The Pontiac Solstice is a small sports car. In this episode, the name comes up while people are talking about plans for the weekend. It sounds like it’s just part of the conversation rather than a detailed car-tech discussion.
The Jeep Gladiator is a pickup truck that’s designed to go off-road. It can carry people and gear like a truck, but it’s also built for trails. That’s why it comes up when people talk about family trips and off-road driving.
The Toyota 4Runner is an SUV that’s built for off-road driving. People like it because it can handle rough roads and longer trips. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because the group is planning to travel together.
A “diff” is a gearbox that helps the wheels on the same axle turn at different speeds, which matters when you turn. If it’s leaking oil, it usually means a seal is worn and needs attention so the gears don’t run low on lubrication.
Oil levels means checking how much fluid is in the vehicle’s important parts. If a diff is leaking, the oil level can drop, and that can lead to damage if you keep driving without fixing it.
A drawer slide is the metal track that helps a drawer move in and out smoothly. If you’re building a camper fridge area, it’s the part that makes the pull-out storage work without getting stuck.
A Kickstarter deal is when people pay early to help a product get made. In this case, the host is talking about the different pledge levels and what you get for each one.
Air circulation just means air moving around inside the fridge. The idea is that if you block the airflow with stuff pressed against the walls, the fridge has a harder time cooling evenly.
Term
magnet extra battery
An extra battery is a second power source so the fridge can run when you’re not plugged in. The host also mentions a “magnet” accessory that comes with the package.
This means the battery is made to run 12-volt gear directly. So if you have accessories in your car that plug into 12V, you can power them without extra converters.
The Alpine A110 is a small sports car. In this episode, it’s brought up because the discussion is about portable power—like having an inverter and outlets for charging devices. It’s not really about off-roading; it’s about travel power needs.
An inverter is a device that changes battery power into the kind of electricity some devices need. Some camping power stations include one so you can plug in normal AC chargers.
A house battery is a second battery used for camping stuff. It helps you run things like a fridge without risking that you won’t be able to start the car.
A DC-to-DC charger is a device that lets your car charge a separate battery correctly. It makes sure the auxiliary battery gets the right voltage so it charges safely.
A fridge battery is a battery used to run your portable fridge when you’re camping. It helps make sure the fridge has power without draining the rest of your system.
A rooftop tent is a tent that sits on top of your vehicle and opens up when you park. People use it for camping and often power extras inside with portable batteries.
A heated mattress pad is a warm pad you put under/with your sleeping setup. It uses electricity, so it matters how much battery or solar power you have.
A trickle charge means charging a battery slowly and steadily. It’s a way to keep your battery topped up using something like a small solar panel, without stressing it.
The Chevrolet Onix is a small car. In this episode, the word “ONIX” is used like a system that provides updates and information. That means the mention is more about the name in the conversation than about the car’s performance.
The Ford Model T is a very old car from the early days of automobiles. It’s well known because it helped make cars more common for everyday people. In the podcast, it’s mentioned as a named example in the conversation.
A coilover is a suspension part that combines the spring and shock together. People use them to adjust how high the vehicle sits and how it rides over bumps.
Top hats are the upper mounting components for a coilover/suspension strut. They help locate the spring/shock assembly and can affect alignment, ride height, and how the suspension loads the chassis.
Term
shock dock
“Shock dock” sounds like a name for a business or service connected to shocks. The host is basically asking who runs it and what it does.
The power steering box is the steering mechanism that helps turn the wheels with less effort. If you’re swapping parts or changing suspension/frame components, you may need special brackets to mount it properly.
The Ford F-150 is a large pickup truck. In the podcast, it’s mentioned while talking about different truck versions and off-road setups. That’s why it comes up in a 4x4 off-road discussion.
The Toyota Tundra is a large pickup truck used for hauling and driving on and off the road. The episode mentions the first generation, which is an older version of the same truck. It’s included because the speaker still owns one and talks about their experience with it.
A tailgate is the rear door on the back of a pickup bed. Different pickup cab styles can require different tailgate sizes, so you need the right one to make it fit.
A “double cab” is a pickup with two rows of seats. Because it’s longer than a single cab, the back of the truck can be shaped differently, so the tailgate might not fit the same way.
An “access cab” is a pickup with a bit more room behind the front seats than a single cab, but it’s not the same as a full back seat. That extra length can change which tailgate or rear parts fit correctly.
A “single cab” is a pickup truck with just one row of seats. Because the cab is shorter, some parts around the back can be different sizes, so you have to pick the right one.
The Jeep Wrangler is an off-road SUV made for driving on trails. In this episode, it’s mentioned because the group plans to go on the Rubicon, which is a well-known off-road route. That’s why the Wrangler fits the conversation.
These are plastic containers you mount to an off-road vehicle to carry fuel or water. The host is saying the container can expand when it gets hot and when it’s been used, so it can start “bulging” and interfere with nearby parts.
Venting means letting pressure escape from the container. The host is saying California rules don’t allow that, so when the container heats up, pressure has nowhere to go and it can swell more.
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spindle latching mechanism
This is the locking hardware that keeps a moving mount (like a swing-out) secured. They removed part of it so the swollen containers wouldn’t hit or bind when the door/arm is closed.
A rear swing-out is a rear hatch/arm that swings open for access. They’re changing it because the mounted containers expand and don’t leave enough space when everything is shut.
A gusset is a reinforcement piece that helps a bracket or plate stay strong. They’re adding it so the new extended plate doesn’t flex or fail after moving the mount outward.
Rock crawling is off-roading over rocks and obstacles at low speed. It’s tough on the vehicle, so people often upgrade and fix drivetrain and traction-related parts so it can handle the terrain reliably.
The “rear diff” is a drivetrain part that helps the rear wheels turn at different speeds when you go around corners. If it’s not right, the truck can feel like it doesn’t grip or drive smoothly on rough terrain.
The rear axle is the part that helps send power to the back wheels. If it’s upgraded or swapped, it’s usually to handle tougher off-road stress or to fit better drivetrain parts.
“Third member” is off-road/axle-builder slang for the removable center section of a differential housing. It typically contains the ring and pinion gears and the differential carrier, so swapping it can change gearing and differential setup.
Changing to a bigger pulley makes the power steering pump spin faster. That can help steering work better at low speeds, but it may also make the system run hotter on the highway.
A pressure relief valve is a safety valve for the power steering system. If pressure gets too high, it reroutes fluid so the system doesn’t over-stress or overheat.
Pressure return valves send extra power-steering fluid back out of the main steering path when it’s not needed. This can help keep the fluid from getting too hot during long drives.
The power steering pump is what makes the steering easier by moving pressurized fluid. If it spins faster, it can help steering feel better, but it can also make the system run hotter.
The power steering system is everything working together to make steering easier. It includes the pump and the fluid circuit, and changes to it can affect how hot the fluid gets.
Term
regular bore ram
A ram is a hydraulic actuator that pushes or pulls to help steer. “Regular bore” means a standard cylinder size, and that can change how strong or how responsive the steering feels.
“Full hydro” means the steering assist is fully hydraulic and gives you a lot of help. The host is saying it kicks in suddenly at higher RPMs, not smoothly at low speeds.
Hydro assist is the hydraulic help that makes steering easier. They want it to work even when the engine is barely running, like during slow rock crawling.
The Dodge Ram is a large pickup truck. In this episode, it’s mentioned because the speaker is talking about a hydraulic-type setup, which is used for things like lifting or recovery equipment. The truck is being referenced as the vehicle platform for that kind of gear.
A ram is the hydraulic part that pushes to help steer. A “large bore” ram can make the steering feel more forceful and less resistant, which affects how you feel the wheels binding on obstacles.
Coils are the spring parts of the suspension. Spring rate is how stiff they are—changing it changes how the truck rides and how it reacts when the suspension compresses over rocks.
The valve body is the control center inside an automatic transmission that directs fluid to make the transmission shift. Modifying it can change how smoothly or aggressively the transmission shifts, especially when you’re working the drivetrain off-road.
Brand
Lee limbs wolf box mount
This sounds like a specific aftermarket bracket/mount made by a brand called Lee limbs (with “wolf box mount” as the model). The host is saying they installed it on their off-road rig to help support the steering hardware.
A “burn scar” is the area left after a wildfire. The ground and trees can be damaged, so roads may be blocked by fallen trees and you have to deal with obstacles.
A chainsaw is a tool with a fast-moving chain that cuts through wood. Here it’s mentioned because people were clearing trees from the road after a fire, and the clearance they made determined whether vehicles could get through.
The Toyota Camry is a regular passenger car, not a truck or off-road vehicle. In this episode, it’s mentioned because the speaker is talking about how wide the road needs to be for a Camry to fit. It’s a simple size comparison for route planning.
A “half-ton truck” is a bigger pickup than a sedan—often used for towing and carrying gear. They’re saying the tree was cleared just enough for a small car, but not enough for a truck that’s wider.
A “tight squeeze” means there wasn’t much space to fit through. With a camper attached, the vehicle sticks out more, so it’s easier to hit something like a log or branch.
“Jacks” are the extendable supports campers use to hold themselves steady when you’re stopped. The scary part is that the camper’s supports hit a log while turning, which could cause damage.
The exterior wall is the camper’s outer structural/envelope layer that keeps water out and supports insulation and interior finishes. When it’s punctured, the repair isn’t just cosmetic—damage can reach plywood, insulation, and the outer “skin,” which affects water intrusion risk.
In RV construction, the “skin” is the outer exterior layer (often a bonded panel) that forms the weather barrier. The host notes that after about 2004, Lance campers used a skin approach, meaning repairs may require redoing a whole side to avoid seams that can leak.
Term
service reps
This sounds like they’re talking about the access area around the camper’s electrical plug-in. The hole is right under that power connection spot.
Insulation in an RV wall helps regulate interior temperature and reduces condensation. If the puncture breaks insulation, the repair needs to replace it in that section to restore thermal performance and help prevent moisture issues.
“120 volt” is the normal type of household electricity used in North America. The camper uses it when you plug into shore power instead of running off the vehicle’s power.
Shore power means plugging the camper into a campground outlet. It lets the camper run on normal electricity instead of using the truck or a generator.
Water intrusion is when water gets past the camper’s exterior barrier and enters the wall assembly. The host warns that patching only part of a skinned exterior can create seams that let water in, leading to rot and further damage.
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Welcome one. Welcome all to the snail trail four by four podcast. If you like going off
there and joining me on another episode of snail trail four by four podcast is the whole poker extraordinaire
Jimmy jet. How you doing, man? Good. Good. Thank you. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. I'm lying. I'm not doing good.
