MacGyver - No Brakes

[@Williamwestp24]

If MacGyver was my science teacher I'll be in class everyday.

[@belleamekate7750]

lol same

[@tomasbajza1868]

everyone would be

[@cdevidal]

If he was a science teacher he wouldn't be in class every day but out para gliding with dental floss and a tarp

[@FilmingAustralia1623]

same bro

[@SuperColonel91]

Yep!

[@converti76]

"If life give you lemons, just create a particle's acelerator" Mcgyver.

[@kendallrivers1119]

Says alot that's it's been eleven years since this was posted and almost forty since the show started and yet this still gets so many new views and appreciation after all this time. The true test of success is time and this show and character along with Magnum, PI, The Rockford Files and quite a few more are truly timeless classics that these damn reboots they keep doing won't ever be able to do.

[@asapodg1935]

I used to watch this in Kenya as a kid ...I loved it ..years later I'm searching for it .

[@MrYoumitube]

If MacGyver can stop a nuclear explosion with a gum wrapper, fixing the brakes on a car should be a piece of cake. Props to the stunt man hanging off the car.

[@skyblueerik]

*paper clip

[@coronaphone710]

Or build a shopping mall with a pocketknife

[@elysianfury]

this is the type of adulthood i was planning for and maybe thats why i dont fit in anywhere

[@buellterrier3596]

Record at The Bins with Mike Britt i hear ya mate

[@kennybeginner4087]

Rich Piana here. You don't fit in anywhere because you haven't been in MacGyver's land boot camp, goddammit ! Remember that one ?

[@camcordernonsense5264]

yeah. I think you're right

[@andrewnnapoli358]

I remember staying home sick from school and this was on USA at 9 a.m. everyday I used to love watching this

[@dr.isaacyankem7748]

Same hour in Italy, always used to watch it when staying home sick. Also, when I moved to Venezuela some years ago, they were passing it in the early morning and I used to watch it.

[@gonaone]

I must go to school! Then I got new VHS-player, so i can watch too, Sadly, here in Finland was long delay after start - or ads- , so ending was often missed "out of tape" or first minutes missed.

[@bastablax91]

Bro, old days, but gold.

[@kylemiller2426]

Done the same thing

[@mytravellinfo]

When the last two episode aired we all abandoned the school and gone home and teachers where stunned to learn why ...

[@bricago2302]

Five seconds later..."Oh no, Mac! Our power steering's out, and we got two more miles of switchbacks!"

[@brianrayner676]

Brian Morris I think at those speeds he could handle it without power assist.

[@Michael_Shoemaker]

On this twisty road it would be suicidal I think, but If you're good driver.. I mean, fu*king good driver, you may survive this.

[@drpinky504]

@@brianrayner676 My experience is that broken power steering is worse than manual steering. If power steering is broken it fights you even when moving.

[@brianrayner676]

@@drpinky504 it doesn't " fight you " . The ratio is a lot higher on a manual box. So yeah, a box that had power assist being used without it requires more effort. Once it's rolling the effort is very little.

[@marcingrochala1]

Only MacGyver can repair a car while on a move:)

[@imgonnagogetthepapersgetth8347]

Refilling the brake master cylinder with power steering fluid evidently fixed the gaping, brake line damage.

[@societyofamusementparkhistory]

yeah that annoyed me

[@JosephByrne]

Must have been some radweld in the power steering fluid for this exact scenario.

[@kevini4295]

He used the Ferguson technique to fix it. Works good as a short term solution.

[@at_brunch3852]

@@kevini4295 here’s someone with sense. Farmer here in Canada long ag showed me dozens of ‘fixes’. They were geniuses!! Best times of my life. 😂

[@DecaDurabolin87]

It's actually a power steering line, the Volvo 164 had hydraulic assisted brakes.. but... this is total nonsense 😂

[@truth8677]

Awesome. We need more people like him. MacGyver always figures out a way to get it done.

