Just like Christmas New Toys for The Old Girl

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all right we're back on the 79  series i know it's been a while  been away had christmas had heaps of staff  off and everybody's been asking me what's been   going on with the 79 series well we've got some  exciting news in this episode so we're going to   do a bit of a recap going to run around let  you know what we're up to what we've done   and what new bits that we're actually  going to be putting on so i've got a   bunch of stuff that i want to show you through as we get a bit of a walk around a bit of a chat   now where we left off last time was the diff  as you know we pulled the diff out with Greg   and the diff lock didn't work and also we  found a ton of metal in the bottom of the pan   of the of the diff housing we've sent it  out it's come back now believe it or not   they said that there's no teeth missing there  was no bearings blown or anything like that   no sign of really where the metal come from they  did check out the diff lock and it actually did   work so our problem is still a mystery problem yet  to be found they've rebuilt the diff head for me   put all new bearings and everything in for me the  actuator is still the same actuated in there and  it works they did however change the crown wheel  and pinion not because that it was anything broken   but it was heavily worn so it was probably time  to to do that so big thank you to 360 for getting   that done for us especially over the christmas  period and coming in everybody's come back busy   same as us so we'll get that in we won't show you  the boring details of actually bolting it all in   we'll actually quickly go around and see  so when we actually put the diff in we're   going to take the opportunity and change all the  wheel bearings make sure everything's all good   if they're perfect and they only need to be  re-greased then we're not going to turn around   and actually replace them we'll just re-grease  them and as part of that obviously we'll get   there we'll put the new brakes on which is one of  the exciting things i wanted to chat to you about   we've got the new Powerstop brakes going on and  we're actually replacing all four corners all my  they call them the brake discs they've all got  lips on them and there's one thing you should know   about discs by the time you send them out and have  the machine most of the time they're going to be   undersized or it's actually cheaper to turn around  and put brand new discs on so we've got a brand   new set of brakes that we're going to be putting  on not today i'm just going to show you around it   so we're putting and if we're going to do  that we're going to put brand new calipers on   new shoes the whole lot been looking forward to  getting all the items that i've ordered off the   power stop i've never actually seen these before  but i've heard some big things about them and   they've got everything we got brake shoes we  got the whole lot but get a load of this now   i actually opened up i probably  shouldn't but how is that for a brand new rear disc that is just insane  i know that these discs they are so accurately   machined these are actually just like paint  protected so they don't rust so they're done   extremely well if you read it it turns around  here you go there obviously they're a vented disc   but they're also multi-directional so it doesn't  matter they've got a slotting design for improving   paddle feel and a stronger life now my rear  discs don't have any slots in them at all   the brakes on these things are the best times are  horrid now i've got a a double we call a double   diaphragm brake booster which gives me a much  better brake feel but still needs it too so i went   got the good stuff i've been waiting for these for  a little while so i'm glad that they've come in   the front disc is exactly the same i've got  new calipers going on if i put this up here   what else have i got get a load of this oh  new titanium hat hey does it make me look any   better Craig's shaking his head no all right  Camraman Craig's not helping me here at all handbrake shoes if anybody knows anything about  handbrakes on a 79 series the only way you'll   ever get a 79 series handbrake to last is to  put a little tag on it that says do not use   that's true try it it does work me i have an  automatics i have parks so it does actually work   when you're in all the mud and grind and  the grit doesn't take long but cop-a-load of   these these are actually beautiful they're  actually um radiusly ground to match the  the dish that we're putting on and anti-corrosion  coating and everything they're actually   brilliant i love them some of the things i've  actually seen and this is what i wanted to see   these are the new brake shoes now  these new brake shoes are actually   they're a titanium infused ceramic brake  pad i thought kevlar was a good thing now   apparently this titanium infused ceramic  advancements in technology have actually   been insane every year there is new gear  coming out there is all sorts of technology they are insane still in the packet but we'll open  