New Trucks, New Wheels, Same Bad Habits

Hey, guys. Welcome to Overcrest. I'm Chris.

And I'm Jake.

And hopefully my voice sounds a little bit better.

Jake, this episode's going to be pretty short.

Oh, OK.

Just like you.

Just like us.

You, not me.

You know what's funny is I said something the other day.

Someone said, what did they say about getting into a car?

And it was, it was too like they couldn't get in because they

were too close to the dashboard.

Oh, it was RJ was talking about his new barracuda that he's got.

He's like, yeah, it's got this quirky seat.

And it's either all the way back or all the way forward.

You can't get in.

And I'm like, gotta be perfect for Jake.

He's like, yeah, it would be perfect for both of you.

And I see.

And I realize that everybody just thinks we're the same.

And we're just both short.

We, it's very close.

It's just the fact that we're short.

Like percentage wise, there's a bigger difference

when you're shorter.

You know what I mean?

Like if you were a couple inches off when one guy's 6'3

and one guy's 6'1, like, oh, yeah, they're the same height.

Yes.

Yeah.

Exactly.

But we're both short.

And right.

So it's a larger percentage is the difference.

But I'm still going to rip on you for being short for all

time.

So I wanted to have an idea of something we could do on

these.

This is just, there's no prep for this episode.

We're just hanging out.

And I prepped a little.

Oh, good.

I mean, I grabbed a couple of things

that I want to talk about.

But I wanted to do on these episodes, like bring a tool.

Like grab a tool out of your toolbox

where I talk about why we like it.

And I was inspired.

I was inspired by this by talking

to Stephanie who works with Overcrush.

She's a very special part of the team.

And she was talking about like wiring trouble.

Yes.

And she has a tachometer in her car.

It's not working.

So she's got this tack.

It doesn't work.

The signal I'm like, have you, you know,

ran the signal to the thing and have you

check for the ground and the power and stuff like that.

And it reminded, I asked her if she had one of these,

which is one of my favorite tools for diagnosing wiring problems.

Do you know what it is?

Is it literally just a light bulb on jumper wires?

No, it's not.

That's handy as well.

It is.

It is this right here.

Have you seen these?

Do you have one of these?

Those just look like jumper wires on a spool.

It is.

But it makes it great because so what you can do

is I can put this in the truck.

And this is how many feet is this?

10 feet.

So this is 10 foot alligator clip jumper cable.

If you're not, if you're just listening, it's just a basic.

Why is it not a spool?

This seems this is why it's not a fancy for you.

So what do you mean fancy?

This thing is awesome.

I also have a bunch of jumper leads,

like just different wire with a bunch of alligators.

And they're they're long, but I just like have them all

in a bucket.

This is nice magnetic.

It just goes and just sits on the side of my toolbox.

I can grab it whenever I want.

And what's nice, what's nice about this thing

is that if you're trying to troubleshoot something

like a tachometer and you've got wires that are in the dash

and you can't I need to do.

They suck.

It sucks to get your hands in there

and find out what wires go your crawling under.

You want to just find out if the tack works or not.

That's your first thing is does this thing work?

And you can check for power and ground there,

but it's difficult to check for signal.

You know, it's it's it's got to get a volt meter

so what you can do is you just grab this and it's got a green.

One of these is green.

So you've got ground or you got power ground and a signal one.

And you can just start at the back of your car.

You can put the magnet in there.

You can stretch this thing out

and you can go right from the source to the gauge 10 feet.

Usually, usually that's the front of the car.

Yes, usually it's the front of the car.

That's true. But this but this still really helps.

It allows you to have the right links.

There's cords all over the place.

Does it like a trouble light where it'll latch open then?

Yep. Like is it spring loaded and it latches? OK.

No, it's not spring loaded.

It's got these little things on the back and you just go like this.

Oh, you just want to turn it and they just go right back in.

So this is a great tool.

Yeah, I actually stole this from Chad Erickson.

