We run out of fuel, food and tyres - do we make it? THE KIMBERLEY FINALE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- THE WAIT IS OVER! Kimberley part 3 is HERE. Our remote 4WD & camping adventure comes to an end and it's nothing short of WILD!
Shaun Whale & Graham Cahill push through the final front of the Oombulgurri track to Kalumburu, crossing the Drysdale river, King Edward river and battling through the thickest, harshest scrub we've ever encountered.
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Food and fuel is running low, but BEERS are all stocked up!!
That's what I call Priorities🤣🤣
Definitely
Good job boy’s
With a capital P apparently.
Gotta have something to drink while your stuck waiting for fuel and tyres 🤷♂️😂
If you’ve ever been there, ya know.😉
Can we just appreciate the editors on this, 10days full of filming cut down into the most amazing 3 and a half hour journey we've seen on this 3 part video
True
fully, the editing would be as much work as any part of this awesome production
❤
I think Jessie completing that in 2wd only is testament to him but also the capability of the Ranger - very impressed
I love viewing the difference between the Ranger that was released in Australia and the Range released in the United States, the Australian Ranger is just pure power, unstoppable.
As an American, I respect the hell outta you guys. We both come from countries that don't have good histories with respect to the Indigenous Peoples, but your gang always shows them HUGE respect. It's cool to see the Traditional Owners acknowledged and respected, visibly, in everyday life, in all forms of Australian media. It'd be nice to see more of that over here.
I’m from Canada, and I love that as well.. and respect it through and through. The stories are tragic regardless where you’re from
i’m from australia and things aren’t all as they seem
@@Titan-zt6ys don't go talking shit mate, what are you even on about
shut up
I am pleased that they've chosen to fully lean in on how drunk they get for the cooking segments.
Proper pissed on the last cook
Munted
Swashbuckled!!
Staggered oh yhea!
Just good to see how it really is around at their camp too
I figured I would share my “bush fix” story with you guys. I was driving down Padre Island National seashore (65 miles of 4wd beach driving). I had driven down to the end of the seashore and camped/fished for the weekend and started my journey back down the 65 mile stretch late Sunday afternoon to get home. Cell phone service is non existent and being a Sunday the beach was virtually empty of other people. I made it to the 46 mile marker (46 miles from the only exit and civilization) and I saw steam billowing out from my engine bay. My heart sank as I realized my radiator blew. There was a crack along the entire side of the radiator. I sat and drank my last 2 beers wondering what on earth to do as nobody else was coming and I didn’t want to be stranded for days waiting for someone to come by. I dug through my tool box and found 1/4 tube left of JB weld in the bottom. So I gathered some flat sea shells and bonded them with JB weld to seal the blown out radiator. I then used my shirt as a filter and drained my melted ice from my cooler through my shirt into the radiator. I waited a couple hours and fired it up. No leaks! I ended making it all the way back to town on that bad boy! The look on the radiator shop’s face was priceless when he saw my work. Needless to say, JB weld is now on every trip I make down there!
Cool to read some other texan stories on here ... I live in south east tx just south of palestine. I hope to make it down to padre one day with my discovery, im in the middle of ls swaping it right now so probably will be next year.
Another fellow Texan here. Love the seashell fix! PINS is absolutely amazing. Incredible to drive 65 miles down a remote beach!! (And then 65 back) One of my favorite places for sure.
This is gotta be by far one of the most original and creative fixes I've ever heard of and if you don't get that gift card Ill personally donate a kidney if need be
That’s bloody epic
Fellow Texan as well, bought my 08 Hummer H2a few years back finally been able to start rebuilding it slowly but can’t wait to taker her out I daily drive her tho with 37” Toyo Mts but absolutely love her. 210k miles on odo and goin strong.
BY FAR THE BEST EPISODE IVE EVER WATCHED
Surprised this comment has so few likes, agree 100%
I've never watched a video that made me "want" and "not want" to do a thing so much.
My bush repair story, we were travelling in the NT in a petrol V8 and the fuel pump died. We cut into the cars fuel line, added extra fuel line and ran that through the cab and into the engine bay. We used a boat outboard primer bulb manually in the cab as a fuel pump to continue.
In a pinch you can also rig the window washer motor as a pump too - just keep pressing the button while you drive!
