1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,480 Welcome to Botch's Off-Road. Join us as we talk about everything from 2 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:24,520 tr- ooo. Join us as we talk about everything from gear reviews to trail 3 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,080 stories, tent camping to rock landing, and all things to do with the outdoors. 4 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:34,480 Today I've got Mr. Joe Yamber, Yoda disciple on Instagram for anyone who does 5 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:40,320 that whole thing. We're just kind of gonna run down on his Sequoia and his 6 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,440 Tundra and yeah it should be a pretty decent episode. Don't forget about my 7 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:51,200 other Instagram account. Oh I can't remember what her name is. 8 00:00:51,200 --> 00:01:01,120 Donnie Tramp. Yeah yeah Donnie Tramp. That one is a that is a great time. So yeah. 9 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,840 Yeah. You know I've known you for a long time and all I know about the Sequoias 10 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:17,120 it's on 37s. So I started that when we went to Drummond in 23 with MST and we 11 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,720 took the Tundra, just my oldest son and I, and then we wanted to incorporate the 12 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,160 rest of the family and the Tundra being an access cab is a little too small for 13 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:30,560 that. So we went on the North Shore trip with the Sequoia. I went with stock. We 14 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:35,720 had a blast. My wife kind of got on board for beefing it up a little bit and 15 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:42,960 then in true Yamboor fashion I went overboard. So it's got Fox 2.5s in the 16 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,960 front, JVA upper control arms, Fox, I'm sorry, 17 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:54,840 Dobson's IMS in the rear and then the 2.5 inch lift springs, Method 305s and 18 00:01:54,840 --> 00:02:02,920 Kenda 37s and then the Coastal Off-Road Bumper, Expo Lynch, Talons Garage, Full 19 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:09,560 Skids, 80% off-road sliders, Pro Speed Roof Rack and then the T&U Rooftop 10, 20 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:20,120 Cali Raise Light Bar, Aux Beam Pods, Midland 50 watt and then upgraded head 21 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:27,400 unit to run Onyx just in the heads-up display as opposed to running like a 22 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:35,080 tablet separate or anything, you know. Right. Oh it's got, my favorite 23 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:40,480 cheapest mods I've done with it was the H7 switchbacks behind my projector 24 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:46,240 lenses where I can just go from white to amber. They were like Amazon 25 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,000 specials for like 40, 50 bucks or whatever but they're sweet. Like it really 26 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:56,920 is a really useful mod for trails and snow and stuff like that. Yeah I've just 27 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:01,600 got those LEDs in the 4Runner and man do I wish I had them switchbacks. They're 28 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,520 cheap like I said especially if you have a projector like it's kind of a 29 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,480 no-brainer because you get all the benefits of white light and amber 30 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:16,760 for next to nothing. Right. Like the Aux Beam has a set of them that run you 31 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,520 know stupid expensive but those are Chinese chips anyway so I mean I just 32 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:26,080 got the Amazon ones. Do you still got your cracked rear bumper on that thing? 33 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:32,320 Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah good. Yeah I want to get... 34 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:38,160 Yeah thanks Derek. I want to get, he's gonna rip on me too for even mentioning 35 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:43,840 that it was his fault but I whatever. I want to get the victory one but like at 36 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,840 the same time I don't really drop in like $2,700 with the swing out too so 37 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:54,320 I'll probably just keep rocking it until it falls off and then we'll deal with 38 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:59,320 it later. That's kind of my style. Is the victory one the only option for an 39 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:04,480 upgrade on that thing? Oh no there's there's one more in the victory one 40 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,280 looks cheap compared to that. The tandem off-road who kind of pioneered second 41 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:15,920 gen Sequoia builds they they have an option and without a swing out like but 42 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,120 theirs is really cool I'll give them that like it has options for dual swing 43 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:25,920 outs, jerry cans, everything but that one starts at $3,800 without swing outs. 44 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:31,600 Yeah that's insane. So yeah well at the time they were the only one doing it so I 45 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:37,120 mean and they're a smaller shop they don't I get why it's expensive but I 46 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:44,280 can't no way. You could get a really shitty third gen for that price. You can 47 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:52,320 get you can get six XJ's for it. Right right. So that's the thing 48 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:57,600 too is why like I'm kind of pivoting off like wheeling the crap out of the 49 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:04,080 Sequoia because as fun as it is like it's limited with the independent rear 50 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:12,920 and it's expensive like the XJ I dude I have I bought two XJ's all in for 51 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:22,840 $1,750 in a shotgun because I traded their Jeep Derek some money a shotgun and 52 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:31,120 some MST merch for that XJ he had. It's been fun watching you wheel the XJ 53 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:36,320 because you almost wheel like me with just no care in the world now. Yeah like 54 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:40,000 I don't want to break it too bad where like it's gonna be a hassle to get it 55 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,920 back on the trailer but like at the same yeah I don't I don't care like you know 56 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,360 if I have I have a whole nother one sitting at home in well parts for a 57 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,520 whole nother one it's all taken apart now but I have axles I have alternators 58 00:05:53,520 --> 00:06:00,640 starters engines you know I mean like it yeah if it happens it happens. That's I 59 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:06,240 love driving a shit box because when I break something it's like you know 50 60 60 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:11,960 bucks to fix it maybe up to 500 but usually it's under 100 bucks. Yeah dude 61 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:19,400 like a Toyota alternator when we fried mine on drummin was an AutoZone one was 62 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:26,520 almost $300 like you know the parts for Toyota stuff especially it is so 63 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:31,880 expensive like you can an OEM Toyota alternator is $450 that doesn't include 64 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:40,280 shipping like I'm sorry you can buy whole parts XJ for that. And now it's in 65 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:44,440 now with what's been going on with the OEM market at least for third gens I 66 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:48,320 don't know about up there OEM stuff almost