Welcome to another episode
of the automotive voice in your basement in which I will test the UAZ 452 known as buchanka ojojoj before I explain to you what
buchanka means let's talk about where this charming or ugly thing, depending on
your approach, came from And to understand it you have to go back to the 1950s
because it was around then that the concept of this Soviet vehicle was created, many legends say that
it started with Jeep creating a vehicle called forward Control, i.e.
a delivery van
based on a frame from Willis' Jeep, and similarly someone from
the Soviet Union saw this solution and only then they started
doing something of their own something that was supposed to happen buch is not 100% confirmed
, but there is some convergence of dates. Because around the time when Jeep
showed its Forward Control, the Russians started working on the buchna, at the beginning
it was the UAZ 450, which is simply a delivery van body
placed on the shoulder of a GAZ 69, but after quite short pr
oduction of this vehicle,
they started working on the proper model to create some background for you
why they did it why they did it then they had the same problem that
the Polish People's Republic had when it was working on the Beetle, i.e. a gap in
the form of a lack of a small light vehicle because it was only gas
51, in our country known as Lublin 51, 25 tons, hopeless, crap and disgusting.
So in this situation, the Russians started working on the UAZ 451 and 452. The 451 was supposed to be
a UAZ
that was supposed to have only rear-wheel drive and be strictly a delivery truck, and the 452
was supposed to be already a 4/4 vehicle, probably no sleigh needed, it's a pity that it broke off. Anyway,
No. 452 is what you see here, but this time they didn't do
it differently, let's take a Gaza 69, let's put some other body on it and it will be
fine only from those more or less available elements
They started building a completely new vehicle, new chassis, new body,
let's say everything in
quotation marks [Music] new and as it quickly turned out, the 452
was supposed to be the target form of Buchi and now we are reaching an important thread here
because this car has remained in production since 1965 until to this day Why it was so
well received, we need to understand the realities
of the Soviet Union, because although this car also found its way to, for example, the Polish People's Republic and
many other countries, it was in the Soviet Union that it was best accepted and
in the S
oviet Union And now in the former Soviet Union, it
sells well. Well, you have to understand that in the Soviet Union and in the former
republics of the Soviet Union, a standard road looks more or less
like this or this, on which we will be driving soon, so there you need a car
that has actually good off-road capabilities and, by the way, the distances in our country
are these distances from one mechanic to another, from one service to another,
they are definitely lower there, you have several hu
ndred kilometers of emptiness. And if you have
something like that, when your car breaks down, I wonder what
's going on with it, no help, no coverage, then you just have to fix it yourself and
uaza 452 you can repair the new Sprinter yourself
Well, not necessarily, I'm completely in the ass , I won't even get there in a passenger car,
I'll run out of electricity UAS has already wanted to withdraw the car from
production several times, but customers said it's not that bad, we still want it Let's
also add that this car is simply very cheap, if you drown it somewhere here
in this wet meadow or somewhere in this river, you go and buy a second one and it's
OK, and that's why this car with minor modernizations, mainly replaced engines,
is still being built to this day and now let's talk about why it's called
buchanka Well, buchanka in Russian it means the same as Bochenek, the second name for
this car: tablet tablet tablet, i.e It's simply about its shape,
Soviet designers traditionally, wi
th great finesse, developed an extremely
well-thought-out shape of a garbage container box with a nice
face typical of the 1960s, but this nice face is not because it was created
because they wanted it to be beautiful. we simply have cheap, interchangeable
lights with other vehicles, cheap here, turn signals, note, interesting fact, it took them a long time to introduce
turn signals that were orange to be able to export this car,
they were white for a very long time because in the Soviet Union t
hey were white and they didn't give
a damn about it , the ignition is fine and it even tried
to start it here a characteristic air inlet that opens and closes, it has been there
for years, as if it is no longer used in any modern car, Buchan
is used for that here, a mesh fence, if your grill is damaged,
you can put in a piece of the fence, it will also work, it will work fine, if you are looking for
some stylistic details here, Fuck you, it's supposed
to work and it's supposed to carry loads in
difficult conditions and it's not great, you're
such interesting facts, it could be, for example, that over time they replaced these
mirrors with gazelle gauze mirrors and this is such a big change and they probably changed
the door handles because here you have such scalpels and then they gave others And besides, the most
interesting thing is that the car has fuel tank fillers on two sides and note that
it simply has two tanks, it makes sense because at the beginning these cars had 20 liters pe
r
100 then they went down to 12 hello Well, I'll try again No, or I'll remove
the spark plug and wipe them. Come on, here we have a sheet-metal type of structure, opening
side doors, opening rear doors, but it's like, let's say, a default
structure, and there were a million of these structures, as if they were made by Russians. They did
everything really. there are even tracks in there, the only thing I would like to
draw your attention to is that if you look at the front of this car, you won't
see any hood. Because there is only the air intake flap, nothing
else. How to get to the engine and this is also something very interestingly
thought out . in terms of the Soviet Union, because these cars, for example,
were also made in versions for frosts up to 60 degrees, and from this angle it is also
well thought out, because Note: You can only get to the engine from the inside, from the hatch that
is in the cabin, which means you can repair this car warmly inside in the cabin, but
since we'
re talking about the engine, let's go inside and see the engine, we have the engine
here. It's all in the cabin, and we actually have full service access
from the cabin here. See, the hatch is up, with virtually no
soundproofing. There used to be some soundproofing, but it was lost in action, this one. the engine
you see here, which we can repair in the cabin, we continue the fight.