@@errhka I love you Aussie gents! I would have never thought of this!!
@@MMr.NOBODYY Truthfully I'm from California (the other one that is on fire all the time) - but thanks! A person I knew was the one who came up with that admittedly - I'm just spreading the knowledge in hopes it will help one of you all in a time of need
Love the videos. My best camping food memory. When I was a child I shot a Robin bird. I didn't shoot it to eat. I just wanted to shoot something. My father taught me the best hunting lesson ever. If you shoot it its food. I cleaned, cooked, and ate the bird. With my father watching over me.
Cant make that shit up
Ranger on 2wd impressed me
It was in 4wd through the soft stuff like at 32:42
That Ranger has impressed me on every trip, makes a lot of tracks look pretty easy.
Would have liked to see the camera on it more
I was surprised they kept it in 2wd. Given the sufficiently loose surfaces they're on, especially when 4wd is really needed, there should be plenty of tire slip to prevent breakage even with the mismatched tires. And even if they're not moving slower than the rear wheels, having the front wheels moving at all is better than not at all.
@@FireCat005 True, but it's easier to winch than replace driveline bits in the dust and mud.
Rocket is exactly the kinda guy you want around in an emergency situation like this. Cool, calm, collected and called every maneuver spot on, instilling confidence and reassurance in the shook driver.
Shauno rolling over: "Oops, I did it again" starts playing.
Absolutely loved having Rocket Rod back. He's one of the best
Gezzer knows how to wheel as well
@@PennyFarthingx bloody oath he does
He’s such a good bloke
@@lachlanbower4381 yeah he definitely is, met him at a Melbourne outdoors show.
How these blokes haven’t snagged a massive television deal yet I have no idea. But regardless, this is unreal.
The trip, the crew, the vehicles, the edit, everything... this is unreal fellas
Massive television deal would probably just ruin it.
You must be kidding!! Why do you think this is good? You need personalities, one. You need a story, two, you need to see something other than broken down vehicles, three. Three strikes and you're out.
@@The_Opinion_of_Matt compared to 4 years ago, the show is already ruined lol
@@rileyhd3473 I will disagree. Different? Sure. Ruined? No. The offroad videos are just as good if not better. I appreciate the build videos and sit down and talk videos, but I don't have time to watch all of those.
@@The_Opinion_of_Matt it used to be 45 minutes of 4wd driving and actual makes having jokes. Now it’s an hour half. “So today’s exhale is only possible by the best brand of *insert literally anything*”
I get why they do it. But Jesus Christ it’s gone downhill. Still probably top 3.. just used to be #1
Loved the episode guys! My most memorable camp meal was when id first got my little 97 zook, didnt know the front manual hubs were siezed with red mud and rust, so i was 2wd on a soft beach with my best mate. Got most of the way too! We cooked up some beef angus burgers together on a little sandflat with a gas cooker. Sadly 2 days after that meal my best mate passed away due to suicide at 17... was a beaut meal, cooked perfectly. First and last camp adventure with my best mate. Wouldnt have changed that night for the world ill tell ya what
Was up cape york and my headset bearings on my motorbike become a little dry, the only thing we had to use was vegemite and it worked a treat
Dad’s GQ back in the day, on our way back from a weekend camping in the You yangs. Though a bog hole we managed to put a hole in the sump, lost all the oil and thought we were stranded. Dad in a stroke of genius epoxied a bit of a mud flap to the sump and the patch held. 6 different viscosities of oil from passerby’s in the old girl got us home. What an ordeal.
This one deserves a prize^
Built patrol tuff 💪🏼
Boring
Hilux would have driven out without adding oil. 😛
Gotta love the Youies…. 🍺🍺🍺🍺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@@Cammo-vp1gl feels like a lifetime since I’ve been. Can’t wait to get back.
Rocket is absolute legend..with a lot of knowledge about mechanical part..
He does that for a living.
