You know we all want to see her running Bruce. Get the carb and the starter sorted. We'll all be waiting for part 2.

Hey Bruce, I bought an old TK Beddy many years ago for my fencing business, I had a steel tray and a spot on Cab but the six cylinder engine was knackered. I had a recon. 253v8 Holden motor lying around so I modified a few things and put that in with its 4 speed manual tranny. It went like a beauty but after about 3 months the diff seized up and Idid a small fencing job for a cocky and he had a split diff in his workshop for a TK so we made a clean swap. I found and Eaton splitter for her and wired it all up and gave me 8 gears which came in useful over the years. Final upgrade was to add gas after I took the heads off and modified them. That old TK gave me years of faithful service with not a problem and when I bought my farm she carried on as an awesome all rounder. So obviously this video struck at the old heart strings and I’m pleased you gave her your special brand of love. Another ripper from the old master, well done

Nobody rocks a flowery shirt like Bruce. Love the channel, sir! Kentucky, USA

Good job Bruce.....................the only guy on youtube that knows what he is talking about, thank you Sir

yes! quality time with my favorite uncle, Bruce!!

I love watching people who just don't know how to give up and quit. They just GET IT DONE. You are remarkable sir. From Virginia USA thank you..

not a fan of deadly snakes but Bruce is DETERMINED. good job Bruce

Always looking forward to another adventure in Australia starting old engines with Bruce and the Cameraman

Bruce, no matter how rusty, there are always parts that someone could use. There should be more soft spoken intelligent people like you in the world. It would be a much better place to live. Jim from Connecticut

In the late 1970s, I worked as a mechanic for a bus company. I wasn’t usually expected to work on Sundays, but one morning early, the phone rang; the driver explained, “I’ve brought a group of people over the border to play the Pokies (no pokies in Qld during the rein of Sir Joh) then when we were ready to come home the bus wouldn’t start.” So grabbing the Bedford Diesel I headed for the Teranora Football Club, ‘Oh I shouldn’t have taken that one’, but how was I to know it was needed elsewhere? There was not much other choice. So I parked beside the bus ( A Bedford 300 petrol) to connect up Jumper Leads; I told the driver, “Try it now.” An enormous “BANG” echoed off the countryside, and a cloud of dust fell out of the roof panels, mud from the 1974 floods. (I was imagining everyone around the area diving under their beds, as during the night, there had been shots fired nearby.) They had left the Club at about 1 AM and tried to start the bus until the battery gave in. They lifted the engine cover to look at the engine, one guy looked at the Ignition Distributor and said, “I migghtuh dranka few beers tonight but dem wires is rrong,” “I’ve worked at Irving Motors for the past 15 years and Dem wires is rrong.” How did they think they got there if the Spark Plug leads were wrong? So they pulled the leads out and put them in the right places, then they pushed the bus up and down the football field, but ‘of course’ no go. Somewhere back in the vehicle's history, someone had put the distributor in 180 degrees out, It was easily fixed; just put the plug leads around 180 degrees. So, after the muffler blew wide open, the driver told me the story. They had completely flooded the motor and no way could it be started, the muffler still had sufficient fuel in it to go off at the first spark on an open exhaust valve. I put the leads back in the wrong places, and she started straight up, so I burbled her all the way back to the depot.

Super video Bruce, brings back memories of driving the old Bedfords back in the day.

First lorry I ever had a ride in EKL 413C which was a diesel engined TK, 4 ton tipper I think, at 13 years old I got the job of filling the diesel tank every night and checking oil and water levels, loved every minute of it. My Uncle drove for a tipper firm with Bedford TKs and 2 KMs, later they had 2 stroke Commers then Dodge Commandos

I love hearing all the background noises. All sorts of animals around there.

As a young man when I started my career I drove a Ford D-series diesel truck with a cab quite similar to the Bedford. Quite an interesting driving experience for a 6'3" tall man...

Good stuff Bruce, ready and waiting for part 2 🤠

Hey man, thanks for you’re videos, I have learned so much. And please be careful, we would hate to see you get bitten, or hurt by something. Thank you.

Your average human would have turned around and run for cover, but not Bruce...you're a fair dinkum legend mate!!

Another great video thanks Bruce

So close - lets see it cough into life - well done so far. love hearing the stories you tell from the past too.

This channel deserves more attention. Thank you guys for the videos!

Thanks for sharing that Gordon, they were certainly a pretty common truck here in Qld back in the 70s and 80s

A new length measurement, Bruces. "How tall is that trailer over there, dont want to be overheight", "Naa your fine, it only looks to be a couple bruces, maybe a bruce and a half."

I love it every single time i see a notification from Bruce and Farmcraft. I have learned so much from the two channels this year more than all the years i've been on youtube

Keep working on it,nice to see it drive

With the carb off, give a prime shot into intake manifold. Engine should start. Or keep us in suspense for pt 2, rebuilt carb. Loved the hornets nest shot! Take care Bruce.

Love this channel it’s like watching the Bob Ross off old trucks

That be great to see it go Bruce give it a shot 👍👍

Good on ya Bruce looking forward to part 2. Thanks for all videos, really enjoy watching you get things going again.

