Welcome to Botches Off -Road. Join us as we talk
about everything from gear reviews to trail stories,
tent camping to rock landing, and all things
to do with the outdoors. Today, finally, I messaged
this guy a long time ago about getting him on
here. But we have Mr. Andy Hanna. Do you want
to be from Turbo's Toy Box? Do you have a different
thing you'd want to be from? No. That's it. He's
got the Turbos Toy Box. You've got YouTube, Instagram.
Oh, yeah, YouTube, Instagram. I have a TikTok.
I don't use it much. But, yeah, I'm the same
across all platforms pretty much. Yeah, and Andy's
kind of our local celebrity in the off -road
space. Oh, stop. I don't know about that. Hey,
man, how many of the rest of us have been on
national TV? oh okay yeah andy was on was it
truck night in america correct yeah yeah season
one uh it was like the ninth episode i believe
that was the old truck stomper yeah oh dude stomper's
such a sick build thanks i i saw your video earlier
this year where you kind of got him put back
together a little bit Yeah. It's just, oh, I
love that truck so much. Yeah, it's got a lot
of character. There's a lot of that. Yeah, I
will say, like, I'm kind of fortunate in that,
you know, I've met the right people, I've done
the things right, so I was able to get on Truck
Night in America, which was super cool, and that
opened up, like, a whole other group of friends
that I've made, you know, across the country
and stuff, and that kind of helped kick off some
of the... the growth of the channel but and then
also some local friends that work for like haggerty
car insurances here in traverse city michigan
and i had some friends who are working for that
and then helping with some of their pr stuff
and um i actually ended up the truck was even
in the toyota truck four -wheel drive owners
magazine which is kind of cool too so um kind
of rare that you see an old beat -up lump like
that and that kind of stuff but But now your
new truck, that thing is just a work of art,
man. Thanks, yeah. Even if you've tipped her
on her side, she's a work of art. Yeah. Yeah,
so, I mean, both trucks, you know, I've never
been to, like, buy a new truck off the lot and
fix it up. I shouldn't say that. I do that too,
I guess. But for trucks that I'm going to take
out and beat up in four -wheel, you know, like
the Stomper was originally I bought a cab and
a frame. And literally like took my rusted out
87 4Runner and built that from, you know, a pile
of parts that I had. And then the Tacoma is kind
of the same. I bought a friend of mine, this
Cody Owens friend of mine messaged me and said,
hey, my co -worker's wife got in an accident
and wrecked their Tacoma. Would you be interested?
And I'm like. i don't know i had enough projects
going on like we all do and then when he sent
me pictures and it was a standard cab short bed
i'm like okay i'll take it yeah like that's kind
of my jam so yeah we uh we kind of have an internal
joke in our group that you have everything in
the kitchen sink in your truck yeah I don't know
about that. I'm not like Jeremy from New Holland
or something. He literally brings the kitchen
sink. You literally have a kitchen sink in your
bed. Yeah, I do. You got me. But it's not used
as a kitchen sink, right? It's more of a trunk.
Still the most unique storage solution I've ever
seen. Yeah, thanks. It works. Yeah, it's, I don't
know, man. Like I messaged you a while ago, you're
not allowed to leave us because your content
gets me through the work week. Well, I was going
to post the video today. So I've been working
like crazy, kind of on the backside, right? I
built a barn last fall here at the house. and
so I've been working on finishing the inside
doing stuff like that and um I'm not a carpenter
and kind of funny enough I'm not really a truck
builder either right but I do it for fun but
I I don't want all the people like messaging
me and telling me what I'm doing wrong so I haven't
really posted any videos about it because I'm
like doing it for me and I don't care right so
um my content's been a little lackluster all
summer but I'm getting ready to go on a trip
so You know, the dream trip for most of us is
probably Moab, Utah, right? So I'm 48, and I've
been dreaming about it since I could first flip
through a car magazine. And that's happening
for me here in a couple weeks. So I've been working
like nonstop trying to get the rig ready and
then my tundra ready for pulling and stuff. Yeah,
it's been busy lately, but it's good. Yeah, we
had a trip to Moab planned for next year, but
we pushed it back to give ourselves a little
time to recover from building our trucks. Right.