Oh, now who now knows that I have it?

My friend Chad, this is yours and I'm never giving it back.

Yeah, so it goes right here.

It's magnetic. That's my that's my tool of the week.

Well, two of the week or the two of the month or whatever.

I really love having one of those really handy.

It seems silly, but it's one of those things that just makes life easier,

especially if you have leads that don't reach or they're too long

and then they're all over the inch of the apartment

and your fan and your belts or whatever.

Or this is really nice.

You just stretch it out.

Oh, we're good.

And then you put it away and it stores away nicely.

I don't have to make new ones.

I don't have to like try and measure.

Is this one long enough?

Is it it's it's awesome.

And it's the right tool for helping diagnose electric jobs.

So that's that's my my tool of the week.

I mean, a multimeter is also very good.

It is. It can be good.

However, it's difficult to run to have a multimeter

give the signal to your tachometer

to test your tachometer and see if your tachometer is working or not.

You're just testing like basically is the lead

or is the line broken or like it's too much resistance.

So if I use the if I go where the gate is a bypass jumper, basically.

Yeah. So if I go where the gauges and I go, OK, I've got a signal here

that doesn't necessarily tell me exactly what's wrong.

So this allows me to hook it directly up to the tachometer.

Boom. There you go.

I've got signal power and ground works great.

Anyway, I've used it for other things, too.

Like a diagnosing my headlights and work or something like that.

You can just run a wire and, you know, it's and it's just like it's

very fast. It's not messy.

Yeah. Also, I want to show you this thing that I found.

I'm on a roll, by the way. Apparently.

Look at this. So I found this.

I love going to vintage stores.

And we went up and we visited Chris Runge, me and Larson.

Jason Larson just got the ride with me.

You you did not want to go because you're a loser.

So me and Jason is far away.

And I everything here is broken.

So I need my time when I'm not working over as to like fix things.

And we'll get to that.

We'll talk about broken shit.

Everything is broken.

That's you do these things to yourself.

But we went to this.

No, yes, or your wife does them to you.

One of it. OK.

Well, this I don't know.

Nature did this one to me.

Nature. Nature. Well, it's nature.

Yeah. Wives are also nature.

We can include them in the nature category

because they are also often a force of destruction.

OK. Or yeah. OK.

I stopped by this vintage store.

I'm going to get slapped in the head here as my wife.

I can tell you're feeling better

because you are much more just like feisty and energized.

You know that or you've been using your espresso machine.

I don't have that anymore.

I threw it in the trash.

Did I tell you that?

No. Did I tell you about throwing it in the trash?

You told me you were on the phone with the people and I was on the phone

with the people and they did this thing

where they could like take control of my phone and do a camera.

And they're like, oh, do these things, these things.

And they went, yeah, it needs to be

that it needs to be sent in and it's $600 for whatever.

It's going to be like 600 bucks.

And on camera, I picked this thing up, walk outside

and I dropped it in the trash can and said,

I will not be sending you this espresso machine.

And I feel so dumb.

It felt really good at the time.

Yeah. But how dumb is that?

Because I probably think she really cared.

You think she was like, oh, my God, she was.

She was an official.

She was official representative.

It reminded me of the time when I was a lit a printer on fire

and sent pictures to Epson of it melting down on my driveway.

That thing was such a piece of crap.

Now I know I probably should have just kept it and replace it,

replace the parts myself.

And yeah, but there is something really nice about dialing in a.

Oh, I want coffee in the morning.

Doot, doot, doot, 830, 630, doot, doot, doot.

I get up and it's just down.

I just drink it. It's fine.

I don't need Americano's espresso.

I'm talking about just coffee, not espresso, just a coffee machine.

Oh, just with a timer, a coffee machine with a timer.

Yeah, I bought like a seventy five dollar coffee machine.

Sure. Yeah, that'll do it.

It's fine. I don't.

I don't really.

I don't need an espresso machine.

I don't care about that.

It doesn't matter to me.

