No, don't, don't, don't. Don't tip over.
Don't, don't tip over.
I had my young nephew over.
He was playing around with Swampy, and I was teaching him a few bits and pieces.
So today, what we've got to do is, I've got these boys over to give me a hand, because
I have to--and there's the big 200--and there's Swampy.
We have to roll-start Swampy, because the starter motor is shagged.
She's no longer working.
So I need to give it a bit of a run down the back paddock.
So let's get this sucker going and see what happens.
So that's the setup at the back of my 200.
Follow the rope through, there she goes.
That's connected to there.
So the other end is hooked up there.
There it is.
That's the setup we've got.
I haven't got much of a tow point there.
That'll do.
All right, mate. Away you go, I'm just gonna turn.
You head down the paddock, and I'll follow you behind.
She was sitting the awning there with no starter motor, and old Swampy fires up just like that, eh?
Yep, she has.
Yeah, she fired straight up.
So shall we take it down the back and take it for a spin?
Looks like we might be getting it wet.
All right, Logan, away you go, mate.
Now remember, don't stall it because it's got no starter motor.
So all right, see how you go.
As you get down in the bottom, it is a bit greasy.
So just drop down into 1st gear.
Put on the brakes, slow it down.
That's it, 1st gear.
All right, in first?
All right, don't muck around. Go!
Nope, she's wet, mate.
Yeah, she's a bit slippery.
You're getting bogged in here.
Old Swampy getting bogged.
He bogged her.
You bogged it bad, mate. I think we're going to have to get the winch out.
Up she comes.
I'll just drive backwards a bit.
The big mess that Swampy left in the bottom of that pit.
So we'll see how the boys go forwards.
See how steep this is.
It's actually quite steep.
There he goes, he's going over the pit.
All right, hit the gas, mate! Second, go!
There he goes. He's gonna make it.
Get her up there, get her up there.
Yeah, look at that, that's easy.
So as you can see it makes it a bit easier, Old Swampy going back that way.
It's got that little lip down there, and that's the reason why it couldn't climb up.
That's good fun? What about your passenger there, Kye, what's he reckon?
Wow.
Good fun, good fun.
I reckon you must be the luckiest kid in Australia right now.
I wouldn't be surprised.
Would you say that?
Yeah, I would actually.
You're driving Swampy.
Now you've grown up with Swampy, haven't you?
Yep, it's been a couple of years actually, yeah.
There you go, and now you've got your own license and you're driving around in a 4-wheel drive.
Yep, that's right.
Well there you go, guys.
How was that, mate?
Yeah, it was good fun. Good fun.
So that's your first boghole.
Now it didn't really feel like much, does it?
No, not in this, it doesn't.
Yeah, Swampy is a bit of a machine, and that is nothing for old Swampy.
Now in the middle here, there's a little hole, and it's real deep.
You want to take it in there.
Yeah, I'll give it a crack.
Or do you want me to do it first? What do you want to do?
Yeah, I'll have a crack.
I decided, oh well let's see how deep Swampy can go.
Let's give her a crack and see if I can go across this section I've never gone across before.
And, well it started off all good.
Swampy driving into the water.
And then it turned all bad.
It's a bit deep. We're gonna need the winch.
Logan, grab the winch.
Hold it there, put it in park, stop.
Don't tip, don't.
Don't tip over, don't.
Don't tip over!
No!
No.
****.
****. No, don't, don't, don't.
Don't tip over.
****.
Where's the winch cable?
We've gottan get Swampy out.
****!
It's all good. Turn around, Kye. That's the wife.
It's all good. It's all good!
Slow, just very slow, it went over.
No one was in the car.
I can't see where it is.
Come on! Come on!
Up she comes, come on.
All right!
Alrighty. Now that that's loaded up and it's not going to roll back in, I'll use this winch now to
pull it out.
Poor old Swampy. She's gone completely under.
Well there you go, that's what happens when the water is too deep.
There's actually a little gully in there.
It's like a big trench.
Just a bit of seaweed. A bit of weed, she'll be right.
Hope you enjoyed it.
It was a bit of a freaky afternoon, that one.
It was all going on.
But I got her out.
I got her out.
Swampy now is going to need a massive rebuild.
There's no doubt about it.
First thing I'm gonna do is, I've got to get the water out of that engine.
If I can get the water out of the engine, replace the oil with good oil, then it won't
go rusty inside.
And I'll have a slim chance of getting this truck going again.
All right, here we go.
Yeah, that's not oil coming out of there.
That's just water.
We haven't even gotten near the oil yet.
Look at that. That's what's coming out of my engine.
Oh... where's the oil?
No oil yet.
Still no oil.
No oil yet.
Still water.
Still no oil.
Still--that's like, there's 4 litres of water so far.
I'm gonna give you an update on Swampy.
I've dropped it down at Just Autos.
Now the reason why I've done that is I spent hours and hours towing the bloody thing around
the paddock, and I could not get it going.
I got the water out of the fuel tank, so I took the fuel tank out.
I got the water out of the top of the cylinders, okay?
I did all that.
So I did everything that I could do without a starter motor, remember?
I didn't have a starter motor at the time.
So I had to tow it around.
I got all the water out of the system, and the last thing I couldn't do is, I couldn't
pressurize the fuel system.
Because the diaphram in the handpump is stuffed.
So the boys at Just Autos have just shoved a new pump on, a new handpump.
I've got a filter, a new air cleaner, new fuel filter, new oil, new oil filter, which
I have done.
And we're just gonna give it a crack and see if Swampy is gonna fire up.
All right, so there we go, there's the new pump.
Put that in.
Down there's the new starter motor.
There she is, pretty sweet.
The old starter motor, she was stuffed.
And everything else looks good.
All the injectors are all tight.
I've got the battery charger on, because I don't know how good the battery is going to be.
It is a sealed battery, so it didn't get full of water.
And there's the new oil filter.
And here we are with Swampy.
All right, let's see if we can start this puppy up.
All right, that's primed the fuel up.
Yeah, that's on.
Alrighty.
Come on, Swampy.
Swampy lives!
It's alive!
Swampy lives.
How good is that?
Next step now--drain all the oils out of the gear box, out of the diffs.
And get that clutch going.
Love ya, Swampy!