Okay, okie dokie, it's time for another episode of ‘Ask Jase’.
Okay, fair enough, too easy, because the questions keep flowing in.
It's bloody awesome, isn't it?
So alright, so here we go.
We got Harley D. Harley D. How you going, mate, sounds good.
Your name that is, anyway he goes, Harley D., ‘Hi Jase.
What rustproofing do you get done to your vehicles?’
Okay, what rustproofing?
Okay that's a really good question.
Okay so, when I get the vehicle new, and then straight in she'll get... they use this like
a tech tool product. It's like a wax-based, sort of rustproofing.
It's like very waxy and fluid.
And you spray it on and it leaves this sort of tacky finish, and the wax helps to hold it there.
So you use that and that gets sprayed into all the cavities.
But first before they do that is they give it a good clean, and they chassis black everything.
So they use that really black chassis, sort of tar-based, black stuff.
I'm not a technical expert, but it's that black, chassis black.
That's what we call it.
You spray it in underneath, and they shove that stuff everywhere.
All right, so they're spraying it on the--you know, if you've got a long-range tank under
there, you could spray some on that as well.
Spray it all over your chassis and even your suspension component.
Even on the back side of your bull bar and all that sort of area, your rear bar, so you
get that chassis black everywhere.
In your wheel arches and all that sort of stuff, okay?
(Don't put it on your brakes, by the way.)
And then when they've done that, they'll then stick that sort of tacky honey wax-base liquid.
And it's a clear or a brownie looking stuff, and they shove that into the into the cavities.
You might want to just give it a quick squirt in the bottom of your door sills, places like
that, but mainly you've got to look for those areas where you know the sand and the salt
water can sit.
And then get them to shove it in there.
It costs a little bit of money, like you've got to spend a little bit of money, but yeah
you're prepared to do it to look after your investment.
Now every time I go out, the stone chips come through, all the stones, dirt roads, thousands
of kilometres, it can wear all that stuff off.
So as soon as I come back from a trip, in she goes.
It gets gurneyed down.
They clean it all down, and then they redo it.
They freshen it all up and chassis black it again.
And that will be ready for the next trip and so on and so on.
So remember you got to keep repeating the process, and that's what can stop the rust,
especially if you're doing a lot of beach work.
So hopefully that helps you, Harley D. Okay so we got another one here.
Now this guy he hasn't put his name.
So he's just it says here ‘All 4 Adventure YouTube Fan’.
Ok so he's obviously been watching All 4 Adventure YouTube channel, so there's a truckload of
stuff on there.
Like I mean truckloads, it's a massive channel.
I think there's a nearly 100,000 subscribers.
So if you haven't, subscribe to that one.
So the All 4 Adventure YouTube fan asks, ‘Jase, what do you guys do for showers whilst away,
and do you guys do any clothes washing on longer remote trips?’
Ok so first of all, Simon and I don't have a shower together.
That's a definite ‘no’.
So if you're asking that question, yeah well, we don't, all right.
Generally we don't, if we pull into a campground or somewhere like that and there's a shower
there, we'll use it.
But most of the time, we don't.
I'm not getting the shower out or you know, I like to have a bit of a bath or a tub in
the creek, mate.
You got a creek. You go through a crossing.
We generally pull over to the side sometimes when we got a bit of time and quickly go down
into the creek.
Simon's constantly down in the creek there shaving his head.
How do you think he keeps it all shiny and bald all the time?
He's got to shave it.
So yeah, we go down to the creek, have a bit of a tub, you know, wash up and generally
the trick would be then is to give the old shorts a bit of a tub up.
And if you've got your shirt, whip your shirt off, give it a bit of a wash.
Remember don't be using all detergents and all that crap.
I'm just talking about using the creek water.
And then you're asking clothes washing.
Well I remember a cameraman one trip, he's got the bucket and he's put the clothes, you
know, the washing powder in there.
And he's put his clothes in, and then he sealed the bucket down.
It was like one of those 20 liter tomato buckets.
Clip the lid down, chuck it on the trailer, and it sits there and rattles and apparently
washes your clothes.
And then he gives it another bit of a wash and then he rinses out and hangs it out.
Well you know the problem with that is, you gotta have a lot of water to do that stuff.
