dang it we got a different engine code [Music]
we're broke this week this is one we haven't had in a while get this fixed last time we had to get
the engine opened up and they ended up stripping two of the bolts which we got afterwards so we
still have extra bolts we still have an exact spare part of this still not good to see is it
critical um I'll try to clear it and we'll see if it comes back no I mean it's hard to say if
it's critical because last time we had to change the oil cooler filter housing which is like inside
the engine in the v in there is the unit which switches the temperature between the oil and the
coolant and we did that in Peru yeah but a year ago we were in such a rush to fix it at the time
that we actually got a whole another unit right we have two and had it installed before a visitor
was able to Caleb brought it to bring down the other one that we had ordered for cheaper so we
do have an extra one but it might not be that yeah but I did notice that we're getting quite
less coolant than we're supposed to have we have a ton of coolant in the trunk so it's not critical
in regards to running out currently but if it was that engine oil cooler filter housing
would be lower that would explain where the coolant as well well as the oil seems a bit
lower than it should be but the spot that it's leaking it doesn't look the exact same
I mean it's dry underneath that part of the engine which is kind of like the center um is where it
was leaking last time and it would drip oil out of the engine and it would flow over the transmission
it did look like the transmission is like a little wet a little weird looking
I don't know but we were trying to go get an oil change today anyway exactly why the engine could
happen because we need an oil change too and it's just like oil pumps working extra hard so I think
that is the first step is just getting oil change which we knew we needed we stopped by a place that
said Jeep and Dodge and oh actually you gotta go to the the town two hours up ahead of course
laid in see how this goes so the first step is get an oil change and the Second Step would
be the last time when he went to install it he said your oil pressure sensor isn't actually the
right thing took it out of the other spare part so if it really is just that oil pressure sensor
but we do have the oil cooler that's the same as in the Jeep though yeah that might be something
you can get down here oh what a great way to start the day we weren't even gonna film today
but of course it never happens the way you think it will so last night we stayed at a
place it's kind of a lake it's it's more like a flooded River because of the dam
it's a really beautiful spot and we went to the dam the last time which really really
interesting the lake look at somebody right now are you serious why are you serious why are you
be 10 gram complaining playing it too yeah we took them with us and we played
in there and then and also there's Wi-Fi for us to work it was pretty good it was
it was really what we needed quiet not a lot of Nobody Free shower and Wi-Fi
now we're heading to the mechanic and we actually don't have we do have a spot picked out data
supposed to be that guy six hour drive I believe
I still haven't had an engine code come back up so that's
good good news all right well we'll see you guys at the mechanic [Music]
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good luck with the registration oh yeah I think they're gonna do it today but yeah I'm worried
about this oil pressure but he said he can hook up his fancy scanner and check it out
yep they're going to do the oil change we've already pulled into the shop and
I've got other things I'm also doing at the same time trying to get some stuff done I
have to import the next video unfortunately we have another code coming up on the van
and it's the oil pressure sensor code again we've already got this fixed in Peru so it kind of
sucks that it's coming up again but it looks like these guys are super friendly super nice and they
really want to help us out which is nice there's been a couple people just like walking by taking
pictures of the van which is kind of funny and they're making space for us now Danny said that
they don't they didn't actually have time or space to help us but they said they would just because
they're nice I bet he started the conversation with I'm a traveler which I'm sure helps his
uh odds so I took somebody to engram out Graham in the backpack sabrita walking with me I think we're
just gonna go find a sunny grassy spot to sit down until they're done this oil change [Music]
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he thinks the left side ball joint is the cause of the clock and then it looks like the CV half
shaft here has a cut look at that oh my God but he thinks that half shaft issue will be fine
for two or three months which is when we're thinking to head back to the States anyway
really good to get these guys looking at this they know everything about
Mopar Jeep Dodge these things we just installed are looking great [Music]