That's always the hiccup because as car guys
in general, right, none of us are ever done,
I don't think, building them. No. So at what
point do you just got to cut loose and say, all
right, I'm going? the way it is because as it
is the tacoma is great a truck as it is right
it still is just on a the stock four cylinder
five speed with a fj cruiser t case and then
513 gears and the one ton axles with 40 inch
tires so the gearing is pretty much puts it back
to stock my speedometer is within two miles an
hour of stock which is closer than it was with
the factory tires and wheels you know when it
was bone stock so um the low range i really feel
like going on a trip like that i really want
a second transfer case or some even lower gears
but at the same time i don't know that i want
to take stomper because it looks like the daily
temperatures out there this time of year are
still in like the like high 80s low 90s yeah
and um that one doesn't have ac it also gets
hot it doesn't like you know extended duration
low speed moving so um We're going to take the
Tacoma and see how we do. I mean, I did a lot
of Moab in a stock TJ. Okay, it wasn't stock.
It was on 33s, but pretty close to stock. Yeah.
So I think you'll be fine. Yeah. Was it a manual?
Yeah, it was a manual. Four -cylinder, too. Nice.
Yep. yeah and that's my a lot of guys are like
oh you'll be fine and they're like it's an auto
right i'm like no it's no it's a stick yeah i
i prefer sticks for you know anything in the
mountains anything where you're having to go
up and down stuff i prefer a manual yeah same
so a lot of people say that auto's the way to
go but all i've had experience with is it overheating
so Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Transmission's getting
hot. Yeah. Not getting the fluid cause you're
on stupid extreme angles. Yeah. It's, I don't
know. Uh, so do you, you have, uh, FJ transfer
case you said? Correct. Yeah. So the truck is,
uh, it's an 08. regular cab short bed four cylinder
five speed um i used the fj cruiser transfer
case so it was manually shifted as opposed to
the tacomas are all electronic right yeah twist
knob um and that way i could use you know super
duty dana 60 front axle with manual lockouts
and that's got all like Yukon chromoly shafts
in it, Yukon chromoly lockouts, and all the crap,
heavy duty. Air locker and 513 gears. And then
the back is like a Chevy 14 bolt, same thing,
ARB air locker. Does it have the same bolt pattern
front and rear? So I redrilled the unit bearings
in the front to match the GM pattern, the eight
-on -six -and -a -half pattern. Got you. So I
do have matching bolt pattern all the way around
so that I could, you know, take a spare and be
able to utilize it wherever. As long as you keep
that beadlock tart, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
don't let those bolts break and pop out. That
always sucks. Yeah, we're looking at doing beadlocks
across all of our rigs right now, but we're looking
at the pneumatic ones. Go inside your wheel and
then lock it. The inner air locks. Yep. Yep.
Yeah, Sean Lichty, the guy that designed that,
actually lived up this way and wheeled up this
way forever. Oh, sick. I didn't know that. Yep.
Yeah, there's as little off -roading as we have
here in Michigan, we sure have a lot of off -road,
like important off -road people. Oh, yeah, definitely.
Yep. Yeah, there's a lot of people in the industry
that are from this area. Yeah, we haven't got
up your way doing a whole lot of wheeling. We've
gone to Cadillac and then the UP. Cadillac and
UP. Yeah. We've hit ever a few times. Yeah. So
I'd love to get together with you down that way.
So I haven't done, like I pretty much get close
to home or I end up going like a long freaking
ways away, right? Like I've done Drummond Island.
And in some of the overland trips I've, you know,
like, we went across the UP and I've done some
stuff. But as far as, like, I really haven't
spent any time down in, like, that Manistee National
Forest area or Cadillac or what's the one west
of me? Like, St. Helen. I hear lots of guys like,
oh, you need to go. Never been. No idea. We'll
definitely have to get you down to the Nuevo
area. I want to see your truck do Skitter Hills.
Yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I'm in. I've never, never been.
No clue. When you, because you were down here,
what, two weeks ago for Silver Lake? Last week?
