day six of the build and we're getting quite close to starting the engine
windscreen is done horse pipe still has to be done and the air condition
radiator condenser that still has to be done
electrics a complete fuel system is complete power steering all put back
together again air filter steel needs to go in there but we're doing very very
well I'm Andrew st. Pierre White join me as I share my passion for four-wheel
drive trucks and traveling to the remotest parts of the world
Andrew imagine you're in the bush and you've gone to some small little
workshop you really don't know how good the guys are and like here we know the
guys we trust them there's certain chicks that I always do when someone's
done a service or my car and just they absolutely are the bare-bones safety
checks so that things don't go wrong and I've seen it and I know it happened
so basically when they serviced the car that changed the oil and filter okay I
want to make sure that the drain plug at the bottom of the engine has been
properly tightened I've watched them tighten to actually feel it myself just
to make sure that's properly tight new washer and I know the world can't fall
out because you wouldn't believe it people leave that knot tight someone's
distracted it comes loose you lose all your oil and your engine seizes the next
thing is the oil filter now here the oil filter sits generally these should be
put on by hand to take the new oil filter a little bit of oil on it on the
rubber seal screw it on by hand after the guys fitted it just come and grab it
with your hands dry hands or a cloth and just make sure that that's tight by hand
you tighten it as tight as you can don't use a tool to tighten it generally
you're over tighten the filter and you can damage it the other thing once
they've put oil in the engine the engines actually got to run that all
through fill up the filter so after they started the engine in fact as the guy
starts the engine I want to make sure that the oil light goes out well
pressure comes up nothing's running out and off they've
run it for 15 to 20 seconds maybe half a minute so turn it off let the oil settle
and then check your dipstick that the oil is actually sitting on the
mark now it's actually sitting slightly high on the mark because I haven't run
this engineer and these guys know they slightly overfill it they know the
amount of oil that needs to go in this engine it's like 12 litres and when this
is run and it's checked and settled it should be exactly on the mark or top it
up so that's really really important so we've we've actually added to the fuel
filter system this car came out with two filters but on the terrain tamer product
line actually supply us this very nice flash Lube filter system it's got a
filter that takes the beautiful building that filtered down to 30 micro point 30
my crops that's right 30 my cross is basically better than the normal filter
it's also got the look Bowl that you can look in you can actually see if there's
any sediment so the first thing I'd pick up if there's a problem and you've been
driving you just filled up with fuel the cars either smoking it's not pulling
properly stop have a look in here have a look in this little Bowl here and see if
you can see any sediment maybe there's water which means that the water be on
the bottom the fuel floats on top of the water it's got a drain you can drain off
anything but really that's telling us a story it's telling us there's a problem
and the tank is probably water in the tank sometimes they mix pair of feed
with the diesel more recently in Botswana there's been sludge that'll be
that some of the Safari vehicles have picked up which really has a problem
once it gets into the injection pump so we tried to make sure that the Ford gets
into the injection pump in fact even better Ford gets into your tank now I'm
very sure that if I go to a small remote place which has got all pumps it
probably tanks that haven't been serviced there
that probably got sludge at the bottom and if you're unlucky to get that last
fill we might put all that in your tank so how do we do we prevent that you
could simply carry out a jar an empty glass jar ask the guard to put a bit of
fuel in the jar before goes in your tank and have a look at the clarity of the
fuel have a look to see if there's any sediment any separation that's going to
tell your story you can buy a filter pre-filter to funnel rake or do it drop
it into the filler what is the name of that you're talking about it's a great
very nice out so it's something I I do take actually I don't use it too often
but filter man there's my lunch man this is actually in Australia they've got
furnace what's okay something similar so it's basically a plastic funnel and when
you're going to fill up at the tank at the fuel station the fuel goes into that
funnel that separates water that separates any impurities and you'll be
surprised when you filled up your tank and you look in the funnel and you go
all that would have gone into my tank so you know it's a good habit to get into
using something like that or if you're not sure you know if you drive into a
small town ask people where the best fuel station is to use you know you and
I picked up bad feel at a good station and country in Botswana Paul and I have
come to Botswana to shoot a web series called Overland workshop do I have the
knowledge I need to go on this trip we sit and discuss various Overland and
off-road topics such as water survival which spares to carry cooking with
security handling border posts and the whole lot more we're talking over
