Welcome to botches off -road It's it's a wrap
and like we have content for a wrap and it's
a day late because my internet broke yesterday
Like literally we're getting set up to record
and I'm like, oh I have like 50 % packet loss.
Let me reboot my router real fast and It never
came back online It's still not technically fixed
I'm running open sense off of a thumb drive but
It's good enough that we can record. We tried
to record last night, at least. Alex even went
down to the farm, set up down there, covered
himself in a wool blanket, and still was having
issues. We couldn't hear him. My audio was banging.
Yeah. I mean, it was good. But yeah, so we tried.
All right, we tried. We gave it the old college
try. It didn't work out. But we're back now.
We'll get this out to you as soon as possible,
and we're good. We're good. Yeah. All's well.
All's well that ends well. But yeah, so this
weekend, Mark and Gavin, did you do anything
this weekend? Or did you just bum around like
a Gavin would? Was it Valentine's weekend, right?
Yes. Yeah. So I'm sure you guys did Valentine's
things with your ladies, so. No. I'm sorry mark
is mark is lonely as hell. I am He's got a lady.
He just didn't tell you no. I don't meet Pamela
Henderson me Me and my me and my wife don't celebrate
things Valentine's Day Because we feel like you
should celebrate your love all the time not one
day. That's called after you grand jesters Well,
that way we don't have to spend money on each
other. It's also why she only got a thirty six
dollar engagement ring. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I
mean, for this weekend, I didn't do much. I cleaned
the truck out, which it was a really nice weekend
for that because it was warm. I washed the truck
and then I went and got Sienna a bunch of her
favorite chocolates and some flowers and delivered
it to her while she did her all day shift at
work. So she had some snacks. I got her some
Bigsby, and then Sunday, I made her the dinner
she wanted. I actually met Alex Sunday at Jeans,
and he was grabbing dinner. I was grabbing Sienna's
wish dinner for Valentine's Day, which was little
smokies and barbecue sauce, the little smokies.
Oh, my wife made those recently. Yes, that's
what she wanted. I was like, cool, dude, that's
cheap, that's easy. So I went and - picked up
some of those. I picked up a couple of steaks
for me and dad. And yeah, dude, great dinner.
Oh, yeah. Pretty much all I did. Yeah, so Mark
and Alan came over Friday night. Yeah, it's some
we did some yard camping. I don't remember. What
did we do Friday night? Oh, we worked on that
computer. Yeah, we worked on Alan's computer.
Yep. I've been doing a lot of computer work lately
mostly with microphones and head headsets dudes
Hold up dogs are being loud. I you quiet down
back there Uh, oh, yeah, see we got a we got
a gallery back there. Yeah, the boys are there
mercy's walking around over there Yeah, so we
worked on that Friday night and then Saturday,
we got up at a semi decent time Saturday. I mean,
we were up late Friday, but. Mm hmm. Got the
black truck in, got. Brakes are on, not bled
rear axle is not. I thought you bled them. No,
he didn't get him bled. I told him not to worry
about it because it was getting late and I just
wanted to be done. Yeah. Axel is re bolted. I
feel like there's something else we did Dinos
why the truck was having issues starting up again.
Oh Yeah, the battery's bad and I think the alternator
is bad probably both hold up Dogs have been very
loud on Alex's in today Gavin is muted, too Yeah,
it happens Yeah, my dogs are just being dogs.
Um, so yeah, we uh We diagnosed it and every
time we jump start it it would start right up
and then we plugged the battery in for a long
time And then it started right up so Probably
the problem But, I mean, it looks, it looks good.
Oh, and we put the shocks on. Oh, yes. That's
what the other thing was. I was trying to remember
what the other was. We put, we put some freedom
coil or freedom off -road coilovers on it. It
looks great. Uh, it's now like one inch in the
back and three -ish inches in the front. What
are you doing with the black one again? It's
going to be Allen's. Oh, okay. Locky, Locky.
Yeah, he I mean he paid for it. Yeah like a lot
of money, but Still ah see then Saturday night
at like Probably eight o 'clock now. It was like
seven when we started on that me and mark rebuilt
my rear hatch area for the forerunner, so I've
got new fixed cooler slides oh me and Alan went
to Alpine on Saturday. That was the other big
thing we did. Yep. So I put got some new cooler
slides and fix that. So my cooler slides in and
out and it's very reinforced. Yes. I also lowered
the cooler about six inches so it's easier to
get into when it's in the truck. Yeah. So then
when we're all done with all this right. We did
all that. It's like almost midnight one o 'clock
at this point. I'm like, hey, well, we're here.