Last weekend. Last Friday. Oh, of course. Well,
we were busy. So we should have got together
then, but we were at a wedding. Oh, yeah, we
had a wedding. A couple miles away from where
you were at, so. Yeah. Yeah, we, so. I work for
the local power co -op up here. And for the summer,
we work like from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
We work Monday through Thursday. So we were 410s.
And so some of the guys at work, I'm like, man,
we should take advantage of one of these last
Fridays we have off and go to the sand dunes.
So a bunch of us did. Had a good time. Got to
see some fireworks. Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah.
Poor Jeep guy. All right. The fact that they
just let it burn all the way out, I mean, what
are they supposed to do? They're not getting
a fire truck out there. So, actually, I watched
tons of videos across the Silver Lake Sand Dunes
Facebook page after the fact. It sounds like
the – talking automatic transmission is getting
hot. The tranny got hot, puked fluid out on the
hot cat. That's what ignited the fire. They did
have a fire truck there. They extinguished everything
they had on it and, you know. It just kept going.
They couldn't contaminate it, so they ended up
just letting it burn. And then they tried dragging
it out with just one tow truck, but, of course,
with no tires rolling whatsoever, they ended
up having to, like, piggyback, you know, front
to back and cradle it to carry it out of there.
It was pretty crazy to watch. Almost need an
off -road rollback for that. Oh, yeah. Yep. One
more thing that I can't afford to build. But
it sounds cool. Doesn't it? Like Spud Truck from,
who is it? Matt's Off -Road that's building the
Spud Truck. I think Fab Rat's built one too.
Yeah, Paul's is awesome with that old Chevy truck
cab and the Cummins engine. Yeah. This guy's
got some neat stuff. What's the next big adventure
on you guys' to -do list? Man, we ain't got nothing.
I think in November, we're going down to Missouri
for Benji's Thanksgiving thing. Friendsgiving,
I guess you'd call it. Yeah. Other than that,
it's all local stuff. We are going to go to the
Gilmore Museum for the... Overland Crawl or whatever
they're calling it. Yeah, awesome. I'll see you
there. I signed up already, so I'm looking forward
to that. We're discussing getting a booth for
the podcast and doing a Q &A. Oh, right on. That
could be fun. I figure one of our 30 listeners
will come and ask questions. Hey, everybody started
somewhere, right? Yeah, yeah. There you go. I'd
be curious to see if, because it looks like it
does start kind of early. If anybody is, like,
meeting up somewhere and actually camping Friday
night somewhere down there, it might be fun.
I'm sure somebody is. It's like a two -hour drive
for us -ish. Oh, yeah, that's pretty short. I
think it's closer to, like, three and a half
for me. I didn't even see what time it starts.
Yeah, I thought it said 8 to 12. I thought it
said gate open for vendors at 8, but I could
be wrong. Yeah. Either way, it looks like a funny
vet. It's kind of out of the blue. Because they've
never done anything like it that I can remember.
Yeah. I know I went last summer down there for,
they do like a cruise in on Wednesday nights
or something like that. And so my dad and a buddy
and I went down there. We took a Wednesday off
work and went down and checked out the museum
and then stayed there for the cruise night. That
was pretty awesome. Yeah, I haven't made it there.
I made it to the REO Oldsmobile Museum a time
or two, but I've never been over to the Gilmore
Museum. It's definitely worth your time. It's
pretty amazing stuff there. Things I'd never
seen or heard of. Yeah. It's cool that we have
as many big car museums as we have because there's
a bunch of them out here. The one over by Detroit,
that was an awesome one to go to. Yeah. Is that
like part of the part of the Henry Ford deal?
I think so. I know it had like aviation and all
that. Yup. Yeah, I've heard of that one. Again,
another one I'd love to go to. I haven't been
there. Huh. Maybe I need to get the 442 fixed
up and let Gilmore put it in there for a little
while. Yeah. I was curious if they had one, but
it looks like only REO has one. What year 442
do you have? 91. Oh, okay. It's one of 204. Dang.
Yeah. Yeah, it's a cool little one. That's pretty
rare. Yeah, it's funny. I mean, most car guys,
right, we're not just one single genre of cars.
