Is This The End of Our Trip Across Canada? (our 40-year-old van is in trouble)

For the last few months we've been living inside of our 40 year old camper van with the hope that eventually we'll make it all the way across Canada. But today, for the first time, something went seriously wrong. What the hell is that noise? What is that? Something wrong. That sounds awful, like actually really bad. And with no idea what's happening or just how bad it really is, we're starting to fear the worst. Our journey across Canada could be coming to an end far sooner than That's getting worse and worse as we drive. What the hell is that noise? That sounds awful. Like actually really bad. Sounds like something broken off the bar or something. The last time we saw you guys was yesterday in our world. And we had just arrived in Chilliwack. We stayed last night at a campsite here. And today we've gone out to do some grocery shopping whilst we're here. And on our way back to the campsite, we've started to hear this like scraping noise on the back right. What should we do? Should we try and just send it to the campsite because we're only a couple of minutes away? Yeah, I think we go to the campsite and have a look at it there because I don't want to do it in like a car park because that's just stressful and busy. Yeah. I don't think it's like anything. It doesn't sound like anything that if we're driving to a campsite is going to make it worse. You know what I mean? It's not coming from the engine. Yeah. i don't know but i don't know enough about cars although it does sound like something's hanging off sounds terrible i don't think anything's hanging off though because i would you'd well i literally i checked yeah before we before we left the car park that we were just in i think we just pull in and i just want to check that nothing's hanging off okay just to be safe you know oh my god that sound is actually making me so traumatized where's it coming from the back back here back right okay no nothing hanging off the hell let me get under here No, I think we're good. There's nothing hanging. What the hell? But it's definitely coming from like this region here. I think it might have something to do with the wheel back here. Maybe. Huh? Sounds like something's like got a bit more. What the hell is that sound? That is not anything hanging off. That's like turned in. I thought at the start, I thought it was scraping noise. So I thought that's okay. That means it's like a break. Or something caught in a brake. Yeah. Now that sounds more like a groaning noise, which now makes me terrified that it's the transmission. What's making me think it's something to do with the wheel is that it's coming from the back. Where is the transmission? Right. I don't know. What's it say? Front, middle, underside. So front, middle. Is it coming from the front, middle? Definitely not from the front. It's from the back. Are you 100% sure? 1,000% sure it's coming from the back, right? I haven't... Well, maybe the back. In general. Shall I check the back left? But it can't be the transmission because that's the front. Well, but I don't understand. Like, if it was a brake, surely it would be, the sound would be like when we're braking. Or not, but like, if it was a brake, that sound, when I take my foot on the gas, why would it stop the sound? That's nothing to do with brakes. That's gas. That's not brakes. I don't understand that. Let me just check the back left. 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It sounds it's the same noise it's definitely coming from like... It's kind of like the middle region, to be honest with you. Yeah, like seriously. Yeah, yeah. It's definitely the same noise both sides, so which makes me think it's coming from, well it's definitely not, it's not up here, that's for sure. It's like there, in the middle of the van. That's transmission. No, because they said the transmission was at the front. Center, middle. But just that, the thing, you know what I'm thinking here, right? Just that movement forward, because you didn't exactly travel far. How on earth is that the transmission? Because we didn't even change gears in that time. