The Escargot - RV/Camper Car Transporter Conversion - Part 4
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2019
- In part 4 of our side project, Nik reveals his cunning plan much to Richard's chagrin. We do some more stripping, more drilling, and there's a lot more impact gun action. The front axle gets some attention as we aim to get the truck back on her wheels.
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Music - Save me From Myself by Sven Karlsson from Epidemic Sound.
Thanks to Winntec for the terrific lifting gear and gloves and to Kielder for the awesome cordless tools. 
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10 years ago, I never thought I'd be excited to wake up Saturday morning and get to watch two blokes work on a truck!
Have you seen mustie1 ? thank me later
Let’s see if you’re still as interested when they at midpoint in 10 years?
Hell, I would take a weeks vacation just to help those guys out. Not sure what my wife would think of a "working" vacation though.
@@kriss1_ Hell yeah. Love that guy.
Yep, this is livin'!
I look forward to seeing your children completing these projects. It will be worth the patreon money though.
its not about the destination but the journey 😉
@@vallevaan yes but you got to use a vehicle for the journey!
You think they'll be finished that soon? I was thinking grandchildren.
It is year 3000. All of Britain - buildings, trees, animals, even the ground - has been rebuilt with custom folded steel sheet brackets and Makita grinders. A monument to the first 1000 fallen grinders is erected in central London. No one remembers how this started, but the end is not anywhere in sight.
Haha so true
The BOM shop is kind of like the Thunderdome:
Two trucks enter, one truck leaves.
Oh that's good. I approve.
They added lightness to the DAF, I think that's what it's called.
WE WANT JUSTICE!
WE WANT THUNDERDOME!
The other truck kind of walked out 🤔🤣😂🤣
Quality
When you see there’s only 5 minutes left in the video and realise you’re going to have to wait another 6 months for another video 😩😂
@John Bramble are you okay?
Wife: What are you watching?
Me: Two blokes in England taking an old truck apart.
Wife: Why?
Me:............
It's a fair question.
Bad Obsession Motorsport I wanted to say ‘ in case they ‘make the noise’’. It was just too hard to explain.
@@CHRIS_HITCHCOCK I guess it's easier than explaining the "angry end" ;)
One and a half hour later the wife is wondering why are you talking about installing bespoke air-control systems on a mini and what does it have to do with this truck.
@@Leo0718 As a general rule, i think the fairer sex just don't get it. boys and their toys and all that jazz.
Strip it any further back and you'll have to show us how to smelt ore.
I like the fact that you laugh at each other, about each other and simply a lot. Gives me the impression that you two have worked together for a very long time. And I think you wrecked a lot of things together, too. It is fun to watch!
Well, the Escargot has evolved into Project Binky: Heavy Duty Edition!
Does it get awd then? A big turbo installation? CAD for special brackets? Don't forget the CAD!!
...and this surprises you... why?
The music isn't as funky, though.
Binky XL
@@JamesBalazs Blimpy ;)
"It's hard for you to get a handle on the size of these bolts, so here's another bolt for scale" 😂
the correct way to show a size reference is with a Banana after all. lol
Ok, the other bolt "for scale" tickled me.
Same :)
Shoulda been a banana (Hand Tool Rescue anyone?)
I had a chuckle
At least it was a different size... I expected it to be the same
After watching all the Sema content its truly refreshing watching two blokes working on a rusty truck! keep up the good work guys! :D
It was SUPREMELY satisfying to watch you guys completely deconstruct a truck until you could simply carry out 2 long straight rails. Keep up the good work guys!
Which begs the question, why the 'ck didn't everything get left on the Daf and a requisite box get built on those 2 rails? (Apologies obviously if its summat daft like different driving license required....)
Oh bugger - the advert finished and I found out :)
I prefer to think of it as them carrying out two large bracket kits.