Yii moight
@@stenindsilva8487 yup he does...but hes humble...because outhere,a lot of blokes attitude is hilarious,just because they do it for the living,doesnt mean they get to be jackass...unlike rocket,he is really a good man in his job,and outside his job
Also keeps calm in an emergency
@@dolguldur4706 kinda sounds like you wanna take Rocket out on a date
Yeah the Ranger! Drove absolutely everything it was pointed at even in 2WD 👌🏾
He could have used four-wheel drive. The tolerance between tire sizes and a four-wheel drive is 2 in. With the tires spinning on slippery surfaces? That would be no damage
And you can see a creek crossing ranger front tires are spinning with 33 on the front
I absolutely love watching you two cook. What a show!
Anyone who enjoys off-roading, camping, and drinking beer has to envy these guys.
would find it hard to stop drinking in those senics
Every day but the dream is set it has to happen
It's Australia mate why aren't you doing it. Enjoy watching. envy is for poor.
"Ain't no place for halfway crooks" 😂😂😂 Graham's a man of culture
Been around the block a couple of times he has.
He is from the streets 😂
My Radiator was liking with small holes and I was at the Tsavo west Nationa part and I bought tea leaves and put in the radiator , MY bush fix
Ford Ranger Raptor 2x4 that is a combination of driver and UTE....Well done!!!
Alright boys we'll set up camp, get shit faced and then do the dinner segment.
I love the dinner sessions
Haha 😂
the yokes on you
Yeah man, those dinner segments are getting loose as!!
Thasalottanooodlessss ....lol
Awesome.
Shauno is drunk making noodles lol
Lol! One of my favorite parts! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 🍻
One of the best experiences in life is making drunk noodles with friends!
100 percent
LOL 😆😅😄
@@shaunmccoy7783 bahaha
Bush Mechanics - My husband and I went camping with a camper trailer for our honeymoon recently. Day 6, we were almost at Ningaloo Station (North Lefroy Bay), when we almost rolled the trailer. We bent and Axel, took the tyre off the rim, and cracked the tow hitch. 1,342km from home, we managed to pop the tyre back onto the rim, create a hold for the tow hitch with some heavy wire, and bend the Axel just a little bit back into normal to be able to travel home. Carried on our honeymoon and it still took us 2 tyres to get home, but thankful to arrive home safely and had it all completely fixed within the following week of arriving home. What a memory for the photo album 😆
Graham’s and Shauns commentary and work chemistry / mateship in front of the camera makes this series so enjoyable to watch. Shauns child like laugh is so naughty and enjoyable. Great sense of humour fellas. You couldn’t script stuff like this. It is 100% authentic and enjoyable. Well done
I swear if your editors put all three episodes together you’s have a record breaking emotion packed, action filled movie that people would really enjoy
Got to be the most pissed cooking segment yet!! Love it! Totally relate to this 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely EPIC series! Sitting in the EU as an ex South African bush traveler, gotta say you mates have my blood boiling for the hard road again. Motivated beyond belief. Cheers!!!
BEST BUSH MECHANIC FIX -
We were out camping along the Murray river and I smashed my front diff gears in on my Jeep JK Wrangler.
I removed the front axles, and drove it home in 2 wheel drive to get it out of the bush. Had only a few spanners and sockets and the life saver tool, Vise grips that’s did most of the work. 🔧
Got the job done
Shawn just makes the river crossing after multiple attempts and twin lockers and goes nuts
Jessie just popped outa that river in 2wd and gets no credit. Ranger showing up strong
Didn't they change them out with spares when Ronny brought fuel?
It’s more the driver. Jesse is the best wheeer of the pack regardless of what he’s in. He could make a Holden Cruze look like a beast
Lots of power, biggest lift in convoy, less than half the weight of nearest rival plus a pro driver. Yer nah not surprised it got home.
Winner in my book was (and actually hurts to say) was the dmax. Under powered, smallest lift, smallest tyres, borderline over gvm. Its Only problem for the trip was tyres, and kinda think that was just shit luck
He used 4wd in that you can tell
cant believe how well Jesse drove in 2WD
Weird it looked like 4wd when he came through the mud hole around 32:56
@@microwire007 When you have that much wheel slippage, may as well bung it in 4x4, not gonna hurt the transfer case. Just gotta be careful as soon as you hit the dry stuff, it'll load up real fast.
@@masondegaulle5731 ah yeah. That makes a bit more sense.
