so here I am I saw a glimpse of it well it's too bad if I didn't like it hey
welcome now to the second part of a series of videos covering the rebuild
and restoration of a 20 year old to her - land cruiser in Africa it's for my own
use when I come to Africa to enable me to explore freely long does this remote
over land but the right so far hasn't been a smooth so here's your wheelbarrow
this was gonna work we had to take the engine out the concentrations work very
yeah I walked in here this morning and I looked and thought gosh you've got a
cast impeller and the gearbox rendering found the problem on your gave up and
sour tooth should look and the transfer gearbox this is what was giving you your
two wheel drive only and all of the radiators solutely rotten it was the
price I paid for buying it blind over the Internet do I need to take the
chance know something that I would not recommend was the risk that I took
is it paying off but most of the restoration work has been completed and
we're now about to put it all back together and take it on a very long test
run 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
welcome to our land cruiser 105 a restoration project Africa day five and
we are basically the drivetrain is complete than this the gearbox ready to
go in now we're hoping together then yesterday but we ran out of time
the electrical saw we've sorted out the electricals in the engine bay they were
miss they've been sorted and rewired all I did that yesterday so everything is
now ready for the gearbox and the engine to go back and then of course the engine
is then plumbed in terms of fuel air conditioning and all those other things
that have to go to the engine and windscreen we're still waiting for
radiators were still waiting for and we basically have today to finish it
because tomorrow it leaves here for the replacement rear bumper so that's what
we're chasing so there's a lot of work to do today
and so in it goes and it's wonderful to watch them work and they're yelling no
shouting it just all seems to happen without a lot of effort
I'm imagine how quickly this guy they got the gearbox in a minute if you've
got a car in a ramp it's also quite easy if you put a voice but these guys to get
access to everything here to be doing they've worked or backs will stand yeah
and in Africa we do a lot of that because you know ramps are expensive
yeah and face it when you're in the bush Union used to do work you're gonna be on
the four wheels yes axle stand yes and these guys are
really good they get in they put the new gearbox Mountain they've jacked it up in
place and of course the engine will just drop in very easily yeah so it's quickly
it's amazing how quickly the car actually goes back together
yeah now if you said to people my engines on the floor my gearboxes there
everything's true it looks like I don't think I'm never gonna get it together
and I guess we'll have this car close to running by the end of today so yeah oh
we need to get oils we need oils now we want to get down is a great great spared
shop round here we're gonna go to let's go
so let's hit off we got good I mean you a few minutes no I mean we've got it
we've got time just grab the right let's go now yeah these guys are great they
normally have everything I need good service we're lucky to have them
around
the word under dealer means spares I think as it confusing decked with stuff
I think we need some oil we need a lot of oil like this morning some guys we
need I should add here that this is all staged we actually sent our order in a
few days back they agreed to donate all the fluids we need for the rebuild some
shell 15 millas good stuff the sump requires 12 liters of oil carry-ons will
keep some spare was useful yeah jeeter's okay good again that's then we've got
front and rear axle right which also gonna take two to three liters each
right gave up smooth this makes it easier to actually put it
in the gearbox you know you fill it from the side the small bar small bottles
make it a lot easier and any spare we can keep how many liters in the main
gearbox I think is good more than 2 liters popular chick turn off liters so
we don't carry enough and always spares we always want to carry at least a liter
of each oil right depending on how far you going yes if you're gonna go right
up through Africa at least two litre you know you want engine oil you want
gearbox all you want differential oil right transfer box will pass during
third brake fluid so let's have some else what do you need I don't we don't
deliver they so we'll have to see good idea he's gonna carry as much as you
Morris that is ok a box gearbox with gearbox will you can see how can I say
yes to have that and show you so you can't people make a mistake on oil and
then they go and put this in an auto box so that's a good idea
ok you know and you get guys who are really knowledgeable like these guys
yeah we'll give us all the knowledge yes when you walk into our world and you
don't know what you're buying yeah that's dangerous give up that's
smart actually no and we've got some brake fluid that's some great food so
again you know carrying carrying spare of this I use dot for not fully
synthetic you mentioned that the sort of newer you just replace it or uptake of
you can buy this readily in Africa yeah and that's what we want you can you yeah
and I'm always using a good brand so I'm looking for sure low I'm looking for
Castro or BP I like to use a brand of oil that we know yeah very good class
cheering ATF now don't forget the way to this besides the fact that you go put it
in the gearbox and the engine you need to carry spare yes and the one thing
about oils a miss gonna make a hell of a smell when they're selenium oil always
especially give up shot especially gearbox oil so I like these little
bottles generally I check their tight I tape
them up and I put them in the zipper bags so now the smell of this oil I like
