This carried James entire family for 8 years.

0:00 You've never seen this car.

0:01 There's little hints of its ass backing stuff out.

0:03 You saw it when the ambo went away.

0:05 But this is James' X-trail, the dad wagon of dad wagons.

0:10 This thing has hold all three of his kids,

0:13 spews, poos, and all for like the last 8 years.

0:16 This has been a family staple of James'.

0:19 Yeah.

0:20 Eight years he's been smashing this.

0:21 And then before this, he had a black one.

0:23 So, he's been living out of these for nearly a decade.

0:26 This is the car I associate with James the most.

0:28 I mean, he had a Fiat Nikki before me.

0:30 That's how I fell in love with him,

0:32 and that's was his daily car until getting up the hill

0:34 to his house made the gearboxes blow up too much.

0:37 And this has carried the torch ever since.

0:40 And I have huge respect for these X-Trails.

0:42 Now, James is not friendly to this.

0:45 He never treats it with any respect.

0:47 Full clutch dumps all the way to revline every time.

0:52 Four-wheel drive chirping, man.

0:54 And has put up with it.

0:55 He's put about 120,000 km on this thing.

0:59 The odometer is past 300 and something th000.

1:02 It's nearly to the distance of the moon and it honestly still drives great.

1:08 James does have a new car.

1:09 You're not going to hear about it for a while.

1:11 He's he's kind of given up, you know?

1:14 He just gave up trying to find something interesting and he just kind

1:16 of settled and he's standing right behind

1:18 me and I'm not really whispering at all.

1:20 James can hear all of this.

1:22 You'll see it in time, right?

1:24 James sees a driver for ages and see if that CVT goes wrong.

1:27 Oops.

1:27 What did I say?

1:28 This is an issue that's plagued this car for so long

1:30 that James has desperately tried to figure out is this little clunk.

1:35 It's so subtle.

1:37 I I don't even notice it.

1:38 So, this thing's getting a complete going through and I'm really

1:41 curious what 300 and something,000 km does like the diff gearbox.

1:45 How much wear is there really?

1:47 Especially with a with a James thrashing on it.

1:50 Sicker flex and a zip tie.

1:52 Yeah,

1:53 James, you shouldn't have.

1:54 I would like a smaller clutch reservoir.

1:57 Wait, that's brake and clutch combined.

1:58 Yeah, but it's just the same crap.

2:00 There's a bigger thing down here.

2:03 Oh, yeah.

2:02 So, this leads down to that one.

2:03 I don't Yeah, I

2:05 Well, I request a smaller one.

2:06 Well, I mean, like the main issue

2:08 and the one that James really like to figure out,

2:09 you know, where's the drive line clunk coming from?

2:12 So, the search begins.

2:14 It is four-wheel drive, which is like a a real thing James needs

2:17 from a car cuz he lives he's got a steep driveway.

2:19 It's made out of gravel and frontwheel drive

2:21 and rear wheel can't crawl out of it.

2:23 I don't know.

2:24 Everything sounds like clunks when you've got it up in the air.

2:26 Basically, all you can really do is replace

2:28 a bunch of stuff and hope that did it.

2:30 I really feel like it might be gearbox.

2:35 A great.

2:36 That's the thing we don't have.

2:38 Well, I mean, the suspect here was the rear diff.

2:41 This is what takes the power going

2:43 in this direction and sends it out in these directions.

2:45 And there's like a, you know,

2:46 a gear set in there and it changes and it makes the wheel spin a certain speed.

2:50 But yeah, this is where a lot of abuse can go down.

2:52 Although this tends to crawl forwards with its front wheels

2:54 the most and then the rear only engages when it needs to.

2:58 But it's still pretty dinky and small.

3:00 But I've been surprised, you know, what these things can hold up to.

3:03 We got another diff and you know, we're going to try putting it in anyway.

3:06 I mean, this is how much I can move it without the wheels moving.

3:09 It should be nothing.

3:11 It's heat expansion room.

3:13 I can't wait to see the color of the flu that comes out of this.

3:15 Yeah.

3:15 I actually might get a clean bucket cuz I'm interested in this.

3:17 Have you ever changed the diff oil?

3:19 Yes.

3:19 You have?

3:21 Yeah.

3:20 See, only a mechanic's car would have the diff oil changed.

3:24 No one changes this.

3:27 Watch them knuckles.

3:30 That's clean.

3:31 Wow, that's so clean.

3:34 Yep.

3:33 A This didn't need changing at all.

3:35 Not a lot on the magnet either.

3:38 A little bit.

3:39 I mean, we could probably just pump this straight back in it.

3:41 Diff oil.

3:42 That is stunning.

3:43 That is That's pretty decent.

3:45 People are scared of lithium packs in modern cars.

3:47 And you see this hot dog pipe right next to the plastic fuel tank.

3:50 [laughter] And it's got this tinfoil dinner plate sitting in between it.

3:56 IF THAT FALLS OFF, YOU'RE IN HUGE TROUBLE.

3:58 They are so crunchy and chewy looking.

4:01 Wo!

4:02 Yeah.

4:02 One.

4:03 There's two.

4:04 Yeah.

4:04 This is going to save us 2 minutes lowering the car and putting it in gear.

4:08 This is worth it.

4:09 That was Oh, I saw that slip.

4:12 That's so annoying.

4:15 Separate.

4:17 James found a used diff for like, I don't know, 200 bucks or something.

4:21 But look at all the crap you got to go through to get to it.

4:24 [laughter]

4:25 This is a pretty easy one, too.

4:26 This is why people just throw cars out.

4:27 They don't deal with this.

4:35 Yeah.

4:37 Well, I guess that one's on the exhaust then.

4:40 All right.

4:40 Could you please get me another big zip tie?

4:52 That that one.

4:57 All the power of the car is driven through those tiny little splines.