Yeah, no. No. I've got a, I mean, I've had multiple
cars over the years. I grew up around multiple
cars. My dad's got hot rods and street rods and
stuff. And then I had a bunch of Honda cars.
I used to do like track days at Gingerman Raceway
and Groton Raceway. I built turbocharged Acura
Integras and did all that. Then I've had old
muscle cars. I had a 70 Mustang Mach 1 and a
Chevelle SS 454. Currently, I'm working on a
little S10. I had a little square body S10 in
high school when I graduated. My brother had
picked one up down in Florida. He's in the Tampa
area. And was like, yeah, I'm going to fix this
up. Well, you know, it sat around his place for
a little over a year. And he's like, I need to
get this out of my way. Come and get it. Did
you ever get the title fiasco figured out on
that? Yeah, dude. What a nightmare. Literally
like nine trips to the Secretary of State. Like
three visits to the local police station. It
was absolutely asinine. It's a cool little truck,
though. Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. I just
recently yanked the Iron Duke out of it in the
5 -speed, and I picked up an 08 Chevy Express
3500 van with a 4 .8 and a 4L80E. We're going
to slip in it. That's what I was just going to
ask, is if you were going to V8 swap it. Oh,
yeah. Yep. And then I picked up, like, the Blazer.
Two -door Blazers came with, like, the biggest
factory sway bars. So we're going to put big
factory sway bars on it and, you know, stainless
steel brake lines and hopefully upgrade the disc
brakes and do all that kind of stuff. But like
the end goal is to try and make it kind of look
like a little like shop truck work truck. Oh,
yeah. Like kind of a half ratty patina looking
body and, you know, just V8 automatic on the
column, bench seat. Should be fun. Yeah, it's
a cool little truck. How much do you have that
lowered? So that one's like five inches in the
front and like five and a half in the back. That's
crazy. Yeah, and it's got a staggered 17s in
the front, like 17 by eight wheel in the front
and 18 by nine and a half wheel in the back.
Do you have pictures of it next to the Tacoma?
I do, yeah. So a friend of mine walked in my
barn the other day, and my buddy, Tom, and he
walked in, and the spare tire for the Tacoma
was leaning against the fender of the S10, and
it's literally four inches taller than the hood,
you know. And he walked in, he just looks over,
he's like, that's going to take a lot of cutting.
And he just kept walking. It was hilarious. Like,
no, Tom, those aren't going on that. He's like,
yeah, right. Yeah, you've got quite the collection.
You've got a Tundra, too, right? Yeah, so my,
like, daily driver slash, you know, tow pig,
whatever, is a 2020 Tundra Crewmax. It was, like,
the TRD Sport package. And then same thing, like,
well, hopefully the video will get posted. But,
yeah, I've been doing all these, like, oem plus
upgrades on it you know trying to make it like
what i would have bought if i could have from
the factory back then um so i did like heated
seats in it um i've added i like wrapped a bunch
of the dash panels i added a subwoofer um i upgraded
like the factory fog lights to some diodynamics
fog lights and i put rock warrior wheels and
stickers on it and i just found a smoking deal
on the factory, like TRD pro dual exhaust. So
that's the video I'm, I was going to post today
as I just got that put on over the weekend. So,
um, should be good. You haven't posted it yet.
Does it sound good? Uh, yeah, yeah. It's like
perfect. I didn't want anything too loud. I still
want to be able to use the factory, like car
play and Bluetooth and stuff. And, um, yeah.
So you got a little bit of tone back there, but
you can still use all that without it being annoying.
So it's yeah. I like it. Yeah, that's pretty
sick. Yeah, I always get a kick out of your videos
because I never know what you're going to be
working on. I've seen you work on a third -gen
4Runner once, a bunch of Tacomas. It's always
fun. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the randomness that comes
through my hands, it's out there. my house outside
of the s10 everything here that that i personally
own or that's insured in my name other than the
s10 is all toyota but i don't care i'll work
on anybody's whatever you know so always helping
out friends and family working on junk my uh
my yard's a weird collection right now because
everyone just seems to drop their projects off
here we've got yeah Classic Oldsmobile. I've
got a Deuce and a half in the yard. Oh, dang.
