WEBVTT 00:00:10.580 --> 00:00:15.099 Welcome to Botches Off -Road. It is just me and 00:00:15.099 --> 00:00:19.320 Mark for a good ol' rap. A good ol' rap. I know, 00:00:19.339 --> 00:00:21.320 I just made a shit ton of noise. I'm really sorry. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:28.579 It's one of them days, dude. Oh yeah. It's been 00:00:28.579 --> 00:00:35.700 a long day. I'm sick and tired of driving the 00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:39.920 Malibu. Yeah. Oh, we should probably tell them 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.000 why I'm driving the Malibu. True. We should. 00:00:45.659 --> 00:00:48.880 This is the wrap that might roll into an hour. 00:00:48.979 --> 00:00:54.159 We'll see. Yeah. It's been a doozy of a fucking 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:56.340 weekend. I don't know, listeners, if you keep 00:00:56.340 --> 00:00:59.600 up with our Instagram, but we've kind of been 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:06.599 keeping some updates going. Yeah. Yeah. So let's 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:15.799 start it out. It is Friday morning. I have a 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:19.920 mass training for all of Michigan, Turkey. So 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:23.400 I drive out to Grand Rapids in my 4Runner. Early 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:25.400 as shit in the morning. Everything's great. Great 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:28.459 drive, by the way. I called Gavin to keep myself 00:01:28.459 --> 00:01:32.680 awake because I knew Mark was at work. Yep. We 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:36.079 had a good talk about... Probably politics. I 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:42.180 don't know. And so I get there. And the only 00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:44.140 reason I ever go to these trainings is because 00:01:44.140 --> 00:01:49.060 sometimes there's good food. And sometimes there's 00:01:49.060 --> 00:01:51.519 good information, I guess. But anyways, so we 00:01:51.519 --> 00:01:54.700 started out. The gals from MSU give us a little 00:01:54.700 --> 00:01:56.359 bit of updates on what they're learning about 00:01:56.359 --> 00:01:59.879 turkeys. And, you know, that was fine and all. 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:04.849 Then we get our food, which was turkey. Like 00:02:04.849 --> 00:02:08.949 I work for Michigan. Anyways, it was turkey. 00:02:09.710 --> 00:02:11.990 And I took a bite of this. And when I tell you 00:02:11.990 --> 00:02:14.150 I needed a drink instantly because I was about 00:02:14.150 --> 00:02:17.030 to throw up. I'm not kidding. It was the driest 00:02:17.030 --> 00:02:21.750 bird I've ever eaten in my life. Yeah, that's 00:02:21.750 --> 00:02:28.129 bad. Meat provided by us to a company that makes 00:02:28.129 --> 00:02:32.909 food to cater the event, right? They fucked up 00:02:32.909 --> 00:02:39.590 the turkey. At a turkey conference. Like, come 00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:43.729 on. So then there's what looks like gravy on 00:02:43.729 --> 00:02:48.289 the table in a gravy boat. So me and I work with 00:02:48.289 --> 00:02:50.830 all Spanish only speaking people pretty much. 00:02:50.870 --> 00:02:53.569 Me and all them kind of like mutter to each other 00:02:53.569 --> 00:02:55.870 and start handing the gravy around to add to 00:02:55.870 --> 00:02:59.270 our turkey. And I take a bite. It was not gravy. 00:02:59.469 --> 00:03:05.659 It was salad dressing. We all coated our turkey 00:03:05.659 --> 00:03:12.139 and potatoes in salad dressing, but that made 00:03:12.139 --> 00:03:17.860 it edible. It wasn't dry anymore. So yeah, that 00:03:17.860 --> 00:03:20.860 was that pretty much. And then dinner lunch was 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:24.879 over and I had shavings coming at three. So I 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:27.419 got back in the forerunner, drove back to grant, 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.379 parked the truck. Everything's fine at this point. 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:36.340 Still no bumper. Bumper hadn't arrived yet. And 00:03:36.340 --> 00:03:41.879 3 o 'clock comes around and there's no shavings. 