Let me fix this wiring real quick. So I disconnect
all my wiring. Forget which wires do what, because
past Alex, who's a fucking asshole, by the way,
only had black wire and was in too much of a
hurry. So he wired the whole thing in black wire.
What a fucking moron. You know, that was a pain
in the ass. It's funny. I remember us wiring
something a while back in on your cement pad
and you were going, oh, just use black wire.
I'm like, I don't want to do that. And you're
just like, it's all you had. No, no, not then.
You were just tell you were joking with me and
you're like, I just use all black wire. And I'm
like, I'm not doing that, dude. I'm like, just
label it good. Then you'll be fine, which you
would be. But no, past Alex didn't even label
shit. Yeah, that's ridiculous. So. Got it all
fixed. I know I didn't. Well, kind of. OK. So
then I've I've taken it all apart and I realize,
oh, did one of those control my rear window?
So I roll the rear window down. And it won't
go back up. Yeah. So then I had to take my hatch
apart, which we didn't even do anything in the
hatch. We just like moved some stuff around and
then I redid the ground for the lights. Yep.
Um, and then I added a ground strap from the
hatch to the truck to make it so that my lights
don't flicker when I turn them on, you know,
my under hatch lights there. Um, which that works
great now. Then we cut the wires that used to
go to my roof lights up front. We cut those and
ran that wire down and wired that into my switch
panel because whatever was going on I couldn't
figure out and I didn't feel like fucking with
it so I wrote a new hot and ground to the switch
panel and boom now my window goes up and down
and my radios all work and My lights work mostly
after oh Which one doesn't I thought I got your
flight? Yeah, those don't work. Yeah, my real
lights broken. I haven't heard back from them
by the way. Um last fit last fit So yeah, I mean
it was It was an endeavor man. We're up to late
as shit. Mm -hmm Like four in the morning fixing
all that shit. Yeah Yeah, it was wild then Sunday
we've Finished putting the brakes on Alan's truck
because he'd lost the caliper bolts when he took
him off Six months ago or so. Yep So we had to
buy some of those got all those put on and that
trucks pretty much ready to go aside from needing
an engine swap because it has Timing leak issues,
but yeah And the alternator battery Dog's very
much just tonight. Oh my god. It's cuz we had
the I'm gonna go solve Well, did you do anything
to your truck uh Besides clean it and then Talked
about plans for it. Yeah, I actually talked to
Sienna about plans for mine, too. It was like
We are planning on getting the tent soon, so
we were talking about what we really need for
this year gear -wise, and it's not really anything.
I told her I wanted to reconfigure the back a
little bit, delete the seat, move the car seat
over behind my seat so I could have the 60 part
of the 60 -40 split or 60 -40 split available
for putting a storage deck. kind of thing. And
we talked about that a little bit, but that's
really all that we need to do. So when we reconfigure
all that, yeah, there's not much more to even
do off of that. So I'm excited. That just means
there's less to do this camping gear this year
for camping. It's going to take a little less
money. Maybe we'll put it towards some higher
quality like quilts or something like that. A
couple recovery. options I want to get. Wait,
what's going to take less money? I just explained
while you were gone that we talked about reconfiguring.
Cian and I talked about reconfiguring the truck
and what we wanted to do with it, and that we
don't really need to buy any other gear other
than the tent this year. Gotcha. So we're going
to save it money because I'm going to do the
filing. Cabinet thing, but that's like those
are like 20 30 bucks Dude, I saw I'm not gonna
find it now on marketplace There is someone selling
like a drawer for like a stove for the back of
your truck I was gonna send it to you and I forgot
to Yes, I can put your stove in it and then just
pull it out and the stoves already set up. Oh
Yeah, I hope it's left side It's your son. I
do like I do like where I have my table though.
It's like really comfortable height For cooking
and stuff and it keeps it out of Jasper's way
So I think I might keep that kind of how it is.
I just want to add the cabinets for storage Do
the whole thing like I've talked about before
and then yeah, don't worry about it. This is
an Oshkosh, Wisconsin Oh, yeah, no, I'm good
but The nice thing about putting that like a
wood floor down and I'm probably just gonna use
linoleum like snail trail said and And then just
kind of screw down the filing cabinets right
straight to the wood platform It'd be pretty
pretty smart pretty solid. Yeah So yeah, we'll
see Yeah, so Where was I Sunday Sunday truck
was? trucks looking banging. So then Monday,
I go to work. And was that Monday or Tuesday?