You're overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed and I injured my back pretty good yesterday. So I'm on a lot of painkillers, pain, very
high amounts of ibuprofen. There you go. And we'll see how today goes. Yeah. Good luck with that. Thank you, sir.
Thanks for getting upright and coming in a day early to record so I can go have some fun on Tuesday night. Yeah, it
should be fun. I think it's we just have a couple of really busy weeks here and we're figuring out how to keep the podcast
rolling. And that's one of the nice things about doing a podcast is you can kind of plan your schedule around and record
whenever you need to in order to get episodes out. So true. Yeah, we're doing that. We're crazy and decide to release three
in a week. True fair. It'd be a lot easier if we could rearrange our schedule at times and only record one and worry about
one podcast a week. But yeah, let's see. So all you listeners out there better be fucking grateful.
I was kidding. Yeah, for those that don't know, typically Tyler and I get in on we record on Tuesdays and we record all
three episodes for the week, which will what we call the week. We record all the three we record three episodes on
Tuesday and we release Thursdays Fridays and then Monday and then Tuesday we come back in and we record three more
episodes. So we're never really banking episodes. No, we're always just the week ahead. And that's one of the reasons why
when we were going to Trail Herox, we needed a phone and some friends and have them release some podcasts for us.
Yep. But yeah, this week, let's see, let's just sort of talk about the next two weeks in a way. This week, I'm actually
going to a World Cup game on Tuesday night. I'm going to see Austria versus Jordan at what is was formerly called Levi
Stadium. Yeah, they're D branding all the stadiums for the World Cup. Oh, interesting. It's like a they so it's San
Francisco Stadium or something like that. Okay. But yeah, you're not they don't FIFA doesn't allow other brands, other
branded things in. Okay. So the Levi's Stadium can't be called Levi's Stadium on through FIFA in the World Cup. Yeah.
So it's kind of I wonder how that works because obviously Levi's pays a lot of money to sponsor that stadium, right?
I don't know how. So is FIFA covering the stadium's income for that or is Levi because like if I was Levi's, I'd be like
yeah, I'm kind of pissed about that. Right? Like the whole point of putting my name and paying for my name to be on a
stadium is so that whenever things happen at the stadium, the name Levi's gets around, right? So if they're, especially
there's something as big as the World Cup coming in, like there has to be something in their contracts, their advertising
contracts to handle that type of situation. Like if an event comes in and the name is not used for that event, does Levi get some
of their money back for their contract or do they get paid something and is FIFA paying that or is the stadium
paying? I don't know. I have no idea. Interesting. I'm fascinated with how business logistics like that works.
They were saying something about how I my guess is that the stadium pays for it because they what I heard in regards to
that is that they were the stadium or the efforts to cover up the names and everything was costing like a million
dollars or something like that. And probably that goes into some of the payback fees for the to Levi for it in this
case. But the stadium is making so much money. That's fair. That's surely making a ton of money from bringing in all the all
the all the people watching the game. So it's worthwhile. It's worth the payback profit that they're making from
everything is worth paying back. Levi for it. Okay, that makes sense. I think that's the how it goes. Okay,
that's my guess. Yeah. Right. So anyway, so yeah, this week for me, Tuesday night, I am going to watch a World Cup game
it's down in San Francisco. It's about two hours away. The game starts at 9pm. Jesus. Yeah. And we have to get down
there like at three something so that we could just do like we want to be a part of the festivities and be a part of
everything that's going on down there and worry about traffic and getting down there. And we're trying to figure out Bart
logistics and all this other stuff. And so anyway, so my brother rented a hotel room so that when we finish the game,
which will be like games typically go probably 22 and a half hours. So it'll be almost midnight ish. That's
not too bad then. Not too bad. But we're I think our game plan is to go back to the hotel and crash. And then we're
going to come home Wednesday, midday and get back here. And then Friday, I'm going camping or solstice thing. Yeah. So
that's going Friday, Saturday, we were supposed to go and Sunday and then we were supposed to stay until Monday. But
now my dad wants to do a father's day with his kids on Sunday night. And so now we're coming home a day early. Yeah. And
then the following week is Rubathon, which I'm not entirely sure when we're going when I'm headed out yet. It's either
Wednesday or Thursday. And then my daughter actually has a show that weekend. So I have to head home a little early. Yeah.
And so it's just this next two weeks are just going to be crazy. So I've got World Cup, then camping, then
Rubathon all within 10 days. Yeah. I'm going to Lassen for father's day trip, right? This week. So I'm leaving Wednesday,
Wednesday morning, I think, and we're going all the way up to the lava beds above Lassen. And then we're going to work our
way back down over the Wednesday through Sunday. And the goal I think is to be back home Sunday night. But I'll be
going all that way. And then we're launching the new website for more flight this week. Yes. And we decided to start that
today Monday. And so that's all going on. And it's just there's a lot of step by step things that have to happen to minimize
downtime on the website so that people can come in from their weekend adventures and go order stuff. Yeah. Which is usually
what happens on Mondays and Tuesdays. But we got to move over to the new website and things are going to be really,
really awesome with the new website once it launches and lands and it's up and running. But there's going to be some
downtime in the meantime and just dealing with all that today. So yeah. Yeah. So while I appreciate you working with our
schedule and having the flexibility to actually record day early, normally we keep Wednesdays as our backup day. Yeah. If we
can't record Tuesday, we push it back to Wednesday. But for this case, you were gone Wednesday, you know, and I was like,
damn it. Okay. And I wasn't going to be getting home till a little later on Wednesday anyway. So I was like,
shit, well, okay.
Just have them drop you off here on their way through town. Yeah. Right. And I'll Uber back. Yeah. So, oh man. So yeah, it's
just been it's chaos and crazy. And but we're working our best to keep everything flowing. And you know, so that you
guys still have podcasts in your ears while we're off having our fun. And then yeah, you know, we'll come home from our
trips and we'll be able to talk about and still have content, you know, more content for you guys in the long run. So
that's all works out. Next week for Rubathon, I know that we have at least two to three listeners that are on
Discord that are packing and getting ready for Rubathon. They've been kind of talking about it. So next week for
Rubathon, I'm going up Thursday. I'll be leaving Loon Lake Thursday morning. I'll have two passengers with me and Nick
DeLuca, our gladiator on 29s and his family. Sounds like the whole family is coming out. They will all will be
traveling together pretty much with the forerunner run. We'll see if I make it there in time to leave with the
forerunner run. If not, I'll just catch up to them. And then me and Nick will stop at Buck Island and meet up with
Lee, Delta, Dave, Morgan and you, hopefully at Buck Island. Yeah, I'm either going in Wednesday with them or I'll be
going in Thursday with you. Yeah. Well, I don't know yet. One of those two will figure it out depends on how many
panels I have or when I have the podcast, edit and get out. Yeah. But cool thing. Lee, Dave and Morgan, they're
going to get into Buck Island early. Yes. And they're going to be making tacos and passing out tacos to everybody
that comes through for Rubathon. So if you guys are going to Rubathon, you'll be driving through the trail, driving
through Buck Island, make sure you stop and grab some tacos from Delta Dave, Lee Lim, Sol Function and Morgan, who's
like the, the groupie Delta Dave's groupie. So yeah, I'm not sure Morgan's going to make it. Oh, really? And things
might have changed. But last I heard his rig wasn't together yet. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's like dirty koala on
Instagram. Yeah. He's a good dude. A lot of fun. He's an Aussie. I was going to say English dude. Yeah. He's a Kiwi. Just a great
guy all around and a friend of Delta Dave's and Morgan lives in like the Salt Lake City area. So yeah, but he's got a
lot of, he's got a few really neat 80s that are not stock. Yeah.
Yeah. So once, so we'll be camping at Buck Thursday night and the four runner one run will continue on to the
Springs and then Nick and I are going to leave Friday morning. I think you two probably probably yeah to go from
Buck Island to the Springs and then we'll hang out in the Springs and be there Friday evening for the bar as well as
Saturday all day. I'm doing a radio class Saturday talking about radios and radio communications on the trail on
Saturday and then Saturday evening is the dinner in the raffle. So right it's always a good fun time. If you guys want to
partake in the shenanigans of the raffle that the four runner group gets ourselves into come sit with us. Yes. It's always
fun. All right. So that's kind of logistics for Rubathon Sunday morning is take off and I'll be probably heading up
Cadillac. So yeah, and I'm leaving probably Saturday afternoon evening time because my daughter has a show Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. So I'm going to try to I'm going to my goals to get home Saturday night to make the Sunday show.
So if I leave Saturday, it leaves me plenty of time. Whereas if I break down somewhere or have some sort of trail
logistics, I will still have some time to get myself out. Yeah. Cool. So that's Rubathon Logistics next week. And then
we should still I think we've gotten everything planned out to still keep episodes dropping for you guys on the
podcast. So you'll have stuff to listen to while we're out and kind of have a hectic busy two weeks. Yeah. Yeah, for
sure. So a fun little thing, a little update about Bobcat. Well, sort of a little update. I took Bobcat out
camping a few weeks ago for my high school, like get together camping trip. And so I parked Bobcat on the slab in
front of the pad in front of the shop. And my front diff is licking oil, but my rear diff isn't. So I need to go
in and look at my oil levels. Yeah, isn't your rear axle the one leaking? Usually. Yeah. So yeah, so I need to go
check that out. Thanks. Yeah, it's just how you check things, you know, if it's leaking, there's still oil in it.
There's no drips on the ground. So I need to need to check it out.