00:03:42.819 --> 00:03:47.520 3 .30 comes around and a semi shows up and delivers 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:55.620 my bumper. So I get the bumper painted. Well, 00:03:55.780 --> 00:04:01.830 first I did a self -etching primer. Then I painted 00:04:01.830 --> 00:04:06.969 it. Get the bumper painted. Let it dry. Get the 00:04:06.969 --> 00:04:14.150 bumper installed. It's now 8 -ish, 738. Still 00:04:14.150 --> 00:04:18.329 no shavings. Somewhere in there, Mark and Alan 00:04:18.329 --> 00:04:21.069 showed up. I don't remember where. Yeah. Somewhere 00:04:21.069 --> 00:04:27.290 in there. Still no shavings. No, 7 -something, 00:04:27.410 --> 00:04:30.170 because I think we stopped and got pizza. Yeah. 00:04:31.370 --> 00:04:34.910 So then I just clocked out. My boss called me, 00:04:34.930 --> 00:04:36.870 told me they weren't coming that day. So I clocked 00:04:36.870 --> 00:04:38.910 out. Shavings were originally supposed to come 00:04:38.910 --> 00:04:41.350 on Thursday. They didn't come Thursday. Then 00:04:41.350 --> 00:04:44.430 didn't come Friday. Then showed up Saturday at 00:04:44.430 --> 00:04:46.470 like, they're supposed to come at seven. They 00:04:46.470 --> 00:04:52.930 showed up at like nine 30. God. So anyways, so 00:04:52.930 --> 00:04:56.610 Friday, then as Mark's looking at my bumper that 00:04:56.610 --> 00:04:59.230 I just installed, he goes, Hey, your truck's 00:04:59.230 --> 00:05:05.939 leaking coolant. And I'm like, Uh, no. Hell yeah, 00:05:06.040 --> 00:05:08.680 it's just a puddle of water. Yeah, I'm like, 00:05:08.740 --> 00:05:11.519 I'm just parked over a puddle. No, it was coolant. 00:05:11.819 --> 00:05:15.240 So I figured that it looked like it was coming 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.240 from my thermostat. Okay. Thermostats aren't 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.980 that expensive. I go buy one. We do the job. 00:05:23.860 --> 00:05:28.000 And then it kept happening. And then it got worse, 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.819 and it just started pouring everything out. Yeah. 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.959 Yeah. It's still at this point. I had not decided 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:39.199 what it was yet. I just knew it was leaking. 00:05:39.779 --> 00:05:43.379 So then we pull Mark's truck in and start tearing 00:05:43.379 --> 00:05:46.759 it down to fix the knock sensors. I thought we 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:50.779 did. We did the thermostat. Truck came in. Truck 00:05:50.779 --> 00:05:55.519 came in the shop Friday night. We're on Friday. 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.550 You said Saturday. No. Oh, I did mention shavings 00:06:00.550 --> 00:06:04.149 came Saturday. But anyways, we're still on Friday. 00:06:04.269 --> 00:06:06.389 For any listeners that got confused on the timeline, 00:06:06.670 --> 00:06:12.310 we're on Friday. So Mark starts tearing his truck 00:06:12.310 --> 00:06:14.649 down. Mind you, at this point, we think that 00:06:14.649 --> 00:06:17.569 mine is fixed because we put the thermostat in. 00:06:17.870 --> 00:06:22.610 So Mark starts tearing his down, and I walk outside 00:06:22.610 --> 00:06:26.800 and notice a larger puddle under my truck. And 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.040 I look and I go, fuck, we didn't seal that thermostat 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:34.040 all the way. We'll worry about it tomorrow. So 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:37.540 then get back in, tear down more of Mark's truck, 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:41.360 which was a pain. And then we hit a point where 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.360 all of a sudden we needed specialty tools that 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.439 we didn't have. And by that, I mean locking star 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:51.839 bits and just hex bolts that could reach. Because 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.199 I had an Allen wrench set, but none of them reached 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:56.959 what we needed. No, not with the... We needed, 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:04.339 like, a socket. So, we called it a night. Went 00:07:04.339 --> 00:07:09.579 up to the house. At what, like, midnight? Yeah, 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:11.899 we were quite surprised we weren't out super 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:14.019 late that night. Might have been 10 .30 even. 