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't know, but I don't think we go to camp. I think we have to take it to the mechanic, like now. It's there. Something here, like right there. If you're looking at like the parts of the vehicle, because the end of the vehicle hasn't really got anything going on. So if you're looking at the undercarriage, it's probably three quarters of the way towards the back. So it's not in the middle. It's not towards the front. It's actually more towards the rear. Maybe a mechanic could tell us what that noise is if we just whip past now. I feel I'm going to throw up. Is it this? Joe's creeped forward. It's like that. Go again. Oh man, what the hell is that? It's at the back where like the joint for the back two brakes are, that area. But I don't know what that is. On both sides? It's right in the center. So is it the bearing maybe? That's the diff. The diff? The rim. How do you know that? You know that how much, that's like probably one of the worst, I think that's one of the worst. Is it actually? Cost-wise, I think, yeah. In Australia it was. Diff was like, we got quoted because our rear diff was broken in Australia. Not like that though, it wasn't making a noise, it was just like stopped the four-wheel drive function. Yeah. From coming out of the four-wheel drive function. We got quoted like 8,000 Australian dollars to fix the diff. Holy cow. That sounds so bad. So we're taking it to, I should be laughing, but that noise is just awful. What the hell? I can't drive it anymore, anywhere. Yeah. So we're taking it to a garage called Minutes, Minute Auto Tune in Chilliwack. Just going to turn up and just be like, Hey, do you happen to know what this noise is? Like, I actually don't think we can drive around the campsite. How fast? We are rolling into it. No, James, I'm getting really upset. Okay, so as we were just slowing down then it started like, the van started like vibrating almost. We are seriously rolling into this garage. God, I hope they can help. That was us? Was that just a... Was that us or was that another vehicle? I have no idea. It sounded like the whole van kind of vibrated. I think that's the same thing, just that... How far are we now? 250 meters. Where? God, that's getting worse and worse as we drive. Oh my god. This is it? I hope they can help us. They're looking already. Yeah. Hello, I don't know if you just heard us roll in and our van's kind of making a funny noise. We just, this was the closest garage. We just wondered if you guys knew what that sound was and if we're about to fall apart. Sounded like brakes? Yeah. Okay, that's good. That's a good thing. I was like, oh my god, I've never heard a noise that bad. We thought the wheels were going to fall off at the back or something. So he's just taking the key and he's... Gonna go and have a look? Why do I cry at everything? I'm not even that stressed. I just cry. It's okay. It's natural. You cry when you're laughing too, jokes. Don't forget. I laugh botchily. I don't want him to be poorly. It's okay, bub. It's okay. Come here, bub. It's all right. I get scared. I know you are. We're in safe hands now, at least we made it to the garage, hey? I thought the whole bottom of the van was going to fall out. You know you hear people, like, when their driveshaft breaks, like, the whole van just bottoms out and you just write it off. Yeah. I wasn't really panicky that that was going to happen. Because it sounded like that was going to happen. It did just sound like the end of the world, hey? It sounded like the whole, like, everything was going to fall out. So that's the, that's a drum brake back there. That doesn't look like that's been changed in a very long time. Right? Yeah. That kind of sounds like the noise. What is wobbling there? Yeah. What is that? It's the drive shaft. The drive shaft? Yeah, it's the drive shaft. A little low on this side, but we still have lots there. Okay. And the drums, the drums are still pretty good, so we have another issue here somewhere. Oh, God. Somebody did brakes here not very long ago. Okay. Yeah, okay. So, I think we have a universal problem. So, we'll put it all back together. Okay. What does that mean? I don't know. Put it all back together. That's the drive shaft. Universal joint. Yeah. This is supposed to move. It's seized. It's seized. No way. And it can just do that like in a day? Yep. Whoa, what makes it seized? No grease in there. If we had left that. Oh, it would blow apart and then you'd be stranded somewhere on the road. Oh my god. This would blow. This would blow out. Yeah. And chances are it would break the shaft here. Yeah. And uh. Uh, yeah, you'd be, you'd be broke down. This would come out, hit the ground, and as it's spinning, it would be hitting up in here. No, no, no, I'm actually shaking, that's crazy. So it would create some serious damage. So you need one. I love you guys. You guys are like our shiny angels, this is crazy. You see up here in here? Yeah. That's a grease nipple. Okay. So on some of these. Yeah. Yeah, this one, right here. You can come under here, you can come under here. You see that one right there? Yeah. Somebody's changed this one already. Okay. So you can grease this one. Okay. Right? The same with the shaft right there. Yeah. It's greasable. Yeah. This one's a factory one. Nobody's ever changed this one. Since 85? Yeah. Right. 