Revving the engine up to 7000rpm immediately after major surgery, Bunnings bolts, head bolts that are on their way out, and on a dodgy head gasket? RESPECT
@@LBJshowedmehisJThis is the first I’ve heard of that etymology, but I can see it making sense, as someone from the US state of Georgia, the “Goober State” (though it’s still known for peaches more so). Also the home of Jimmy Carter, the recent centenarian, who took his family’s peanut farm into agribusiness before he went into politics.
This series has been 20x better than any car ad ever could be. You replaced its blood with poison, thrashed its bearings, reused a _head gasket,_ tightened wonky bolts to questionable spec and yet all it needed was oil stabilizer. That's... I can't put into words how baffling that is.
the coolant passages being so clean actually make sense, the acids in the Pepsi basically make it a pseudo-OAT coolant. That is also the correct type of coolant you want to use on a mixed metal engine! The goob loves the Pepsi
So you’re telling me… that Pepsi might actually be a viable semi-long term alternative for coolant? Maybe I should’ve been using Pepsi for my civic! Woulda run mint, I’m sure of it
@@boss_bonard7573 I actually managed to find a chart comparing pH levels, regular Pepsi has a pH of 2.53 and Zero Sugar Pepsi is at about 2.7. Diet Pepsi is also about 2.7 So actually, sugar free/diet is *slightly* less acidic than regular Pepsi. If that chart is correct, anyways.
Wade: *Tries to destroy the Goober in multiple ways* Wade: *Puts liquid Nutella in the engine as oil* Also Wade: "Oh no! The consequences of my actions!"
@@burp2019 From what they said it essentially acted as a coolant flush so if they put real coolant in there the cooling system would run like it's brand new again.
Something broke inside me when I spent 20 minutes watching you being very careful and cleaning the engine, taking precautions and then the next frame is just dumping back pepsi into it; I can’t lmao
The Bearded Mechanic: do absolute bare minimum to a motorcycle that hasn't run in decades, inevitably break, attempt rescue. The score so far is 3/1 in broken/actually driven.
james can do just about anything, he can fix pretty much any videogame console ever made, he can shove a whole game console inside of one of its own cartridges and make it play itself, he can make a gameboy use a crt as its display, he can crush metal tools by accidentally stepping on them, he can bring a dead lightbulb back to life when by all logic it shouldnt have been able to function anymore, thats only like 0.01% of what he has done over the years... this man can do so much unimaginable stuff so i dont think necromancy is something thats off the table for his list of skills.. but one thing is for certain, we all need a james in our life.
I'm honestly jealous of James. I'm pretty much certain that every professional mechanic dreams of just doing the opposite of every industry practice just to see what happens. At least, I do.
@@dirkbastiaandejong997 The best worst thing a car can do is go airborne for a short time or do a flip. Neither of which I can see the Goober doing in the foreseeable future.
My workplace is sometimes like that. We have some crapped out 60 years old machines that have a 2 months deadline right now to be put in the dump but are still running and we just do this sort of crap on them just to massage them back into life for a while longer. We don't have to care about the 10-year performance of a bearing, the oil can leak for all I care, I will just pour it back in from the tray, she'll be fiiiiine. Relay blew? I will just swap them around until it's good. It's such a breath of fresh air after changing out complicated and messy parts to new ones lol
It's like 2 surgeons shot a person in the legs, forced them to walk, then started multiple surgeries to save them, all while wondering why they can't walk anymore
This whole series is like a horrific mashup of Warhammer 40k and Idiocracy. Two Techpriests pour chocolate and Pepsi into their transport in a desperate attempt to appease the machine spirit. And somehow, it actually bloody works.
Goober is really a 40k Dreadnought...Not allowed to die and forever serving 💀 These two are really two techpriests having the time of their life 😂 The machine spirit just really liked Pepsi.
@@dcurry7287 The Goober is kept alive by pure WAAAGH! energy at this point. Either that or the goober is like the golden throne; requires 1000 bottles of Pepsi a day to keep it alive.
I can't believe you guys abused the goober car back into functionality after basically destroying it beyond what most sane mechanics would go to fix a car. I also love that James decided to fully go for it and see what happens with the reused bolts and impact driver. James just going mad with power that he'd otherwise professionally never do
Honestly, if James Channel is anything to go by, he's just practising immense restraint in the professional environment, and this is his natural behaviour.
😅So...like a typical Malaysian source:I am a Malaysian...and we are well known to be the one with the highest amount of overweight person (percentage wiseat around 53 percent) in South East Asia
The sheer amount of panic I'm having over this dumb little nugget car when James was tightening the bolts is unmatched. The nervous giggling from Wade is the cherry on top.
"customer states the car has been having some issues ever since they replaced coolant with pepsi and oil with Nutella, mostly runs though. Customer seems peeved at the car's continued survival"
"Mechanics found a strange grit in the engine, and when the customer was asked about it, they said they thought they had gotten all the Nutella out, but they guess clearly not"
@@DiamondKingStudios Right? That car was damned from the moment the contract was signed. The only thing keeping it from being the next test subject is its black and tan
@@Oregonjoe90 In ten years, it will have reached the age where some millionaire Mercedes enthusiast will want to buy it from Wade for static display in his museum or private collection, and that’s the only fate it deserves. It’s a beautiful car, but it shouldn’t be out on the road.