doesn't matter anymore because 67 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:55,080 it's the same crap that everyone else has now. I mean typically I'll try to get 68 00:06:55,080 --> 00:07:04,000 Denso stuff like coils or spark plugs stuff like that if I can. There's no 69 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:11,600 sense in you know spending an extra $30 on a coil that has Toyota stamped on it 70 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,680 when you can get a Denso one that's the exact same thing because they're the 71 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,840 OEM supplier but you know I try to buy stuff that's budget friendly but that's 72 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:26,480 also gonna last. Like even in the third gen world even our Rack and Pinion the 73 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:34,920 OEM Rack and Pinion is the same as the $200 one off Rock Auto. I'm not sure who 74 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:40,240 does that I just know about my Tundra and it's um and I bought one from Jojo 75 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:51,240 that the parts guy but it was stamped J-E-K-T. So yeah whoever that is I'm sure 76 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,760 you can get a lot I'm sure you get a lot cheaper from from just buying right from 77 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:02,880 the supplier without a Toyota sticker on it. Of course Jojo got pretty decent deals too. 78 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,080 Yeah I'm not I mean people have good experiences with them there's bad 79 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:13,120 experiences I've never had bad experience with them so we're actually 80 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,560 working on getting his merch set up through our our website. I'm not sure where 81 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:24,680 the progression on that is yet but it's stay tuned for it I guess. Yeah I gotta 82 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,880 get with you to get our merch over there too. Yeah that's fine. 83 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:39,080 Anyway we can talk about yeah that stuff MST's merch is booming. It's pretty 84 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,120 good we got a bunch of lady stuff coming up right now that they're putting on to 85 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:51,480 the website. We've got my stuff the DNR the the Yoda Disciple stuff but yeah 86 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:58,840 everything MST it all goes right back to the club it doesn't go to like you 87 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:04,560 know my mom you know she has to cover costs and everything but it's the only 88 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:09,320 financial way to support MST so if you can buy a hoodie buy t-shirt whatever you 89 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:14,000 know helps helps those guys have some funds to plan things you know whatever 90 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,320 even if it's just them going to buy a beer and talking about a trip you know 91 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:25,000 hey whatever they do a lot for us and we can do a little for them. So the your 92 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,440 Tundra build that's you've got what Kings all the way around on that or just 93 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:35,120 in the rear? No Kings in the front Foxes are in the rear and then that's yeah 94 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:43,280 that's it's just that's pretty mild too I mean I I do that that I did piece 95 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:49,440 together like where the Sequoia did all at one time the the Tundra was over it's 96 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,520 you know nothing's ever done but the Tundra you know I started off with a 97 00:09:53,520 --> 00:10:02,760 little day start polyurethane leveling kit and then from there went to Toytex 98 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:08,880 from there went to Kings so it's you know I don't wheel it too much but it is 99 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:15,400 fun to wheel it you know I I got I got so much crap you know I it's just I 100 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,640 don't have any sort of plans dude it's just it all kind of happens and then I 101 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:26,200 spend more money and then yeah whatever. I mean isn't that why you get money is 102 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:31,480 to spend money? That's yeah that's what I tell my wife but then she doesn't think 103 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:36,600 that that's how it should go. My wife kind of gave up stopping me from 104 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:41,640 spending money at this point. Yeah I mean she saw some of my Black Friday 105 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:47,080 purchases on the Amazon thing and then saw the Jackery and the diesel heater 106 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,560 and like she said well I'm not gonna go camping in the cold anyway I don't know 107 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:54,800 what you need all that stuff for. Like all right well surprise nights where 108 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,960 you're you know it's nice and 60 degrees and drops to 40s in the middle of the 109 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:03,160 night you're gonna be happy that we have this stuff. What uh what diesel heater 110 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:08,440 did you get? You get one you're building or you get an all-in-one? I got a the VVOR 111 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:13,800 with the app control I think it's like a five five kilowatt or whatever it is. 112 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:21,800 Yep yeah so yeah I mean we put one of those in my buddy's van when he was 113 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,760 living out of it and it it would work really well and then randomly it would 114 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:34,200 just pump exhaust through the cab. Oh that's good. But I think it's because he 115 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:39,800 had his exhaust too close to the intake. Yeah I honestly it's still sitting in 116 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:46,280 the box. I am to the point now where I don't even open up boxes like I just 117 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:51,520 throw like I'm not even kidding dude I could show you I've got boxes that are 118 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,160 just I don't even know what's in them anymore and so I need it I don't even 119 00:11:55,160 --> 00:12:00,640 open them. But there's no point really messing with it until the Jackery gets 120 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:06,600 here. I can't I can't Jack yet until after the new year it should be here 121 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,520 like January 5th or something. It's taken it so long for you to be able to 122 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:16,520 Jack. I just want to Jack like with myself and with other people and I can't 123 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:23,240 Jack. I mean everybody else is jacking without me. Hey I don't Jack without you 124 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:31,880 I don't bring no secondary power. Yeah um I know these guys are talking about 125 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:36,000 running different batteries and all that stuff I'm I'm lazy man like just give me 126 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:40,920 a give me a box to plug into a cigarette lighter and that's good like I don't have 127 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,280 my wiring hooked up to switch panels or anything I'm just like a king of butt 128 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:49,920 connectors. Even in that it's a coil which is like a nice like a nice build 129 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:56,320 from the outside well it was before Derek messed my bumper up. Like dude I 130 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:02,320 just I don't know I just get it working for now and like I say I'm gonna get to 131 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:08,760 