I’m not a mechanic. I have no inclination to be a mechanic. And yet I’ve just spent quite a chunk of my day watching multitudes of Waldo’s videos. It’s calming

Watching him rebuild a Range Rover is like when someone rescue a puppy that is disabled

There’s a special place in hell for whoever engineered this vehicle to be this difficult to access the oil pan 😂

"It does not have a oil pressure sensor" Truly shows how much they care for their product and their customers.

The goal of Range Rover Engineers, seems to have been to give Mechanics job security for years to come. That's the most complicated "oil pan" I've ever seen.

Waldo, this might sound strange, but I'd actually hope you would keep this car. You are learning and teaching us so much about this car. At your current rate, you will become a Land Rover expert and pass on to the greater audience the tips and tricks of how to maintain this car. I've enjoyed this series immensely!

I am reminded of the saying, "A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience" Waldo's hope winning over the experience of many who struggled to cope with a RR ! I have been binge watching parts 1-5 relaxed in my chair watching "Waldo vs RR"

Should have your own TV show, clean cut, good voice, calm manner, nice guy.

This guy is absolutely fearless -- and actually competent -- a rare combination. Given that when I started watching him (a couple of years ago, more or less) I was extremely skeptical, given that nearly all of his tools looked brand new. I expect anyone with this degree of skill and attention to detail to have worn tools that look like they've been used for a decade or three. Anyway, when I learned that he'd rebuilt a DD engine for one of his tractors, I became a believer. I look at this as one might a Cat mechanic with 20 years of experience singing opera, well -- books and covers and all that. I enjoy every one of these videos.

The part where you welded your engine lift bracket actually made say wow, the filmography + skills was on point

I would have thrown in the towel on this thing long ago. Props for your persistence.

Thanks for being one of the only KZfaqrs who uses correct safety equipment

I feel your suffering and pain, I'm a 21 year old apprentice working at a European shop and I had this same range rover come for trans oil cooler lines, long story short the lines weren't properly connected to the cooler and I went for a drive and blew the transmission pump, boss ordered a new transmission, most painful job I've ever done. Being covered in transmission fluid with an angry boss up your ass is not fun.. cheers! Love the content.

I would not have the patience to screw around with a Range Rover. Even less patience if it was from up north, and even less if it had to be done in a home garage. Much respect to you. If you can fix that thing then pretty much everything else will be a walk in the park.

I’m blown away by your skills, nerve and ability to tackle any job! How do you know soo much! As Brit, I am also embarrassed by Landrover, what a nightmare! Love the videos, keep them coming! 😊

I think you had the best welding footage I have ever seen during the bracket fab. Good job.

Brilliant work. I really would get that garage floor sorted.

You’re my favorite car tuber, even with the waits between videos. Perfect pacing, content density, and length. I really appreciate that you don’t stretch jobs like this one into a 24 part series where we have to watch you remove rusty bolts in real time.

Hey Waldo, I appreciate that you always wear proper safety gear. I see so many KZfaqrs doing work without earplugs and glasses and I think its cringy.

I definitely recommend a Toyota Land cruiser or Lexus counterpart. I dunno if you have ever owned Toyotas, but working on them generally is a total cake walk. It's like Toyota designed them with the mechanic in mind.

Mad RESPECT to you Waldo for a DIY guy there is nothing too complicated for you to try! The dipshit engineers who designed a car that you have to take completely apart to get to the bloody oil pan should be tared and feathered!!! Typical Range Rover! JOB WELL DONE!!!!

Excavators, Range Rovers trucks, trailers. Your videos are entertaining and inspiring. Keep it up!

This is amazing to watch! I got here because of the Mercedes and stuck around for the great content! You now have an International Audience! Greetings from Germany.

I've always heard of the terrible reliability of anything "Rover", but now that I've watched a lot of Waldo's videos I will never purchase one of these vehicles. Thank you for your videos and great job! Keep it up!

This video is so well lit and edited, it’s hard to believe that it’s not done by a professional video team. Very impressive!

Your patience and persistence are astonishing and highly admirable. Working on that thing must have been incredibly frustrating, yet you executed with incredible skill. And you delivered a doozy of a video. Amazingly impressive. My only request: get these videos out faster :P

I am amazed that you did all heavy and difficult repairs all alone. Bravo, I enjoyed watching your videos

Land Cruisers have almost a cult following, and, at least the older ones are easier to work on. I have a 1963 FJ40, and I look forward to getting it back on the road. Parts are readily available, and not overly expensive.