@@masterkamen371He also uses that march they named in honor of the short-reigning Kaiser Friedrich III, which I spent forever trying to find not knowing its name. Maybe it’s easier for him because the recordings are at least a century old (generally) and thus tend to more relate to WWI. I would like to know the names of some of the other marches, including if there are any British, Australian, or American ones (which there probably are). Rarely does RUclips auto-detection throw us a bone like they did here for one.
Wade and James trying to seriously fix the donkey van: Instantly kills it Wade and James trying to kill the Goober: Goober keeps refusing to forever sleep
Worth mentioning hazelnut the main ingredient in Nutella. Crushed wallnut shells are often used as a sand blasting medium. I know there not exactly the same thing but to me in the first video seemed extremely like what happens when you add an abrasive material to you engine oil, and I've haven't really been too surprised to hear how it's going.
@@oilybrakes I don't know how the sugar would have reacted with the oil but it dissolves in water, so it's no longer solid or abrasive. The cocoa powder might be a similar situation, but seems more likely to cause real trouble.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio The sugar will not react with the oil, but it will caramelize due to the heat. Thus, crystalizing, coating everything and basically getting into all the same spots as the cocoa powder and the nuts.
@@oilybrakesfunny thing is that Nutella actually has more processed sugar by weight than chocolate syrup, but I think the fact Nutella contains Palm Oil prevented the sugar from caramelizing
That headgasket is a champ , holding 200psi on most cylinders is insane. Cant believe the goober lives crazy people redo an engine so careful and precise,then start it up and it be junk but this car is healed flawlessly
@@KurosakiYukigo the stability of protons is widely studied in physics. Their minimum half-life is so many orders of magnitude beyond the age of the universe that they are in practice indestructible. I fully expect the Goober to outlast blackholes.
My dad used to be a car mechanic. He ran a shop with his brothers and his dad. I've shown him the goober videos, and it's the most entertaining thing ever😂 He gets so annoyed at the stupidity, but he can't look away and actively goes for the next video available every time😂 So thanks for annoying my dad into pure confused fascination, you legends 👌
Glad to see James smiling again, it's a pleasure to see Wade maintain a healthy fun/working on a CLS balance. I can see the valve head was torqued down to German specifications: guten tight.
I love how you guys are going through all this effort and still using the old head gasket which can undo all your work, meaning you'll have to rebuild again.
We don't know how much James costs, but I'm sure that's at least competitive with his real job, where he doesn't get to put Nutella in people's engines.
Probably about comparable for initial purchase price. Brand new tech ranges between like $500-$4000 USD, most of Wades cars range between $0-$5000 USD. Except Wade usually ends up sinking a lot of cash into repairs, so at the end of the day he’s probably paying a little bit more.
@@panickedshears He promised not to buy new parts for the Goober tho (aside from, obviously, oil, oil filter, pepsi...). The greatest difference is work hours, I'd say that if you were to guess they put in 10x the time in the goober than Zack does for a phone, it still would be a low guess
@@prgnify I’m pretty sure they also reused an oil filter at some point. After they took out the old oil filter and used the new one for Nutella, they dug the old one out of the trash and reused it. What I meant though was just in general Wade spends money on repairs. Plus James’ wages, which is basically a nonnegotiable fee for these videos.
People turbo the CamPros and they can make silly power, usually in the Satria Neos in Malaysia. Malaysians simply persevere when it comes to their mighty national car.
The Goober just allows James to pull off the most sadistic ideas that he wouldnt professionally try on any other customers car, or his own. What a machine.
I broke down in tears of frustration when I saw the pepsi going back in. 10/10 series will recommend to all of my friends. Also shout-out wade for the commentary. I kinda know how an engine works but not super well yet I never feel talked down to or lost when James is taking it apart & its all entertaining. Love ya work.
Long time viewer and I realized I have never commented: Thank You! I never thought I would be interested in cars but the chemistry and reckless love you two bring to these machines is intoxicating. From the goofy Goober videos to the serious surgeries it's always fun.
@@esven9263 I may be wrong but I believe a similar concept is used in the injectors of many steam engines. Can anyone back this up / correct me? Is certainly an interesting concept
Usually everything in a mechanics shop is slick as F because of all the oil on every surface. Not in this shop, everything is Sticky as F instead from Pepsi and Nutella. Lmao.
Goober after literally committing a painful martyrdom - still thriving My 11yrs old Mercedes E-class after being taken good care of - dying every single day bcuz of literally everything
I swear that james guy can cure cancer with how smart he is but instead he is fixing a car filled with pepsi and nutella without replacing even the most basic parts
10:33 that vacuum is the result of the venturi effect."As the fluid with the higher speed enters the smaller cross-section, it creates a vacuum". I used to use those in chemistry a lot!