We're going to look for the spark plug wrench. It's
a Volga GAZ 21 engine, of course slightly modified by
the UAZ,
so it probably had the UAZ marking here, a new one, probably UMZ 451. I'm not sure,
you can also meet it in the bathroom later. 469 which, by the way, actually has
common technology with the UAZ - the 452, but more on that in a moment - the engine, which, if
I remember correctly, has 70 to 75 horses depending on the version, of course, the
overhead valve petrol one, still a very ancient design, although interestingly
it's made of aluminum, easy to repair, easy to produce and it will run on any
type
of petrol, even the worst one, and that was very important in the Soviet Union,
fuck you have [__] ignition, you have fuel, you probably have fuel, another interesting solution
because the engine is actually very simple, it is a radiator intake which is
actually useful because these engines liked each other it does not heat up, but it is also
useful in situations when... for example, we're going somewhere in
Siberia and it's minus 60. Well, then it matters just as much
that most of the equi
pment is at the top, it's mounted as high as possible,
especially the electrical one, there's a coil, an ignition device, so if we're in the car,
if we're in this car, we're going somewhere in the mud, there will be no flooding from the ignition system
and the car simply won't stand up, now it's
hytte. The cap is on. And since we're talking about the technology common to the UAZ
469, it's the UAZ 469. My dears, it 's actually a roadster on a chassis,
it's buchi, if you look at it down onto
the c
hassis , it
has practically the same chassis, the same bridges, twice the rigid bridge, four times
the springs and it's more or less the same, even the frame is practically the same,
the simplest, most effective solution, what can be attached
to the front drive, permanent rear drive, how to implement it
coupling Well, this is PR, I have two
levers, the larger one is for complete disconnection of the drive and switching on the reducer.
In this position, the drive is engaged, in this position it i
s disengaged, and if I
pushed further, I would have a reducer. Here we have the engagement and disengagement of the front
axle. Currently, it is front axle turned on because we were driving through mud, if I
moved the lever back, we would only have one driven axle. Now that we're
at the lever and we're inside, take a look at the interior of this car and what
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with the episode here modernization, then
a Tap picerka appeared on the door but this is before the modernization and we are looking
at a chair, or rather a crappy chair on a steel frame with
leatherette without adjustment, please note that there is no adjustment of the position behind
the steering wheel, there are no headrests and now the most interesting thing is If I remember well that
headrests were introduced only in the 20th century, and seat adjustmen
ts were only introduced in the 1980s or 1990s.
We only have a steering column that you can hit with your face when
braking hard, luckily the brakes are weak and shitty so we won't do that.
And we have a dashboard which is not a dashboard. it has
such a thing as styling, but it has a real Soviet style that reminds
you of the glory of the Soviet Union by being ugly, nasty, disgusting and
it has four important clocks here, i.e. charging, oil pressure,
engine temperature and fuel. This is important.