Yeah, I've got the Camaro in the yard right now.
Two 442s, half a 442, a Jeep. Nice. It just happens.
Yeah, yeah. Randomness. Yeah, my mom's got like
a 95 Formula Firebird convertible that's sitting
in my garage right now that I'm supposed to be
working on. It's kind of gotten sidelined trying
to get the Tacoma ready for Moab, so. 95, that'd
still be a fourth gen, right? I don't know my
Camaros, but sure, yeah. Is it square? 93 to
2002 -ish body, whatever they were. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. That's what I got, too. I got a 96 Camaro.
We're supposed to fix the hatch on. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, so it'd be that. This one's a. Like red
with a tan top and tan leather interior. The
LT1 V8 automatic. This one's black on black on
black with a 5 -speed and a V6. You had me right
up to the end. And it's hard top. But in all
honesty, I mean, it's a good car. It gets like
30 miles to the gallon. It's reliable as hell.
It looks good. Yeah, that was that 3800 V6. I
actually considered trying to find one of those
drivelines to put in the S10 because they weren't
terrible on power. They made decent power, and
they got good gas mileage. They were freaking
bulletproof, that 3800 ran forever. Yeah, the
first one made it to 170 ,000 miles, and now
the car is at 180 ,000 and still just purring
along. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean, it's been
a good car. Dad bought it when I was in fifth
grade and just keeps driving it. Nice. That's
cool. Yeah, I heavily debated bastardizing the
S10 with a Toyota drivetrain, but ultimately,
this V8, I bought the van for $300. It runs and
drives, so I'm like, I don't know. This is pretty
cheap fun. That's what we're doing to our Jeep.
We're putting it on a third gen frame with a
third gen engine and a third gen transmission.
Really? Yeah. Awesome. So it'll be probably long
travel IFS in the front and then just a stock
Toyota E -Locker in the rear. Oh, yeah. Dude,
that'd be super fun. Basically, take my 4Runner
build, carbon copy it, and then put the Jeep
on top. Yeah. Yeah. That'll be cool. Yeah. It's
make people scratch their head right now. It's
already did it. Yeah. Right now it's on a blazer
chassis, which is just way too much frame for
a YJ. Sure. Oh yeah. I mean, it looks terrible.
It stock height blazer, uh, front end the back.
He had like trailer, uh, springs with who knows
what shocks wrote like a plank. yeah i'm sure
but it looked big it was on 37s because the truck
sits on top of the frame there's like yeah it
looks like it's got like a 15 inch lift but it's
got like three inches of ground clearance yeah
that's not very helpful no but it'll be cool
oh heck yeah We just sourced a five -speed supercharged
truck to swap into my truck. Really? Yeah. Yeah.
Dude. From our good friend, Derek Becker. Really?
Yeah. That sounds amazing. Yeah. So the silver,
you've probably seen the video. I recently picked
up that silver, like a 02 Tacoma, that the frame
is just totally junk on. um yeah but yeah the
plan is to hopefully utilize that um 3 -4 auto
drivetrain in a 85 4 -runner carcass that i've
got here that my wife has been begging me for
five years to build her like a beach cruiser
uh first gen 4 -runner with the lift off top
so um yeah to find a supercharger for it would
be really cool yeah i'm i'm pretty excited man
and we got the long travel on like two months
ago so i mean it's really coming together to
be a pretty sweet truck oh hell yeah it seems
like it'd be a pre -runner but i use it more
in the rocks so yeah yeah i haven't uh i haven't
done a ton of i had a excuse me so the truck
that I was wheeling with before Stomper was,
like, an 87 4Runner IFS. And, like, the fourth
time I grenaded the front diff and the body was
starting to rust and fall down over the frame,
that's when I kind of pulled the plug on that
project and built Stomper with the solid front
axle. But, yeah, I haven't wheeled an IFS in
a really long time, you know, other than sand
dunes with, you know, an old GMC that I had.