Man this was such a roller coaster of emotions for me. -Taking the engine apart: a bit worried. -Inspecting the pistons: "that looks bad." -Reusing the head gasket: rather uncomfortable. -Reusing the *head bolts*: straight anxious, like I was legitimately stressed out at the thought of the bolts snapping, and that part went on for ages, too :( -Using an impact wrench on the head bolts: "NooOooOOoO" :O -Return of bunnings bolts: yay, bunnings again :) -Bunnings bolts acting weird: hmmm?? -Putting pepsi in again: yeah, we're so back! Let's goo -Utilising silicon on the top cover again: hm, I guess it worked the last couple of times ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Adding oil pressure gauge: "very interesting..." -oil pressure exists: hooray -goober overheats on test drive: "oh man, I hope it just suffers from too little pepsi" -oil stabiliser and moar pepsi: "yeeaa, that's more like it" and the goober just works now??? hahaha Like seriously, this was more exciting than some movies that I've watched, I'm actually emotionally invested in the Goober Saga now lol. I'm sure the music selection, timing, and overall editing style play a big part in achieving that, too. Thanks for making these videos
Serious side note: I love how this series is accessible and hilarious for people with all levels of car knowledge. I have a little more car knowledge than the general population and I appreciate the small captions explaining what things are or the quick phrasing in the video itself of what's going on. My boyfriend, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of engines and cars, finds it just as hilarious, interesting, and entertaining as I do!
I'm about to start my third beer in celebration of this video sir! Strong beers, like the barely make it back to the fridge stuff! I'm really really happy to see the goober working again! Also I was really just happy to see you posted on this channel! But thank you, really, this made my Friday night.
James' full name is actually James Frankenstein with a master degree in necromancy attained by working with a rural sketchy car-salesman. The twitching corpse has had the bile and necrosis pulled out from it, and was meticulously patched together from its previously decaying parts.
As a mechanic I was getting anxiety watching your guys pushing it to the higher torque. Its not like i’ve ever known the feeling of snapped bolts before lol
Its either the lotus designed engine or itll be some old fashioned engine with all the added tech to make emission friendly like fuel injection. Older stuff tends to be bullet proof. For example ford did a 1.3 petrol and they were used up until early 2000s from around the 70s. A guy we bought a car off run a scrap yard and said they would banger them in the yard after draining the oil. Theyd run then heat seize, leave to cool down and would go again. I would assume this is why this emgine can take it. I may be wrong but i cant see a modern engine handling the abuse.
I KNEW IT! I've been telling my roommates for WEEKS that the middle piston ring that distributes oil along the cylinder walls was going to be absolutely ravaging the cylinder walls now that it's full of hazelnut and every time you opened her up you stopped short of inspecting the pistons and I'm just starting the video but HAH! I'll edit this with my shame if I turn out to be wrong but I'm confident that this is exactly what I've been waiting for for weeks! What a treasure you've given us, using Nutella as lubricant you mad lad lmao Edit: This engine has the ring I mentioned on the bottom, not the middle, but it clearly did wear at the cylinder wall so I feel vindicated enough even if the damage wasn't as awful as I expected
Phew this is your best video yet!! Oh my god, I watch these because this is the borked jerry rigged car channel and then you go ahead and make it work with the most extreme jank borking!! Amazing. The jank just kept piling up ever since you decided to reuse head gaskets lmao.
I'm not a car guy, I don't drive etc., but I watch all of those videos. It's both entertaining but also gives pretty... unique insight into the engineering, and engineering I'm always into :D
4:36, and this is the moment that made me decide, i dont think i wanna be a mechanic like dear old dad. Now that i think about it, maybe he's bald because of how often you're stuck tearing your hair out over tools that won't cooperate
Seeing yall treat a car like a toy is both insane and amazing at the same time, I dont know how to feel lol, but I am watching it like a train wreck. Seeing James do his magic is shocking. Keep up the good work... for lack of better words lol
Me: I need to baby my 2004 Toyota Camry so it runs as long as possible and I need to get everything checked out. Any weird noise is concerning Wade and James: THIS NUGGET RUNS ON NUTELLA, PEPSI AND DREAMS
I got this notification and sighed like a disappointed father
Honestly? Same reaction.
THEY FIXED IT
Not the only one omg
*sigh* here we go
Lol. I wasn't surprised when I read the title on the notification.
Ruin YOUR engine in just ONE DAY with this one SIMPLE TRICK! Auto mechanics HATE him!
W comment
Specifically ones named James.
@@DiamondKingStudiosexactly
@@DiamondKingStudios Nah... I would refuse this client. Not going to work on that if it weren't for shits and giggles.
@@MartijnMcFly It's all giggles and farts until somebody sharts.
> Tries to break the goober
> Goober breaks
> *Suprised pikachu*
Underrated comment
I'm getting deja vu... Was this in the previous video?
Edit:Jeff isn't stinky no more, since like a year ago lol.
Edit 2: LONG LIVE THE GOOOOOOOBER!!!
Truly a 0: moment
surprised pikachu in 2024..
@@memphis1780 and?
"you're really not meant to reuse a head gasket"
Yeah you're not really meant to fill your car with pepsi and Nutella either
The Pepsi works fine, I think
But yeah, not really classifiable as nomral
Normal
@@chrisbrasher6177 for now
Revving the engine up to 7000rpm immediately after major surgery, Bunnings bolts, head bolts that are on their way out, and on a dodgy head gasket? RESPECT
i would not want to be anywhere near that thing going at full tilt
horrifying ngl
she’s either gonna live or she’s gonna die, might as well find out quick
Saying you’ve Killed the Goober implies this was unintentional
This was a Murder. You have Murdered the poor Goober
100% They murdered the poor thing. It survived longer than I thought it would
It LIVES
Watch the whole video
Watch the whole video first smh...
they kept stabbing it and it's still living. with a respirator and probably not for very long but it's living
So I guess Goober had a nut allergy. Which is really ironic because Goobers are a brand of chocolate coated peanuts...
yes but peanuts are not nuts if they used peanut butter instead of Nutella it would have been fine
Considering the word "Goober" came from the Kongo name for the peanut (which was "nguba"), it is fairly ironic.