I like the idea that you can basically build the ship of theseus out of this truck and the DVLA will just go "yeah sure the rocket engine in the back and the tank tracks are totally normal, still a class 4"
It just shows how retarded the DVLA are to be honest.
It will probably need an IVA test, if it was a car it certainly would (Binky will), and being registered as class 4 which is a car it probably should have an IVA. If registered as a truck DVSA would throw a hissy fit, all this is a very grey area, but nevertheless great to watch.
@@TheRonskiman I'd tell em nuffink!
Ronskiman Definitely racked up enough points to class as radically altered and need an IVA. Not sure whether they’d let it keep its bizarre class 4 status
I do wonder if the vehicle identification and rating tags could have been transferred and downgraded the donor to a class 4.
In which they build a vehicle from scratch in order to avoid taking a driving test...
to be fair, driving tests wouldn't be channel content
win/win for them
win for us too
Underrated comment
DVLA isn't the worst bureaucracy to take on in normal circumstances..
But this isn't normal! You don't poke a snake...You go round it!
@@geoffdavis8008 Driving tests are what you do at 17. No No No!
And have to do CPC qualifications every five years if they intend to make money from using the vehicle (if you meet a particularly strict Officer they can claim that winnings from racing count), and have to have a medical every ten years and the MOT requirements change so all round it’s easier to fly under the radar!
if that dog isn't careful, it's likely to get a bracket attached to it.
RSPCA
That's its name......"Bracket"!
You might need to go for uprated springs as the Cargos, indeed most trucks that were built up as mobile libraries and that type of thing had heavier-duty springs than were usually fitted to 7.5 ton trucks to take account of the weight of the body, which is pretty weighty, along with the contents. If my memory serves me right, they were usually fitted with the springs for a truck of the next weight class up, so a 12-ton truck. If you need them, a truck breaker should easily be able to help you with a set of good used springs from a 12-ton DAF LF, and they shouldn't be expensive as they're not the type of truck that people really rebuild, they usually get driven into the ground and then junked, so demand for them is unlikely to be high, as most companies that run them will generally replace any parts necessary with new items or service exchange parts to minimise down-time meaning that used parts will usually just be so much scrap metal...
I bought a double decker bus and at first they wanted to ha e it as a private HTC then said no, it's a class 4 PIG so I can drive on my car licence as I have D on my license. Was going to be my home as it looked like I was going to be homeless with the divorce, keep saying I'm going to finish it but not done much to it for a year now, you inspire me to crack on, at first fix stage at the moment.
That moment when you realize you've watched the whole series at least twice and only noticed the doggo for the first time in this one.
Hi Doggo!
Has the dog appeared before? I've also watched every episode at least twice and as far as I can remember this was the first canine assistant I remember seeing.
Doggo came with the dAF, that's short for "doggo Assisted Fabrication".
The only bad thing about this channel is I watch all of it, emagine the lucky bastard that finds it in 10 years and binge watching it all👌🏻 keep up the good work guys 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Like an old married couple, they finish one another's sentence and anticipate the next bolt to be secured.
So this is part Ford, part dAF and Fabricated, does this mean it's a FAFF?
DORD, FARD... whatever you fancy..
Fair enough :)
This Ford got daffed pretty intensely.
As a DAF owner, I am happy for you to use whatever derogatory term you think is appropriate.
@@mattjohns3394 Derogatory As F*** ?
Always a pleasure to watch you guys fix your junk while I avoid fixing my junk
I was doing the same... haha!
Something satisfying about watching 2 blokes in a shed fiddling with their junk.
Oh. That came out wrong.
@@douglaspealing5608 That depends entirely on how you meant it to come out....
@@paulstandeven8572 I didn't mean to come out at all, I swear I'm straighter than that frame rail!
@@paulstandeven8572 ah wait, read yours wrong. I failed english in school. Even though it's my first language. Apologies.
Watching two codgers swap an axle on an old truck should be boring, yet here I am with a cup of tea, glued to the edge of my seat!
