I would recommend having the chassis checked for integrity as the vehicle has inevitably spent an inordinate amount of time towing caravans and speedboats to / from television studio. Better to be safe than sorry 👍

Tonight's star prize!! It's Jim Bowen's old Bentley! Lovely, super, smashing, great!!

The way you go straight to the point , no padding, is just brilliant. Real men doing what we would do if we werent so lazy

Flying spares are legends, did my dad's silver shadow 2 with pretty much all bits from them. Service bits to an entire interior!

Yep, farmers are experts at finding cheaper ways of doing things. Helped my dad change a power steering pump on a Rover 820. Took us 7 hours, including 2 making the special tool we needed to do the job.

I loved Jim Bowens quote - when we started Bullseye it was rubbish, when we finished it was still rubbish but I drove home in a Bentley!

I was a GM tech in the US for several years, it sucked, so I went back to truck driving, I feel your pain. Beautiful automobile, I look forward to the T-34.

Great, Smashing, Super , and you could have won the speedboat but you got the car instead!

Had a 1995 Turbo R. Did about 9.5k miles a year in it. Looked after by Ray Hillier of Hiller Hill in Olney. Flying Spares are the boys.

I suggest you fab a thin sheet metal wrap around the frame and the oil line. This could eliminate those tie wraps but secure and protect the hose. I bet the car rides better too. Cheers

Good to see you back after all the FV turmoil, I know everyone has been bangin' on about it but I will be pleased to see the T34/85 progressing. To be fair Joe; I couldn't give two fucks what you upload I will still watch it with joy. Don't ever stop, and v soon quarter million subs, the whole team richly deserve it. Especially the hound.❤❤

Jim Bowen's Bentley is a national treaure, thank you for restoring it to its rightful glory and prominence in the nations heart.

Agree about Flying Spares. Quick and efficient service. My Bentley Brooklands could leak mineral oil from everywhere.I managed to get it sorted eventually. Good luck with the old girl.

I'm liking your plans for our Old Mate ... "Concrete Chieftain". Can't wait for what's ahead lads. Cheers fm 🇦🇺

The shop is very tidy, Ted friendly

Sympathy from the USA! In my younger years I worked on some UK cars, LR model 109 (parts are hell to get), MG As and I found out with some friends that the best way (almost the only) to get the motor out of a bugeye Sprite was to have a really big, strong guy straddle the engine bay and grab the loosened motor while the rest of us scrambled to secure it when he stood up straight. Don't even ask me about how you had to rebalance the carbs after changing the spark plugs on a Lotus Europa and then go to a chiropractor for the rest of your life because you had to dangle yourself upside down/sideways to get to the engine bay. Tanks must be a lot calmer to work on.

Very grateful we don't have icing issues /salt on the roads here in Australia. The old Bentley is a tank in its own right. Nice vid mate. Cheers.

Nice quickie repair on Bentley. Looking forward to you getting on with your projects now the FV005 is now finished. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Ted, please tell Mr Hewes the springy up and down things are called dampers. Dampeners are what rain does to working outdoors.

It can be as old and rusty as it is, but it is still a wonderful looking car 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

If your still worried about the tire wearing the hose just cut a stainless pipe in half and make a shield over the hose. All the best from Surrey BC Canada

Always a pleasure - thank you for sharing.

Man, I've really started to love this channel after finding it only a few weeks ago. Great stuff. Hope the Tour de France goes well! :D

Super tank project, be really nice when done , thanks for sharing Joe

Great repair,of the spring and demper @ the Bentley 😎 . And the explaining off the work is to come, I loved to see the next video's❤

Brilliant video as always, thank you. The Bentley is a life work for sure, have some fun along the way. Looking forward to the next installment of the epic saga, cheers.

After an incredible few weeks/months normal service resumes at Ted's garage. Foreman Joe proves his skills at the best of British engineering and presents the coming programme. Fantastic, welcome back!!

