come join us on another adventure as we continue our journey throughout Spain we take Fergus
offroading through the desert explore some abandoned cave site homes and we do some van
life duties as always Fergus gives us a little trouble which needs to be taken care of quickly
will this be the end of our world home and weeds
so let's go to our first destination which is like an hour away after rain in the Pyrenees
for like two weeks I got a cold so I don't feel great right now and meaning a tiny van
doesn't really help where you can't just climb it you have to make the bed and move stuff
around being sick in a tiny van is not very convenient [Music]
so we have made it to our first destination of today so Google Maps it'll take like an
hour and 20 something minutes it took us two hours yep two hours of non-stop driving these
old Volkswagens are very slow
we are leaving the desk [Music]
and then we are going to go to the nearest town do our shop and do the laundry get water
empty water have a shower so we're literally going to do everything that is not it's not
the nice side of Van life so it needs to be done so we stopped off here at this campervan
area where you can empty the toilets but right behind us we have found these little caves
so we are going to go up and explore these kids
Clear Lake caves but people used to live here and they are absolutely crazy so in this area
in all these houses here in the caves there were actually 50 families living here and
I'm not too sure why but in the 19th but in the 1960s I did trivia in the 1960s they were
forced to abandon these houses get all take all of their belongings with them and they
were re-housed somewhere in the town because those houses built and the houses the houses
were given on a draw basis I know but what if they wanted to stay here they were forced
to leave so we're going into the last house of all the way houses that you can visit this
wood is cool oh hi hello
yeah I have one [Music]
like
these rooms are so small I'm no giant but here we have three or four inches above your
head in certain places
so just outside of these caves we found this place to empty our toilet so before going
to tile to do all our shopping laundry and all that we are going to empty toilet here
not the most glamorous part of Van life but has to be done
[Music] supermarket [Music]
so now it's time to go and do some laundry and he's getting the pillowcases and we have
our clothes ready to go
so that's the Washington over there next stop is the shower okay so we have arrived to the
petrol station and I've packed up all my stuff and now it's time to have a shower foreign
you have this little common area which is the sinks and then here we have shower one
which is mine let's see
so I have a little area here to get changed um
I brought flip-flops with me because there's no way I'm slipping on that
it's not too bad it's not the best shower I've been in but it's not the worst definitely
not the worst
I know how you work this is oh [Music] that was very much needed I had so much better
[Music] okay oh and it's dark already I hate this one winter van life [Music] so we've
made it to our park up tonight you see Fergus is there behind us it's this little car park
we actually hear earlier on today where the kios are up there we parked up here for tonight
so we're gonna wrap up our next YouTube video and hopefully get that uploaded this weekend
so for now time to turn this van into night mode head to bed and we'll catch you in the
morning so we have just left the caves in algidas and we're making our way to olide
but Shane is finding the brake pedal very soft so we are in the hunt foreign
there oh my God we're about to take off so we got our brake fluid it was the last one
on the Shelf it was actually behind the counter Volkswagen literally thinking when they designed
this it's such an awkward spot
now the pedal is Rock Solid so we have common to the town of olide and we're going to go
and check out the castle that it has I currently have my bag on the back with the laptop in
it uploading this week's video so make sure you have already checked that out but hey
this video goes live
foreign
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everything just to make sure we're good for the jewelry opened up the coolant and it was
full of oil so that is a sign that either the head gasket is gone or going or is the
Divine cooler is leaking oil into the coolant so we've had to change our plants today we
have made it all the way from Pamplona up north to Balboa where we are standing out
till we get the van sorted so last night we arrived here Italy it should have took us
three hours it actually took us like six because we're driving slow as far as and stopping
every half an hour or whatever just to check the oil and we got here last night and I took
some bits apart and I bypassed oil cooler so now I've taken a four spin let it warm
up and see is there any more oil in the coolant so if there's no oil that means that the oil
cooler is the issue on fingers crossed that it is because that is an easy effect just
one bolt and we can slide that on if it's not dying filler then it's more likely going
to be the head gasket and I'm going to check for that there now but the weather has taken
a tool for the worst we have no place to work on the van outside and it's absolutely flashy
green so now I mean these are just industrial estate trying to get some cover but I'm going
to open up the engine and see what it's like I got absolutely soaked and my jumper I make
shorts are soaking uh so open the coolant no oil which is a good thing and then I revve
the engine and everything and there's no like bubbles coming up through it it's just vibrating
and no golfers there so that looks like it's not the head gasket so let's go and order
an oil cooler that should be here in a couple of days and then we can get that swapped out
and fingers crossed that is the issue
come on so if I want to change the oil pillar I would have to pay a 27 spanner so I've given
this hardware store so I'm going to look for 27 spanner hopefully that's all I need
[Music] got my spanner it is still action real now it's time to order the idea [Music]
so right now we're ordering the parts to fix the van and hopefully they'll be here tomorrow
I think that if I order in the next 36 minutes it'll leave today so I better hurry [Music]
oil change I don't have anything to protect the oil so I'm using this old jug of oil I'm
going to cut a hole in it and we'll let the oil drop into it so we are hoping that this
guy here is the issue so what I've done here is I bypass this with this socket so that
means that there's no coolant running through that and it is still like a some oil in it
but nowhere near as much as what it was the first day when we found it [Music] here it
is
so there's some oil in the coolant so we're drain the coolant tank and for that we got
this old fish pump for a clean note fish tanks
[Music] so we've got this jug of water to put the oil in it
so I'll show you today's garage it's this Supermarket full of cars how much is in this
corner so this is Shane's garage today not like the one in Ireland but it'll have to
do the job hey the oil filter is ready to come out
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so oil filter is off now we have to change the oil cooler I need my brand new 27 Banner
[Music] wow
so what's gone then huh
it seems to be stumped 86 mm-hmm so that could be 40 years old oh my God
on the O-ring of the filter
is it hard to put it on foreign [Music]
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yeah it was dirty okay so everything is done now everything's tidded away we have like
four rubbish bags full of stuff that have to go to the
a good time to warm up and then once we get there we can
check what where the engine is so so far so good there's no lights on the capture gauge
is sitting properly so fingers crossed every all right I'm gonna stop now in a few minutes
hit that like button to wish us luck so that there's no oil in the coolant oh
so
yes
we have just dropped everything at that clean point and now it's time to clean this van
because it's three days yeah I think it's the biggest mess ever ever since we find the
oil and the curlers everything was just everyone everywhere yeah that's a bad thing on this
one the way the ancient is at the back and then the bear is on top of it because you
have to take like everything out
this man is an absolute disgrace where you're back in the car park I am just tidying everything
away had another look at the engine all is seeming good no oil in the coolant and we
drove for about nearly 40 minutes today no island in the coolant oil levels look good
temperature hand is working good so did manage to spill some oil on our rug [Music] just
like that the van in the back are looking good as new so fingers crossed everything
is going smooth with the engine tomorrow we'll hit the road again