@@LBJshowedmehisJThis is the first I’ve heard of that etymology, but I can see it making sense, as someone from the US state of Georgia, the “Goober State” (though it’s still known for peaches more so).
Also the home of Jimmy Carter, the recent centenarian, who took his family’s peanut farm into agribusiness before he went into politics.
Yep… this goober got coated in chocolate, inside and out. They fulfilled the Goober’s destiny without even realizing it.
see, that's the thing, it was hazelnuts.
If they'd used reeses' peanut butter cups, this would have been fine.
This series has been 20x better than any car ad ever could be. You replaced its blood with poison, thrashed its bearings, reused a _head gasket,_ tightened wonky bolts to questionable spec and yet all it needed was oil stabilizer.
That's... I can't put into words how baffling that is.
I am also intrigued by how much abuse this car takes and continues to run. Definitely something to look for in my next car.
At this point I'm more interested in the Goober saga than Tavarish's McLaren
Not that he's interested in it either
@@Augnos Every car can take a lot of abuse with an insane enough mechanic and poor road safety ethics!
Please keep in mind it's barely run
@@ip0dhacker007 this and jameskii yugo
the coolant passages being so clean actually make sense, the acids in the Pepsi basically make it a pseudo-OAT coolant. That is also the correct type of coolant you want to use on a mixed metal engine! The goob loves the Pepsi
So you’re telling me… that Pepsi might actually be a viable semi-long term alternative for coolant?
Maybe I should’ve been using Pepsi for my civic! Woulda run mint, I’m sure of it
@@panickedshears maybe sugar free pepsi, cant imagine the sugar being good long term. Although it should stay dissolved within normal temperatures
@@boss_bonard7573 Maybe, i wonder what the difference between sugar free Pepsi and regular Pepsi are in terms of acidity though.
@@panickedshears good question, i would imagine them being the same
@@boss_bonard7573 I actually managed to find a chart comparing pH levels, regular Pepsi has a pH of 2.53 and Zero Sugar Pepsi is at about 2.7. Diet Pepsi is also about 2.7
So actually, sugar free/diet is *slightly* less acidic than regular Pepsi. If that chart is correct, anyways.
Wade: *Tries to destroy the Goober in multiple ways*
Wade: *Puts liquid Nutella in the engine as oil*
Also Wade: "Oh no! The consequences of my actions!"
"I'm just hoping the problem is a lack of pepsi"
Unique sentences on a CAR REPAIR
incredible that the Pepsi had barely any impact on it
@@burp2019 From what they said it essentially acted as a coolant flush so if they put real coolant in there the cooling system would run like it's brand new again.
>video titled We've absolutely ruined The Goober.
>looks inside
>they actually fixed the car
*picture of a close up cat*
>look inside
>wires
>look inside
>Pepsi and Nutella
>My reaction: 😟
One time im happy about click bait, kept the surprise till the end
He's been destroyed because he works properly instead of quirkily now 😭
Judging by how they "fixed" it, I assume that the engine has now the same reliability as Tony's
Something broke inside me when I spent 20 minutes watching you being very careful and cleaning the engine, taking precautions and then the next frame is just dumping back pepsi into it; I can’t lmao
Pepsi is the coolant 😂 pretty sure that actually got put in prior to the nutella
@@Husnain237it was prior and it ran just fine
This channel is hell and I love every bit of it
Something broke inside of the goober too.
Yeah because if they run it without the pepsi it'll overheat, duh
"I guess that's the smell of burning Nutella and Pepsi" is not what you should hear from a car show, but here we are.
Other channels: Rescue barn find.
Wade channel: Intentionally ruin working car, attempt rescue.
Werent some channels exposed for actually destroying the thing and then playing it in reverse so that it seems like its been restored?
The Bearded Mechanic: do absolute bare minimum to a motorcycle that hasn't run in decades, inevitably break, attempt rescue. The score so far is 3/1 in broken/actually driven.
27:57 James might actually be a necromancer
Fr bro
Fr bro.
Fr bro
Fr bro
james can do just about anything, he can fix pretty much any videogame console ever made, he can shove a whole game console inside of one of its own cartridges and make it play itself, he can make a gameboy use a crt as its display, he can crush metal tools by accidentally stepping on them, he can bring a dead lightbulb back to life when by all logic it shouldnt have been able to function anymore, thats only like 0.01% of what he has done over the years... this man can do so much unimaginable stuff so i dont think necromancy is something thats off the table for his list of skills.. but one thing is for certain, we all need a james in our life.
The goober officially has been goobered.
the goobs been goobed
You beat me too it.
Goobered has been goober
Get goobed.
The Goober is fixed!
I'm honestly jealous of James. I'm pretty much certain that every professional mechanic dreams of just doing the opposite of every industry practice just to see what happens. At least, I do.
Long as it doesn't involve submersible craft eh?
@possibly8180 or aircraft. But as long as it stays on solid ground it does sound hilarious to do.
Just get a job with My Car
@@dirkbastiaandejong997 The best worst thing a car can do is go airborne for a short time or do a flip. Neither of which I can see the Goober doing in the foreseeable future.