I like the coffee thing just as much as I like the Americano thing.

It's neither here nor there.

I don't care. It's fine.

Either one is fine.

OK.

So Lars and I went up to Rungies,

which you did not go to because you're lame again.

Yes, because everything's broken, because everything's broken.

And we stopped by this antique shop that was in like, don't take back roads.

So we just click, don't take or don't take highways,

back roads only all the way there.

We're driving and we see like, you know, thrift store antique shop, whatever.

And you go in and damn it.

If all of these antique shops aren't turning into like Timu.

Junk where it's just all this Amazon Alibaba,

Timu garbage in the front half of the store.

I'm like, ah, damn it.

It's another one of these and anybody that goes to these things

around the road trips will know what I'm talking about.

So like, well, would you equate it to it's a garage sale, right?

No, because it's all new.

It's new. It's new stuff.

Yeah, it's like it's all this like 40 to six year old women crap

and like all this like religious stuff and like statues of Jesus

and blouses and and it's it sucks.

It's all new junk from China.

Well, OK, and it's like they call it like a target market then.

No, no, I am not.

I know it's like thousands of dollars inventory.

I don't understand it.

Anyway, you walk through all this shit and then all of a sudden it's like.

And it's just man stuff.

I'm talking these guys collected World War two books and old lamps

and sports memorabilia and all this stuff like this is so cool.

And there's like old tools and it was quite possibly

the coolest thrift store antique shop I have ever been in.

It was expensive, but it was cool.

And there's all kinds of shit I wanted to buy.

But I came away with with this.

This is what I bought.

It is a get to I can you tell what it is just by looking at this.

Yes, this is either a temperature probe or it is a manual

tachometer where you it is a temperature probe that I

bought you for your truck because it is rad.

And you don't have to use it if you don't want it, but it has this cool.

Oh, is it Stuart Warner?

No, it's international international harvester.

Cold run that hot.

I got a bad truck.

I know, but this is such a cool gauge.

Cold run hot.

If you don't use it, I'm going to put it in the Mercedes, but it's rad.

And it just has an arrow.

This is like too cold.

This is fine.

Don't stop.

Here's here you can run green.

This thing is just it's just cool.

So I mean, yeah, that's that's definitely a tractor gauge.

Like, yeah, it is a tractor.

I swear it's good.

And I think right there.

I think this would look really good in your in your C 10.

I think it would look right.

So if you would like to use it in there, throw it in there.

OK, thank you.

Maybe as just like it works, but you actually also have a video gauge

that tells you actual information.

Well, I love instrumentation.

You read correct Stuart Warner.

This is also period correct.

I guarantee it.

This is 100 percent from the same time.

Talk about cool, like weird, antiquated period, correct stuff.

So my dad bought this other C 10, which is a 60.

Yeah, we talked about the 64.

Sixty two Chevy or it's a GMC version.

The Apache, they call it.

Yes.

Gosh, is that.

I know, I know, I know.

You know what sucks is like what I think of a patches is

like this cool warrior tribe and a name like name something

after that seems really cool.

Like this thing.

It was not like is the warrior truck.

This thing is never going to break down.

It was never meant to be, you know, an insult or discouraging

or anything like that, but it's whatever.

Anyways, in 62 for the GMC, they had because this truck also

doesn't have hazards.

It has turn signals.

Yeah, hazards.

So on his truck, there was a dealer add on below the dash

where you'd have like that little gauge bezel and literally

just said hazard and it's a chunk, chunk crank crank, but it

has like this very cool, knurled like bracket that is like

clearly from 1962 and was installed by the dealer as

an option because that's awesome.

I love it.

So either they needed that or the guy just wanted to have

hazards and so that's like that that I want to put on this

truck because that is a cool just like chunk.

The thing is, is you can get carried away with that

stuff so fast.

I know.

And then it's just it turns into like this.

It's like a paradise.

Yes, exactly.

There's like a fan going on the dash and then there's a hula

girl and then there's your hazard switch and then outside.