This demonstrates how much easier it is to do things when there is ample room (unlike in Binky).
This and the Aging Wheels bus are my two fav projects right now! That RV life
what channel is that?
@@MrGarycharters a channel called Aging Wheels... specialised in old car
@@tinatpasselepoivre not old cars, just aging ones :D
Cold War Motors, and Johnathan W are a couple of others
@@bigunone Johnathan W is a great channel!
I worked at the Daf assembly plant in Leyland for a little while, and it was entertaining to see one being 'reverse engineered'
Were you surrounded by piss poor polish immigrants? My DAF seems to have been put together on a Friday afternoon, rushing to get to the pub.
@@mattjohns3394
Diversity is our strength...😴
@@mattjohns3394 There were a few Polish people there. I found them friendly, polite and conscientious. The same cannot be said of some of the English workers who were there when I was.
@@Frightningman You make it hard to be racist when the facts don't coincide with my prejudices. 😓
Matt Johns They are pretty heavy drinkers to be fair, but they graft.
I don’t tend to give Polish people who work here any shit because:
We wouldn’t of won WW2 without the Polish stealing an enigma machine for us, or doing a lot of the groundwork on decoding the enigma code, Alan Turings work was mainly in making it possible to decode it quickly enough for the information to still be relevant.
Also Polish pilots were a huge part of the Battle of Britain, and their kill death ratio was insane. Apparently the RAF didn’t like that they wouldn’t stick to the formations or set manoeuvres they were obsessed with, but they couldn’t argue with their results.
I think the extra 50kg of the front axle is negated by the amount of friggin holes drilled into the frame. It about evens up :)
Adding lightness all the way!
The technical term is speed holes
Like a swis cheese
I love the reasoning---'getting a new type of license would take some time', so------lets tear down and rebuild a 30 year old lead brick truck and in the process change everything, sometimes twice.
By the way, are sure you don't want to turn this truck into a 4 wheel drive? I'm sure it wouldn't be that much work.
Losing washers behind that steering box mount like you are feeding a slot machine 😂
It was a bit of a gamble fitting it there.
Replace the washers with a solid plate. Skip weld in place so it can not move.
Yaay I've never been this early
9min in and holy crap did they pick that DAF clean!
23:35 the part where you let eachother take it in turns to finish... perfection!
Your ability to turn perfection into complication and complication into perfection is quite impressive indeed.
Hard to believe how simple that chassis was, just steel beams..and bolted together🤯🤯🤯🤯
Trucks are dead simple, they're just big
@@ThomasBlithe You just wait, once they will find out we figured that out, they will put strain gages on it and transfer the signal via CAN bus...
The fast footage of the DAF chassis dismantlement, was like watching two piranha on a carcass
Shop doggo is the goodest of assistants.
I have a few of those handy digital scribers. Apparently you can also measure the size of stuff with them as well, but I don't like to misuse tools like that.
That's an impressive little electric impact 👍
It's a Panasonic I think. It probably pulls like 800 nm. At least 4-500.
@@some______guy It's a Kielder.
R.I.P. Vernier Caliper, your sacrifice shall be remembered.
Project Supercar it looks like a Aldi one, treat it as disposable, mine eats batteries but works ok for what I do.
@@vintagetintrader1062 Yeah true, I think it was only a cheap one. I usually buy them for 2.99 on Ebay; I've got a whole box full of calipers, all with flat batteries. lol.
Project Supercar l
Cant believe i just spent 40 minutes watching 2 guys undo a few bolts, drill a few holes, and do the bolts back up again...
Also amazed that the chassis all unbolts into such simple parts!
Gotta say I enjoy watching you two blokes work together with mucked up parts. Elbow deep in it rather than pinkies up with the new sheet metal.
"And soon enough the wheels will come off this project" no truer words where spoken.
39 minutes! I needed 2 fresh cups of really hot tea to get through that.