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:17.980 I think it was 10 .30, honestly. Mark was pissed, 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:19.639 so he just went up to the house. Didn't even 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:21.560 want to fucking do anything. Whatever. Fine. 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:25.279 I get it. It was a bad day. I made a reel in 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:29.360 there somewhere, and Mark had the joke that everyone 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.899 now knows of just pop, or I don't need to pop 00:07:32.899 --> 00:07:36.199 that off. Yeah. It kind of went crazy on our 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:41.879 Instagram. So then Saturday comes around. We 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:45.160 get up. I put my shavings in the barn, come up 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.300 to the house, wake the guys up. Fuckers got to 00:07:48.300 --> 00:07:52.980 sleep in. And then... We go to Harbor Freight, 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.439 spend a bunch of money we don't have. Oh, I should 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.180 have brought my little toolbox. I got a mini 00:07:57.180 --> 00:08:02.240 toolbox finally. And then we came back, proceeded 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:06.579 to tear the rest of Mark's truck apart. We ran 00:08:06.579 --> 00:08:13.439 into an issue. Oh, we broke the VVT sensor on 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:17.360 the right driver's side was broken. Yeah, partially 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:22.310 broken. It wasn't fully broken yet. Yeah, we 00:08:22.310 --> 00:08:25.850 got the truck back together Saturday night. Started 00:08:25.850 --> 00:08:30.410 it up running like ass. Yeah. Because of the 00:08:30.410 --> 00:08:33.809 VVT sensor. So then we took it back apart. The 00:08:33.809 --> 00:08:36.429 next day, Mark went and got a VVT sensor, put 00:08:36.429 --> 00:08:39.970 it in, put the truck back together. It ran like 00:08:39.970 --> 00:08:44.950 ass. Cylinder 1, 3, 5 misfire. Originally, it 00:08:44.950 --> 00:08:47.190 was 1 and 5, not 3. Originally, it was 1 and 00:08:47.190 --> 00:08:50.159 5. How do we make it get so much worse? I don't 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:56.220 even know. Granted, 5 has a brand new coil. Coil. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.580 So we went and got two more brand new coils. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:01.539 So now 1 through 5 have brand new coils on them. 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:06.600 Yep. It didn't help. It really didn't do a damn 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:10.159 thing. Not at all. And then we proceeded like, 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:12.639 oh, let's check spark plugs. Even though I just 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:16.659 put new spark plugs back in November. Yep. One 00:09:16.659 --> 00:09:20.360 and five was loose? Now we're into Sunday, by 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:23.259 the way. Yes. One and five was loose, right? 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.519 Three was completely tight? No. One was loose. 00:09:27.179 --> 00:09:31.580 Five wasn't super tight, but wasn't loose. Gotcha. 