Most car TH-camrs have a 0-100 or lap time ranking list. You have a fuel economy leaderboard and make it just as exciting to watch as a drag race. I absolutely love you for that!
I’ve always loved how much personality you’ve managed to give to inanimate objects, there is something so enjoyable about a guy talking about cars and electronics like they are people
He single handedly made me start giving my own items like my phone personality. I never used to ground my phone before dank pods, but here i am, grounding my phone when its acting up
My friend almost convinced himself to get a donkey van, not because he needs it to transport things but just so he can drive it to somewhere quiet and play guitar at 4am without noise complaints. He was going to find a way to make it power his amp so he could bring that too.
Inverters aren't too bad to wire up in those big beefy idiots. Just use thick batt cables to run back to the inverter. He should be able to whack an inverter capable of 1200 watts pretty reasonably, he'll have to run the engine though cause that will drain the battery.. Install it under one of the seats if there is room. Should give more space in the back for lounging and strumming. Did this on a small Ford Transit, had a thin futon mattress in the back with an inverter hooked up for exactly that, lounging and strumming through an amp
@@InvisibleSquids Just don't forget to get a BEEFY 12v battery. Hell, you might even want to look at one of the Antigravity Batteries. (No, it's not a scam, they are Lithium Ion 12v Batteries that are SUPER lightweight and still have the amps to run a car. It's just a funny gimmick name)
@@InvisibleSquidsalternatively he could get his own batt just for the amp. These days that's probably cheaper in the long run than running a gas engine to power it
5:31 I like to imagine a scenario where Wade has his window down, and people can hear him as he’s laughing and cheering on the donkey van as he slowly overtakes them
In a way it's impressive just how little power it manages to make for so much fuel burnt. Earlier when you dynoed it made 84 horsepower right? With it feeling noticeably low on power it's got to be 60 something right now, which is impressively bad for 14.3L/100km. Kudos to Donkey for being extreme in its own way.
It was hard to find specs on these things but factory it supposedly makes 130 horsepower (I'm guessing at the crank, not wheels) and use 11.5L/100km. That is combined city and highway however so I would assume the highway test should be lower. That engine has definitely seen better days.
Just when we thought the Donkey Van couldn't get anymore donkey, it gets skunked in the economy run by Smelly Jeff. Goodnight, sweet prince, we had a hell of a run.
Former Fuel Systems Engineer (you can tell because I use engineering capitalization lol) Try pulling the nozzle out 1 spring loop from all the way in at the station. The base of the nozzle has that spring part on it at the base (at least in the states), and a lot of cars fill better if you back off the nozzle a bit when you fill by like 2cm to prevent the fuel from bouncing weirdly in the fill pipe and blocking the sensor that makes the pump click off. Also, you're fine filling the tank all the way up. If the car was made in the last ~20 years it's got valves on it that won't let you overfill it unless you sit at the pump and trickle fill it for a solid like 5 minutes. "Corking" (filling the tank completely so it can't vent) is super hard to actually do. On a normal car that doesn't click off constantly, to get the most gas in there without risking corking, you want to fill til it clicks, wait 10 seconds, then repeat for a total of 3 clicks. It's the standard fill test we do in industry to rate the capacity of the tank. You'll get more per click the hotter it is outside though, so in the cold it's not going to add much after the first click. Glad the Donkey is back to being "cromulent"! Cheers!
For those looking for non-metric fuel econ numbers: Tony (0.6 i2) - 42 mpg The Car (1.8 i4) - 36 mpg Bruce 2 (3.6 V6) - 28 mpg Le Van (2.3 TDi) - 26 mpg Jeff (5.0 V8) - 22 mpg Donkey (2.4 i4) - 16 mpg
@@alexandermoore2982 Did the conversions myself, they used US MPG. Here's the results in UK MPG; (I also added "Mums Nugget", a 2018 Suzuki Baleno that appears in one of Wade's newer videos on this channel.) Mums Nugget (1.4 i4) - 71 MPG (59 US MPG) Tony (0.6 i2) - 50 MPG The Car (1.8 i4) - 43 MPG Bruce 2 (3.6 V6) - 34 MPG Le Van (2.3 TDi 4) - 31 MPG Jeff (5.0 V8) - 26 MPG Donkey Van (2.4 i4) 20 MPG
@@nickrustyson8124 i mean it's a large van with an automatic transmission and a gasoline engine, it cant get better than that unless you start going into hybrid territory. There's a reason why they sold more diesel versions of these than gasoline.
