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to rock landing, and all things to do with the
outdoors. Today is a... It's a wrap. Episode
75, by the way. You guys have heard us 75 times.
Sorry about that. Yeah, I mean, it is what it
is at this point. I don't think it's going to
stop anytime soon. Oh, but we're going to do
the wrap for last weekend. And I'm going to go
first because I've had the most uneventful weekend.
So my last weekend. Pretty much did nothing.
I did some getting ready prepping for the Western
UP trip that we're about to go on. So did a little
bit of that. Pulled a bunch of stuff out of the
truck. Prioritized what we didn't need. And grabbed
anything that could be charged or needed to be
charged out of the truck so that I could charge
it during this week. batteries, chainsaw batteries,
headlamps, you know, disposable water faucet,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So grabbed all
that out. Been having it set up here and charging
it throughout the week. Charged the fridge up.
Dropped the skid plates to clean out the mud
that has been sitting in there for I don't know
how long. Dude, at this point, every time I go
wheeling, I end up dropping my skid plates. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, it's just nasty. Yeah. Yeah, it's
pretty annoying. It's not even a clean mud out.
It's just something happens, and I have to pull
the freaking skid plate off. Yeah. And not even
that something's happening. I noticed there's
an oil leak, and the only way to diagnose it
is to pull the skid plate off. That is kind of
a pain. I'm not going to lie. And so today, pretty
much, and yesterday has been... packing we packed
all the clothes up yesterday got them in the
truck packed all the sleeping bags up got them
in the truck and now pretty much this today this
morning i've been packing up everything else
and we're about ready to go um we just need our
pillows and charging cords i guess for our phones
in here and that's pretty much it I did, when
I put the skid plates on, I did notice a small
leak coming out of my, where the CV shaft meets
like the, what is it, differential axle? What
would you call that? That's the diff. Yeah, the
diff, yeah. Yep. And so there's probably a seal
going out on that. So either tonight, probably
tonight, I'm going to fill that up and see how
empty that was. Did you understand what I was
explaining with how I fill them? No. But I watched
a video on it, so. I'm practically an expert.
Usually you can't get the diff bottle, like the
fluid bottle up there. Yeah. So usually I take
a clear piece of hose and I stick it down in
the bottle. And then I take a, I use my Bauer
pump, or did this last time anyway, set it to
like 10 PSI. And then I take the basketball inflator
and just stab it in the top of the bottle and
then turn it on. And then it pushes air at the
top, which causes the fluid to go up through
the hose. I watched the guy. He had one of those
thin -nozzled bottles like you get, which is
what I have. And I think he was at the 1A Auto,
which they have some pretty good videos. He smushed
that thing and wrung it out like a thing of toothpaste.
I'm like, holy shit, dude. He's like, yeah, just
give it a little squeeze. And he's just sitting
there squeezing it out. The whole bottle's flat
all the way through. And he's like, yep, just
do that a couple times. I'm like, dude, you got
some strength. There's no way. It is cool, though.
Yeah. And that's how we did it. And I'm like,
oh, that's probably what I'm going to do, though.
I would just, the air and. uh tube method works
on any vehicle any attempt to get it up there
like on mine i can't get a bottle up there period
yeah i think mark's was the same way i'll try
and if i can't i'll see what i can do but i don't
really have like i don't really want to have
to hook up all my air shit i want to try and
keep it as simple as possible so i did have a
little siphon pump for this kind of stuff i just
don't know where it's they never They never work
with diff fluid. Yeah, it's so thick. I heard
you could do it with a turkey base or two, but
I don't have one of those either. You can. That
takes a long time. Well, what does it take? Like
the front diff takes like two and a half cores,
and the rear diff takes like three or four? It
takes some. I really don't remember at this point.
At this point, I'm not going to be draining and
refilling. I'm just going to be filling. I don't
want to have to monkey with it too much since
we're leaving tomorrow morning. So that's going
to be fun. We should drain it soon, though. Oh,
yeah. It was on my list along with pads and stuff,
but yeah. By the way. As you're talking, in our
chat, I see the picture of my pre -runner I built
in Arizona, and now I want to build another pre
-runner. That thing was so sick. Again, your
truck's almost there. You might as well just
finish that out. Now, I say we get that freebie
from Becker. I think we would do that instead.