it later and never do. Yeah I uh I switched to AGM when I put my battery in 132 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:14,920 the back when I did the relocation. Yeah yeah yeah just because when you're in 133 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:20,400 the AGM it doesn't vent whereas a normal battery vents and I don't want to be 134 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:26,280 breathing in battery stuff. Yeah I don't know I hasn't caused many problems but 135 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:32,320 maybe it's something to look at I don't know. Um if you did you boost your 136 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:38,480 voltage for it? I have not boosted my voltage yet. So from what I've read and 137 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,840 that you know I just read stupid crap on you know Facebook groups who these guys 138 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:46,920 maybe know what they're talking about or maybe don't but you're supposed to 139 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:51,440 boost your voltage with AGM batteries because they want to supposed to charge 140 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:59,720 over 14 volts. So there's a diode that you can get for GM cars and you shave 141 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:04,200 part of like the side of it off and then you just replace your um your alternator 142 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:11,920 15 amp fuse with this diode and it boosted a full volt and you can add a do 143 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,720 like an add a fuse situation where you have like your 15 amp and and the diode 144 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:20,880 and it's probably be a safer way to do it. I just stuck the diode in there and 145 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:25,080 it hasn't given me any issues yet although I am gonna replace my starter 146 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:29,000 for the second time in a year so maybe I think that has something to do with more 147 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:35,640 with uh mentioning mentioning you out of the south shore loop and then also 148 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,720 doing tank traps and stuff like that had four feet four feet of water when we got 149 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:46,800 in there. Yeah I uh I was pretty stuck that day I'm not gonna lie. Oh yeah dude 150 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,440 remember we like you pulled you out like your your horn was going off 151 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:57,600 non-stop the car was trying to start on its own with the remote start. That was 152 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:03,760 the dumbest thing I've ever done I'm not gonna lie I should have listened to you. Well when 153 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:09,400 we when you get um when we went back in June and we went through it and saw what 154 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,600 you fell in because it dropped it was fine on the one side and he dropped off 155 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,720 into the tank trap on the other side but the whole thing was submerged in water 156 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,960 there's no way to tell. Yeah. But I was getting up to about my headlight like 157 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,520 when I dropped that I'm like dude there's I'm not no I'm not trying to 158 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:30,800 hydro lock a vehicle that I have this kind of financial responsibility to pay 159 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,600 off on you know although insurance typically will cover that but. Is that 160 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:42,340 mine? I'm not trying to explain that to my agent. I was just driving down the 161 00:15:42,340 --> 00:15:49,360 road and I hit a puddle. Well he's he's also like my buddy too so cuz my yeah my 162 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:55,600 wife's friend he started his own agency so I threw him some business to you know 163 00:15:55,600 --> 00:16:01,520 help him get going or whatever shout out Alec Garza but anyway um so he sees 164 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:06,360 everything I do on Facebook and he I'm like had these conversations with him 165 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:12,480 like hey man like if I suck water in my engine like what's gonna happen do you 166 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:16,560 think and he's like well if it's water related damages we'll cover it and I'm 167 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:21,480 like all right he's like just maybe don't describe how it happened and have 168 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:26,320 a better way to say how it happened you know what I mean? Yeah I was I was on the 169 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,920 phone with State Farm like three weeks ago and I'm like so if I'm out on a 170 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:34,520 trail and I break something what how am I covered and they're like well we'll 171 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:39,640 get the vehicle to a repair center we'll cover all the towing and we generally 172 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,840 will give a pretty decent payout and I'm like all right I'm sold. Yeah I have 173 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:50,720 State Farm too um it's expensive like really expensive right now with having 174 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:58,080 three vehicles on full coverage but yeah whatever it's like 500 and we just got 175 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:03,120 the Rav4 so I haven't even seen what that's gonna gonna entail I think he 176 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:11,680 said it was more expensive but I've got just the 4Runner and my 442 which is in 177 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:16,000 storage and I'm sitting at like 313 or something like that 178 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:23,040 Jesus like it's expensive. You have full coverage on the third gen? Oh yeah I 179 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:29,920 haven't agreed I have agreed upon payout at 14 grand on the third gen. How do you 180 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:36,640 go about getting that? Well it started with my 442 is how I don't know exactly 181 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:42,960 what it was because my 442 blue books at like $600 but it's one of 204 because 182 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:47,240 you know according to the title it's just a Calais but because it's a quad 183 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:52,040 442 it got appraised and it appraised at like 23 grand so they gave me a 184 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,600 agreed-upon payout at 23 grand on that and then I did the same thing for the 185 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,800 4Runner when I bought it. So you just get them appraised and then pretty much yeah 186 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,520 you gotta give them appraised and there's some paperwork you got to fill out but 187 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,760 well I don't think mine I'm not sure how high mine would appraise after Derek 188 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:16,600 ruined my bumper but um yeah. With newer vehicles like the 189 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,560 Sequoia I don't know if they would do it I think they have to be over like 20 190 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:26,520 years old or something like that. Okay the Tundra might be worth looking at 191 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,640 doing that with then. I bet you the Tundra's cut would be fall into that 192 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:37,240 category. Yeah it's a 20 it's a it's a 2000 so anyway yeah maybe something to 193 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:43,120 look into. What um yeah what do you guys got going on you guys got any rides 194 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:48,520 coming up soon? I think me and Gavin are gonna go out here locally on Saturday and 195 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:54,560 just kind of see what's going on with snow and stuff. Yeah we're I don't want 196 00:18:54,560 --> 00:19:00,000 to say we're taking the winter off but we're we're wheeling light this winter. 