[@Kiluei]

Germany sure looked a lot like California in the 80s lmao

[@diegosilang4823]

Volvo posed as an East German police car. good luck blending in with Trabants. 😂

[@eaglevision993]

@@diegosilang4823 "Sie betreten Deutsche Bundesrepublik" is also no correct German. There is a "die" missing before Deutsche Bundesrepublik. And even so, it was on the wrong side of the border and it was never witten that way on any checkpoint. The street marking are also completely wrong since they filmed it in the US. Jeez....

[@JohannesN91]

Btw many of MacGyver episodes actually filmed in British Columbia, Canada😆

[@gillehrer2824]

"MacGyver was/is the best tv show ever! In my country, whenever you had to face some difficult situation, we Brazilians used to say "Vou dar uma de MacGyver ("I'm gonna handle it in MacGyver's style") ! (gilberto lehrer from brazil)

[@MrZillas]

Your second name means "teacher" in German.

[@100reality2]

That is some clean power steering fluid right there.

[@DecaDurabolin87]

And some Red brake fluid right there 🤣

[@Eowyn3Pride]

I cannot fathom why, but Richard Dean Anderson was the love of my life🥰 I couldn't get enough Macgyver when I was growing up. Normal girls watched My little pony or SheRa....nope not me. 🤣😁❤🍻

[@mielthesquid6536]

I can relate lol.

[@rokljhui864]

I always remembered Macgyver as being a little bit far fetched. But, this was a really practical solution; working on the car engine while it's flying down a hill with no brakes.

[@robbirobson7330]

i used to fix my car like that had a fluid leak and the clutch wasn't working out in the jungle so i fixed the leak and put some of brake fluid into the clutch reservoir as its the same and i was able to get home.

[@chitlitlah]

0:40 The brake pedal is to the metal and the brakes are "fading"? 0:51 Did the malfunctioning brakes make the steering wheel too hot to hold? 0:55 They are obviously not doing >130 km/h. 1:14 The emergency brake uses a cable, not brake fluid. Otherwise, what good would it be in an emergency? 1:42 If you pull the hood latch from inside, you still have to pull another latch at the front of the car. The hood would've slammed into the windshield too as I've experienced. 2:03 He doesn't have much trouble hanging on considering they're doing 130 km/h and sliding around curves. 2:18 The brake line is still spraying fluid even though the pedal long stopped working? 2:48 He can't hear you! Oh wait, I guess he can. 2:58 I've never seen clear power steering fluid. Did he pull the washer fluid line instead? 3:35 The reservoir doesn't have to be filled to the brim before trying the brakes. 4:02 Really? They're just going to take off again with a leaking brake line and a leaking power steering line?

[@kennygee2715]

yeah, total crap. It's like the people who made this know nothing about cars. Also, they would need to bleed the brakes before they actually work. haha.

[@chitlitlah]

I loved watching MacGyver as a kid but some of the stuff is ridiculous after growing up and learning how things work.

[@benoitmandelbrot2206]

Luckily that model has the optional hood ejector upgrade

[@vitorpmemm]

Best mechanic ever. True hero

[@mobetta2092]

McGyver is the Bruce Lee of problem solving

[@timsummers870]

The speedometer shows 140km/h but clearly they weren’t doing more than 50km/h.

[@babyninja1800]

I mean at least they were doing practical effects and doing it safely

[@RhondaRuskin]

Loved the desert boots and the very well manicured fingernails,So cool Ronnie Australia 🦘

[@vickigrey]

Awesome, "hood ornament" Oh dear 😂 Then, once the brakes are fixed, after both almost died, they get into the casual talk. Love it!!

[@TheSaneHatter]

It occurs to me, that MacGuyver is basically acting like a living R2 unit in this scene, diverting power from one "system" to another after the "ship" is hit by weapons fire. (Yes, I'm a geek.)

[@arc001]

Here in South Africa MacGyver would show 8pm on a Friday. My folks had us kids go to scouts which was from 7 to 9 which meant we'd miss it so we relied on our Dad to record it. You don't know how painful it was when he forgot to do it and we'd give him a hard time about it. We'd have to borrow the tape from friends or wait for re-runs, we really didn't miss a single episode of MacGyver.

[@meiyo45]

This guy is a Genius.

[@glennbradley1374]

Genius who climbs onto hood of car with no brakes instead of downshifting.