them up when the time comes we'll get in and have   a bit of a look-see but titanium-infused ceramic  brake pads all right enough of brakes because i   want to make sure we keep on moving along we'll  show more when we get these actually installed   and i certainly give you a recap when we get out  and actually on the road and actually get it done   obviously you all know the story last time i was  out and about went up to the Kimberley had a bit   of an upset i was towing a camper and i made the  fatal mistake is that i'd actually run out of fuel   getting in and out of the car to refuel the car  because we were so remote my knee bumped the brake   remote i actually turned the brake all the way  down on the camper turned it off completely come   around the corner i was going a little bit quick  hit the brakes only to find out i had no trailer   assist ABS going off virtually turn my brakes  on come in hit a bit of a ditch and the dish   was newly washed out ditched so it wasn't like a  gentle bump it was actually square edged gone in   hit it bounced up the impact of the car trying  to stop in the ditch and the trailer coming the   other way obviously constantine the car a little  bit i ended up with a bent chassis only mild but   bent chassis is the bent chassis bent me toe  ball hitch damaged with front diff housing some   suspension damage up there and that had to get it  all fixed it's all been done so recap we got all   the new chassis plates on when they straighten  the chassis i was a bit surprised that like   they didn't want to actually strengthen it in any  way they were just like well part of the insurance   we just straighten it it's right to go to me  that's compromised so and this is something that   i probably should have done years ago knowing what  i was going to do with the car now these chassis   plates made in Queensland i'll put their link up  now so you can actually see where they come from   they normally use it when they do it like chassis  extensions and everything like that but he was   very very gracious to let me know that i could  borrow a set now this is actually the short one   on this side it's all been welded in by a  crew and there's a much longer plate on the   inside that actually comes all the way down  into here and there they're great i've got so   that's the main thing to make sure i got all the  confidence back in the car which i have done the   Koni shocks are on i love them to death death  finally got them on the front as well so they're   all brand new the new turbo is on now we've  been letting the exhaust drip for three months all right well that's a bit of a worry that  certainly explains the smoke as soon as the   exhaust heats up all of this is just getting burnt  all the way through so all right that's the smoke literally it is still dripping after three months  so i'm not sure what to do then some people would   say just put it on it'll actually burn it all out  other people say and replace it or even see if we   can clean it very hard to clean i mean how do  you get oil out of a muffler yeah you can hang   it up but i'm not sure that you get the whole lot  out so that's a challenge we're going to do that   as we walk around the car going this way all the panels are fixed all nice and  shiny we've got new new sign writing on it   over a few of the dents we didn't fix anything  that didn't have to do with my little incident   we replaced all the front suspension as i said  the new Koni's are in we've got all the new Jmax   arms on not that nothing actually happened to the  Jmax arms it was just it was precaution and the   company that was actually fixing all the front end  they just demanded that the arms were replaced as   a matter of they had to guarantee that nothing  fell apart i guess so and they were good they   put the same arms on that i had on there in the  first place so that all worked out really well   you know a car's been sitting around the workshop  way too long when there's an extension cord coming   out of the bonnet that means that there's a  trickle feed and once every week or every couple   of weeks the guys will turn around and put the  extension cord on to charge all the batteries up   on here look how do you still haven't had to  manage to clean the car underneath the bonnet   only the outside's been done on all right we'll  keep walking around obviously my beloved bullbar   the Offroad Animal bar i love this thing to  death i deliberately had it made like this   with the patina because i wanted that look  i wanted the real rough rugged and the raw   as forged look is what i've said this is actually  clear coated i wouldn't even let them sand blast   it or do anything before they did it so yours  will come painted properly yeah not like mine i   turned around and said no is even marks here from  when they were doing it because this was actually   a development one there's actually little paint  marks in there with arrows and bits and pieces and   little updates that they wanted to do  and i just said paint over the whole lot   don't want them to touch it and i just love the  look each to their own but we kept going around all