WEBVTT 00:00:11.339 --> 00:00:15.400 Welcome to Botch's Off -Road Podcast. It's just 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.160 Alex here. I'm just doing a quick, I don't know, 00:00:18.260 --> 00:00:23.059 10, 15 minute maybe episode. We've all been super 00:00:23.059 --> 00:00:26.280 busy, dude. Gavin's got some family stuff going 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.019 on, so he's probably going to be taking a step 00:00:28.019 --> 00:00:30.019 back from the podcast for a little while while 00:00:30.019 --> 00:00:35.090 he gets that sorted out. You know, Mark, we were 00:00:35.090 --> 00:00:37.090 supposed to record last night. He had an emergency 00:00:37.090 --> 00:00:40.670 call, had to go out and fix some fiber. He was 00:00:40.670 --> 00:00:44.329 out to like... i don't know midnight uh it just 00:00:44.329 --> 00:00:47.850 man life's getting in the way hard here but wanted 00:00:47.850 --> 00:00:51.590 to give a little update on the forerunner project 00:00:51.590 --> 00:01:00.329 so we will there is a wrap coming of sorts because 00:01:00.329 --> 00:01:04.450 last weekend we went out we had we did our annual 00:01:04.450 --> 00:01:07.510 third gen forerunner weekend it was a fantastic 00:01:07.510 --> 00:01:10.469 time it was the last time that the silver truck 00:01:10.469 --> 00:01:13.950 was going to be going on a trip and It showed, 00:01:14.129 --> 00:01:16.209 man. I had electrical systems quitting working 00:01:16.209 --> 00:01:19.790 all over the place. I overheated like you name 00:01:19.790 --> 00:01:22.430 it. It just it was time for that truck to fucking 00:01:22.430 --> 00:01:26.099 die. I still love it. Things beautiful. I got 00:01:26.099 --> 00:01:28.379 some beautiful pictures as a last send off. I've 00:01:28.379 --> 00:01:30.799 got a video of it doing some obstacles like it 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:35.069 was. It was great, but we'll get through all 00:01:35.069 --> 00:01:39.370 that when we do the rap with everybody when we 00:01:39.370 --> 00:01:43.890 get to it. So first. I just kind of wanted to 00:01:43.890 --> 00:01:46.890 let you guys know where I'm at. So the frame 00:01:46.890 --> 00:01:50.890 is done, mostly. Still got to weld on brackets 00:01:50.890 --> 00:01:53.989 to hold up the F -150 fuel tank. I still got 00:01:53.989 --> 00:01:56.450 to weld on the outboard shock relocation, but 00:01:56.450 --> 00:01:59.189 I'm not going to weld on the shock relocation 00:01:59.189 --> 00:02:03.819 until I get the axle set. I haven't actually, 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.700 I probably will do that. So the problem with 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:10.360 the third gen 4Runner is that our shock mount 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:13.740 can collect mud and dirt. And there's almost 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:19.039 no way to clean it because it's, excuse me, it's 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:24.740 between the cab and body or the cab and frame, 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.840 which makes it so it just becomes a pocket for 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:32.060 stuff to collect in. And in Michigan, that causes 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:34.879 rot. Whereas if you don't put the shock in there, 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:37.360 now it's got a natural drain hole where that 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.400 shit can drain out of. This is actually what 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.490 rotted out. my last third gen and you couldn't 00:02:43.490 --> 00:02:46.349 see the rot until it was too far gone because 00:02:46.349 --> 00:02:50.849 it was covered in the spot um so i still have 00:02:50.849 --> 00:02:53.550 to do the outboard shock relocation stuff like 00:02:53.550 --> 00:02:57.590 that i did get the sound deadening put inside 00:02:57.590 --> 00:03:02.930 of the body mostly i ran out of sound deadening 00:03:02.930 --> 00:03:07.030 when i got halfway pat or halfway across the 00:03:07.030 --> 00:03:11.240 front seat so i still have firewall Front and 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:15.580 passenger footwell and doors left to do. Everything 00:03:15.580 --> 00:03:18.939 else is sound deadened and finished. I