Yeah. The let's see updates. I got the, the PayPal subscriptions set up on Discord. So awesome. Good job. There's a
channel under the announcements section. So it's snail trail four by four. And then it goes, I think snail trouble four by
four announcements and then ways to support the channel. Okay. So you should be able to select that ways to support
the channel thread. I believe nobody should be able to type in it, except you and me. Okay. So there's just one post in
there. And it's just one post that explains the different ways to support the channel from leaving us a review on Apple
podcast to the $5 bias of coffee, keep us caffeinated to the giveaway tier, the annual subscription for the giveaway
tier and then gift box as that way. So the way it's set up is that there are URLs so that it says like bias of coffee
tier and that's a URL. And then it explains what the tier is. Okay. So you click on the URL and it takes it to another
thread. Now all these threads should be invisible on the navigation screen. They should never show up for somebody on
the navigation panel. But by clicking on it, it should take you to a thing that says as a description of that tier and
then the URL to the PayPal subscription to add it and subscribe to that is there on that second screen, that second
thread. So that's the way have it set up and the way that I planned on it working. Let me know if anybody sees it
working differently. Yeah. So yeah. So if you want to support the channel, which is a great kind of segue there,
Tyler spent the time to do it on discord. So if you're a member of ours and you're on the discord channel, you can go over
there to it's under announcements. Yep. It's under it's this. So on the navigation pane on the left, there's snail trial four
and within that podcast area, there's the podcast episodes. So it's an RSS feed that you can click on to view the
episodes. There's announcements. If we have any announcements to announce to people, there's how to support us. And then
the next section down is like general chatting with everybody. And that's where the general chat is at. The listener rigs
is at the treasure hunt. It's up at the top and I think the welcome one is up. Yeah. Cool. Okay. So yeah. So you can you can
support us on now discord, which is really cool. So you can join discord for free and you can go on there. And if you
choose to support us, you are more than welcome to. We're still going to keep the irate four by four thing going. We're
going to keep the irate four by four. And Austin worked with us and pretty much convinced us to get off of Patreon and
move over to working with him. But and that's been fine. And that works out well. And we just going to make some other
options. I know one person that is not interested in joining the forum. And so now if they are interested in still
supporting us, now they have another way to do it. There you go. So that works out. So multiple ways to support us. And like
Tyler said, probably the best way to support us is to leave us a review over on Apple podcast that seems to be for
some reason like the hub of podcasting and where a lot of people get all their stats from and how people rank
podcast is all through Apple podcast. And a lot of people look at reviews. So by leaving us a review, it kind of
raises us in the rankings. It promotes us to more people. It puts us in front of other people's
eye holes and ear holes in the future once they listen to us. So go leave us a review.
If you do leave us a review, you have a chance of winning some good stuff. We typically every 50 podcast. So
once we get to 800, which we're probably pretty close to right now, when we get to a 50, 900,
950 and a thousand, we're giving away stuff at every single one of those milestones. So once we get to 800,
we're giving away an on ex elite membership. Once we get to 850, we're giving away an on ex elite
membership. And then once we get to 900 reviews, we're giving away $900 of more flight gear.
Super excited for all those things to come. Yep. Yeah. There's some really cool stuff coming from
on the more flight side of things. I have because of discord and people have been kind of poking me
to figure out where my I got my switch panel from that I really like. I have been working now and
talking with the factory. Oh, really? I'll take one to make more flight switch panels.
Wow. Okay. So there that is in talks and in conversation now. And I kind of did a little
bit of after people were asking about it and I went and looking around online to find
something similar items to kind of a little mini market analysis on it. I was like,
oh no, we could totally make these and make them at a very reasonable price point for people. So
yeah, it's a those are now on the horizon. Okay. I like it. Yeah. Can I get mine in yellow?
You can have any color you want as long as it's black. Okay. I can do it with black.
Okay. Not sure how well green would look inside my rig. That's great. That's cool to hear.
That's yeah. So what are we giving away this month? This month is an iceco. Yeah. APL 20. Yes.
So one of their kind of OG fridges. They're doing a lot of really cool stuff in the industry.
Their, their interview is launched. Well, 23 days ago on Monday today. Yeah,
today for us three days ago for you guys. So definitely go check that out. There's some
really rad stuff that iceco is doing. And after we were done recording, we stopped recording.
Dave kind of spilled the beans and let us know about some of the bunch of the other stuff going
on that they're working on. And it's some pretty fucking cool stuff. So definitely pay attention
to things that iceco does here. We do have an APL 20 for you guys. So if you guys want in for
that giveaway, make sure you're going to either I rate four by four or the discord to sign up to
at least the giveaway tier before the end of the month. We'll cut it off at the end of the day,
June 30th. So June 30th, I think 1159 PM is kind of the cutoff. And we will do the drawing for
the wiener the first week of July. Yes, so big thanks to iceco for donating a fridge for somebody,
which is a $550, 559 value. Super cool for them to do that. Thanks for Dave to joining us from
iceco. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and listen to it. Really cool history
on how iceco kind of came around, how they started, why their price point is actually lower than some
of what we would consider the top tier fridges. Though after this interview, I think it's clear
that iceco is a top tier fridge, just has a slightly lower price point, which is really kind
of cool to see. I know that after the interview, we talked about fridges and I don't own an ice cone
fridge, but I own three fridges and he asked me what I have and he was like, yeah, definitely one
of those is a white label of our fridge. And I was like, I think I know which one. So it was
really kind of cool to know that I kind of own an iceco. So definitely neat. So yeah, if you want a
chance to win an ALP 20 fridge from iceco, go over to either discord or irate four by four,
sign up for that giveaway tier, the $10 tier there, and you will put your name in the hat to
have a chance to win that. So that's really cool. Yeah. They did launch the Kickstarter on the VPL
45. So that one is such a sexy fridge. It's such a cool concept. The more and more I think about it,
the more I look at it, I'm like, dude, this just solves almost all the issues with fridges. I can't
think of an issue. The main issue with fridges is that they take up so much volume and space because
you have to open them from the top typically. And that means you can't really ever store things on
top of them. So wherever a fridge is, you can't put anything on top. Otherwise, it's a pain in
the ass. You have to move it off every time you want to get in and out of the fridge. And you
have to have a drawer slide. And you have to have a drawer slide. That's kind of the fix for that
problem. You pull the drawer out, but then you need space to pull the drawer out now. So it just
takes up a ton of space. Now this one has an integrated drawer built into it, which is pretty
cool. You kind of still need the space to pull it out, but it's not as much space as pulling the
entire fucking fridge out. So I looked at the Kickstarter. Did you actually go check it out?
It's not actually a drawer that pulls out. You just pull the crate out from the inside.
Yes, but it comes out in the door. Once the door is down, it has a smooth surface on it
designed. So it's a transition. So it's smooth pulling the crate out. So that's not actually
like a slide per se. It's not a slide. drawer, but there's always a crate on the inside
of those fridges. And I've never understood why. I think the only thing is to keep things off the
wall to allow the air to pass through in the fridge. Air circulation. It's also easy to load up the
crate and then take the crate and put it in the fridge. Yes. That's what I've always understood
in form. So now you can open the face of the small end of the fridge and then you can pull the crate
out. Just slide it on out, which is really neat. So when I looked at it, they had already
had 125 backers. And I'm sure it's higher than that now. I'm sure. I haven't looked at it.
I don't know what the top amount is, like what they haven't limited to. But I would imagine
they're going to hit it. Probably. It's a pretty cool thing. It's a pretty good price plan. I mean,
I think with the Kickstarter deal, it brings it like 250 bucks off. That sounds about right.
I think it was like 675 was the basic starting one, which I think you just got a fridge. And then
it went up from there to a, I think it was about $1,000, but you got a bunch of accessories and
other stuff and the magnet extra battery and all kinds of things. Can we talk about that
battery too? I was talking with the manager team here. I'm gonna play it for a little bit
about the battery pack. And like we talked a little bit with Dave about it
from Isco and it didn't really like sink in as to how valuable that little battery pack is.
Yeah. It's a 12 volt in 12 volt out power source, right? Very simple. And it's a, what is it?
250 watt hours? Yes. So it's the same amount of usable power as like Jackery's smallest
Jackery, 250 watt hour Jackery. Yeah. But it's like a third the size of Jackery's smallest.
One of the employees, like it's the size of a Bible. And I'm like, yeah, pretty much.
The Bible that's in your hotel room. Yeah. The hotel, the Gideon hotel room,
Viables, right? And so it's only, and it's, if all you need is a 12 volt power source,
250 watt hours for $110 is a screaming deal. And I think what I, what I'm thinking about
doing is buying that or the next battery pack that he's, that they're coming out with. We
can't say what it is. They're, they're planning another battery pack, getting that one, buying
one of those cause at $125, like the equivalent Jackery, I want to say is 300 or 400 bucks.
But the Jackery, you know, it has a 110 inverter built into it.
It's got a bunch of USB's, 12 volt outlet socket kind of thing. And you don't,
that's not what I would want all that for. I would just want an extra little 12 volt
to 12 volt battery pack to run 12 volt accessories in the car as a house battery.
And then have a, have a DC to DC charger and have a solar in and the alternator in on it.
Okay. That way, if you shut the car off, that battery can run a fridge or
a couple other 12 volt accessories, maybe hook up a 12 volt speaker system to it.
So you can have your speakers running and not draw the power, the car's power down.
And you can run that for eight to 36 hours, depending on, on how good you are with energy
usage. So I seriously thinking about doing that for $110, 250 watt, just 12 volt power supply.
I think it's a screaming deal and it just magnetizes. So you can just pull off an interior
panel and just magnet it to your body panel, right? On the inside and just hide it away.
So yeah, I think I'm going to end up going that route. So we'll see.
Okay. Yeah. I like the idea. I think it's, I mean, I think it's smart and sleek and
really efficient. And I mean, it's small. So it's, yeah, it's, it's a no brainer. If
that's the direction you want to go. I just already have a few batteries that, you know,
I have a few, I have two wagon tech, five hundreds and one just lives with my fridge.
And yeah, okay. I can make it a little smaller, you know, but it just says that's the fridge
battery. And then one is sort of mobile and gets used to like pull it around the campfire to charge
your phone or, you know, put it up in the rooftop tent to run the heated mattress pad or do whatever.
And yeah. So, and that's just, it's been a good flow for us. That works out. But yeah, I mean,
I wouldn't be opposed to having a smaller one and just use it. It would just pretty much have
to live on a solar panel. It would. Yeah, exactly. And that would be the whole point is to just kind
of have it as a constant trickle charge on a small 50 watt solar panel, 40, 50 watt panel. So
yeah, it's cool. Yeah. So anyways, go listen to that episode. A lot of stuff was, you know,
they talked about a lot of things in that episode, a lot of really interesting stuff happening over
at ISECO. A lot of things seem to be also kind of disappearing. I don't think he talked about it
much. And he kind of meant to, he talked about it afterwards, how their like lifestyle brand
stuff is kind of disappearing. They're just, they're not re-upping it. They're not going to redo it.
They're not maintaining it anymore. They have some inventory still, so they might have some to sell,
but they're never going to be bringing chairs and sleeping bags and stuff back. So those are
kind of going to be, you know, collector's items maybe one day in the future. But I think they're
really streamlining. They're focusing on fridges and fridge accessories and things to deal with
refrigeration and freezers. And that's where they're going to stay in their lane and continue
to move forward there. Cool. Yeah. Like, I'm a big fan of companies niching and focusing on what
their experts at. It just makes those products get even better and better through time. And it
really keeps and maintains them as the expert in the industries. So yeah.
I need a power supply for compressors that we're coming out with. There you go. Sure.
