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Stuck at Cape York

No idea who the presenter is, have seen a couple of his videos before. He reminded me of the videos we had to watch at school as a very young child and then the Open University programs that used to be shown over night for people to record. These were often people with beards in white lab coats (or at least they were in the comedy sketches).
My point is that his boring/non-sensational style is refreshing for the Internet and far more useful and educational. One I watched was on the use of locking diffs and his little model cars 👍
I don't know if he is right or wrong on all his presentations but they are clear and understandable
 
No idea who the presenter is, have seen a couple of his videos before. He reminded me of the videos we had to watch at school as a very young child and then the Open University programs that used to be shown over night for people to record. These were often people with beards in white lab coats (or at least they were in the comedy sketches).
My point is that his boring/non-sensational style is refreshing for the Internet and far more useful and educational. One I watched was on the use of locking diffs and his little model cars 👍
I don't know if he is right or wrong on all his presentations but they are clear and understandable
View: https://youtu.be/UIUdyBG_DT0
 
No idea who the presenter is, have seen a couple of his videos before. He reminded me of the videos we had to watch at school as a very young child and then the Open University programs that used to be shown over night for people to record. These were often people with beards in white lab coats (or at least they were in the comedy sketches).
My point is that his boring/non-sensational style is refreshing for the Internet and far more useful and educational. One I watched was on the use of locking diffs and his little model cars 👍
I don't know if he is right or wrong on all his presentations but they are clear and understandable

100%, completely agree
 
No idea who the presenter is, have seen a couple of his videos before. He reminded me of the videos we had to watch at school as a very young child and then the Open University programs that used to be shown over night for people to record. These were often people with beards in white lab coats (or at least they were in the comedy sketches).
My point is that his boring/non-sensational style is refreshing for the Internet and far more useful and educational. One I watched was on the use of locking diffs and his little model cars 👍
I don't know if he is right or wrong on all his presentations but they are clear and understandable

A well thought out video. My irritation with his approach is that he is never wrong and states his opinions as facts, which they are not.
 
Some summary information from the Pepper video.

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The earlier version of the Canny video showed evidence of all 4 of thoses listed "Possible Systems" before it was apparently re-edited.

The result is a catastrophic engine failure. The sump is now a parts bin, filled with parts of parts!

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Pepper's summary and conclusion:
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Having watched the vids before deletion, it always seemed like 1) someone was trying not to comment for fear of covering the cost themselves, by feigning ignorance or not being forthcoming. 2) the "shock" of it being hydro locked because it seemed fine and drove, didnt "hold water", to me (ha ha). I dont believe for a second the theory robert puts forth that that damage happened in stages. I always believed that engine sucked water and died catastrophically in the river, and seeing the pictures to me, confirms that. 3) the dry filter and lose screws seemed like an attempt to claim it didnt suck water or it was an assembly defect. essentially, from what has been shown, it appeared like a poor attempt at fraud ... but I'll add... I'm not buying no one else on the trip wasn't involved in after the fact shenanigans, if one believes points 1, 2, and 3 as I do. everything I have seen leads me to believe the truck died in the river, they extracted it, it looked like a 100% loss, someone had a stupid idea, they bought in to that dumb idea, and the world saw it.

Your results may vary, and unfortunately, I guess some of the vids are gone. I like Pepper, but in this case... Theres so much he can't say or conclude due to people obfuscating events, that I don't know why he bothered.
 
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I just find it hard to believe you would not realize it was a hydro lock. And that far in the wilderness it is so easy to diagnose. Pull the dipstick. Open the air box. Pull some spark plugs. Ect. Thinking Ineos would warranty this is pretty insane. Its like, I totaled it in a car accident, please give me a new vehicle. We sunk a rig one time, turned it off. Got it out, cleared out the water..no engine damage at all. Kept on going. To be fair that transmission was NEVER the same again :ROFLMAO:
 
What I remember from the original Canny video was that the vehicle in question had made it through the river. IIRC the air intake point on the fenders of each vehicle shown were often dipping below the water line. Ineos has stated that the RAI components are not watertight so I thought everything looked sketchy and evidenced bad judgement but I don't know anything about water crossings. After the crossing the party then camped for the night a very short distance further down the road. In the morning when the engine was started the vehicle made a racket, died, and leaked oil.

Here is my immediate thought at the time:

Overnight the water ingested during the day before - highly aerated and in small amounts at the time of the crossing - settled or pooled into the lowest portions of the intake system. When the vehicle was started next morning there was just enough air volume in the intercooler ahead of the where the water collected to fire up the engine for a brief moment - possibly just a single revolution or two - and then the water "plug" was stuffed into a couple of cylinders en masse resulting in an hydrolocked motor.

Or it was a sham like @Zimm said.
 
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