might 00:03:18.939 --> 00:03:21.439 leave it at this point, see how bad it is and 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:26.180 come back to it. But as of right now, I think 00:03:26.180 --> 00:03:33.340 that it's good enough. I also got the rear axle 00:03:33.340 --> 00:03:37.159 pulled out, which once the rear axle came out, 00:03:37.219 --> 00:03:42.110 it really showed the rust. I'll put for chapter 00:03:42.110 --> 00:03:44.250 art here. I'll put the picture so you can see 00:03:44.250 --> 00:03:49.250 it. It's bad, man. Like, I don't know how I didn't 00:03:49.250 --> 00:03:52.729 die driving this thing. It's really freaking 00:03:52.729 --> 00:03:58.539 bad. Man, when I got no one else to bounce off 00:03:58.539 --> 00:04:01.139 of, I say I'm a lot. Sorry, listeners. I guess 00:04:01.139 --> 00:04:05.009 get used to it because that's a lot to edit out. 00:04:05.620 --> 00:04:12.080 I yeah, so I'll have I should be painting the. 00:04:14.629 --> 00:04:20.100 The rear axle today is the plan. Today into tomorrow. 00:04:21.009 --> 00:04:24.050 And then I'm hoping to get the front suspension 00:04:24.050 --> 00:04:27.370 pulled this weekend along with the front diff, 00:04:27.610 --> 00:04:33.519 the steering rack, the skid plate, the last of 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.459 the stuff I need off that truck. And then she'll 00:04:35.459 --> 00:04:38.120 just sit there and be a parts truck. It will 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:43.470 have a good automatic transmission. that has 00:04:43.470 --> 00:04:45.290 only ever been overheated once, but that was 00:04:45.290 --> 00:04:48.790 like 2000 miles ago and she's been fine. So if 00:04:48.790 --> 00:04:50.389 you're looking for a high mileage automatic, 00:04:50.750 --> 00:04:56.350 let me know. I got one for cheap. Um, we've got 00:04:56.350 --> 00:04:58.310 some other things to figure out inside the body 00:04:58.310 --> 00:05:00.889 yet. Like I'm adding that right now I've run 00:05:00.889 --> 00:05:03.089 my house batteries out of pack outs, but I want 00:05:03.089 --> 00:05:05.889 one permanent house battery. So I got to find 00:05:05.889 --> 00:05:08.529 where I'm going to stick that. I think in the 00:05:08.529 --> 00:05:12.189 rear. a quarter panel on a 4Runner or a third 00:05:12.189 --> 00:05:14.949 gen 4Runner, there's a pocket that Toyota made 00:05:14.949 --> 00:05:19.050 for holding like whatever, whatever they put 00:05:19.050 --> 00:05:21.629 in there. It's got a pocket there. And I think 00:05:21.629 --> 00:05:23.569 I'm going to tuck it back inside that pocket 00:05:23.569 --> 00:05:26.389 and then cut out the plastic so that it it'll 00:05:26.389 --> 00:05:28.970 hang out of the plastic just a little bit. It's 00:05:28.970 --> 00:05:31.949 a little thicker than that space, but that should 00:05:31.949 --> 00:05:34.949 give me a pretty solid spot to keep a battery. 00:05:35.050 --> 00:05:38.160 It also gives me somewhere to store. or not store, 00:05:38.259 --> 00:05:42.839 but house electrical connections. And the plan 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.980 with this truck, everything, pretty much everything 00:05:45.980 --> 00:05:48.139 is going to run off of a switch panel connected 00:05:48.139 --> 00:05:51.600 to this battery. So the fridge, all accessory 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.339 lighting, the music player, all of that stuff 00:05:57.339 --> 00:05:59.779 will run off this battery. And then the only 00:05:59.779 --> 00:06:01.660 stuff that will run off the truck battery will 00:06:01.660 --> 00:06:07.709 be obviously starting, heating, cooling. turn 00:06:07.709 --> 00:06:11.470 signals that kind of stuff so what this gives 00:06:11.470 --> 00:06:14.610 me the ability to do is if i'm running lighting 00:06:14.610 --> 00:06:17.250 at camp for any reason area lighting anything 00:06:17.250 --> 00:06:20.110 it'll kill my house battery not my truck battery 00:06:20.110 --> 00:06:22.470 and then i can hook up a solar panel or start 00:06:22.470 --> 00:06:24.370 the truck or do whatever i have to do to charge 00:06:24.370 --> 00:06:29.800 it um so that should be pretty helpful now what 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:33.620 that does mean is i've got to run a four gauge 00:06:33.620 --> 00:06:36.920 wire front to back which I have on the current 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.899 