@rabidrabbitshuggers Imagine just randomly scrolling on UA-cam or Facebook, and you come across a video of an Australian mechanic saying, "Dumbest things ive seen as a mechanic. So a bloke brought me his car, he said he was driving when it started to smell funny and died. I checked his radiator to see if if maybe he had overheated it, and this is what I found." *Cracks radiator drain plug.* "That's soda." It would be full circle.
"I done put Pepsi in my radiator cuz it was like, really hot ya know? I took it to the ol' jiffy lube and they, they told me that I shouldn't be using Pepsi, but like, it's me favorite drink. I just thought that me car would also want some Pepsi as a little treat"
I work with industrial steam generators so here's a funfact: having a liquid containing CO2 or O2 in a steel container is really bad in terms of corrosion. Cuz essentially for corrosion to happen you need 2 things: an electrically conductive liquid and oxygen. Water checks boths of these boxes. Even plain old tap water already has so many impurities and so "high" concentrations of CO2 and O2 dissolved in it that using it in a steam generator would ruin the thing pretty damn fast. In the industry we have dedicated systems to remove all the impurities and even de-gas all the CO2 and O2 (and even that's barely enough, so chemicals are added to bind what makes it past). Now Pepsi is essentially a nuclear bomb of impurities. It has LOADS of stuff that will make it more electrically conductive and it is saturated with CO2. So yeah, corrosion will prolly happen big time. But here's another interesting fact: While liquids contaminated with O2 will leave behind rough pocket corrosion (deep holes, grooves and generally rough surfaces), CO2 actually causes fairly even surface corrosion. So every place of a container that comes into contact with boiling Pepsi will slowly and evenly thin out until it's corroded into a thin sheet. Looking forward to how this turns out for the nugget!
On Nugget Gear today: Wade tries Pepsi as a coolant, James runs a Daihatsu on jet fuel, and AussieStig sets a new land and water record combo on 90 Mile Beach in NZ.
My personal experience+some known fact with this car: -In Malaysia it is literally called Saga BLM(Base Line Model), which many people nickname it the Saga Bila Langgar Mati(When would you hit something and died) . -The 1.6L Manual transmission version is only available in Malaysia as Taxi. -the plastic Intake Manifold in both the 1.3L or 1.6L engine is VERY prone to crack and leak. -The Radiator Cooling Motor in this car sucks. -If the Timing Belt snapped during driving , all 16 valves would bent , no matter how straight it might look. Same applied to all CamPro family engine. -The Water Pump Pipe/Coolant By Pass Pipe in this car is notoriously hard to install. -The Original thermostat in this car sucks. -It has a good Air-conditioning system. -Both the Manual and the Automatic transmission available are pretty robust.
I now have a strange sense of dread, knowing that I will never know for sure if any of the cars around me on the road have had their coolant replaced with Pepsi
Sage is the kind of guy you'd tell that the boss has a car emergency and needs them to run to all the local autopart stores, to pickup a new water pump for his '63 VW Beetle 😅 (not making fun of YOU, Sage, as I appreciate that I don't know _plenty of things_ that you do, and that would make me a hypocrite if I did 🍻)
So... An auntie of mine did this when we were going on holiday. Ran out of coolant due to cracked rad. She chucked this in. Needless to say, the car travelled much further on the back of a recovery truck than it did on the pepsi.
I'm surprised that Wade had mentioned watching Technology Connections and the rice cooker video in particular, but he didn't remember here about the latent heat of vaporization mentioned there. Once the Pepsi hits its boiling point, it'll stay at that temperature until the boiling's finished, and only then can you start making caramel with the leftover solids.
I topped up an old Camry station wagon with flat lemonade once. It had a coolant leak, and I put what I thought was a bottle of water in the radiator just to get it home. Turns out that the bottle I grabbed wasn't the bottle of water I had in the boot for just such an occasion, but a bottle of lemonade that had been sitting in there for months. Got me home, I replaced the leaky hose, flushed the radiator out and it ran for years afterwards
i left a sandwich in my car overnight precisely one time, and i still find ants wandering around my cupholders occasionally. that sandwich was taken out of that car three months ago.
@@Wario-The-Legend Nah, Australia has ants for sure. If anything, being hunted by other Australian fauna has just made the ants more extreme. Australian bull ant species are very aggressive, and have a stinger able to deliver some of the most toxic venom of all insects in the world. It can trigger lethal anaphylactic shock, especially when the victim is allergic, which is relatively common. Longer-term effects can include kidney failure. There have been multiple documented fatalities due to bull ant stings, many dying in a matter of minutes.
Tony actually has a water-cooled brother, the 126 BIS, which is also a hatchback. It still has an engine in the back, it was flipped on its side and had a radiator stuffed between the rear left wheel and the engine block.
@@marcinpl3157We must track down one in Aussie Land, for Wade to procure!!! 😮 _(preferably the whole car, but, even just the engine/cooling system/trans might suffice)_
Proton Saga : What is my purpose? Wade Nixon : Your coolant will *be replaced with Pepsi Proton Saga : Oh dear... *Grammatical error (missing 'be') on the original comment, fixed it on the first edit 2 months after the comment was originally posted.
We have the same issue in coding sometimes: When something breaks and you don't know why, you look into it. When something WORKS and you don't know why, it's time to question your fundamental understanding of the system
@@StrangelyIronic Problems that dissappear without explanation are usually way worse than problems that don't go away after trying all of the obvious fixes.