All right. Well, I think that's pretty much covered everything. I mean,
we talked about giveaways. We talked about reviews. discord
and the new things happening over there and a lot of conversations happening. I hopped on
the other day and I was like, Oh my gosh, I missed like 50 messages. So it's a lot of fun. I know
we're well over 100 people now. So that's pretty cool to see the community growing.
Maybe we'll have to do some discord specific things in the future. Maybe we're at 130.
Wow. So 130 people have run discord right now, hanging out, having a good time.
That's awesome. So cool. This month we have July's giveaway all lined up and ready to go.
So good. I haven't told Jimmy what it is yet.
I was just thinking to myself when you were talking about the giveaway,
oh fuck, we need to figure out next month. Yeah. July is all set, ready to go. It's going to be
a cool one. We'll start announcing that as we get closer here to July. Busy summer going on,
lots of off-roading opportunities for everybody out there. So hopefully you're having a good time.
I guess should we take a quick break then and then tell everybody how our weekend was?
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Oh, welcome back ladies and gentle ladies to today's what, what in the butt is going on?
What's been happening with Jimmy and I? I have a couple of things. I have an update on Fiona.
Okay. And I have an update on kind of what I did this weekend and what happened.
Yeah. Why there's a hole in the camper now. Yeah. I'm curious about that.
Yeah. So what did you, what were you up to? What kind of stuff?
Not a whole lot. We did, shall I just start? I guess. Sure. Go for it. Okay.
It was a lot of lifestyle, life living weekend for us. A lot of things happening this weekend,
not necessarily automotive related, except for one on a Saturday morning. So if I don't,
if I didn't write that one down, so let me write, let me write Model T
down on that. Okay. So let's see. So this was one of those weekend. It wasn't a weekend of
everything. We like to call the weekends of everything where it's just, there's so many
things happening that you can't do some of the things. This was just a very busy weekend where
there was just a lot going on and we actually were able to complete everything. But it was
things happening from the mini assistant side and the very few of my side things.
But mainly it all started coming to head on Thursday and I had to call hustle nuts and be like,
dude, I can't do, I can't work on Samantha this week. I just have too much stuff going on.
And it was like the assistant had a dance. She had a dance recital on Thursday.
The mini assistant needed to get picked up from somewhere. I forgot where she was.
And then I had bonsai on Thursday and it was just all these things sort of all happening at once.
And I was just like, I don't, sorry. There's no time on this day that I can, I mean,
you can swing by and stop and say, Hey, we can just sort of talk things over and then,
you know, we can spend an hour and then go do our own things. And he was like,
I'll just meet you another week. And I was like, sounds good. So,
yeah, not nothing really on Samantha's front, but I did get some parts in. So I got some parts in
from wheel every weekend because I, when I originally ordered the shocks, um, teen years ago,
who knows? It was like, I don't know when I ordered them 56 years ago.
I didn't really tear them apart or look at them or I didn't, well, I never,
I have yet to tear them apart, but I didn't open the box to look inside of everything.
And I was missing some coilover stuff, like the, the little plastic thing that goes between the
two coilovers in the middle and one of the top hats. And there's just a bunch of random stuff.
They were used coils originally and I bought them off of him used and they're just in,
not all the things came. And so I messaged him back and I was like, Hey, I know this has been,
you know, years ago, but I don't have everything. And it could be my fault. It could have been
just a mistake on both one of our ends, but can you help me solve this? I don't know exactly
what I need. You're the Bill Sting guy. You know, you know what I need. Here's what I have.
And I like sent him a photo of everything. Here's the part numbers and he's like, yeah,
I got it. And then so he sent me those, the rest of those parts. So now I have all the
coilover stuff I have. He also sent me a shirt and it, and something called like the shock dock,
I think. So I don't know if he's like changing from wheel every week and rebranding. Yeah.
So I sent him a message going like, who's the shock dock? And he never, never responded back
to me. So yeah, I'm not sure if he's a, if the, he has or a side business to maybe build on the
shocks kind of thing. Better SEO. So I got parts in for the coilovers. So now I have all the parts
that I need for the coilovers. I got the frame bracket for the power steering or for the power
steering box, right? Cause I didn't, I couldn't find one. If I ever had one, I don't know where it
went. Uh, the frame, uh, like, um, brackets that I have for to frame stiffeners don't have that
built in. So I just went over to, um, Yoda masters and bought one from front range off road off of
the Yoda masters website. And that came within like damn near 24 hours. It was nice. Yeah. Super
quick. It was one of those like I ordered it. I received the shipping like the same day and then
it was shipped up in like no time at all. So it's good on them. Yeah. That's good. That was perfect.
They, they obviously had it in stock. So it worked out well. And then so I got the coilover
stuff from wheel every weekend. I got the frame mat bracket bracket for the power steering box.
And I got one other thing, which I'm not allowed to talk about, uh, because it came from trail
hero acts. Oh, uh, I'll tell you later. Okay. It had to do with the competition. Oh, so I can't
talk about it. Oh, I see. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. If you think hard enough, you might figure it out.
I'm going to hurt myself. I think right now and somebody might be able to read into that.
And hopefully you don't think too much. But anyways, um, so yeah, I got three things for
Samantha all came in. Um, I think the thing from trail hero acts I'm going to use on Samantha.
Um, I could put it on Bobcat, but I think I'll design it into Samantha. I think it'll be a
little better. Nice. Yeah. And, um, and that's the, that's the Samantha thing. So that's everything
for in regards to Thursday. Um, Friday was, um, another dance recital. It was sort of a,
I did a whole bunch of things on Thursday. Like I did was working on the website. Oh,
I put the Ford stuff finally online on snail armor. So there's, um, a second gen Raptor.
Okay. F one fifties. And I think it's 13th gen or 14th gen F one 50 regular. Yeah. Um,
so those are online now. And I think I have five of those in stock.
And then I put the OBS Fords online. Right. Finally. Yeah. So you launched three new panels.
I know there's a Raptor and the F one 50 of the same thing. Um, and then the OBS. And I do
still have, I have first gen Tundras. I just have never put them online because I found out
that first gen Tundras actually have two different tailgate sizes. Oh,
that's annoying. The double cab tailgates are taller than the extra cab and single caps.
Interesting. Yeah. Okay. So I haven't found, and I haven't dug it hard into it,
but I haven't found a good way to like make somebody click a box going,
yes, I have a double cab. Yeah. Because I want, I don't want somebody to be like,
they're the same thing. Why is he's marketing only as double cab? And then I send it out to him
and they go, this doesn't fit. And then I have to bring it back to me. And then I'm out all the
money in shipping stuff. So, so there, there's got to be a way to do a variant then where it's,
Tundra, right? Tundra, first gen Tundra, but then you select which one you have,
double cab or extended short one. Probably. And that way it doesn't let you submit that
product into your shopping cart until you select one of those. Yes. Yeah. I just think that most
people are going to be like, it's the same thing. Yeah. You know, and I just need to do my SEO or
and the wording saying like, you know, I really kind of wanted like a pop up box going single
cabs and double cabs are two different size tailgates. If just knowledge that you are selecting
this so that when you send me a picture going, this tailgate doesn't fit. It's too long. I'd be
like, you click the damn box. I'd still have to bring it, send it back to myself. But I don't
know if there's a way you could do like the product photo, like the first product photo that comes
up shows that there's two different heights maybe on them and make that stand out clear somehow
because everyone's visual, right? That one's going to read shit. Nobody reads anything.
Yeah. So I need to figure out a good way to do that. And I need to get the first gen
single cab and access cab done so that I can actually just say when somebody clicks, which
one they have, they can get it instead of being this guy's an idiot. There's one tailgate.
Anyway, so I did a whole bunch of that on Thursday. Friday was sort of like a lazy day.
It was weird until it's kind of the afternoon. But Friday, oh, and the assistant is sort of
has a cold. And the mini assistant definitely was sick. And I've been like, totally fine the
whole time. I'm like, what's wrong with your guys's immune systems? And so they've been kind of down
for the count a little bit, just sort of being lazy themselves. But Friday, I went around Loomis
and I tied these red ribbons off on a bunch of trees and bushes and things
in people's front yards where they have barn quilts. So my mother and some other ladies in
the Loomis community started this barn quilt tour. And there's something like 18 barn quilts up in
Loomis, Pendrin, Newcastle area. Yeah. And there was a Model T group going to do the barn quilt
tour. Okay. And so we were putting red ribbons all over the place. So they kind of had a good
idea of where a good place to stop and view from. Okay. Yeah. And then the assistant had a dance
recital, ballet recital on, she had one on Thursday night and Friday night. And so we went and
watched the Friday night one. Okay. Because Thursday, the assist, oh, that's what it was,
the mini assistant had theater and I had bonsai. And so, and the assistant had dance
all at the same time. And it was one of those logistics, like I had to take the mini assistant
to theater, come home, then I went and picked my mom up to go to bonsai. And then in that time,
the assistant was at her recital, but got done in time to go get the mini assistant from
theater because I was still at bonsai. It was just, it was a logistical craziness.
So yeah. So Friday was sort of chill. We did the dance at night. I did the red ribbons Saturday.
Morning was fairly relaxed, but the model T's were coming around. So many of times I would,
I would step outside and there's a barn quilt on front of the shop, right? Where I do for snail
trail four by four, where I do the snail armor stuff and where I'm working on Samantha and
everything. So I'd go over there and just watch these model T's driving around. It was really
kind of cool. A few of them stopped in. I talked to a few of them, talked, I had parked barbquat
right on the pad, right, right in the front. And so a lot of them were asking questions like,
Oh, do you work on vehicles? And I'd be like asking them questions right back. Like,
like, what all did you have to do to restore this? You know, so it was a lot of fun
talking to them and seeing them come by probably six to eight swung by in a fairly short period
of time. And then I know I heard more drive by, but I wasn't out. And I think some are like
50 of them are driving around the community. Yeah. So that was pretty neat. And then that,
like one o'clock, the assistant had another dance recital. This time it was tap for her other
dance, dance class, excuse me. So she did that. And then I was like, I'm hungry. Like we didn't eat,
we ate breakfast and we haven't had lunch. So we decided to go to monks and then we ate lunch at
monks. And then when we came home, we're just like, we're done. That was the day. And so we laid
low almost all day. I went up and started doing some work. Oh, my phone's been freaking out.