Which freebie? You remember he had something
he was going to just give us because it was hurt?
Oh, that's right. A Tacoma. That's what it was?
I was trying to remember if it was a Tacoma or
a 4Runner. I need to go get that. What am I doing?
Free. Yeah, I'll take it. We should totally take
that. It's got a rotted frame, but we can patch
the frame. Yeah. And we can just turn it into
a fucking 3Runner. I'm so down. Yeah, just make
Santoy out of it. Yeah, and literally, because
it's a first -gen taco, we could just print the
same long -travel kit I've got on the 4Runner.
Mmm, yeah. So we just... Dude, this would be
awesome. And then we could get glass done for
it, so it would have, like, you know, the wide
fenders and everything. Yeah. Okay, Gavin's rap
quickly turned into something else. Gavin, go
ahead. Oh, you're good. No, so anyway, where
was I at? I don't even remember. We were talking
about the fluid. Oh, yeah. So I'm going to try
and fill that tonight, hopefully, and get that
done. And then I'm going to check my brakes,
apparently, because I guess my wife smelled some
burnt rubber type smell. So I'm going to check
that, check my belt, check my fluids while I'm
waiting. and make sure everything's good to go
for tomorrow, top anything off if I need to,
and get ready for that because that's going to
be a long trip for me. It's like for a round
trip, it's going to be about 1 ,600 miles. Yeah,
that's a long fucking trip, dude. It is. All
right, Mark, I just sent two links to the group
chat. I need you to pick which style bedside
you would want to put on that thing. Okay. Because
I like both of them. Ooh, he's looking. First
one. I did get the first one better. Oh, the
first one? Yeah. All right. I don't mind the
swoop. I just like the straight bedside. Okay,
so we do that. That's $800. Man, this is going
to have to happen. Also, for $1 ,100, we can
get a custom one -piece just like what I had
on the Chevy. Yeah. So, dude, yeah, that's the
front bumper and hood and everything. Gotcha.
Oh, yeah. Dude, I love this idea. This would
be the coolest botches build ever. And actually,
their example truck there has the exact same
long travel kit as what I've got on my truck.
Wait, they put a second generation grill and
headlights on? Yeah, that's pretty common. I
guess I haven't seen that one yet. I mean, I
know you get away with it with a fiberglass body.
Yeah, it's really common with the pre -runner
to go to a more modern style on an older truck.
Like, if you look at, you know, mine, I had 05
and up Chevy stuff on a 91 Chevy pickup. Dude,
I haven't built a pre -runner in way too long.
This will be so fun. Big spray -painted botches
logo on the side. No, seriously, it's going to
be probably wrapped. I'll probably get it wrapped.
Yeah. Oh, dude, we were talking about building
a freaking, what are they called? Rally car?
Yeah. We don't need to build a rally car. Let's
just build a freaking desert runner. Yeah. And
we'll turbo that one. This would be so fun. What
are you drinking there, buddy? An age -old may
-as -well -sponsor -us El Chavo. Yeah. I think
I just found one in the bottom of one of our
drawers in the room. It's quite old. I bet you
it's no good. Yeah. I'll bring it over sometime.
Oh, my God. You can test try it. I did get a
compliment today, so I felt good after that.
Compliment on the truck or on you? No, not on
me. The truck. The truck, the truck. We were
coming out of Walmart Meijer. And the way that
I do it with like Meijer when I go camping is
I don't bag much of anything. And I'll grab a
couple of bags just to have them. I'm the same
way. I don't bag anything. And then I take them
to the truck and I pretty much store them where
I'm going to need them. So I was in the middle
of doing that, breaking down boxes from like.
the dr pepper and stuff and the guy comes up
and he goes dude i really like how you have this
organized he goes me and my wife are just uh
watching from our truck in the over there and
he goes and we're really impressed it's really
cool he's like you you go camping a lot you do
this full time and i'm like no i wish why you
want to sponsor me no And he goes, oh, not full
time? I'm like, no. He goes, you go out a lot?
No, I said, not as much as I wish I could, but
we try to get out as much as possible. He goes,
I just wanted to let you know it's really cool.