I don't want this t-shirt yeah 272 that's like like six bucks yeah we just learned so much
about the state of Advanced Health basically things are looking good he's pretty sure that
clack noise that has been driving us crazy for months is the lower ball joint on the
left side in Brazil it's called a people so we're gonna try to get that he said it might only last
like a week or a month and then if it breaks the tire would go boom and that would be terrible so
try to find the lower ball joint when we get over nearer to Sao bottle and
Rio be careful about that but I think the the main Revelation was you know he checked the
engine mount he said yeah it looks you know like the the rubber's bad we gotta change we knew this
we already got it in the states we can't get it here yet but the main Revelation was the CV half
shaft is leaking grease like a lot of Grease has fallen out of it and it looks like it's the one
that we've changed most recently as well which is kind of annoying um my parents brought it in
their luggage to Argentina when we were there we had to pay a grip of taxes on it I think we paid
about half the price of the the part in taxes that we didn't know about that's something good the
Clack might be resolved if that's all it is that would be really awesome you know this morning we
were getting those oil pressure sensor lights two different ones another one came up when we rolled
in and it could just be that the oil change was so far gone 9900 miles synthetic oil so you know
ten thousand miles is like the upper end of how long you want to wait so he's said like the oil
was ready to be changed but it wasn't like we were messing up the engine by its current state it was
it was time to change it you know so he put in the Mopar recommended uh synthetic oil the Mopar
places have the fancy scanner that is geared towards this vehicle can act all the systems of
the people aren't you dongle here is great but it can't access all the same systems that theirs can
tell um pressure sensor is okay in the van and it was just that the oil was so far gone so
that's good the other thing they could check with that scanner is we have this light that's been on
for a while about the tire pressure monitoring system sometimes it goes on sometimes it comes
off but he was able to tell which sensor needs to be changed he still didn't have it I don't think
we can even get it here in South America because it's specific to the model of vehicle even though
this is a mobile place they have the same part for other Mopar Vehicles they don't have it so
I at least know which one it is it's the driver's side wheel the front left wheel that has a TPMS
sensor that's gone bad so you know we learned a lot uh we got the oil change done the state
of the van we've got a solid check except for that ball joint when I rolled in they said they
weren't going to be able to do it today they said we only work on appointment but they made
an exception because we're Travelers and at the end they took a picture with us we all took a
group picture that was really cute and the whole time somebody said Graham and I were sitting in
the waiting area there was one lady that just kept on circling us and then telling everybody
around like look there's a dog over there and then like every like five minutes she would
come and be like Oh cutie Cutie into such pets and pens underneath that another really great
the hood mechanic that was really like looking over the man the most was Venezuelan so Danny
was able to speak to speak to him in Spanish so that is really good because honestly I I don't
understand what they're saying most of the time unless I say like I don't speak Portuguese can
you speak Spanish then I understand what they're saying so and I can't even imagine trying to learn
Portuguese terms because it was already hard enough to turn learn Spanish man terms so yeah
we had to learn in Argentina what what this is called of course the part we had to change was
called a barbecue they're so big on barbecues over there I want to get a snack I want to just pick up
some food because yeah just sitting there like waiting and like even like I didn't even know if
they were gonna do it today and then you're just sitting there like is it gonna work out is there
gonna be some you know it's really stressful and I just want to get some food not to cook
and or do dishes and just have a love reward for our hard work today most delicious and hot
I'm already overly stoked because the table automatically has Sriracha on it oh no
third free campsite here in Brazil it's a park next to a lake and it's not a traditional place
to spend the night but the city allows it and there are free public restrooms as well
as a walking path and a free outdoor gym Brazil's infrastructure is so nice and by the way we found
the spot on eye Overlander oh we're just here taking a walk with the dog and look what's there
cutie capifaras
seems like it's pretty normal just to walk a dog right by him
somebody's actually being really good too
like I probably don't want to walk up too close to him but I mean I want to but I probably shouldn't
these things are here
wow so friends and some burrito being super good [Music] Buena chica
