I’m convinced James is secretly an Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Priest from Warhammer 40k, the way he just gets cars and electronics to do what he wants is pure sorcery.
The problem is probably the LPG expansion cylinder - the gasket between the fuel and water tends to leak. We had ours replaced multiple times, but before that none of the mechanics knew what was wrong, they'd all only ever worked on petrol cars. Took thousands of dollars in useless replacement parts from Ford service places, before we took it to a taxi specialist, he knew the problem immediately.
It also had a sticky valve in it at some point, only way to get it to start was to pour boiling water over the cylinder; that freed it up. The taxi guy really had experience with these cars.
yeah, had the same thing on my dads natural gas van, it would run horrible until we cleaned the gas pressure reductor and found the expanision cylinder in it had badly worn in, polished it up and put some engine oil on it and she runs perfect now, only a little bit of a shake at idle
Not just for defrosting, also to get rid of condensation. I think it is a requirement for most homologations to be able to defrost/demist all windows. Given the position and shape, the vents aren't going to clear this window.
Bruce living the cheap-microphone-we-gotta-test-that dialogue life. "So anyway mate, I was dead for a couple of years, just doing dead things. But I wasn't very good at it. Wasn't decomposing or doing entropy or nothing. So I got up and went for a drive."
Jazz Philosophy is the kind of music degree that makes you an expert in describing rhythmic and tonal form in terms of color theory, thermodynamics, and an assortment of grunting noises. It's a beautiful thing.
Free tip Friday on a Monday. Bruce needs top notch ignition or he will have a spaz. Good coils and plugs. Also after your next decent drive undo the drain on the lpg converter, it builds up a waxy substance that causes it to run like poo and makes it hard to start. I used to have a Bruce and these few things kept it running like a dream
I live in Canada. Was on a boys road trip, we were in 3 vehicles. One guy drove an LPG pickup, a 130L tank and an 80L aux. We were on a quest to find him some more LPG before he ran out... And as we were cresting a hill, he ran out. "I can't afford a tow truck." "Well, we have tow straps in the Pathfinder" 150km to the nearest propane station. So we flat towed him for 100km, found out the town 50k up the road had a propane setup, and we pulled into the Co-op and loaded it up. I was following up the rear and watching their two vehicles work in a desperate sync was definitely a sight to behold.
I reckon what happened is that it was some sort of computer issue, and sitting for 2.5 years with no power probably caused the computer to reset, and by extension fixed the problem.
Maybe one of the engine sensors? Our e46 did that "randomly shutting off" because a sensor in the camshaft sent a faulty distress signal. Let me tell ya, it ain't fun having the steering wheel locked up and the brakes unsupported when the engine shuts off at 180 kilometres per hour...
@@lydiagalantmotherfmy audi A3 had a faulty crankshaft sensor and it did that too, it whould only run on cold engine, it whould stall and not start when ot warmed up
i absolutely love it when objects just... fix themselves. for no apparent reason. they just start working again and it makes you so happy because you had no hope for it but it just resurrects itself. i like to think that in moments like that the real magic of the universe presents itself. welcome back bruce!
You could still do the litre board calculations for Bruce. If you start at any given LPG station, drive to the normal start of the routes, drive the normal route, then drive back to the LPG station, you have how much fuel you used for the route plus the amount of fuel you used getting to and from the start of the route. Then refill Bruce, drive back to the start of the route and immediately back to the LPG station. That’ll get you how much fuel you used getting to and from the start of the route. Just subtract that from the total and you should have the amount of fuel you used on the route just like with every other car. It is more time and work, but it would let you put OG Bruce up on the board.
There was a bad batch of Gas 2 years ago. I work for a forklift company and we had terrible trouble with units not starting. We traced it to bad gas. We where replacing gas converters every 3 weeks and the converters where full of crap on the inside. A lot of LPG cars went up for sale at time with starting issues.
Could this crap somehow break down over time? was it like sludgy stuff? clogging Bruces injectors? I'm way too curious as to why Bruce sprang back to life...
To be fair, being it was a rental, that battery has likely been absolutely cooked, because as everyone knows, the fastest car in the world is a rental. (Also for some god forsaken reason nissan decided not to give the leaf a battery cooling system, so it can overheat very easily lmao)
@@mysteryboyee oh yeah, it was definitely used and abused for years. The battery lifetime isn't infinite, and they do degrade. Just thought a 34 mile max is hilarious.