You know, outside there's curb feelers on everything.

You can go.

Oh, 100%.

That's exactly what happens.

Yes.

What you should do is you should you should punk Nikki and

get like one of those old school car seats that are just

absolutely terrible that don't do anything at all.

She's like, yeah, this is going to be perfect.

It's going to be amazing.

And it's just where the kid just sits in it.

What's no seat belt?

You know what I'm talking about?

Have you seen this?

Yes.

How is that related?

I'm sure I was just another accessory.

It's just like all these different things that you could get

for your car when.

So think of it.

It's like all set in the 50s.

All the dudes come back from the war and they buy their cars

and they've got expendable income because houses didn't

cost a jillion dollars like they do today.

Also have kids.

Yeah, I have kids.

But like and they just the truck, your truck, your car

was like this.

I think that you could use to really define your identity.

So like accessory market back then all the catalogs.

If you look at old car books and stuff like that, that was

another thing this guy had was like tons of old car magazines.

So you're like flipping through all these little five by seven

books like, oh, my God, look at all this cool shit you could get.

All these things were like 25 right though.

It's all just chotch keys, though.

Just like I'm sure none of it worked.

Yeah, none of it.

None of that said it wasn't made in China at that time.

You know, well, the claims are always dubious, right?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it doesn't work as well as it's supposed to.

Yeah, increase your horsepower by 20 percent.

Your fuel economy.

With this snake oil.

Yes, I think we did.

We did a whole it was what is it the worst?

Yeah, because we talked about the tornado, like the intake

that you put in and like that was.

Yeah, I forget what it was.

Go back and find that one guys.

That's a fun one.

Tons of car aftermarket.

I remind people right now that we have more than 500 episodes

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Just like timely.

That burp was.

Yes, absolutely.

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Well, so what's broken, Jake?

Tell me everything is broken, Chris.

No, you don't help you navigate that.

What on tell me that how I see what you did there.

Yeah, that would be pretty good to navigate your next adventure or DIY project.

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I don't know how quickly you're going to get back to, you know,

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I'd rather go to an antique store than see another birth.

I don't think your wife would feel that way if she was the one

giving the birth.

I don't know.

Maybe she would at this point, you know, you get you get a little

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And I don't care.

I don't want you there.

She also maybe.

Yeah.

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Oh, I just texted her and said, bring me a cup of super

hot water.

We're going to see if this gauge works.

Ooh, I like it.

We'll try it out.

You see, let's do it.

And I just like, I wish I had a stand where I could just

put it right here.

But unless it's morale.

She would she would have to like, oh, I like that.

Yeah, morale.

Like a little morale meter.

You know, Jake, everyone listening to the podcast right

now needs to do me a favor.

Everyone.

You all need to message Jeff Ball.

And you need to tell him that we need a good for morale

hoodie or shirt for overcast.

And then it's reversed.

Everyone make it bad for morale.

Guys, be relentless.

Be savage.

If he blocks you, that's fine.

That's fine.

Just make another account.

Make another job.

Yep, 100%.

Please.

I like that, Chris.

Thank you.

Yeah.

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Y at Jeffrey.

That is that's Jeff's personal Instagram.

Please send him messages about how bad

you would like to see some good for morale

merch, stickers, shirts.

You don't want me to design it.

We could design it.

No, no, no.

Definitely we can't actually know we can't do that.

So what's broken, Jake?

What's broken?

All right.

First of all, it skits to your broke again.

What did you do?

Is this who it is?

Your father-in-law.

That's what happened.

Thanks, honey.

No, the good news is there was a slow hydraulic leak

somewhere, and I found it.

The bad news is it became a very, very large hydraulic leak,

hence the reason I was able to find it.

This is the second or third hose

that's blown on this machine.

What was it?

It was so I have the auxiliary flow working.

So I have a big sweeper.

I have a hydraulic sweeper now for the front of it,

so I can sweep things, which is great.