@@microwire007 it might have been going in but not when he was on the other side,
That big mud hole after that was impressive also. He's the only one that almost made it through on the 1st shot
Grilled trout in the rain. Arrived at camp late and all of my friends were huddled under their awnings because it was raining. I showed up started a fire under an awning and grilled trout for everyone. It was amazing and delicious. One of my best can’t memories ever.
The cooking segment is always the best part 🤣👍
Shauno's half cut making 'desperato dinner' love it lads yewwww🤙🏼🤙🏼
The best bush mechanic fix I've seen was on a mates old Suzuki. His clutch was worn out and stopped working while out bush. To get it home he used silicone to stick 20 cent pieces around the face of the clutch plate and it actually worked well enough to get him home.
Sure....
@@robertwolmarans7533 I wouldn't have believed it either if I didn't see it with my own eyes.
Out of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most
Tyre sidewall repair ... I do safaris into Namibia , and north Namibia and Kaokoland is trackless wilderness where the stones are sharp and the tree stumps are rock hard Mopani trees. We have used a tractor inner tube cut into football sized patches,and glued it in place and also a bit of plastic coke bottle to keep the tube from coming out the fist sized hole in our last spare tyre.. it kept air in, and gravel out , so that was a win. It kept going 400kms to the closest tyre shop, and the wheel was so airtight that we kept the one as a second spare for a few trips before we remembered what was underneath when the balancing proved to be a little difficult.
Fully pissed up bush cooking is the only way to go. Laughed a bit hard on that last cook up, I went cross eyed and nearly shit myself a bit. It's good to see I'm not the only one who behaves in this manner while cook'n out bush. Awesome!!!
Great work on the quick edit fix!👌👌 don’t sack the culprit, stick um in the back of Daryl for the next trip! 👍🇬🇧👍
thats a mean punishment🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Ronnie is a legend and can’t wait to get up there and meet him!
Bush repair fix. Travelling the freshwater track at double Island in a fj40 cruiser with a 253 v8 we put the fan through the radiator. Low of options and low on beers we were desperate for a fix. First option which was sensible and stupid at the same time was start a fire, melt down the lead from the battery to fix the rad. Obviously that was answered with what are we gonna start the car with. Our last resort was a tree with moss all over it. We ripped the rad out, straightened the damaged tubes out. Removed the engine fan and ran with just the thermo we had on the front. We then packed it with moss off a tree and sap. Put it back it. Then had to sacrifice the last beers to fill it. Drove back to rainbow and bought some glue but it wasn't leaking so figured why touch it. We made it towing a trailer back through the freshwater track, down di and all the waY back to brissy towing a trailer. Funnily enough we work at a radiator shop so later in our spare time we ripped the rad back and and tested it in our tub and no leaks.
The whole series was awesome! Impressive rigs. Mad country. Film crew killed it!
Ronnie you’ll be getting a call from me one day. Thank you again for another amazing adventure guys.
Legends!
Broke a tie rod end.luckily had some welding rods in the ute. 2 batteries, jumper cables and welded a bolt across the broken section to patch it up and get it out
Look I almost guarantee that 95% of us come here for the 4WD videos, but stay for Shauno's cooking lessons! There should be a TH-cam channel for Shauno's Cooking! This stuff is gold!
I'm in lockdown doing it really tough in Victoria. Stumbled across your channel and have been glued every since. Thank you so much for given me and my children something to watch and aspire to. Keep those videos coming.
Victoria had lockdown still then? We have barely had it in SA.
More, more, more. Best 3 parts on TH-cam. Really looking forward to how you top this. Keep it up boys
The best Bush mechanic fix I've ever done is use my windshield washer pump as a temporary fuel pump as the old one let go on a track 85km away from any shops to buy one
Lol my friend did one of these too - he had an old Pontiac sedan though and was stuck in the middle of Nowhereville, USA
Love how Shaun’s slurs increase as the cooking progresses
My mum grew up there I showed her this video it brange so many memories back to her for when she was a kid
16:30 the mobb deep reference from Graham hahaha
Guys if there was a way to do it. I would give a million like on this trip on each part. But I will have to say u were missing one person on this trip. Jocko
Jocko? Yes he would off toped off the trip! Good lot of videos though looks like they had a blast and went a bit crazy 😂🤭
Knnn !u
Please
We need more of Jocko
Agreed. The recipe was missing a bit of Jocko.