My workplace is sometimes like that. We have some crapped out 60 years old machines that have a 2 months deadline right now to be put in the dump but are still running and we just do this sort of crap on them just to massage them back into life for a while longer. We don't have to care about the 10-year performance of a bearing, the oil can leak for all I care, I will just pour it back in from the tray, she'll be fiiiiine. Relay blew? I will just swap them around until it's good. It's such a breath of fresh air after changing out complicated and messy parts to new ones lol
i literally burst out laughing full volume when Wade said "yehhh, 4th go on that gasket"
James, if Wade is keeping you hostage in this garage for content, repeat the phrase "Wade is keeping me hostage here for content" three times!
James is running the operation what do you mean?
It's like 2 surgeons shot a person in the legs, forced them to walk, then started multiple surgeries to save them, all while wondering why they can't walk anymore
this is too accurate
Kinda more like two medics going full Mengele with a guy just seing how much he can take
you’ve just described japan’s ww2 actions
And now he's a world class sprinter 😂
The Goober in the sellers place: Oh a person is going to buy me. I will be a good car for him. Some months later: RELEASE ME PLEASE!!!
i like to think that the goober bears all this honorably
he didn't even buy it he traded a drum kit for it
@@snichelsticks8653 Like an old Russian POW.
"HAH! You think that will kill me? MORE PEPSI CYKA!"
@@snichelsticks8653 It's for science. The greater good. The greater goober :P
The Goober soldiers on out of spite. It will not so easily be killed
When you realise Tony got off lightly 😂😂😂
tonys watching and thinking, better you than me mate.
@@redflthcui Counting his blessings, plotting how to escape the chopping block while they're busy with the goober
The thing is, he actually likes Tony, he bought this specifically to abuse it, it's like the ladas of garage 54.
Tony was lovingly fixed up, the Goober was abused and put back together in as dodgy a manner as you can
can't use pepsi as coolant in good old tony, he's air cooled
James with the whole day ahead of him: *precision and up to the manual with every bolt*
James when he wants to go home: *fucken rattle gun it*
This whole series is like a horrific mashup of Warhammer 40k and Idiocracy.
Two Techpriests pour chocolate and Pepsi into their transport in a desperate attempt to appease the machine spirit. And somehow, it actually bloody works.
Goober is really a 40k Dreadnought...Not allowed to die and forever serving 💀
These two are really two techpriests having the time of their life 😂
The machine spirit just really liked Pepsi.
A horrific mashup of 40k and Idiocracy.
So, orks.
@@dcurry7287 Yeah, that's pretty much orks in every way
@@dcurry7287 The Goober is kept alive by pure WAAAGH! energy at this point.
Either that or the goober is like the golden throne; requires 1000 bottles of Pepsi a day to keep it alive.
The machine spirits were hangry
I can't believe you guys abused the goober car back into functionality after basically destroying it beyond what most sane mechanics would go to fix a car. I also love that James decided to fully go for it and see what happens with the reused bolts and impact driver. James just going mad with power that he'd otherwise professionally never do
This series is literally James just giving in to his darkest temptations and answering the call to the void
He knows how to fix cars so he knows how to break this one spectacularly.
This is how many cars are kept on the road in less wealthy countries.
Reused bolts and gasket?
If it runs, it runs. Better than walking.
Honestly, if James Channel is anything to go by, he's just practising immense restraint in the professional environment, and this is his natural behaviour.
the goober probably has type 2 diabetes with all of this sugar thats being forcibly put into it
next time I hope they give the goober some diet bepsi
😅So...like a typical Malaysian
source:I am a Malaysian...and we are well known to be the one with the highest amount of overweight person (percentage wiseat around 53 percent) in South East Asia
Type 5 :O
u mean type r diabetes?
The sheer amount of panic I'm having over this dumb little nugget car when James was tightening the bolts is unmatched. The nervous giggling from Wade is the cherry on top.
I love how the goober went from gone to working again as if it wasn't subject to nutella twice over
You killed the goober, spat on its corpse, brought it back from death. It certainly is spooktober
Proton: Let's make a really stupidly reliable engine that can survive Malaysian weather.
Two Aussies: Let's try to kill it
Is it really Proton's creation thou 🤔
@@K0Y0I_sis it is (partially helped by Lotus which they did own at the time)
@@K0Y0I_sisyes unlike perdana,first gen waja,old saga,wira and satria which using mitsubishi motor
Still an awful fuel hungry engine in Malaysia
@@shahrulnizam4713one of the more reliable engines. Still more reliable than the new gas cars.
Take it to a mechanic and tell them it sounds weird
"customer states the car has been having some issues ever since they replaced coolant with pepsi and oil with Nutella, mostly runs though. Customer seems peeved at the car's continued survival"
@@JeffDvrx "customer reused head gasket"
@@Gamix355"customer added oil flush kit and never drained the oil"
@@Hawk7886 customer used sh!tbox oil
"Mechanics found a strange grit in the engine, and when the customer was asked about it, they said they thought they had gotten all the Nutella out, but they guess clearly not"
This episode makes me wish there was an uncensored version. I want to hear the pure hatred James has for the CLS
I’d be annoyed too if I took it on a car wash and I got soaked, or on my friend’s behalf if it did so to him.
@@DiamondKingStudios Right? That car was damned from the moment the contract was signed. The only thing keeping it from being the next test subject is its black and tan
@@Oregonjoe90 In ten years, it will have reached the age where some millionaire Mercedes enthusiast will want to buy it from Wade for static display in his museum or private collection, and that’s the only fate it deserves. It’s a beautiful car, but it shouldn’t be out on the road.
