Thanks for sharing Rach, life is brutal. I believe you have made the correct decision to travel now for sure, and you’ve just helped me make a major decision too. Life is too short to be working 50 hours a week so I’m thinking I’ll be working semi retired again for myself very soon. Keep posting what you post, I enjoy your videos, they are informative, well presented and edited. How cold is the water down south?

28grand on a px1 ranger ?? Wow

Love you Rach , don’t apologise for being sad like you say we are following your adventure and what spurred you on ( as we well know) and your highs and lows you are real people who are hurting , can’t imagine how you feel but send you all our love and await your next video xxx😘😘😘

Oh Rach.😢 Its Sue Shaw, from Gsy... This made me cry, I often think about you guys and wonder how you're doing . I'm so sorry for your loss and the pain you're having to bear. .Rhi was a beautiful woman, a real credit to you and Darren, I hope justice was served on that vile man that left Rhi.. I hope now he has been sentenced you can move on from that and grieve for your beautiful daughter. What a beautiful tribute to Rhi..❤ beautiful spot.. Your so right about getting out there and living life if circumstances allow.. my sister that lives in Gsy lost her 32 year son to a brain tumor in August, her life will never be the same, I can't even imagine the pain of losing a child, I'm so sorry. I wished I could find words of comfort. Ignore the sad people leaving you unwanted comments, block them. I dont get why people even bother commenting if it's just negetivety . Just shows what kind of people they are!! Sending you lots of love ❤️

We remember the accident just near Linda's work. Loved the beautiful tribute to your daughter. No idea what you are going through. Our love to you both during this time. Enjoy the extra squishy cuddles with your grandkids during the festive season.

Keep doing what you’re doing Darren and Rach. We love watching the updates on your adventures. Love you loads sis. xxxx

Thanks for talking about your daughter I am sure she was beautiful. When we lose a child we carry our broken heart with us as we journey through our own lives and we slowly learn to move forward building new ways to comfort how we feel. Death for many is a mystery but it is not the end but a separation from those we love. From where they are they don't want us to worry but to finish our own journey cheering us on to be strong until we meet again.

No…thank you Rach! 💕 We love watching you both on this trip of a lifetime. Keep doing what you’re doing and don’t you guys ever stop being yourselves. Sending all our love to you both 💞 xx

I'm so so sorry for your loss. My wife and I have 2 daughters aged 32 and 34. We also had a son who sadly was killed in a car accident in 2008. He was our eldest and a really lovely guy. We miss him like crazy. I still find it hard to talk about him without crying. They say that time heels but I don't think it does. What I will say though is you learn to except what's happened. You learn to live with it a move forward. You learn that you can be happy again without feeling guilty. As for trolls leaving nasty comments tell them to bugger off! I think you're a lovely lady and as for talk too much............I hadn't noticed. What do they want you to do? Make silent movies! LOL Anyway. You keep your chins up both of you, have a fantastic and relaxing Christmas, and have the best trip around the country possible. Hugs and Kisses from South Australia.

I lost my last parent and my best mate within a couple of weeks of each other, which was pretty average, but I can't even imagine what you've had to deal with tbh. Kudos for having the guts to talk about it as you have because I'm not sure it's something I could have done. A couple who are mates of my Brother went through something similar a few years ago and the Father has never really got over it and blames himself in spite of them doing everything they could to keep their Daughter out of her grub Boyfriends car when they heard he was driving like an idiot. It has basically destroyed the Father. Somehow Christmas well wishes seem......can't find the right word.......but I hope you can find some peace at this time of year and that sharing this mongrel event helps in some way. Take care.

Such a beautiful place, Archie living his best life ❤ Enjoy.

The colors are amazing! which camera are you using? Thanks!

We love Starvo, it’s so close to home for us when we are home (Ravy) I even recognised our friends who were towing the field bin 😂 Can you give us some info on your canopy, we are looking at putting something similar on our Colorado 😊

Again great content. Looking very homely now sis. Least you have a tree. Ours lasted 10 mins then kittens wouldn’t stay away from it so took down again. 😂👍🎅xx

Great to see you back on the road and fulfilling your travel dream, wishing you safe travels 😎 Beautiful Christmas touch of your precious daughter ❤️‍🩹

That ocean was gorgeous.

The Fraud badge was the issue

Tooo much detail. Need to get your point across earlier. Repetition!!

Great viideo you 2. Looks lovely

Great video as always. Keep it up guys.

Glad to see you both started your travels. Great episode.

Nearly got us falling over in the background 🤣🤣 was lovely meeting you! Looking forward to seeing your travels

Nearly got us falling over in the background 🤣🤣 was lovely meeting you! Looking forward to seeing your travels

Nearly got us falling over in the background 🤣🤣 was lovely meeting you! Looking forward to seeing your travels

I never knew you could claim mechanical break down on your insurance.