23:10 "this engine has a lot life left in it" not according to Land Rover, who seem to want everyone to junk their cars as soon as the warranty expires. it's good you were able to give it a bit more life, despite the manufacturer's best efforts to scuttle it.

Your a braver man then me, I would have scraped that over engineered pile long ago, but it does make for good content and your one hell of a mechanic👍👍😎

I would absolutely recommend to get a Land Crusier. Got mine when I was 17 of my dad and learned basically everything about cars on it. The first oil change to my first head change. A dram to work on when it’s not too rusty. Besides that the Best car ever built. Just think about it, every guy in Australia, Africa, the military, the UN and the Oil kings in Saudi Arabia drive a Land Cruiser because ist’s simply the only car than can handle 1 million miles of dirt. And when something is broken you can fix it 99% with an hammer. Land Crusier for the Win! Greetings from Austria 🤙🏽

The optimism level is off the charts with Waldo..."aluminium in the oil is really pretty". I need me some of that.

I think you would be much happier working on a Mercedes than this Range Rover. Look back at your recent experience with the engine replacement on your Mercedes E-Class sedan. I really appreciate your hard work to bring this content to YT!

Another great video! I especially like it when older vehicles are fully repaired even though it does not always make sense economically.

Hoovie and Car Wizard was onto something when they buried Hoovies Range Rover... The designers of this crazy car must've had an S&M streak... Waldo you are our hero for even attempting this!!!

You must be in a warmer part of NH than I am. Looks downright wonderful for February. 😉

The bearing tabs are for locating the bearing. They have little to do with keeping the bearing from spinning. Bearing crush is what actually keeps the bearing from spinning.

Amazing job Waldo LOVING THE CONTENT WE MISSED YOU

My dad had a transmission jack just like that, except his was orange. He found it at a pawnshop like all his best tools. He used it a good bit but got tired of having to crank it up, crank it down, up, down, on and on. Then, one day, he decided his 280lbs football player 17 year old son would be his new and improved transmission jack. All I can say is I'm glad we were working on a little '91 Ford Ranger!

Welcome to the Worlf of British Engineering. It only makes sense if you have a cup of tea in yourhand while working.

Bravo on using a come-a-long strap for the exhaust...brilliant.

your not wrong about the air-chisel! I got mine with a bunch of other air tools and i thought I'd never use it. I've only used it on 3 occasions but each time it was an absolute life saver. Like we are talking a day of absolute misery, got the air chisel out and problem solved so easily in seconds! Like trying to get a crank pulley off a taper and had tried everything, gave the wedge bit a rattle with the air chisel and instant success!

Even just watching it made me overwhelmed with how complicated the sh*t was to work on. Kudos to you Waldo, kudos to you…

You have a huge amount of intestinal fortitude. You seem to be financially comfortable, so I’m surprised you don’t have a concrete garage floor. Nice work! This is the second video of yours I have watched, so I just subscribed.

These are the types of videos I like. More specifically I love it when you show creative ways to get out of a jam in the past you showed how you’ve used ratchet straps to maneuver, heavy components. In this video you showed a neat trick on how to use a bolt head as an Allen wrench. These are the things that average guys do and it’s cool to see.

This amount of work and level of content deserve a million comments and ten millions likes

Land cruisers are notoriously easy to work on. Needy? Yes kind of. The kicker is that if you don’t really trust the vehicle you’re working on, or you don’t love the vehicle, working on it WILL be painful. Thanks for the content and great diagnostic skills

Super keen on the S-Class project 🎉

Waldo am pretty happy that finally we okay with the car going to a road trip. Mid last year when you made your first video about it I wasn't sure if you'll go far with it. but am now in love please keep it.

I am not a mechanic, but I love to watch everything you do. You do it so effortlessly I loved the Range Rover series so much I'll re watch it from the start again.

Thank God I never bought one of these machines, though I’ve always wanted one. This has cured my desire

Was an enormous (enormous!) amount of work, fair play to you.

I usually take a 20-hour job out to 20 days too. I would have rebuilt the engine if I had gone that far, depending on whether I wanted to keep the car.

oh boy, I wish you guys had Citroën like we do in Europe, the Citroën C5 Phase II Exclusive has hydropneumatic suspension, the same as old Rolls used to have, and it doesn't cause many issues, we've put about 100k km on ours and at 240k it's still riding factory suspension. It really is an amazing car, but unfortunately the States never got it... If you did get it, I'd really recommend it, very underrated and understated car.