I’d love if Wade did lengthened uncensored cuts on Floatplane
For someone who wants to learn about car engines and found this randomly, this is the best way to teach diagnostics and maintenance.
You two are a unique variety of insanity, and giving me wholly new confidence in mucking about with an old car.
It's a weird feeling to look forward to something happening, while simultaneously being disappointed that it did
It is you
it is such a sight to see someone with the same weird venn diagram of interests as yourself.
Hey look it's the guy who talks about animations and told me my hair smells bad, how have you been?
I can't explain why, but your choice of backing music for this channel makes the product much greater than the sum of it's parts, bravo
He has the balls to regularly use "Alte Kameraden" in RUclips videos. Huge respect for him. Channels have been terminated for far less.
@@masterkamen371He also uses that march they named in honor of the short-reigning Kaiser Friedrich III, which I spent forever trying to find not knowing its name.
Maybe it’s easier for him because the recordings are at least a century old (generally) and thus tend to more relate to WWI.
I would like to know the names of some of the other marches, including if there are any British, Australian, or American ones (which there probably are). Rarely does RUclips auto-detection throw us a bone like they did here for one.
Falooza approved
Wade and James trying to seriously fix the donkey van: Instantly kills it
Wade and James trying to kill the Goober: Goober keeps refusing to forever sleep
Worth mentioning hazelnut the main ingredient in Nutella.
Crushed wallnut shells are often used as a sand blasting medium.
I know there not exactly the same thing but to me in the first video seemed extremely like what happens when you add an abrasive material to you engine oil, and I've haven't really been too surprised to hear how it's going.
if only Momma Nugg taught her son the difference between chocolate sauce and a *hazelnut spread*, the Goober may still be with us today.
This is such a great ad for the car. This amount of abuse and refusal to spend any money on new parts and its still functional. Absolutely insane
For us Americans, it’s “Move to Australia! We have the indestructible *PROTON* out here”
@@DiamondKingStudios Proton is malaysian lmao. I live in Australia and they aren't too common
@@mahditaher2787 I meant that as they sell them in Australia, but they don’t here in the US
it's interesting because if they had used chocolate syrup instead of nutella, this might have had less issues
You sir are a genius
The sugar would've killed it the same. But... At least sugar is water-soluble. Nuts are not. But neither is cacao powder. So... Same thing at the end.
@@oilybrakes I don't know how the sugar would have reacted with the oil but it dissolves in water, so it's no longer solid or abrasive. The cocoa powder might be a similar situation, but seems more likely to cause real trouble.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio
The sugar will not react with the oil, but it will caramelize due to the heat.
Thus, crystalizing, coating everything and basically getting into all the same spots as the cocoa powder and the nuts.
@@oilybrakesfunny thing is that Nutella actually has more processed sugar by weight than chocolate syrup, but I think the fact Nutella contains Palm Oil prevented the sugar from caramelizing
That headgasket is a champ , holding 200psi on most cylinders is insane. Cant believe the goober lives crazy people redo an engine so careful and precise,then start it up and it be junk but this car is healed flawlessly
This is only adding to my theory that Protons are just indestructible.
@@KurosakiYukigoAs a native Malaysian, I can tell you for sure that Protons are basically immortal until they aren't.
@@KurosakiYukigo the stability of protons is widely studied in physics. Their minimum half-life is so many orders of magnitude beyond the age of the universe that they are in practice indestructible. I fully expect the Goober to outlast blackholes.
A meticulous rebuild is never junk
This is hands down the best car content on RUclips I've seen in years!
apology for poor english
when were you when goober dies?
i was sat at home eating Nutella when James ring
‘Goober is kill’
‘no’
I enjoy your comment very much, made me laugh
You should get one of those pre-purchase inspections where a mechanic tells you if you should buy a car or not.
Oh god I would love that soo much
And to think that we drink engine coolant like it's nothing
This poor car keeps trying to bring you love and you keep dunking on it. It deserves a good retirement.
STOP HE'S ALREADY DEAD.
Next episode: "We drove the goober off a cliff into the ocean. Can we bring it back?"
he's very much still alive thank you
He (The Goober) is alive. He literally said:I'm not dead!
My dad used to be a car mechanic. He ran a shop with his brothers and his dad. I've shown him the goober videos, and it's the most entertaining thing ever😂 He gets so annoyed at the stupidity, but he can't look away and actively goes for the next video available every time😂
So thanks for annoying my dad into pure confused fascination, you legends 👌
This is the kind of mechanical sympathy, care and respect that you don’t even see on channels like M539 restorations.
Good work James
Glad to see James smiling again, it's a pleasure to see Wade maintain a healthy fun/working on a CLS balance.
I can see the valve head was torqued down to German specifications: guten tight.
remember when this Wade promised an entire series of newbies learning how to drive a car in the Goober? me neither
I ‘member.
I think all his friends are too scared of the goober!
noone is worthy of the goober
He did teach somebody stick shift in the car though!
Pepperidge farm remembers
I love how you guys are going through all this effort and still using the old head gasket which can undo all your work, meaning you'll have to rebuild again.
I mean, it's either try to reuse it or buy new bolts and head gasket anyway. Might as well milk it for laughs.