I don't know. I downloaded an update and ever since then it was like, my phone would be so delayed
and it was on, it was around this time, right? So like I'd hit the Instagram button and it would
take like a minute for it to open up. You know, and when you're waiting for something to open up,
it seems like forever. And it would repeat it, or it would restart itself and do like a system
update like two to three times a day. Geez. Yeah. It was crazy. So Saturday afternoon,
like when we got home after monks, I completely formatted my phone. Okay. Yeah. And started
fresh and downloaded everything and pretty much ever since then it's been working fine.
So I don't know. There must have been an app or something,
conflict with the system update or whatever it was. But I've heard a few other people
of having this problem too. Interesting. Yeah. So I did some research online and they're like,
clear your cash, do these things, you know? And I tried some of them and I used Alfred,
my AI guy to help clarify some things. And none of them really worked. And I was like,
okay. So like I tried to download all my photos. Yeah. And it would like wasn't
syncing with my computer and it like I'd go to my photos button. It was like,
you have zero bytes in your photos folder. And I'm like, no. And I think it was just timing out.
Like it just wasn't running fast enough. And so most of, most all of my photos are always
backed up to the cloud anyway. So I just was like, fuck it. So I just formatted the phone
and started over. And so that was a lot of Saturday night was me working on my phone again.
And it's fine. I still don't have in like Saturday night to today. I don't have Instagram on my
phone. And I was kind of like, it's kind of nice. It's Let's see. So that was Saturday
and then Sunday I went to the theater and the mini-assistance theater and I worked on stage
set up for her show and for the next show. And that was I went got there at 10 and left at five.
I was there all day working on the raising the floor, building a scaffolding, building a staircase
up to the scaffolding and building another step and just a bunch of some bigger, some
fairly large projects. We were raising the floor because we were building this big turn wheel.
And so like we were trying to figure out a way to get the wheel to turn at one point.
So then we raised the floor, but then when we put the scaffolding in, it was in a slightly
different place than anticipated. And so like there was no bracing from the floor down to the floor
from the raised floor down to the normal floor for where the scaffolding foot was.
So I had to pull the floor up to add new bracing in. Yeah. Then I could put the floor down,
then I could start building the scaffolding. So it was a lot of work. That was my weekend.
It was just, I don't know. There was days where there was a lot of stuff happening,
then there was days when it was pretty chill so that the family could kind of lay low.
The mini assistant has been playing a bunch of, she downloaded a Harry Potter Hogwarts game
on the Switch and the assistant got billed for the Nintendo online thing fee. It's an
optional thing, but she did not click the don't pay, don't repeat pay. So she's like,
oh, 50 bucks where this come from. And she's like, oh, it's the online Nintendo online. So
she's like, I'm going to go use it. So she's been playing Wind Waker from the Dreamcast.
I think it was on the Dreamcast. It was the Zelda game on Dreamcast. And so she's been playing that
game. She's like, I always enjoyed that game. So I'm going to go play it again. So she's been
playing that game. Mini assistant's been playing the Harry Potter game. And I've been fixing with
my phone. Zelda, I think Zelda is coming out with a movie, right? Yes. Yeah. So that'll be
really interesting to see how they do. Nintendo has been coming out with a few movies. So they
released the original, they released Super Mario Brothers a while ago and now they released another
Super Mario Brothers just fairly recently and they are releasing a Zelda. It's a live action
Zelda though. Yeah. That'll be really cool. Yeah. Harry Potter is doing a HBO series,
yeah, which I'm really excited about because that essentially turns every movie that was
22 and a half hours long into an eight hour at minimum. Yeah, more or less a season.
It's a season, right? So now you get to learn, have more of the side quest stories,
right? Yeah. More of the extra things, a lot more of the Quidditch matches. Like,
I think there's going to be so much more they're going to be able to do with
eight hours to tell the story of a book rather than two hours. Oh, for sure. And there was,
I mean, always there's more stuff happening in a book than there is in the movies. Did
you read the books? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Cause I know that I've, well, I audio book,
listen to them. Yeah. I don't know how to read. And obviously by the joke at the end of this
podcast, you can go listen to it. But yeah, I mean, there's, there's all kinds of things
that happened in the books that didn't happen in the movies. So I'm excited for that. I was
telling the mini assistant that we should all read the first book before we watch the series.
And she was like, I'm down for that. Cause she's watched all the movies,
but hasn't read all the books. And so speaking of that, we've also, we started watching
Back to the Future. And so we watched Back to the Future one, the original, and we watched
half of Back to the Future 21 where they go to the future and with the mini assistant,
just because it's like, this is a movie, like you need, you need to watch this. This is one from
our past, you know, it was funny. Cause when they're like, Oh, let's watch Back to the Future.
I'm like, yeah, I'm so excited. I want to watch that. And they're like, why? I'm like, 1985
Toyota pickup. They're like, what are you talking about? And then when the very beginning, they
pull it out. I'm like, come on family, you know, but yeah. So that was, that was kind of funny.
But it's funny to watch. Like the mini assistant was completely adamant about not watching it.
Right? It's an old movie. It has horrible graphics. You know, like, I don't want to
watch any of that old stuff. And by the end of the first movie, she was like, can we start number
two? Can we start it? And it's such a timeless movie, pun intended, I guess. It's such a timeless
movie. It just, it keeps, it just, I don't know, it makes you conceptualize time and space and,
and with these really fun little storylines, but amongst those.
Yeah. And fun characters that you can kind of relate to and think are quirky and silly and,
you know, you can enjoy their humor and stuff. So yeah, it's definitely as a fun series. So
we're looking forward to getting through most of those with, or those with her, at least through
the third one. Yeah. I don't think they did anything really after number three, if or spin off of
some sort. Not that I'm aware of. So yeah. So our summer goals is to do at least back to the
future trio. I really want to do, and I don't know if it's going to be possible, but I really want
to do Lord of the Rings with her extended cuts. I mean, I'm down for it. I am totally down for it.
But I think Harry Potter's more in line with something she's interested in. So I, I also
want to try to do like, let's all read the book and then watch a movie and then watch the movie.
And then I don't know when the HBO series comes out, but we want to watch December.
Okay. It's like right on Christmas, the day before Christmas. I'm like, that's what it's
laid for, which I thought was weird because they always released the movies around Thanksgiving
on Thanksgiving. There was over half of the movies were released on Thanksgiving.
Because I remember that was one of the things I did Thanksgiving day for a few years. Yeah.
Was went to each of the movie releases on Thanksgiving day. So
Thanksgiving's always a big movie release time. So yeah, that's kind of our summer in a nutshell
so far. I mean, it's been crazy and chaotic and, you know, but we've got some fun little plans.
And as you heard at the beginning of the episode, there's a lot of stuff coming this
summer. So we're excited for it. Well, cool. Yeah. Summer is just, it's going to be busy.
I'm trying to do more wheeling and camping and the more and more that read goes outside,
the more he's having fun with it. So try and do as much of that as we can.
But this weekend, we got to go outside. Yay. Before the weekend, I dropped off Fiona with
Brad over at hot metal fab. Okay. Brad of fur is redoing the rear swing out for me.
Okay. Great. So I've always been planning to go to him to have the Molly panels
built and mounted to the swing out. But the swing out is, is having a lot of troubles
right now. It's having a lot of problems. I was having a lot of problems. So
besides rubbing the main issues, the big, the big time rubbing, right? But after the last couple
of trips I've taken, I'm like, this is getting like real. This is way worse than,
and it just seems to be getting worse and worse. Okay. That was at one point when I had the
roto packs full on the Friday, I went to the Rubicon and to the soup bowl and back out the
street, where I went to close the swing out and they started making contact with the back door
while there was still like an inch and a half to go before the latch was in position.
Is it bending? No, it's the, the roto packs. Roto packs are
swelling. They're swelling essentially in heat, especially with heat and being full of liquid.
And California doesn't allow venting. If the California doesn't allow venting. So
yeah, it was, it was that they were ballooning out that much. So, um, yeah. So Brad took the
rear swing out and cut it off, cut the spindle latching mechanism off of that side.
And as far as I don't know exactly how he did it, but what we talked about was
putting a plate down so that everything could just be moved out away from the body about two inches.
Okay. Um, as like an inch and a half, two inches somewhere around there.
So he kind of, we talked about putting a plate down on the, the mounting areas for the spindle
and the latching mechanism. Um, and then just move, have that plate extend out, you know,
two inches or so, and then find creative good ways to gusset the plate as it hangs over the
mounting areas, right? Okay. Um, and so he goes, okay, cool. Yeah. It should be fairly easy,
straightforward. No, not too big of a problem. So he said that he was surprised and he just,
it was breaking his head because he mounted the spindle two inches, two and a half inches,
two or two and a half inches further away from the vehicle from where it was. And he said,
he only had about a half an inch to an inch of clearance once he's, once he closed it. And I was
like, you'll probably be okay there, but he goes, I just don't get it. How is it that far off? And
I was like, I don't know. People, they didn't, they didn't realize how swelled, how swollen
our rotopax get, I guess. Yeah. I don't know. Um, well, it was all measured originally with cold,
empty, cold, empty, brand new rotopax. Yeah. Yeah. And now that they've been used and,
and had fuel in them and they've swollen from heat and cycle use and they've, they've grown.
Yeah. Same. So,
so anyways, Brad should be fixing and completing that today because he goes on vacation tomorrow.
So he goes, I'm getting this done by end of day Monday. I'll give you a call once it's all set.
Okay. He said that he's doing some other things to the car,
uh-oh, but he didn't tell me what. And I was like, okay, I trust you, Brad.
So knowing Brad, I don't know if he's putting
yeah, phallic symbols all over because he likes calendars like that. And he does that with stuff
or something else. So yeah. Um, yeah, we'll see. We'll see what surprises he has in store when
I pick up the car. I don't know. Should be fun. Um, but I'm really excited. It should be,
have a big old more flight logo, uh, in the center of the, the swing out just underneath the chainsaw
and with Molly panels on either side. Cool. Um, and then I'm also, I've decided, um,
my axes, I have a wood splitting axe and then a felling axe. Yeah. Um,
so wood splitter and then a chopping axe, I guess is felling axe, whatever, felling, chopping, same
thing. Um, that I want to have on the, on the swing out as well. So, um, once the Molly panel
and the logo is on there, I'll find a way to hook up, um, and bolt in some axe holders
that are quick access. And I can put the axes and store them on there rather than have them
stored inside the cargo area, um, and possibly cutting things. Yes. So, um, so that'll be really
nice. Once that's all done, I get to pick it up today and we'll see what the surprises are that
he said that he's going to do. Yeah. Well, when we're done recording, maybe just give him a call.