3:56 We got a BA Falcon for free from our priest, he just gave it to us. It ran on both regular petrol AND LPG, plus it had a tow bar and towing suspension (Although I think we added that). Of course, my brother cut the springs and put holes in the exhaust when we gave it to him. He did end up fixing the exhaust as it was as loud as anything, as well as the suspension because a spring fell out of place randomly and he had to limp it back home. He also added a turbo to it, which we thought was illegal but the insurance company didn't care, so we're lucky I guess.
Coming back to this video after the latest update about Bruce, they must have forgotten about the dead cylinder because James mentions it here. So Bruce was running on 5. Poor Bruce.
Can confirm switching off for a while works. I suffered from awful migraines from childhood. Fell into a 5 month coma. When I woke up again, no more migraines and haven't had once since.
@@crnobog I don't know, I have Fiat Barchetta with automatic system and it's working perfect on both LPG and benzine. It starts on benzine and after a few minutes of warming up, switches to LPG. You can also disable the LPG with a button and run on benzine. The switch between fuels is unnoticeable.
@@Raskolnikov1990 yeah, I have a Grande Punto with it and I barely notice the switch. Only if I am on low revs and the benzine pump turns off. Mine was made to be bifuel, this might have a higher compression to take advantage of the inherent high octane of LPG. That's my only concern.
I have a Bruce. A hail storm wrote off my work vehicle in 2010 and I lost everything. I bought a 'Bruce' for $15k with the hope of earning money again. it ended up one of my biggest regrets since it was 'shockwave' metallic blue that had a factory flaw where all the paint peeled off. Also down on power when I bought it, also the trans failed twice. so home resprays, trans rebuild, cat blocked etc. I had owned falcons before but the BA ute with fibreglass canopy - my Bruce - sucked hard, was worse than any EB, ED, EL sedan I had. I still have the piece of crap BA ute with patched up and bad paint, faded fibreglass. Only 145k kms on it because it spent so much time off the road. It did about 13l/100km in suburban environment. Interestingly I also watched your prado fuel review. I was going to change to one but I ended up buying a 3L patrol instead. So far that is now my daily driver and that's averaging 13l/100km though I know they don't have a good engine reliability reputation, but still, I need to offload my BA falcon ute I think. It's a POS, but it's a 1 tonner and only 145k kms. Edit: Also have to add I'm an old aussie bloke (late 40s) and no longer live with my 12 y/o son but when I picked him up from school last week I brought up YT and dankpods and garbage time. My kid knew what I was talking about and we could discuss it :) . I never watched an ep with the donkey van and couldn't care less about a van (loved the wrecking yard tour) but now he knows- that I know - he's always mentioning donkey vans haha. EE: Sorry my keyboard has started to double up on some letters and miss some others.
Double check your vacuum hoses. Had an xr8 dual fuel that wouldn't idle on LPG. Took it in for a service and mechanic found a few vacuum hoses that had come off.
I have never before gasped upon seeing a RUclips video this quickly, I am so excited for this even though I live literally across the world from this car and won't ever see it in person
I have an 89 Dodge B250 Intervec Camper Van that I absolutely love. I drove it daily for a while two months before the starter kicked out and destroyed the ring gear on my torque converter. I might as well have chucked a grenade in the gearbox. I’m finally having it rebuilt and am so excited for the first drive after it sat for nearly a year.
Dude, kudos to you for keeping Bruce even after you've made it in life. Everyone has down periods in life, but not all of us are keen in keeping their four wheeled buddies when everything finally goes well. Keep him til it cannot pass inspections anymore. He deserves a good home.
Bruce 1.0 pulling out the self-revive reminds me of my dads old Hiace, which despite sitting derelict in the driveway for some seven-odd years before being sold for scrap, would still start pretty much first turn every time we needed it. Single most reliable vehicle Ive ever known.
Wait, have you checked your cam and crank sensors? What you say at 8:35 sounds very much like an issue with those. I use to have a 2000 Ford Laser that suddenly started to do this, but if you left it and let it fully go cold, would happily drive for like 15 minutes. and then do it again.
@@InterceptorFFIn America, our default taxis (especially New York City taxis) were also Fords but were Crown Victoria's aka Crown Vics. Crown Vics were our Falcons for decades and are still in use today especially in law enforcement and by federal agencies. Unfortunately in NYC in 2013 the Vics were phased out.
I've recently just discovered this channel, binged EVERYTHING!!! OMG! You've a gaming channel too. Never stop making content. Learning a lot about the Aussie car industry.