1985? Yeah. Does that feel good? Okay, I mean, yeah. Fair enough it's seized up. I mean, most people do by that point, right? Well, the thing is, is that you don't change it unless you have something after, right? Okay, and we're at the point now. I mean, 40 years is pretty good going, hey? Right? So this is the thing that went wrong. That's crazy. Look. You get to keep it. There's a tiny bit of grease on that one, but all of the others are dry. Yeah, that looks quite greasy. But all of the others are just dry. Yeah. This is what nearly killed the trip, guys. This thing. And us. Maybe. Especially Bocce. No, I'd actually... I don't know what I'd do with myself if Bocce was, like, unrepairable. No, I don't... I can't even think about it. I think it's time. You think it's time? I think it's time for Bocce's, uh, transplant. It's like the heart, isn't it? No, the heart. That's definitely not his heart. It's more like the pelvis, the hips. I think it's his, he's having a hip replacement. Hip replacement, right? Yeah, that's definitely a Lord Cobain. Oh, bocce. Little old man is having his hip replaced. Happens to the best of us, mate. Off he goes. Back up on the hoist. Good luck, mate. It's going to look so shiny, you can bet. All right. He's braver than bocce. He's so brave. He deserves a sticker or a lollipop. A sticker? A lollipop? This is so interesting, isn't it? Yeah, I love this. I've never seen anything like this before. It helps us learn as well. Like we're gonna be doing this ever. No, but then at least if there's another catastrophic noise we can know we need to take it to the garage now. That is our new U-joint. Wow, we've greased this time. Saved our bacon. You have saved us. Big time. Saved our lives, saved Bocci's life. Hell no. Hell yeah. Oh yeah, I'll show you how to back out. What's that? You're going to write it off, Joe? Joss? So lovely to meet you, Dave. Thank you so much. You are just the best. Thank you so much, you guys. I'm Chanel. Chanel. So lovely to meet you, Chanel. Thank you so much. Really, this means so much to us. Yeah, this is amazing. How you just fit us in. We randomly turned up and you guys were like, yeah, let's do it. Hell yeah, that is the, we love that. We absolutely love that about this country, you know. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. No problem. You sure you got this, Josh? No, but everyone else is. Yeah, you do. We got it. We just got three guys. So we're technically doing that right now. Yep, there you go. And you've got a car behind you to watch. Am I good there? You're good on the wall here, Josh, yeah. You did it. That's it. Am I a mechanic now? You're a mechanic now. A ball. Let's have a little ball. A Minute Tune and brake. I love it. Love it. That's another mascot to add to Botchy. Yeah. So good. How much did it cost? I want to stay. How much did it cost? Try it. $300. I was expecting it to be worse damage than that, Botchy. I asked to tip them and they refused. Why? They just said, leave us a good review on Google. I'm going to leave them all the reviews. I'm going to create so many different accounts. Leave them all the reviews. If you guys are in Chilliwack. Come to Minute Tune. Hey, I'm coming back here. If anything goes wrong. Yeah. I'm coming back here for everything. Oh, they were so, so lovely, guys. They were just the best, eh? So good. What a lovely experience. Again, Canada. Canada. You're out here. What are you doing to us? Because we feel like the luckiest people. Guys, the noise is gone. Do you know what I said to James? The noise is gone. Do you know what I said to James? What did you say to James? I literally said to James when we left, I said, imagine if the noise is still there. Can you just imagine? The noise is gone. We're back on the road. Botchy lives and it wasn't cheap. Don't get me wrong. But it wasn't extortionate end-of-the-world price. It could have been worse. It could have been so much worse. I'm not even thinking about the price. We could have written off Botchy. They single-handedly, well, dual-handedly, both of them helped. Yeah. And so did the Lord Coe guy and the receptionist. So, yeah, I mean, quad-handedly saved our trip. Guys, this is just, yeah. What more can we say? We're the luckiest people alive. This is the best. And Botchy lives again. I love that. It's great. Okay, so I've just brought up their business on Google. It's called Minute Tune and Brake Auto Centres. I'll put it on the screen as well. So that is... Four, five, seven, eight, six, luck... Why does it have to be a word like that, bruh? Minute Tune is a... Luck, luck a cuck. Luck a... That shouldn't be allowed. Four, five, seven, eight, six, luck a cuck way, Chilliwack. I'm just making up words at this point. So you guys, if you're in Chilliwack, Make sure you give them a call. If you need anything. Anything, but within reason, I guess. Yeah, like to do with your vehicle. But guys, the frigging noise has stopped. It's actually stopped. James, wasn't that such a traumatic noise? I actually am going to be hearing that in my nightmares tonight. Like three