@@AgentTasmania I prefer the $25 one that has the flat ceramic element but yep, a staple of every work kitchen in the UK. Although, 20 years I worked at one place and so I got to see how much abuse every particular brand would take. I mean, these things got _rinced,_ thousands of cups of coffee and tea every day so how long will it last in a more industrial environment? And that's the story of why I buy Russell Hobbs, they are _ridiculously_ hard wearing. 😂
This is like some old timey informercial for Dr. Jeffrey Pepsi's Miracle Tonic. Take care of your ricketts, polio and whooping cough. Gout? Its out! Thirst? Quenched! Hot automobile? Cooled with Pepsi! Even the wife can have some!
Years ago I split a coolant bypass hose on my Integra and had to top it up just to get it home. We were out in some exurb and had nothing but a cup and a drainage ditch. So I topped the radiator up with drainage water, making sure to keep the big chunks out of it. Out of pure laziness that drainage ditch water circulated in my cooling system for...a few years I think. When I drained it there was no corrosion or drama. So cooling systems will put up with more than you might think (but you shouldn't test that)
Yeah, unless it messes with the coolant pump or gaskets it'll most likely take a long time, literally years, to show an effect unless you take it apart, but then again Pepsi is acidic too, and the aluminium in the radiator isn't too thick..
Normally I can at least conceptualize what's going on in one of these videos, but this one feels like I'm just being straight up trolled. Top marks, lads.
My brother came over with his old truck. Found out that it was missing the oil cap. Took one of our potatoes, carved it, and shoved it in where the cap was. It lasted until he got home
@@TransistorBased I'd found duct tape to make a good replacement battery cover. It's non-conductive, so it won't arc. but also if the battery cover had circuit embedded you can just stick them to the tape. did that with a strip of sheet aluminum once. just had to polish off the plasticized coating the sardine can had. It was already sheet metal, now it's the bridge between the batterries. To be fair this was a low voltage apparatus that used multiple AA cells. It worked great though. better than the POS plastic cover that was made of flimsy crap
10:56 something to note is that carbonization is co2 gas dissolved into the water and unlike solid solutes which dissolve more readily with warmer temperatures, gasses dissolve more readily in colder temperatures, this is why salmon prefer colder waters, where there is more dissolved oxygen. the bulk of the carbonation is gonna be gone by the time the water gets near boiling
I'd _completely forgotten_ about that (high school chemistry was 10 years ago as I'm writing this) but it would explain why there wasn't as much burping from the radiator as I expected
@@sadmac356 I suspect a lot of the carbonation escaped int he filling process TBH. what you pour a carbonated liquid into/on has a big impact on how much it burps on impact. It's the same principle from that Mentos in Pepsi thing. A radiator inside? probably gonna burps a lot more than a drinking glass.
@@jadenknott Sort of. Basically, in the 60s, in an effort to boost sales in the winter, Dr Pepper began pushing for people to heat and serve it at parties. They'd normally show it in a pitcher or punch bowl, maybe with a slice of lemon thrown in. They even had Dick Clark advertising it for a while. I tried making it once and was highly underwhelmed, but I also think I may not have cooked it correctly. Either way, it was a weird thing they pushed in the 60s, so there you go.
Considering fairy floss (cotton candy to us Yanks) is literally just table sugar (maybe with dye and a touch of flavor) that is heated to melting and then flung out of a small orifice into the "cold" (relatively) air around it where it instantly re-crystallizes I'm not shocked at all about that engine bay smell. I actually have a small cotton candy machine. What's really fun is to take small hard candies like Jolly Ranchers, crush them slightly, and feed them through.
10:57 That is precisely what is happening! Solubility of gases in liquids is inversely proportional to the temperature and inverse to that of solids. That is to say the hotter a liquid gets the less diffused gasses it can hold.
Exactly the same reason warm cola goes flat faster than cold, cold colas are less likey to fizz out of the bottle, and the one to the supposed benefits of the sub-zero beer stuff.
This reminds me of when my dad left a full can of Pepsi in his new Pontiac Sunbird and the heat caused it to explode. That cabin was horribly sticky for what felt like 10 years.
Water absorbs more gas at lower temperatures. As the soda heats up, it loses its ability to hold on to the carbonation. This off gassing is probably going through the coolant overflow.
With all the gas and acid in there, it's actually cleaning out some of the gunk that's on the inside that comes into contact with the Pepsi before flushing it out!
You know, pepsi and coke have phosphoric acid in EU, so they act as great rust inhibitors. They convert iron to stable iron oxide form, which doesn't flake off and protects the metal underneath. I'm pretty sure that for at least a few months pepsi won't corrode iron elements, idk about aluminium though. For the sugar content, I also think it could concentrate on the cylinder walls, but considering that sugar becomes more soluble in water with higher temps, then the easiest spot for it to settle would be in the radiator and the return hoses.
@yozul1 we only started making aluminium cans in 1957 and immediately started with the coating. We used to coat the steel/iron cans with tin so they wouldn't corrode.
I've paused at 1:08, you're (likely) putting full sugar Pepsi into the coolant/radiator, sugar caramelises with heat, the engine block is a hot thing... the coolant runners are going to get caramelised! Will respond to this comment with how my prediction plays out!