Hi Waldo, those people at range rover didn't want Joe blogs working on there cars, taking there thousands of dollars in labour away from them. Take for a long drive enjoy your work top notch job👌

I love your philosophy of acquiring luxury vehicles for a song and rebuilding them. Someone else has taken the catastrophic depreciation hit and you get the buttery leather and burled walnut for the price of a Lada. I love your videos. Please pour a concrete floor for your shop - LOL.

Waldo this is a huge job...good thing you got a good deal on this Range Rover. Your drive is commendable.

Great build. Dude it would make your life so much easier to pour a foundation for your shop. I know you know that but definitely would love to see videos on that project if you do it.

I’m 80. Before I turned 30, I had decided that I would shy away from buying cars made in England. Too many strange and unnecessary parts of Ill thought out design. I then decided to shun French and Italian products for about the same reason. It’s nice to have a smart kid like you validate my youthful opinion.

Calling someone a dipstick was a popular detrimental comment a few years back here in the U.K. but my oh my! An engine without one? Words fail me - not a common occurrence. I never cease to be amazed by young Waldo - the clean cut college kid (and from a college that still has male cheerleaders) - where did such a fine fella obtain his blue collar skills? Then on top - perseverance and good karma - I feel that I've earned remission from at least one reincarnation just by watching. Top marks too for working in a Third World garage, dirt floor no sign of heating and a lot of white stuff outside - my only word on caution despite being one time enamoured with the 3.5 Rover V8 - life isn't long enough to become expert on Range Rovers!

Who would have imagined that such a small problem would Entice so much work, great job!

Wow, what an amount of work this was. I really admire you for doing this completely on your own, sometimes sketchy, sometimes even dangerous work and yes … you have the knowledge and equipment, but still … you just have to do it. Respect, Waldo 👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😀

No idea why this series popped up in my feed. But wow, this much work into that engine basically makes this my dream car. Love these things to death but too many miles to trust any of them I find for is mere mortals that couldn’t ever actually do this ourselves.

Waldo, you have a lot of talent, and courage...

🤣 Hey, worth a laugh for rolling on floor comment. Me on gravel driveway on 1948 ford truck restoration.

Waldo , I have to say your positive attitude is inspiring . I have been repairing cars a long time and your skill and attention to detail is outstanding.

Man you are contributing something great to the great archive of KZfaq. That was awesome.

Aldo, First off, thanks for sharing this project with us! I love the L322, and keeping mine on the road gives me great pleasure. As a package, it really can't be beat, in my opinion. It's a complex vehicle, but owners who service them when they ought to, and not when they feel like it, are awarded with excellent reliability (post 2006). It has more stuff to break than an F250 or a Land Cruiser, so it will break more often, but diligent maintenance really really pays off! I truly admire your stamina and guts, but watching this made me cringe. I don't mean to knock you, but with the engine out and the evident sealer in the coolant, I can't believe you didn't pull the heads when you had it out. Also, the tabs on the mains were there for å reason. It would have made much more sense to grind a matching groove in the caps rather than grinding off the tabs. Again, not knocking you, just making observations and hoping to pass on some advice to anyone else attempting something similar. The 5.0 Jag is a great engine (except for the missing dipstick and oil pressure sensor. What were they thinking??). Once you sort the chain guides of the early ones, which you have done, they hold up really well. That said, I didn't see you address the damage to the lands of the guide retaining bolts. They line up by being tightened against a flat land. It didn't look flat to me, but maybe you fixed it off camera. Keep up the good work and lots of luck!

Don't let us wait for so long on that S class. Great job rebuilding that engine it sounded great. I admire your level as a fabricator as well as a fixer. Wish I can do like you

May a million more subscribers come your Way Waldo . I always Enjoy your videos. Thank you buddy

This is insane. That motor is not easy to get out, there will never be an easier or cheaper time to do the pistons/rings/cylinders than while they’re right there out of the car…and you already know there’s significant bore scoring!!! It’s so crazy to see you replace the bearings (ignoring for now how you got the top bearings in) and not just quickly rebuild it properly…the majority of the work was already done. Also fighting compressions rather than just taking 2 minutes to pull spark plugs…or just pulling all the caps and lifting the crank since you’re replacing all the bearings anyway. This is wild to watch…I hope it works out and I guess it did it’s job since now I’m invested emotionally 😂

You have the patience of a saint on a vehicle that defines masochistic serviceability. I would have reviewed the FSM procedure, put the book down, and began writing up my for-sale ad on that LR.