5:01 All the weight of the car goes through that.

5:04 Donkey looks so good.

5:05 Donkeyy's looking really good.

5:07 Oh, it's like those two tiny Lego pieces stuck together sort of thing.

5:10 Actually, I might be making more progress this time.

5:13 Ah, yay.

5:14 Hey, nice one.

5:15 Hey, that's full of just as much crap as the the new one is.

5:23 Took the whole stud out.

5:24 It was supposed to sit on that.

5:26 Well, nope.

5:29 There she comes.

5:30 So, when this bolt comes out, it's just going to smash on the floor, right?

5:33 No, it'll hang off the bolt.

5:34 Oh.

5:38 What was that?

5:39 Wow.

5:40 This This went full caveman so suddenly.

5:43 There's more in the way on this side.

5:55 Split that.

5:57 Split.

5:57 Oh, tumble that little metal baby out.

6:01 So, I'm hanging off the wiring loom now.

6:03 All right.

6:04 Do you need a hand at all?

6:06 If you could get me some cutters, it would be

6:09 actually there.

6:10 [laughter] See, like James works so quickly that nearly any help isn't help.

6:17 James has this all worked out.

6:20 Yeah.

6:22 What a baby.

6:23 That's great.

6:25 And the actual diff bit, look how tiny it is.

6:27 That's where it all lives.

6:29 The rest of it is just That's a particle clutch.

6:32 Oh, of course.

6:33 the engagement disengagement.

6:35 Yeah, cuz it's not fulltime fourwheel drive all the time.

6:37 I believe it's a particle clutch.

6:38 It's definitely a clutch of some kind.

6:40 And there's going to be particles in it.

6:42 It's [laughter] going to be loaded with it.

6:43 You know, fulltime four-wheel drive with like like big tractor lever clunk.

6:47 Yeah, it's all trying to smooth itself out and only activate when needed.

6:50 It tends to crawl forwards with it front wheels the most.

6:53 Um, so yeah, you get all this extra dingle stuff on a tiny little diff anyway.

6:58 But hey, spare one's 200 and something bucks.

7:00 Which one has more particles in it?

7:02 Old diff.

7:03 New diff called old diff, but we don't know its history.

7:08 So, we're just hopeful that it's better diff.

7:11 This one does that noise.

7:13 This one doesn't a little bit.

7:15 Okay, there it is.

7:16 [laughter] Old diff.

7:19 Old diff.

7:25 All right.

7:26 Hard.

7:26 We don't have a car to brace again.

7:28 Got to turn on both air compressors.

7:31 No, that one doesn't work right now.

7:32 It's just a tank.

7:33 It's broken again.

7:34 Oh, it's bro.

7:35 Yeah, [laughter] it breaks all the time.

7:39 Worst 20 bucks James ever spent on marketplace.

7:48 [laughter] OH, WOW.

7:51 THAT'S SPARKLY.

7:53 WOW.

7:53 It's like metallic Warhammer paint or something.

7:56 Freaking pneumatic, huh?

7:57 Bang.

7:58 Yeah.

7:58 Well, which one do you want to look at first?

7:59 The old one or the new one?

8:00 New one.

8:06 Yeah.

8:06 Danny Ricardo.

8:07 A pneumatic is super cool, but gets old.

8:20 Ow.

8:22 Got you.

8:24 Is our replacement diff.

8:27 It smells like diff.

8:28 This doesn't take the full weight of the car.

8:30 Really?

8:31 So, what like 40% or something?

8:32 Oh, what?

8:33 This had replacement bits already.

8:35 It may have.

8:36 [laughter] Well, I mean, that bodess well if anything.

8:39 Yeah.

8:39 Yeah.

8:40 Uh, is that what what's that?

8:43 It's sealant.

8:44 Okay.

8:44 All right.

8:45 Fine.

8:45 Good.

8:46 It looked like chunks.

8:48 Yeah.

8:48 I mean, looks like this had replacement bits thrown in it at some point.

8:51 Might have been rebuilt.

8:52 Yeah.

8:53 Nice.

8:53 Good score.

8:54 Got lucky for once.

8:55 Yeah.

8:56 You can see the water line where it like sits in there.

8:59 I need to not mix this up.

9:00 Wait, is it just two shims on each side?

9:02 Yeah, two shims on each side.

9:04 But still, I need to make sure this stays with this.

9:06 The movement I was feeling.

9:08 Wonder if that's normal.

9:09 It's in Yeah, it's in the clutch somewhere.

9:12 So, if we take this back half off, then we'll be able to tell.

9:15 I mean, if it needs to be improved, then Yeah.

9:17 I don't know.

9:18 I don't know.

9:23 [snorts] The diff smell.

9:24 Like it's it's not engine oil.

9:26 It's diff smell.

9:27 Is this a wet collection here?

9:29 I don't know.

9:29 We'll find out when we get in there.

9:31 Hopefully there's no regrets pulling it apart.

9:36 What are you clamping it for, you fool?

9:38 We're trying to get it apart, James.

9:40 You're making it more together.

9:42 This is the most bogen use of one of these I've ever seen.

9:44 I didn't think it was possible to use one like this.

9:47 It's not really working anyway.

9:49 Need a metal version of one of these.

9:53 Like a Dynasty Warriors character.

9:56 Oh no.

9:58 Oh no.

10:00 What are you planning?

10:01 [laughter] This is even worse.

10:04 This This isn't good.

10:05 Wow.

10:05 There's some desperate stuff.

10:08 Yeah.

10:08 It's really just I I don't know.

10:09 There's probably probably a special tool that I don't have.

10:12 Uh this is very hard to take apart.

10:16 H.

10:17 [laughter] Oh, that sets such a bad precedent

10:20 when the dodgiest fix gets the best results.

10:24 Now everyone's going to be doing this.