@@strattino but then a necromancer rubbed Vegemite on me and brought me back! Now I smell of Vegemite and: as Wade and James said, it's an ongoing experiment, so at the moment we don't know what the date of the Goober will be! But I still think caramelised engine block
boiling pepsi / coke is something my hongkongnese grandma would do, and put sliced ginger and lemon into it. it’s actually really nice to drink on a cold day when you craving the sweetness of a cola
I didn't realize people from Hong Kong were referred to as hongkongnese. I would have thought it would be something like Hong Konger, kind of like how ppl from Beijing are called Beojinger
My family ages ago went on a trip and my dads van blew a radiator hose and dumped all the water, all we had was soda so thats what we used, engine is still running strong all these years later.
Reminds me of one of my fav school chemistry labs, calculating the concentration of phosphoric acid in coke. (Yes coke uses phosphoric acid to make it sour. IDK about pepsi, you could check the lable I guess!) Had to be boiled before titrating it with base, to remove the acidity contribution from the carbonation/carbonic acid. Such a fun intro to the use of titration :D
One day he's going to wake up and realize ... he really should buy a used tow truck. Then again they would probably look into how many nuggets could be towed at one time.
To answer your question, yes, the warmer a liquid is, the less carbonation the liquid can hold. You can test this another way by just lightly cracking the top of a can of soda when it's cold vs when it's warm. The cold can will have a shorter hiss than the warm can, so basically you'll boil off all the carbonation and just be left with the syrup afterwards.
Most of Pepsi is legit just water I don’t think the flavoring is really gonna do anything at all to the engine other than make it smell a little. maybe the biggest worry over time is really the sugar but as James did say if cars don’t get above the 130 degrees it might actually not caramelize in the engine. I would think maybe if the water starts boiling off and you keep adding Pepsi again and again, the sugar concentration will get higher and higher until a point where the water can’t hold it anymore and will start to do funky stuff. Very interesting experiment do report back.
My biggest concern is the water pump, followed by gaskets and corrosion. Pepsi probably doesn't have the correct lubricants and corrosion inhibitors in it for that engine. No idea how it interact with all the different gaskets but i would at least expect the corrosion route to take quite a bit of time, and would probably show in the radiator first. Possibly the thermostat could get stuck too i guess.
Technically the sugar would lower the freezing point of the water, which might somehow make Pepsi a better antifreeze than straight water if it doesn't eat away all the seals? Also imagine if the sugar somehow gummed up around their blown head gasket and acted as a stop leak XD
@@BokBarber good points, i also realized after writing the comment that Pepsi has a pretty low ph, so it might be a lot worse with the corrosion, especially in the radiator, then I initially thought
Hello there, i just want to remind you to bleed the coolant system. From the lower radiator hose, you gonna find 8mm bolt and unscrew until there is no bubble coming out. Screw back the 8mm bolt and refill the coolant, if you not perform the bleeding. Engine will be overheated. Sorry for my bad english but hello from Malaysia 🎉
I can give an admittedly poor guess as to why all the air escaped really quickly from the pepsi in the car, and why it didn't seem to be any issue kind of like how colder gases are more dense than hotter ones, cold liquids can hold more gas than hot liquids can so the car got the pepsi so hot that all the co2 bubbled out of it really quickly and escaped out before any of it could really get circulated a similar thing kinda happened with the boiled pepsi at the end when it got super hot, all the co2 started to escape way quicker than usual and made the bubbles way larger this could and probably is all wrong but its just my guess
I don't think it's going to happen. Caramelization happens way over the boiling point of water, around 160C. He would've had to fill the reservoir with straight corn syrup, which is next week's episode. My bet is that this works for way longer than you'd think it would. At least another few episodes. Eventually Pepsi is going to mess with the seals, but I'm not convinced that the sugar is going to cause an issue right away as long as the water doesn't all boil out. It's probably cooling less efficiently but this car may not have needed every ounce of its cooling power either.
@@BokBarber Sugar can caramelize at lower temperatures albeit at a much slower rate.But the other thing is a vehicals coolant system is under pressure ~15psi avg which lowers the efficient caramelizing temperature closer to 120°C
@@bevy9598 I can't find any source to back up that raising the pressure lowers the temperature that caramelization happens, but while looking for one I did find that a high acidity rate and fructose lower the caramelization temperature. So depending if Australia uses high fructose corn syrup in their Pepsi it's possible that the caramelization temp could be much closer to the boiling point.
When it dies, you HAVE to take it to a proper mechanic to diagnose the issue. Tell them nothing.
Dude yes!!!!
You Laugh You Lose Auto Repair Edition
@rabidrabbitshuggers Imagine just randomly scrolling on UA-cam or Facebook, and you come across a video of an Australian mechanic saying, "Dumbest things ive seen as a mechanic. So a bloke brought me his car, he said he was driving when it started to smell funny and died. I checked his radiator to see if if maybe he had overheated it, and this is what I found." *Cracks radiator drain plug.* "That's soda." It would be full circle.
@@sonorangaming449 r/Justrolledintotheshop material. lmao
Please god
Tony’s probably happily watching from the sidelines with a bag of popcorn knowing he’s no longer the one being abused lol
Oh I thought you were gonna say because he doesn't have coolant
heh he wont be happy for long when these idiots most likely try to make tony run on a singular cylinder.
now he makes 6 horsepower! :D
Or crying because he's not needed anymore and reminiscence all the good times they spent together
Tonys on vacation until this one craps out😂
@@StarfoxHUN these guys literally set tony on fire with WD40 I doubt Tony misses those days too much😭
This is literally Wade doing one of his mic stories in real life lmao.