It was more my daily driver. Yeah, I went from
solid axle because I always had Jeeps and then
decided Michigan was too easy with a solid axle
and got an IFS rig. Yep. And now I'm pushing
the boundaries on what you can do with IFS, and
now I'm like, man, I should have just stuck with
solid axle. Yeah. Yep. That's always part of
the game, back and forth. But, I mean, 4Runner's
cool. Oh, heck yeah. Yep. No, those are sweet,
sweet rigs. Is yours the frame solid on it? That's
always the big hiccup. Solid -ish. Reinforced.
Yeah. Reinforced. If you look at the passenger
side hard enough, it's got a quilt wrapped around
it. Stitched together, patchwork. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Yeah, that happens. I don't know. It feels
pretty solid. The back end, we had to cut both
frame horns off and rebuild. Oof. Yeah, that
was a fun one. Oh, yeah. Drummond Island, my
frame collapsed behind the rear axle, and I had
to ratchet strap it to the body to get home.
Oh, dang. Yeah. Time to head south and source
another chassis. Dude, I need to. I'll keep patching
this one until I can't anymore. Right. At this
point, it's too much work to swap everything
over. Yeah. Yeah, that's what happens. We get
so invested. I know my, I was just under, so
I picked up like an 08 FJ Cruiser for my daughter
to drive. And when I got it a little over a year
ago, I was underneath it. Like, man, it didn't
look too bad. You know, a little rust scale here
and there. Kind of tapped on the frame. Everything
felt solid. And I was just under it here, like,
a couple weeks ago. The inner rocker panels are
gone. Like, they were there last fall. They must
have, like, ice must have hung on them, and the
weight must have ripped the metal right off.
Because they're, like, I can literally see the
main wiring harness that runs underneath your
door sill plate on the driver's side. I can look
at it from underneath. I'm like, where in the
hell did the rocker panel go? Yeah, when I bought
my truck, I tapped on it, you know, did all the
checks. I was like, yeah, it's good to go. By
the time we drove it from Wisconsin to Michigan,
the frame had already started developing holes.
No way. Like, it was instant. Yeah, yeah. You
crossed the state line, and it was like, nope,
that's it. All done. Yeah, that's terrible. But
we spent two years keeping her together. I think
we can do a few more. Right? 100%. Patch it a
few more times? Yeah, we got two patches that
need done this weekend, but, you know, it is
what it is. I figure as long as you bust out
your dollar bill -sized piece of metal and figure
out where to patch it in at. I figure as long
as I keep up on it, we'll be okay. Yeah. Yeah,
so you've got... I'm really excited about that
beach build. That's going to be sick, dude. thanks
yeah it should be super cool um so my wife is
a redhead and she's like got this inherent fear
that i'm gonna paint it i i really want to paint
it the uh new uh orange color that they used
on the new trd pros yeah and do like the like
the throwback retro graphics so actually angie
that i pulled against um on truck night in america
that had the forerunner He does all kinds of,
like, all the factory repop graphics for all
the Toyotas. That's sick. So I'd like to paint
it that orange color and get the retro black,
like, 87 kind of graphics that, like, sling up
the side. And then get, I want to paint the hard
top all to match it, like, smooth it all out
and paint it all. And then black out the windows
and get, like, the newer TRD Pro wheels to put
on it, I think, kind of give it. kind of a retro
you know yeah yeah for sure but looking at like
swapping and stuff like what i did with stomper
was i ended up taking the entire wiring harness
from like the headlight bulb to the taillight
bulb and everything in between and just used
it out of the forerunner to build stomper and
i think i'm going to do the same with this that
way i don't have to deal with like all the emissions
like i'm literally going to take every plug every
connector and try and just use that whole entire
wiring harness in the 4Runner body. Hopefully
avoid all that stuff. The only hiccup will be
the opposite drop transfer case, so I'm probably
going to have to order a trail gear adapter or
something to put the gear -to -gear case on the
back of it so that I have the correct driveshaft
output, but I think it'll work out. It'll be
a fun build. And with a 3 .4, it's going to be
reliable as hell. Yeah. Yep. that's it be like
you know three four automatic like anybody can
get in it drop it gear drive it so i plan to
uh been collecting parts for a while for that
too right so i've got like a marlin crawler high
steer kit here in the ifs gearbox and i've got
a set of brand new uh rear springs um to build
like a rear up front pack on it for the front
axle and then uh I don't know what I'll do for
the rear yet. If I'm going to just, it's, it's
got like a old school, like four inch pro comp
lift on the chassis now. So I'll probably not
use those springs because they rode like shit.