@4:34 The EV infrastructure is a big problem in the USA. Our normal wall plugs are only 110v instead of the usual 220 in places like Europe and Asia. You need to pull permits from the local government to get permission to have an electrician add a 220v plug to your house. Which can make your homeowners insurance rise cause of the additional fire hazard (I know it's not a hazard but the insurance company would argue otherwise). It's a headache and a money pit. The same problem exists for fuel stations where they have to spend a bunch of extra money and do paperwork to allow ev charging. I live in Florida, where there's only 3 charging stations in my whole county, and the nearest one is about 40 mins away from my house and an hour from my work. So for those reasons I got my Honda Odyssey for the family and my CB for getting to work and hanging out with friends. In the US, outside of California and New York, it's a death sentence for an average working stiff's wallet to afford an EV, especially after you factor in all the additional costs.
It's good to see Bruce come back. I've got the same year model of BA, but in sedan format. Petrol engine instead of gas. It's had some problems (I've had to replace the water pump, the power steering pipes, the brake discs TWICE, the heater doesn't work) but I love my Birdie. She just soldiers on and has thus far always got me back home.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! BRUCE, YOU’VE RETURNED! :D The great nugget shepherd is here for us. And the fact he just came back with nothing done to it feels like the most ol’ reliable Bruce thing ever.
To add insult to injury, the bed in one of these chunky Aussie utes is only about 10cm shorter than those dreadful tanks the yankies drive. Dishonor on GM and Ford for killing the Utes. Hyundai got close with the Santa Cruz but they kept five seats and made the bed uselessly small. So close, Korea, SO CLOSE.
When i worked for the towing company a flatbed with 768,000 miles. Or for the french measurement users: 1,235,976 kilometers. Long live the Isuzu H6 diesel Inline 6
Might wanna get an adapter hose for filling it off of 20 liter grill bottles, yea the upcharge on tank-exchange grill gas vs point-of-service refills of road gas is extortionate but it'll get you some extra bit of range to go find somewhere to fill it properly at. All you gotta do to use a grill tank is turn it upside down, motor-fuel LPG tanks are liquid-discharge but consumer LPG tanks are gas discharge, saw a guy blow his grill up one time trying to use a forklift LPG keg on a barbecue grill cause he didn't know he needed to flip it over.
Im so glad Bruce was brought back to life! I have a petrol XR6 version of Bruce in the same color. So happy right now. Cant wait to see him more on the channel 😁
Sounds like you have a LPG Converter Issue. There's a prime solenoid and an idle one. The prime one sounds like its going, hence the "crankcrankvroomputterdead" but the other isn't. The idle solenoid turns on when ECU see's a crank signal from the Crank Sensor. BlueLPG are an Aussie company that sell an entire replacement gas converter, new stepper motors, seals, solenoids and such (anything factory ford LPG basically). Could be a few things. Firstly if the solenoids electronics are a bit crusty or sad, or the mechanical valve itself is borked, this could be your issue. Or potentially your crank sensor/wiring as eluded to earlier, not telling the solenoid to open. Otherwise the connector for the solenoid could be the issue. Other common issue is the connector for the LPG converter wiring harness to the body's harness above the exhaust manifold. Because of its location it gets really hot a lot and the pins don't connect good no more. Just swap it with two Deutsch connectors and presto. Sometimes it'll just fix itself. Cooler temps sometimes changed behavior too. Other thought I had that can sometimes cause this is the wiring to the throttle body being damaged. On the front side of the throttle body mechanism there's a connector with a red safety thingo, and the wiring is typically pulled quite tight and sometimes get damaged. Hopefully something in this helped.
Quite common to see LPG powered American cars here in Europe (as in, the few American cars you do see), because they already eat a lot of fuel, so might as well convert it to LPG so at least it doesn't cost all that much
My dad had one of these, the same thing but a wagon instead of a ute After a while the gas converter gets clogged up after its seals start to perish - Danks situation is familiar. We got it fixed with a reco unit for about $800 but it's hard to find that - there's seemingly only one place in Adelaide that can do it. It was such a good cruiser. Dad didn't like the seating position but I found it comfortable.
@@ozan1234561 true, but trust me, 85% of what 400 horsepower is more then enough for our roads, and if you already throw money around to this point, you could easily get that power back if it isn't enough
Bruce came back to life faster than Tony can get to 60
Than*
Nice
*grumbling* I hate toe-knee
@@Dontbeafraid2 lol whoops srry
@@Nonereallyknows it's all good
I’m convinced James is secretly an Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Priest from Warhammer 40k, the way he just gets cars and electronics to do what he wants is pure sorcery.
don't forget he's also a wildlife whisperer
Praise the Omnissiah!