197 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:07,840 Yeah I have a couple things on the maintenance list to check off but I 198 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,500 want to at least get a few like last year we didn't have much snow and my 199 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:16,440 wife had to have surgeries like the one week that we actually had it so I didn't 200 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,400 really get any decent snowmobiling in besides Winterfest we had Winterfest but 201 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,320 that was you know I want to just go you know find some fresh snow and see what 202 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:32,080 those 37s will eat you know. Yeah we've got Mark's truck we've got some work we 203 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:37,040 got to do we got to fix his rear springs and stuff I think we're gonna try and get 204 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:44,440 some 35s on the third gen before we go to Leatherwood. Skinny skinny 35s man. 205 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:49,680 That's what I plan on doing is skinny 35 yeah yeah skinny 35s are the way to go. 206 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,400 And then probably a roof rack and stuff and just try to save money on wheeling 207 00:19:54,400 --> 00:20:00,960 so we can do some building you know. Yeah for sure um and we've got that whole 208 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:11,000 tool trailer build going on so yeah I've got stuff I got the trailer 209 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:17,280 sitting at Derek's house I need to go grab but I have to replace the starter on 210 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,200 the Sequoia again I just did it about this time last year yeah I did it last 211 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:27,560 year but Toyota electronics don't like water and it saw more water than I 212 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:36,640 planned on it seeing this past wheeling season so I chalk it up to that so but 213 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:41,640 we were replaced man it's like it's like a three-hour job on your back dude and 214 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:46,080 it you know I probably will get it done sooner the quicker this time being my 215 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:50,160 second time doing it but it's I've been procrastinating it hardcore because I 216 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,840 absolutely am dreading it. If we were a video podcast this is where I'd place in 217 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:02,400 the reel of you going through the tank traps. Yeah I just watched it recently 218 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:07,080 explaining to some of the guys why I have to replace it after a year and like 219 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,440 I'd screen-shotted like how deep it actually was because it was over the 220 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,520 headlights it was up to the hood luckily it was just like that one drop-in 221 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:20,600 section I got out of it real quick and like if I if it would have been that 222 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:26,200 deep for like 20 30 yards or something it probably would have been a problem 223 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:32,880 yeah you know that was a really fun trip there was a lot more water than I 224 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:38,040 thought there would be yeah I'd never been up there in the spring before and 225 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:47,200 it was it was a surprise for sure but it was fun like like but that was kind of 226 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:52,720 the trip too that opened my eyes up to like hey like this kind of sucks having 227 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,760 to worry about wheeling the thing that you need to drive you know four and a 228 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,080 half hours home or longer if you're going other places what drumming for me 229 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:09,020 is four and a half hours but uh you know having to drive over the Mackinac 230 00:22:09,020 --> 00:22:15,640 bridge on battery was pretty scary and uh kind of was what kind of nudged me 231 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:20,920 into the direction of doing the whole trailer ship box rig thing where that 232 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:26,320 you know I can break and load it up on the trailer and worry about it later not 233 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:32,840 having to change it art on alternator and an auto zone parking lot you know a 234 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:41,160 hundred miles away from where I it failed at yeah that was yeah I'm glad 235 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,000 you made it though because we were with you for what like 50 miles of that and 236 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,920 then we split off but yeah probably probably a little longer it's about oh 237 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,720 it's a two track it's a two lane so that it's about an hour from the bridge to 238 00:22:54,720 --> 00:23:01,560 the ferry so yeah probably 60 70 miles or whatever yeah we were we were pretty 239 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,720 worried you weren't gonna make it it was it was pretty bad honestly like Mark um 240 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:11,240 Todd Todd charged me so much the night before I was hooked up for like five 241 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,640 hours while you guys were cooking your meal and tin foil that took four hours 242 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:25,720 to cook yeah that was that was the thing yeah yeah then um and then we just you 243 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,680 know we stopped when we could charge luckily the the guys in the ferry got us 244 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:34,320 close together so we could charge on the ferry and then we stopped at that rest 245 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,520 area for 30 minutes before the bridge and it was smooth sailing but it was 246 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:45,360 scary I remember we stuck we had everything hooked up ready to go in case 247 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:51,320 Todd had to tell me in the middle of the bridge we got a kinetic rope in a 248 00:23:51,320 --> 00:24:00,640 shackle like on standby I we've all started adding the the little plugs the 249 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,160 Anderson connectors that Todd has on his truck yeah that was very convenient and 250 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:11,600 I'm for sure because of that trip we've all added them to our trucks now yeah I 251 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,680 haven't because I don't learn from my mistakes or anything like that but you 252 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:21,560 know I've got I've got two well technically three coming out of my 253 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,640 battery box one of them that actually hooks the battery to the truck one for 254 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:30,040 my air compressor and then a small one for hooking up whatever I want on top of 255 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:35,080 that yeah see you got you got so much stuff going on like as far as like 256 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:40,280 built-in two-year rig and it's commendable but I just don't have like 257 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:45,480 like the motivation to like wire all that crap up and like mounted I just do 258 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:51,280 just give me an air compressor and a Harbor Freight Apache Pelican case give 259 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,880 me a Jackery and a Harbor Freight box you know and then just figure it out my 260 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,520 I got a new air compressor not too long ago to replace that slow one I had