We Drove to the Arctic Ocean and Tuktoyaktuk - Everlanders see the World!

welcome back everyone in this video the dramatic conclusion to our bunk fuel situation also we went to the Arctic Ocean but I know most of you just want to know how we got out of our sticky situations alright so when we left you last we were knee-deep in mud on the side of the Dempster Highway no cell phone coverage no way to do any research online and no fuel pressure so the first thing we tried of course is the fuel pump we've had several pumps fail on us already and so that was our first suspect issue so I got out our spare pump and tried to put that in but it had a different thread on the fuel fitting connector there so that's when we thought we'd hitchhike into New Vic and try and get either pump with the correct fittings on it or some sort of an adapter where I could fit up that other fuel pump five o'clock came and went and we had no success getting me picked up so we went back to the drawing board and bodged something together and got that fuel pump to work the copper wire and silicone tubing patch and it was good for a second dropping again it became clear we had a plug in a line somewhere or a regulator wasn't regulating so if you watch to the tail end of the last video you can see I did check the regulator I pulled it out and the spring was all in good shape and it was clean and so then I went to put the original fuel pump back in because it had the correct fittings and and wasn't you know baler playing together in alligator clips on the electrical terminals and as I'm laying there in the mud and the muck guess who rolls in with you guys again in the North Country down south all right so after I had the original fuel pump back in obviously it's a clog somewhere in the line causing suction on the pickup side so I did shake out the fuel filters which were very close to new but I did shake them out and dump them into a ziplock bag and as you can see in this clip they were fairly grody with a little bit of water in the one fuel separator filter fuel water separator but it should have been fine it wasn't it wasn't full of mud or anything and so I put it all back together and still no fuel pressure and then I tried to blow in the fuel filter Inlet from the tank but I couldn't get a good enough seal because there's several holes complicated issue but I couldn't blow in there with compressed air and so been suggested blowing compressed air in at the fuel pump which I had tried before but I didn't realize I didn't think about it that there's a check valve in the fuel pump that prevents fuel from flowing backwards through the pump and and also air so he suggested obviously to blow air in before the pump at the fitting which is what I did and it took a little bit of pressure and then all of a sudden it was free so our best guess at the moment is that there's something in my tank that was plugging up the pickup and that blew it loose then once we put it all back together we put a ziplock bag on the fuel pump outlet and collected this sample of fuel which looks more like chocolate pudding than diesel fuel if you'd like to see the video where Ben takes all the credit for this idea you can click on this card up here and see his take on the story [Laughter] the only mail when you bails keep trying that's right so we got lots of great comments on the last video people being helpful trying to give good suggestions delaminated fuel tanks is a common problem on that vintage of vehicle where the plastic liner separates from the steel tank and then plugs it up and we knew of that already we've replaced our steel tank with a cross-linked polyethylene tank some people suggested pickups trainers in the tank we've also deleted those when we put in our fuel filters and some people suggested that the problem was a Ford but that's analogous to saying that you have a flat tire because you have a Toyota and lastly some people thought that we should have a motorcycle strapped to the back of the truck have a little dirt bike or moped or even a mountain bike could have got you out of a sticky situation like that while it is true at night of in some situations this road was in horrendous shape you know a good four or five inches of mud and if you're a well equipped enduro bike or a good dirt bike and you've got a full garb safety gear to to go 100 kilometers and I was in those conditions that might have been possible we did meet a fellow named Frank up and Tuktoyaktuk who did ride his motorcycle from Ottawa to tuk and he did not have the easiest ride and so I'll splice in his clip his opinion of that here hey Jay nice to hear from you again a great question about the Dempster and the crazy road that was there when we were traveling up to Tuktoyaktuk so without question you weren't going to be riding a motorcycle or a moped up the Dempster Highway during the clay filled shale soaked wet road they were medevacking people out of that road during the the time we were there I was very fortunate to have a motorcycle built for that kind of travel and I had been riding a long time so while someone could go up there on a bicycle which everybody was stopped and not able to do because it was so bad I would advise against doing so I think he did the right thing your brilliant men you figured it out on your own just took a little bit of time but what do we have we have lots of time so thanks a lot for the question I miss you guys a lot I wish I was still on the road with you and I hope we catch up again soon so hello to you and your wife and great job man I love following along good luck all right so the next morning we went to New Vic and went to northern industrial supply which is a chain of industrial supply outfits and in the north and they were surprisingly well-stocked with high-end tools and equipment grade tools Milwaukee you know all high-end stuff that way and they had stock on comparable Baldwin filters fuel water separator filter and a second finer filter so we got two sets of those and replaced them as you can see here so fast forward a few weeks we've gone through half a dozen tanks of fuel and I just recently drained our water separator filter which as you can see is nice and clear again and a little bit of sediment and a little bit of water but that's what it's supposed to filter out so that's fine I'm calling it good for now we'll put a pin in it and continue on with amazing adventures all right so Benny Rebecca from his and hers V Logs decided to stay in New Vic and extra night and hang out so we made them a supper of stir-fried vegetables and some pan fish and we spent the night chatting about being famous youtubers and all the downsides that comes with being a celebrity of that caliber that's a good tasting [Music] unfortunately the weather in New Vic was super poor for the week coming up and the further north had much the same rain and drizzle and the condition of that road was already pretty rough and muddy so we thought we better hunker down so we got a campsite right in Inuvik and stocked up for the week we went to the local store up there in the North called the northern store which was surprisingly well-stocked everything he could possibly want was available everything from bacon to produce to Dickies to snow machines and it was there that we met Scott Scott actually had a pretty great story himself he is from Colorado and he took his canoe on the top of his toyota tacoma drove it to Hay River and then put his truck on a barge and shipped it up the river and he took his canoe from Hay River through the slave Lakes all the way