Great video, thankyou. No way a bloody petrol Bedstead is going to beat Bruce! Can't wait for part 2. However this truck is soo rusted it will be likely falling to pieces with a decent rev. I used to drive one of these from farm to grain silos with 6 tons on. Never any power (so always getting bogged in the Mallee sand) and the 2 speed diff just made noise. Not Bedford's finest product.

You've certainly had a variety of tenants living inside that old girl! I love those old straight six petrol Bedfords, especially the smaller J Series models, so I'd definitely love to see more on this!

Yeah Bruce get it going! You're almost there. Spark ✅ just need the air\fuel mixture now, and a lil more starter speed won't hurt.

TKs Once very common here in England , they were very popular most fitted with Perkins diesels and made over long period including military 4x4 versions , thanks for the video Bruce catch ya on the next one ,

That's a better shirt than I wear to church Burce!

Multiple snakeskins,Spider sanctuary disturbance,various particles on Bruce’s head,Hornets nest in the carby to take the win.. What an epic video! Great teamwork.

I wouldn’t call working on something riddled with snake skins, spiders & hornets “taking it easy” Bruce 😱

Definitely want to see it running so looking forward to part 2!

Very much enjoy watching you get these old neglected machines running again, and looking forward to part 2!

Up till about 18 months ago I had a TK tipper. It looks like it was a later model than that one your playing with Bruce. Mine had the 6 cylinder 300CI petrol motor and the carby was a Stromberg, (2 bolts only) same as Holden as you would well know. The motor looked exactly like that one you were working on. It was seized when I got it so I did an in chassis rebuild and it went like a trooper after that. Plenty of guts even when fully loaded with dirt in the bin. It was air over hydraulic brakes, bit of a pain but the park brake was air release so I used the park brake air valve as the brakes on the beast. Pretty hairy coming down the mountain on my property loaded to the hilt with some road base for road repairs and only the park brake for stopping power. It worked OK, otherwise I would not have used it. Thanks for the video.

Got to finish this one. Worked on a lot of the diesel versions of these back home. Solid, reliable but uncomfortable to drive. Great video as usual 😃

Good tip on checking the points. When cleaning them I prefer using an emery board, the kind you use for fingernails.

Brings back memories Bruce, My boss in NZ bought one while I was doing my carpentry apprenticeship. Did lots of trips to Mt Cook in it over 18 months. She'll go. 👍👍

Yes please to more videos on this Bruce 👍

Another beauty of a shirt! I can't keep mine clean eating dinner let alone working under a truck. It shows what a tidy and methodical person you are. Looking forward to this video.

Looking forward to part two. TVM.

Yep. Get her going. Love your work, Bruce 👍

Looking forward to part 2! I'd like to see it running.

Another cracking video Bruce. Look forward to part 2 mate

Certainly like to see how far you could go,but it has spirit 😂 thanks for sharing, all the best to you and your loved ones

You are a braver man than me Bruce. I would have fogged the inside of that cab with that bug spray 🤣, must be an aussie thing, used to all the bugs and critters 😉...

Keep going on this old gal!

Hi Bruce...great job on the old truck...yes I would enjoy a part two.. watching from Maine USA..

Hey Bruce, when you were checking the firing order it reminded me of my brother and his second car a HR Holden red motor he brought, the motor old and burning old so he got an Reco 186 to stick in it, this is where it gets amusing, Him and his 2 mates worked the Friday evening, Sat and all Sunday to get the motor swapped out, they got it in Sat afternoon, then flattened 2x Batteries cranking it over, then towed it up and down the Road till late Sunday evening, My bro went to work as Apprentice Motor Mechanic Monday, I was studying for my HSC in Vic, and needed a break, so had a tinker with my Bro's car, I checked the Firing order By first checking the rotation on the of the distributor's rotor by turning the Fan the correct way and found the had the Plug's wired in reverse order, so corrected that and turned the engine over and it fired right up, turned it off and went inside and told My Dad and He was not Happy saying he wanted to see how long it was going to take hi to work it out and go out and put it back to how it was, I'm not 100% sure in what happened but I'm pretty sure my Mother told him that I worked it out, and he got it running Monday evening, It was never mentioned of again He must have ben embarrassed about it!

Again, Bruce is bloody Amazing

Nice job Bruce!! Very good tip on how to manually check the ignition and the points earth/ground connection.

Bruce, mate, watching what you get up to with these old things makes the fairly routine stuff I get up to with my own truck look like child's play. I'd love to see part two, it would be good to see her go, she seems to want to have a go.

Yes and Yes! A Great part 1, can't wait until part 2. Thank You.

Excellent video again Bruce, interesting and entertaining in equal measure ! Thanks for sharing, looking forward to part 2 !

A true classic truck old work horse my friends dad always had many of them I used to work for him in the mid 90s in hes scrap yard was the first truck i dove on the road only passed my test in a month before driving it i used to pick cars up with the old hand wind lift on both sides (can't remember the name) and the other Tk we used to load on car shells on the flat bed you would never get away with now 😂🤣 that's for sure he still had the one with the harvey frost crane on if that's correct for years till he died in 2010 thanks bruce for makeing me remember the good old days im sure there is still plenty around in the uk 👍

bruce, this video is a very good watch. is that a GM product? boy, it sure looks like a chevy engine. best wishes.