He had said multiple times, they're not buying parts for it. It's whatever is laying around.
He specifically bought this beater to thrash, he just wasn't ready for it to be into S&M.
This whole video was : "The car should have new parts but it should be grateful it has any at all"
The visceral fear I felt watching those head bolts get tightened is not for the faint
Zack from Jerryrigeverything: destroys a phone for a living
Wade: destroys a car for a living
Somehow it still costs more for Zack
We don't know how much James costs, but I'm sure that's at least competitive with his real job, where he doesn't get to put Nutella in people's engines.
Probably about comparable for initial purchase price. Brand new tech ranges between like $500-$4000 USD, most of Wades cars range between $0-$5000 USD. Except Wade usually ends up sinking a lot of cash into repairs, so at the end of the day he’s probably paying a little bit more.
@@panickedshears He promised not to buy new parts for the Goober tho (aside from, obviously, oil, oil filter, pepsi...).
The greatest difference is work hours, I'd say that if you were to guess they put in 10x the time in the goober than Zack does for a phone, it still would be a low guess
@@prgnify I’m pretty sure they also reused an oil filter at some point. After they took out the old oil filter and used the new one for Nutella, they dug the old one out of the trash and reused it.
What I meant though was just in general Wade spends money on repairs. Plus James’ wages, which is basically a nonnegotiable fee for these videos.
When the goob inevitably blows up to shreds I want to see a V6 in that little thing (a V8 wouldn’t ever fit)
People turbo the CamPros and they can make silly power, usually in the Satria Neos in Malaysia. Malaysians simply persevere when it comes to their mighty national car.
K swap that bitch 😂😂
Whats the legality of engine swaps in 'straya even like? Probably disastrous.
I mean if they could source a small enough V 8 then it will fit.
@jm036 they're legal if they "meet safety requirements" which is pretty unclear and will need a read over of said requirements. (If you can find them)
The Goober just allows James to pull off the most sadistic ideas that he wouldnt professionally try on any other customers car, or his own.
What a machine.
Malaysian workhorse. Under appreciated and a bit meme-y. But it’s tough to kill really. Same goes with the original Saga and Wira.
I broke down in tears of frustration when I saw the pepsi going back in.
10/10 series will recommend to all of my friends.
Also shout-out wade for the commentary. I kinda know how an engine works but not super well yet I never feel talked down to or lost when James is taking it apart & its all entertaining. Love ya work.
Long time viewer and I realized I have never commented: Thank You! I never thought I would be interested in cars but the chemistry and reckless love you two bring to these machines is intoxicating. From the goofy Goober videos to the serious surgeries it's always fun.
I love James' genius vacuum trick, this is how aquarium sponge filters work using only an air pump to create suction
It's called a venturi pump. Sees use in a lot of places.
@@esven9263 I may be wrong but I believe a similar concept is used in the injectors of many steam engines. Can anyone back this up / correct me? Is certainly an interesting concept
@@HopperNationcorrect!
PLEASE send a sample to the Aussie equivalent to Blackstone Labs for an oil analysis.
Make sure to include a treenuts allergy label.
Usually everything in a mechanics shop is slick as F because of all the oil on every surface.
Not in this shop, everything is Sticky as F instead from Pepsi and Nutella. Lmao.
It’s actually sticky in places that should be slick and slick in places that should be sticky
Oil absolutely should not be on every surface. The good ones keep their area clean.
The better ones keep their area full of pepsi
Goober after literally committing a painful martyrdom - still thriving
My 11yrs old Mercedes E-class after being taken good care of - dying every single day bcuz of literally everything
"So, what do you do for fun?"
"Oh, I poor Nutella in my engine and then hunt problems for weeks."
"..."
I am in shock the goober lives, unreal. Was knuckle biting with the head bolts, I could just feel them stretching through the screen
I swear that james guy can cure cancer with how smart he is but instead he is fixing a car filled with pepsi and nutella without replacing even the most basic parts
Something about two dudes messing up a car with military songs in the background is just magical
Yeah the 1910s marches to me portray a sort of adventurous vibe, as that was how war was publicized back then.
“You’re not meant to reuse head gaskets, really.” [quickly kicks tube of silicone out of frame]
10:33 that vacuum is the result of the venturi effect."As the fluid with the higher speed enters the smaller cross-section, it creates a vacuum". I used to use those in chemistry a lot!
And with that, Wade has lost all right to bemoan the death of the combustion engine.
He's got an EV already, he knows the era of the combustion engine is already gone. I wish I could help ruin some engines with him 😂
The poor goober…
It’s as cooked as the Nutella inside its engine.
Man this was such a roller coaster of emotions for me.
-Taking the engine apart: a bit worried.
-Inspecting the pistons: "that looks bad."
-Reusing the head gasket: rather uncomfortable.
-Reusing the *head bolts*: straight anxious, like I was legitimately stressed out at the thought of the bolts snapping, and that part went on for ages, too :(
-Using an impact wrench on the head bolts: "NooOooOOoO" :O
-Return of bunnings bolts: yay, bunnings again :)
-Bunnings bolts acting weird: hmmm??
-Putting pepsi in again: yeah, we're so back! Let's goo
-Utilising silicon on the top cover again: hm, I guess it worked the last couple of times ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-Adding oil pressure gauge: "very interesting..."