"So like, this one time..."
"I done put Pepsi in my radiator cuz it was like, really hot ya know? I took it to the ol' jiffy lube and they, they told me that I shouldn't be using Pepsi, but like, it's me favorite drink. I just thought that me car would also want some Pepsi as a little treat"
This really is a DankPods Mic Story in real life
I'm convinced that at least 75% of those stories are real.
@@patrickmartin3322 Thanks for retelling the joke. It had been 3 seconds since I last read it so I really f needed a reminder
I work with industrial steam generators so here's a funfact:
having a liquid containing CO2 or O2 in a steel container is really bad in terms of corrosion. Cuz essentially for corrosion to happen you need 2 things: an electrically conductive liquid and oxygen. Water checks boths of these boxes. Even plain old tap water already has so many impurities and so "high" concentrations of CO2 and O2 dissolved in it that using it in a steam generator would ruin the thing pretty damn fast. In the industry we have dedicated systems to remove all the impurities and even de-gas all the CO2 and O2 (and even that's barely enough, so chemicals are added to bind what makes it past). Now Pepsi is essentially a nuclear bomb of impurities. It has LOADS of stuff that will make it more electrically conductive and it is saturated with CO2. So yeah, corrosion will prolly happen big time.
But here's another interesting fact: While liquids contaminated with O2 will leave behind rough pocket corrosion (deep holes, grooves and generally rough surfaces), CO2 actually causes fairly even surface corrosion. So every place of a container that comes into contact with boiling Pepsi will slowly and evenly thin out until it's corroded into a thin sheet.
Looking forward to how this turns out for the nugget!
I bet you weren't expecting ground hazelnut to be what nearly killed this car. I know I sure as hell wasn't
@@tonierbuckle0202 To be honest as long as James is around nothing will probably ever truly kill this car lol.
you've heard of pilk, now get ready for: poolant
What is pilk
@@potatocatstarPepsi mixed with milk. Learned what pilk is just yesterday lol
Panti-freeze
@@thisplacedoesntevensellcheese Panti-freeze...my college nickname.
On Nugget Gear today:
Wade tries Pepsi as a coolant, James runs a Daihatsu on jet fuel, and AussieStig sets a new land and water record combo on 90 Mile Beach in NZ.
Still, could be worse
Think it would be efficiency sting doing runs on all the nugs
The instrumental of Land Down Under plays in the background.
Begs the question, who'd be Hammond?
OOOHHH YEEEEEEE BOTTOM GEAR REFERENCES
Proton: “this is a practical and affordable hatchback”
Wade: “60 horsepower caramel maker 😃😃😃”
aint it a sedan tho?
Fr@@WW1N73R
It's a sedan.
@@myaze7147 you’re a sedan
@@hjessop101gottem
"U guys got coolant?"
"Is Pepsi ok?"
Goober: "Actually, yes"
FUCK NO! MAN THIS PLACE FUCKING SUCKS!!
Pepsi is better than coolant the greatest thing about it is when its time to replace it you also get a nice hot drink
@@toyotacorollaaltis8613With the taste of heavy metals and toxins; what’s not to like?
@@DiamondKingStudios gotta get all the extra vitamins
"elderly woman owned, only driven to church and back. Regularly maintained. No low ballers. I know what I got"
My personal experience+some known fact with this car:
-In Malaysia it is literally called Saga BLM(Base Line Model), which many people nickname it the Saga Bila Langgar Mati(When would you hit something and died) .
-The 1.6L Manual transmission version is only available in Malaysia as Taxi.
-the plastic Intake Manifold in both the 1.3L or 1.6L engine is VERY prone to crack and leak.
-The Radiator Cooling Motor in this car sucks.
-If the Timing Belt snapped during driving , all 16 valves would bent , no matter how straight it might look. Same applied to all CamPro family engine.
-The Water Pump Pipe/Coolant By Pass Pipe in this car is notoriously hard to install.
-The Original thermostat in this car sucks.
-It has a good Air-conditioning system.
-Both the Manual and the Automatic transmission available are pretty robust.
I now have a strange sense of dread, knowing that I will never know for sure if any of the cars around me on the road have had their coolant replaced with Pepsi
One of those youtube comments that just hit.
could be worse. could be Mountain Dew.
Now you can know for sure, that the chances of buying a car, and the coolant system being full of pepsi is quite low, but never zero
And worst of all... He could be any one of us
Even worse, some of cars on road could be running on burner fuel
this is the kind of torture Tony would usually be subjected to. A perk of his champion status I guess
Tony is also air cooled
Missing out on this is mostly a perk of being air-cooled, let's be honest
Tony doesn't use a radiator.
Tony is Air cooled. no Radiator to fill with cola. could just spray him with it but i dont think thatd do much except make him sticky
Sage is the kind of guy you'd tell that the boss has a car emergency and needs them to run to all the local autopart stores, to pickup a new water pump for his '63 VW Beetle 😅
(not making fun of YOU, Sage, as I appreciate that I don't know _plenty of things_ that you do, and that would make me a hypocrite if I did 🍻)
So... An auntie of mine did this when we were going on holiday. Ran out of coolant due to cracked rad. She chucked this in. Needless to say, the car travelled much further on the back of a recovery truck than it did on the pepsi.