I'm like, oh, thanks, man. So that was cool.
Made my day a little bit. I always love those
compliments. I get them in the hardware store
parking lots all the time. Yeah. Are you going
to put that wheelbarrow on top of your truck
like that? That's pretty cool. Dude. Oh, I saw
a thing earlier. I don't remember what they had
on the roof. I think it was a lawnmower, a rooftop
lawnmower. And I was like, yes, yes, it's spreading.
As much as we've joked about needing weed whackers,
I've thought about bringing my little battery
-powered weed whacker with us, trim some of the
camp areas down. But, I mean, we really don't
need it. It's just one of those, like, we always
joke about it when we're there. I don't joke
about it. I bought one specifically for that
purpose and forget it every time I go camping.
Oh, yeah. But I do have, I specifically have
a weed whacker meant for my truck. Yeah. I have
the same one that powers my chainsaw. It powers
the weed whacker, so it was all - I mean, same
thing. So I was like, well, why not? The one
that shares a battery with my chainsaw and my
impact and my - Everything else. Yeah, that's
the one I have. Yeah, I need to get to one system
like that eventually, but there's nothing really
unless I go to Milwaukee or DeWalt. I could buy
an adapter. Or Bauer. Yeah. Yeah. I actually
need to order an adapter because I'm going to
start using Bauer batteries at work because the
Milwaukee batteries keep failing. Yeah. It happens.
I'm hearing it more and more often with Milwaukee
stuff that's kind of slowly going down. The wall
is so bad now. Everything. They're all bad now.
There's nothing good anymore. So why spend the
money on the expensive tools when you can go
get a cheap one and it works just as good? Dude,
I saw a battery -powered right -angle ratchet
on TikTok, the TikTok shop, and the videos of
these guys beating the dog shit out of these
things, dude. Throwing them in water, running
them over, throwing them as high as they can.
letting them hit the concrete and then using
them and i'm like this might be the way this
might be where we go that's how that's how the
bauer one is and i keep putting off buying it
but i really need to just buy it i want a half
inch and a three -eighth inch drive one yeah
i mean there there's been a few times where i'm
like man i wish i had a right angle right now
and porter cables got a right angle and the only
reason i've thought about getting one from porter
cables because i have all the batteries for it
but Oh, I know what we could talk about two weekends
ago, Rap, when we did my long travel, because
that episode had to get nuked. Yeah, that's my
fault. I moved my computer setup from my son's
room to my room. That way it would give him more
area to play around, and he wasn't always messing
with the computer. And so I unplugged the computer,
replugged it in over here. and forgot to reset
audacity um audacity you have to like fix the
choose your mic settings and everything and i
always have left the computer on put it in sleep
mode or whatever so i've never had to change
it and we did a rap and a uh episode with uh
uh brian sweet brian sweet yep and uh i completely
screwed it up because i hadn't selected my My
mic, I had, like, my headphones selected in there
or something like that just automatically. That's
really weird that the Windows version of Audacity
doesn't save that. Because, like, on Ubuntu,
we don't have that problem. It just works. Yeah,
it's only when I have, like, shut down the program,
turn the computer off, and turn it back on, that
kind of thing. But, like, otherwise, if I close
out, if I just close Audacity and then click
it back up, it's saved. but if the computer saves
it it's like if the computer shuts down it's
it doesn't do that so like i could unplug my
mic right now shut the computer down turn it
back on with the mic unplugged plug the mic in
and audacity will automatically pick it up yeah
yeah and so i of course i assumed that everything
was still working fine we recorded all the sessions
and i sent alex my uh my audio and he's like
hey something's up with your audio and then as
soon as he said that He said he wasn't hearing
anything. It clicked, and I'm like, fuck. I had
a feeling that that's what happened as soon as
I heard that it was blank, but I was really hopeful
that it wasn't what happened. Yeah, it was a
really good episode, too, and it sucks, but...
It was. So Alex did his rap to help with that,
and then I did an hour -long on just, like, stuff
in the UP and all that. I didn't even do a rap.
I did like a two minute video that was just like,
Hey guys, I'm sorry. We didn't get a wrap. Oh
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah. So I did like
an hour long and then I posted it apparently
and didn't post the right episode and season.
