better than the York all taxis had the York engine too,
Looks like an old Ford paddy wagon to me, anyhow interesting video, thanks
are you going to return it to more stock european spec
Take great care of the old smilie
Yeah local dealers did you a good price on bulk buys of aero start (aesystart )
if the valves and pistons dont share the same space new belt be ok, even if they do few bent valves rods replace all shoud be well.
those belts are the only belts i ever fit german quality my brother once worked for another branch of that compant ae payen flexitallic in cleckheaton he inforned me of the quality
Timing mark on crank on flywheel 13mm drill bit
Well Done
Yeah you found the screw under the bezel
The diesel ones where called bull nose in England and the petrol models had a flat grill
Not all petrol ones. Mine was a bull nose and had a V6 2.3 liter engine.
@@user-sh7lb8mf2vMy uncle worked at Ford Trucks Dagenham and worked on the petrol V6 Transit with ‘diesel’ bull nose.
Do you consider selling ford transit?
Also luv running
Pure mazola folk used to get hold o 5 gallins of new stuff at rite price and dump into fuel tank as long you know that crap in fuel system gets dragged into filters so keep spare as does really good job o cleaning tank fuel lines pump and injectors when first used in older vehicle also few litres o atf or 2stroke oil will do better job than any overpriced injectors cleaning crap
This really takes me back . I served as a ford apprentice in the seventies and did these jobs . Do not remember the york engine in a MK1 transit thought they came out with the MK2 . Remember the perkins engine in the MK1 were dire , poor starting and poor reliability . Petrol engines were much more common , it was only when the 2.5 DI engine came out that much more Diesels were sold.
2.4 York and big 3.6 6 pot York introduced 1974 far harder than 4,107,4,108 Perkins shite 😅
I wonder me, this Transit was built in England and sell in Germany too, after Ford had not a van for Germany.
I’m pretty sure that’s the wrong engine in there for it’s year. I’m sure the mk1 bull nose transit was fitted with a York diesel engine. The one you have there is the early version of the banana engine. It’s a better engine than the York engine but they are no power horse the York was even lower in horsepower. As a kid I remember my old man out side house in middle of winter with a blow lamp down air intake and about 4 jumper batteries the York engine had the air intake heater only where you would turn it over to get fuel to it then wait till you hear it ignite in air intake and start it up as you can tell it was a failure in a cold winter. And back in the day a fire under the fuel tank was a normal start up routine.
My arse 2.5 di rotary pump not inline and introduced 1984 banana crap inlet manifold intro early 1992
Not very good in their day,if it was cold they would not start,only way was with either easy start,once you did that they became addicted to easy start some of them you could tow for miles trying to get them to start.they were very good for me with a breakdown truck ,made loads of money in the winter!
VERY collectible here in the UK , only downside it being a left hooker . That being said I have a 1945 Willys jeep and adore it .
Back in the day them engines and it's successor the Di were the most sought after thus most stolen engine in the UK,
Doesn't it have a blanking plate down the back end on the engine block on the exhaust side, on the European version a mechanical fuel pump was run off the back end of the camshaft.
Slacken the bolt in the middle of the tensioner & it should move side ways may need a squirt of WD40 & a tap with a hammer
This is why I stay away from British cars, nothing against them but they tend to over complicate things they build. I guess to each their own there’s just no need for that. Nice work getting it running, my hat goes off to you.🎉
Are you interested in selling the transit?
Where was it originally sold? It's left hand drive.
I was told the first owner bought them in England to import over here. There were 8-12 total. The others probably rotted away if they stayed by the gulf.
Ether the drug of diesels 😂
Get some diesel in to her runs like a good un
Hated by van driver all over England!
Bad starting.
You could get a 3.6 litre 6 cylinder version.
You can't beat old school engineering. Who needs interference engine's
they are interference, he just got lucky, a clean break on the belt at starter speed were the required ingredients for a favourable outcome
I lucked out. Should have been total carnage.
Non interference and prechambers, good old slow diesel.
The right name for the van is a bull nose 😅
Well I think ya wrong above the starter is a hole what takes a 13 mm bit cam is 8 I think pump 9 locks it all up put belt on that’s called packin all them pulley wants cleaning. Right tension on belt is half a twist on long run of belt don’t b paint them teeth
As good as new😂
My opel Dohc v6 needs belt. I have it.
Bring it back to England
OMG!
WD-40 works great for diesel engine to start them
Worst they would do would bend push rods
English 350 what in the hell of universal credit are we reading here
"english ford" it says on the rad
could you feel all that power ?, 60bhp + 100 ft lbs, that's all we got to pull 3.5 tons [7,700lbs]
you could get a massive 88bhp out of the 6cyl version, used in our "A" series trucks, which was a weird "american" looking version, not loved by anybody, rated up to 7.5 tons [16,500lbs]
I can’t imagine. That kind of power barely gets my Toyota Echo down the road.
Take the grill out only
Got a york? Get out and walk!
LOL. Thats a crackup. Thanks. Just pissed myself