[@PU8698]

@@glennbradley1374 Car could have had an automatic transmission

[@londontrialscat]

Lets continue driving the car with the MacGyver fixed dodgy brakes!

[@micahnightwolf]

Emergency brake is always a cable brake. Unless they shot that off too and I didn't see.

[@jozkomrkvicka7607]

what about setting the first gear??? I can see he got a manual 4:00 he is always putting his hand doen

[@rambo8863]

thats genius, go from high to lower gears will engine breake the car down

[@mattiasjohansson1727]

Still no clutch pedal and an automatic gear selector on the steering column :D Just ONE of the many faults in this scene, lol.

[@irishtexan899]

Loved this show as a kid. It was the perfect show to lead into Monday Night Football. 2 iconic theme songs. Tried to give the new version a go. Nope.

[@camcordernonsense5264]

I can hear the ABC announcer. I'm guessing he's passed?

[@Roodosutaa]

That's some fine shooting soldier, managed to hit the brake line inside the engine bay but missed all the tyres

[@jshanker2005]

*MacGyver's life is so eventful*

[@jaxes88]

what they didn't show you is the part where once he popped off the power steering pump line (with no tools mind you) the guy driving wouldnt be able to steer quick enough to make those corners, and even if the brakes did start to work (without bleeding the air out of em) mac would have flown off of the front of the car the second the driver used them. but still macgyver is a great show

[@kennygee2715]

Yeah it's totally unrealistic. He didn't fix the actual blown brake line, and they would need to pump the air out of the lines by opening the bleed screws at each wheel. haha.

[@julianhaylock9843]

Emergency breaks work on a cable so unless their was issues with the cable it would have worked

[@cameronwhyte7223]

Keep a firm grip on steering. Pump the brake pedal. Change down a gear, even in an automatic. Or get MacGyver to fix it.

[@divisuca1849]

The worlds greatest optimist 😂 Can you imagine how short this show would have been if Mac was a Pessimist? “No breaks? We’re gonna die!” “Bomb counting down while I’m tied up? I can’t do anything!” “Trapped in a gas chamber? No I can’t escape! I guess this is how I end!” 😂

[@82_KID]

Hahahahahahahahhaaaaa! Childhood memory! THANK YOU KZbin! :D

[@RiseLikeAFenix]

1:43 This was always my favorite part of this clip.

[@Jose-sy1je]

I really like how this guy and take tight curves at 140mph with no brakes while having a guy blocking his windshield

[@charabotte1]

they could not even find/buy a fan to make his hair move around and it look like he was outside on the side of the car

[@owelaine672]

Not one single bubble of air in the brake system :-)

[@colonelaugust1130]

Hows that???

[@AudreyMaher-d5i]

I can't stop laughing he's on the bonnet an fixen it,here we go, pop the lid😅😅😅😂😂😂❤❤ I love T.V 😅😅😅😊😊😂😂❤❤❤

[@snorkosaurus]

Now that's what I call a mobile mechanic.

drivers worst nightmare you brakes start to fail. the e brake should always work or put it in a lower gear.

[@rambo8863]

the nighmare right next to a gas trottel that gets stuck, and unkillabel engine.

[@aaronf.186]

E brake drift would've been cool here

[@cryinglaughter6792]

@tan j maz if its an automatic slam er in park

[@BeAManPodkast]

@@cryinglaughter6792 Wouldn't that be the same as crashing?

[@Civsuccess2]

we got break!!!....stop.....then keep driving???

[@aaronjohnson5039]

I remember watching this show good times

[@justinz8402]

That brake system is screwed with ps fluid in it

[@timthuo2498]

I love your profile pic

[@robrod8329]

not true, you can use power steering fluid for brakes, even transmission fluid. but don't use either for transmission fluid, that would be bad for transmission

[@THEMOWERMEDIC1]

Mr Shaggings incorrect

[@shaggings]

@@THEMOWERMEDIC1 Yeah I found that out a few days after I made the comment, but couldn't bother to correct myself anymore.