You can
switch the switch there that doesn't work . left right tank And there is also a speedometer with a counter
so that there won't be any confusion, and that's where all the fantasy ends, and when
we get in, we'll also notice that there are a professional number of indicator lights, because there are
two of them. One here on the left is from the oil pressure and the other from
the turn signals and that's all there is to it As for the Oli button, here
we have wipers and we have air vent swit
ches
, if I remember correctly, wait, this is probably the rear heater, and here
is the air vent switch, here's how If we open it, it's the heater flap,
I don't know how visible it will be, but it 's so cleverly done that there
's a heater there right away, it could n't be simpler, and
the heat still comes out like this, so it goes on the glass, but if we don't
want it on the glass, we can't. let's move this metal thing and open the air vent to
the footwells And what did you talk about for a mom
ent when it comes to operation,
we have a radiator blind, we have choke, we have
a four-speed gearbox, we have a manual one, there's a beautiful baton
wrapped in insulation sticking out here, I really like this style on blue
insulating tape, it really couldn't be nicer, the advanced equipment
also includes a sun visor. As for this hatch, I
've heard these legends about it being for pulling out the engine, isn't it? So
I'm not convinced if it's for pulling out the engine, maybe some the chain
for
lifting this engine will come in this way, the engine won't come out this way So I talked
a little nonsense about taking it out through the roof, so I don't know what it
's about, whether it can be taken out somehow through the cabin doctor I have no idea I have no
idea what the author meant and why it's here, but it's there. In general, the car is
so nasty that I could buy it if it weren't for the fact that I've already bought a tarpan because
it's more or less as nasty or worse. And since we'
re talking about it,
let's take a look at it, so when it comes to how the situation looks like at the rear,
in this version the car can be both a cargo and a passenger car. See
the extremely comfortable benches for three people, but you can also sit at least
20 people, and in the conditions of the Soviet Union, it will probably
fit here and 20, because the buchanka won't run anyway more than 60 per hour
so that the people in the back won't be too cold, you'll see, there's a professional
heater h
ere in a moment. Oh, and it's supposed to warm up the back, which
is basically all made of sheet metal. There's already upholstery here. I don't know if
Fabryczna did anyone add which one? although
it insulates a bit, but I dare say that there may be a good squeaking noise at the back, and as for the
external stylistic details, there are two here, one is the heartwarming
reverse light, the kind that's fucked up on the rear door, and the second one is
the door stops so that they don't hit and bre
ak the window, so there's this
little guy here and he gets into the rubber thing here, I drive cars with carburetors for real,
everyone starts up normally, whether with or
without pumping, I've already tried every possible version with this garbage and
he still doesn't want to talk and my battery will soon run out.
also here you sit as a punishment or if you want to pay little for
the route in the Soviet Union And we 'll go sit in the front where
it's nicer, right here, and we'll go for a ride o
n a typical
Siberian highway , maybe your face will appear
in the recording somewhere or not Well, the end of this story is
that it wasn't a failure of the boat, but of my brain and the lack of pliers. As
you noticed, I tried to pull the choke off. Because it was cold, although
I was instructed to do it without choking, the choke stayed in my hand,
as you know, I'm very good at operating such vehicles. anyway, all my
wonderful struggle, removing the spark plugs, pumping
, tightening, loosened cl
amps, it all made no sense because it was enough that
the owner, who is sitting there, came and now took the camera out of SAJ using
a multi-tool and the UAS fired it straight away, so you can say that congratulations to
me, it was really very successful This guy is obviously experienced in driving junk. You can
write in the comments that motorcycling is a real pain he doesn't know and he's an idiot
and I'm looking for seat belts idiot Guess if there are seat belts here,
they introduced headrest
s in 2005 it's not very quiet, not to mention that it's terribly
loud, the muting is a joke, in the sense of muting, it's a stupid capitalist
invention that is not needed by the Soviet people I'm going to put in
second gear, which is a very interesting thing with the gearbox. First gear
is not synchronized, it happened , but second gear is also not
synchronized, so in road riding, which I will show you in a moment, only third and fourth gears are used,
but for now I will use second gear because
only in actually,
I'll need the second gear here and we'll go if it's possible [__]
the second one Oh, and the gear selector is also
awesome, almost like [__] the gas
pedal, I have the A4 drive on and now the most wonderful thing is the sound of