I love the fact Aussies have their own special work vans. in the US we have the Chevy Express Van or the E300. it's a mirror into a different world. I also love that you upload at like 3 in the morning in the US
In the UK, it's traditionally the Ford Transit. We even have the infamous "White Van Man" syndrome: self-employed tradies who are normally aggressive drivers, intolerant of everyone but particularly women, immigrants and students, and just generally absolutely unbearable on every level. 😂
I'd say this is just a normal van, it's not particularly special. The only reason we don't see a bigger variaty in our utility vans is because of the Chicken Tax. It's literally not worth it to import pickups and vans to the states. They'd have to build them here to avoid the tax, and for many international companies like Mitsubishi, it's just not worth it for the small slice of the pie they'd get since Ford, Chevy and Mercedes have the utility van market dominated here, and the prevalence of full size pickups also cuts into the pie.
@@AHungryHunky with the chicken tax, it's actually cheaper for Ford to build every Transit Express with glass windows and seats, then when it gets here, just strip that all out, and make it a work van.
I’ve got one with a great condition motor and it’s got heaps of power. Used to take off in second when it was empty and would break traction into third if pushed lol. Now it’s fully loaded and will still go up hills in 5th over 80kph. Get 10.8 litres per hundred full loaded with tools and ladders. Rebuild the donkey! Will be worth it
(Read in a dramatic tone) And behold, in the midst of its wretched appearance and feeble performance, the donkey van, bearing the marks of toil and decay, experienced a remarkable resurrection. Though its form remained marred and its mechanics faltered, it possessed a newfound vitality. The van's engine, once plagued by sputters and coughs, now grumbled forth with a rough and unsteady rhythm. Its weary tires, worn thin by countless miles, spun in reluctant unison, propelling the van forward on its journey. Despite its battered exterior and its lamentable gas mileage, the donkey van defied the odds and trudged ahead, a testament to the enduring spirit within. In this humble revival, the van, though tarnished and worn, dared to persist, a reminder that even amidst the depths of imperfection, there lies a flicker of resilience and hope.
I have come to a realization. You can do this fuel efficiency test with electric cars as well. Every one kilowatt used out of the car is equal to 1000 joules of energy, or one kilojoule per second). The energy stored in a liter of gasoline is around 33.5 kilojoules, so every 33.5 watts of the electric car is a liter of fuel. Edit: Please bump this I wanna see tests for **every car** that could be in the Garbage Fleet.
Your math is... Off. Firstly, A watt is a unit of _power,_ whereas a joule is a unit of _energy._ Power is a measurement of energy over time. Second, even accounting for the unit error; gasoline has an energy density of 34.2 _Megajoules_ per litre, so your off by literally two orders of magnitude. The actual figure works out to be 9.5 kilowatt hours per liter of fuel.
As usual, a pleasure to know you are driving about Adelaide. Please note, as an Adelaide metro frequent driver, I will go bunta if I see you in that illustrious van mate.
I'm pretty sure I remember Wade asking who wants to see a 500hp donkey, at one point. Something about it basically being an Evo engine, right? It's time. Turbo, CAI, bigger fuel injectors, tuned ecu - PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN lol
I'm so glad I found this channel. Truely, you are a master at turning boxes on wheels that resemble functional vehicles into *boxes on wheels that **-pretend to-** function as vehicles* Truely one of the achievements of all time.
Sometimes if the fuel clicks off while filling, it’s due to the tank not venting. If you pull the hose off the evap canister while filling, then put it back on, it prevents backup. At least, that’s what worked on an old f250 I drove
before a rebuild do all the crazy fix in a bottle to see if they help! fuel additive, oil additive and get that spray garbage that you fog the intake with. always fun to see if they actually help.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO ever since I started watching this channel I have loved it after both finding out you also live in Adelaide and then bought the SAME VAM AS ME which I had only owned for a month or 2 at the time (mine is called The Dingo which makes me freak out even more) I had been waiting for this video to see if it wasn't just my van that had absolutely TERRIBLE fuel economy and it really puts a smile on my face to see that every Donkey van is just as useless as the next. (I have decked mine out to a camper which.... yeah fuel economy) MINE HAS HALF THE KILOMETRES ON THE ODO SO MAYBE IT IS THAT BAD NO MATTER WHAT
I already knew this was happening since I'm digging back through this channel from the future, but it's still thrilling to see. Welcome back, Donkey Van!