[@brianleeper5737]

@@robrod8329 Straight from the owner's manual: "Using the wrong fluid can badly damage brake hydraulic system parts. For example, just a few drops of mineral-based oil, such as engine oil, in the brake hydraulic system can damage brake hydraulic system parts so badly that they will have to be replaced. Do not let someone put in the wrong kind of fluid." Power steering fluid and transmission fluid are mineral-based oils.

[@chowdhurysony6250]

Macgyvar was my emotions,,, he had makes our life beautiful, when we was a child❤️❤️

[@BatmanProject777]

@lrrp Well, Mac did say, "pump the brakes". Maybe he did bleed them

[@piotrka2842]

he's from the U.S. he doesn't know manual gears ;)

[@KS-qr1ry]

Piotr Ka even old automatics have low gears, 2 and L

[@user-mv1hv5ce3b]

+Piotr Ka like half the cars people drive here are manual, I think they're decreasing but yea

[@user-ru9gf7ky2y]

actually , most of the people in the greatest country in the world, where I live, learn to drive their first times w a "stick" ...ignorance is super dope though

[@killingfields1424]

This is why I love manual transmission. If brakes gone, theres still engine brake left.

[@chitlitlah]

That's not going to help much when you're doing 140 km/h down a mountain.

[@Perich29]

I miss driving a 10 speed manual it was fun as a truck driver but now they took all the trucks with manual and put us all in stupid autoshifter.

[@johannes.f.r.]

​@@chitlitlah You wouldn't go down a mountain that fast using engine braking.

[@raffiquehillocks7501]

Best show ever love the intro

[@shermagustave837]

I'm from St.Lucia west indies and they used to air it on usa it was something else

[@Scratchingforcash]

Funny thing is the emergency brake does not run on fluid. It runs off a cable. Lol. Little blooper for ya.

[@simonebrooks1124]

I grew up on this. This is so nostalgic 😢

[@ironman2326]

Show of hands✋ Who here carries a Swiss army knife because of MacGyver?

[@marcopass4061]

Aii booii Na dis bn de ding wreed kino fu tjimang teng Echt super hoor Dis na mapangpang film.

[@caminacels5303]

MacGyver with a chewing gum and a paperclip can create a plane

[@mcqueenfanman]

Just so everyone knows, p/s fluid in a brake system will cause the rubber seals to swell up over a short period of time.

[@quillmaurer6563]

They just needed it to work once. No mention of the still nicked brake line though.

[@hunterneitzel3012]

Handbrake wouldn't have been affected by the broken brake line, on older cars like this the handbrake is the mechanically connected to the rear end by a cable. The opposite would have happened, yank the handbrake, the brakes on red end would completely lock up

[@stellakowalski3844]

Volvos have a duel hydraulic breaking system including a second reservoir. If one line is compromised the other system would still be there. Further: the lines out of the master cylinder up to the fender wells are all metal and not rubber. Whatever brake line that was hit by the bullet was a modification made for this show. So call I this BS. Also hoods don't fly off because the internal latch is released. There is a primary latch which has to be released at the front of the car. Never mind that the hood is attached with some formidable bolts where it is the hinged to the car.

[@kennygee2715]

yeah it's total crap on so many levels. Dual brake systems were mandated in the US sometime in the 60s. Probably similar time frame for Europe too. The people who make TV shows know the average person knows nothing about mechanics, so they can just throw some crap together.

[@irfanhashmat2145]

Whenever I saw this movie I went back in early 90.dr Irfan canada

[@knutritter461]

This series had been the reason why I studied chemistry in the first place. However, as I am from Germany I can tell you that the 'boarder' between both Germanies did not look like that! 😂

[@minutte]

- WW2 German uniforms - dry mediterrean-like landscape of Eastern Germany - a Volvo in DDR? - the Volvo is an automatic model, but back then in Europe cars were manual. So you engine brake with the gearbox.

[@yeahyeah5976]

My favorite part is the double-yellow American road dividers. No way was this filmed just north of LA. No way.