Yea
Killed an alternator on monkey gum years ago in a long weekend. Couldn't get parts so pulled the alternator apart and scratched the brushes on a rock and put it back together back up to 13ish volts good enough to get home
Having a flat because of SIDE WALL MAJOR damage .so last resort was fill the tyre with rags and spinaflex grass,packed in as tight as you can ,tyre back onto the rim( the half you pull off for access ) and did 300 km on dirt before it’s structural integrity collapsed.saved us.great show,mad questions you ask ,and SO AUSTRALIAN 🇦🇺
I have gotta say I’ve never laughed so hard in my life at two blokes out bush cooking 😂😂😂 Shauno you legend ahahahahahahaha
Best episode to date had my laughs when shauno and Graham went "fishing" for dinner and went round to all the mycoolman
Hey @4WD24-7, if Rocket is still wondering when he bent his tray/canopy the first time the gap is shown as wrong is @19:25 in this episode.
My wife and I absolutely love this channel! Only issue... we have ran out of episodes to watch haha.
best video series yet. keep them coming and show us more of that Ranger
How many times Shauno mentioned "that's a lot of noodles!" with a smile shows just how many can of beers he's had. 👍😁
So happy to finally see Rocket Rod again. Hell of a series! Great adventure.
I agree 100% with you on this!
My best bush mechanic story was with an old camping mate, basically here is the background information, Up in the Vic high country for Australia day weekend, fully loaded 80 series and 4 other people in my fourby. I had lost my 14mm wrench a week prior, but was glad I found it once again, on the steep track, after being dislodged from some part in my engine bay, hitting the radiator fan an getting spat straight into the radiator completely tearing a good 1/4 of the bottom fins out. Ended up pulling out the radiator and mending it with the following materials, 2 eggs, a small amount of metal putty, 1 perfectly rounded stick, 4 zip ties and hopes and dreams (we clamped what we could) ended up driving another 3 hours in the bush, camped the night, drove 6 hours home and never lost a drop of water and didn't get hot, had a new radiator in the next day and went straight back up
I had a 2005 Subaru Outback I went to the Kimberley with. Did Oodnadatta track, some bits and pieces of currogated outback tracks in the NT and NSW and Gib river road. Had a 2" lift and the trailing arm spacers had been weakening the chassis, which finally gave way in Purnululu. Ripped a good chunk of chassis out and the trailing arm snapped in half as it hit the ground. Miraculously it didnt take the brakeline with it. Used ratchet straps to centre the wheel, giving pressure from both front and rear.
After a couple ks we went to check on it and the jack decided it was the perfect time to call quits. For the next 70ks we crawled along at 10k/h stopping every hour waiting for someone to come by, flag them down and ask if they had any spare ratchet straps and a jack we could borrow. Eventually we got back to Kununurra and bought a cheap commodore to drive back home to Newcastle.
I've been waiting reallllyyyy patiently for this one, possibly the best journey yet
Here’s a bush fix for ya, I was out with my dad in the Victorian high country in the middle of no-where at -5 degrees I slid down this steep slope and into a stump and bend the pan hard rod, drag link and steering damper. I was up till 2am with a bottle jack against the bottom of one of the many huts surrounding us bending the drag link straight again and winching the pan hard rod as straight as possible then drove about 1000kms all the way back home, successful fix to me 👍
looked like a awesome trip boys loved watching every second, the film boys deserve alot of credit
My best bush fix story:
My cousin and me were riding the world sketchiest aprilia red rose motorcycle in romania in the middle of nowhere, when the bike suddenly stopped. There was no villages around 10miles so I decided to take apart the fuel tap, because there was no gas in the fuel line. I found a lot of dirty muddy rust on the filter, but we don't had any rag to clean it up, so I plucked some grass from the side of the road and wiped down the dirt. It worked fine so we made it home. I never forget that story.
Best experience of my life was when my mate blew his brake lines so I had to winch to the back of him for the rest of the trip and the whole way home so he can stop and or slow down!😂😂
not a 4wd but dads old monaro had the whole rear end drop out while driving down a dirt road in the outback. all bolts snapped and lost in the dirt he had to put the rear end back in held up & together with ratchet straps and drove back home while the whole rear end wobbled from side to side. sketchy and bogan as all hell but he made it out.