i imagine the guy who advanced the timing on this thing is like my dad. when my first car (which my sister and i shared to get experience driving when we were 18) needed a new clutch, he decided to advance the timing without really thinking about it too much. when accelerating it would sometimes make a noise that sounded like a dull spark or whatever, which was undoubtedly pinging. i think the clutch was replaced at like 160k km and the car was completely dead at 210k km lol. it leaked coolant (or burned it), burned an ass load of oil, electricals were messed up because i drove it through a car wash and the cleaning head thing went over the antenna backwards, breaking it. every now n then the radio would turn on at full volume because of that so that was cool. it was really sad to see it get towed lol
I am so happy to see the donkey van working again. Those old Mitsubishis are nearly indestructible. Seeing this right away on my recommendations made me smile.
Just for fun , try some of those magical ceramic oil additives that claim to fill scratches on the bore. You can see if it actually did anything when you pull the engine
Snake oil for cars. Gotta love it. Dealer tried selling me snake oil for "carbon build up" in my Jeep. Like no way you dumping mystery liquid in my gas tank is going to cost 300+USD in material or time.
It's clicking probably because of the carbon box being all old and crusty, the vapors don't balance out properly and the gas nozzle clicks off because the pressure increases to what would be normally full. Could give the carbon box a whack and see if it works for a bit
Advance the timing until it starts to ping, and then back it off a little bit. Use a "Compression restore" oil additive, they've got stuff in them that fills in the scoring in the cylinder walls, and are very good at breathing life into an old engine.
I wonder what... A rebore & hone, new oil & filter (with engine oil flush), new sparks, new air filter, and 7 degrees advanced timing (so, half of what you said it was) would do to Donkey? 🤔😏😉👍 Oh, and my snek... Kellogg - the Corn Snek says hi to Frank 😊 😎🇬🇧
BREAKING NEWS: Earlier today, it was discovered that the benevolent entity known as The Donkey Van, which was previously believed to be immortal, has been miraculously wounded. Although not a life-endangering injury, this has shocked the public, and the perpetrator of the attack fears for his life. More on the story as it develops.
That 2.4 engine must be really clapped out. I've seen older vans perform better than that. 😂😂😂Nice seeing the donkey van back though, for a while I thought you were going to junk it. They are very useful vehicles, worth the time in fixing the drive train and other bits, if the body hasn't rusted out.
Eh, the 4G64 usually hit "clapped out" at 80k and flatlined. I had one in a 7th gen Galant from 83k to 150k. Used a quart of oil every gas tank, more on the high way. It never quit and never got any worse(!).
It would be nice to see a rebuild and maybe a turbo installed on this. I mean, the engine is insanely tough. The fact that it even runs without issues in this condition just shows how good it is. A stock 4G64 can take around 400HP at the crank reliably. So throwing a small turbo (to spool very quickly and at lower RPMs) at it to get 300HP is more than usable and will get you the most reliability possible. It would greatly increase the usability, plus the added torque at lower RPMs will allow for a better fuel economy since it would have to rev less in a higher gear to get the same speed as before the upgrade.
im in no way interested in cars, but youve actually rubbef off on me, like, i actually *know* what a catalytic converter is. Like, theres SmarterEveryDay, dont get me wrong, great channel with fantastic in depth videos on engines for example. But your on his level for information retained.Your genuinely amazing.
What really seals this vehicle as the greatest car ever is the clearly visible drop of water falling at 5:59 while it screams its heart out trying to go 100kph 😭
God, I love that underline music! Sounds like a German parade, just right. RUN, DONKEY, RUN! Man, if I ever get to Australia I have to Stop at Your place, have a doobie and a laugh- Your exitement always gets a chuckle outta me.
I’ve been driving a little ‘93 Toyota pickup 2wd, going up a little hill, I have to mash the gas, and slam shift and dump the clutch to get going 50 mph in under two business days
nice to see that its back. my mom as a Mitsubishi suv, not one of the new ones like the outlander. my moms suv is a endeavor, the van reminds me soo much of her car
You can advance the timing 5 degrees to get some of the power back but I wouldn’t advise that. It would probably be better to just change the oil to a full synthetic for high mileage, new intake filter and keep it at 80 kph. The donkey generates tons of drag because of how tall she is, so she has to over compensate with higher rpms to maintain higher speeds due to it being a brick going into the wind. I am glad she is back though ❤
Most car TH-camrs have a 0-100 or lap time ranking list. You have a fuel economy leaderboard and make it just as exciting to watch as a drag race. I absolutely love you for that!