Got us in the first half, not gonna lie.
It was a cola fan
Use water works in a rad
I read this as a dankpods mic story
"Yeah, I need 8 liters of Pepsi for my shitbox."
I don’t wanna ruin the 420 likes but I wanna like the commenT
MY HEADS GON SPLODE
I'm surprised that Wade had mentioned watching Technology Connections and the rice cooker video in particular, but he didn't remember here about the latent heat of vaporization mentioned there. Once the Pepsi hits its boiling point, it'll stay at that temperature until the boiling's finished, and only then can you start making caramel with the leftover solids.
I topped up an old Camry station wagon with flat lemonade once.
It had a coolant leak, and I put what I thought was a bottle of water in the radiator just to get it home.
Turns out that the bottle I grabbed wasn't the bottle of water I had in the boot for just such an occasion, but a bottle of lemonade that had been sitting in there for months.
Got me home, I replaced the leaky hose, flushed the radiator out and it ran for years afterwards
Must’ve been heavily distilled at that point
Flat lemonade???
@@DeckedSneeze709 Probably from the UK or australia, their definition of lemonade is a type of carbonated drink. like a sprite
@@vanityhusk right, been to Europe, ordered lemonade, got sprite, forgot about that
This guy took a lemon and *gave* it lemonade.
My prediction: Ants...lots and lots of ants
Oh no
i left a sandwich in my car overnight precisely one time, and i still find ants wandering around my cupholders occasionally. that sandwich was taken out of that car three months ago.
Everyone knows there's no ants in Australia. They were either eaten by all the spiders or were exported to Asia back in 2006.
And they’re going to be Australian ants, not regular ants.
@@Wario-The-Legend Nah, Australia has ants for sure. If anything, being hunted by other Australian fauna has just made the ants more extreme. Australian bull ant species are very aggressive, and have a stinger able to deliver some of the most toxic venom of all insects in the world. It can trigger lethal anaphylactic shock, especially when the victim is allergic, which is relatively common. Longer-term effects can include kidney failure. There have been multiple documented fatalities due to bull ant stings, many dying in a matter of minutes.
Florida man? ❌
Aussie man? ❌
Pepsi man 👌
Did someone say PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN *Pepsiman theme intensifies*
Nah mate, SOLO MAN
BRING BACK PEPSI MAN
PEPSIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN.
PEPSI MAN!
Either your gonna have the cleanest ,rust and gunk free radiator in all of aussy land, or the sugar is going to do a funny and turn into napalm.
Getting a pepsi ad while this video plays is... Something
oh great, they’re endorsing it
I got one as well! 😂
i would imagine tony was only spared due to having an air cooling system
NOOOOO!!! i posted the exact same kind of comment only a few minutes after yours and didn't see this until it was too late!
Pepsi oil
Tony actually has a water-cooled brother, the 126 BIS, which is also a hatchback. It still has an engine in the back, it was flipped on its side and had a radiator stuffed between the rear left wheel and the engine block.
@@marcinpl3157We must track down one in Aussie Land, for Wade to procure!!! 😮
_(preferably the whole car, but, even just the engine/cooling system/trans might suffice)_
Replace the air with ozone
Proton Saga : What is my purpose?
Wade Nixon : Your coolant will *be replaced with Pepsi
Proton Saga : Oh dear...
*Grammatical error (missing 'be') on the original comment, fixed it on the first edit 2 months after the comment was originally posted.
What if the Proton prefers Coke?
@@captainvector Pepsi Man will tow the Proton to the junkyard
At first I read proton as protogen so.. that probably says something about me 😅
@@01Hwd Hi fellow Furry :3
@@AmirRazan Hey there :D
*Rest of internet:* Does something stupid hoping it might be brilliant
*Garbage Time:* Does something brilliant hoping it might be stupid
0:26 "fantasized" you gotta put fanta in it now lol
Lol
You know how strong alcoholic beverages like vodka dont freeze at normal temps? I wonder if you could use vodka as antifreeze coolant
only problem would be that alcohol has extremely low boiling temp so it would antifreeze, but it would be shit coolant
We have the same issue in coding sometimes: When something breaks and you don't know why, you look into it. When something WORKS and you don't know why, it's time to question your fundamental understanding of the system
That's any technician's worst nightmare, a problem "fixing itself" without even knowing the cause was to begin with.
@@StrangelyIronicI love it because it means I can put off fixing it for even longer
@@StrangelyIronic Problems that dissappear without explanation are usually way worse than problems that don't go away after trying all of the obvious fixes.
When something works and you don't know why, just roll with it.
That didn't only look like a Pepsi ocean, but also like the real ocean after BP has driven their tanker through it
Wade called BP "Big Pollute" in one of the Garbage Time videos and they so deserved that name lol
That shop kettle is THE cheap kettle you can find everywhere. It’s like the plastic chair of kettles
And it is a fucking work horse
is that an aussie thing? where I live all cheap kettles are made of metal
Where I live all the cheap kettles are solid while plastic.
And a big metal ring inside
@@MostlyPennyCat Yeah, that's the "$20 in your choice of supermarket branding" kettle. Does exactly as good a job as fancy ones.
@@AgentTasmania
I prefer the $25 one that has the flat ceramic element but yep, a staple of every work kitchen in the UK.
Although, 20 years I worked at one place and so I got to see how much abuse every particular brand would take.
