Now even though I'm converting this thing to run electricity, I still want to drive around town for a few weeks or months While I build up enough money to start the conversion Which means I have to do some basic car repair. This thing has a terrible gas leak as evidence by all of this This is not do this is oil splatters Tire and sealant and all that crap that's mixed with the gas is it dribbles out the back while I'm driving on the highway It leaves all this splattering on the back of the car So I'll get rid of that later. First of all I've got to take out the gas tank All right, see if we can get access to this gas tank Now underneath the car there is a protective shell First of all you can seal it all the gunk that's spread across the rear diff And the muffler But you can probably see there is no access to the gas tank because it's actually partially inside the car Hmm There's a protective shell underneath the car to prevent rupture while off-roading Which means the gas tanks actually under the back seat Upon taking the mats out of the car you can see there is gas Everywhere It's no wonder I was getting fumed out. It is no god and the rubbers disintegrating It is just everywhere in the car I'm head-or-all That's gas and underbody sealant that's melting Say what you will about laden evas but they're beautifully simple to take apart I've had the whole thing ready to take out in about 15 minutes. It's insane So here's the source of all my problems The gas tank problem is I can't see where the leak is coming from. I see gas everywhere. I can smell it But there's no visible leak on the top. I think my best bit to take the gas tank out Swish it around a bit and see if I can replicate that leak And there we have it So no wonder I only got 200 miles out of a fill-up. Look up tiny of the tankers Now where's the leak? Let's slosh it around and see if we can find it. There's still about a quarter of a tank in there Oh hello That's that easy there it is Oh, bugging me At all that time I could have just plagued it with a cork Oh shit I got the seatbelt and could remove it. Let's have a look underneath God this thing's easy to take apart Oh Jesus That is soaked oily goo At least we know this part of the car will never rust Oh that is sopping wet with bloody petrol Jesus it's a bloody time bomb with driving What I've done is just ripped out the old flooring it disintegrated anyway And I'll put some new stuff down eventually but please look at that It's just This under seal There's just disintegrating. It's just mush That's the mat under the car that's absorbed all that gas and oil Because of the shape of the car the mat is fine up until the center the tunnel here So all I'm going to do is just rip off this remaining bits of crap Throw it away and I'll come back and see that starts fine But get it covered in gas and it turns to mush So I'm just going to take all this off. God knows this will never rust That explains all the gunk that's slowly disintegrating Underneath the car See that leaking through Again this floor pan will never rust Gas cars are gross How this ever caught on I will never know Lot of crap came out of that gas tank Now because I only did a fix to last a few months I'm just going to use this JB weld epoxy To plug up the gap and that should give me a few months until this thing goes pure electric I wanted this one handed The annoying thing is that I had all along I had everything I needed to plug this gap with me in the car But I thought because the tank was half full I thought the the leak was on the bottom half Now if I don't really looked when the tank was full I would have noticed this but we live and learn and hey I got a free high all the way here So this should hopefully last a few months put on nice and thick That's going to take about six hours to cure which will give me time to work on the rest of the stuff I Got some grease sir here Some military grade detergent Try them up up all the stinky petrol juice It is working it's smelling better in here already It's still filthy When the time comes to convert this to electric I'm just going to rip all the gas stuff out and just Drown it in degrees to let it sit there for a day It's the next day Let's see how the stuff's cured Oh that's pretty solid Awesome And it looks pretty good to me let's go chuck it back in the car The gas tanks back in that took about 10 minutes at the most I'm just going to reconnect to the fuel line and Connect these Now the moment of truth got five gallons of gas here let's fill it up and see if it leaks Oh Oh it don't turn on me I didn't think It smells awful It's smelling this the nine days Oh god Okay let's see if it fires up Let's see if it'll start Oh The ice gauge is working that's good Okay I got most of the interior back in and now I'm going to do the ultimate test Take you to the gas station and fill it right up God I hope it doesn't leak I'm going to be so frustrated if it still leaks Okay here we go Okay Okay, so I put five gallons of gas in through the container. This is 6.8 So we now know the tank holds 11.8 or 12 Okay, now you can see it better. It's absolutely filled to the brim Like get it to move You can see it's washing in there. So now the ultimate test Will it leak Please don't leak Honestly, I think I actually fixed it I've just driven around for about 20 minutes I even went to the car wash and gave this thing a blast with some degrees of And I'm going to just smell it smells like a little bit of oil or residue and Soviet vinyl But there's no like stinky, accurate smell or petrol I actually fixed something How cool is that And there we have it fixed the leak Given the car a good wash it still needs a polish But otherwise it's all good now. I'm going to Drive it around on gas mode for a while while I get back to work start saving money again start raising money to convert it to electric That's going to take a long time if you want to donate go for it if not that's cool I'll do it with or without external help. It'll just take a little bit longer Uh right now. I guess I'd better go start editing that Trans USA video that's going to take Weeks I guess because I've got about seven eight hours of clips hundreds and hundreds of clips I've got a sew together edit fine music narrate Oh Stick around it's going to take a while but we'll get there at the meantime and save some fun with this car