For any who have not watched the Croatia trip it is a must - from start to finish. In my humble opinion the greatest of all of Ian's sagas with an air of manic lunacy and just do it that warms the cockles of your heart. I watched it all with huge anticipation and delight every episode. Pure magic.

I like to think that Colin is a spitfire pilot on his days off

I can hear little Dalek shouting: ELLY-minate...! 😂😂😂

I love this engine. Until you have owned a 2cv, nobody can appreciate how well engineered this engine is.

That bench is just the right height to give you chronic back ache 😮

This has been one of the most interesting videos I've watched in a long time - please Ian, don't leave it too long before you fit this to Elly as I'm sure many people are eager to see what this 'new' engine is like!

“We’re going to pull it apart and see what’s wrong” = Colin > pulling apart Ian > camera, commentary and good cheer

Top bloke Colin. Brilliantly efficient and very knowledgeable making that look rather too simple. 👍

A superb vid showing how engineers used to work and be. Brilliant to see Ellie getting reborn.

Hi Mr Hubnut, David from Tasmania here again. A hint to make your life easier, and a bit cleaner. For the last 50 years that I have been working on older cars, especially engines, i have always thoroughly cleaned/degreased them before doing anything. If the motor is in the car, clean it in there before removing it. In the case of your 2CV engine, a trip outside, drown it in degreaser, wait a while, hose it off, and bingo you have a sparkly (?) clean engine to work on. It is much nicer, and probably safer, to do so. I do this for everything. I noticed yesterday watching you replace Ellys exhaust hanger. By the time you had it taken apart your fingers were a black greasy mess. This also helps keep tools and work spaces a lot cleaner. I will now carry on watching the rest of the video. Can't wait to see the internals. Cheers, David (Hillman Imp GT - Hillman Husky - Wolseley 24/80 - six cylinder)

About the Service of the Crank, ALL Cranks is serviceble if you want to, try watching Allen Millyard pull apart cranks and assemble them again.

Gosh Ian your friend was so lucky you were there to help 😂, could never have done it on his own , your technical skills were immeasurable and second to none, WELL DONE that man !! Not you Ian 😂 your friend lol 😂, all very HUBNUT 😉👌🏻.

Great to see a man who knows what he's doing, and a video showing some in-depth tinkering.

Nice to watch Colin working again! Having known him since he was in primary school, funny watching him all these years later! 🤣

Colin, the friend everyone should have

Loved this video. It is so satisfying seeing an engine being dismantled and faults found. Almost as satisfying as seeing it being rebuilt. I think there is room for a KZfaq channel just showing engines being taken apart and rebuilt!

Absolutely brilliant video Ian ❤👍well done Colin for the repair absolutely brilliant bit of engineering can't wait to see the final when the engine is in brilliant

Not quite Allen Millyard but nearly as satisfying!

That was a trip down memorylane. I'm in the category of "homeschooled mechanics". 2CV goes wrong - a lot. Armed with my toolbox, Haynes and a repairguide made by my Citroen club. Every page was in a plasticcover. Clever coming to dirty fingers. I still got my Haynes and it's filled with black fingerprints ❤️'ly 😃

Watch and learn, Ian, especially as Colin has his placement of washers and screws and the lot down pat: neatly in separate receptacles. He also has a tidy and quite roomy workspace, not actually that much bigger than yours (but it does seem to be, thanks to the total lack of detritus, car body parts, empty cans of BDX etc.). I always experience vicarious pangs of anguish seeing you put washers, circlips, screws, bolts and whatever, mostly very near to or in the actual place you're tinkering, often accidentally pushing them down workbenches, door gaps, engine bays ... Miss HubNut would heartily concur with my assessment, I'm sure ;)

7:38 a friend of mine is a massive advocate for lightened flywheels and usually does them to his cars himself. Thankfully, he does the job properly and has never had one 'let go', which is a prospect I always find terrifying.

Where do you find these guys where you show up with a camera and they do all the work on your engine? This is the future 😂😂.

Love the older hub nut cars. Thanks, Ian. Reminds of the tuc build. Enjoyed that. 😊

Fantastic bit of Lunchtime Tinkering watching the engine being dismantled and being rebuilt. Looking forward to see Colin and his Austin 7 at Rustival.

What a fantastic video! Great to see Ellie being brought back........Colin is an absolute hero. Loved watching this and seeing his formidable knowledge and skills being deployed on such a worthy HubNut car.

Without a doubt , The simplest car engine I know of ! Brilliant ! Thanks for showing ! Scott 🌵

Nice to have a friend who has both the knowledge and the tools. Great shop he's got.

Maybe you should add some exhaust ports in the door, so the door can be closed. I did, to the door in my shop. I used random stuff I found in scrap piles, so the price was right. It's nice in winter, and redirects most noise outside.