I mean, these things got _rinced,_ thousands of cups of coffee and tea every day so how long will it last in a more industrial environment?
And that's the story of why I buy Russell Hobbs, they are _ridiculously_ hard wearing. 😂
0:06 it was at this exact moment, i knew whos channel this was. :) didnt know you were alsoo into cars. cool!
This is like some old timey informercial for Dr. Jeffrey Pepsi's Miracle Tonic. Take care of your ricketts, polio and whooping cough. Gout? Its out! Thirst? Quenched! Hot automobile? Cooled with Pepsi! Even the wife can have some!
Love how the goober has a whole series planned for it but then is sacrificed for our entertainment
Years ago I split a coolant bypass hose on my Integra and had to top it up just to get it home. We were out in some exurb and had nothing but a cup and a drainage ditch. So I topped the radiator up with drainage water, making sure to keep the big chunks out of it. Out of pure laziness that drainage ditch water circulated in my cooling system for...a few years I think. When I drained it there was no corrosion or drama. So cooling systems will put up with more than you might think (but you shouldn't test that)
Yeah, unless it messes with the coolant pump or gaskets it'll most likely take a long time, literally years, to show an effect unless you take it apart, but then again Pepsi is acidic too, and the aluminium in the radiator isn't too thick..
Fucking mint dude. Those b18s dgaf, they just brap!
Normally I can at least conceptualize what's going on in one of these videos, but this one feels like I'm just being straight up trolled. Top marks, lads.
0:52 THE FORBIDDEN BAJA BLAST
the forbidden car pis
@@TheRedYTPer Forbidden cordial
COOLANT tastes sweet, so does PEPSI. Therefore, PEPSI should also be an effective coolant replacement!! BRILLIANT!
My brother came over with his old truck. Found out that it was missing the oil cap. Took one of our potatoes, carved it, and shoved it in where the cap was. It lasted until he got home
I have a watch missing a battery cover.
🤔🤔🤔
@@TransistorBasedyou know what to do
@@jimarapidis if it were anything but a rare Casio wrist camera I would definitely consider it
@@TransistorBased I'd found duct tape to make a good replacement battery cover. It's non-conductive, so it won't arc. but also if the battery cover had circuit embedded you can just stick them to the tape. did that with a strip of sheet aluminum once. just had to polish off the plasticized coating the sardine can had. It was already sheet metal, now it's the bridge between the batterries. To be fair this was a low voltage apparatus that used multiple AA cells. It worked great though. better than the POS plastic cover that was made of flimsy crap
You already know it’s a banger when you have to read the title a second time💀
Sounds like a skill issue to me.
@@d3nza482 Bruh claims skill issue reading the title when he can't even read a comment correctly 💀
Wades Mechanic: " You gotta change ya coolerfuilds"
Wade: "..did you say Colafuilds?"
"We suck so much!" is not what you want to hear your mechanic saying.
😂 the "don't worry we brought extra Pepsi in case we loose some" got me rolling!! 😂😂😂😂😂
10:56
something to note is that carbonization is co2 gas dissolved into the water and unlike solid solutes which dissolve more readily with warmer temperatures, gasses dissolve more readily in colder temperatures, this is why salmon prefer colder waters, where there is more dissolved oxygen. the bulk of the carbonation is gonna be gone by the time the water gets near boiling
I'd _completely forgotten_ about that (high school chemistry was 10 years ago as I'm writing this) but it would explain why there wasn't as much burping from the radiator as I expected
ahhh the only science comment in a sea of pepsi memes. it make so much sense now!
Who else likes really big tits?
Technically carbonating water makes carbonic acid.
H²CO³
As pressure lowers, it decomposes into H²O and CO²
@@sadmac356 I suspect a lot of the carbonation escaped int he filling process TBH. what you pour a carbonated liquid into/on has a big impact on how much it burps on impact. It's the same principle from that Mentos in Pepsi thing. A radiator inside? probably gonna burps a lot more than a drinking glass.
The boiling Pepsi is like taking the whole hot Dr Pepper thing from the 60s to it's logical conclusion.
Wait explain what you mean, was Dr pepper at some point a hot drink?
@@jadenknottyeah it was a thing back in the 1960s
@@jadenknott Sort of. Basically, in the 60s, in an effort to boost sales in the winter, Dr Pepper began pushing for people to heat and serve it at parties. They'd normally show it in a pitcher or punch bowl, maybe with a slice of lemon thrown in. They even had Dick Clark advertising it for a while.
I tried making it once and was highly underwhelmed, but I also think I may not have cooked it correctly. Either way, it was a weird thing they pushed in the 60s, so there you go.
Huh interesting, never heard about that until now
@@jadenknott If you want more info HowToDrink has done an episode or 2 on it.
Considering fairy floss (cotton candy to us Yanks) is literally just table sugar (maybe with dye and a touch of flavor) that is heated to melting and then flung out of a small orifice into the "cold" (relatively) air around it where it instantly re-crystallizes I'm not shocked at all about that engine bay smell.
I actually have a small cotton candy machine. What's really fun is to take small hard candies like Jolly Ranchers, crush them slightly, and feed them through.
I didn’t know DankPods made car videos! This is so cool!
I knew his voice sounded familiar!
Looking back, I can't believe the Pepsi was the least of the Goober's concerns.