@OutbackCatgirl the fact that the magpie didn't kill him is astounding
BRUCE LIVES! * stomp ** stomp *
Nah having seen the way he modifys came consoles I'd say James is closer to an ork Mekboy
James has the magic touch. Bruce, and the EEEPEECEE both, all it took was James handling them
Everyone needs a James in their life
@@transcendental-nuke Everyone needs much more garbage time in their life. By far the best channel on youtube
Our lord and saviour james
@@transcendental-nuke Be the James you want to see in the world.
wait
what about the *eepeecee* ?
The problem is probably the LPG expansion cylinder - the gasket between the fuel and water tends to leak. We had ours replaced multiple times, but before that none of the mechanics knew what was wrong, they'd all only ever worked on petrol cars. Took thousands of dollars in useless replacement parts from Ford service places, before we took it to a taxi specialist, he knew the problem immediately.
It also had a sticky valve in it at some point, only way to get it to start was to pour boiling water over the cylinder; that freed it up. The taxi guy really had experience with these cars.
@@williamwaffle1629 thirsty engine lmao
yeah, had the same thing on my dads natural gas van, it would run horrible until we cleaned the gas pressure reductor and found the expanision cylinder in it had badly worn in, polished it up and put some engine oil on it and she runs perfect now, only a little bit of a shake at idle
Not only do I love that tiny little window thing, I love even more that it has DEFROSTING wires on it
In Australia, no less.
They really thought ahead with that one. Like maybe a nuclear winter will cool Australia down enough to get ice?
Driving in Australia really makes people Wish for a Nuclear Winter
- Karver
Ford loves defrosting glass, it's basically the best reason to own one if you live somewhere cold and wet
Not just for defrosting, also to get rid of condensation. I think it is a requirement for most homologations to be able to defrost/demist all windows. Given the position and shape, the vents aren't going to clear this window.
'I thought you were dead.'
'I was? Oh well I forgot I guess. Anyway, where we goin?
- Bruce, defying his own death
Bruce living the cheap-microphone-we-gotta-test-that dialogue life.
"So anyway mate, I was dead for a couple of years, just doing dead things. But I wasn't very good at it. Wasn't decomposing or doing entropy or nothing. So I got up and went for a drive."
"My death was greatly exaggerated."
Bruce has the ability "Regenerator" meaning it recovers hp every time it's switched out.
Bruce is holding Leftovers
Bruce stalling with sub-seed I swear
digimon nerds
Running a Regenerator-Lefties set
@@SwankyFlonkBuster69?
Jazz Philosophy is the kind of music degree that makes you an expert in describing rhythmic and tonal form in terms of color theory, thermodynamics, and an assortment of grunting noises. It's a beautiful thing.
"...and an assortment of grunting noises."
Well, that checks out.
I concur. In B#
LPG is available in like 99% of gas stations in Poland, I'm sorry to hear that for whatever reason it's dissapearing down under
And we also convert petrol engines to use LPG so they're all bi fuel, if there's no LPG it'll just run on petrol. Still more ecologic than Tesla.
Same here in the Netherlands, within 5km of me there's 2 that have it.
Don't know about out bush but in cities our taxi system went from LPG to hybrid and that took out most of the demand for it.
@@supra107I'd even take LPG hybrid electric if such a thing could be had.
No LPG in the U.S that I know of
Free tip Friday on a Monday. Bruce needs top notch ignition or he will have a spaz. Good coils and plugs. Also after your next decent drive undo the drain on the lpg converter, it builds up a waxy substance that causes it to run like poo and makes it hard to start.
I used to have a Bruce and these few things kept it running like a dream
I live in Canada. Was on a boys road trip, we were in 3 vehicles.
One guy drove an LPG pickup, a 130L tank and an 80L aux. We were on a quest to find him some more LPG before he ran out... And as we were cresting a hill, he ran out.
"I can't afford a tow truck."
"Well, we have tow straps in the Pathfinder"
150km to the nearest propane station.
So we flat towed him for 100km, found out the town 50k up the road had a propane setup, and we pulled into the Co-op and loaded it up. I was following up the rear and watching their two vehicles work in a desperate sync was definitely a sight to behold.
This is an amazing and terrible story. Man. So awful to not be able to use this cleaner, better running fuel.
@@GoingtoHecqHank Hill?
out of curiosity, what year was the pathfinder?
man, that's so weird to me. I'm in Europe and LPG is everywhere
@@cruize55 the parts finder was a 90s model. Not sure the exact year.
"Though I think there's a wheel bearing."
Good job Wade I bet there's at least four actually
I reckon what happened is that it was some sort of computer issue, and sitting for 2.5 years with no power probably caused the computer to reset, and by extension fixed the problem.
So basically,Bruce forgot that he was dying.