and 261 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:06,040 it lasted all of like three trips before it blew one of the seals out so now I 262 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:13,040 got to rip the whole thing apart and repair it I had that that nappa one that 263 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:18,320 everybody raved about because it is fast don't get me wrong yeah well 264 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,880 apparently I mean maybe you're supposed to secure them and not let them bounce 265 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:28,320 around in the back hatch at Silver Lake like and do whatever else we do bomb 266 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:35,600 materials with Derek or whatever because uh I was pumping up after we're at st. 267 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,960 Helen and it started making these horrible noises like I might do the 268 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,560 sinks going down and I just like Mario was there I'm like doers let's just let 269 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:47,960 it die let's let it let's let it go out with the bang and it just yeah it's like 270 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,740 the piston was destroying itself and I kind of tore it apart a little bit and 271 00:25:51,740 --> 00:25:59,840 add like a hole in it it was it was so bad do you happen to have it yeah I 272 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:04,400 could definitely use some parts off that to fix mine yeah that's fine I mean I'm 273 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:11,000 not gonna guarantee they're worth anything like I said it it it was not 274 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:18,200 making good noises I don't know what happened but it blew itself up but yeah 275 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:23,560 it was great and so instead I just went and got the Harbor Freight one with the 276 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:30,640 two-year warranty and you know that fails I'll just go get a different one I 277 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,320 actually had to because I found an open box one in the back and I you know if I 278 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:39,000 I don't know if you do this or not but I I'll go grab the manager and haggle with 279 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:44,520 them a little bit like they wanted like 90 bucks for it I think I paid 55 we've 280 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:51,440 got it'll say on the other oh yeah welder that they had it marked at 130 and 281 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:56,520 we haggle them down to like 85 bucks or something like that yeah cuz like it'll 282 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,480 say like the date on that blue tag or whatever and if it's been sitting there 283 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,960 a while they don't care they're just you know some of them are sticklers about it 284 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,200 I mean most the time though and they just want it off the shelves they don't 285 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:14,600 really care all right man it's been it's been a joy talking to you well I have to 286 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,040 get you on a little more plan than just the last minute hey man we need someone 287 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,880 to record with us well I'm not sure if I am anything else more to say that would 288 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:31,320 be planned you know I just oh I am planning a big marble head episode soon 289 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:36,880 and I want you there for that so well I could talk about that all day I got I 290 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:41,760 got a few minutes if you I mean I don't have to like leave until about 815 so I 291 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,760 got if you don't want to cut it short quite yet I got a couple more minutes 292 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:53,160 but oh yeah cool cool we can keep going a little bit the night 750 is kind of 293 00:27:53,160 --> 00:28:00,280 like my you know starting to get out the door time said we're here but um yeah I 294 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:09,200 so marble head when I went up for the fall colors the XJ on 33 is when I have 295 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:17,080 afford amp inch lift on it but I was able to do and I was able to do the new line 296 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:22,320 with it I had to stack a little bit Casey great spotter he helped me up and 297 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:29,120 down and it's it's a shame what they did like I was I would listen to Derek's 298 00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:34,160 episode and he kind of put it in really good words where he said it was there 299 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,080 was something for everybody there where you could start off on one thing and 300 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:41,420 kind of as you progress with yourself and your abilities and your rig you can 301 00:28:41,420 --> 00:28:45,240 move on to different lines and they kind of took that away they took that away 302 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,640 from everybody like I know for a fact like some of the longer wheelbase that 303 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:56,080 ups are really gonna struggle with it now um and the Sequoia I don't think I'll 304 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,720 ever try it with the Sequoia I mean I do have a ton of ground clearance but it's 305 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:07,800 just the just the long wheelbase on is really gonna kill it right so but the XJ 306 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:17,120 with the welded rear it it did it and it was fine but yeah it's a shame that you 307 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:25,000 know to move some stupid boulders in front of a cliff they had to destroy you 308 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,560 know one-third of you know a historic piece of Michigan's wheeling history and 309 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,120 actually you know the whole Midwest even the country you know we only have two 310 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:38,440 badge of honors in Michigan that was one of them so it I think it is again I 311 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,480 think they gave it back yeah no yeah they did but still it's you know it's 312 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:51,480 it's just disgusting what what a gross just poor planning poor execution just 313 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:57,680 the whole thing is yep disgusting but so on there's a lot of those guys out 314 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:04,080 there who don't want to go back they say they're never gonna go back and in my 315 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:09,040 opinion if that's if that's what's gonna happen I mean that's just kind of opens 316 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:15,040 the door for them to keep making their enhancements quotation marks and going 317 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,040 unchecked you know what I mean like like that kind of woke a lot of people up in 318 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:25,000 in Michigan and in the Midwest as to what you know the DNR is doing just 319 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,960 without any sort of public input at all they claim they had input from you know 320 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:34,680 some off-road clubs blah blah blah but in 2015 yeah well if you dig deeper 321 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:42,600 into it too they they didn't actually have like somebody out there who was 322 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,120 like oh okay yeah to that no that that's not what that's not what actually 323 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:57,080 happened so I I think that people should keep going keep an eye on it show that 324 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,040 you know hey like we've got your eye on you and you better not do anything like 325 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:08,320 