something that makes it a perfect car to the realities of the Soviet Union Well, you see,
more or less, what I'm driving at the moment is in a flat car, I don't care at all, I
don't even try particularly hard, it 's just the drive and the ground clearanc
e, all this
makes this car easily cope with
roads that would be difficult for passenger cars. it's crap,
you'll see soon, because this is just the beginning and look what I'm getting into now. Now
the real fun begins [__] I'm about to get into the field, tick. Here you
go , and the buchanka runs like a string over a fence. I'll venture to say that this car
drives better on the road. this kind of shit than on the road , here I just drove the tractor, I'm sweating
a lot, here you go Here, in the m
iddle of the mud , in a relaxed manner
, she drove through it without any problems
, so it's a wonderful car for such roads, it really does great
, and now that we've already driven on the mud, it 's time to go on the road, the driving technique is such that
he got it up to speed, put it in TR and go from third gear Here you go and now it's really uncle
only three c's why Because this engine with Gaza 21 is very flexible, it's so
flexible that we can easily drive in these two gears only and
now
it begins. fun to drive on the asphalt and on the asphalt this car runs well, but
it is definitely worse than on the mud because what works on
the mud is the high suspension, the high
ground clearance, the fact that it has quite narrowly spaced wheels makes it swing wildly,
we are driving at the moment 50 I feel like I'm driving at 90. If I
accelerate it a little, the noise becomes unbearable
and we're at 60 per hour, we're trying to get to
70, everything's going crazy, I can't hear anything . I
don't know if you'll hear what
I'm saying now, so let's slow down a bit, it's not suitable at all. for
road riding, it swings, it 's not easy, it's not easy to really
get into the lane, the driving position, considering that it's not adjustable at all,
is surprisingly decent, it's just like sitting in
a chair, it's like an old-fashioned, still kind of [__] gas pedal. not suspended,
just pressed into the floor, you have to lift your leg sharply to press the brake,
the brake is not miraculously e
ffective, I'm banging on the door with my left hand,
but no one said it has to be ergonomic, it has to be able
to drive on shitty roads And I'm reaching the intersection. I'm putting in the TR,
you'll see how flexible this
motor is, I've actually slowed down to about 15 per hour at the moment, and here you go,
15k on the TR, at this point, unfortunately, I didn't
record it, it's a wonderful story Well, I'm driving, I'm looking, the guy is lying there, I was going to
the recording, the guy is lyi
ng there on the way I think No I know, maybe he had an accident, maybe someone
left him, maybe he's sick, had a heart attack, something, so
I turn around. I drive over to help. I look at the woman who has left the house. I open the window.
I ask there. Is everything okay ? Is the man alive? Something to help. I don't know.
Call an ambulance. The lady says [__] idiot. He got full at 8 a.m. [ __ ] mac Help me,
I can't carry it home myself Well, welcome to the Polish countryside And back
to driving
, the Buchar is a wonderful toy, although I must
say that if there are people who drive these cars on longer routes, they make
useen from scratch or they are a masochist because I personally have the impression that it is
louder here than in the tarpan, this is the noise level of the st tarpan diesel STP with a
tractor engine, it is actually almost like driving a tractor, only such a
high-speed tractor is a disaster because with this car it is like that he is
Immortal and he is Immortal because
he is like
a crowbar but still a tool that sometimes cannot
be replaced And the buzzer in certain conditions cannot be replaced either Because
if you live somewhere in a secluded place away from Mechanics, away from
advanced technically, services where the roads are soft, for example in spring or
autumn , and you can easily repair them
with basic wrenches , which is able to drive through
quite difficult road conditions, through mud, through snow. It cannot be
replaced, especially a cheap car , w
hich will drown
if it falls apart. in a swamp, it can simply be easily replaced with another one. Anyway,
it's not easy to guess that this was the philosophy that guided the
UAZ designers, because they made it first for the army and the Soviet doctrine is such that
every element, every weapon, every vehicle doesn't have to be perfect, it has to be cheap
and easy population density, in fact, this
is the only moment when tanks may no longer be needed or someone
will come up with something new to r
eplace the tank, it is of course an absolute disgusting
troglodyte not suitable for normal driving, losing in terms of comfort,
there is no conversation about comfort, it is so comfortable, life in
I don't care about the Soviet Union , if someone uses it in Central or
Western Europe, it means they have it as a toy or are a masochist. To sum up,
I really like it. If I didn't have too many cars, I would probably buy such
a garbage can. And that's it for this episode . Remember about the only corre
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