the 105 will be around for another 20yrs now,i have have one to they are so reliable
Positive to the ridiculous. This is what was giving you your two wheel drive only
those of you who have been following the Land Cruiser 105 build in Africa will know that at this very moment the
This part first part the restoration part of the build is complete
And in fact I have now got the t-shirt and in fact got that cap as well the guys in the workshop
They all signed my t-shirt and this really nice cap from snowman's
Okay, so guys I'm starting this video by thanking you for your immense effort patience and enthusiasm
It's been fantastic and everybody signed the t-shirt except Paul Marsh
Sign his name wrong
It's Paul smarsh
I'm Andrew st. Pierre White join me as I share my passion for
Four-wheel drive trucks and traveling to the remotest parts the world
What I have here are the costings now. I'd like to present this in the following way
yes, I was sponsored and
donated
Parts, I was also
sponsored some labor from snowman's
Paul
Gave me his time
But I want to present this not exactly what happened to me
But what might happen to you given the lessons that we have all learnt
We just spoke about the old job taking nine days
But the little things we found on the gearbox modification the radiator
Having electrical on not the viscous the aircon condenser was never repaired or looked at
If you'd if the previous guy kept a car standard and repaired as it should be you
could actually cut four days of
What we spend on this car, so please
Extend it sent your car to someone that knows how it works and keep it standard TheaterWorks
Know all guys know what they do now firstly I bought the vehicle blind
That's a very very important thing because had I not bought if I had not bought the vehicle
Blind I wouldn't bought that vehicle
I
would have seen those free wheel hubs and I said what's going on with the transfer box because if you do that the car won't
Drive anywhere. What have you done with the transfer box?
Nope, I would have figured out this car kind or driving driven in for Drive. I would have walked away that question
had poor or
Your bear looked at the engine they would have said to me it's been butchered walk fingers in supermarkets been butchered
But I didn't have bought it blind. So which means
that I
Had to spend a lot more time effort and money to get it, right
had I been an ordinary chap just
building a vehicle in Africa and
Buying it blind and hoping for the best
Where would I actually be right now?
Would I be crying so we're gonna do now is that I just go through the list of everything
Everything we've put it basically. Okay. Let's go as fast as we can air cleaner water bottle engine mounts
Clutch, these are transfer gearbox parts
and gearbox and gearbox parts brake hoses
injectors
glow plugs
That's also gearbox. All the suspension bushes. Tire lens gearbox mount brakes for the hand brake idler pulley for the
aircon
front hubs
wheel
Bearings that's the top of the CG joints also all those top and bottom of the swivel bearings there
water pump
heater hoses
cooling hoses alternator exhaust manifold all the belts
We've just improved that we don't need to change that. We've just improve the manifold premenopause
It was fine. But we just improve it. That's then I'm gonna take home for as a paperweight
Okay
All right. There's a that's in the trans lock Spencer transitive center differential
so it's supposed to supposed to fit like that and they're supposed to
Anyway brake pads power steering pump half shafts and CV joints
Master cylinders clutch master cylinder. I mean this of course at the back of this did we do the master cylinder clutch?