that ever again and honestly like if if there was a way I would I would like to 326 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:13,200 see you know whoever was actually pulling the trigger on that to be brought 327 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,960 you know brought up on charges or something I mean you can't they have a 328 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:24,920 fiduciary responsibility to maintain and preserve the land not destroy it and 329 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:30,280 doing all that destruction in the name of preservation is so hypocritical and 330 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:38,000 it's just yeah it's it's gross that's the only word I can say we see it from 331 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000 the DNR not just in the off-road community but look what they do with I 332 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,640 don't know you don't ha I don't think but look what they do with hunting and 333 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,480 how they manage deer it's just it's it's gotten better but we went through a 334 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:56,400 really dark time for a while yeah I'm not much of a hunter um it's not I don't 335 00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,640 have anything against it or anything I just I don't have the time you know I 336 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:07,360 all my time that I have available like for me I usually spend fixing the things 337 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:12,640 I broke wheeling or going wheeling and breaking more things so and then you 338 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:18,640 know being you know a father to work in you know just I don't have time to go 339 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,560 spend a week sit in the woods man yeah I didn't this year I didn't hunt for the 340 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:28,080 same reason just work I didn't really have a farmhand and I had to work all 341 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:36,160 day every day so yeah I am but anyway so back to the the Drummond Island thing I 342 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:46,360 think that people should continue to go you know show that we care about the 343 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,960 trails clean up after yourself you know those businesses on the island they're 344 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,480 not the ones that pulled the trigger on this you know the the nice lady the nice 345 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,400 lady at the gift shop she wasn't out there bulldozing you know marble head 346 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:04,920 you know stuff like that you can go spend your money you know and you know 347 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,840 they they they survive off tourism you know there's only you know I'm not I 348 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,560 can't say specifically numbers but you know 1,500 people that live on that 349 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:23,400 island you know so I I have nothing I don't know I you can't point your your 350 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:27,920 rage and take away your dollars from people who had nothing to do with it and 351 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:33,840 there's still moves I miss this Moses yeah well it should be called Joe's 352 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:42,240 nemesis but I I had a yeah that's a whole nother topic I when we went was 353 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:49,280 just the family in August I didn't have the rear of the XJ locked yet and I I 354 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:54,120 struggled again on it for a while and I was just by myself with my wife and kids 355 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,040 so I was like kind of getting on it a little bit spinning I was like really 356 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,840 worried about breaking an actual shaft and get stuck out there so I went on it 357 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:07,160 from a diagonal line like I did the main obstacle just from a like a sideways 358 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,560 diagonal line and I and I made it up but when I went with Casey and the fall 359 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,120 colors group I we just walked right up at that welded rear makes such a 360 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:23,640 difference yeah and I mean at the same time like obviously lockers are great 361 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:29,880 but I would the the Sequoia especially would really benefit from one but I 362 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,720 can't just go in there at the stick welder and figure it out with that you 363 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:40,920 know that needs a little bit more road manners and the XJ does I have not had 364 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:45,840 my locker since we got back from drumming so that's right didn't it 365 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:52,560 didn't it fail up there yeah it failed at drumming I think you um I think if I 366 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,080 if I had to guess anyway you probably fried the actuator when you were sitting 367 00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:03,160 in all that water trying to engage it so the the actuator functions it just 368 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,040 doesn't engage the gear so I just need to take it apart and rebuild it like 369 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,360 yeah a hundred bucks I just haven't taken the time to do it honestly like 370 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,960 especially with something like that there's a lot of third-gen part outs and 371 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:20,360 everything you could probably just find a used one and you know like even a 372 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:25,680 whole rear used third member and just swap that and make your life easier the 373 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:31,600 for lockers even used ones around us have been going for like between eight 374 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:38,080 and thirteen hundred dollars for just that whole actual yeah I'm I'm I know 375 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,480 I've seen people score him on eBay because I used to have a third gen too 376 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,640 so I'm still in like all those Facebook groups like sometimes people on eBay 377 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,480 don't really know what they have they just you know there's part and something 378 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,160 out and they part things out for a living they don't know what it is I've 379 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:56,800 seen somebody get one for like 75 bucks one time for the whole third member but 380 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:02,240 I mean you're gonna pay probably you know 90 to 100 dollars to get it shipped 381 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:06,360 because it's kind of heavy but right yeah the the other thing with getting a 382 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,840 new third member is no matter what I'm gonna have to cut and weld a cover and I 383 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,880 just did that so I don't really want to do that oh yeah that's right I remember 384 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:19,960 you had to add a whole quart of gear oil that that morning in the spring on 385 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:28,680 German Island yeah yeah you weren't you weren't too prepared 386 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:34,800 you know and a whole quart of gear oil no spare tire the first day and then 387 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,560 what else happened although the body mounts on the the four-wire rotted out 388 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:49,600 too yeah that was a rough trip for you but I know one the frame solid 389 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,720 yeah you know you use those things and build them better after