up the Mackenzie rate up to new Bukh and took him five weeks and really a great story we spent in that week of rain we spent many nights and many mornings having coffee with him and it was really great to hear his story and his take on his method of travel you know hats off to a guy who can navigate that maze of waterways with a compass and a map by himself in a canoe for five weeks so I was there we also met this fella Matt and he's from Quebec and what are the odds that he's best friends with one of the guys also named Matt on YouTube who I've been communicating with about his overland build we hit it off really great and hung out for almost a week week and a half afterwards and a really great guy you'll see more of later so I knew Vic is quite the remote place until two years ago it was as far north as you could drive on the Dempster Highway and it does have some of that remote small-town vibe about it one of the iconic things Inuvik of course is the igloo Church this was built in the 50s completely by hand and with no blueprints at all and lots of old buildings to see around there lots of old stuff but lots of new stuff too there's a new school and RCMP building post office all that stuff is built more recently and one thing they all have in common is none of these buildings are on the ground they learnt a long time ago that putting a warm building on top of a permafrost ground it's good as heave and shift and just wreak havoc in the permafrost so all of the buildings are up on these wooden blocks I should say the old buildings are up on wooden blocks and they can Jack it up and add more blocks as they need to keep the building's level and the new buildings are on these steel pilings and then those pilings have radiators built into them to radiate any heat out of the pilings that that wants to leak down into the ground so that's kind of neat and all of the utilities in the area Inuvik were all above ground they have these utility corridors called utila doors and their water and utilities run through there just so that they don't have heat going into the ground wrecking the permafrost so was kind of neat to see the challenges that a more northerly climate would face you know to me anyway that's kind of interesting stuff so for being an older place it does have some new infrastructure and revitalization coming into it it's just nice to see there is a solar farm there and I found it very interesting to find solar panels mounted vertically on the sides of apartment buildings and other big buildings it's just no point in putting them on the roof so they mount them vertically right on the side of the building and satellite dishes almost look like they're pointing downward which gives you some perspective for how far north this is after waiting out the week of rain in Novick finally north to the tundra we set our sights on Tuktoyaktuk which is a small hamlet right on the Arctic Ocean and it was only about two and a half hours more drive to tuk so we headed north with our new buddy Matt and as you can see in these video clips it's really hard to describe how much nothing can look so beautiful the Arctic tundra was turning colors turning oranges and yellows and reds very beautiful the further north we got the more the flat Tundra gave way to tens of thousands of tiny lakes and then you started to see the pingos popping out of the ground for those who don't know as I didn't bingos are these little mountain pimple looking things that are created when water freezes under the surface of the ground and causes the ground to frost heave and these hills or mounds or pingos start to grow out of the ground and they make these little mountains along the Arctic coast they're so super unexcited once you know that so at long last we arrived at the Arctic Ocean we pulled up to the sign there took some pictures touched the sign and then got out of there thanks so much for watching we'll see you next time just kidding we spent the afternoon walking through town checking out all they had to see there's an old sod house a radio station a fur shop and you know they've got old boats on display Tuktoyaktuk is also the end of the trans-canada hiking trail so they have a little monument there showing that so it's a neat little hamlet it feels very remote almost foreign just it's unlike anywhere else we've been and so we spent some time walking the streets and everyone was very polite and kind and and welcoming there's some industrial stuff on the outskirts of town but otherwise it feels like a almost a little small fishing town which is really neat and so then we went to the iconic grandma's kitchen which is a little food truck right on the Arctic Ocean and they serve up your average street truck fare like burgers and hot dogs and pizzas and chicken fingers and all that sort of stuff but probably the only food truck that serves Muktuk which is traditionally prepared beluga whale skin and blubber and they're just super tiny pieces but we thought when else are we ever going to try this so we ordered up a plate of Muktuk smoked whale meat and then some dried white fish and as you can see here some people liked it and some people didn't your face isn't so it's good it's very sure you just like a fish flavor you got me bear you got her down I have no words no it's fishy yeah I almost has that pieces you know back from the chicken for the breast bone of the chicken where it's all cartilage II yeah kinda like that flash pillow hmm do you want to have another one that one's delicious mm-hmm after that we did the obligatory toe dipping in Arctic Ocean nearly as cold as I would have thought but still cold enough and from there we walked up the beach kind of around the outskirts of town along the coastline there and got a different perspective of town from that angle capturing some of these city skyline photos that night we camped right next to the Arctic Ocean signpost and we're glad to be able to do it when we did because next year they're moving that whole campground to the south end of town so quite a bit further away from the most northerly point you could still drive there of course or walk and get your picture with the sign but it was neat for us to be able to camp out there among the last of the people likely to be able to do that we stopped there in our chairs that night staring off into the North thinking about how much nothingness is out there you know there's not even any land under the ice cap so that's as far north as you can get and it was that night around the campfire we met a bunch of new best friends Joel from simple overland air was there with his Jeep and he did a video of our truck for his channel you can click on this card here to go see that and then Frank from dream to journey he's the fellow who rode his bike from Ottawa to tuk and you can check him out on Instagram dream to journey and see his stories there and shoo from Red Dog Productions amazing talented photographer and he can check her out on instagram head Red Dog Productions and of course Matt was still with us he tagged along for about another week after that point and we'll share some of that video in the next video we're gonna have to cut this short it's getting too long this whole trip was supposed to be one video and I'll already or at the end of two looks like it's going to be three but thanks so much for hanging in there thanks for watching we'll see you next time

Channel: Everlanders

Views: 40,559

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Length: 19min 43sec (1183 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 12 2019