It would have been Tuesday. So Tuesday, we're
literally getting a barn and my farm hand buried
a tractor to its frame in turkey litter. And
so I spent like 40 minutes digging this thing
out. Then I went to get the kid and I just get
a text problema because, you know, Think that's
how you say in Spanish. I don't know. He's like
problema or something like that and So I go down
there and he driven the stinking litigator right
into a frickin wall That broke the pump bent
the mounting plate. I mean, it's Jesus dude,
I some people just shouldn't be driving, you
know Don't know what people are thinking nowadays
or not thinking like if you're tired or something
You can't drive the shit like you normally do
then don't if you're just gonna cause damage
like that Just insane but yeah, that was that's
pretty much my week up to this. Oh and then my
internet broke and that was fun At least we got
it kind of fixed right now and we got marks fixed
the week before So if we're happening in threes,
maybe it's mine next week. No, shut up. You're
not allowed to break shit. So what are these
weekend plans looking like? Not really much.
I'm going to start bringing stuff out of the
truck. Start stripping the back of the truck
out. I'd preferably like to do this when it gets
somewhat drier, but I don't know if I'll have
time. So I'm going to just start pulling stuff
out of the truck, putting it, oops, pulling all
that out, putting it in the house and switching
the seats over, pulling the seat out, putting
it in the house and then seeing how I want to
do this deck platform system. I really, really
like the goose gear. It's really low profile.
It's got cut in pockets and stuff for it. But
it's, yep. As Alex is making the sign for is
money, money. It's a lot of money. So. I don't
really want. To spend that either, I think it's
kind of. For what I'm for, I'd rather do a DIY.
Garak from remote trails radio just bought the
goose gear for the back of his third gen. Yeah.
That it looks sick, dude. Like it's slick as
hell. But that is a lot of frickin. Yeah, it
is. Yeah. I mean, and you know what? There's
a lot of time and money planning, cutting. I
get it. That's I think Goose Gear is worth it.
If you have it, if they have the money. But a
lot of my whole setup is based off of trying
to do DIY and making what you can fit for the
family. So I'm trying to trying to kind of keep
that up, but also make it look good. So I have
the fridge slide directly mounted into the body
of the truck through the floor. And I'm just
going to leave that and do a platform around
it to keep the fridge as low as possible. And
the fridge slides are great. I haven't had any
issues with them, so I'm going to leave it. If
it ain't broke, don't fix it. And then I'm going
to build a platform around it. I'm going to take
the shelf off that I have above the fridge and
talking to Bison Gear about maybe getting their
Mali shelves if they feel like sending them to
me. But if not, I'm just going to build something
myself. But I just want to utilize more of that
space. I'd love to see if I could find a another
cheap drawer off of Marketplace and. see if I
could find like a slim one or something and just
see what kind of options I can get out of that
because it'd be really nice to have a lot of
items on the left. Right now I have like the
cooking stuff. It'd be nice if I could just have
the whole cabinet on a slide so I could pull
the whole slide with the cabinet out, have my
water easily right behind it, both jugs, pull
those out super easy. bing bang boom um but it's
all just kind of me thinking of ways to make
it easier and we'll see what actually happens
so i don't know i hope it goes hope i find something
but it's hard kind of finding cheap file cabinets
right now too like you know when i don't need
a filing cabinet everyone's fucking throwing
them away and they're on the side of the road
Yeah, that's how it goes, dude. And then when
I need them, everyone's like 30 to 70 bucks for
a file cabinet. I'm like, no. I want black because
then I don't have to like paint it a fuck ton.
Right. And I've been looking for a certain one.
So there are like certain file cabinets that
I've had in an office that have little latches
that open the doors so they don't just slide
open. And that's what I'm looking for so that.
don't have to put latches on each one of these
drawers they already have latches in them so
that way your doors don't just swing open and
stuff which mine wouldn't anyway really if I
have the back door closed I actually in mine
I use the back drawer back door as the latch
for the cooler yeah Because why not it's right
there, and then I use soft clothes slides Which
was really nice because it takes you know it
always kind of rattled a little bit well by you
by using the Soft clothes doors you don't hear
it at all anymore, right? Yeah, soft clothes
would be cool if I was making it my own I I don't
I like I don't have a bunch of wider tables.
I wish I had level ground and tables and stuff
to work on, but I don't have my whole yard is
gravel and it's definitely not level. The yard's
not level. There's no level surface for me to
work off of. So I tried doing drawer slides on
that once and they were all fucking wonky. They
worked, but they were horrible. So I just like,
I just don't have the space to do super intricate
stuff right now, but eventually someday. Yeah,
so this weekend I was hoping to be working on
my New bumper for the front. Yeah, but that is
not coming until next frickin Wednesday. Yeah
But yeah, so that's the other thing I did this
weekend is my tax return came So I bought a nice
new trail gear bumper for the front of the forerunner
To replace that big honking northwest trail innovations
bumper. Yeah, and then my tax return is being
processed But when it does come in I'll be buying
that new tent, the Gazelle T5, and me and Alex
might be shooting a comparison video if he gets
a tent soon. Ah, Mike said nah. I mean, it is
a pretty good value, but yeah. Our buddy Mike
Horton posted in one of our group chats. He's
like, I have a Gazelle T4 for sale for $200 if
anyone wants it. And I just commented. I'll give
you a hundred bucks. And I was like, wait, is
it frowned upon to lowball your buddies? Yeah.