Speed is over rated
@@MyH3ntaiGirl sus profile
the uphill is so interesting to watch xDD
It's the Litreboard xD
HE NEEDS TO DO A 0-60 TIME ON ALL OF THEM!
Wade: “It’s so great having a vehicle you have no physical care for”
*throws chair*
Wade: Suddenly cares for the physical appearance of the donkey
Donkey Van lives again but for price of its invunerability
@Forthakine I Hope he is still shoeproof
@@FifingFossilforever shoe proof
And on the third day, the donkey van rose again.
Jesus had one of these and used it for carpentry.
It rose poorly, but it rose alright
And then the engine decided to Commit Sudoku and it plummeted back in the hole from whence it came.
More like the third week
@@oliveiradmdiogo close enough
I’ve always loved how much personality you’ve managed to give to inanimate objects, there is something so enjoyable about a guy talking about cars and electronics like they are people
Cars, electronic, the 1 grit and Frank :3
@@Hyo9000 I mean frank is people enough he's actually alive
@@michaeltagor4238pretty inanimate tho.
joking
He single handedly made me start giving my own items like my phone personality. I never used to ground my phone before dank pods, but here i am, grounding my phone when its acting up
We can now live happy knowing Wade doesn’t have to stoop as low as using a rental van!
rental van wouldn't have been 6st in the litreboard though 😢
His name is wade?!? I always knew him as the Aussie headphones guy
(Edit was to fix a typo, damn autocorrect)
Ikr finaly the donkey is back :D
@@joedex3176soon he'll be Morris the Minor guy or Rover the Leyland guy)))
@@mirisch64 my bad my autocorrect made a mistake, made me type Austin when I meant aussie
I love how Wade has less money invested in his whole fleet than some folks spend on their daily driver.
My friend almost convinced himself to get a donkey van, not because he needs it to transport things but just so he can drive it to somewhere quiet and play guitar at 4am without noise complaints. He was going to find a way to make it power his amp so he could bring that too.
Inverters aren't too bad to wire up in those big beefy idiots. Just use thick batt cables to run back to the inverter. He should be able to whack an inverter capable of 1200 watts pretty reasonably, he'll have to run the engine though cause that will drain the battery.. Install it under one of the seats if there is room. Should give more space in the back for lounging and strumming.
Did this on a small Ford Transit, had a thin futon mattress in the back with an inverter hooked up for exactly that, lounging and strumming through an amp
@@InvisibleSquids Just don't forget to get a BEEFY 12v battery. Hell, you might even want to look at one of the Antigravity Batteries. (No, it's not a scam, they are Lithium Ion 12v Batteries that are SUPER lightweight and still have the amps to run a car. It's just a funny gimmick name)
@@InvisibleSquidsalternatively he could get his own batt just for the amp. These days that's probably cheaper in the long run than running a gas engine to power it
Put the timing back and redo the fuel economy test😮
@@Skiptrac3 If you want to pay double the price for a cheap imported battery, so that some guys in LA can fly to every single car show to party
Wade really found the perfect angle for filming himself while driving, no James required! And still expressive as ever with hand movements
I miss James ... he is the voice of reason! :D
@@pibyteneed more hames
Love how our beloved Donkey Boy was fixed basically with the equivalent of putting a sticker on him.
Good ol' fashioned engineering.
It runs! That's all that really matters.
Mechanical band-aid
"I want my Donkey back"
a finger curled on the monkey's paw
We missed the ol' mate, what a true legend you got
5:31 I like to imagine a scenario where Wade has his window down, and people can hear him as he’s laughing and cheering on the donkey van as he slowly overtakes them
Assuming they can hear him over the 4,000 hamster slaps per minute
In a way it's impressive just how little power it manages to make for so much fuel burnt. Earlier when you dynoed it made 84 horsepower right? With it feeling noticeably low on power it's got to be 60 something right now, which is impressively bad for 14.3L/100km. Kudos to Donkey for being extreme in its own way.
Damn thing approximately has as much power as a turbo kei car lmao
they really should upgrade the donkey van
No doubt about Mitsubishi. I own a Lancer hatch and uses a similar amount of fuel as Jeff.
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 they should rebuild it, upgrading would just cause more problems
It was hard to find specs on these things but factory it supposedly makes 130 horsepower (I'm guessing at the crank, not wheels) and use 11.5L/100km. That is combined city and highway however so I would assume the highway test should be lower. That engine has definitely seen better days.