That front spring is as big as Jack! Glad to hear the T34 project is back on. Thats a good watch

No wonder he gave Boney M records as a star prize. The money he saved bullseye, bought the Bentley. Super smashing great! Bless him.

Might think about putting some form of cushioning between the zip tie and the oil hose and frame to prevent excessive rubbing. Hate to see something go even worse. Good job by the way! Live your adventures and work!

Never a dull moment with you ,working on a Bentley ,or a Rover or a tank it's great stuff interesting as all hell keepem coming Brilliant videos mate

Welcome back. Straight into it

Brilliant. I bought a lovely Turbo R about a month ago and the first two problems I had to sort were exactly the same! I got my parts from my friendly Bentley Rolls Royce breakers near Leeds.

Any video you make is a good one. Thanks for sharing.

Keep it up... another great video! Liking the engineering solutions for the broke Bentley....look forward to hearing the exhaust on the concrete Chieftain....

Very impressive shop , great video / update

Ted needs a pay rise or more beer money .🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺👍

Good, you copperslipped the strut, your learning, well done.

Geweldige filmpjes, ik geniet er elke keer weer van

Nice to be back in the shop. Looking forward to the upcoming video's. Better clean my tools up. Gonna be busy.

Cheers Joe, greatly enjoy your videos!

Here’s what you could’ve won…..great upload very informative and enjoyable lovely car

Just lovely watching - cheers!

Good to see you free to pursue other projects again!

Brilliant. Don't forget to have a holiday too, someday.

Flying spares is a brilliant name for that company!

Worth putting in the effort on this car and it will serve you well as long as you can afford the dinosaur juice for it.

Mr. Hewes thought process.... Broken Bently, hmmmm well let's keep it an all British show and drop that spare V-12 Meteor engine in, it's bound to fit. ^~^

I think the wire is part of the 'Active Ride' adaptive dampening setup that Bentley used around this era. Looking at the valve body, I am guessing it's a pair of solenoids that will open or close depending on dampening requirements. Given it's an RR/Bentley product, the dreaded Castrol HSMO is probably involved judging by that metal line coming off of the shock body. My XJ40 uses this green LHM like mineral oil for the brake pressure booster and on version with self levelling rear suspension, it's also used for the rear struts.

Great video good to see you getting back into it.

We want a video of the mad professor Land Rover

I never Sean large frt springs like that on a car before last time I did frt springs was on a mark2 ford cortina long time ago sorry Ted was not there to help ,look like you have a lot work ahead of you ,I like all the work your doing on the centurion 👍👍👍👌👌great video

Joe, you seem to be a "Magnet" for broken things that are not initially not known about. There must be a word for this, i like to call it the "Hewesnes".

That was cool 😎. Like to see more of your car.

we are in new zealand we use flying spares to get parts for the bentley do not use the agents unless you have a large box of money great show love it

10/10 for effort Joe. I can imagine the oil feed pipe was a telephone number as it's a Bentley. Only thing I would have done as temp measure, was put hose protector wire around the front bit where tyre might rub. (Hydraulic) Now back to normal panic mode with everything still to do.

I enjoy finely tuned small engines and the uses of them. I hate having to fix the family cars. I see Ted hates it too. Love the show, thank you so much.

We bought rear discs for the Boss's 70's Shadow and then tried separating them off the hubs...... went to local Commercial Vehicle workshop to use their 1" Air gun to get the nuts off....... didn't even touch it. Ended up buying to complete hub assemblies with the discs from Flying Spares. Just over a grand for the pair (one side was more expensive than the other which was weird) and the discs alone were something like £650+.

hi Mr Hewes, i am old enough to remember the Torry Canyon oil tanker when it went aground of the Scilly isles, a complete mess, the army sent in Bedford RL's with 50 gall drums full of degreasing fluid to try and help. in the end the RAF bombed the ship. great video, Jim Bowen was great and did games shows,

I feel your pain, since I am currently welding at a 1989 G Wagen, that I suspect went paddling in salt water once too often.

That spring looks like something off of a trophy truck!