10:26 No screwdrivers.

10:27 Screwdrivers bad.

10:28 Yeah, if you if you mar these surfaces, they'll never seal again.

10:31 This really sets a bad other precedent of putting it back together again.

10:36 Not as worried about that.

10:38 All right.

10:38 So, it's just a big tuna can.

10:42 Yeah.

10:41 And nothing.

10:42 So, no, it's not a wet clutch.

10:44 Wow.

10:46 Uh, it's all just weird.

10:48 It looks like a strange electric motor, but it's a clutch peg.

10:50 It's a It'll be a particle clutch.

10:53 Particle clutch.

10:54 Magnetic particle clutch, right?

10:56 It uses magnet powder.

10:59 Guess it doesn't matter when you only need 30% of the power going through it.

11:02 Yeah, I learned about these from Sega Rally where I pulled the magnet.

11:06 I pulled the part.

11:07 Those aren't real cars, James.

11:09 I pulled the clutch apart and I'm like, what's all this dust doing in here?

11:12 Cleaned it out.

11:12 Put it back together.

11:13 It did nothing.

11:15 [laughter]

11:14 The dust is activated by an electromagnet.

11:17 And when you turn the electromagnet on, all

11:19 the dust clings to itself and grips all the surfaces.

11:22 Grips and ungrips depending on the voltage.

11:24 It's active sandpaper.

11:25 Yeah.

11:26 Blinds there look okay.

11:27 There look okay.

11:29 I like all the welds it's got.

11:31 I wonder if it's the whole clutch just shifting in the housing.

11:35 Yeah.

11:35 Yeah.

11:35 Well, this has to be sealed.

11:36 You don't want oil inside here.

11:38 Yeah.

11:38 It might just be how they are.

11:39 It's the tolerance.

11:40 James is running this pick over it cuz you can

11:43 feel what the teeth are like and the teeth feel adequate.

11:48 Yeah, I I can't tell the difference between the unworn bit and where it runs on.

11:53 So, I think it's fine.

11:54 That's sweet.

11:54 What a great score.

12:00 This is the old one.

12:01 Yeah.

12:01 So, you got 8 years out of this thing.

12:04 Yep.

12:04 Man, you drove it hard.

12:07 Uh-huh.

12:06 How's it looking?

12:07 Oh, in there's all right, but [laughter] yeah,

12:13 but this one Yeah, it's quite a bit there.

12:15 You reckon that's where the clunk tink was coming from?

12:17 I think it was.

12:18 We just got to find out when that one goes in.

12:21 Yeah.

12:20 Wow.

12:20 So, yeah.

12:21 Well found.

12:22 I think there's another clunk though.

12:24 One clunk at a time.

12:25 Yeah.

12:26 Both diffs have texture markings on it.

12:28 So, James, you believe it's tolerances?

12:31 Yeah, I reckon.

12:32 Uh, so yeah, it could be factory.

12:34 That's in Mitsubishi.

12:35 This is 34+ 6.

12:37 And that's 74 minus 7.

12:40 Weird.

12:41 37 teeth on the crown wheel and it'll be 15 teeth on the pinion.

12:44 They're both the same.

12:45 Shop fan is on cuz Australian summer is go.

12:48 But uh yeah, can't wait to see what has James' gearbox been through.

12:52 301 something,000 KS.

12:55 120,000 of them with this guy towing gratuitous amounts

12:59 of stuff at full throttle heavy clutch dumps every single time.

13:08 [laughter]

13:07 Nice one, you freaking idiot.

13:09 I can't wait to see the metallic sparkles.

13:11 There probably might be.

13:12 I mean, every gearbox gets it.

13:14 It's normal.

13:14 It's a bunch of teeth all wearing together.

13:17 It's going to wear out eventually.

13:19 Usually turns into a fine paste, but yeah, the chunks.

13:22 You never want the chunks.

13:25 It's pretty dark.

13:27 Yeah.

13:27 I mean, we'll wait for that to puke out and we can go panning for particles,

13:31 prospecting for alloys.

13:32 When was the last time you changed gearbox oil?

13:35 Uh, I'm not sure, but I have done it [laughter]

13:41 in eight years in the most brutal driving I've seen you do in a car.

13:45 Well, James traded this thing with no regard.

13:47 I definitely did it 100,000 ago cuz I did the clutch, [laughter]

13:51 but I reckon I've done it since then.

13:52 We've got a replacement gearbox.

13:54 Uh, how do we check for chunks?

13:57 Oh, do we do we have a magnet on a stick

13:59 or we can just stir it like a magic wand?

14:02 No, I don't think there's any chunks.

14:04 Wow.

14:04 just felt conventionally worn to me.

14:07 This looks like a dark Turkish coffee.

14:09 Even consistency.

14:13 Frontwheel drive gearboxes are so ugly looking.

14:18 Oh, that's not good.

14:20 You've never done this before, have you, James?

14:21 Like

14:22 Oh, you have pulled it.

14:23 Oh, no, that's right.

14:24 Yeah, you did.

14:24 You put that horrible clutch in it.

14:27 Foreshadowing.

14:27 I like the way that it's not coming out.

14:29 Oh, there's more bolts.

14:31 Is this just going to fall out and land on the floor?

14:33 No, I'm going to catch it.

14:35 You're a grown man.

14:35 You can do whatever you want.

14:36 But I love that you're rattle gunning with a big dingle arm.

14:44 And then I have to try not to touch the fiberglass on the exhaust.

14:46 Yeah, the heat shield fell off.

14:57 But it's pneumatic.

14:58 It should be endless.

14:59 Wait, did you turn the air compressor off?

15:01 No.

15:01 I must have turned it off.

15:02 AND THAT'S WHY.

15:04 OH.

15:04 AH, that we needed to ask.

15:08 Is the air compressor off?

15:11 Come on.