the all the front wheel bearings have been  done all the hubs we actually had to change   both of the stub axles on both sides not because  they were bent simply because when you sink the   car in water especially with us filming a lot you  go in there you sit in the water everything cools   down and it just sucks the water in past the seals  there's nothing you can do about that yes the diff   and i've had people make comments that are but  you don't you have a breather on your diff well   that does the second well the center section of  the chamber of the diff but it doesn't help you   in the wheel parting which is the stub axle part  all right those seals there's no breather in   that section all right so if you are going to do a  water crossing make sure you do actually cool down   let it cool down before you do the run in and  not only that don't park in it for five minutes   like i normally do just straight in and out the  other side and you won't have half the trouble   problem is i get halfway through the producer  calls you know stop back up do it again wait sit   there wait while we're getting Graham or Shaun  or someone else in and that and before you know   i'm sitting in the river for 20 minutes while the  cameraman are running around and the whole time   my hubs are cooling down so of course new new  bearings after every single trip and probably a   stub axle every year just because it gets pitted  and just rusted out and i'll get down here now now i've got more than one set of exciting news  obviously i've been as keen as mustard to get me   hands on something that i actually ordered three  or four months ago not long ago actually after   we filmed the last episode i was telling the boys  that i wouldn't mind changing out the intercooler   and the radiator simply because over the years  of copping just damaged seeds after season   how many times can you flush out a radiator with a  gurney before it all starts to fall apart so i put   an order in with PWR for a brand new radiator and  an intercooler and i just can't wait so i'm gonna   with you this is the first time i haven't  actually seen it before so we're gonna   have a crack see if i can i've only just  partially do these things come so well packed Cameraman Craig's trying to help  me here we go let's not let's not   close this i love their foam blocks so what is this this is obviously oh wow  i did not know i move that out of the way   give me a bit of a bench top here i wasn't going to open it but i am because  when you have an exciting new toy not only   do you want to open it but you want to open  it carefully just to make sure i'm sure   Craig will speed this up a little bit for you  but we're going to experience this together it's just like Christmas all over  again not Christmas as an adult,   Christmas as a child and it really means something   wow this thing's mega wrap this will help will go a lot faster  actually if i had my glasses on  oh you got some wiring i didn't actually  know that's all right thanks for that though i didn't actually know that this come with thermo  fans so this is actually a whole new experience   for me now one thing i will say there's a reason  why i chose PWR and that is because i know them   well we've actually been dealing with them for  years in as much as our all of our transmission   coolers they're also made by PWR i know the extent  that they go to to test and develop and we're not   talking about oh just a little development this  is car this is a company that deals with racing   car teams all over the world high end their  test facilities are second to none that's why   they're coming from all over but get a load  look at this this is a top mount intercooler i deliberately wanted a top  mount i certainly didn't want   an upfront mount in a cooler because i wanted  something that would fit straight in i wanted   something that obviously this has got an automatic  in it and i want my coolers and everything else   up the front i don't want to hinder anything i  don't want to hinder the radiator and that this   is an enormous bit of kit when we first started  thinking about putting intercoolers on cars  this is going back many years when we first did  the six speeds and we were doing contracts for   other people we actually tested three or four  different intercoolers on dynos because we had   to prove because of the contract that we're doing  with turbo upgrades and everything we had to do   one step at a time prove it and then go to the  next step when we got to the intercoolers we   put two or three different ones on there and you  know we didn't go and gain a single horsepower  all right we run PWR back then and they were the only   ones that were actually honest with us at that  time that they turned around and they said that   the intercooler on the car is actually pretty  good it's going to take some technology   to turn around and beat the original one  and they've done exactly that this is   a weapon and i'm not just saying that i had to do an awful lot to get this and   saved up some coin now they didn't come to me   i've gone to them so this is an honest thing  where i've gone to