Didn't expect Jeff to get absolutely smashed by the Donkey Van in terms of fuel chugging
Just when we thought the Donkey Van couldn't get anymore donkey, it gets skunked in the economy run by Smelly Jeff. Goodnight, sweet prince, we had a hell of a run.
Former Fuel Systems Engineer (you can tell because I use engineering capitalization lol)
Try pulling the nozzle out 1 spring loop from all the way in at the station. The base of the nozzle has that spring part on it at the base (at least in the states), and a lot of cars fill better if you back off the nozzle a bit when you fill by like 2cm to prevent the fuel from bouncing weirdly in the fill pipe and blocking the sensor that makes the pump click off.
Also, you're fine filling the tank all the way up. If the car was made in the last ~20 years it's got valves on it that won't let you overfill it unless you sit at the pump and trickle fill it for a solid like 5 minutes. "Corking" (filling the tank completely so it can't vent) is super hard to actually do. On a normal car that doesn't click off constantly, to get the most gas in there without risking corking, you want to fill til it clicks, wait 10 seconds, then repeat for a total of 3 clicks. It's the standard fill test we do in industry to rate the capacity of the tank. You'll get more per click the hotter it is outside though, so in the cold it's not going to add much after the first click.
Glad the Donkey is back to being "cromulent"! Cheers!
“You won’t let me live, you won’t let me die” Donkey van
For those looking for non-metric fuel econ numbers:
Tony (0.6 i2) - 42 mpg
The Car (1.8 i4) - 36 mpg
Bruce 2 (3.6 V6) - 28 mpg
Le Van (2.3 TDi) - 26 mpg
Jeff (5.0 V8) - 22 mpg
Donkey (2.4 i4) - 16 mpg
UK mpg or US mpg?
These here are 'Merican numbers my compadre. Roll-Tide.@@alexandermoore2982
@@alexandermoore2982 Did the conversions myself, they used US MPG.
Here's the results in UK MPG;
(I also added "Mums Nugget", a 2018 Suzuki Baleno that appears in one of Wade's newer videos on this channel.)
Mums Nugget (1.4 i4) - 71 MPG (59 US MPG)
Tony (0.6 i2) - 50 MPG
The Car (1.8 i4) - 43 MPG
Bruce 2 (3.6 V6) - 34 MPG
Le Van (2.3 TDi 4) - 31 MPG
Jeff (5.0 V8) - 26 MPG
Donkey Van (2.4 i4) 20 MPG
The Donkey is so bad it's actually kinda scary, 16 MPG for a American V8 Van that's bigger than the Donkey in the 1990s is normal
@@nickrustyson8124 i mean it's a large van with an automatic transmission and a gasoline engine, it cant get better than that unless you start going into hybrid territory.
There's a reason why they sold more diesel versions of these than gasoline.
You could rotary swap the van and still come out ahead in fuel efficiency at that rate, good lord.
He should rotary swap a little Honda, even though it’ll probably still use less gas than jeff
@@omega1575 Hmm, if one could somehow sideways-mount a rotary, would rotary swapped Tony be possible?
@@Ganjoff Dont motorcycles have transverse mounted rotaries? and it should be possible, just tricky to get mated to a trans and mounted
@@Ganjoff Reuse a Porsche rear transmission, or jam it onto the existing one, since Tony's engine is rear-mounted longitudinal.
I love the fact Aussies have their own special work vans. in the US we have the Chevy Express Van or the E300. it's a mirror into a different world. I also love that you upload at like 3 in the morning in the US
In the UK, it's traditionally the Ford Transit. We even have the infamous "White Van Man" syndrome: self-employed tradies who are normally aggressive drivers, intolerant of everyone but particularly women, immigrants and students, and just generally absolutely unbearable on every level. 😂
@@peterclarke7240 here in the US a "white van man" means someone else
@@nosidenoside2458that's a nonce van mate
I'd say this is just a normal van, it's not particularly special. The only reason we don't see a bigger variaty in our utility vans is because of the Chicken Tax. It's literally not worth it to import pickups and vans to the states. They'd have to build them here to avoid the tax, and for many international companies like Mitsubishi, it's just not worth it for the small slice of the pie they'd get since Ford, Chevy and Mercedes have the utility van market dominated here, and the prevalence of full size pickups also cuts into the pie.
@@AHungryHunky with the chicken tax, it's actually cheaper for Ford to build every Transit Express with glass windows and seats, then when it gets here, just strip that all out, and make it a work van.
Your channel takes me back to a better time in my life. Thank you. Heres hoping and working towards a better time again.