-oil pressure exists: hooray
-goober overheats on test drive: "oh man, I hope it just suffers from too little pepsi"
-oil stabiliser and moar pepsi: "yeeaa, that's more like it"
and the goober just works now??? hahaha
Like seriously, this was more exciting than some movies that I've watched, I'm actually emotionally invested in the Goober Saga now lol. I'm sure the music selection, timing, and overall editing style play a big part in achieving that, too.
Thanks for making these videos
Serious side note: I love how this series is accessible and hilarious for people with all levels of car knowledge. I have a little more car knowledge than the general population and I appreciate the small captions explaining what things are or the quick phrasing in the video itself of what's going on. My boyfriend, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of engines and cars, finds it just as hilarious, interesting, and entertaining as I do!
I'm about to start my third beer in celebration of this video sir! Strong beers, like the barely make it back to the fridge stuff! I'm really really happy to see the goober working again! Also I was really just happy to see you posted on this channel! But thank you, really, this made my Friday night.
James' full name is actually James Frankenstein with a master degree in necromancy attained by working with a rural sketchy car-salesman.
The twitching corpse has had the bile and necrosis pulled out from it, and was meticulously patched together from its previously decaying parts.
at this point, the goober deserves some TLC. that machine spirit did great.
"The goober is fixed"
The Goober: CHECK ENGINE LIGHT ON
It's telling you to check the engine because it's looking fantastic.
"you wasted my bepis!" I love it
The two of you show better than any doctor how destructive junk food is.
1:00 “ negligence to the rescue” defines my mother
💀💀💀
what. 💀
As a mechanic I was getting anxiety watching your guys pushing it to the higher torque. Its not like i’ve ever known the feeling of snapped bolts before lol
Who would ever snap a bolt and spend an evening drilling it back out right 😅
I absolutely can NOT believe you guys got this thing working again. I give it at MOST a few months of miraculous function.
Its either the lotus designed engine or itll be some old fashioned engine with all the added tech to make emission friendly like fuel injection. Older stuff tends to be bullet proof. For example ford did a 1.3 petrol and they were used up until early 2000s from around the 70s. A guy we bought a car off run a scrap yard and said they would banger them in the yard after draining the oil. Theyd run then heat seize, leave to cool down and would go again. I would assume this is why this emgine can take it. I may be wrong but i cant see a modern engine handling the abuse.
This feels like the car equivalent of constantly seeing someone out on fancy vacations. I've seen cars die from less
I’m not into cars at all, but I’ve been binge watching the goober saga over Christmas and I guess I’m getting into cars now.
in 3 years there will be vids on this channel of Wade and James building their own car from car carcasses and this is not an idea, its an order wade
Frankenstein’s Car
I KNEW IT! I've been telling my roommates for WEEKS that the middle piston ring that distributes oil along the cylinder walls was going to be absolutely ravaging the cylinder walls now that it's full of hazelnut and every time you opened her up you stopped short of inspecting the pistons and I'm just starting the video but HAH! I'll edit this with my shame if I turn out to be wrong but I'm confident that this is exactly what I've been waiting for for weeks! What a treasure you've given us, using Nutella as lubricant you mad lad lmao
Edit: This engine has the ring I mentioned on the bottom, not the middle, but it clearly did wear at the cylinder wall so I feel vindicated enough even if the damage wasn't as awful as I expected
Honestly I can't wait for them to engine swap the goober. Replace all the plastic parts with metal and have the most ridiculous sleeper ever made.
I feel like Wade has a "new" engine all set to go and is being trolled by this car refusing to die
Barra swapped goober
a 16v 4age would be like, perfect swap
I could see all the guts from jeff, swapped in and ready with a swap to rear wheel drive
@@raggededge82just needs to race it against an evo 3
Phew this is your best video yet!! Oh my god, I watch these because this is the borked jerry rigged car channel and then you go ahead and make it work with the most extreme jank borking!! Amazing. The jank just kept piling up ever since you decided to reuse head gaskets lmao.
I'm not a car guy, I don't drive etc., but I watch all of those videos. It's both entertaining but also gives pretty... unique insight into the engineering, and engineering I'm always into :D
4:36, and this is the moment that made me decide, i dont think i wanna be a mechanic like dear old dad. Now that i think about it, maybe he's bald because of how often you're stuck tearing your hair out over tools that won't cooperate
Jamess is a Necromechanic. Lord of the dead machines.
Seeing yall treat a car like a toy is both insane and amazing at the same time, I dont know how to feel lol, but I am watching it like a train wreck. Seeing James do his magic is shocking. Keep up the good work... for lack of better words lol
I once stripped out the head bolt threads in single cylinder block, James rattle gunning the bolts gave me ptsd
These three videos have taught me more about engines then any other videos, thank you for the info and the laughs
WHY THE GOOBER
THE GOOBER DESERVES BETTER
15:56 Whether its crossthreaded or torqued to spec, tight is tight.
My exact thoughts watching that bit lol
I prefer the term "Nature's Loctite"
Yeah, they're called Torque To Yield head bolts.
And that head gasket.........I mean........damn!! 😆
If the Goober is only a nugget, then I feel bad for the microwavable chicken patty that is my '99 Ford Explorer Sport.
Me: I need to baby my 2004 Toyota Camry so it runs as long as possible and I need to get everything checked out. Any weird noise is concerning
Wade and James: THIS NUGGET RUNS ON NUTELLA, PEPSI AND DREAMS