Well in joe car maintenance never fun but sometimes needs must as always a great video and a good watch looking forward to the t34 and concrete chieftain

I feel your pain brother, I hate working on cars to ............. makes me appreciate my Land Rovers even more.

The electrical connector on the damper is to remotely adjust the suspension ride. Should be a dash control to alter for comfort/ sport mode.

Good job Mr. Hewes. Just like working on a tank😊

I'm happy to see your finely honed Russian tank repair skills have application to British automobiles.

The dreaded UK Salt is hard on the Chassis for rust,and you never get rid of it sadly $ can get out of control quickly Will be nice when you have it completed ✅

The torrey Canyon, now that's going back a few years.

You making the tank up as easy as washing my outside house windows - you make me laugh 😅very interesting as always Chrs Malc uk 🇬🇧

"Variety is the spice of life"

Nice job!

I had exactly the same problem with my Continental R and the oil pipes. And I also went to Bonding and Reline - because I can confirm to replace the 3 pipes with aftermarket us £2500! Bonding and Reline managed to copy the originals with the solid sections, superb company.

Joe, you should try rust converter, I swear by the stuff (bloody hell - see!!). It's water based and chemically converts the oxide layer into a hard protective coating. Just remove all the loose stuff first, as you did on the Bentley, then spray or brush it on, thinning with water as required.

After all that super, smashing, terrific work you deserve a Bendy Bully……. But look here’s what you could have fixed! 🤓

There should be steering stop bolts that stop the wheels from turning to much you could probably back it out some so the wheel won't turn so close to your your new oil line. Just a thought.

Restarting the T34...that one I've been waiting for.

Looks like copper before you painted it black.the. springs are massive. Would love to see 👀 an IS2

There is clearly an opportunity here for Rolls Royce to facilitate one of the best KZfaq Rolls Royce "premium" parts consumers with a sponsorship. Ted will handle the negotiations.

fantastic content well done my friend 😊

Well done Mr Hewes!

Super great smashing 👍

I reckon a few more Bentley repair videos would be a nice refreshing change. 😊

The name Jim Bowen makes me think of an editor of maritme books. Howerver, there are probably many.

God dam those springs are bigger than on my 1995 f250 with a 1223 pound engine in the front😅😅😅

Super smashing great, let's see what you could've won..........👍👍👍👍👍

What about the Packard? Been looking forward to that video for a while now,,,, Cheers and keep up the good work👍

Bloody hell Joe 😳 I thought that the exxon valdis would have been too old for you! But I guess that your dad must use the Torrey canyon quote when describing an oil spill or leak.😊

Nice work Buddy 👏 hopefully mine doesn't have that much tin worm

Impressive hammer collection.

France roadtrip incoming !

Taking time off from the tanks to work on a tank!

i had a similar issue with an oil cooler pipe years and years ago - the vehicle which i won't say what it was coz your laugh and make me feel even sillier, had an odd pipe that was no longer available and if it was, was probably only available on Mars or somewhere, but my friend who happened to be a plumber come gas fitter went (in a Joe accent) 'Oh that's a BSP fitting i think' checked it and was spot on, so off i went to my local plumber gas retail therapy store, they got a spare parts section downstairs, and the nice chap their disappeared with my sample pipe and came back with one exactly the same, complete with the end banjos as well, bonkers, and i think it cost me about £12, so i bought a handful and of course made some profit on them as you do PS trust Jack to break the spring on the Roller, do we ask what he was doing at the time? anyway - love you

Get a hydraulic shop to bend up steel tube to shape and silver solder fittings to it .even if it's just over chassis so wheel won't rub .

👍❤ Super, smashing, marvellous.

I say, that is most splendid correct.

All very interesting stuff....

flexible hose are cheaper and works better + it last way loonger than metal/copperhoses. so i agree that is the best option you made to fix the oil issue :)

Great video.

Lovely world there sir jolly good old chap

Genuinely looking forward to the t34/55 engine build .