that you know 390 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:59,720 that's how it goes I still don't have a spare tire because I'm a cheap bastard 391 00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:05,240 I I could get you dude my my buddy's got two third oh he sold one of them but 392 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,240 he's got another third jet and there's he's got probably three or four sets of 393 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:13,880 Toyota wheels well the Toyota wheels don't work because there's 16s I have to 394 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:20,000 have 17s because of my tundra swap I we have tundra wheels I have a set of 395 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:27,000 tundra wheels over there that would work yeah yeah FJ we have 17 FJ wheels over 396 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:32,600 there it's the places where Toyota's go to die I mean there's just crap 397 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,520 everywhere yeah I'll probably get with you then because I would love to throw a 398 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:44,120 spare up on my roof once I get my roof rack yeah even though I mean I don't 399 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,640 know what your plans are for your roof rack like if you want to throw a tent 400 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,240 up there whatever but those harbor freight baskets you know that are perfect 401 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:57,440 for throwing a spare tire up there I got one on my XJ and then I I had a spare 402 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:02,360 light bar sitting in there so I put that on the on the wind fairing and like the 403 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:07,640 the sheet metal on it is paper thin but I mean it's it's still on there I use I got 404 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,400 that's what I love about the XJ yeah is I don't give a shit about how things are 405 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,400 fashion or secured I use gorilla tape to tape the wires up to the through the 406 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:23,800 windshield and then on the roof like to I do I think I like I on the rear on the 407 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,700 rear I didn't even cut the I didn't even cut the the fender on the rear to clear 408 00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:34,640 the tires I just took a sledgehammer and bashed it in like just zero cares about 409 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:47,120 that thing I can't say much I cut half my fender off to clear so um yeah the the 410 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:52,480 front was sawzall really really terribly and then you know I forgot I had an I 411 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,800 forgot I had an angle grinder I go could have done a lot better of a job but 412 00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:01,760 whatever it's like it's it's I didn't I didn't like even smooth the edges out 413 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:09,640 like it's jagged is how it looks like a squiggly line like it's not professional 414 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:16,120 but whatever else you expect from you Amber yeah I mean I'm well so that's the 415 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:21,440 thing like with the Sequoia I try to be kind of clean about the way I do things 416 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:30,000 not my wiring but the tundra is in between and the XJ is just on a pole it 417 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,080 was actually so refreshing to build that like I did it in twelve and a half days 418 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,760 in my driveway but while working full-time and then doing baseball four 419 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:43,500 nights a week with the kids like it was a whole thing but um that was so 420 00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:49,080 refreshing to kind of work on that and just not care like gorilla taping wires 421 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:55,320 to the roof using zip ties for everything like I just don't care and 422 00:39:55,320 --> 00:40:01,360 you know what that thing will outweel both of my other rigs because of the 423 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,560 fact I don't care and I will do things with it that I won't do with the other 424 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:12,880 ones that and the short wheelbase solid axles and the welded rear I mean you 425 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:18,200 know it's very to party yeah it's I haven't seen last time I saw it I think 426 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:24,920 it was still overheating yeah oh yeah yeah that's another reason why you don't 427 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:30,320 do something like that in 12 days before a big trip well I had find out was wrong 428 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:37,040 what so what happened with that was you know I bought Jeep Derrick's with the 429 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:42,640 intention of it his was a crank no start couldn't get it figured out he just was 430 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:49,560 over it I bought it trying to um diet you know figure that out and then I was 431 00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:53,040 gonna wheel it and then I he told me about this it was full disclosure 432 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:58,440 nothing against him I kind of started thinking about it more he showed me 433 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:03,640 there's some spots in the frame and I'm like man I mean I could get away with 434 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:10,880 it for a little bit but my body had three XJs sitting at his house and one 435 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:15,520 of them the one I have was hit on the side so it's a bent subframe so I went 436 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:20,440 over there just to get an ECU and a crank position sensor to see if that was 437 00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:26,480 the culprit for the crank no start on Jeep Derrick's I end up buying the other 438 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:31,840 XJ when I was loading it on the trailer the lower radiator hose clamp broke and 439 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:37,640 it started pouring coolant all over the place so I gotten a new hose new clamps 440 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:42,560 and obviously drained all the coolant I flushed it because that was our even 441 00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:48,600 best-sitting for five years so when I got done doing that I was burping the 442 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:56,320 system the way I thought I needed to and I had not gotten all the air out of the 443 00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:03,480 system then the e-fan also wasn't working which apparently is a huge deal 444 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:11,160 on those so after Drummond I went and got the Harbor Freight pneumatic back 445 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:19,000 and fill kit for cooling systems and I did that took the e-fan out of the 446 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,960 par-tex J put it in wired and this you'll get a kick out of this I wired it 447 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:31,000 with a team you light bar harness that came with a team you kid a lights I have 448 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,760 you know it's got a it's got a relay to switch hooks the battery so it is on it 449 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:42,000 it is on its second it is on a second relay though it out well is it at least 450 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:49,040 like like six or eight gauge wire or is it like it's thick enough yeah no it's 451 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:53,400 not like it's it's for a light bar you know it's not for like some little 452 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:59,240 chintzy little pods or something like it's it's they're thick yeah I could 453 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:04,760 expect them giving you like 20 gauge wire