@rabidrabbitshuggers Imagine just randomly scrolling on RU-vid 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 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
"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 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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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)_
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 🍻)
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!
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.
@@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.
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
I freaking love this channel. What other channel would try to run a car by using WD40 or booze or try to use Pepsi as a coolant? This is by far the most entertaining car channel that I know. Wade and James are the perfect duo for stuff like this.
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
If it's a closed system that has no way to evaporate water away (as a car's cooling system *should* be), then technically the soda WON'T render down into a cola-tar... However, I do suspect you'll still get sugars caramelizing, just more slowly than if done on the stove. I just looked it up quickly and... ruh roh raggy! 😅 I think that first one is indeed in Pepsi _(at least here in the US: High Fructose Corn Syrup)_ Fructose: 221°F (105°C) Galactose: 320°F (160°C) Glucose: 302°F (150°C) Sucrose: 338°F (170°C) Maltose: 360°F (180°C) (WTF is Galactose?! Space Sugar?? lol)
@@vaelophisnyx9873 yeah, we have sugar cane plantations in Australia, I only learned of high fructose corn syrup from imported drinks that weren't meant for the Australian market, it's rare here. I know that any kind of sugar is "real", lol.
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
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.
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.
the pepsi shouldn't boil in the coolant system like it did in the kettel since its under pressure. my vote is for it definitely cooking into a sugar slime and gumming up the ports like what DEXcool did in the mid 90s.
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.
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
Kerosene might be better as a coolant then Pepsi, it might not cool quite as well but at least it limits corrosion and lubricates 🙃 Probably don't want it to leak though...
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
There's a Lemon Demon bonus track called Redesign Your Logo that pretty much bases all the lyrics on the design document that the company Pepsico hired TO redesign the logo created, it's nuts. But also yeah that thing is gonna be 'cooled' by the worst sort of cola caramel before long.