I did like the workshop supervisor swinging by every now and again to see how the chassis strip was getting on
Richard, You chasing that washer between the frame rails reminded me of a story my cousin, an automobile salesman in upstate New York, USA, loved to tell about a customer who kept bringing his Cadillac Sedan Deville back to the dealership time after time because of a persistent rattle in one of the rear fenders. The body men and mechanics tightened and retightened every nut and bolt they could put their tools on, but to no avail. Finally the body shop removed the fender and found a large washer on a length of string that some bored line worker had hung there during the original assembly. Really enjoying your videos, gents. Keep 'em coming.
That is a pretty strong cup of tea and did you see how fast that dog was, it made the guys look like they were standing still
Nothing makes me miss my best mate more than watching you two... he lives down the road from you and I moved to Austria...
🍆
If he puts a tin of biscuits on their doorstep once a week for three months and waits quietly, they might let him in the BOM shop.
Between the clanging, the banging, and the impacting, there’s really only one thing missing. More Cowbell.
Was having a really hard time judging the size of those bolts.
Thanks for putting that other bolt in there for scale, it cleared matters up a treat.
It's the little touches that count...
O_o
Cheers,
I don't think these top blokes quite understand how awesome they are and how awesome of a fanbase they have!
You lot are easily my favorite thing on RUclips! lol
I could watch these guys all day long. You know how I know? Because I have...
I swear, you guys make this "yank" laugh every single episode! Definitely "thumbs up"!
Bloody hell chaps, when you were putting the bolts into the springs, seeing how much the frame was moving put the willies up me, and usually you have to buy me a drink for that
Just idly, having seen that brake caliper at 0:40 and having fecked about with pad swaps on those a few times now, and not knowing if you've run into them before:
1. The adjuster -- under a plastic plug, usually yellow -- is obstructed by the chamber. So you either need a funky custom-bent 8mm spanner, or mess about taking the chamber off, to adjust them.
2. The adjuster is arse-about-face threaded. Wind it clockwise to back the adjustment off, anti-clockwise to tighten the adjustment.
3. That third 'pad' that goes between the piston and the actual brake pad needs to be held to the piston when you're backing the brakes off; because it holds onto a peg that sticks out of the piston and stops it rotating. If the piston rotates, it tears the boot up, and whatnot.
They're not as nice to do pads on as the Wabco ones, but they work okay.
@ChrisHallett83 The LFs with the 22.5" wheels have a much less pain in the arse caliper, honestly. (Same as a *lot* of other trucks with 22.5" wheels. ) But, I guess that's what one gets, with a smaller wheel.
Either way, though, it's still going to be better than the Cargo drums.
Does it make me a bad person that I wept tears of joy when I realized how many beautifully over engineered brackets would come from the chassis rails of the donor truck?
Don't force it....get a bigger hammer.
Sunday breakfast in Australia listening to kookaburras and rattle gun's, splendid. Thank you.
those chassis rails look like a good Emmentaler cheese. but as an old professor said: don't forget, between two holes there is always something to bite! love your work guys!
Guy at work: What are you watching?!
Me: A couple British dudes unbolting things and drilling holes.
Guy: ....
Me: You've watched hillbillies looking for buried treasure for how many seasons?
I'm glad to see how this is developing.
"...aint nobody got time for that" He said, as he began to sand paper the 50 year old, 30ft long chassis rails.
Strong Thunderbirds vibes at 16:00. Just needed the dramatic music and the beads of sweat.
Only BOM could get me excited to watch a "Toy Hauler" being built British style on the cheap in a shed. Well played boys (I think it's "lads" in your unspeakable foreign tongue) well played.
brilliant stuff lads!!
Yes Yes Yes I needed that right now in my life
Am now more invested in the escargot build than the mini,can’t wait till 2023 when the escargot is nearly completed and ready to be stripped down again for paint 😂
Gentlemen - both the Mini and the Cargo are epic jobs. My utmost respect for your endeavours.