It's really cool.

So the supply valve to the auxiliary circuit

doesn't really matter, but it was leaking a little bit.

And also, I'm sweeping out at the end of my driveway,

and I look behind me, and there's a puddle.

And I go, uh-oh.

And so I was like, well, and there was a standing puddle,

like standing fluid level.

I was like, that's a lot.

How many gallons of fluid does this thing hold?

12 or 13 gallons?

Holy smokes.

So I was like, OK, I'm going to see

if I can make it up, because once it's broken

and done, I can't just leave it down at the end of the road.

Like, maybe I could pull it up with the truck, probably.

But I didn't want to do that.

So I was like, do you want to get up the driveway?

Is the running gear hydraulic?

Is it like a hydrostatic?

Yeah, yeah, yep.

That's one of the other lines I had to replace.

But so literally as I'm like going up the driveway,

be lining it to get back to the garage

so I have somewhere to work on it,

it's like there's a trail of just streaming hydraulic fluid

all the way down the driveway.

What a mess, dear no.

So I go down to the end and there's like 10 gallons

of hydraulic fluid just draining out just.

That sucks really bad.

Well, this is this is how it is with having heavy equipment.

Yeah, this happens.

Haven't you ever watched Gold Rush?

No, everything's breaking all the time.

Gold Rush.

I haven't watched Gold Rush in like 10 years.

It used to be pretty good in the first few seasons.

It was good, but that shit was breaking all the time.

Everything was always broken,

especially if it was hydraulic.

Yeah, it's these these lines are so hard to get to

just the way they make this thing.

So the skidster is literally

you can't take a belly pan off or something.

It's all just a welded massive.

So they put the engine like floats in the air

and then they just weld the entire thing around the engine.

Well, there's mounts on it.

And so you're supposed to have to detach

the entire arm assembly, take the cab off.

And then you could remove the engine out of the top

and then get to all the lines

that are under the engine that's in this tub.

So I ended up hurting all of my hands and everything.

And I finally was able to get the lines disconnected, pull it out.

And the previous line I like looked online

to find like this finished specialty hose

from like case or a supplier.

It can't be that hard again.

It made thousands of these things.

That was right.

So yeah, it's easily available.

So that's what I did is I just went online and bought it

and it was like whatever.

And then I was like, I really like to fix this

and not have to wait or pay for shipping.

And I was like, dude, Napa auto parts bring in a hose.

They make you an exact replica of that hose

with all the correct fittings.

It's the correct line.

Everything is great.

You can do that with air conditioning

for your custom swaps and stuff, too.

Or a per tap.

I didn't realize that.

That's cool.

So I did that.

That's back together now, which is good.

However, I also found that on the spool valve assembly, Chris.

What's the spool valve?

The spool valve is a type of hydraulic valve,

the actuator that makes the fluid go.

It inside it is this rod and there's all these different chambers.

And so as you push or pull on the rod,

it redirects where the fluid is able to flow

because you always need a return line.

So you have high pressure coming in, you have a return,

which is not doing anything.

And then you have your two like lines.

It's a hydraulic switch.

But it got old and the spring return on the bottom

was like this zinc cast part that just disintegrated.

And so it still kind of worked, but it was leaking as well.

And it's like not good for it.

So then I was looking at this is specialty.

And it's like only a case part number.

So it was like I found one in line.

It's like a hundred bucks for a stupid little cap,

which is whatever.

But then it was like $40 shipping and I might have it in two weeks.

I was like, this is dumb. Come on.

So I went to the the Bobcat implement store on Saturday

and you went in there.

Hey, Bobcat guys, I need something for my case.

Correct. And they were like, well, then we don't have it.

And they're like, I know, but like you have something similar.

Can I look at it?

And so they brought me the the other version of this part,

but it didn't work.

Long story short, then my dad's buddy.

They're not a case place.

I'm not close. No.

Is Bobcat's more of a I literally.

Here's my thought.