15:12 Is the air compressor on?

15:15 Yeah.

15:15 Yeah.

15:16 Look at that baby.

15:17 Huh?

15:18 That's the iron air.

15:20 Oh, THAT ONE'S EVEN LE.

15:22 THAT'S SO MUCH CHEAPER.

15:24 And look, it's got five stars.

15:26 Even cheaper.

15:27 It's got the double dingle tank.

15:29 It's not what we want.

15:31 Why not?

15:31 Are you saying we've already got creep cheap crappy

15:34 air compressors that aren't suitable for what we want?

15:39 Yeah.

15:41 329.

15:40 Look, it's got pro in the name.

15:43 It looks like twin cars.

15:45 Whoops.

15:45 That's high to low.

15:46 No.

15:46 No.

15:46 No.

15:46 Low to high.

15:49 Yeah.

15:49 [laughter] I almost just want to get one out of principle.

15:53 So like Yeah.

15:54 Even something like this.

15:55 Uh the we need three of these to match

15:59 what we need for sand blasting and other stuff.

16:01 Well, I guess we need what a 9 horsepower thing.

16:05 I don't know if that's how it works.

16:06 I guess it might.

16:08 Well, I hope you like air compressor noises.

16:12 James has finally gone and picked up a new one.

16:14 I finally sanctioned it after nearly 4 years.

16:17 It's a little bit bigger than I thought it was going to be.

16:20 So much so that people at the the motor wreckers were fawning over it.

16:23 But we did get the $160 one.

16:25 And annoyingly, it's way bigger than I thought.

16:28 Everything's too big.

16:29 They look this big on the screen.

16:31 Crappy.

16:32 Crappy old.

16:33 James has had this for like 15 years.

16:36 It lived at my house for like 5 years.

16:39 It's pumping up this $20 one as well, which stopped work.

16:45 Oh my goodness, man.

16:47 It's pumping up this tank as well, which used to run together.

16:51 That's why having a new air compressor is such a big deal.

16:55 Not as big as a deal as like how big it is.

16:57 Wasn't expecting it to be so this thing is so huge.

17:01 [laughter] As James was bringing it back,

17:04 there were tradies looking at it in the trailer and fawning over going,

17:07 "Oh my goodness, mate.

17:08 What What are you going to get done with that?" Seriously,

17:11 like we need it for sand blasting and James just

17:14 looked at what we needed for flow rate and picked

17:16 the cheapest one that had the flow rate

17:19 and this is how much you need to sand blast continuously.

17:22 Still pretty good value, but I mean we'll find out when it stops working.

17:26 Reveal it.

17:28 Oh, it's stuck on it.

17:30 I said reveal IT.

17:31 J STUCK EVERYWHERE.

17:32 REVEAL IT.

17:33 I'M TRYING.

17:34 REVEAL.

17:35 IT'S a nice look that fancy wheel.

17:39 IS LIKE A HARLEY-DAVIDSON.

17:40 WA!

17:41 IT'S TRIPLE DINGLE.

17:43 WOW.

17:43 UH, does that mean three times the noise?

17:46 I really hope not.

17:47 I want this to be Oh, free tote bag.

17:50 Hope it's got lunchables in it.

17:52 Look, it's got a side glass with oil like an old Yamaha motorbike.

17:55 Piss of thread locker before it goes back on.

17:58 This is someone who's listened to many,

18:00 many air compressors and know where this is heading.

18:04 That thing's going to rattle loose.

18:06 I like the casting on this wheel.

18:07 Looks like it was made with bubble gum.

18:09 I like this.

18:09 Oh, is like heat sink?

18:13 Yeah.

18:13 I guess compressed air gets hot.

18:14 It sure does.

18:15 That would get roasting hot.

18:16 The gorgeous.

18:17 We got to try it against the dinkus one.

18:20 Which one's louder?

18:21 Huh?

18:21 I bet it's you.

18:23 These things don't come with wheels.

18:24 James has put the wheels on.

18:25 We got wheels on everything.

18:26 It's changed our life.

18:27 James is an expert at adding important infrastructure.

18:31 You want to, you can get it done.

18:33 That's That's how you know this is big pants.

18:36 Big pants compressor.

18:37 You are Oh, you're not going to turn it on.

18:38 I will.

18:39 Look at the size of an exit.

18:40 James, this thing is ridiculous.

18:42 It was so MUCH SMALLER IN THE PICTURE.

18:44 YOU READY?

18:45 OH, YEAH.

18:49 It's It's got It's GOT A CHAMPIONESS TO IT.

18:53 It's actually I THINK IT'S KIND OF WORSE.

18:56 SOUNDS LIKE IT'S ROD knocking sounds.

19:00 Can you believe?

19:00 Ah, is it the bell?

19:02 Belt looks loose to me.

19:04 Could you believe buying the cheapest wand would get these results?

19:08 If you ever see this silver sparkly paint, beware.

19:11 Look, they've covered it in it.

19:13 It's meant to like this.

19:20 It could just be the valves that open and close.

19:23 It could just sound like a pile of garbage.

19:25 I'm interested to take this cage off and see if it goes away.

19:29 All right.

19:29 Not to leave it off, but

19:30 leave it off.

19:31 Leave it off.

19:32 Look how nice the casting is.

19:33 Huh?

19:34 Isn't that gorgeous?

19:36 The old one just kept on.

19:38 Hear the difference.

19:41 Free bird cage.

19:42 Where's that coming from?

19:44 Oh.

19:45 Oh no.

19:47 It's all of these.

19:48 [laughter] Oh man.

19:51 Hey, that's going to wear into the copper.

19:54 Yeah.

19:54 Yeah, it will.

19:55 This is so typical for new tools.

19:57 You have to for dangle them to make them work properly.

20:00 I might put a hose clamp around it to just hold it there.