@@tbone2416 "local hero Bruce cures his own dementia by forgetting that he had it"
@theidealcopy_ One day Bruce will forget what his top speed is and that day will be terrifying
Maybe one of the engine sensors? Our e46 did that "randomly shutting off" because a sensor in the camshaft sent a faulty distress signal. Let me tell ya, it ain't fun having the steering wheel locked up and the brakes unsupported when the engine shuts off at 180 kilometres per hour...
@@lydiagalantmotherfmy audi A3 had a faulty crankshaft sensor and it did that too, it whould only run on cold engine, it whould stall and not start when ot warmed up
"You can put a load of smelly stuff in there"
We've found Frank's next tank upgrade!
"you cant siphon that" lemme get my ac recovery machine real quick
Yeah it's in my back pocket
Lemme get some hose clamps, some pipe, and an empty propane tank..
Propane will sub for R12 in a pinch Not legally, of course, but so what? Laws are overrated.
@@bcubed72same with the Geneva “suggestions”
@@bcubed72 R12 has been done away with. Chlorofluorocarbons were burning holes in the ozone layer. There's a reason it was banned
i absolutely love it when objects just... fix themselves. for no apparent reason. they just start working again and it makes you so happy because you had no hope for it but it just resurrects itself. i like to think that in moments like that the real magic of the universe presents itself. welcome back bruce!
The first recorded instance of necromancy!
Mechromancy
Necarmancy
both of these are great
He's not dead, he's resting. The Ford Blue pining for the Fjords
@@krissteel4074 we've had a few falcons fix themselves lol. One had a huge rear main leak, which self-sealed lol
We got Bruce back before GTA VI
WELCOME BACK BRUCE, KING OF THE NUGGETS
*Tony will remember that
The Donkey van is the real star tho.
@@tomaszzalewski4541 tony deserves nothing remember
Nugget Sheppard you mean
@@tomaszzalewski4541 You sure about that?
I’ve never been happier for a car I’ve never even rode in.
Not even my own bucket of bolts had this privilege
Bruce was tired. He just needed his nap and be a good and new.
You could still do the litre board calculations for Bruce. If you start at any given LPG station, drive to the normal start of the routes, drive the normal route, then drive back to the LPG station, you have how much fuel you used for the route plus the amount of fuel you used getting to and from the start of the route. Then refill Bruce, drive back to the start of the route and immediately back to the LPG station. That’ll get you how much fuel you used getting to and from the start of the route. Just subtract that from the total and you should have the amount of fuel you used on the route just like with every other car. It is more time and work, but it would let you put OG Bruce up on the board.
BRUCEEEEEEE
*first
BROOCE
big respect for not saying "first"
Bruuk
"Don't bring me down"
There was a bad batch of Gas 2 years ago. I work for a forklift company and we had terrible trouble with units not starting. We traced it to bad gas. We where replacing gas converters every 3 weeks and the converters where full of crap on the inside. A lot of LPG cars went up for sale at time with starting issues.
Could this crap somehow break down over time? was it like sludgy stuff? clogging Bruces injectors? I'm way too curious as to why Bruce sprang back to life...
Well, damn. I guess too high amounts of propene in the propane and the soot from burning unsaturaded hydrocarbons caked up the engines?
@@stavrosrahnos6071 could've fallen out of suspension and bonded to the bottom of the fuel tank tbh
Wait, Bruce is alive???
Bruce is alive!
Bista
He is indeed
Hi Windows XP
That is what the title of this video is telling you
"ngggh I'm trying to get up The Hill™️, but I'm dummy thicc. And the clapping of my dual spoiler/roof rack keeps shifting the gear down"
...
...
Krill
What’s with the tm
Fireball.
Bruce really just went “aight that’s enough, y’all need me, and I missed you.”
"its 20 years old" my reaction was "haha that can't be right... wait, oh god"
Speaking of the Leaf, my brother used one as a rental. It went 34 miles on a full charge. Incredible nugget.
That's probably what my dad's e bike gets on Full charge. Which is pathetic because he has a hilly commit.
To be fair, being it was a rental, that battery has likely been absolutely cooked, because as everyone knows, the fastest car in the world is a rental. (Also for some god forsaken reason nissan decided not to give the leaf a battery cooling system, so it can overheat very easily lmao)
@@mysteryboyee oh yeah, it was definitely used and abused for years. The battery lifetime isn't infinite, and they do degrade. Just thought a 34 mile max is hilarious.
Friend bought a used leaf from 2018 and it gets over 200km on a full charge. So your brother found a super nuggety one indeed.
A 2015 Leaf had a max range of 80-84 miles brand new. The new ones do about 160 miles.
I love how the dingus idiot little window also has a defroster :)
Bruce just needed a good rest and a complete power reset of the ecu.