So, uh, it should be, it should be changed now.
So now it should be, uh, up there and yeah, I
screwed up. We're professional podcasters. Yeah.
I screwed up. That's my bad. I'll take that.
That's why our numbers have been slowly falling,
okay, drastically falling since March. Yeah.
Well, we've been super busy, too. That's kind
of like we've been really busy. We haven't had
time to promote this like we'd want to and do
the stuff like we want to, and it kind of happened.
My thing is it's also summer, so I feel like
there'd be less listeners come summertime. Yeah.
I just think it's natural for that to happen.
I'm not worried about it. No. No. I mean, we're
having a little bit more activity because it's
summer too, so when everybody does come back
when they're bored, they'll have plenty to listen
to. For sure. Yeah. Yeah, so two weeks ago, which
would be the weekend of July 4th. Oh, yeah, July
4th. That's when we did it. I ripped the entire
front end off my truck again, and I put the final,
well. Probably not final, but damn near final
version of it on. I did a Rocky T4R long travel
kit. It's the one that came on the crawler, so
it was sitting around. I just painted it tan
and green, because why not, and threw it on there.
And it went easy. Honestly, that project wasn't
hard. It was a late night, but it wasn't hard.
Yeah. I don't even remember why it was such a
late night. Oh, because the rack and pinion got
broken. Yeah. Yeah, because my brand new rack
and pinion got fucked. Yeah. Yeah. That's why
it was a late night. That sucked. But either
way. Oh, we had to modify stuff. The brakes.
Well, that too. Yeah, I forgot about the brakes
too, but we also modified your upper control
arms. Yep. Which now that it's all together,
I realize we didn't have to do. But, you know,
whatever. It's fine. It's done. Also, I've been
thinking about it, and you know how he had the
hose going through the upper control arm and
then going to the front? Yes. I could have just
pointed that hose straight up and then looped
the external reservoir over and out of the way.
Oh. Then we wouldn't have had to modify it at
all. Yeah. So. But yeah, it's on there. It's
got ADS front shocks with ADS front long travel
shocks. I have no idea what they actually are.
They were on the crawler. Yeah. And it's got
the Rocky T4R upper and lower control arms and
all Heim joints and uniballs and no more ball
joint. I don't have any ball joints on. Oh, the
inner tie rods have their little socket ball
joint thing. Yeah. Because it's got factory inner
tie rods. Yeah. Outer tie rods are, they're beefy,
but not strong. We'll get into that here in the
next, next week or on Tuesday, you'll hear about
that one. Yeah. Yeah. They're beefy. I mean,
everything, I can't say it's done pretty, but
it's done exactly how I like actual work wise
has done how I do it. I just would have paid
someone who can actually weld pretty to do it.
I'm actually talking to my cousin who owns a
fab shop about him printing me, well, I guess
it's cutting, not printing. I was like cutting.
Him cutting me some new lower control arms and
welding them up for me, and then same with uppers,
and he's going to design some new tie rods because
the tie rods, again, they're beefy, but they're
not what I would consider strong. Well, one of
them is. Yeah. It's pretty great. I actually
don't think I have any bushings left. Oh, the
front control arms have bushings. Everything
else is uniball or heimjoint at this point. Basically
stock. Yeah, basically stock. You guys want a
good laugh real quick? What's that? So I was
watching the show Russ to Riches and they were
working on Bronco and they were going to build
an overland build out of it. And then it proceeded
to become a whiskey tasting rig. Truck itself
was awesome. I'll share it here. Give me a second
to find it. But their quote overland tent was
not an overland tent at all. At least for what
we know of overlanding. Was it like a tent just
sitting on top of a roof? Yeah. Oh. That's cool.
Was it the one that... I'll see it. Let me look
at it first. Scott has that one. Oh, that's fucking
sick. That is sick. I mean, the wheels suck.
I would definitely... Yeah, the wheels would
be different, but... I would have done some wheels
with actual rubber, but... Sadly, there's no
other pictures of the tent on the vehicle itself,
but there is one picture of it up and set up
from the recording. Huh. Yeah, so, um... Huh.