No cylinder, normally we overhaul them with a new seal kit. Yep
Okay, and the same with the starter motor you won't see it here
Right that's been pulled apart in the context of the main things. Right? And those on yours are perfect
So we just hang them up lubricated
It's put it. Okay, and that's harder for school when they change the seals on the swivel housing
Okay, you know it's got that nice shiny ball. Yes one axle
Yes, and there's a soft like a felt seal like this holes with a rubber seal. Oh and that's been replaced
comes in the Cape which is
Okay to rent a machine with these same thing part. This is all part. Yeah. Yes, okay
That's it
Then of course the springs you can't see them from where the carrier Springs brake discs
That's a lot of kittens yeah a lot of kids the costings here I've done it in two separate ways
The costs had I been to Africa to look at a vehicle being judgmental
Purchased a better vehicle. Yes for more money than I spent but still
bought a better vehicle and needed less
doing on it to get it, right and
The additional expense that I had to incur and a lot of those expenses I have to say were not sponsored
I had to pay for them out of my own pocket. For example, all the gearbox work all the radiator work
Quite a bit of it. Okay, so I'm gonna go through the spreadsheet
now
to explain the costs
But then you can understand how much it takes to go through a car. These are mostly parts that would wear
I mean, you know your belts your hoses
Pushes that in the tighten the life of a car you'd expect to change these what we trying to achieve here as a baseline
on this vehicle that you can go forward knowing the basic parts that wear out have being changed all
so right now I've got a list of
Parts and everything here, but I'm not going to go through that in any detail
What I'm going to do is I'm going to look at this part from here
I'm going to these are the terrain tamer parts. These are
Driveline parts and engine parts now these two columns
okay, this is
Parts and work and extras where it says extras. That means that those items
Were very specific to my vehicle
You see if I had actually mean at Africa and expected the vehicle. I
Probably wouldn't have had any of these extra costs at all. Maybe none of them now
Some may have asked why didn't I ask Paul to go and look at it for me?
Well, very very simple. I wanted a 105 diesel
I looked for six months on three websites
The three best websites in South Africa for finding used car and I found one
this one in
six months if I hadn't bought it blind in other words pick up the phone and say I want it I
Wouldn't look at it and we wouldn't have done this and I wouldn't have a vehicle
There was no choice. So here's a little word that if you're going to get poor and Paul does offer this service to
Build you a vehicle in Africa what you have to do, and I'm not speaking for Paul
But this is how I see it. You have to give him the money
You have to give him the money and say Paul there
It is find something because what he'll do is he will do exactly the same as I did
He will look at all the websites and here's got a lot more contacts
because he's right there and
When he sees a vehicle
He will go look at it buy it if he cannot look at it buy it
He can't look at it and phone you and say what do you think?
Because by the time you've said yes, I'll take it. Somebody else has bought it
That's the trouble and it's the trouble with 105 Diesel's and it's the trouble with
Troop carriers now in South Africa, you cannot buy troop carriers that no longer sell them
There was a very short window of about two years
Two and half years where their sole troop carriers in very small numbers in South Africa
so if you want a troop carrier and so in South Africa or even a 105 diesel and
Probably a few other models alone cruiser to specific models where you literally have to be
with your
Money in hand go. Yes. No, if it's a yes and given the money now, we're going to discuss what
happened
Engine to drive. These are terrain tamer parts
These figures are in Australian dollars multiply them by 10 to get South African rands
Okay, there they are there and you can see terrain tamer parts
$9,800 of all the parts of which
6105 dollars
were either items that I replaced because I which given them by
Terrain tamer all those parts that I needed to fit because of the extraordinary
Condition of the 105 languages that I bought here again are more figures
labor was
2548 expect to spend that amount of money if you're buying a good condition landcruiser and you want it refurbished
Mechanically, I spent an extra one thousand six hundred ninety dollars because of the mess that I had to deal with with mine
So total labor costs here again
Six thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars labor costs and an additional four thousand three hundred dollars labor costs
again, because of the
extraordinary
Circumstances we found ourselves under so total labor costs. Now. Let's now have a look at the summary
This is really what matters I paid
$15,000 for the car
okay, and
Down here are the figures. I spent if I had bought a vehicle in good condition
Not like the one I bought I would have probably spent thirty one thousand dollars in total
Including the cost of the vehicle
To get where I am now
Because of the mess my vehicle was in
Those are the extra fees those little guys know what they're doing
It is about keeping the car actually the one you're gonna buy
It really needs to be a standard as possible the mom who's driven it to school embankment
So in other words an extra ten thousand dollars, it would have cost me
had I
taken the exact risk that I took but I wasn't sponsored everything I would be sitting now with
having spent forty one thousand dollars on
weather with a really good language of 105
Yes, 1998 model. Is that a good deal?