landing one of the topics fuel contamination actually became a problem
while we were talking about it so it was not just a matter of theories but we had
a problem and we needed to solve it interesting thing is happening right now
as we're driving we've just left we put 90 liters of fuel in the back
tank we want to get to the Makati car you want to be as light as possible we
do need a reasonable amount of fuel we decided let's fill up the front tank
leave that alone back tank enough to get to the pans by the time we get there we
will be empty now because running terribly we've got two options now so
because we found that the problem is giving us this kind of like jerking
sensation while we're driving yeah it's almost like the vehicles not
getting enough fuel so what we've got is we've got a particle builder so junk
from the Bowser from their tanks have actually seen a lot of fishes
contamination well this - or - all these all this fuel
contamination or some of these movies these garages they're very old tanks and
these old tanks either have water condensation inside the tank
they don't always clean the tanks are often enough right or in very rare cases
they go there mix paraffin with the diesel to bulk it up are you gonna wait
for this to settle and you see you've to your dirt line coming there now shifted
like if it was gold how's that now you see now your chariot is do you need to
compare new filter next to put the new filter negating the one so would you say
it was high level of dirt or rather than contamination is that what you would say
is it's more dirt flying through pod so you never know but generally of busy
fuel stations gonna have a higher turnover fuel and I went and that's
potent it and we still got stuck yeah anyway so the fuel basically comes from
the tank it comes into this very nice filter system it get pumped through into
the original toyota system now it's a very similar system it's also quite a
sediment a water trap it's got a little float inside here
and the wire that comes from here will put a light on the dash if the water
becomes too much generally that never really happens too often if you looking
at problem here or if you're feeling it now you drive your car you feel it's
just not pulling the way it was two hours ago
ask yourself what have you just done I've just put fuel in probably the
problem so when you come to change the filters you know you always carry a
couple of spare filters so you've got actually four of these and you'll carry
at least two or three of these depending on where you're going how far you going
and generally have at least two of each in your vehicle at all times and you use
them up you can just replace in this situation if we had a problem we
couldn't get the flash loop Spade filters we could literally bypass it by
just swapping one of the hoses leaving this filter out and just using the
Toyota one but the advantage of having the two filters is going to be a double
he's determined to make it easy for us I think he's waiting for us to go up and
down anyway so the filter comes from the tank in through here through to this one
our new filters mean that these are both empty and you need to now get to fill
the fuel from the tank to fill up these filters and basically bleed all the air
out so what I tend to do is I take this pipe off which is going to the engine I
put my finger over the end here and I pump and as I'm pumping as you push
they're out my finger comes away so I pushed a little button down this is the
actual pump this is nice and hard now so when I push this down it pushes my the
air out I lift my finger go and I'll push my finger back and it sort of sucks
the fuel it's like if you're trying to suck from a bucket of water like a
siphon actually similar sort of setup so you do that until eventually you see the
fuel come in here and eventually bleeds itself all the way through here and now
you know the system's not got airing a little bit of air in this pipes not a
problem connect it back up and run your car and make sure that the fuel in your
tank and that's been compromised you're gonna need to blow this pipe that takes
the fuel from the tank back into the tank and drain the tank now some
aftermarket tanks don't have drains on it's criminal not to have a drain plug
on your tank because you just want to be in that situation where you picked up
bad fuel and you know I have to drop it you know I have to drop your whole tank
just because you didn't have a drain on it so if you're having most good tank
manufacturers that I know on this fish in Australia they build tanks and I know
the South Africa guys they build them with good drainage so check that we
replace the power steering pump which is attached to the front of the engine with
a new one did we need to replace it and because we did replace it now what must
we do to get the system working no we didn't need to change this it was
actually still in good condition what you can get is you actually get a kit
little seals and earrings that terrain tamer do sell and you can strip this
down and just put that kit in that's normally enough to stop this leaking
I don't touch these unless there's actually a noise follow or there's
absolutely a leak from them so if they do leak pull it apart with the seal kit
in put it back together we put a brand new one in so all the oil came out the
system and we're going to change the oil now people don't always change pass
tearing oil and it's sad because it's an oil that works just as hard as any of
the other lubricants and mechanics often get lazy to drain the system and flush