I like how Wade calls James "We" everytime something has been fixed.
The dark ages have passed, and now we can celebrate the re-birth of the ever-loved donkey van.
Less a rebirth and more a heart valve replacement.
I’ve got one with a great condition motor and it’s got heaps of power. Used to take off in second when it was empty and would break traction into third if pushed lol. Now it’s fully loaded and will still go up hills in 5th over 80kph. Get 10.8 litres per hundred full loaded with tools and ladders.
Rebuild the donkey! Will be worth it
"Useful and ugly" what a way to describe a van, I love it
The only solution is to mod the hell out of Jeff’s V8 until it’s worse on fuel than the van.
I'm so happy to see the Donkey live again, he's a trooper
When it was gone I think we all had a donkey sized hole in our hearts.
So glad it's back, everyone needs a practical/Junk car in their fleet!
(Read in a dramatic tone) And behold, in the midst of its wretched appearance and feeble performance, the donkey van, bearing the marks of toil and decay, experienced a remarkable resurrection. Though its form remained marred and its mechanics faltered, it possessed a newfound vitality. The van's engine, once plagued by sputters and coughs, now grumbled forth with a rough and unsteady rhythm. Its weary tires, worn thin by countless miles, spun in reluctant unison, propelling the van forward on its journey. Despite its battered exterior and its lamentable gas mileage, the donkey van defied the odds and trudged ahead, a testament to the enduring spirit within. In this humble revival, the van, though tarnished and worn, dared to persist, a reminder that even amidst the depths of imperfection, there lies a flicker of resilience and hope.
Werner Herzog vibes
This is more inspirational than anything anyone in a polo on a stage has ever said
*wipes tear from eye* So inspiring
Did it in my best impression of the Ancestor from Darkest Dungeon. It fits well I think
@@Gearhead221 oh my. I re-read it in his voice. Make it happen!
I have come to a realization. You can do this fuel efficiency test with electric cars as well. Every one kilowatt used out of the car is equal to 1000 joules of energy, or one kilojoule per second). The energy stored in a liter of gasoline is around 33.5 kilojoules, so every 33.5 watts of the electric car is a liter of fuel.
Edit: Please bump this I wanna see tests for **every car** that could be in the Garbage Fleet.
bump
Sure
The electric to MPG (or I guess KPL) conversion is pretty clever.
Your math is... Off. Firstly, A watt is a unit of _power,_ whereas a joule is a unit of _energy._ Power is a measurement of energy over time. Second, even accounting for the unit error; gasoline has an energy density of 34.2 _Megajoules_ per litre, so your off by literally two orders of magnitude.
The actual figure works out to be 9.5 kilowatt hours per liter of fuel.
@OneOddFellow well I did flunk out of high school but I had the right spirit! Haha
As usual, a pleasure to know you are driving about Adelaide. Please note, as an Adelaide metro frequent driver, I will go bunta if I see you in that illustrious van mate.
I'm pretty sure I remember Wade asking who wants to see a 500hp donkey, at one point. Something about it basically being an Evo engine, right? It's time. Turbo, CAI, bigger fuel injectors, tuned ecu - PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN lol
I've never been happier to see a van back in action than today
Put it on a dyno to see how much power the timing advance did, would be fun to see how much just that 1 thing changes the power
She was pinging off her tits, wouldn't be much of a gain if any without the right tune and fuel mapping
Nothing sparks joy in a man than making his Donkey Come back to life
Currently in hospital with a relapsed valve in my heart but good old donkey van content is making it all better❤🎉
I like how at the end your just pointing at the donkey laughing and saying "YOU"RE A LOSSER DONKEY"
Slower than it once was and has an insatiable hunger? You've got yourself a zombie donkey there mate
Like an actual donkey, the donkey van soldiers on to live another day. I love your content by the way keep it up!
I'm so glad I found this channel.
Truely, you are a master at turning boxes on wheels that resemble functional vehicles into *boxes on wheels that **-pretend to-** function as vehicles*
Truely one of the achievements of all time.
you need a top gear style wall for fuel mileage, it'd be a good way to keep track
Sometimes if the fuel clicks off while filling, it’s due to the tank not venting. If you pull the hose off the evap canister while filling, then put it back on, it prevents backup. At least, that’s what worked on an old f250 I drove
The donkey is immune to death too? Now thats some great news. So glad to see it back in action
before a rebuild do all the crazy fix in a bottle to see if they help! fuel additive, oil additive and get that spray garbage that you fog the intake with. always fun to see if they actually help.