The effort you put into this car 😭😭. But believe me you just have the best life. Many cars many construction machines enjoy it 🌹 It is my (and many of your subsucribers) dream

Thank you for yet another great video. Looking forward for s-class videos!

Thanks Waldo, for making this long deployment shorter, one video at a time!

Nice job fixing that engine! That vehicle does look like a pita. I’d be getting rid of it after the cross country trip just so I would not have to think about working on it again. Lol

If you take the Rover on a cross-country trip, take the vehicle title with you so you can sell if it should blow up. Sorry, not a Debbie Downer, but had a friend who would take the title to his old Winnebago on trips to Alaska.

Many years ago I rebuilt an engine and after break in, I changed the oil to 10W30 rather than the 5w20 it called for.. I thought the engine was coming apart and was freaking as I have rebuilt many engines in my years and NEVER Had a failure.. After thinking on it overnight I decided to change the oil again, checking for bearing material, but oil and filter were absolutely perfect!! Still, my thought were that it really sounded like an upstairs noise and with that I put 5W20 into the engine with another fresh NAPA GOLD filter and after a few seconds it was running smooth and quiet.. I called my engine shop buddy and he laughed at me... He said: I get to laugh because I have done it myself!!! The issue is that the hole in the lifters is so small the fat molecules of the 10W30 could not get through the lifter to keep it pumped up. So it made noise and ran like poo!!!! NOPE, NEVER AGAIN!!! I will stick to using great oil and filters and the RECOMMENDED GRADE.....

Total admiration for what you can do with an engine. I would just hide and cry before attempting these jobs. 😂😂😂

Always a concern when you know an engine has debris in its internals. You can flush oil and change filters but I would still not want to be spending a lot of money until a good few miles and oil/filter changes have taken place. Having said that, you seem to have done a great job here refreshing the engine at minimum outlay so lets hope the glitter goes away. Thanks for the videos !

The group that designed this Range Rover engine certainly never once thought about repair, rebuild and maintenance friendliness. You have quite the arsenal of mechanical skills! Is the homemade gooseneck registered yet? Can't wait for the next project! Take care!

Incredible Video!!! Thank you!!!! Watched every second of the video. Agree 100% no oil dipstick, is insanity.

Dude my hat off to you. If you are married or have a gf she left during this job. This project took long. Glad I found your channel.

some of those range rovers have the alternator part of the cooling system and if you run water or not enough of the correct coolant you will seize the alternator.

It brings so much satisfaction to see it getting fixed and running again. Kudos Waldo! You are the only youtuber I have actually subscribed by heart. Love the content! Keep it coming!

Buying and repairing German cars like Audi, VW, Porsche is better since they have common parts. BMW is a bit different but still acceptable like Mercedes. Range Rover is like a unicorn. I am really amazed what you are doing with your hands, clear thinking, logic and basic observing in that shed of yours. Really great videos. You deserve every view and like.

The patience you have is just wow

Dude, I applaud you for doing all this work on your own! I always find it takes me so much longer to film and do a project and often get frustrated with the filming aspect. But somehow endure. Keep up the good work. I'd like to see that duramax again sometime soon!

I truly enjoy your channel and all of your content. Thank you!

Waldo crazy how much you took apart. Solid repair. $4K repair easily.

Wow Waldo! The fact you tore this down and it fired up on the first start ,is a huge testament to your ability!!💯👍👍👍👍😎

Kudos to you and the courage to take on something like this yourself.

Love the series on the Range Rover! I admire your patience and work ethic while working on this car. I would have probably thrown in the towel doing the timing job 😂 Hope you keep it!

Glad to see a NH guy out there turning wrenches on camera. Been pondering making a channel but it’s mostly LS swap stuff and small engine/fab.

These vehicles have such a peppered past and the history is pretty documented. Good luck

If you can replace the bearings on that vehicle then you can work on anything! Awesome job! Now sell it quick and get a Toyota! I see Range Rovers cheap quite often, I know better than to go look at them.

You've given this car a lot more love than it deserves

I can attest that higher end Mercedes models are a blast to work on compared to pretty much anything else. Except if you have some exotic options they tried to squeeze in a little - like hydraulic suspension or a V12.

That used transmission jack that you got was a blessing. No more laying down for removals or installs. Nice. RR sounds great.

. You are doing a wonderful job. Your skills and knowledge are bubbling up. I enjoyed watching your journey. Thank you.