Please keep the videos coming.
The Escargot is as good a project as any!
Best Saturday night ever!
what makes a good sunday a perfect sunday another BOM video
Love what you guys do!
Love the camaraderie fellas, great fun and probably illegal in the UK now.
Thats a distinct possibility, since the suspension, axles, steering and chassis have been changed around, the DVLA may consider it a "radically altered vehicle" and would require an IVA to be road legal..
2 guys having fun with spanners...Coming soon! (They got on well on this one)
@@tech4pros1 All they have to do is show the inspector the videos, I'm pretty sure the quality of the work would speak for itself. Factories turn out cars and trucks on Monday and Friday that might not be as well put together as Binky or Escargot. Customs are usually meticulously built, it's to show off what a shop is capable of, not just one of thousands coming off a production line.
@@tech4pros1 I think the OP was referring to two British men having fun being illegal (I may be wrong though).
Don't hate me, but i find this more interesting than blinky. There something i love about heavy machines
Sooo.... just a shot in the dark - Euro Truck Simulator. Yes? No?
They show a different part of their personality with this series.
Here they sound like a couple mates goofing off in the shed, with Binky they sound more scripted and definitely more detailed.
@@MrStacy1974 I have yet to see a bracket built. I miss Nik's brackets!
@@davearnold628 this just seems like a more of an attainable project for the average petrolhead, I like both projects for different reasons.
Always excellent. 👍👍
Better than television
The best car show on RUclips are none thank you guys always a joy to watch you.
I've been waiting for this, thought it never was gonna come.
It took so long I forgot all about the channel. The next video should come around Mai 2020 if we are lucky.
Thanks guys, i love this channel
Great stuff guys
This is turning into Binky 2!
Let's hope so. Gives us twice as many projects to watch that might be completed before our dementia kicks in.
Phil Foley Speak for yourself, I’m 73 already, what hope for old codgers like me?? Les
@@erinues 🤣🤣🤣
awesome to see more progress on this its the series i first came here for
not that Binky isnt also always a welcome sight in my inbox
Great job and great Guys!
Thanks for the video 👍
I'd started preparing the butter and garlic sauce, then realised it's about an old Ford van !! LOL
Thanks for explaining your thinking. Extending the DAF chassis and building a new body would be (quite) easy. But the HGV licences etc for sure would not.
Makes sense.
You guys are legends.
Just a pleasure to watch thks
I’ve waited so long for this,your channel is awesome
I binged watched your brilliant mini build up. 👍
Big mistake, you will be cringing for monthly fixes!
Working on my VW T5 today - same kinda thing: drilling, red hot swarf, where’s that ‘kin spanner gone? Eventually I realised why it wasn’t going to plan: bloody hammer was AF - should’ve used the metric one!
I love the candid nature of these!
Great job , love your show
38:05 Welcome to another exiting episode of "Project Jumpy". 😁
5:22 Appreciate the conversion to Freedom Units
Imperial? We left you those😉😊
You guys do awesome work!
I love it, great show can't wait for the next one.
I've honestly been so keen to see this thing
Highlight of my day this is! Transfixed on anxles (transmissionfixed lol?) but yes I can now say for sure that mainstream TV is crap and watching your progress is so much for fun :)
Been waiting for this gentleman thanks for the update
I love watching you two work
Loving the crazy number of ounces weight translation- make those yanks work for their antiquated measurement System!
Joe MacLeod-Iredale het yank here and f you lol there are countries that use the metric system and countries that have been to the moon lol
@@quintenmaccalla5109 Nasa used metric to get on the moon
It's the English measuring system, and any Englishman using metric should be sent for a one way trip to The Tower...
@@somebloke13 hahaha, no
Bout time!
Fooking brilliant lads. I have been awaiting this for ages
Well done... as always🙂