hours ago, we were like in a complete ditch of doom. Three hours ago, I was crying. And now we're elated. Now look at me, I'm high on life. I love the Fraser Valley. I just I just noticed that entire time that cupboard was flying open. That's fantastic, with all the camera equipment in it. That's the most important cupboard. That's really good. I'm so glad that is open and flying everywhere. I don't even care. Look, we'll take our wins. I don't care, man. I don't care. Bocce lives. I don't care about anything. Bocce lives. Oh, I love you. So we are at Vedder River Campground. Do you think it's Vedder or Vader? Maybe Vader. We're on C11 that looks riverfront. Guys. It looks like we're riverfront, Jess. Has our luck run out? No, it hasn't. It never does. I think this is us, Jess. Well, it's a shame that there's trees in the way, but Vegas has got the trees. Oh, that's us right there. Back in, right? That's a cute spot. Yeah, back in. That is really cute. Oh, that's lovely. And look, we can just walk up there and over to the river. And the river's just through the... Cute. ...through the trees there. Do you think you can swim in the river? I don't think there is much river. Oh, you think it's one of those, yeah. Keep it coming, keep it coming. All right, swing it round, swing, swing. Yeah, keep coming, swing it, swing it, swing it. Are we level? We are here. Yeah, we're level, baby. We are level. I have a whole... I have... It's our frigging luckiest day on earth. I have never felt so thankful, though, to just stop. crack open a damn beer which we bought earlier guys we clearly were foreshadowing and knew I knew. we bought this before the sound started we thought i fancy a beer tonight do you fancy beer tonight yeah let's get a beer i knew that we needed a beer i knew and it said and i even bought an extra one because the guy in the liquor shop like just was so persuasive and basically sold me an extra beer so i i've even got three i knew i knew one for Bocce yeah Bocce was like guys You're forgetting about me, really? She's pouring oil. Cheers to you, Bocce. Cheers to you. Where have you gone, Joss? Oh, that looks nice. Here I am. There you go. I wasn't expecting this here. Thank you. That looks great. There's only a little bit in there because we've got three different beers, so we're doing tasting, so we're having half of each one ourselves. We've obviously gone local. We've got Stanley Park Brewing. Is that local? Stanley Park, Vancouver. It's not far from Chilliwack. What do you mean? It's BC, bro. It's local enough. BC's huge. Yeah, but it's local enough. It's not from like Ontario. Okay. Stanley Park Brewing, guys. We've gone local. That is pretty local. A pale ale. A West Coast pale ale. Yes. A West Coast pale ale. That's called Windstorm. Sniff test is good. Yeah. It says tropical fruit and citrus hop character, medium body, full flavor. That's what I like to hear. Okay. Cheers, Joss. Cheers. Cheers to minute... Breaks and Tune and what was it? Cheers to Minute Breaks and Tune and Breaks. Tune and Breaks. Anyway, cheers to you guys. Cheers to them. Cheers to Bocci. Cheers to Bocci. Cheers to us. Cheers to the U-joints. Cheers to the U-joints. Cheers to all U-joints out there. Cheers to Canada, yet again. Cheers to all of you guys. You're blowing out the park again. And cheers to us, Joss, for surviving another day. Cheers. It's been a stressful day. It's not very hard to survive here. Bam. Oh, hell yeah. Good. That's nice. You like that? Yeah, it's really nice. And this was an unexpected episode. I like that. It was. So if you liked that one, guys, like the video. And subscribe to the damn channel, because Bocci needs all the support that he can get. Yeah, I feel like we should also say hype the video too. Hell yeah. Like and hype the video. Yeah, because then minute auto-tune, break and tune. I don't know, what is their name? Like minute, anyway, in Chilliwack. We'll get the recognition they damn deserve. Hype the video. Because these guys were amazing. For minutes, minute breaks and tuning. Yeah. And yeah. Subscribe to the damn channel, like you said, and we'll see you. This time we will actually see you. Yeah, we're actually going to see you at home. Last time we lied, but this time we are actually going to see you in... We're going to see you in Kelowna. Well, Osoyoos, officially, but you might see us a little bit in Hope before that. Yeah, okay. Well, cheers to you guys. Cheers to you guys. Cheers to everybody. Cheers, everyone. Cheers, Canada. Good night. That's good beer. I like that. Things got a little bit spicy here in Chilliwack. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. Okay, go. Okay, go. Okay, go. Who's sitting in that VFG? That's the biggest blue chair. Probably you later. Hell yeah. We could both sit in it together. Yeah, we could. There's even steps up to the chair because it's so big.