I could take an hour and a half and weld this piece up

and just make what I need.

So that was my plan until a friend came over.

He told me it was zinc plated zinc.

No, it's just it cast zinc.

It's like a it's a cheesy thing.

It's literally, yeah, which is why it broke

and the new one would have broke if I did that as well.

So instead of welding that, dude, don't you're not going to.

I would make a new one.

Chris, oh, I steal.

It's a small little non-complicated part.

Yes. I was like, why would I do that?

So it would be better.

I was going to do that.

And then one of my dad's friends stopped by

and I was doing this, working on it.

And he's like, oh, dude,

I'm just going to put it in my mill on Monday

and I'll mill you one out of aluminum.

There you go.

OK, great.

So that's showing up at some point.

I'm really excited for the 3D print at home metal,

the metal 3D printer at home days.

It's got to be exactly what I was thinking about.

It's got to be there.

Because I could close something like that.

I get this.

This water was not hot enough.

I have requested.

I was wondering it probably needs to be microwave it.

OK, that's fucking hot as shit.

All right, we've got some boiling water.

Yes, I was going to say you need

to get it to like around two degrees.

That's that's that's cooking it to move.

All right, come on, baby.

Can we have a live view here?

I want to see it.

Well, it's no, because I can't touch the here with me.

All right, let's see what I can do.

Yeah, you touch the gauge.

Is it moving?

Not yet.

I'm like looking very carefully to see if it's moving or not.

I need to stretch this out a little bit.

So I got a little bit of slack because it's like,

you know, these things are filled with fluid

and it's like a copper line that's hollow.

And there's actually fluid inside here that moves.

And that's how it.

Yeah, that's how it pressurizes the.

All right, I'm going to let this sit for a little while.

Yeah, that's not working.

OK, so that was the skid.

No, this is fast, dude.

This stuff is not and this is not an electric gauge.

This is all mechanical stuff.

Nothing happens quickly.

I mean, I guess I assumed your car just took a while to warm up.

But what you're telling is me is like the gauge takes a while.

Warms up, too.

So yeah, or it's just that was the skid steer.

And then I went out there whatever day it was to go work on it.

And I went to turn the lights on in the garage.

And those didn't come on.

I was like, oh, that's odd.

They're falling down the garage.

Yes, it's not falling down.

This is a well built garage.

No, it's not. I don't know what you think is falling.

Do the foundation has got more blisters in it

than a freaking marathon runner.

The whole foundation wall is like blistering out.

It's like pushing out.

It's about to fall over.

There is one portion where it heaved and cracked the cinder blocks,

which have already dug out.

And that's it.

Do you know how much that garage would cost to build, Chris?

That's what you, I think, don't understand.

Oh, I understand falling apart

because there's one problem that needs to be fixed.

Anyways, I go out there. No power.

So I go to the breaker.

Breakers are fine.

No power on the outlets either.

So there's no power at the entire panel.

The lower panel.

So I go up to the main panel at the house and that's good.

OK, so then I start getting my.

Multimeter out and I realize there's two

forty coming out of the breaker up top.

And then I go back down to check it.

And here's what's really weird.

And I'm good with wiring, Chris.

I'm good with electrical, but this was bizarre to me.

And I measured maybe.

Yeah, I measured 30 volts down at the garage

on one leg of the circuit and about 15 on the other.

So I was getting a ton of resistance in the feed wire underground.

And it turns out after I stripped the entire panel

because I was like, wait a minute,

they have jumper wires in here where there shouldn't be.

There's not actually ground.

They're actually sharing ground and neutral across bus bars.

It was just it was I'm surprised

everything hasn't burnt down yet here.

And OK, long story short.

Yeah, so I got to I got to rerun wire to the garage

because I don't have any power down because there's water impregnated

in some underground conduit or something, probably.

Or it's not running conduit.

And so it's just the casing,

the wire got like eaten through by a gopher or something six feet down.