to sniff it every now and again not for what you think it not because know what
it does it reminds me how I do it now it reminds me well mark of my Range Rover
the entire interior smells exactly of a p90 that's a factory smell thank you
very much guys you're thinking Texas working with us on this as you your your
extra surplus well to take with deliveries in Zambia you
don't you know well makes its it's a project of us I think you'd like to
deliver it in Zambia yourself come there myself
yeah on yourself okay belly Crocs early South Luangwa yes I just you know
there's gonna be a fight Chester who's gonna go well that didn't take very long
and by the time Paul and I got back they were busy fitting the engine
very exciting this is the last time it's happened when I put an engine in a
vehicle it was my Range Rover and it was in 1986
Sandra virtual prop shafts we have sent them off to an engineering firm they've
changed the universal joints I've actually fitted new sliders this is a
sliding joint here which slides and if they take them off for me they weld in
the new sliding joints use the rest of the shaft these bits are all original
and of course they've changed the universal joints most important of
actually balanced the pop charts so when you've got play on a shaft like this
where these sliders these splines here as you can see that moves up and down
there's a set of splines in here and that has played my special on the front
prop shaft on some of the vehicles where they don't always use this part um for
drivers have more of a problem because the shafts it's still yours as permanent
four-wheel drive starts always rotating the tiered ways and that wear
accentuates and then of course you get the universal joints which people don't
grease now part of the servicing every five thousand kilometers really
important to get someone with a grease gun you can get the grease nipples I
like these your joints because the grease pit was easily it's accessible
some of them are hidden inside here and they're much more difficult to get a
grease gun on there so here you can get a grease gun on here you can grease it
properly push hard will all dirty grease wipe it
clean and know that your these are properly greased and if you grease them
properly you should never ever have to repair a universal joint mostly from
lack of grease and people drive through water dust ingress it mixes in with the
grease and where it's like a grinding paste and then when you're trying to
test this you can grab one and grab the other and try and tournament opposing
directions to see if there's any play now question of one side is going to be
fitted to the diff from the other side to the transfer box and once it's in and
balanced it smoothes out the ride there's less of
a jolt through the through the whole drivetrain you take your foot off the
clutch you sometimes yeah this almighty clunk through a drivetrain and a start
off with where and all the different components and wherever this play had
actually anything that's got a bit of play and you knock it that knocking that
that that harsh knocking is what does damage and when the prop shafts not
balanced it puts extra strain on the dipstick put extra strain on the
transfer box that's what you don't want it's just this piece they have reweld it
in basically this with the waters flowing through the tubes here yeah and
the fins to cool it so completely put a new coin okay solve it and built in
right and then their pressure tested which is just to make sure those
pressures no leaks and is the cowling the new the cowling so it looks like the
same old oh no this is a Carling that was secondhand we put on because I'm a
redhead the electric fan on yes all we've taken that off yeah so we'd rather
go back to the viscous fan that's definitely herbal it's yeah in many
respects I don't okay and there's a newspaper in there which they've just
put that into unless they say yeah I would be ashamed but you can see how
quickly you know what people don't realize when you drive through water in
that especially if it's sedimented yes I push that sediment through the rate
through the air condenser through the radiator yes and this blocks up very
goofy another thing on that if if you get grass seeds don't use a hose to blow
it out because the grass seeds can drive as well
then they get moisture and they swell and they stick I think a big thing you
know when you've put back an air-conditioning condenser and the
radiator more often than not just there's a bit of foam sponge that keeps
this the air sealing bit of air seal so it doesn't suck in stuff so you need to
make sure that's right but actually more important cleaners and uncheck it and if
it means that you've done a big grassy section and you haven't you've been lazy
haven't better seen it over the front even with a seed net it still can
succeed in yeah gr especially at the bottom so I just say no it's like
anything maintain and check yeah if it means taking a radiator out yeah it's
worth it just to check it and clean it
the only rust we do find on the vehicles actually on the top of the windscreen
and its neighbors they also have a panel shop where they will not only repair it
but actually respray it in the matching color that'll be done at the moment this
thing is back on its wheels the handbrake has two separate
adjustments one at the back and one on the actual hub's themselves and a lot of
people don't realize that the one in the Hobbs Act is actually just as important
to us so they had somebody had butchered it and put in some kind of rackets to
pull it up so the guys here have removed it and we'll get the handbrake working
again as it should be
parts have been fitted to the vehicle and the old parts have been put here the
alternator that's manifolds being replaced as the
glow plugs and ejectives join us next time when we try and start the engine if
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