3:56 We got a BA Falcon for free from our priest, he just gave it to us. It ran on both regular petrol AND LPG, plus it had a tow bar and towing suspension (Although I think we added that). Of course, my brother cut the springs and put holes in the exhaust when we gave it to him. He did end up fixing the exhaust as it was as loud as anything, as well as the suspension because a spring fell out of place randomly and he had to limp it back home. He also added a turbo to it, which we thought was illegal but the insurance company didn't care, so we're lucky I guess.
James is like the Australian Tony stark, someday he'll build an ark reactor with a vegimite bottle and bunch of old iphone scraps.
Or Aussie MacGyver
JAMES BUILT IT IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
It's like an dying person getting their last wind before kicking it :(
Bruce knew James was going to help in any fix and decided to stop playing sick 😂
Coming back to this video after the latest update about Bruce, they must have forgotten about the dead cylinder because James mentions it here. So Bruce was running on 5. Poor Bruce.
bruce 2 grumbling jealously in the corner
Can confirm switching off for a while works. I suffered from awful migraines from childhood. Fell into a 5 month coma. When I woke up again, no more migraines and haven't had once since.
BRUCEEE IS ALIVE
This Aussie man is legendary his enthusiasm is infectious truly amazing. And hallelujah for Bruce being alive!
From Canada I love this channel!
Get a fuel tank, fill hose, find an lpg gas mechanic and ask for an automatic lpg/benzine system. This way you have a bi-fuel car.
My uncle had a stock LPG/benz Mercedes. That nugget, despite being rusted to hell, was a true warrior.
I just hope he is wrong when he said that the LPG cars were higher compression. If they were, then there is a high likelihood for engine knock.
@@crnobog
I don't know, I have Fiat Barchetta with automatic system and it's working perfect on both LPG and benzine. It starts on benzine and after a few minutes of warming up, switches to LPG. You can also disable the LPG with a button and run on benzine. The switch between fuels is unnoticeable.
@@Raskolnikov1990 yeah, I have a Grande Punto with it and I barely notice the switch. Only if I am on low revs and the benzine pump turns off. Mine was made to be bifuel, this might have a higher compression to take advantage of the inherent high octane of LPG.
That's my only concern.
When I say made, I mean from the factory.
I have a Bruce. A hail storm wrote off my work vehicle in 2010 and I lost everything. I bought a 'Bruce' for $15k with the hope of earning money again. it ended up one of my biggest regrets since it was 'shockwave' metallic blue that had a factory flaw where all the paint peeled off. Also down on power when I bought it, also the trans failed twice. so home resprays, trans rebuild, cat blocked etc. I had owned falcons before but the BA ute with fibreglass canopy - my Bruce - sucked hard, was worse than any EB, ED, EL sedan I had. I still have the piece of crap BA ute with patched up and bad paint, faded fibreglass. Only 145k kms on it because it spent so much time off the road. It did about 13l/100km in suburban environment. Interestingly I also watched your prado fuel review. I was going to change to one but I ended up buying a 3L patrol instead. So far that is now my daily driver and that's averaging 13l/100km though I know they don't have a good engine reliability reputation, but still, I need to offload my BA falcon ute I think. It's a POS, but it's a 1 tonner and only 145k kms. Edit: Also have to add I'm an old aussie bloke (late 40s) and no longer live with my 12 y/o son but when I picked him up from school last week I brought up YT and dankpods and garbage time. My kid knew what I was talking about and we could discuss it :) . I never watched an ep with the donkey van and couldn't care less about a van (loved the wrecking yard tour) but now he knows- that I know - he's always mentioning donkey vans haha. EE: Sorry my keyboard has started to double up on some letters and miss some others.
Whenever my BA wouldn't start, I always used the following technique: Foot flat to the boards + long crank until resolved. Go the Barra!
My condolences Wade.
Double check your vacuum hoses. Had an xr8 dual fuel that wouldn't idle on LPG. Took it in for a service and mechanic found a few vacuum hoses that had come off.
are you trying to say that the hoses reattached themselves in the rest years?
2:53
Thank you for explaining that, been a couple of years since I had any classes in music theory
Its like a honey badger, gets poisoned and just needs to sleep it off.
lol
Does this mean that Bruce also just don't care?
I have never before gasped upon seeing a RUclips video this quickly, I am so excited for this even though I live literally across the world from this car and won't ever see it in person
BRUCE!
RIP Bruce
I have an 89 Dodge B250 Intervec Camper Van that I absolutely love. I drove it daily for a while two months before the starter kicked out and destroyed the ring gear on my torque converter. I might as well have chucked a grenade in the gearbox.