See if you need to write up that way. Maybe. Yeah. That'd be cool. Um, so we'll see. I gotta
check in with him on that. I'm really excited to have the swing out done. Once the swing out is done,
there will be three things left that I need to do to Fiona to kind of fix things and get it back,
get it to where it should be in order to be considered, in my opinion, a reliable,
a reliable and capable offroading vehicle, rock crawling vehicle. Okay. Um, one is the rear diff.
That's the next priority. Correct. Yeah. Um, but I have to wait until Jason gets back from his
vacation. So that will be the first couple of weeks of July. I think when that gets done,
do we need to call both of these guys and tell them that they're not allowed to go on vacation at
the same time? That would be really nice. I mean, come on guys. Jesus. Uh, so yeah, Jason gets back
at like the June 28, 27, I think something like that. Um, so we'll do the rear end of Fiona. Um,
the first week of July, I think first one week or two weeks of July. Um, after that rear end is
all done, nobody has messaged me yet about the 10 and a quarter rear axle being any being a bad
ax or why should I just swap it out to a 10 and a half, right? Um, so I think I'm going to keep
the 10 and a quarter. Um, it's shaved. It's a, it's a strong axle. I just, it's on a spindle,
which I'm not too thrilled about. Um, but we'll, you know, whatever. If I want to upgrade in the
future, I'll swap into a 10 and a half at some point. I don't know. Once I break something
drastic, I'll swap in a 10 and a half. Um, so I got the rear, the rear diff, third member or
third member, the rear diff and a locker, um, and everything to do. Um, and then I need to
look into the steering. So I need to call Eric at radio dynamics or buddy over there
and talk with him about steering. He has a couple of ideas. Um,
I think that the, the thing that we're going to be doing is going to a bigger pulley. Um, and then
putting in a, one of his pressure relief valve or pressure return valves, uh, systems into it.
Okay. So that, um, you know, obviously if you do a bigger pulley, you're going to get more flow,
you're going to get more pressure out of your, your, your power steering system at lower RPMs,
which is really what I'm trying to go for, but then that also happens at higher RPMs.
Right. Um, and so if you have a rock crawler that goes on the freeway with a large pulley on
your power steering pump, um, and everything in your power system,
power steering system gets very, very hot when you drive it on the freeway, because you are
moving the fluid around that much more. So with his pressure return system,
it takes, um, and runs your whole power steering system at a specific pressure and anything,
any more fluid that's trying to go in the system, um, it just gets diverted once it reaches that
pressure point, diverted directly from the pump in, and it goes out to the filter area,
the filter housing, and then it just reverts back to your reservoir rather than going through
the whole power steering system. Okay. So, um, I think that's going to be the fix. Um, I might also
go to a regular bore ram because I don't know why. Um, I don't, I don't know if I like the feeling
of full hydro with a mechanical linkage in the system. I don't know. I really like the way
Kermit's steering is set up. Um, and I really like the way Kermit's steering behaves. So if I can
mimic that on Fiona, that would be the way to go. Um, the main problem that is a deal breaker right
now is that at rock crawling RPMs and you're just idling around, um, there's no power steering
whatsoever on Fiona, on Fiona, right? And as once you get to about a thousand RPMs,
then it's like full hydro. It's an on off. There's no in between. Um, and so, uh,
if I can get more fluid and have the hydro assist work at rock crawling idling RPMs,
I think that's the main goal right now and do it without burning everything up on the freeway.
So the secondary goal will be the feel of the system and whether I, once that problem is solved,
am I going to like the kind of large bore ram that's on it and, and have that kind of full
hydro feel to it? Or do I want to be able to feel the resistance so that when I bind up the steering,
I don't just snap steering linkages. Right. Um, so that'll be the next step after I fix the main
problem. So that'll be the next thing is the steering. After that, um, I'm going to take Fiona
to Phil LaCardi. Okay. Shock Jesus and, uh, get, um, everything tuned to properly. I think the shocks
work really, really well right now. The shocks, I really like the way the shocks are set up.
Greg over at rock and road did a fantastic job with them. I met Greg finally while I was dropping
Fiona off at Brad's. Um, so I got to say hi to him and kind of, I said, thank you for doing those.
And, uh, they worked out great on trail hero X and kind of explained them that and he goes,
perfect. That sounds good. Um, but Phil, I'm going to go to really get the coils and the spring
rates and all that tuned in properly for what I'm looking for. Um, so, uh, that'll be the third
thing. And once that is done, then Fiona, I think is going to be at where I, where the rig should
be in my opinion. Okay. Um, after that, then it'll be doing the valve body on the transmission.
Where's that? That'll be the next step. Yeah. He's doing the valve body on the transmission.
So, um, yeah, that's Fiona right now. Um, I did get the Lee limbs wolf box mount.
Yes. Installed on Fiona. Yeah. He talked about a little bit about that last week.
Yeah. And I really like it. Um, it just, it makes everything super clean. Um, and it's,
it's working well and combined with the, the chase lighting from lumberjack engineering
at nighttime. It just, I really liked the way that's all set up right now. Cool. So
I've gotten a few days to kind of drive around with it all. And I'm, yeah, I like it a lot. So
good. Um, let's see. Uh, this weekend I went, we were supposed to originally go camping with
some friends out at a lake in Nevada. Oh, and, uh, the friends had some come up. So we ended up
not doing that, but we still wanted to go and go swimming somewhere and get out of the heat.
Sure. Cause we're having this really big wheat heat wave coming through Northern California
right now. Um, and it was a hundred and 100 and two at my house on Friday and Saturday,
I believe. So Sunday, I was like, we can't, I can't be down here. I need to go to the mountains.
Yeah. So we escaped. We took the duly, the Ford and the camper and the Lance up the hill,
and found a little swim spot that I've been wanting to try and find for a while.
And it's this really cool, almost like a mini university falls spot. Okay. I heard very briefly
you describing it. So it sounds similar to that. Yeah. It's pretty neat. It's a haul to get up to
it though. You would think it's around the Mormon immigrant area. Yeah. So you would think it would
only take one to maybe two hours at most to get to it. It took us almost three hours. Dang.
Granted, we were in the truck and camper. So a lot of those kind of back road systems around
a Mormon immigrant trail are just single lane, tight, windy roads, and you just can't go fast
right in the truck and trailer or the truck and camper. So, um, that it did take a while for that
for us to get back there from there. I think from the time we got off of Mormon immigrant trail,
it was about an hour, hour and 10 minutes to get to the swim spot. Wow. So it's kind of like the
disclosed location. Kind of an hour drive on the pavement and then two hours off pavement. Yeah.
Yeah. That's a good way of thinking about it. So, but it was a really cool spot. It's a spot where
there's a big granite just spot where the, this creek flows down through and it creates this little
mini waterfall, but it's not really a waterfall. It's more like a water slide and there's like
kind of three or four different water slide lines you can take on it, um, to get dumped into this
pool. Um, and I was, I never hit the bottom of the pool. Awesome. So I'm like, I don't know how
deep this is. I never went to explore the bottom to decide, try and get an idea about deep it was,
but I never hit the bottom coming off of the slides. How warm was the water? It was, it wasn't,
it wasn't 45, 50 degrees cold. Okay. But I would venture to say 55 to 60 in that range.
So nice, cool brisk for sure when you first get in, but it was definitely something you can get
used to when it's 85 degrees outside air temperature. Yeah. Um, but that was really neat.
Uh, really cool little spot. There's a great, uh, uh, there's a camp site,
like right there at the location too. Oh, just downstream of the falls like a dispersed camping.
No, an actual campground and there's a camp host at it. Oh yeah. And, um, and so we went
and drove through the campground real quick. I was like, that would be freaking sick to come
and set up at this campground here for a weekend. Yeah. Um, like take a three day weekend, come
down here, hang out and then go play at the swim hole, um, all the days. Um, so there's 13 camp
sites at the campground and like nine of them are along the creek bed, the creek there. So
I think we're definitely going to be going back to that one, um, in the future here for a long
weekend camping spot. Um, but the downside to getting back there is you're driving right through
the middle of the Caldor burn scar to get back there, right? Okay. Yeah. And so there's just
a ton of trees and they've done a lot of trimming and trimmed out a lot of hazard trees and cleared
a lot of the main roads, 200 feet back from the road. Oh wow. Yeah. So you're not going to have
that many issues with trees. Um, but there's not a whole lot of shade at all as you're driving down
there. Once you're down there, the fire didn't get down into that area. So, um, there's plenty of
shade, a lot of greenery down in that area where the campground, the swim hole is. Um,
but a lot of the roads to get back there had trees down on them and people have come through and
cleared paths through the down trees like with chainsaws, but they did them barely big enough
for a regular car, let alone a duly with a camper on it. And I didn't bring my chainsaw with me
for some reason. I should have like thinking about, I'm like, that would have been super nice to have.
I know I'm doing to be driving through the Caldor burn scar, but I just didn't think about it. And
so I didn't have the chainsaw with me. And there was a lot of places where people clearly chainsawed
the tree and pulled the tree out of the road, but like they only did it wide enough for
a Camry. Maybe, maybe a half ton truck. Yeah. And so I was like, why don't,
so this is my vent for the day, right? My rant for the day. If you're going to cut a tree out of a
road, cut the tree out of the whole fucking road. Don't just cut it out big enough for you to get
through you to get through. Exactly. So there's my rant for the day because what happens next
comes directly because of this. And what happened next, Tyler?
I got through a couple of tight squeezes that it was fine. There was, you know,
two to three inches on either side of the truck. And I was, I was like, whatever, I can,
I know how to handle two to three inches. Get any special on each side? Yes.
That means you got 65 to six inches ready to go. Ready? So anyways, got through the couple
of tight squeeze. There was one though that was like a tight squeeze on a turn. Okay. And being
a Dooley with another four feet of ass sticking out of the Dooley from the camper,
the inside of the turn, which was a driver's side got really tight. And it got to the point
where the jacks hit the log that was there. Okay. Wow. And I was like, whatever, not too big of
a concern. The jacks are securely bolted. It's not a big ass tree. And it was only like partway
in and it was kind of broken. So I was like, if I hit the log, shouldn't be too much of an issue.
I just kind of pushed the log a little bit and I'll be able to make through while it pushed the
log. And when it did it, it pushed and rotated the log and a branch came up that I didn't see
and poked into the side of the camper. And then I was like,
it doesn't look like from my vantage point, it looked like it was really poking in. It looked
like it was maybe rubbing the side. And I was like, it should just pivot as it's going now, right?
Okay. And I was like, I'm just going to keep going. Yeah. And that's not what it did.
It did not pivot. move out of the way. It, uh, it poked a hole in the side of the camper.