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.379 Three was tight. Yep. So... And they were both 00:09:35.379 --> 00:09:44.200 burnt. One and five was burnt. So, we... kind 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:46.820 of gave up, limped it up to the house and parked 00:09:46.820 --> 00:09:50.779 it Sunday at 8 o 'clock at night, and then bled 00:09:50.779 --> 00:09:52.500 the brakes on the black truck so that Mark and 00:09:52.500 --> 00:09:54.759 Alan at least had something to drive. Mind you, 00:09:54.779 --> 00:09:57.299 my truck is still broken, so I'm stuck driving 00:09:57.299 --> 00:10:04.159 my friend's Malibu. Yeah. This is not a problem 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.340 if it was a normal Malibu. This is the world's 00:10:07.340 --> 00:10:10.620 shittiest Malibu you've ever seen. The exhaust 00:10:10.620 --> 00:10:14.220 leaks. I'm sure it leaks at the head. Like, I 00:10:14.220 --> 00:10:17.899 don't even think the fucking, it's bad. Yeah. 00:10:18.340 --> 00:10:20.960 Exhaust leaks, interior's absolutely fucking 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.059 roached. Every single light is on on the dash 00:10:24.059 --> 00:10:30.200 except the battery light. Also, a fun thing I 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.059 learned today, because I've only driven this 00:10:33.059 --> 00:10:35.539 thing early in the morning, take my wife to work 00:10:35.539 --> 00:10:39.009 and the kid to school. Well, today, coming home, 00:10:39.110 --> 00:10:41.389 I turned on a McClellan, and it has automatic 00:10:41.389 --> 00:10:44.009 headlights. Well, it got bright enough out that 00:10:44.009 --> 00:10:46.929 the headlights shut off. Turns out, to run the 00:10:46.929 --> 00:10:50.730 radio, you have to have the headlights on. The 00:10:50.730 --> 00:10:58.730 fuck? What do you do? Add a fuse to the light 00:10:58.730 --> 00:11:01.570 headlight switch or something? Remember how I 00:11:01.570 --> 00:11:04.870 mentioned that the radio doesn't dim when the 00:11:04.870 --> 00:11:07.129 headlights are on, and it drives me nuts? Yeah. 00:11:07.809 --> 00:11:10.870 Turns out that his main power is coming off the 00:11:10.870 --> 00:11:18.529 illumination wire. The fuck? So I thought the 00:11:18.529 --> 00:11:20.429 alternator went bad and I was about to have a 00:11:20.429 --> 00:11:23.429 really bad day. But how could I tell? Every light 00:11:23.429 --> 00:11:25.889 is on. But the battery light never came on. Anyways. 00:11:26.250 --> 00:11:30.990 Yeah. So car is a heap. I mean, it's like it's 00:11:30.990 --> 00:11:36.419 a 2014. So like it's a newer new ish car. But 00:11:36.419 --> 00:11:38.820 like, dude, this thing's been ran through the 00:11:38.820 --> 00:11:44.379 fucking ground. Oh, yeah. So that's what I'm 00:11:44.379 --> 00:11:49.179 driving currently. I ordered all of my timing 00:11:49.179 --> 00:11:58.919 parts and water pump and tools. Dude, Mark's 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.059 truck's still not fixed, by the way. No, not 00:12:01.059 --> 00:12:09.740 at all. The whole fiasco. There's like zero video 00:12:09.740 --> 00:12:12.019 on how to tear down to take care of these knock 00:12:12.019 --> 00:12:15.279 sensors. Zero. It was so annoying trying to do 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:19.039 it. The only good one was for the 4 -cylinder. 00:12:19.539 --> 00:12:22.700 That was it. Anything instruction -wise was on 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:26.779 the 4 -cylinder, not the V6. I think the only 00:12:26.779 --> 00:12:29.059 V6 there was was for the 3rd gen, which is a 00:12:29.059 --> 00:12:30.960 totally different engine type. There's no... 00:12:33.849 --> 00:12:36.590 coolant pipe running through the valley of the 00:12:36.590 --> 00:12:41.129 engine unlike mine here's my recommendation to 00:12:41.129 --> 00:12:46.070 all people thinking about buying a tacoma get 00:12:46.070 --> 00:12:51.889 a first gen or get a four cylinder that's where 00:12:51.889 --> 00:12:55.990 i'm at with it this thing is ridiculous but hey 00:12:55.990 --> 00:12:58.269 at least i was correct my knock sensor issue 00:12:58.269 --> 00:13:01.659 was a chewed wire It was. The wire was completely 00:13:01.659 --> 00:13:04.659 ripped. And the knock sensor is fixed. Both of 00:13:04.659 --> 00:13:09.940 them. Yep. And we re -ran the wire because it 00:13:09.940 --> 00:13:11.960 was a pain in the butt to take apart and the 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.059 old one is still tankly hanging in the engine 00:13:14.059 --> 00:13:21.500 bay. And then next we will finish extracting 00:13:21.500 --> 