And then he said something smart ass back and
we all joked. Yeah. He was like, it's not frowned
upon, but it is frowned upon or it is for it
is bad for your health. Yeah. You're like, you
know what else is bad for your health? A brick.
And then I commented of cheese. Yeah, probably
a big long thing that I was just trolling after
that. Someone's and then someone said brick of
cheese. That's bad for your colon. And I said,
why would that be bad for my cologne? Like I
just kept I wear men's. Yeah, like I wear men's
clothes. So yeah, we were just fucking around.
It's that's the that's our chats most of the
time anyway. But no, it's basically brand new
T4 for 200 bucks. That's a bang. Yeah, it's a
good deal. I just I have no need for a tent.
So I didn't buy. Yeah, for sure. But no, it would
be cool. And I'm going to do a video on the T5
once I get it in Alex's camp spot, because it's
close. It's a really good spot for it. And I
can do video without other people being around.
If I was to go to a park or something, I'd have
distractions. So it'll be a good walk. What I
do is I freeze whenever a car goes by so that
I can edit it out later. Yeah, I usually like
put hands up. I put like both hands up like stop.
So it looks like someone's trying to predators
trying to get me. Stop. But yeah, so I I just
freeze and then I edit it so that the video is
smooth. But that's the only downside is that
for whatever reason, my road is busy as fuck.
Yeah. Yeah, that is true. But it should be fine
for me. I I don't need it to be crazy good There
just is not a single video on them right now,
and I want to try to corner that There's a lot
of people asking about them and stuff, but there's
no videos on them yet, so I I sent mark a really
cool camper thing earlier, and I don't even think
he looked at it. I did Well, this is a great.
Yeah so I sent him a To better gonna be hard
find Like there's one for sale Yeah, yeah, there's
one for sale right here and like not even 20
minutes away. Yeah It is called if this loads
The quick silver living light TC one so when
you fold it up It just looks like a little cargo
box in the back of your truck and then you open
it up and it's got like three beds in it. Well,
two beds in a seating area that can become. Is
it one of those like older like tents? It's like
the old style. No, this is like a twenty nineteen.
Oh. How long is that thing again? The problem
is it's for a six foot bed. Yeah, that's just
hang off a little bit. That's OK. Yeah, it's
it's really sick, dude. So I was like, I was
thinking like, you know, we could like put that
in the bed of his truck, space it a little bit
so he could spare tire between that and the cab,
do some packout mounts back there, put some packout
mounts on top of it. And then I saw how wide
it is and I'm like, or how long it is. I'm like,
fuck, man, that would never work. Nope. But it's
cool. It's really cool. And if you've got a six
foot bed, Check out the Living Light TC1. Why
can't you do like an extension like off of the
bottom of the bed? Like that would absolutely
destroy departure angle. Yeah. No, like so like
if this is your truck bed, you do another little
bit here and then brace it right back into the
frame right under there. I mean, yet obviously
you'd still have a departure angle issue, but
it wouldn't be like. horribly worse. There's
a little trade off for a camper. Yeah. So, I
don't know. For what Mark likes doing with his
truck, I just don't think it's a great option.
Mark likes speed. I can see him rolling that
motherfucker. I've seen Mark set his truck on
the back bumper. Yeah. So, like... Yeah. Mark
runs with speed. He's got more of like a trophy
truck set up that he crawls with sometimes. That's
kind of like, I mean, same. And you you like
to crawl more, it seems like, though. Yeah, but
I'm more set up for speed. He is way more set
up for speed than I am. If if my truck was faster,
I'd probably enjoy speed a little more or manual.
If it was just manual, everything would be better.
Yeah. I mean, my truck would be speed. I didn't
have to turn off lip mode every mile. Oh, my
God. Did you still have that issue? I thought
you fixed a while back. No. nowhere near close
being fixed. I, in fact, just ordered parts to
hopefully fix it. Oh, yeah. I thought we talked
about this a couple of months back that you got
that fixed. But man, that sucks. Yeah, it's like
you're one bad issue that you have with that.
Oh, yeah. Is it common? Yes. Yes. Oh, very, very
common. At least you can drive it. Yeah, I mean,
that is the. the one good thing on that note
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