It dug itself in. It dug into the camper and speared it,
speared it good. Like a old, I don't know, what are those people called the
stone age person at Neanderthal trying to spear a mastodon or mammoth? That's what I'm looking
for. Thank you. Uh, so anyways, there's a, there's a big, there's a big hole in the side of the
camper. Now it definitely destroyed the exterior wall, broke the skin, broke the plywood, broke
the insulation, and it's right underneath the service reps, the receptacle for the power line,
right? The 120 volt, uh, power, uh, house shore power coming out of the camper. Got it. So,
um, there is the wall of the camper is eight inches, 10 inches thick right there at that point,
cause it's also like right underneath the stove. So I think the stove is right on the other side
of the power receptacle there. Um, and so that didn't go through that the full 10 inches and get
into the stove. Yeah. It didn't get into the cab or into the interior. Yeah. But the exterior is
definitely fucked. Yes. So, um, I was like, why, I've never had to patch the exterior wall of a
lance before a camper. So I have no clue what the process is. My thought process is you cut out the
bad broken plywood section, you cut out new plywood to kind of fit perfectly into that spot.
And then I don't, I don't know how you connect the two together, put some flat strap on and screw
them in. Yeah. Um, with some button head screws, uh, super glue, super glue them in, caulk them in.
I don't, I don't know what the bright process is. So I need to research that. Um, it needs new
insulation that part in that area too. Um, and then the big problem is with lances, um, after I
think 2004, they started putting a skin on the exterior rather than like paneling on the exterior.
Sure. So in order to redo that skin, you really got to redo the entire side
of the camper or else you end up with a patch, you end up with a patch and possible water intrusion
where the seams of that patch are, right? So you really need to reskin the entire
side of the camper in order to do it properly. Sure. And I was like, fuck, yeah, it sucks.
Um, so, uh, Ben though, shipping manager, more for Ben, uh, came up with a pretty good nifty idea
though. Um, they have access hatches, doors that you can buy for RVs for all sorts of different
sizes of things, right? Okay. So the thought is, um, cut out the plywood, the dead plywood,
and then figure out what size closest hatch door we can find that'll fit that size and
then cut the hole to the size of a door that we find. Um, and then put in a sheet metal box
inside of it and then, uh, fill the exterior layer, um, using the hatch door. Then your power line
is in that box. Now you're essentially extending the size of your power receptacle power line box.
Yeah. So now you can use that whole box area there for more than just storing the power line or
maybe you want to store a couple of power lines or put some power adapters in there or whatever
it is. You need an extension cord, an extension cord. Um, so you're essentially making that storage
compartment. You're tripling the, I'll be tripling the size of it. Right. Um, if I can find a door
that works well. So that's a great idea. Um, I was like, I really like that idea and it, I won't
have to reskin it. Everything should just stay sealed as long as we get the door to seal properly
to the skin, which is easy to do with cocking. So with cock and, um, and I think it'll be a much
easier fix now than what I was originally dreading, um, and more functional, which I'm a big fan of
for sure. So yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah. Um, so that'll be nice. Um, I just, I need to make
sure I do it before it starts raining ever. Well, you got some time. It's a little bit of time to
figure that out. Um, but yeah, so I'm feeling much better now cause Ben is a smart dude and I'm,
I'm really happy with that. So that'll be good. Um, yeah, we ended up going out there. We left
home at like 10 and got back around 77 30 PM. Oh yeah. Okay. I will say day trip. It was
a day trip. Yeah. We did not do any camping. We just stayed as a day trip. Um, Saturday, um, uh,
I took the kid out, uh, on the bicycle again. So we have that little shotgun seat where he rides
in front of me. Um, and he, he's afraid to get on the bike at first, but as soon as you get him
up there, he just gets so amped. It's so hilarious. Um, as soon as I got him up there and got his feet
kind of on the pegs, he started like jumping up and down, going more bumpies, more bumpies dad.
So he wants to go up and down the curbs in the area, in the neighborhood,
and then all every single speed bump. As soon as he sees a speed bump from down the street,
he'll point out and go more bumpies dad faster. All right, dude. Here we go. Um,
so I'm happy to report that he's absolutely loving that shotgun seat now. Um, we took him out to a
little area. Um, I don't know what it's, it's a, it's a water area that is not part of the main
river, the Sacramento river here, but I think it's one, it's a canal. I don't know what it's used for
because the water is obviously not moving and flowing, but there's a ton of wildlife in there.
Yeah. Just a wetlands area. It's like a little wetlands area. Um, and there's a bunch of turtles.
Oh, cool. So swimming around, there was a bunch of geese in there when we went to. So,
we got to show them turtles and he got a big kick out of the turtles and the geese. Um,
so that was neat. Um, I think I'm going to start playing some tennis again.
Good. Um, which I think be really nice. I found a group of guys that were playing at the,
some courts in the neighborhood. They're really nice courts with lights.
And I went up to them and asked them, I was chatting with them a little bit and they're
about the same level as what I, I should be able to keep up with them just fine. Okay.
So it's a minus your cardio minus the cardio. Well, yeah, we'll see how that goes.
Um, I got to work into that one, but, um, they're super friendly and they're like,
yeah, come over anytime. We've always got people out here. We're always rotating through
playing and people taking a break, et cetera. I was like, okay, cool. So I got their number.
That was nice. Um, and then good. I'm glad you found a group because I was worried that you
were going to ask me to play. Uh, I've, I can hit the ball back. Okay.
This whole running while sliding on, on concrete and hitting at the same time is a
little more difficult with concept. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, I, I think I do,
I would learn to do pretty well, but I never really played tennis. Yeah. So
it's just, it's, it's amazing how much overall coordination it takes. I mean,
if you think about playing golf, right? You're trying to do everything and make your whole
body move in this one repeated way every single time as efficiently as possible.
You're doing that while also running and sprinting and doing sides, suicides the whole time,
forwards, backwards, side to side, every which direction. Um, so it's, it's kind of a,
it's a mind fuck playing tennis. So, um, anyway, so I'm excited to give that a shot and see
how these guys are. They seem super nice, but, um, we'll see how their play level is.
Right. Um, and then there was something else that happened.
I don't remember what it was. It wasn't, I guess it wasn't important enough.
Yeah. Well, you were, you're talking about tennis. It reminded me of the world cup.
I've been watching a lot of world cup games, just doing things. I'm, you know,
I'm a huge soccer fan. I love the sport. I grew up playing. I'm a Sacramento
Republic's season ticket holder, uh, since season one, um, wherever I'm stoked with
everything they're doing. So I'm totally into watching world cup games and, and the USA did
fantastic in their open match. They won four to one. Okay. One of the goals was a, an own goal.
So, uh, they played Paraguay and Paraguay scored on themselves.
Yeah. So it wasn't, yeah. So that's, so we scored three of the four goals. Yeah. Uh, so, but that
for technically the four goals that were scored, it's the most that USA has ever scored in a world
cup game. So that's kind of interesting. Um, but man, it's just fun to see the world cup happening.
I, it's to me, it's one of, it's like the Olympics, right? It's the world is coming together for an
event and, you know, and there, it's not rage. It's not anger. It's not war. It's all peace and
enjoyment and the fun of the game. And yeah, there might be some love and hate in it with,
you know, like you were somebody lost or somebody, you know, there was a foul call that
shouldn't have been called or went for, but, um, I don't like some of the things that they're doing
in the world cup this year. They're doing water breaks at, they're now, they've changed soccer
from being two halves to four quarters. Oh, okay. And they're doing water breaks at the quarter
marks. Okay. Um, but really what it is, is a way for FIFA to sell ad space. That was kind of my
thought. I was like a hundred percent. The players are in better shape. I would argue maybe better
shape now than they ever have been in the past in history because of science and technology has
come out with sports stuff. Um, so I was like, I can't imagine if they're able to go two halves in
the past and every other competition around the world, they do. Oh, that's an interesting point
too. Cause they're only for the world cup. They're doing four. I was totally just to sell more ad
space. That's a thousand percent. And it was proven more or less proven in the very first
match. I think it was Mexico versus, I forgot who they played, but the water breaks are supposed
to be three minutes and it went almost 12 minutes and the players were ready to play.
They're like, no, TV's not ready yet. So it's quite obvious that FIFA is just trying to make
money off of it. But, uh, one thing that's kind of interesting is they're doing, they're trying
to speed the game along a little more. And so, uh, the ref will give a goalkeeper, um,
a countdown to do a goal kick from five seconds to zero seconds. Okay. So the, like he'll hold
his hand up and be like five, and then he lowers it down and goes four, and then lowers it down
and goes three, right? And if they don't kick it by zero, uh, it turns to a quarter kick.
And then there's five seconds for the corner kick to happen. There was also five seconds
for throw ins to, and if it's not, uh, if they don't fulfill in the right amount of time, it turns
to the other person's gives it to the other person, the other team. Yeah. So there's a little time,
like for setting up the ball and whatever. And it's as soon as like the ref feels like
he's delaying, then he starts doing the five minute, five second countdown. Okay. Um,
also in the USA game, have people been hit by that so far? I don't think any one has been overturned.
Okay. Yeah. I think it's just this thing that's like,
Hey, you're delaying. I'm going to start giving you the countdown and they go,
okay, fine. And then they kick the ball. Okay. But in the USA game, the first official yellow
card was given for, um, pretending to fall or for falling or pretending to get, uh, fouled.
Okay. Right. And so the US, one of the US defenders flopping, flopping for flopping.
Okay. Um, so one of the US defenders like slid and tried to went to do a tackle and,
but missed the ball and the player, but the player flopped and fell on the ground and
pretended to be injured. Yeah. Right. Clearly not touched in the replay, but you know,
it all happens so fast. You can't notice. So the ref came up and gave a yellow card to the US player.
Oh, and everybody's like, boo. And then they, um, I forgot, I think we got a,
we got a goal kick off of it, but then they canceled, they stopped the goal kick.
The ref went to the review monitor and then came back and gave the Paraguayan guy the yellow card
and canceled the yellow card on the US player. Wow. And it's a, and they overturned it and gave
the card for pretending to flop or for flopping. How does that process work in soccer? Cause like,
reviews and challenges are obviously a thing that's been part of football for a very long time. Yeah.
And they just started implementing it in baseball. I don't know when I last year or two.
I think it's been a little bit more than that. I think it's been within the five past five years
though. Um, it's been around in tennis for a very long time. Um, it's been around over and over a
decade in tennis, challenging a call. Um, is it in soccer? Is that something where you can,
where somebody, the coach or somebody can challenge a referee call or is it like
the referee gets something through his earpiece from somebody up top that says,
Hey, I think I made a bad call. You should probably review that.