9:31 nah mate, no worries. I’ll be alright after a pint.
Thanks to you and james, I know more about the motors on these crappy old vans than most reasonable people should
Donkey Van would be getting gallons per mile in the US and still get drastically better economy than most cars here
The Donkey shall make a fine edition to the Litreboard.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO
ever since I started watching this channel I have loved it after both finding out you also live in Adelaide and then bought the SAME VAM AS ME which I had only owned for a month or 2 at the time (mine is called The Dingo which makes me freak out even more)
I had been waiting for this video to see if it wasn't just my van that had absolutely TERRIBLE fuel economy and it really puts a smile on my face to see that every Donkey van is just as useless as the next.
(I have decked mine out to a camper which.... yeah fuel economy)
MINE HAS HALF THE KILOMETRES ON THE ODO SO MAYBE IT IS THAT BAD NO MATTER WHAT
I'm so glad I discovered this channel. This is exactly the chaotic fuckery mcm is missing
I already knew this was happening since I'm digging back through this channel from the future, but it's still thrilling to see. Welcome back, Donkey Van!
i imagine the guy who advanced the timing on this thing is like my dad. when my first car (which my sister and i shared to get experience driving when we were 18) needed a new clutch, he decided to advance the timing without really thinking about it too much. when accelerating it would sometimes make a noise that sounded like a dull spark or whatever, which was undoubtedly pinging. i think the clutch was replaced at like 160k km and the car was completely dead at 210k km lol. it leaked coolant (or burned it), burned an ass load of oil, electricals were messed up because i drove it through a car wash and the cleaning head thing went over the antenna backwards, breaking it. every now n then the radio would turn on at full volume because of that so that was cool. it was really sad to see it get towed lol
I really hope they rebuild our sweet donkey. Give her the love she deserves!
Thid video cured everyone's depression :)
I am so happy to see the donkey van working again. Those old Mitsubishis are nearly indestructible. Seeing this right away on my recommendations made me smile.
I'd love to see what it does after a rebuild, surely it'll be better than the *Jeff*
the fact that the donkey uses about as much fuel as my friend's hummer h2 is hilarious
Just for fun , try some of those magical ceramic oil additives that claim to fill scratches on the bore. You can see if it actually did anything when you pull the engine
Well you gotta remember that adding magic fixes is what killed the donkey off in the first place.
..so hey why not do it I’m curious lol
Snake oil for cars. Gotta love it.
Dealer tried selling me snake oil for "carbon build up" in my Jeep. Like no way you dumping mystery liquid in my gas tank is going to cost 300+USD in material or time.
There are few additives that work. I'd suggest Lucas oil additive. Any Lucas product works amazing.
Maube try some magical ceramic oil to fill the scratch caused by the chair
I just watched the apple xdr display disaster video on dankpods and now this, the happy news, makes up for it.
i never thought i'd smile so hard over a mitsu van
i love how youtube thinks this is a quality car channel so gives me a Porsche ad on it.
my favorite part of garbage time is that I think it's gonna be a minimum of 6 more weeks before Wade buys ANOTHER car
It's clicking probably because of the carbon box being all old and crusty, the vapors don't balance out properly and the gas nozzle clicks off because the pressure increases to what would be normally full. Could give the carbon box a whack and see if it works for a bit
8:33 First, secost, thist, fourst, fifst, sixst.
How am I so invested in Wades Car Lore?
Advance the timing until it starts to ping, and then back it off a little bit. Use a "Compression restore" oil additive, they've got stuff in them that fills in the scoring in the cylinder walls, and are very good at breathing life into an old engine.
A can of some "engine restoring" junk is what blew it up in the first place.
Yeah, the extra compression is what blew the head gasket clean open
@@Jamvan001because the gasket was clearly held together with gunk, which the additive broke clean so the engine killed itself.
@@Jamvan001 that was seafoam, completely different, and rarely shows benefits on engines being held together with carbon.
This was the family car growing up. I learned to drive in one of these! Love the starwagons!
I wonder what... A rebore & hone, new oil & filter (with engine oil flush), new sparks, new air filter, and 7 degrees advanced timing (so, half of what you said it was) would do to Donkey? 🤔😏😉👍
Oh, and my snek... Kellogg - the Corn Snek says hi to Frank 😊
😎🇬🇧
>no videos of snek on your channel
Disappointing
@@ringsystemmusic haha, the last video I put up on my channel was heck! 15+ years a go! Might have to post one with Kellogg! 🤔😏😉
The Donkey Van decided to pull an Undertaker sit up!