them and i've always wanted one   and i didn't get one if they couldn't  do one or make one that was that good  i wasn't going to try so anyway that was  one of the things i'm going to move on  not on too much on it but get a lot of that  that it's almost too good to go on my car   i reckon that almost needs to go in the trophy  cabinet not actually in the car so i'll knock   this down here and i'll put that there on  because i believe there's more to this puzzle oh look at that like our guys they over pack everything this  is huge everyone's wrapping are they one   in one one box this is insane oh we're  going to need to open that girl up too sorry but i need to see it  now let's see what we've got i'll be so careful with this tell you what whoever wraps their stuff   back at their their dispatch  area needs a trophy like my god look at that look at this wow hey have a look at that it isn't going to stay this shiny for long i can  assure you of that but look at that now i'm only   changing mine simply because of all the the damage  i've done to it this doesn't actually have a um   a port in it for doing automatic transmissions  we still got our coolers on the front   which are actually PWR but they're our own kits um  so i can't wait to get this in i'll be calling on   greg soon enough i think to give me a hand but the  intercooler we had to do because i don't know if   i mentioned to you before i mentioned again greg  actually found a crack in my intercooler and i was   gutted but when we went in there to have a look  at the amount of seeds and the amount of stuff the   amount of rivers that i'd gone through the amount  of stuff that had washed in through the top vent   and got all in the it's just impregnated from  top to bottom with stuff so best thing to do is   actually replace them but i wanted to replace  them with something that was meaningful to me   now oh another thing we've got going on with  this girl and that is somewhere in here i have one of these okay it's a steering wheel from PVS now a lot  of you guys obviously know have seen this   if you've got a 79 series then you know all  about these steering wheels already all right   there's different patterns there's different  colors there's kevlar ones and whatever else now   but what makes this one so special two things one  i don't know about you guys please leave a comment   is anybody else out there a serial channel changer  of their radio and with a 79 series you've got   nothing these things are in the dark ages when  it comes to technology especially based on   how easy it is to use stuff i have a touch screen  upgrade on mine so basically mine's got the hi-lux   display on mine for the radio and you  can't drive and touch no so look at this   i can do all my radios i can do everything  but the second thing flappy paddles   that's something you're not going  to see much on the 79 series why   because it only suits the automatic  transmissions we are going to try   and make these work with me automatic so we got  this steering wheel and um Jamie at PVS was was   really good he was really great he listened to us  and he said that he thinks that his kits will work   so he sent me down a flappy paddle one which will  bolt straight on it'll work straight away we just   got to get our computer for the transmission tuned  into these paddles which we can do but we just   haven't done it before so we just got to work  it out and get it all happening than that right   and we'll start offering it as a as an option so  if you have our current sports and pro COMPUSHIFT   we might have a new update or upgrade  coming for you if you actually want to   you can choose the thing on the steering wheel  you just buy them direct off the PVS there or   we might even if we get the ones  deliberate ones actually done   we might even put them on our own line  and start doing them down here so now i'd get more of this done we'd be more  along the line of getting more stuff done   if it wasn't for the fact i'm relying on Greg yeah Greg like me he's getting on he's got a   lot more hair a grey hair than me but you know  he's good i can't rely on him all the time to do   stuff so we get ahead and do stuff we are so busy  with so much other stuff that we're also looking   for a new mechanic so if you know someone or  if you're interested in changing the trade   you know half of my guys are truck mechanics come  over and some of them like automotive mechanic   they come from all walks of life the common  interest is four wheel drives so if you have   an interest in four-wheel drives you're handy  on the tools and you want to have a crack   and you want to work here please jump on here's  the link give us a call and you never know   you could be helping me fit all of this  in the car so we'll go from there now   i think that's it for this episode so please like  subscribe and we'll see you in the next episode come here i'm not saying this is all  your problem now but most of it is  have fun with that try not to leave  anymore no fingerprints on the shiny stuff what shiny stuff it's all what do you...

2022-03-12

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