20:09 All right, it's just a piece of junk.

20:11 The countdown Oh, come on.

20:36 It's still going down.

20:46 Barely moving.

20:48 It's going back up.

20:49 And he's again putting it back in.

20:52 Um, so as you saw, like even with the air constantly coming out,

20:56 it was able to put it back in and increase

20:59 it pumps more than that was coming out.

21:01 And you see what this thing instantly out

21:03 of air instantly just run and that's it.

21:06 So yeah, sand blasting, no sand blasting, yes.

21:09 And everything blasting like nuts and bolts blast them.

21:18 What?

21:18 Going to take the sway bar off or the exhaust off

21:20 cuz the sway bar goes over the top of the exhaust.

21:25 Taxi, you didn't want to sway anyway, didn't you?

21:28 We'll get extra sway now.

21:33 Gross.

21:32 I got to drain the transfer case oil.

21:34 Actually, we'll see if there's any chunks in there.

21:35 That'll be fantastic if there is, cuz it's the only thing we didn't buy.

21:39 Yeah.

21:39 So, four-wheel drive is delightfully complicated.

21:41 There's a transfer box here.

21:43 And so that's what transfers the power to the front and a drive shaft

21:47 that goes to well where the diff used to be and now it's all zip ties.

21:51 Uh we don't have a replacement one of these.

21:54 And so if this is full of chunks, we're eating it.

21:57 Please no chunks.

21:57 Please no chunks.

21:58 Please no chunks.

21:59 When was the last time this was done?

22:01 Uh 100,000 ks ago.

22:03 So nearly when you bought it?

22:06 Yeah.

22:06 Yeah.

22:06 Has the clutch been that terrible for that long?

22:08 Yeah.

22:08 100,000k.

22:10 Wow.

22:10 Oh, so wait.

22:10 So the clutch has basically always been

22:12 bad the whole time you've known this car.

22:14 Yeah, I I did it like 3 months in or something.

22:18 Wow.

22:17 Here come the chunks.

22:20 My hand in it.

22:25 Looked looked all right.

22:26 I'm sorry.

22:26 That's the smallest oil filter I've ever seen in my life.

22:30 Yeah, that's

22:30 Look at it.

22:31 It's got Yeah.

22:31 Look how tiny that is.

22:33 Not a lot, are it?

22:34 No, there wasn't.

22:35 A one liter bottle was enough to do the transfer case and the diff.

22:39 Wow.

22:39 Ah.

22:41 Oh, yeah.

22:41 This stuff's heavy.

22:42 Transfer case oil.

22:44 So, there are some sparkles in there.

22:46 Oh, yeah.

22:46 Some sparkles.

22:47 Yeah, there's some there's some chocolates.

22:49 And there's some dark streaks that have settled in the bottom, too.

22:52 That's typical.

22:53 It's Yeah.

22:55 And I've definitely done this oil since 100,000 ago, cuz that oil was green.

22:59 This oil is not.

23:01 So, it's it's newer than that.

23:03 Bad engine mount found.

23:05 Yeah.

23:05 Nice.

23:06 Oh, yeah.

23:09 Yeah.

23:07 Yeah, baby.

23:09 Well, well caught.

23:10 That's what these jobs spiral into.

23:12 Again, you take the car to the mechanic and it keeps spiraling cuz cars spiral.

23:17 Yeah.

23:17 Here's the clutch James put in forever ago and it's terrible.

23:21 I hate this thing.

23:23 If it's heavy and like the the way it feels the entire time is strange.

23:28 Uh, and it's a single mass flywheel, you said.

23:31 Yeah, single mass flywheel conversion to avoid the cost of the dual mass fly.

23:34 It's so much cheaper.

23:35 And you know what?

23:35 It feels it.

23:36 And uh it's funny because yeah,

23:37 this is for a Toyota, but it's all the same crap.

23:41 It's all the same garbage.

23:42 Uh and so yeah, a big part of this job

23:44 is also replacing this because um you know,

23:47 Gaz doesn't want to deal with a clutch like this.

23:49 I've never liked it and James has just dealt with it.

23:52 I didn't realize it was this long that you've had that terrible clutch in it.

23:55 It's a bit heavy.

23:56 Here's the old gearbox.

23:57 Um so yeah, I'd love to see inside

24:00 of it where 300 something thousand KS put through it.

24:03 It was still working, but it did like to pop out of first gear.

24:06 Like it'd be pulling this kind of resistance.

24:09 You just touch it and go bonk and pop straight out.

24:11 So, not terrible.

24:13 Still workable cuz Yeah.

24:14 Just got to look for the metal sparklies.

24:17 This is the thrust bearing that as the clutch

24:19 is spinning and you're pushing your foot against it,

24:22 you're working this thing.

24:23 And uh it's it's nice and noisy.

24:26 I never heard it.

24:27 So, that's weird.

24:28 I didn't expect that.

24:30 Nope.

24:30 That's strange and worrying for a lot of cars where you can hear it.

24:34 It's like, oh, the clutch dust all being thrown around in there.

24:37 Well, um, the dirty one is the replacement one

24:40 and the the one with broken fins on it.

24:42 Yeah, it's the replacement one, but that's just that doesn't matter.

24:45 It didn't breach.

24:46 What we're hoping for is that the internals

24:49 of the old one are much worse than the new one.

24:51 We're not looking for new, as in like fully restored or nothing, just improved.

24:55 It is all used parts after all,

24:57 but there's a good chance this one hasn't been thrashed by someone named James.

25:01 Wow, look at that big pile of gears.

25:03 This is what a manual looks like.

25:04 One gear is a bunch of gears that add up to that output.

25:08 Basically, like what was a 5-speed in it?

25:11 Yeah, there's more than five gears.

25:12 It's a 5-speed with reverse, but 1 2 3 4.

25:16 No, no, no, no.