uh she's so good huh it's been really really good
nobody else walking by is even looking at these [Music]
the spot last night was super quiet and we thought we'd take advantage of the walking
path with some Rita before heading out on a long driving day ready to head out yeah
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oh yes the traditional foods of my people the Crunch bar
I like white chocolate nobody thinks it's terrible but I'm going with some of these guys over here
got one with meat in it and this is called a hamburger I wonder what it's really like
she looks like a hamburger inside of this thing
yeah we're trying to get six hours across Brazil today to a cool area this area is kind of flat
I don't know if it'll be less humid there but there's some canyons and mountains of cool stuff
waterfalls tons of waterfalls yeah we did get that engine code again for the oil pressure sensor
the third time we've had it switched first time was in Guatemala just changed the whole
oil pump because we didn't know if it was just the oil pump or just the sensor second time
was able to verify with his fancy scanner that it was just the sensor not the actual oil pump
this will be the third time so it's kind of an air pro part of the ProMaster engine the meant
to Star engine and unfortunately the oil pressure sensor is inside the intake manifold so you gotta
open up the engine I'm gonna have to figure out how to get this the ball joint on the driver's
side and we got to figure this stuff out but I gotta check in the truck while we have too
maybe we have some of this stuff it's been a while since we've gated it so the craziest thing is that
Italians are all in the in this which I don't really know
I'm trying to just pretend in Spanish differently I can understand a lot of it but we got Google
translate with the dictionary downloaded to our phones so we can always like Google translate
something really quickly I want to show you something here in Brazil it's called marami dish
oops so it's spelled like Marmite and then an X marmatex apparently what it is is kind of like a
lunch like a boxed lunch so it's meant to be to go but so this is four dollars here let's see what's
in here so first thing we got here on the side was that an onion I think it's an orange please be
looks like they put some Parmesan on top oh this might be those um that's the protein
and then rice on the bottom nice pretty simple but looks effective
is it gonna keep you full I wasn't even hungry yet I just smelled it over there
oh in the bottom it looks like there's some sauce too like a stew in there oh with beans
yeah quick and easy four bucks in and out the door nice we'll take it Bon Appetit gracias oh
my gosh we just found out something that we're like worrying now should we have even come to
Brazil like we've gotten gas three times now and all three times we figured we were getting normal
gasoline like everywhere else in the world but it turns out the gasoline we've been getting is 30
ethanol we kind of thought something was different there's a whole pump just for ethanol you can get
100 ethanol so Danny started researching it and it turns out that India and Brazil are two
countries that are really going hard on this like sugarcane ethanol switching engines to ethanol
engines and when they do it like this they can be both ethanol and gasoline they believe that
this is better for the environment the waste is just agricultural waste and you don't know
either way we haven't researched it far enough to figure out either way we have no opinion on it
but we didn't realize that they were doing that to the gasoline as well Danny got a text message
from one of our friends who's also in a ProMaster and he said so what are you guys doing about the
gasoline and we were like what are you talking about gasoline in Brazil is like 30 ethanol
so then of course you start researching and it's like all of a sudden are you damaging
your engine because you're getting gasoline with 30 ethanol and long story short it seems
like we are not damaging the engine but if we were here for a very long time we would
have to decide whether or not we wanted to get an engine that was compatible with the I guess
and all that they have here in Brazil right now the way that we're using the gasoline it's
just a lower fuel efficiency so long term it would damage the engine eventually but
we're not here for that long so we're thinking that it'll be okay for the month or two that
we're here it's kind of crazy that the gas prices here are still pretty expensive like so much more
than Argentina and it's actually less gasoline and and worse for our engine and we were so worried
because we have just gotten this engine code about the oil pressure sensor so we were like is this
the reason stuff like that but I don't think it was the reason but it's just another thing that's
happening with the van we found a spot for the night here and we better close this out before
something else pops up about the van let me know what you think about the mechanic in Brazil and
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