I still haven’t done Wave Rock, it looks great. It appears the flies gave you guys a break. They must all be heading to Perth 🤣 Safe Travels 🙏

I think the actual problem is in the oval emblem

Great content. Those rock formations are great. Looking forward to the weird and wonderful things you’ll see on the trip. X

melt the cheese on the burgers guys -- cannot stress this enough!!! ;-P see you on the road!! xoxox

Great episode guys 👍

LIKED AND SUBSCRIBEDDED 😇UNLUCKY WITH YOUR TIMING BUT VERY LUCKY YOUR. INSURANCE PAID UP AS MOST ONLY KNOW HOW TO BILL NOT. PAY SO BIG ✅THERE, YES LOTS OF JOBS BEFOR YOU. HEAD OFF THEY JUST KEEP ON COMING , WE HAVE BEEEN SLOWLY WORKING THROUGH. OURS THE PAST 6 MONTHS WHICH IS STREESFULL AT TIMES. BUT. BEETTER THEN TRING TO DO EVERYTHING IN 1MONTH. ECT .HAVE YOU GOT YOUR VAN AND UTE WEIGHED FULLY LOADED BEFORE YOUS HEAD OFF? WE DONE OURS A FEW WEEKS AGO JUST TO BE SURE AS WE ARE ABOUT TO DO 1 YEAR ON THE ROAD , BIG FINES IF OVER AND SAFTY OFF COURSE . WE ARE ALSO FROM PERTH SO MIGHT SEE YOUS HERE AND AND THERE . WE. A HEADING OFF MID DEC AND GOING ANIT CLOCKS WAYS HAPPY TRAVELS WILL KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR NEW VIDEOS ECT

Being a BT50 owner with the Ford Ranger drive train I've since discovered the numerous issues that can effect these vehicles and cause overheating. 1. Replace the thermostat with a better one. The Ford unit is poorly designed and restricts water flow. 2. The clutch fan looses the ability to engage at high temps due to age. 3. The EGR cooling hoses delaminate and fail. My mechanic found these issues BEFORE I had any dramas.

Wow! Wouldn't have thought of insurance. Few months back, our air con belt flicked off, and in the process, caught the radiator belt too. Our engine cooked too, with head gasket cooked. Too late the damage was done when we pulled over. We sold the car 'as is' for a third of its value and upgraded. After watching your story, I'm wondering if we had a case for insurance?

Sorry About the blown engine guys, it really sucks glad your okay though. Last year I did a crazy trip to Perth to help move my best mate out of his ex-girlfriend's place in Brisbane. I have a 2005 Toyota Hilux with 450,000 km on the clock. I had less than one year to prep the car and I overhauled everything I brought a new Airbox, snorkel 3-inch exhaust swapped the VNT turbo for a Gated turbo Full EGR delete with brand new custom intake and a super heavy-duty clutch and flywheel from NPC. We had 7 days to get to Perth drop his stuff off and get back to Brisbane ready for work. We were well over weight 4.5 tons towing a horse float. I know it's pretty insane but we got to Perth in 3 days spent 1 day unloading and dropping all oils and fluids and were back on the road for another 3 days. The Hilux handled it better than the humans driving it. It was a strain on the brain what made it worse was we lost aircon on the Nullarbor coming back in 40-degree heat. We didn't overheat but were well prepared for the trip and even strategised about how we would avoid hitting the roos and goats at night. Not many people would go to that extreme towing in a short amount of time with an underpowered ute that's overweight and very old with high mileage. What I will say that made the difference was picking the correct oil for my towing conditions I decided to go for a thicker oil because it doesn't break down as easily underload and helps transfer heat off the engine yes you do lose fuel milage using a ticking oil and you do need to make sure your engine can take the thicker stuff too but its cheaper to replace oil than an engine. A week out before the trip my best mate told me to remove my flash-looking aluminium radiator and replace it with a bigger factory plastic one and to keep the aluminium one as a spare with us on the trip the reason was simple the aluminium radiators tend not to have any give on them they are hard and solid and when you go over bumps and potholes they crack after awhile. Instead of doing 100kms or 110kms we did 95kms most of the way to Perth it was safer and we were able to slow down much better than doing a higher speed. I hope to never do that trip again but I thought ill share my experiences and it might help you or anyone else planning to do some extreme towing

I saw you yesterday and this morning parked in the free camp in my home town of Ravensthorpe! Sorry about the weather 😩

Sorry to hear about your issues, better luck going forward. I had an alternator fail on a Range Rover Sport in Denham after travelling all over the place up to and including Exmouth. In Denham the mechanic opened the bonnet saw where the alternator was and simply shut the bonnet and told me I needed to get it towed back to Perth. As you mention RAC were fantastic, got my wife and I and the camper trailer back to Perth no problem at all. I fixed the alternator, fitted a new battery (didn't cost me $28k) and sold it, one of the many reasons I now drive a Toyota........

Bloody Ford ha!

So good to meet you guys!! Can’t wait to follow the adventure ❤

Any chance of using some water through irrigation misters spraying onto your radiator on those really hot pulls... I have that setup just using the headlight washer pump as the pressure pump for two misters. Water needs 2500x the energy to change from liquid to a vapour.. and all that heat energy gets drawn out of the radiator/auto trans fluid cooler/ a/c condenser....when sprayed with plain water. The 2 litres in the reservoir gives about 2 minutes of spray...and you can see the temp gauge going down... Pipe that through from the caravan water supply and you should be able to deal with some uphill pulls.......

Why didn’t the;car go into lip mode my Bt 50 would always go into l mode Mazda didn’t know what the problem was good luck we have taken #2 years to go around . Our problem was there is a plate inside the radiator that falls off and covers the hole towed our caravan around .scan gauge is unbelievable help us I new when to go into manual mode to cool motor

Your problem started when you bought a Ford

Mate 40 deg and towing a heavy van. Any cars cooling system is working at the max at over 35deg without a van attached. Plan your trip.

Mmmm ! There is a lesson here but I I doubt you have learnt anything hey .

I like a bloke that lets his wife do the talking, ?

Awesome set-up

Wow what a nice place

The lady talks too much.

the 3.2 has a heavy duty gear oil pump upgrade available vs the vane type that completely stops randomly . Does your replacement engine have this feature .

Ranger should be sold with an optional tow truck

Didn't know insurance cover mechanical failures. As you now know, once the temperature gauge hits the red, its to late at 110 degrees. If you towing, recommended you get a Scangauge to monitor coolant & transmission temperatures.