I have watched the first and half of the second part I can’t wait to watch the rest go the dirty 30 and the d-max
Not sure if my earlier comment worked, was signed into wrong account. Bush fix. We were on the freshwater track at double Island in a fj40 with a 253 in it. Put the fan through the radiator. We were low on beers, not many tools. Was later in the day. First option for fix that was thrown out was smart and stupid at the same time. Start a fire, melt down the lead in the battery to fix the rad. That was answered with how are we gonna start the car (insert swearword here). There wasn't many option we removed the rad and engine fan. We had a small thermo on the front that we had to rely on. Then straightened up the damaged tube, got moss and sap off a tree. Jammed it all in the holes. put it all back together without the engine fan, because we had a broken gearbox mount and it would of hit again. Had to sacrifice the last beers to fill it up. Drove to rainbow and bought some glue but because it wasn't leaking we left it. Made it back through the track and up the beach, all the way back to brissie. Funny story is we all work in a radiator shop so when we had time we ripped it out and pressure tested it and it didn't even leak.
Dad snapped a tye rod end on an almost vertical hill and had drive up it one wheel straight and one wheel was a 45 degree angle. When he got the top via driving it him self, he had to steal one out of a burnt out 4wd drive and had to self-install it on the top of the hill.
The Final cut 🤣 let’s watch the edited version … no sound overlaps 🤠
i noticed that hey
How weird was that😂
I watched half of it then it went blank and said video is private....
aha i managed to watch whole thing
Was just about to comment on that, and it looks like there's also video overlaps too
My dad and I used JB Weld to repair a broken hose outlet on a radiator and years later its still going.
I have plugged a huge hole in a tire when we were out of plugs with a bolt and a butterfly anchor with a washer and a layer of duct tape under the washer. It held well enough that we could air it up every hour or so and limp it home.
The best bush mechanic fix we've done was a couple of days ago in the middle of the Simpson, one of the patrol chassis's snapped in half, cracked clean through 3/4 of the way round on both sides, just in front of the forward leaf spring mounts.
The back was bouncing forwards and backwards about a foot each way. It happened about lunch time and we pilfered every piece of steel we'd brought, hooked up two batteries and welded the steel across the crack to hold the chassis. We then made up some steel braces that bolted between two canopy mounts, and then finished up with some 2.5T ratchet straps either side to keep it together.
The car drove off from where it was parked at dinnertime that day, then we proceeded to baby it 350km across the desert, calling every bump and corrugation along the rig road and down the Birdsville track and back to Melbourne.
Bush mechanics - I made hard wood engine mounts for the 253 in my Hilux when doing the Toyota Fishing Classic on Fraser Island. Drove with them in there for nearly 6 months before I fixed the properly!!
gold!
The Mitsalloy 79 is giving me the fizz. I love that truck.
Been waiting anxiously for this final episode mate! Great staff ! Much support from Fiji 🇫🇯
Bulla!! G'day to all the Fijian's. Your awesome!!
My repair story:
6 months ago, driving a little known bush track in North East Tassie, middle of nowhere basically. Family and I were on our own, and weren’t even doing anything exciting at the current moment, but driving on the flattest part of the track and kicked up a stick that ripped the fuel line right out of the top of the fuel filter housing. Thought maybe it had only popped off, but it had actually tore a chunk off the top of the housing so the hose wouldn’t even sit in it anymore. About an hour later, covered head to toe in diesel, managed to connect 12 zip ties together and wrap them around the fuel line and filter housing to pull it in enough that I’d get enough fuel pressure to run the engine. Lost 50Lt of diesel (nearly ran out) on the 40 min drive to civilisation, but happy to have made it!
"Morning chill of almost 20°"
Jeez that's a hot day where I am in the summer
bloody freezing here in darwin 😆
Agreed, come to Melbourne, that's our summer haha
Me too. We lay out on the beach if it's that hot.
That last cooking segment had me in tears laughing
Love the 7:30 fishing for food expedition!
here is my bush fix, we were driving deep into Colorado rockies , going from crested butte to aspen (14 miles) when my radiator solenoid went out, the electric motor still worked but i needed a way to hot wire it to the battery, having no spare cables y looked around to see what I could use, well I ended up finding my wife's curling iron!! i cut off the cable and made the repair, got the radiator fan working enough to get to town!! Needless to say my wife was not pleased when she saw her "expensive" curling iron choped off!