That's a lot
If you're there
You know, what I'm trying to do here is be realistic I've tried to
present things exactly as they are but what I've got here is
Is I've spent a lot more in this vehicle. Then I should have but now here's the difference. I
spent
$15,000 on a vehicle that was not in good condition if you were to purchase a 105 a
Newer model 105 written better condition untouched unchanged in
Good running order with a good service history. You wouldn't pay 150,000 for it. You would probably pay
250,000 for it and guess what you are in exactly the same position money was
41,000 which one would be better my one or one that was in better condition. I
Think the one in better condition the amount at the end of the day the spend in the end of the day is
Pretty much the same
What would a new Land Cruiser cost me
Realistically the cheapest Land Cruiser station wagon in Australia at the moment
costs eighty six thousand dollars
Okay, and eighty six thousand dollars for a brand new Land Cruisers?
You're talking a little and a half for a twenty year old one you can now decide from that weather
How we do is it worth buying annual?
In South Africa
The new Land Cruiser is not 86,000
But it's a hundred
1.2 million
That's what it costs in South Africa for a brand new station wagon Land Cruiser that's the 200 so now it's obviously ridiculous
But what could you get for four hundred and ten thousand rands in Africa?
You could get a pretty good 76 series with
100,000 good condition. Yes, you could so now here's the thing
I
Could I have spent forty one thousand dollars buying a vehicle like this and rebuilding it or I could buy a newer vehicle?
Not the 105 the 105 is to me far nicer than the 76 by a long long way
That's just me. Okay, the 76 is fantastic. You can get it there with the same engine
You can also get it with a v8 there, but they're a lot more expensive
so let's compare the 105 with the 76 in Africa you can get one of those for about
450 with a hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand kilometers on us better condition that what I've got here
Sure, it's much newer
so is it worth spending forty-one thousand on a 105 Land Cruiser in South Africa you
Decide you decide
I'm very pleased with where I am now because I realized that actually I would prefer a 105 then a
76
Did I get lucky?
No
Not with the vehicle by did I get lucky with the expertise. No question about it
either way, I
Mean because of the expertise I should say. I've got a very very well built and
This is a reliable vehicle. So I hope that gives you an idea of
what we've been through and
what you can possibly
do
If you wanted to build your own
Land Cruiser and leave it in Africa and explore Africa at will and that's what Paul does as his specialty business
The schlock is also known for its dust in some countries they call it all
Thus just come across the Oasis and actually it's quite important that you understand that this water is very valuable to the locals around
the last thing we want to do is get in here with our soap suds and
contaminate the water
fantastic Oh
Tangier on that way
People's Overland vehicles
for people in Africa, and so
Contact him and say what can you do for me? What is available and he will answer all the questions for you
Everything is sorted. He's got dozens of clients that do that with him
So he's the guy in Africa you want to do that in Australia?
I'm the guy I'd do that here in Western Australia. I build vehicles under my company
autograph overland I
build them here in Australia
and those customers are actually building some right now some stunning Land Cruiser troop carriers right now and
here in Australia and
People come and they but the by the vehicle and they leave them here and they come once a year to explore this amazing country
just because actually the same in Africa but Paul Paul does that from now the videos go to the
That basically the summary of the whole thing the I've got a nice tent with a lovely awning
I've got a kitchen system in the back courtesy of
Quick pitch. I'm still pretty cheap pleased with it. I really am very pleased and my only disappointment right now is that
Tomorrow, I'll go back home to my home in Perth and I have to leave it here
It's being stored in Pretoria. Now, you can't borrow it and
it'll be parked and
When I come back in July to do the electrical installation and
completing the camping installation in the landcruiser
I will be in Cape Town and then heading up to Zambia where I'll be meeting up with Gwyn and
We'll be to Zambia and Malawi
2020
Well, I'll see you in the next video when we put on all the tents and stuff
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