with a light bar yeah I mean it's fine I 454 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:12,440 don't know so yeah I mean I just you know check those boxes that you know I 455 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,920 got the air out of the system I checked to make sure that the head didn't have 456 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:23,120 any exhaust gases leaking into the cooling system and I wired the e-fan up 457 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:28,920 to its own switch and I run it all the time and it never gets above I mean I 458 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:33,160 very rarely I'll get above 210 but as soon as and that's just when you're 459 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:37,960 sitting kind of lugging around on the trail and taking breaks well you know 460 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:46,080 wild bills in the back jiggling his wires on his Jeep together so um then 461 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,880 it'll get hot but you know if you turn it off when you're sitting and keep that 462 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:58,280 fan running and you know it's fine I know I mean actually it's kind of run 463 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:05,600 warm anyway they usually sit around to 210 yeah 210 right words supposed to be 464 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:11,040 I mean there's these you know haas haas and bar people on the XJ groups are my 465 00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:15,960 runs at 180 your code system got something wrong with it but you know 466 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:24,240 whatever every to that shit up yeah like you can like a lot of guys some guy 467 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:30,480 will like vent the hoods or raise the rear of the hood you know it's all about 468 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:35,800 that engine and I you know not coming from Toyota where everything runs pretty 469 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:46,720 cool like 186.6 I mean is what my Tundra pretty much lives that the XJ was a 470 00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:53,960 learning curve for sure it's an engine that needs a lot of air flow and you 471 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:58,880 know Toyota can more or less rely on its on its cooling system to do the job 472 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,840 efficiently where the XJ needs a little extra hot TJ the same way those things 473 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:12,800 are hot boxes yeah I I but you know the cool thing about the XJ it's got the 474 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:17,760 four-liter which is in you know regarded as probably one of jeeps if not the most 475 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:22,720 reliable Jeep engine ever made it also has a Toyota transmission that they 476 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:30,040 source from Toyota and their cheap as hell they're reliable and they are 477 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:38,480 diamond-dozen cheap so it's been fun I enjoy it I've been enjoying watching 478 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:47,080 Yoda disciple play with jeeps yeah a long time ago I made a real you know 479 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:53,480 the third Star Wars where Anakin is like getting burned alive and Obi-Wan Kenobi 480 00:45:53,480 --> 00:46:00,000 is like like I loved you you were my brother so I made a real about that like 481 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,080 said something stupid like when your Toyota buddy buys a Jeep and then 482 00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:09,220 little did I know I was gonna be that Toyota buddy buying a Jeep I mean at 483 00:46:09,220 --> 00:46:16,160 least it's okay yeah no I don't for me like I like chiefs I'm more power to 484 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,280 everybody that builds them up that are brand new you know they buy these brand 485 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,560 new ones do the top of the line everything on them you know feed locks 486 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,160 and 40s you know I think they just go hard with them you know like they're 487 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:32,720 awesome don't get me wrong but for me I just wanted to beat on I don't want 488 00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:38,880 anything nice that I care about ruining I want something that hey if you know 489 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:43,400 the exhaust well this happened exhaust falls off the military I'll stick it 490 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:49,120 back in there and don't worry about it you know like hey you fell off this 491 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:54,120 rock and you hit a tree on the door and it's caved in now great I well take the 492 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:59,520 door off like you know who cares that's you know it's it's there to party man 493 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,080 it's not there it's not there for a long time it's there for a good time I'll 494 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:09,440 have to dig through the pilot my dad's I think I've got turbo headers for that 495 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:17,400 4-0 yeah I have no intentions of touching the motor I have no intentions 496 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:22,880 of gearing it I'm just dude I'm gonna honestly I'm looking at side-by-side 497 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:30,680 tires like 37 by 10 and a half like stickies you know just skinny 37 I want 498 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:34,000 the most ground that's see that's a Achilles the Achilles heel with it 499 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:40,160 though is that front diff it's pretty low so that's I'm dipping out a lot so 500 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:47,960 I'm obviously looking yeah okay that's that's a conversation with Eric he loves 501 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:54,800 portals and trailers everybody buy a trailer and buy portals or a nerd anyway 502 00:47:54,800 --> 00:48:03,280 what he did it oh yeah um yeah for me I just want more ground clearance with it 503 00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:09,680 I wouldn't mind a rear bumper so I can stick my Harbor Freight cases on the 504 00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:14,880 roof because having those unsecured in the back is proven to be problematic 505 00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:24,280 when you go with the kids I dropped into a tank trap on fall colors and I had a 506 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:30,360 pallet Apache case with an air compressor come flying into the middle 507 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:36,240 row and hit my oldest in the back so yeah these are all things you got to 508 00:48:36,240 --> 00:48:39,600 learn the hard way yeah and they're still not sick they're still not 509 00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:45,960 secured but the packouts were expensive but it is nice knowing that they'll stay 510 00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:51,480 right where I put them yeah it's weird you have packouts but you're a power guy 511 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:56,920 oh yeah I hate Milwaukee dude well don't they just don't they have their own 512 00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:02,720 version of it yeah but it's garbage it has like boxes and it doesn't have near 513 00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:10,440 the locking system that Milwaukee's does yeah actually my wife's looking to get 514 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:14,000 me something for Christmas and I don't know what I want said I just buy myself 515 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,400 whatever I want all year I don't have that maybe that would be a good thing 516 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,600 yeah I gotta get going I gotta get I gotta get I gotta get ready for work on 517 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:27,320 then but uh yeah all right we'll see you next time we'll see you on the trail 518 00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:54,320 yep catch you later