(8:05) Oi, why are you keeping a sheep in the workshop, let that poor thing out.
brilliant
Actually one of the best comments I've ever seen
Lmao
Beat me to it.
that is a donkey
10:57 That is precisely what is happening!
Solubility of gases in liquids is inversely proportional to the temperature and inverse to that of solids. That is to say the hotter a liquid gets the less diffused gasses it can hold.
Exactly the same reason warm cola goes flat faster than cold, cold colas are less likey to fizz out of the bottle, and the one to the supposed benefits of the sub-zero beer stuff.
I’m surprised they didn’t use Mountain Dew to keep the coolant color the same.
They had already bought pepsi haha 😆
Pepsi still funny AF to replace your coolant with. Mountain dew would be more appropriate in a truck anyway... Doin it country cool
Mountain Dew?!?!?!!?
*knocks bottle of MD off table*
FUCK MOUNTAIN DEW!!!!!!
the health star rating thing is rlly cool, i wish more countries adopted that 0:40
I second that.
12:18 "Mom, Wade and James are drinking coffee!"
"It's not coffee, it's hot Pepsi."
I already smell burned sugar in your coolant pipes
This reminds me of when my dad left a full can of Pepsi in his new Pontiac Sunbird and the heat caused it to explode. That cabin was horribly sticky for what felt like 10 years.
what is it with pepsi and both heat and cold causing the cans to explode lol
10:14 Dr Pepper at one point advertised heating Dr Pepper up on a stovetop or in a kettle to drink it hot on a winter day
Ive tried it, it aint bad
Drain the goober, do it again, fill 'er with Dr Pepper
It can't taste much worse than Dr Pepper
Look up Hot Dr. Pepper by Matrix Slide
@@boredincan my thoughts exactly
hot dr. pepper mentioned
Just imagine they found that Pepsi is like some miracle coolant that science has overlooked and this hatchback has started the cola coolant wars
"All I wanted was just one Pepsi! And she wouldn't give it to me, just one Pepsi!"
James's laugh when wade made the "pshhh" noise after opening the radiator cap lol
Water absorbs more gas at lower temperatures. As the soda heats up, it loses its ability to hold on to the carbonation. This off gassing is probably going through the coolant overflow.
A proper sugar jet lmfqo
With all the gas and acid in there, it's actually cleaning out some of the gunk that's on the inside that comes into contact with the Pepsi before flushing it out!
8:16
"It's Fizzing..."
"...Its PEPSI"
no wonder it works, it was already filled with gatorade
I can't get enough of Wade's "FULLY SICC M8" voice
I swear all Aussies have this ability, and they all sound EXACTLY the same when they do it lol
Do you want ants? Because this is how you get ants. Giant Australian ants.
The Bull ants here get huge like and inch or 2
Anyone need a batch of radioactive ants
@@YoshidaSPECL THEM!
Hmm.. no thanks... don't need any.
yum. burnt pepsi and burnt ant smell.
Fucking Australia and being God's rejected Spore save
"No one else knows my car is being cooled by pepsi"
The only reason Tony was spared this atrocity is because he is air cooled.
"Brother, I made a pot of Pepsi"
"You don't make a pot of Pepsi"
"...Well I did"
You know, pepsi and coke have phosphoric acid in EU, so they act as great rust inhibitors. They convert iron to stable iron oxide form, which doesn't flake off and protects the metal underneath. I'm pretty sure that for at least a few months pepsi won't corrode iron elements, idk about aluminium though. For the sugar content, I also think it could concentrate on the cylinder walls, but considering that sugar becomes more soluble in water with higher temps, then the easiest spot for it to settle would be in the radiator and the return hoses.
@@yozul1 cans are coated inside with a polymer, so that aluminium won't leech into the drink
@yozul1 we only started making aluminium cans in 1957 and immediately started with the coating. We used to coat the steel/iron cans with tin so they wouldn't corrode.
"- It's fizzing..."
"- It's Pepsi! "
Hahah, I lost it here
Y’all have seen Pepsi man.
But have y’all seen Pepsi CAR?
The Pepsimobile
PEPSICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
PEPSI-PEPSI-
PEPSI-PEPSI-
PEPSICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
yeah, that still works
How did you know I knew the Man of Pepsi
12:24 Fool a coffee drinker with this simple trick ;P
TIL that Fairy Floss is not in fact a hard drug. It's cotton candy.
I've paused at 1:08, you're (likely) putting full sugar Pepsi into the coolant/radiator, sugar caramelises with heat, the engine block is a hot thing... the coolant runners are going to get caramelised! Will respond to this comment with how my prediction plays out!
He died before he finished the video 😔
@@strattino but then a necromancer rubbed Vegemite on me and brought me back! Now I smell of Vegemite and: as Wade and James said, it's an ongoing experiment, so at the moment we don't know what the date of the Goober will be! But I still think caramelised engine block
@@petro1986 He's gotta take it to a mechanic when it eventually dies and just not tell them he filled it with Pepsi.
Those people driving around don't know your car is filled with Pepsi, and i think that's really funny
How could this possibly go wrong
My thought is, how could it possibly go right😂.
Okay Bubsy
7:38 the colour shift on the cap though
it because the camera switching lens from ultrawide to main camera
Wade: *pssht*
James: *laughing from the heavens*
The car is thirsty. We must hydrate car. Drive on road.
he’s like that kid from toy story, but with money and no one to stop him
boiling pepsi / coke is something my hongkongnese grandma would do, and put sliced ginger and lemon into it. it’s actually really nice to drink on a cold day when you craving the sweetness of a cola
That sounds a lot like hot Dr. Pepper!