Our best bush machanic fix was on Fraser Island. The 100 series flogged out its steering rack bushes. All the way at Orchid Beach, pretty remote so at the cost of some rubber mud flaps the boys cut the mud flaps up, wrapped them around the steering rack, reinstalled the steering rack mounting clamps and we finished our holiday and got back to Sydney.
The “Hotwheels” Ford Ranger Raptor was the true MVP of this trip
Nooooooooooo....the 6 tons rig driven by mad rocket steals the shows for me
@@dolguldur4706 have a look at the damage it received after this trip. Rocket was contemplating writing it off. It's basically a wreak. Only sentimental value is stopping it from becoming a parts truck
@@vevohoeyo yeah but had the ranger attempted to cart the load which Rocket's 79 was pulling, I very much doubt it would have completed the track.
@@cyclemoto8744 it's not attempting to do that it's not made for weight. Turns out the cruiser can't handle that weight either.
A true underdog story
Not as much of a bush fix, but something that amazed me. I was a pilot driver for a company based out of Alice Springs & Darwin, and we were a three-truck convoy transporting house from Alice Springs to Derby WA via Katherine, and a hub on the rear truck (I was the rear pilot) broke and 2 tyres wheeled under the weight of the house, then slingshot up and bounced 30-40m off the road, as I was getting the tyres, the driver had used air jacket to lift the house up and chained the axle up so it was drivable, this happened 200km south of Tennant Creek, and organised for repairs in Darwin.
Can we appreciate the thoughtfulness of the thumbnail...?Shauno's facial expression coupled with pulling the 30 with his seat belt...🤣What an epic series and trip!
Made a Patrol Tie Rod out of tree branch and a few meters of fencing wire!! had to re jig it a rew times but got us home. :)
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Seeing the dirty 30 in its side made me cry😢 bro the nicest rig in the convoy
My bush repair story
Coming out of fruitbat falls QLD we noticed the camper was sagging on one side. After close inspection we seen that the whole suspension system had gone through the floor of the camper and into the drawers above. After an hour or two on the side of the track we managed to find a log and combined with 50 cable ties we replaced the collapsed side with it. 2 hour drive to seisha and we were out of trouble. Managed to keep the log for the rest of our cape York trip. It’s still on display in the shed to this day!!
Jesse in the raptor was a god, super impressive stuff.
“ your a winch truck poser mate “ 🤣🤣
I was up at Macquarie heads doing a beach run in a 1998 hilux, come to a culvert doing 90clicks jumping in the air a fair distance. Landed snapping a torsion bar, couldn’t turn the steering wheel as it had 35s. Had a chainsaw chopping a piece of wood to suit the ride height putting that in between the bump stop and LCA strapped that up with zipties to make it back to Hobart.
Best cooking session ever. Carefully constructed and coordinated. Just fun.
Best bush mechanics story…
Blew up the front diff in remote WA on some sand dunes. Gears shot through the housing and drained all the oil. I have photos of the gear hanging through the diff housing.
Managed to remove front tyres and had a 35mm socket on hand to remove the axles from the HUB.
Banged the wheels back on and drove it back to base.
Managed to get Diff rebuilt and off we went!
back on finally....i cried when the last one was taken off
Yup.... Same here.. LOL
I was travelling from kingfisher to Cowell break I was in troopy 2h engine my radiator blow up and we had no water but we had beers when the engine cooled down we had to use our beers in the radiator to get to the eastern side and it works well
How long was it drunk for?
@@lukexploration1446 good one lol
Gotta love this channel. The boys have so much fun. Also good when you can’t sleep in the middle of the night (3am) just to chuck it on.
My best trail repair:
Throttle cable snapped in my Jeep- used a pair of vice grips to grab onto what was left of the cable and then daisy chained some zipties together on the vice grip. I hand throttled my 5-speed off the trail and about 30+ miles home 🤣
My trail repair had thermostat stick it had to come out and no gaskets only thing i had was a box of frosted flakes i cut to peaces same as thermostat housing tight it to just this side of snapping the the bolts and finished the trail