it and put new oil and it takes it's a bit of work to do it but it's so worth
doing because that all gets dark and it can start smelling the oil it's the red
dextran to automatic transmission oil okay it's right on my finger although my
fingers a bit dirty and this oil is is what's used in here or it's a cambium a
clear power steering oil depending on on what's come out from the factory because
we've put the new pump in we actually have to believe the system so to not put
strain on the system okay we jack it up we take someone in the car rotate the
steering full off left and right a number of turns just to get the air out
of the system while we keep topping it up into the reservoir here once we're
happy that we got most of the air out then the car get started and the process
gets repeated and you keep working the steering backwards and forwards to make
sure you're getting rid of all the air and once the air is bled out
then take it for a drive the next morning check it again and it's
monitored a couple of days just to make sure that the oil settles and of course
you know there are levels on this this plug and you've got a
I can read that you get a cold in a hot level okay so top of the cold level and
then of course you've got it when it's hot it's going to be to the top level
now that's really important that you make sure that when you're doing your
daily checks and we'll go through that at some stage that you absolutely make
sure the oils on level because again if it keeps dropping the level it's telling
you another story you can drive with a leak on a pastoring right around the
world as long as you top it up and it doesn't get too excessive
so really key good oil make sure it's great good parts good system going and
she's on her wheels and you can see now the back is very very high because
they've actually supplied a six hundred kilogram spring but we actually were
thinking that a four hundred probably better so this is a test with the six
hundred and even with no spare wheel and bumper on the back it's pretty obvious
to me that a six hundred is going to be excessive so we will fit a four hundred
worried you're pumping diesel we're going to God the injector is bleeding
the fuel system by pumping the top of the fuel filter I sense an engine start
countdown I'm coming on
now we're gonna put it on the left we welcome the exhaust
make sure everything underneath the vehicle is in good shape
the optional potty outside take this off you know get across so is once you've
done a big bill that's really important to go into a nut and bolt check and just
make sure nothing's being forgotten just looking carefully go through every
nut and bolt look over check the balls check the nuts check the new pipes that
have gone on there call then be driven and come back and then retightened again
just after everything settles so right now we're going to do the exhaust
we just seek a new heroes mouths have been done very nice gearbox been
redone
it's looking really good I think the key thing for any vehicle once you've done a
big build like this just to make sure you actually go and get proper test
drive done test-drive the car come back check a
check for leaks and the tree retrace your steps go every clamp that you
tightened check all the nuts and bolts check the suspension recheck the levels
it's an important time they had the gearbox and pieces afters being driven
check the level again make sure to so now at this point obviously important
for me to reflect on what has been done to the vehicle how much money I've spent
and to come up with a conclusion would work um I had in my head of where I
thought I would be at this point is the question my gut feeling is yes there
were so many unknown factors I know about four-wheel drives and all the
things that go with them there was so much that I do know not just about for
judging but specifically a vehicle and the things that were wrong with it and
the things that were and there's one overriding conclusion that I have come
to it with this build if you are looking for a used for drive vehicle look for
one that has had the least things done to it the less this is a case of less is
more far more because almost every part of
this sorting this vehicle out the additional unexpected expense have all
been related to aftermarket stuff fitted to the vehicle and that will fitted
badly not that it just was fitted it was fitted badly if it was fitted well it
would be a different story altogether but it wasn't and there are enough
what's the word palookas in this industry in in the motoring industry
across the world enough people know so little about what they're doing they'll
happily change it to two wheel drive or add this and take away this and add this
and think they know more than Toyota and I think this is probably typical not in
terms of what's wrong with the vehicle and what we've corrected but typical in
terms of the fact that when something has been changed in the vehicle it can
so easily cause hauler unexpected results again buying a vehicle look for
one that's been a shock mum's chiapas car
they are by far the most valuable even if the mileage is higher even if it has
no roof rack and no bull bar and no witch be grateful less in this case is
definitely more in the next installment the final touches as we replace the rear
bumper and ready it to carry two spare wheels and a gathering of fans of the
channel ATS naimans 4x4 outside of Cape Town topped with a last-minute
electrical glitch that delays my departure on the 1600 kilometer test run