A great video Ian and Colin. It's great to see how these engines come apart and what to look out for when putting them back together. A really simple engine that reminds me somewhat of the venerable Honda CG125 bike engine that was also push rod with a single cam shaft (actually a single cam lobe if I recall correctly). I look forward to the installation video at some point in the future. Many thanks for sharing.

Don't be careful with the aluminium threads. Helicoil them preemptively.

What is great is the attention to keep all the original old mix of 50 years of oil and dirt on the engine, clean it would lose a lot of value !

Everyone should have a Colin!

Did he put the right exhaust on this one 😁😁😁 Good to see Elly is getting a fresh engine 👌

Great video , such an elegantly simple vintage design which still performs it's intended function of being repairable with basic tools .

Watching this was the perfect start to my weekend.

Love videos like this when you get to see little businesses and the cars that people are working on themselves etc. Love that Austin seven aswell.

Having yesterday watched Steph from I drive a classic fit an MGC 6 cylinder engine into their car and today compounded the experience by watching two oily men dissemble an even oilier 2 cylinder engine, I am wondering just why I watch these things, but I do.

Found these more interesting than most engine re-builds :)

Great autopsy and rebuild. With an unexpected dash of Morgan action. Brilliant!!

Very interesting thank you, i love the simplicity of the engine while being very clever

Great to see some wrenching and engine work

Fascinating stuff. I'm fascinated by the 2CV, and being as they're scarce here in the US, I'm grateful for your Elly adventures. Sort of fun to think that that tiny little powerplant could throw you down the Autobahn at 80. But again, the 2CV is a pretty fascinating little machine!

Thanks. Don't recall any problem fitting pistons to the cylinders, but it was a 400 something, no filter, centrifugal clutch and a generator on the crank end. New crank & cooler came in a nice form fitted styrofoam box.

Brilliant, a nice bit tinkering to watch during Saturday lunchtime. Hope you can do a road test on the old Morgan one day.

Lovely to see you again Hubzzzz… for some reason I don’t get notifications from YT so issued so many of my subscriptions

Nice to see the root cause for the noise, cool video :)

Your a lucky man Ian that you know who will help you out.

I really enjoyed seeing both the stripdown and the rebuild. The 2cv engine is a really remarkable thing. I believe that the crankshaft assembly could be returned to Citroen for refurbishment when the 2cv was still being made.

Wow brilliant...that is one of best video's I have ever watched on HubNut Ian and I have been subcribed for a good few years. Absolutely fascinating, I am a bit of a home mechanic myself, self taught through the 70's and 80's trying to keep the various family Cortins's, Montego's, Vauxhalls on the road. The scariest job I did on my own was changing a front shock on a Montego in the early 80's and hiring a "spring compressor". Anyway GREAT content and thanks.

I remember removing the manifolds on my old 40 Horse VW engine. Every single bolt came out bringing most of the aluminium threads with it. The rebuilder must have been an arm wrestling champion.

Ah always good to see someone who knows and can perform 🤣the task with all of the usual dexterity a true professional has.. Thankyou Colin !! This was a pleasure to watch ! I've stripped a few in my time.. ENGINES!!! 🤣I hope 'Mr Bodgeit' once again realised that there are those who are true 'professionals' !

I am in Melbourne and yesterday I saw a beautiful Austin 7 being driven on main roads near me. I thought there may have been a car show nearby but couldn't find any info on any. A good informative video!

Ducati's bevel singles also have this head gasket-less interference seal between the head and barrel. Seems to work OK.

look how tiny it is. i love how he has a can for each type of nut / bolt

Amazing how similar they are to a VW Beetle engine - sort of a 'half' one. Best designs though - no ridiculous cam chains to fail and knacker the engine.

It sounds like Colin has worked on 2CV engines before, all the details he mentions that you should take into account. Nice that Elly gets her "original" engine back.

AMO MI CITROEN 2CV SALUDOS DESDE MENDOZA ARGENTINA

Fantastic video! Was really looking forward to this one. Great to see the Morgan too - One of my best motorsport memories is seeing one of those at a VSCC Meeting at Silverstone in the early 90s dicing with a Napier Bentley. We clocked them at 81mph average, and the Napier only won because of the length of the start finish straight. The Morgan was much quicker through the corners.

Result. It'll be great to hear this beastie running and see how it fares in Elly

Now that’s Olympic gold, copper bottomed tinkering right there by Colin.

Brilliant video, I really enjoyed this and the bonus Morgan start. I also love the idea of an LN Q-Car.

Love the opening shot, a flat twin with 2 flying jackets, You just need a propeller on Elly now :)

I remember the moment when exactly that engine started making some odd noices now and then. I remember very well also when this one was put in Elly before the Croatia trip. You had a test run on which you went for an ice cream, if I remember well. Nice to see you getting on with it.