truck, but I do not plan on reusing any of that. 00:06:39.980 --> 00:06:43.040 I'm starting fresh with this build. It costs 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.660 more to start fresh, but man, does it look nicer 00:06:45.660 --> 00:06:51.720 and work better when you do. That and the other 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:53.839 truck was beat. Man, I'll include a bunch of 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.819 pictures in here. It was freaking bait, but I 00:06:56.819 --> 00:07:00.420 was mean to it. So what do you expect? See what 00:07:00.420 --> 00:07:05.449 else did I get done? I just got a bunch of stuff 00:07:05.449 --> 00:07:09.860 coming, really. But yeah, the frame. Absolutely 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:11.899 drop -dead gorgeous. Couldn't ask for a better 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:15.519 frame. The camping weekend, better than I ever 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.839 could have asked for. Great send -off for the 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:21.560 truck. And I honestly think that I'll have this 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:25.839 thing at least operable. Maybe not interior installed, 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.899 but at least put together and drivable by, like, 00:07:28.899 --> 00:07:32.839 early December. Like, I'm plugging right along, 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:38.740 man. I need to... Maybe I'll try some airplane 00:07:38.740 --> 00:07:40.759 stripper. I got to get all the paint off the 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.319 front control arms because they're flaking and 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:45.339 there's like four different colors that are showing. 00:07:45.980 --> 00:07:50.180 So I need to get those all cleaned up and then 00:07:50.180 --> 00:07:52.639 I'll just like everything else, a layer of rust 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.939 converter, a couple layers of tractor enamel. 00:07:55.939 --> 00:07:59.259 And the whole truck's getting that. I had to 00:07:59.259 --> 00:08:01.660 change all my heims on the back because they 00:08:01.660 --> 00:08:04.980 were all seized. Both the bolt going through 00:08:04.980 --> 00:08:09.180 them was seized to the heim. And then the heim 00:08:09.180 --> 00:08:12.639 was seized in its location. So the rear axle 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:16.259 was only really pivoting. It wasn't really, I 00:08:16.870 --> 00:08:18.389 don't know. I don't know how it was working. 00:08:18.470 --> 00:08:20.689 Maybe under enough load it was causing the heims 00:08:20.689 --> 00:08:23.490 to move. But they were really, really seized. 00:08:24.110 --> 00:08:28.430 So I need to, and I just replaced those before 00:08:28.430 --> 00:08:30.589 wintertime. I'm going to have to come up with 00:08:30.589 --> 00:08:33.210 something I can spray on them or put on them 00:08:33.210 --> 00:08:35.409 during winter to keep them from getting salt 00:08:35.409 --> 00:08:38.159 in them. Because I think that is the major problem. 00:08:38.259 --> 00:08:40.220 They're kind of right in line for salt to collect, 00:08:40.299 --> 00:08:44.559 so it would make sense. And I'm kind of worried 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:51.919 about the hymes on the front tie rods. The uniballs 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.340 seem to still move, but I do need to replace 00:08:54.340 --> 00:08:59.250 them. There's just a lot, man. It's basically 00:08:59.250 --> 00:09:02.870 going through... Using the used stuff from the 00:09:02.870 --> 00:09:05.610 old truck is kind of a bear, because there's 00:09:05.610 --> 00:09:08.350 a lot that's just... I mean, Michigan did Michigan 00:09:08.350 --> 00:09:12.289 stuff and now they're tight and seized. And I, 00:09:12.350 --> 00:09:17.299 yeah, it's just a lot. There's a lot. I'm sitting 00:09:17.299 --> 00:09:19.179 here looking at pictures to kind of think of 00:09:19.179 --> 00:09:22.340 stuff to say. And I just keep seeing these rust 00:09:22.340 --> 00:09:24.200 holes and I'm like, good Lord, dude, how did 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:28.259 I survive that? And to be fair, we took the truck 00:09:28.259 --> 00:09:35.620 