Thanks Bruce! I'm posting from a new channel. Cheers Evo from down south.

Would love to see it running. Great job Bruce!

Awesome job Bruce 👍👍would be great to see you get it going - so many old tips and tricks in here for the younger blokes (and us old blokes to ) great video mate hope you do a follow up 👍

Can't wait to hear it run.👍

I love the old Bedford mate. My Dad had for garbage trucks years ago and I would help on the round in the Hastings VIC area and work fixing them too. Bloody good trucks.

Awesome video as usual

I'm here again setting on the edge of the couch saying come on old timer .. speaking of the truck of course... yeah would like to see it running poor old thing .. great video thanks

What a great watch 👌🏻

Part 2 please Bruce can't wait, watching from NZ.👍👍👍

Sure Bruce would love to see this running. Good luck

It would be lovely to see her running again.

Hello Bruce and the cameraman another great episode on this old Bedford its has been sitting for awhile but I reckon after abit of tlc you'll get it started would enjoy watching more on this old truck and i see their were snakeskin's there glad to see they cleared the area around the truck thanks for sharing Bruce and the cameraman take care everyone blessings till next time

That bird made the perfect noise when you went to put the key in like special effects! 😅

Hello enjoy your show retired mechanic here may I suggest when starting those old engines I've had got success with using two stroke fuel little bit more oil works good

Thank you

Like Jim Stafford said in his song, "I don't like Spiders and Snakes", especially poison snakes, and y'all got a bunch of different poison snakes down under, we've only got maybe a handful here in the US and that's more than enough for me. Anyhow, rock on Bruce 🤘✌️

Can't wait for the Carbi strip down episode! Sounds like the starter motor brushes check is worthy too.

This truck is good for scrapping!

Looking forward to Part 2🙂

Well done Bruce, excellent workmanship. I told my partner the firing order as you were checking the engine and she ask me. " How do I know that" Like you haven to worked on many old 6 Cylinder engines" Enjoy your commentary. Would like to see the old Bedford up and running, please continue with part 2. Love your videos Bruce. Cheers, Alan

Wow. Just getting that door open was worth the price of admission.....🤑

I definitely want to see it go. Good luck

Bruce is wearing his going into town on a Friday night shirt.

Looking forward to seeing part two, enjoy watching your videos !

Nice job Bruce . Thats a beauty of an emblem on the front ! It almost came to life there mate , that hornet blocked carby was no help . Snakes have their place in the world , and I do my best to stay out of their place . We will look forward to part 2 with "Eddie" . Take care Bruce . 🌵

Keep on at her Bruce😎👍

Looking forward to Part 2 for this video Bruce, you've gone so far now, good job.. I did ride in a TK Bedford once and remembered every gear change the little whistles it would let out..

We used old beddys as cargo transports years sgo in the TA. Miss the old buggers. Another gread vid bruce. Would love to see the carb breakdown

love watching your videos your very clever at fixing engines i like fixing engines to.

Please let there be a part 2 Can wait brother. God Bless you Bruce hope all is well In the outback. Always watch where you walk, my friend. Watch out for those snakes in spiders. You have balls of steel.My friend going inside those bananed vehicles, not knowing if there's a big spider lurking behind that seat Or a snake. Your biggest fan GMC Guy From Boston, Massachusetts USA.

I look forward to part 2 also.

First truck I ever drove when I was 15, 1970 TK (7 tonner I think), was our local fire tanker, replaced our old Blitz. Only a 2 wheel drive with Goodyear Hi-Milers, still amazed us where it would go. Thank you Bruce.

Fantastic video. I learnt to drive in a Bedford TK. great old trucks.

Memories, I used to drive my dads tk 300 petrol, 8 tonne split diff at 6 years old. Round the paddock with the square bail loader attached to the side. Cheers Bruce

Brilliant!. Old school mechanics!. Wish I'd had your channel to watch back in the eighties when I got my first car! Bril!. Keep doing what you do. Teaching mechanical 'Noddys' how to fix stuff!. On ya!. Nuff said. 🙂

Thanks Bruce, I remember these old TK's from my youth and would love to see you get this one running.

Always have a soft spot for the old TK's - i worked in a timber yard in my school holidays and one of my jobs was cranking up the old (by then - off road) TK Bedford to load sawdust, and timber offcuts for the firewood heap. Beautifully smooth gearbox compared to the clunky two D Series Fords. Can't wait for Part 2 Bruce!

Hey up Bruce those two access panels make some good working room considering it's a cabover nice video and looking forward to part 2

Hi Bruce, really enjoy watching your videos. With regard to the old Bedford 214 maybe a few pumps of engine oil down the cylinders might make those old rings seal a bit better. cheers

Keep at it mate, great episode ( they’ll pretty good 👍)

Looking forward to part 2 Bruce. Great video thank you! I didn’t realise you had Bedfords and Austin out there. I remember seeing those Bedford trucks in England in the 70’s😊