I’m finally having it rebuilt and am so excited for the first drive after it sat for nearly a year.
I needed some good news in my life, this is perfect. BRUCE LIVES
i guess you could call him “bullet-proof” Bruce :)
Dude, kudos to you for keeping Bruce even after you've made it in life. Everyone has down periods in life, but not all of us are keen in keeping their four wheeled buddies when everything finally goes well. Keep him til it cannot pass inspections anymore. He deserves a good home.
THE REVIVAL
Nice pfp
Nice pfp indeed
nice pfp
“On the 3rd day Bruce rose again”
Bruce 1.0 pulling out the self-revive reminds me of my dads old Hiace, which despite sitting derelict in the driveway for some seven-odd years before being sold for scrap, would still start pretty much first turn every time we needed it. Single most reliable vehicle Ive ever known.
As a German, I can say that the concept of the Ute is absolutely cool. It’s the wet dream of any Passat wagon driving dad over here.
I found this channel through Bruce's death, and now Bruce is alive again, welcome back king!
Wait, have you checked your cam and crank sensors? What you say at 8:35 sounds very much like an issue with those. I use to have a 2000 Ford Laser that suddenly started to do this, but if you left it and let it fully go cold, would happily drive for like 15 minutes. and then do it again.
That’s the joke about american cars (and I guess extended to Aussie cars). They’ll run like crap for longer than most cars will run at all
Honestly this applies to most crummy hatchbacks.
They'll suck ass,but they'll not die
That's pretty much the reason Falcons were the default Australian taxi for decades.
@@InterceptorFF the amount of ex-taxi lpg falcon I've seen with 400k+ is insane
@@InterceptorFFIn America, our default taxis (especially New York City taxis) were also Fords but were Crown Victoria's aka Crown Vics. Crown Vics were our Falcons for decades and are still in use today especially in law enforcement and by federal agencies. Unfortunately in NYC in 2013 the Vics were phased out.
I've recently just discovered this channel, binged EVERYTHING!!! OMG! You've a gaming channel too. Never stop making content. Learning a lot about the Aussie car industry.
this guy is becoming more polish every second, first tony, now LPG bruce
@4:34 The EV infrastructure is a big problem in the USA. Our normal wall plugs are only 110v instead of the usual 220 in places like Europe and Asia. You need to pull permits from the local government to get permission to have an electrician add a 220v plug to your house. Which can make your homeowners insurance rise cause of the additional fire hazard (I know it's not a hazard but the insurance company would argue otherwise). It's a headache and a money pit. The same problem exists for fuel stations where they have to spend a bunch of extra money and do paperwork to allow ev charging. I live in Florida, where there's only 3 charging stations in my whole county, and the nearest one is about 40 mins away from my house and an hour from my work. So for those reasons I got my Honda Odyssey for the family and my CB for getting to work and hanging out with friends. In the US, outside of California and New York, it's a death sentence for an average working stiff's wallet to afford an EV, especially after you factor in all the additional costs.
Bruce is Alive?, now i can sleep better tonight.
It's good to see Bruce come back. I've got the same year model of BA, but in sedan format. Petrol engine instead of gas. It's had some problems (I've had to replace the water pump, the power steering pipes, the brake discs TWICE, the heater doesn't work) but I love my Birdie. She just soldiers on and has thus far always got me back home.
The Australian truck style is something I am very envious of. Reminds me of the Subaru Brat.
Agreed. I love these silly little trucks. Same bed space, but more efficient than american trucks, they are so awesome
They're called utes
Yep we got the Subaru Brat in Aus too with the Rear Seats.
I wish el Caminos/el ranchero still existed
Current internet kind of ruined the word brat sadly
depending on what circle you lurk in
came here from dankpods then went looking at james' page and realized I was already subscribed from his random console mod videos!
BRUCE IS BACK! PRAISE FRANK!
Frank smells. 😂
@@omfgbunder2008 crap good point….. uhhhhh….. PRAISE ANYONE BUT FRANK!
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! BRUCE, YOU’VE RETURNED! :D The great nugget shepherd is here for us. And the fact he just came back with nothing done to it feels like the most ol’ reliable Bruce thing ever.
Ok i'm leaving my focus parked for 2 and half years
To add insult to injury, the bed in one of these chunky Aussie utes is only about 10cm shorter than those dreadful tanks the yankies drive.
Dishonor on GM and Ford for killing the Utes. Hyundai got close with the Santa Cruz but they kept five seats and made the bed uselessly small. So close, Korea, SO CLOSE.
Its dead... its alive....... its done did it again guys....