It's alive!!!!
Needs a few degrees of timing. As a little treat.
To ping or not to ping, a question that has plagued donkey van owners since the beginning of time.
BREAKING NEWS: Earlier today, it was discovered that the benevolent entity known as The Donkey Van, which was previously believed to be immortal, has been miraculously wounded. Although not a life-endangering injury, this has shocked the public, and the perpetrator of the attack fears for his life. More on the story as it develops.
Donkey van just used their Totem Of Ubdying
I swear, Wade could do a vid on soil erosion prevention techniques, and I would be enthralled. Sir, you make my week!
[distant Practical Engineering noises]
I would so listen to him rant about sod in australian
I love watching your videos and seeing places that I drive past every day.
That 2.4 engine must be really clapped out. I've seen older vans perform better than that. 😂😂😂Nice seeing the donkey van back though, for a while I thought you were going to junk it. They are very useful vehicles, worth the time in fixing the drive train and other bits, if the body hasn't rusted out.
Eh, the 4G64 usually hit "clapped out" at 80k and flatlined. I had one in a 7th gen Galant from 83k to 150k. Used a quart of oil every gas tank, more on the high way. It never quit and never got any worse(!).
Wheyy hes back! Always a lovely feeling when you fix up your own van, iv done it plenty!
THE DONKEY LIVES ON!!!!
Theres's no ping in the engine nor in the wallet. We love you Donkey van! Welcome back!
It would be nice to see a rebuild and maybe a turbo installed on this.
I mean, the engine is insanely tough.
The fact that it even runs without issues in this condition just shows how good it is.
A stock 4G64 can take around 400HP at the crank reliably.
So throwing a small turbo (to spool very quickly and at lower RPMs) at it to get 300HP is more than usable and will get you the most reliability possible.
It would greatly increase the usability, plus the added torque at lower RPMs will allow for a better fuel economy since it would have to rev less in a higher gear to get the same speed as before the upgrade.
T H E D O N K E Y H A S R I S E N
You'll rebuild it and fuel consumption will go from 14.3 to 14.1 👌
This is delightfully nihilistic. It isn't about the love of perfection or an idealized ode to youth; it is a celebration of
im in no way interested in cars, but youve actually rubbef off on me, like, i actually *know* what a catalytic converter is.
Like, theres SmarterEveryDay, dont get me wrong, great channel with fantastic in depth videos on engines for example.
But your on his level for information retained.Your genuinely amazing.
What really seals this vehicle as the greatest car ever is the clearly visible drop of water falling at 5:59 while it screams its heart out trying to go 100kph 😭
God, I love that underline music! Sounds like a German parade, just right. RUN, DONKEY, RUN! Man, if I ever get to Australia I have to Stop at Your place, have a doobie and a laugh- Your exitement always gets a chuckle outta me.
Believe it or not, this video- the format, the editing, the content, etc- is actually the peak male body. This sparks joy.
The immortal donkey
I am not sad and my day isn't ruined because I got to watch you throw things at the donkey van again. We truly live in a beautiful world.
The money I would pay to see them turn the donkey van into something fast
So glad to see my Donkey van isn't the only one struggling 😂 driving her gets tiring
What an absolutely wild head gasket replacement 😂 i approve! So glad i finally checked out your car channel!
The efforts given during the repair, and the faith of the repair work. I’m fucking in boys 😂
I’ve been driving a little ‘93 Toyota pickup 2wd, going up a little hill, I have to mash the gas, and slam shift and dump the clutch to get going 50 mph in under two business days
Been watching this channel since it's creation. For sure one of the most entertaining automotive channels. God speed to you Dank 💪
nice to see that its back. my mom as a Mitsubishi suv, not one of the new ones like the outlander. my moms suv is a endeavor, the van reminds me soo much of her car
Seeing the Donkey Van go to Christies Beach is something i thought i never needed in my life but it happened
You can advance the timing 5 degrees to get some of the power back but I wouldn’t advise that. It would probably be better to just change the oil to a full synthetic for high mileage, new intake filter and keep it at 80 kph. The donkey generates tons of drag because of how tall she is, so she has to over compensate with higher rpms to maintain higher speeds due to it being a brick going into the wind. I am glad she is back though ❤
It might be worth bumping the timing back up to were it just starts to ping and then pulling it back a couple degrees.
i know nothing about motorized vehicles. this content makes me happy.