So I'll probably end up doing, you know, like
the Chevy 63 spring or something in the back
and kind of build the suspension out similar
to stopper, but it'll be more of just a street
pounder. It's not going to get used. Maybe, maybe
Silver Lake, but that'd be about it. That'd be
the truck to take to Silver Lake though. It's
like the one place you can drive on the beach.
Yeah. Yup. Be nice and keep it clean and yeah,
just cruise it around and enjoy it. Yup. Yeah.
Always a project. Well, if you end up needing
a transmission, let me know. We got lots of them
at this point. Yeah. You're collecting three,
four auto trans. Yeah, yeah. Well, once I get
that truck from Derek, I'll have two of them
sitting here. I'll end up with an entire extra
driveline by the time we're done building trucks.
Right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, hopefully I don't go
through all the hassles I did with Stomper. You
know, I spent all that time and energy swapping
that, you know, three RZ. Tacoma motor into that
just to find out that after sitting, the head
gasket was blown. That was terrible. Yeah. I
just love how that truck looks like a raisin.
I mean, that's all I see when I see Stomper.
Oh, yeah. Yep. Every panel's got a dent and a
dent and a scrape and a story, and half of them
I've taken off and beaten back out with a hammer
just to, you know. Don't want it to look too
terrible going down the road. Well, dude, do
you got anything else that you want to get out
to the people? I don't know, man. I mean, I know
you guys probably follow across all the socials
I do, and you've seen what happened with Toyota
World Runners there. So just don't waste any
time. Get out and adventure while you can, you
know. Live it to the fullest right to the end.
Yep, hell yeah. None of us know what trip's going
to be our last. Yeah. I had a rollover like two
years ago now, and that was not bad, but it was
kind of worrying for there for a second when
I first got out of that accident. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
I mean, it's kind of a gut -wrenching feeling
when I laid the Tacoma on its side. You know,
I was up here at Twisted Trails Off -Road Park,
and it was just another one of those things,
right, where there was multiple chutes going
up a single hill, and I didn't know that they
crossed at the top. And, yeah, just flying up
the hill and can't see over the hood. All you
see is the daylight up above you, you know, opening
in the trees, not realizing that the trail cuts
underneath. And, yeah, that few seconds where
the truck's flopping, like you don't know how
bad it's going to go, how far it's going to go.
Yeah. Yeah, it's a scary feeling. Yeah, Mark's
rollover has me wondering if I need to put a
roll cage in because seeing how that Tacoma turned
into a pancake real fast. Oh, yeah. I don't want
to be going down that road. Yeah, yeah, no, for
sure. It's definitely, yeah, definitely something
to think about, you know. As you progress more
and more into the sport, you know, you're pushing
yourself in the rig more and more. It's definitely
something to think about for sure. So, well,
we will definitely don't roll your truck in Moab,
but we definitely need pictures of it on top
of the world. Yeah, no, for sure. Yeah. So a
few guys that we're going with, we already got
kind of a trail list. We're all putting together
like, all right, what are the most hit spots?
And yeah, we're going to, we've rented, you know,
just motel rooms right downtown on the strip.
So we can, you know, kind of. do the whole, get
the whole experience. So I can't wait. It should
be great. You got, see, you got hell's revenge
on there. I'd assume. Oh yeah. Uh, fins and things.
Yeah. Um, I'd have to look. Yeah. They're like
the golden crack. I don't know. There's like,
I think there's like 10 different ones they've
got that are like, we have to do this. We have
to do that. Well, if you can get to Moab rim,
Moab rim is beautiful. And yeah. Creek. Onion
Creek isn't hard, but it's really pretty. Yeah.
But it stinks. So, you know, take it how you
want it. Right on. It sure smells a lot like
onions. They didn't name it Onion Creek for no
reason. Gotcha. It's appropriately named. Well,
at least it's not named Shit Creek, right? Right,
right, right. And on that note we will catch
you guys later. Later.