00:13:24.019 what's left of the VVT sensor currently stuck 00:13:24.019 --> 00:13:27.139 in that hole. Yep, in the pattern side. Yeah, 00:13:27.139 --> 00:13:29.299 yeah. Oh, I didn't even say that. We're pretty 00:13:29.299 --> 00:13:31.159 sure that the reason it's running like shit is 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.679 that the passenger VVT sensor is also having 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:43.620 problems. Dude, I... Toyota, I love you. The 00:13:43.620 --> 00:13:48.379 fuck? You had the 3 .4, which is an amazing, 00:13:48.539 --> 00:13:53.519 easy -to -work -on engine. I think, um, I have 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.899 to do timing and we'll see how that goes. But 00:13:56.899 --> 00:14:00.220 yeah, an amazing, fairly easy to work on engine 00:14:00.220 --> 00:14:03.220 with everything readily available, nothing crazy 00:14:03.220 --> 00:14:06.639 to work on. And then you redesign it and come 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.720 out with the four, four liter. And that thing 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.919 is a bear. Is it reliable? Sure. I mean, there's 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:16.100 four, four liters with, you know, eight, 900 00:14:16.100 --> 00:14:19.200 ,000 miles, whatever. That thing's a bear to 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:26.149 work on, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, it was 00:14:26.149 --> 00:14:29.330 a process. The reason why I put off for two years, 00:14:29.429 --> 00:14:30.990 because I was like, I really don't want to tear 00:14:30.990 --> 00:14:35.330 down that far right now. But it became a bigger 00:14:35.330 --> 00:14:39.629 basket than I was expecting it to be. Me too. 00:14:39.710 --> 00:14:41.470 And I'm scared that next weekend's going to be 00:14:41.470 --> 00:14:47.250 the same way. Oh, yeah. Even if we don't get 00:14:47.250 --> 00:14:49.909 back to the Tacoma, like... the forerunner is 00:14:49.909 --> 00:14:54.389 going to be a bear next weekend, but it has to 00:14:54.389 --> 00:14:56.509 happen. Cause I can't keep driving that fucking 00:14:56.509 --> 00:15:03.809 Malibu. Um, but yeah, it's who are we having 00:15:03.809 --> 00:15:10.909 some lag? I got like no video feed of you right 00:15:10.909 --> 00:15:14.789 now. Oh, what the heck? Yeah. I like say something 00:15:14.789 --> 00:15:18.029 and then you takes you like 10 seconds to respond. 00:15:21.509 --> 00:15:32.490 No. Let me run a speed smart. Yeah, today is 00:15:32.490 --> 00:15:35.429 not our day for recording. Gavin backed out. 00:15:35.950 --> 00:15:40.710 Oh, yeah. My speed test is great. But Gavin backed 00:15:40.710 --> 00:15:45.429 out. Mark took like a half hour to decide to 00:15:45.429 --> 00:15:53.019 get on. I'm sorry. Yeah. This guy. These guys. 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:57.539 It's kind of hard getting three people together 00:15:57.539 --> 00:16:02.759 to record a podcast. I will admit it. But we 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.299 don't do too bad. What doesn't help me is that 00:16:05.299 --> 00:16:12.480 I get home almost at 6 every time when we do 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.080 a recording. It's annoying, but it's what happens. 00:16:16.059 --> 00:16:18.379 So it's usually me trying to eat real quick. 00:16:18.779 --> 00:16:20.299 Because I don't want to eat after we're done 00:16:20.299 --> 00:16:24.779 recording half the time. So then I'm trying to 00:16:24.779 --> 00:16:28.039 eat and still set up. And today didn't help because 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:30.879 I'm actually in my room. Because Justin's home 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:40.460 for a little bit. Ah, gotcha. We still struggle 00:16:40.460 --> 00:16:48.009 through for you listeners. Don't worry. All right, 00:16:48.009 --> 00:16:51.409 well, let's get off the wrap here, Mark, and 00:16:51.409 --> 00:16:54.429 let's move on over and record an hour -ish. Hour 00:16:54.429 --> 00:16:56.809 -ish. 30 minutes, 40 minutes, somewhere in there. 00:16:56.909 --> 00:17:01.330 Hour -ish. Let's see how we get. I don't know 00:17:01.330 --> 00:17:04.069 where we're going to go with this next one. Later.