I do love fettling All that was missing Few Hubnut under the swear from banged fingers scraped this and that.But we saved the expense of broken things. Can't Wait for Elllys first road test with the newer engine. And child noises of the driver because of thrill.

That Morgan is bloody glorious!

Lovely stuff. Blokes doing blokey stuff. Here's to Elllie being back on the road! 👏👏👏👏

I love the old 2cv’s, but in the United States they are hard to find. A friend of mine imported one out of Canada and he drove it for many years. His didn’t have any options, not even roll up windows(did they even have roll up windows). The ride was surprisingly good but it was too slow to get on the highway.

The old Rover R8 200-series front grille that has been hanging up in my garage for years, had become pitted and oxidised, so I went to my local Halfords to find an aerosol of 'Chrome Paint'. The young lady behind the counter told me not to bother buying it. She said 'the stuff's rubbish'.

Thanks for this video, I never took mine appart this far.

Enjoyed that. See you at Rustival😊

Engine on that Morgan sounds lovely. Ticks over like a sewing machine, throttles up with a roar

With a bit of luck, and someone who knows what they are doing, this one will work!

Cheers Ian for answering. Ms Hubnut got it spot-on. Some places, such as outside schools etc for sure. But a blanket 20mph limit? This definitely needs further consideration and review. In essence, driving too fast for the road conditions anywhere is dangerous and causes unnecessary risks.

A very interesting video. Hopefully the engine will get a nice clean-up before it gets fitted.

Does that make it an .... Elly-coil repair? :) Thanks for the look at a 2CV engine!

Great video, thanks guys! I'm currently rebuilding my top end and it's reassuring to know that a certain amount of violence is acceptable. There's a degree of tourettes trying to get the valve springs and collets back in situ but that's probably down to my inexperience and crappy cheap spring compressor. Hey ho, I'll have another go in the morning

Such a simple engine is a joy to see. 👍🏼

Way back in 1989, I heard from a friend of a friend who's parent's had some property with a ripple bonnet Truckette that was moldering into the fertile soil of Western Oregon. They wanted it gone. It was free, I was driving my '65 SAAB wagon at the time and was going on weekend mid winter junkets of 120 miles round trip to attempt to see if it could be towed or driven home. It was a real lost cause, the body was 50% rust flakes and the engine, although turning freely, would only rotate about 150 or so degrees. They wanted it all gone and I had no place to store the remains and less sources for the rare little 11 HP(?) engine. I had some dingbat idea of just rescuing the engine and transmission and making it power an older bull nose SAAB Wagon as a junkyard tractor for my friend's SAAB shop. Young adult pipe dreams.

Fascinating!

Proper bit of fettling!!❤

Great stuff, thanks for that. I can now mark off my bucket list the innards of a 2CV. The coil suspension Ian has shown us many years ago. Re the crankshaft, some motorbike engines have a pressed fit crankshaft and they can be repaired, but I suppose it would be expensive coz it does require knowledge and special machinery.

The styer opposed engine in tuch is a cool engine

Nice to see new motor , Great job

Brilliant video and some workshop your in, great seeing the repair

Can't the crank be reconditioned by an engineer who does motorcycle cranks?

Being spoilt for Citroen A Series engine tear downs. Makes me want to buy one just to take it apart and rebuild one.

Its great to have good mates Ian. Aussie Graham.

A pleasing lack of sensors and electrical harnesses on these engines! 👍

Hello from an LNA owner (sadly the 1124cc x engine, but tempted to see what else might fit)

Noticed the guy said you don't want to take to much of the fly wheel if its hilly. People think a heavier fly wheel gives more torque or power. Not the case at all weight on the flywheel does is smoothes the engine vibrations. It actually robs the engine of power.

another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍

Nice 😊

What a weird engine 😂 that thing confuses the heck outta folks just looking at the disassembly process 🤣

It's a two cylinder Beetle engine! I never knew the 2CV was a horizontally opposed air-cooled unit. Well,well, you live and learn !

Nice one Colin,no need to lap in the barrels to the cylinder heads on this one ? Well done Ian looking forward to seeing the engine fitted now .

I rarely comment on videos but I really enjoyed watching this 👀👍

yes I have a 550 kit to one day put on my 425 I also don't know when but hope I find a knowledgeable friend to help .

Impressive amount of tapping (large copper faced lump) hammers as a back drop

atleast you have it on video for the future when you are tinkering with another 2cv engine. Seems to me you should always keep your eye out for any spare engines you come across as good bits must be getting rare/expensive 😮

Hello Colin & Ian, very interesting and enjoyable in seeing the engine being taken apart, just two questions from an "mature mechanic" first, how about giving the engine that is being worked up a good clean, and, what about some sort of barrier cream and gloves?? Nothing like a bit of dermatitis?? Best wishes from Lincolnshire