25:17 It's a lot.

25:18 But they're both basically the same.

25:20 I mean, what do we go with the old one then?

25:21 Cuz it had a better case.

25:22 I mean, it did easily pull out at first.

25:25 That's true.

25:25 All right, second one.

25:26 Oh, that's nice to know that there is actually something wrong,

25:28 but you can't see it even when looking at it.

25:31 Yeah.

25:31 All righty.

25:31 This is first the first first gear dog teeth.

25:33 They're down in here.

25:34 First gear is big gear.

25:35 James is showing me these dog tiffy gears.

25:38 And those are the dog teeths.

25:39 And uh if they wear flat on each side, then they want to pop out.

25:43 But the dog tffy gears kind of look all right.

25:48 Yeah.

25:48 So, these are the first gear dog teeth that I was expecting to be worn.

25:51 But they look okay.

25:53 I can't see anything really.

25:54 I mean, they're shiny, so they're I don't know.

25:56 I mean, got 300,000 KS on it.

25:58 They don't look tapered the way I was expecting for them to be popping out.

26:01 This one's the smelliest.

26:02 This is a smelly box.

26:03 Yeah, it is.

26:03 It's not like that.

26:05 James is just making this up as he goes along.

26:07 But it's all familiar stuff, just in different amounts in different spots.

26:12 I'm going to take a few things apart and and get this out.

26:15 Yeah, that's what the the gear sticks dingling.

26:17 Yep.

26:18 There's the hideous clutch now.

26:20 And it's just about cooked.

26:23 I mean, given how hard you've driven this thing, it makes total sense.

26:26 It's made smells a few times.

26:28 Oh, yeah.

26:29 And then I've been really rough with it, so that doesn't help.

26:32 Springs are a bit jangly, too.

26:34 Yep.

26:34 I mean, yeah, this was actually something that needed doing,

26:37 so I mean, it's it's always felt the same the whole time.

26:40 Probably would have gone another 100,000.

26:42 It's 40°, by the way.

26:43 Um, yeah, brand new.

26:45 So, that's the dual mass.

26:48 Yeah.

26:49 Oh, does dual mass things.

26:50 So, what are there springs in there or something?

26:52 Yeah.

26:52 Something like that.

26:53 Right.

26:53 And it just takes the shock out of it or something.

26:57 Yeah.

26:57 Right.

26:57 Okay.

26:57 Well, that's why it costs more cuz um Yeah.

27:00 That's just one lump of whatever is it.

27:03 Yep.

27:02 Yep.

27:02 And it felt like it.

27:04 And this looks like the other clutch cuz a clutch is a clutch.

27:07 And um Yeah.

27:09 Yeah.

27:09 It's really really unspecial.

27:11 They all stinking look like this clutch alignment tool.

27:14 Come on, man.

27:15 What?

27:15 You're just going to We're just going to send it home and just claim it good.

27:18 Oh, good.

27:18 Thrust bearing.

27:21 Yes.

27:20 F Yeah.

27:21 and bolts.

27:22 Oh, where' all those seals go?

27:23 Genuine Nissan seals as well.

27:26 Look at this.

27:26 Looks like a weird blocking off thing, but no, it's actually a tool.

27:29 This is what you use to do stuff with.

27:33 But yeah, all genuine Niss and stuff.

27:35 The pivot for where you pushing makes the clutch do the thing and thing.

27:39 And so hopefully the old one is just so effing worn.

27:42 Or maybe this is a different shape or different I don't know.

27:46 Oh, there's the old one.

27:47 Oh yeah, nice and shiny.

27:49 It's hard to tell.

27:50 It's like It's very hard.

27:51 It's really rudimentary crap.

27:52 Even when it's new.

27:53 Your clutch looks nice.

27:54 At least we're never going to see it again.

27:56 I mean, the next time it'll be seen is

27:58 when it will look terrible like the old one again.

28:00 James is just proclaiming, "I got special bolts." It's like,

28:02 well, what's so special about them?

28:04 So, they'll 50 bucks for nine of them.

28:06 What do they do other than be expensive and have pink on them?

28:10 Tensar rating and stuff.

28:13 Wow.

28:14 50 bucks for this handful of bolts.

28:16 Yep.

28:16 And washers though.

28:18 Yeah.

28:18 All right.

28:18 I'll take it back.

28:19 That's a pretty good deal then.

28:20 Well, they are the ones that hold all the clutch on.

28:22 So, I guess they're pretty important.

28:24 Special event.

28:25 We're heading into the Dunnies.

28:27 It's great back here because parts wash is getting its first go.

28:31 It's It's getting its first go.

28:35 Look how clean this is.

28:37 Huh.

28:37 We can take regular baths in this.

28:39 Yeah.

28:40 The cabling's done.

28:41 Really good.

28:42 Oh, splashes a lot.

28:43 Oh, that's good.

28:44 That's really exciting.

28:45 Who are you, Bob Ross?

28:46 Look at this brush you got.

28:48 It's a path cleaning brush.

28:49 Paint some happy little trees.

28:53 I hate these.

28:53 This stuff's so viscous.

28:55 Pastry chefs, huh?

28:56 You're not the only one has to deal with this.

28:58 Your cake doesn't have to run for 10 years, you know,

29:02 or hold oil.

29:04 Actually, it does.

29:04 You don't want the cakes and all the oil separate in there.

29:07 Is this special sealant?

29:09 Yeah, it's about 50 bucks a tube.

29:11 Why?

29:11 What's wrong with Ultimate Black?

29:14 I don't know.

29:14 This is flange sealant.

29:15 just been debating on like why is this crap

29:17 so expensive and James said what what's it called?

29:20 It's anorobic.

29:22 Anorobic is that like Pilates?

29:25 Yes.

29:25 Go do anorobics.