6:27 That's not it you can also press those buttons for where you want those fans including you can choose defrost or not
BRUCE IS BACK YALL
Drake casually catching strays in 2:53 lmfao, we love that. Welcome back indeed, Brucy!
"LPG, none is syphoning that! I would love to see somone try" That sounds like a chalange..
my car does have LPG i could tryyyy.
try with an ac recovery machine
You either succeed or go out in a blaze of glory
@@arandomcomp2427 Speaking of which,mine was just a suggestion 😅
When i worked for the towing company a flatbed with 768,000 miles. Or for the french measurement users: 1,235,976 kilometers. Long live the Isuzu H6 diesel Inline 6
Welcome back to life, Bruce!!
I have waited YEARS for this!
we got bruce revival before gta 6
Might wanna get an adapter hose for filling it off of 20 liter grill bottles, yea the upcharge on tank-exchange grill gas vs point-of-service refills of road gas is extortionate but it'll get you some extra bit of range to go find somewhere to fill it properly at. All you gotta do to use a grill tank is turn it upside down, motor-fuel LPG tanks are liquid-discharge but consumer LPG tanks are gas discharge, saw a guy blow his grill up one time trying to use a forklift LPG keg on a barbecue grill cause he didn't know he needed to flip it over.
Never thought I'd be so happy to see a car again.
Im so glad Bruce was brought back to life!
I have a petrol XR6 version of Bruce in the same color. So happy right now. Cant wait to see him more on the channel 😁
THE LEGEND LIVES
I wish we had utes here in the States, that would be perfect for me. A truck would be useful, but I don't need a giant monstrosity.
Happy to see Bruce back. anyone else notice the missing lug nut. I hope it is just a different lug nut and not one actually missing.
Could you just hook up a propane grill cylinder with the right hose to fill her up like a jerry can? Or would the pressure be too low
Music theorists racing to be like “ehrm actually B# does exist”
6:30 mate slapped ads onto my screen, i was so stunned that i watched both of them. 11/10 would click again
Sounds like you have a LPG Converter Issue. There's a prime solenoid and an idle one. The prime one sounds like its going, hence the "crankcrankvroomputterdead" but the other isn't. The idle solenoid turns on when ECU see's a crank signal from the Crank Sensor. BlueLPG are an Aussie company that sell an entire replacement gas converter, new stepper motors, seals, solenoids and such (anything factory ford LPG basically). Could be a few things. Firstly if the solenoids electronics are a bit crusty or sad, or the mechanical valve itself is borked, this could be your issue. Or potentially your crank sensor/wiring as eluded to earlier, not telling the solenoid to open. Otherwise the connector for the solenoid could be the issue. Other common issue is the connector for the LPG converter wiring harness to the body's harness above the exhaust manifold. Because of its location it gets really hot a lot and the pins don't connect good no more. Just swap it with two Deutsch connectors and presto. Sometimes it'll just fix itself. Cooler temps sometimes changed behavior too. Other thought I had that can sometimes cause this is the wiring to the throttle body being damaged. On the front side of the throttle body mechanism there's a connector with a red safety thingo, and the wiring is typically pulled quite tight and sometimes get damaged. Hopefully something in this helped.
eat your heart out Bruce 2!
That mentor is a true friend.
>dies
>lays dormant for 2 years
>starts working again
The power of Bruce the Ute.
Sometimes we all need a lil smoko mate
he was just catching some zs
He’s alive!
BRRUUUCCCIIEEEEE
BRRRUUCCIEEESS BAAACCCKKKK
Bruce and Bruce 2 are such an iconic duo.
It's so weird seeing a propane powered car. I've only ever seen propane forklifts
Quite common to see LPG powered American cars here in Europe (as in, the few American cars you do see), because they already eat a lot of fuel, so might as well convert it to LPG so at least it doesn't cost all that much
My dad had one of these, the same thing but a wagon instead of a ute
After a while the gas converter gets clogged up after its seals start to perish - Danks situation is familiar.
We got it fixed with a reco unit for about $800 but it's hard to find that - there's seemingly only one place in Adelaide that can do it.
It was such a good cruiser. Dad didn't like the seating position but I found it comfortable.
@@istvanlorinczi2817 aftermarket lpg kits decrease the performance by like 10-15% tho
@@ozan1234561 true, but trust me, 85% of what 400 horsepower is more then enough for our roads, and if you already throw money around to this point, you could easily get that power back if it isn't enough
@@ozan1234561 who cares american cars are incredibly overpowered
He is risen, praise be to Bruce
GIRL WAKE UP SHOUTY AUSTRALIA MAN UPLOADED AGAIN