I didn't realize people from Hong Kong were referred to as hongkongnese. I would have thought it would be something like Hong Konger, kind of like how ppl from Beijing are called Beojinger
My family ages ago went on a trip and my dads van blew a radiator hose and dumped all the water, all we had was soda so thats what we used, engine is still running strong all these years later.
Reminds me of one of my fav school chemistry labs, calculating the concentration of phosphoric acid in coke. (Yes coke uses phosphoric acid to make it sour. IDK about pepsi, you could check the lable I guess!) Had to be boiled before titrating it with base, to remove the acidity contribution from the carbonation/carbonic acid. Such a fun intro to the use of titration :D
One day he's going to wake up and realize ... he really should buy a used tow truck. Then again they would probably look into how many nuggets could be towed at one time.
Tow truck towing a tow truck towing a tow truck....
12:41 "HÜÜEEAAAH" Throwing myself off the chair here lmao
This has cheered me up. My car decided it's coolant was better on the outside than the inside today.
Tony is finally thankful to be air cooled.
"It's fizzing."
"...it's pepsi..."
To answer your question, yes, the warmer a liquid is, the less carbonation the liquid can hold. You can test this another way by just lightly cracking the top of a can of soda when it's cold vs when it's warm. The cold can will have a shorter hiss than the warm can, so basically you'll boil off all the carbonation and just be left with the syrup afterwards.
“It’s not done till I say it’s done.” Ha ha I love villainous James 😂!
Most of Pepsi is legit just water I don’t think the flavoring is really gonna do anything at all to the engine other than make it smell a little. maybe the biggest worry over time is really the sugar but as James did say if cars don’t get above the 130 degrees it might actually not caramelize in the engine. I would think maybe if the water starts boiling off and you keep adding Pepsi again and again, the sugar concentration will get higher and higher until a point where the water can’t hold it anymore and will start to do funky stuff. Very interesting experiment do report back.
My biggest concern is the water pump, followed by gaskets and corrosion. Pepsi probably doesn't have the correct lubricants and corrosion inhibitors in it for that engine.
No idea how it interact with all the different gaskets but i would at least expect the corrosion route to take quite a bit of time, and would probably show in the radiator first.
Possibly the thermostat could get stuck too i guess.
Technically the sugar would lower the freezing point of the water, which might somehow make Pepsi a better antifreeze than straight water if it doesn't eat away all the seals? Also imagine if the sugar somehow gummed up around their blown head gasket and acted as a stop leak XD
@@BokBarber good points, i also realized after writing the comment that Pepsi has a pretty low ph, so it might be a lot worse with the corrosion, especially in the radiator, then I initially thought
Hello there, i just want to remind you to bleed the coolant system. From the lower radiator hose, you gonna find 8mm bolt and unscrew until there is no bubble coming out. Screw back the 8mm bolt and refill the coolant, if you not perform the bleeding. Engine will be overheated. Sorry for my bad english but hello from Malaysia 🎉
This has got to be the funniest way to make fairy floss (cotton candy)
It's truly poetic how the pepsi ocean in slow motion was framed by the same music that played with the loving montage of the donkey van's death
Pepsi ocean button: 4:13 Slow motion Pepsi ocean button: 4:18
I can give an admittedly poor guess as to why all the air escaped really quickly from the pepsi in the car, and why it didn't seem to be any issue
kind of like how colder gases are more dense than hotter ones, cold liquids can hold more gas than hot liquids can
so the car got the pepsi so hot that all the co2 bubbled out of it really quickly and escaped out before any of it could really get circulated
a similar thing kinda happened with the boiled pepsi at the end
when it got super hot, all the co2 started to escape way quicker than usual and made the bubbles way larger
this could and probably is all wrong but its just my guess
I'm just drinking Pepsi while the goober has Pepsi as coolant.
Mechanics in the universe of Pepsiman:
Highly recommend investing in a lisle coolant funnel for maximum nugget cooling
I wish the Donkey worked, cause then you could have had a..
PEPSI VAN!
Im saying it now my bet is on the sugar caramelizing and blocking coolant passages.
I don't think it's going to happen. Caramelization happens way over the boiling point of water, around 160C. He would've had to fill the reservoir with straight corn syrup, which is next week's episode.
My bet is that this works for way longer than you'd think it would. At least another few episodes. Eventually Pepsi is going to mess with the seals, but I'm not convinced that the sugar is going to cause an issue right away as long as the water doesn't all boil out. It's probably cooling less efficiently but this car may not have needed every ounce of its cooling power either.
@@BokBarber Sugar can caramelize at lower temperatures albeit at a much slower rate.But the other thing is a vehicals coolant system is under pressure ~15psi avg which lowers the efficient caramelizing temperature closer to 120°C
@@bevy9598 I can't find any source to back up that raising the pressure lowers the temperature that caramelization happens, but while looking for one I did find that a high acidity rate and fructose lower the caramelization temperature. So depending if Australia uses high fructose corn syrup in their Pepsi it's possible that the caramelization temp could be much closer to the boiling point.
I mean, hot pepsi isn't too weird considering they used to advertise Dr.Pepper as being a warm or cold drink. Weird now, but maybe not before?
Wade has turned into the true Pepsi Man.