29:26 But um yeah, absence of air is when it dries which

29:29 must happen when it goes [clears throat] and gets crushed to nothing.

29:32 Mega plon happening here.

29:34 Just got to plunk this on.

29:37 Mega plon.

29:39 We're ploning.

29:41 Don't mess up that $50 liquid gasket.

29:46 Uh-huh.

29:50 I think it's this pin here.

29:51 No, it's not up to that yet.

29:53 There's about a billion things that have to slot into the Oh, mega plunk.

29:58 A Did you forget something?

29:59 No, it's rotated around.

30:01 So, there's a circlip in here and the ends

30:03 of it are supposed to be exposed right now.

30:05 Oh, good.

30:06 Oh, no.

30:07 I plunk.

30:07 A deplonked.

30:09 Oh, well, but didn't get touched.

30:11 No, didn't.

30:12 So, that's good.

30:12 It did deplunk.

30:13 did deep plunk.

30:14 It still annoys me to say like it's very viscous

30:17 to say it's very thick cuz very viscous just sounds runny.

30:21 Does it?

30:21 I had a very viscous poo, right?

30:23 It sounds runny.

30:25 Well, maybe I'm more used to the term than you are.

30:27 You actually went to the schools.

30:28 I learned how to jazz.

30:32 James is a proper mechanic.

30:34 He knows he didn't bother cleaning the outside of it cuz it doesn't matter.

30:38 It's like inside very matter, outside not matter.

30:42 It's a bit cleaner.

30:43 It looks terrible.

30:45 This is a clip which has to go into this slot,

30:48 which means I have to try and make that slot line up with this slot.

30:54 Have you tried asking nicely?

30:56 You've just been very forceful straight away.

30:59 Please line up.

31:00 Okay, now we know it doesn't work.

31:04 I asked James like, "Oh, what are all the like the torque

31:07 specs for everything?" He's like, "I don't know.

31:09 I've got the service manual and it doesn't say

31:12 and it's all being put on with um just forum posts.

31:17 That's it.

31:18 I worry about this hobby going forwards.

31:20 Getting the parts and then actually knowing what to do with them.

31:26 Looks like a space wrench of some sorts.

31:28 Got it the wrong way around.

31:30 That's a lot better.

31:30 Went on easier and everything.

31:34 What are you painting schmutz on?

31:35 Uh

31:36 just the bit where the spring rubs.

31:38 Oh, right.

31:41 Oh, if you're wondering what that springiness is when you

31:43 push on a clutch pedal and it goes, it's these.

31:47 These are those springs.

31:48 Now, you know, this thing is such a horrible shape.

31:51 Like, how do you line this up?

31:53 And the worst bit, see all these splines got to line up somehow.

31:57 You think, oh, you're only one tooth away at any point.

32:00 You say that it's going to be such a jiggle fest to get this in boot.

32:05 Dust boot.

32:06 James is now looking for free bolts after it's all been put together.

32:10 Any free bolts?

32:11 No, I think we're good.

32:11 That's heaps disappointing.

32:13 Not a single free bolt.

32:18 Many ups.

32:24 This isn't even lining up the splines yet.

32:26 So, yeah, the the bolts will kiss in that spline though.

32:30 Oh, yeah.

32:30 If you do up the bolts without getting the splines lined up,

32:32 it will absolutely destroy everything.

32:34 Yeah.

32:35 rotating over the motor to make the splines turn to hope that it just slots in.

32:40 These are a really, really tight fit, by the way.

32:43 It's what makes this so difficult.

32:45 Like the raw power of the engine has to go through it.

32:47 Here comes the jiggling.

32:49 It's jiggling time.

32:54 Oh.

32:54 Oh, that go in.

32:54 Oh, was that it?

32:55 That went in.

32:59 So good to see it kiss together.

33:00 with a weird two different skin colors it's got

33:03 cuz it's lived different lives and different Nissen carcasses.

33:07 Brand new engine mounts.

33:09 Not that they felt terrible.

33:10 No, that was terrible.

33:12 Well, they they were ter I mean, it didn't feel bad.

33:15 I don't know.

33:15 Maybe that's where the big clunky noise was coming from.

33:18 James ran it off a bolt.

33:20 It was clawing at it.

33:21 Where where the moldy gr Yeah, the vice grips here.

33:25 Cloring at it.

33:26 Yeah, it's just slipping too though.

33:28 Yep.

33:29 So, even even the Yeah, look at the pieces coming off.

33:32 Yeah, I've got the heat.

33:33 I'm going to That is so well rounded off.

33:36 Can you get it more of a perfect circle for me, please?

33:39 I can run the rattle gun with a sixpoint on it for a bit longer.

33:42 All right.

33:45 Oh, wow.

33:45 This is really good.

33:46 But James is going at every trick in the book.

33:48 What?

33:49 You wet like you're wearing welding stuff like

33:51 I welded a nut to it, but I didn't penetrate.

33:53 IT NEVER WORKS.

33:55 I'VE NEVER successfully welded a knot on something and had it work.

33:58 You got it out.

33:59 I got it out.

34:01 Wow.

34:01 So, welding a nut on it did work.

34:03 Yep.

34:03 I even tidied it up so I can use it again.

34:05 Oh, it's tidy.

34:07 AND IT'S ALL BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.

34:09 And right from the get- go, boy is it.

34:12 It just feels so much more together now.

34:15 All those like little bits of loose stuff in the gearbox and the diff,

34:18 mate, what a difference.

34:20 And oi, this clutch so good.

34:23 I didn't know a clutch could be just this light and easy.

34:26 Like the clutch that was in it was maniacal.

34:30 I I hated driving this thing.

34:32 But driving this thing around recently, mate, now she's a piece of cake.

34:36 And like, all right, well, what's happening with this?

34:38 James has another car.

34:39 I have too many cars.