And generally we have enough water to be doing things like drinking water, cooking, and that's
about it.
We don't have time to be--we don't have the water supply to be wasted on washing clothes.
So when you're out in the bush, and you'll see our clothes get dirtier as the days go on, and
then all of a sudden we're in a clean shirt.
And then that'll get dirtier, and then we're in a clean shirt.
We try and wear the clothes a bit longer than just one day otherwise you be doing heaps
of washing in the creek or pulling in the caravan park and doing heaps of washing.
I'm not a big fan of washing clothes.
So anyway All 4 Adventure YouTube fan, who didn't put his name.
Put your name down next time, because it's great, you know, you can relay that question
back to yourself.
But yeah that's what we do out in the bush when it comes to showers and washing.
Good question by the way.
All right, next one.
With this one's from Lokkie, Lokkie T. Good on you, Lokkie, if you're watching.
‘I have a light bar to go on the front of my roof rack.
Where's the best place to run the lead to the battery?’
Ok so you get the light bar.
It's going to be mounted up on top of your roof rack, all right, so how do I run the
lead to the battery?
So first of all, a light bar requires a switching point, and it also requires power.
All right, now if you've got a ute, and you've got the roof rack on the top of the the dual-cab
ute or the single-cab ute, a good idea to run it along the roof rack and down the back
of the canopy and then go in through the chassis along that way.
Okay so you're not actually penetrating the body panel of the car.
Okay if you've got a wagon, then it gets a little bit trickier.
Okay you can run it in through the back door seal.
I have seen them do that.
But another one is you run it down the--there's where the windscreen is, near the snorkel
on the driver's side--you can bring the wire down, there's a trim there.
And you can sort of tuck it in there. A bit of sika, black sika and you tuck it in there,
and then pop it through the little slit where the front the bonnet is there.
And it'll slip in through there and then you can get power to the battery.
And then of course, you've then got to run power through the firewall to your switch.
So that's obviously only small wires.
The big power will go to the battery under the bonnet.
So hopefully that helps, Lokky, that helps you when you're wiring up your light bar or
even just little side lights.
Like I got use work lights that come off my my roof rack as well, because we use that,
Rhino-rack's got the the flat one or we can use the Pioneer tray.
And you can mount those sort of work lights because they do come in handy for when you're
in camp.
All right, so Lokky, hopefully that helps.
But if you're not confident with the whole running of the wires and all that sort of
stuff, then the guys at Battery World, they definitely know what they're doing.
So that's where I get all our trucks done.
We send them down there, and they can make it happen, mate.
So remember that one.
All righty we've got time for one more question.
Dusty, Dusty R. So Dusty if you're watching, your question is, ‘When you fish for barra
on your bait caster rods what line and pound weight do you guys use?
I don't see you use a leader on the lines.’
Wow, Dusty, we actually use leader.
Like I definitely we're definitely using leader, 110%.
Because if you're using braid... so on our little bait caster rods and then we've got
bait caster, you've got a spin rod, and then you've got the heavy gear.
So let's start with the bait caster.
The bait caster uses about 30 pound, okay?
You've got 30-40 pound.
When we're up north, we're hoping to catch the big fish, so we don't want to get busted off.
So 30 pound braid.
As you go up, a heavy spin, you might want to go up to about 50 pound.
And then the big overhead, you know if you're catching the big gear out on the reef, then
you might even want to go up to 60-80 pound, okay?
But 30 pound, like 30 and 40 pound braid, mate, it can handle some big fish, you know.
So there you go.
That's the size of the braid.
Now the leader, definitely 110%, you've got to use leader.
Leader is like the stretch point, okay?
It can handle abrasion, you know, like the snag, the rock, or the fish's gills or things like that.
All that can cut through braid really easily, but if you've got a leader, it handles that
a lot better.
Now if you want to catch the big stuff, okay and you know the fish are just jumping on
the line, then we use like 80 pound, 60-80 pound leader.
You've got to do that little Improved Albright, they call it.
I've found that to be the easiest and the best knot to join braid to leader.
Improved Albright, remember that one.
It's easy to do.
I find that knot the most durable of all knots.
But anyway, hopefully that helps, Dusty, and keep up the good work.
Keep the questions coming in, and I'll see you next time.