apart two years ago and rebuilt some of the frame 00:09:35.620 --> 00:09:39.759 horns in the back and none of this. was rotted 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:43.399 at that time. So this is all new rot within the 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:45.200 last two years. I'd say even within the last 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.139 year, because last year we put new springs in 00:09:47.139 --> 00:09:50.200 the back and it wasn't like this. So this is 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.240 all new stuff that's happened since last July. 00:09:54.669 --> 00:09:57.309 And it's just, it's crazy, man. It happened fast. 00:09:57.750 --> 00:10:00.330 And a lot of it just comes down to stuff water 00:10:00.330 --> 00:10:02.509 could collect there or mud could collect there. 00:10:02.990 --> 00:10:06.169 Um, so I'm the new, the new frame I'm going through 00:10:06.169 --> 00:10:08.450 and just all these spots where stuff can collect. 00:10:08.549 --> 00:10:12.730 I'm putting drain holes. I've already added four 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:16.000 or five drain holes to the frame that aren't 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.460 from the factory, but it just, it needs a man. 00:10:18.659 --> 00:10:23.039 Uh, I live somewhere where we use salt to take 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.320 care of the road. Salt causes water. So now you've 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:28.059 got a water or a salty brine that is spraying 00:10:28.059 --> 00:10:30.700 the underside of your truck the entire time you're 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:36.220 driving. So it does also help that now that I 00:10:36.220 --> 00:10:38.200 have the power stroke, the forerunner won't be 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:42.799 driven daily as much. You know, I drive from 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:46.470 sometimes from the farm to town when my wife's 00:10:46.470 --> 00:10:49.350 at work, but nine times out of 10, I don't go 00:10:49.350 --> 00:10:52.809 anywhere when she's at work because I work where 00:10:52.809 --> 00:10:58.700 I live. So there's no point. I just can't wait, 00:10:58.779 --> 00:11:02.149 man. I'm sure it gets old hearing me talk about 00:11:02.149 --> 00:11:04.110 this thing, but this 4Runner is going to be sick. 00:11:04.779 --> 00:11:09.190 And it is going to be, at this rate, probably 00:11:09.190 --> 00:11:14.000 one of the cleanest third gens in Michigan. Just 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.659 well put together. Everything that needs done 00:11:16.659 --> 00:11:19.940 is done. You know, it's rust protected out the 00:11:19.940 --> 00:11:24.019 yahu. Not only am I rust protecting it as I build 00:11:24.019 --> 00:11:26.759 it, when I'm done, I'm getting it wool waxed 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:31.360 or some type of treatment. On top of that, to 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:33.620 keep it from rusting, because this is not something 00:11:33.620 --> 00:11:36.360 I ever want to deal with again. You know, this 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:38.399 4Runner I'm building now, this is one I want 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:40.580 my kids to be able to drive. I want them to learn 00:11:40.580 --> 00:11:43.440 manual on this. And I don't have any kids, so 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:50.000 it at least has to make it 19 years. Yeah, it's 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.970 a project, man. I'll put a bunch of pictures, 00:11:55.049 --> 00:11:57.570 kind of like a slideshow. Every couple minutes, 00:11:57.669 --> 00:12:00.590 I'll do a new picture on artwork so that you 00:12:00.590 --> 00:12:05.419 guys can see Chapter Arts for it. Also, go to 00:12:05.419 --> 00:12:09.059 our website, botchesoffroad .com. I just got 00:12:09.059 --> 00:12:11.919 the store set up and you should be able to order 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:14.419 stuff. Yeah, go ahead. Try it. We'll see what 00:12:14.419 --> 00:12:15.820 happens. I don't know. I don't know if it even 00:12:15.820 --> 00:12:19.340 works yet. So, but yeah, guys, that's it for 00:12:19.340 --> 00:12:21.639 me. I will catch you guys later.