I don't, the coach, I don't think is allowed to have any control over the review process. Okay.
To my knowledge. Um, on reviews, there has been reviews in soccer for a short period of time,
but it was all about if the ball crossed the plane of the goal only for scoring, right? Because
there's times when I'm not for offsides or anything. Um, they can't, they won't, they,
they'll show it on camera, but they won't call it back or anything. But like, yeah,
it was clearly offsides or that wasn't offsides, but they didn't ever have a review process on
the field for it for a little while, but, um, it's all changing right now. So I'm not in,
I'm not a hundred percent sure when it all happens, but it seems to come down from the camera crew,
the review board down to the refs like, Hey, that person was offsides or Hey,
that, that fell happened this other way or what, but it seems to on the field. A lot of it seems to
like they play it out until they get, get it in their ear that, Hey, you need to call that back
or Hey, this needs, you need to, you know, do X, Y and Z. Um, and so, and then I think if it's a
goal, goal scoring opportunity, they, it's always a review. Okay. Sort of that makes sense. Yeah.
So I'm not a hundred percent sure. I kind of, I, I like it and I don't like it.
Soccer is very much supposed to be a fluid sport, never stopping, always kind of continuing,
not supposed to have much ref interference, right? Or, you know, like throw-ins or, you know,
it's all supposed to be happening at all at once and the clock in soccer never stops. It always
counts. And so now we're getting over time, like at the end, because the ref always keeps track of
how much time is being delayed, how long it takes that goalkeeper to kick it in, how long does the
penalty take? If there was a yellow card happening, if substitutes are happening,
now when these hydration breaks are happening, all that gets tallied into an amount that is
added to overtime. But now we're seeing overtime amounts at like 10, 12, 15 minutes or something
like that. It's never been like three to five. Yeah. Something like that. But we're up into
double digits now because this water breaks three minutes and then everything else that
happens is more time. And so it's not quite as smooth as soccer used to be. Okay. But I do like
that there, I like the flopping rule for sure. I think soccer is for the longest time spent
two-money flops, like water polos that way, where there's fouls. You can flop in water polo and
a foul is called and it just causes a pause. And, but that seemed like it was part of the game.
Like that's always kind of how it's been. But in soccer, the flop causes too much stopping,
in my opinion. But I just, I don't know. I really like, I'm a big fan of soccer. Like I said earlier,
it's just really cool to see the world come together. And some of the videos I showed you
the videos earlier, some of the videos that are coming out of like other countries coming to support
their team in the World Cup and some, and how much more these other countries love
soccer or football compared to America. Like America shows up to their game probably like,
yeah, I'm wearing a jersey. But these other teams are like, have chance and have like just
country spirit. You know, I don't know how to explain it. It's crazy. Like I didn't show you
the one from Scotland had all these fans walking through downtown, one of the parks in Boston,
being led by bagpapers playing and they're all marching towards the stadium. You know, and it's
just like, gives me goosebumps. Like the amount of energy behind these countries for this sport.
I mean, and it truly is the world sport. Like baseball has their world series, but like,
okay, now maybe there's Canada and some other teams in it, but it's not the world. It's not,
you know, the world competing against each other. It's like the Olympics has the world
competing against each other. Yeah. The World Cup now used to be 32 teams. And I think it just,
this time went up to 48 teams. Okay. And so there's a little talk and controversy about that
as well. But because now the tournament's going to last longer because they have more
eliminations, more things that need to happen. But for the first time, countries are able to get
into the World Cup that have never been able to make it. Kursau played Germany. Kursau, I think,
was like, is the last place, like 48 team, right? But a country, it's a, it's an island in the
Caribbean with the population of 150,000 people. That country beat other countries like Italy.
Wow. And I've been, I'm a big, I'm Italian fan. I love Italy. They, Italy did not make the World
Cup this year. Oh, wow. I like Costa Rica for some reason. I've always been a fan of Costa Rica.
Costa Rica did not make the World Cup this year. Wow. They're typically, both of those teams are
typically in it, right? This small country at Kursau made it into the Olympics or into the World Cup.
That's cool. It's nuts. They played Germany in their first game and they scored a goal against
Germany. Germany is a four time World Cup winner. Oh, wow. And there's this tiny itty bitty team
from no air land. It's like cool running. That God broke, break away and scored against them.
And it, that might be like one of the highlights of the entire World Cup is this itty bitty country
scoring against Germany. You know, it's just, it's so cool. I just love the stories that come out of
it, the talking about the cultures and the countries and learning about everything and just,
I don't know. I love, I was, to me, this is the, the sporting event of the, you know, the four years
or whatever it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's fun. Cool. Awesome. So you guys go some World Cup updates.
I'm sure we'll get some more as time goes on here. How long does it last?
Is it like a month, right? It's normally a month, but because there's 48 teams now,
it's like a month and a half. Okay. Yeah. So it's going to go into like mid July or something
like that. Okay. Nice. So maybe we'll have to start a World Cup discord, a temporary discord
thread or a World Cup show videos and stuff. Cause man, like the highlight reels, the Holland
people dancing that I showed you, like, oh, the sea of orange that was there. Actually,
they're impressive. They're, they're Netherlands, not necessarily Holland. Yeah.
And then all the Vikings from Finland that were there. Those are my people. Yeah. And
they were doing this rowing chant, you know, and the whole stadium behind the goal is just doing
this row and doing them. Yeah. You know, there's some funny memes coming out of the whole stadium
lifting up and moving into the ocean and rowing away. That's funny. But yeah, so that's pretty
funny, but it's just so neat to see the, I love seeing the world come together for positive reasons.
Yeah. For sure. Yeah. All right. Well, cool man. Good stuff that does it. I think, oh,
I remembered what my other thing was. Okay, ready. It was mainly just my back and what happened there.
Yeah. So because I poked a hole in the side of the camper, another situation happened where
there was a really tight clearance. And this time it was up high on the, the cab over part.
And so I started going to really slow. I had my head out the window watching it. And as soon as
it touched the camper, I was like, nope. So I backed up and I went to break off this limb. And
the limb was a three to four inch diameter limb, but it was all dead. Yeah. Tree. And so I was in
my flip floppies and there was a bunch of other because it's a down tree right there. Just other
branches and shit broken on the trail on the road there. And so as I snapped that branch off,
you know, the, the tension released and I started stumbling backwards. I went to step
backwards and catch myself. My flip flop went underneath a branch and my foot went on top
of the branch and caught my foot. And I wasn't able to step backwards and I fell
straight backwards onto the end of the log that was like broken in the road. Yeah. I was driving
around. It's like I landed on like half of my back, like my, my, the left side had just barely
missed my spine. It hit all my muscle on my left side right here landed right on the end of that
log. And like I hit it and then fell off and rolled off onto the road. And it hurt so bad.
I was just laying there for like, I don't know how long it was. It was long enough for the secretary
to jump out of the car and come around and help me get up. But like, I was like, oh, that hurt
so bad. And then I was just, I was pissed from putting a hole in the camper. Now I'm upset
because my back and I just did that. And it's not, it's very not happy today. And that was the
other thing that happened. So I know yellow card did the flippy flop for the flop. Exactly. Right.
Yeah. So I'm like, I really hope my back settles down before the trip up to Lassen. Yeah. This
trip here. Otherwise it's going to be a sucky trip, but we'll still make the best of it.
Are you going to duct tape over the hole for the drive up to Lassen?
I need to do something because it's, I don't know what weather is going to be like up there.
And if it rains, that's going to be really, really bad. So I got to, I got to do something
about the whole camper for that trip. Sure. Yeah. Crazy. Yeah. So anyways, that does it for the
show today. Yeah. Hopefully you guys all enjoyed it out there. And we had, let's see today's
Thursday, so we'll be back tomorrow with snail mail. I got some fun voicemails to listen to,
I'm sure, and get to interact with you guys a little bit more. If you want to do some more
interactions with us, you can do that over on discord. I rate four by four Instagram email.
What other ways is there to get ahold of us and interact? Those are the primary ones and the
best ones. Yep. Bat signals. Yep. Smoke signals. Yep. Those work great to you. So give those all
shot. Radio chatter. Radio chat. Yeah. Get on a HF on 20 meter HF at about two to three PM. We'll
see if we can hit each other. Don't say that. Roger's now going to reach you out to you. Roger.
I was on at three PM with L, Tyler. So cool stuff. That's that about does it? Any final words
for everybody out there, Jimmy? I would, I would highly anticipate somebody, you know,
people finding a favorite team on the World Cup and just watching and having fun with it.
But I think that really the moral of this weekend is just, you know,
summer's here. Yep. Go out and play. Have some fun. It's a great time. And with that, my friends,
keep crawling.
I got one for
you. Okay. I think I'm ready. What do you get when you cross a dyslexic and
I so mad. I can't even, I'm so bad at this. I am dyslexic. Insomniac and agnostic.
Oh, my God, dyslexic, insomniac, agnostic. Yes.
It's going to be something with mixing all those words together.
Ag,
ag, dicks, ag, dick, dick. I don't even close. Okay. I don't know what.
So let me reread the joke just so we're all on the same page here.
What do you get when you cross a dyslexic and insomniac and an agnostic? Dang it. Those are
like big words. Somebody who doesn't think that you can sleep backwards under a bed.
Not really, but you're in more of the direction. Somebody who doesn't think sleeping
is good for you. Someone who lies awake at night, wondering if there's a dog.
Okay. Sure. Because they're dyslexic, so it should have been God.
Okay. That makes it more funny. I was like, what the fuck is there a dog?
Yes. Okay. It took me a second. That's better. That's a lot better though. All right.
Dog God. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Man, that was one for the rulebook.
About this episode
World Cup talk kicks things off—FIFA branding rules, new pacing tweaks, and even how replay decisions can flip a yellow card. The conversation then swings back to 4x4 life: Rubathon travel and camping logistics, diagnosing a front diff oil leak, and planning Fiona’s rock-crawling reliability (rear diff priority, steering hydraulics, and swing-out clearance fixes). Between the wrenching and trail stories, they also cover Iceco fridge giveaways, Discord support tiers, and a camper repair after a clearance mishap.
Tyler and Jimmy lived some very different weekends, and they are here to talk about it and everything else they have going on. Jimmy spent the weekend at dance recitals for the Assistant. She had two ballet recitals and one tap recital. He also went and worked at the RTAA theater for stage setup. Tyler was off camping with the family at a cool new waterfall spot. He really loved it till he was on the way home and punched a hole in his Lance Camper with a dropped tree.
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