Scott, Scott from, uh... Oh, what is Scott's
channel? Trail Expeditions. He's got a similar
tent going on where it has poles and everything,
and he opens it up and then puts the poles in.
Oh, okay. I mean, it's prettier than that one,
but. Yeah. That one just looks like a tent got
thrown up there. Yeah, I was going to say, that
looks like a backpacking tent. Huh. Yeah. That's
interesting. But, I mean. And the build itself,
although it's cool, would be terrible on the
trail. Oh, it's not meant for trail. It's for
whiskey tasting. Yeah. Because there's like benches
that fold up in the back and everything. Jesus
Christ. The tent's for if you get too drunk to
drive home. Yeah. You climb up there. And it's
six by six for everyone listening. A four by
six. Six by six. It's four by six. Oh, it's a
four. Even worse. It's four by six. So what,
the middle axle is the trailer? The rear axle.
The rear axle. Because they just added a short
bed F -150 with axle. It looks so bad. It does.
Like, it looks cool, but, like, at the same time,
like, ugh. It's kind of cool. Yeah. Did you guys
see that shack that I posted that was on Trax?
Yeah. Yeah, so I was just watching a video about
that last night. It was an old Cummins that the
guy used to promote his tracks, and he took the
body off and put a whole shack on it and just
drives that around. He built one. Yeah, he built
a shack on it, yeah. They're out in Canada, so
it's not road legal or anything, but it's pretty
cool. Yeah. I watched him build that last year
because it's been a year since he's done that.
Oh, has it? Yeah. I watched a video kind of wrapped
up after he was just talking about everything.
All said and done. I'm trying to... Was that
the... I'm trying to think of the name of that
company that makes those tracks. They're the
ones... I'm pretty sure they're the same ones
that Tyler runs from Snail Trail. I think they
are. But I can't remember the name of that track
company. Yeah. But yeah. McKinney. He says you
can advertise on the side of it for $100 a square
foot. You guys down? Get some Canadian listeners.
Do we not have Canadian listeners? We have to
have Canadian listeners. I don't think we do.
I don't think we have any. All right. All right.
Let me, I'm in analytics. Wow. There's like a
dramatic cutoff at the Canadian border. Yeah.
Like we have listeners all over South America,
a lot of the UK, you know, some couple in Australia
and Hawaii, but then Canada, it's just blank.
Yeah. Canada does not like us. That's funny because
we're like their neighbors. At least those guys
over in Ottawa, like what the heck? Or even Ontario,
what the hell? Syrup sippers apparently don't
really listen to podcasts much. Like we're even
kind of close to Quebec -ish. And we like Canada,
man. What the hell? I mean, nobody likes Quebec.
Well, the government's one thing. I mean, Canada,
I'm sure, could say the same for us. But, I mean,
the background, the country, that's what I like.
Well, I mean, have you ever watched Letterkenny?
Yes, very much. Yeah, the running joke is how
much they all hate Quebec. Oh, yeah. Yep. Yeah.
But their Amish are really cool. Yeah, from Letterkenny
they are. Okay, are there actually Canadian Amish?
Well, I'm sure there is. They had to have gotten
that from somewhere. Only in Ontario. Well, that's
where it's based out of, right? I thought it
was... You go researching, researching. Yeah,
researching. We'll play some music here. I keep
misspelling province. Yeah, it's out of Ontario.
Yeah. Well, it's, yeah, Letter County, Ontario.
So I guess it tracks, yeah. Oh. Makes sense of
why they don't like Quebec then. Oh, and that
explains why there's so many people from Detroit
that show up there. Okay, yeah, okay. Yeah. Maybe
that's why I've watched Letter Kenny, but a lot
of my friends from the Pacific Northwest or California
had never heard of it. Really? Oh, I thought
it was great. I like that better than Trailer
Park Boys, which is based in Canada as well,
isn't it? I've never watched it. I watched one
episode and said, this is fucking stupid and
quit watching. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's not bad.
But it's hard to stay with. There are some good
characters. Yeah, there's some good characters.
All right. Well, on that note, you should watch
Letter Kenny and don't watch Trailer Park Boys
because it's lame. We'll talk to you guys on
Tuesday. So catch you later. Later.