[@ZeitdiebX]

You must be mistaken 😂. Loads of cypress trees back in East Germany during those days😉

[@johnsonslawnserviceministr4038]

I love old school MacGyver

[@kaljlowe]

Well, if he force a downshift it may blow the engine but slow the car instantly. And correct me if I am wrong but if you lose the power steering how is he able to move that steering wheel so freely? That should instantly be like moving a boulder left and right!

[@ThefirstSolorMoon]

Not if your moving that fast

[@FrankieTattak]

@razordu30 you can down shift in an automatic so there is no excuse to jump on the hood of a speeding call lol

[@kg4boj]

Not if it's a diesel.

[@JS-os5bl]

An automatic transmission or they don't know how to brake using the gearbox?

[@ARCSTREAMS]

i think it must have been auto

[@rzpogi]

It's definitely automatic. Only two pedals. As this is an older vehicle, they could downshift to 3-2-L to put the transmission into lower gears slowung down the vehicle.

[@AchtungBaby77]

2:09 Obviously not RDA, but still some darn fine stunt work for an 80s show 👍

[@faisalahmed1982]

Which episode is this McGyver Fans?!

[@animemangafan1987]

MacGyver ain't car surfing but it's a matter of time to find a way to stop the damn car if a passenger's on board who knows science!

[@mrbobjrsrv]

Isn't the fluid supposed to be both hot and pressurized? Didn't seem like it in the video

[@LowFlyinOK]

You guys should go look at your cars. The lines running from the hard lines in the fender well to the brake caliper or brake cylinder (drum brakes) are almost always rubber. Granted, they are reinforced rubber...they are still mostly rubber.

[@kg4boj]

Under the hood they typically aren't though, usually flare ended stainless. Unless that car was a shit patch together job macguyver would have been screwed. Also opening a hood at speed will slow you down quite a bit. Ask me how I know.

[@colonelaugust1130]

@@kg4boj how you know???

[@ShotgunGabe]

Macgyver did the repair while driving before mad max did XD.

[@Tigrou7777]

❌Lowering transmission gear + engine braking ❌Using handbrake ✅trying to fix the engine in a awkward position

[@sandrapereiradossantos3281]

I Love macgyver and Richard Dean anderson❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@studinthemaking]

Always love this science from the tv show.

[@Jumpulaaa]

@wasilaify No. They were chased by East-German soldiers. East German military used same looking clothes but they were not the same.

[@WizardClipAudio]

I mean,.. they could have probably shifted to a lower gear and gently applied the parking brake. Still have a gaping hole in the brake line, either way.

[@camcordernonsense5264]

Turn off the engine first?

[@tahsinff9483]

Legend watching after 12 years.😎😎

[@justinolsen9284]

As a car mechanic, there is so much wrong with this! 🤣

[@Gonken88]

Poobutt AESS I remember seeing this on tv as a kid and be like WOW

[@grantmalone]

Does the hand brake need brake fluid to operate?

[@MrZillas]

Man, am I glad they had no flat tire.

[@shielaaposaga6179]

I miss this old movie

[@camcordernonsense5264]

did the rescuer ever make any returns? he should have been a re-occurring actor gag?

[@FilmingAustralia1623]

its sad the new eposodes arnt as good as the old ones

[@syncflame]

As soon as he said the brakes seem to be fading... I said to myself you mean non-exsistant. then he said it too I Lawled.

[@pagoogly]

there was a dirth path on the side of the road, they could have drove into that to slow down.

[@rasalislam3172]

macgyver nice to you

[@jiwom9304]

And no need to bleed the brake system?

[@e102g2]

"No," but in is head "At least i am trying!"

[@snodgresswilim4817]

Don't that thing got any gears? Must be when they introduced those one man bleeder systems.

[@rayski42]

he's right there on the car's engine and his hair doesn't even move a bit

[@mikaelapierce1819]

The power of gel I guess.....

[@Koles500]

Every time I watch MacGyver I have this naive thought: was that even possible? LOL, so was that POSSIBLE or not ? ;)

[@mattiasjohansson1727]

No.

[@Perich29]

If the car was a standard shifter, you can pute it in low gear, shut the engine off and then it stops the car.

[@randomvids9507]

god i miss this show

[@dyziozg5983]

what episode it is and which season it is?