34:42 Well, this is off to me, mom, and Gaz.

34:45 Like, they live in this beautiful place up away from the smoke.

34:48 They live near the beach where they can just go like fishing,

34:51 crab hunting, and they bring the doggos along with them.

34:54 That's this.

34:55 This is something that can climb up, you know,

34:57 soft sand trails and gravel tracks and just do light adventuring.

35:02 You know what I mean?

35:02 Like there's these beach trails that they've been wanting to get onto,

35:05 but their car couldn't do it.

35:07 This has got the ground clearance.

35:08 It's got the soft all-wheel drive.

35:10 And I love seeing a car that still got so much

35:13 life in it be completely turned around and good to go again.

35:17 And by doing it now, it's very clear why people don't bother.

35:20 This is honestly like a three grand car, right?

35:22 You can pick this up for like three grand.

35:24 And not including labor.

35:26 I think all this work was honestly like pushing five to six.

35:30 LIKE FIVE MORE THAN DOUBLE THE VALUE OF THE thing to try and fix it.

35:36 You know, we just got lucky that all

35:37 the parts are good and it drives fantastically now.

35:40 Hey, we're doing our bit keeping these old cars on the road, eh?

35:43 But now that it's all up and running, mate, we can get the data.

35:46 the 0 to 60 km an hour cuz that's residential speeds.

35:50 The G-forces and the fuelboard.

35:51 Let's figure it out.

35:53 What kind of info are we going to get from this thing?

35:55 So, it's a 2 and 1/2 L 4 cylinder,

35:57 which is funny to think that it's basically half of a 5 L V8.

36:02 It's not slow.

36:03 I wouldn't call it fast or powerful.

36:06 up the top.

36:07 You know, it's all V8s and performance, big engine stuff,

36:10 and it gets down to goobers and Dennis's

36:13 and donkeys and let's SEE WHAT THE X-TRAILS GOT.

36:21 REALLY, it is an honor and a privilege to be

36:23 hard launching James' car now that it's my car.

36:26 So, I I always thought I had plenty of power.

36:28 Let's see what it's got.

36:30 Oh, yeah.

36:34 Jeez.

36:35 Ooh.

36:37 Ooh.

36:38 That's pretty stinking decent.

36:40 What, mate?

36:43 We might break into the threes.

36:49 OH, YEAH.

36:51 YEAH, [screaming] we're in the threes.

36:53 [laughter] [crying] James's X trial.

36:59 What the stink?

37:00 I'm going to be really brutal this time.

37:02 All right.

37:05 What was that?

37:08 Yeah.

37:09 [laughter] WOW.

37:11 [screaming] WICKED.

37:12 ARE WE GOING TO DO A 38?

37:15 A 38.

37:23 Oh, slightly slower.

37:31 [laughter] I'm going to call that good.

37:36 That's epic.

37:38 3.84.

37:41 [laughter] It beat A BAR FALCON.

37:44 LOOK, IT BEAT A BAR FALCON.

37:46 ONLY JUST, BUT IT DID IT.

37:47 And it's up around like 5 L Jeffy stuff.

37:51 Now, the reason is is because it's manual and [music] you

37:54 can just dump it and have full control over the gears.

37:57 And it's also how the power is transferred.

37:59 with an automatic, you got a big torque converter full of fluid,

38:02 like a big tumble dryer, and you know, manuals are just clutch plates going.

38:06 So, that's honestly why when I finally get a Baron motor with a manual on it,

38:10 it's going to slap this whole board, I'm telling you.

38:12 But wow, from a hard launch, it gets going.

38:15 I wonder why James drove it so hard.

38:17 And the GeForces 0.66.

38:22 I mean, it's alongside things with actual performance

38:24 and just maniacal all-wheel drive things and Tony.

38:28 [laughter] Freaking Tony.

38:31 What an idiot.

38:32 But yeah, that's all drives for you.

38:33 They're just they're grabby.

38:35 They're grabby off the get- go and they really shove you into the seat.

38:38 A junk.

38:38 I just looked back at the footage.

38:40 No, it's actually seven four.

38:46 Oh, no.

38:49 Uh uh and smaller engine always wins.

38:54 It's now number one.

38:56 It's tied for the top, but with such a tiny engine to get that out of it.

39:00 I'll I'll I'll fix that later.

39:02 You know what that says?

39:04 Well, what I'm really curious about is um yeah,

39:07 how much fuel does this thing use?

39:09 Um all my staff members get fuel cards.

39:11 It's the least I can do for him.

39:13 And James tells me right off the bat, it's not good.

39:17 9.21.

39:18 21 lers per 100 ks.

39:21 Uh, so it's almost as bad as a 5 1/2 L Mercedes CLS.

39:26 It's slightly worse than a 3 and 1/2 L V6 Magna Boat.

39:30 It's actually pretty hideous.

39:32 [laughter] And keep in mind, I'm babying these.

39:36 I'm driving them as economically as possible.

39:39 And manuals use less fuel.

39:40 By the way, no air con was on.

39:42 It's 42° in this building at the moment.

39:45 And another kind of reason why people are

39:47 kind of getting away from these and nowhere

39:49 near as safe as modern cars and just horrific on feel compared to modern cars,

39:54 but this is just old school manual.

39:55 You put it in gear and you go down the road.

39:58 This is the kind of car that's going away where nothing's tracking you.

40:01 It's dead simple.

40:02 There's no intelligence whatsoever.

40:04 Nothing.

40:05 It's got air con, a heater, and a dingle stick.

40:07 And that's what my folks are after.

40:09 They just want something simple and easy.

40:11 And I love seeing cars that still got life left them to go out and hit it again.

40:15 So, here's to many more years from James' old X-Tra.

40:19 Now, me mom and Gaz's and good luck to James with his CVT.

40:23 Oops.

40:23 What did I say?

40:28 [music]