So either I'm going to dig exactly where the break is

and repair the break or I'm going to drink a whole new ditch

and run correct wire in conduit

and also run water supply down there

because I want to have like a wash tub down there.

What? You need help more than anyone I know.

Yeah, because I have a lot going on.

You have too much going on.

I think you need to prioritize things and find things that are

you need to find things that are cheap to pay someone to do,

but might be something you don't want to do.

Like that sounds like digging a trench.

Sounds like a job for a guy.

That sounds like a job.

You're not trenched.

Have you not operated a ditch which I'm sure it's great.

I'm sure it is.

But then you can maybe focus on focus on something else.

Like, how are you ever going to get anything done, dude?

You've got your list is too long.

I know what you need to do is you need to accelerate the growth

of your son so you can have.

Yes, yes.

This is why farmers had a lot of kids.

That's true.

You're going to have a solid good six years of some really good help.

And then it'll be. Oh, yeah, I'm excited for that.

I did. OK, here's one thing I am paying a guy for.

I was also repairing my dock because my dock was kind of broken.

All right, in the water like boiling water for a few minutes.

Are you ready? And I'm looking. Let's see.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

That's I bet whatever fluid in that line or whatever it is.

It's supposed to be mercury is all gone.

It's not mercury.

I've actually cut into one. It's well, it could be mercury.

Dang it. That's such a bummer. I got robbed.

It was only 20 bucks.

20 bucks. That's fine. That's fine.

Anyway, continue more of your broken.

I bought a new dock.

So that's all you just like decided to be done.

Well, it's not a new one.

It's a new used one, but it's nicer.

And not sinking.

The problem is, I don't know what to do with my old dock that is kind of sinking.

Don't they just take that away when they install the new one like a couch?

When they bring a new sofa, maybe five to six grand to get rid of it.

Come on.

Can't you just kind of they have to have a barge to bring it over?

And then they have to river.

I know I thought of this.

Let it float away, dude.

So bad.

Or I was like, I could float it out

and then shoot all the all the floats with my twenty two.

And just think it.

You might want to do it.

You need to borrow a shotgun, Jake.

No, I got a lot.

Buck would probably do the trick better, although very loud.

Yes, I'm like someone looks out there

and they see you shooting your dock as it floats away down the river.

Pretty suspicious.

It is pretty suspicious.

Did you get good use out of your boat this year? No.

What is it? Yeah.

Yeah, we went out just last weekend.

It was every couple of weekends.

We were out on it.

I just wish you never invite me.

I there was a standing invite.

You want to know you invited me many, many times.

There was there was bow envy, so much bow envy.

Sports car vacation land got in the way.

I think it certainly did.

I think it's very accurate in that sense.

OK, yes. So garage, dock, all sorts of BS going on.

Do you know, sometimes on docks, they have they have tires

that hang on the dock as they act as well.

They do. Yeah, I've heard this.

Yeah, and I I I wonder if Nokians lifetime

tire warranty or whatever it is.

However many what is it?

How many miles is it 55,000 mile warranty?

But here's the thing.

You don't get many miles on your dock.

I know it's zero miles.

So really, you can keep replacing.

It's a definite warranty, which are tires.

If you have Nokian tires and you could use what their latest

tire is, is the Surpass ASL one.

It's a high performance all season tire made specifically for

drivers, one of the most out of their cars without sacrificing

capability when the roads get slick.

We know all too well how unpredictable roads can be,

whether you're out on a rally, one of your own adventures

or just run in the grocery store.

So why not have the performance of a high performance tire

without giving up kind of that ability to have traction when it gets wet?

Yeah, that's where the ASL one comes in, offers a grip of a dedicated performance

tire won't leave you stranded if the road or weather gets rough.

It comes with Nokian's 55,000 mile warranty, which we just established.

If you're using it as a fender on your dock,

well, then that's zero miles right there, unless my dock is floating down river

in which case it might make it a mile.

It also offers Nokian tires, pothole protection.

If you happen to damage your tire beyond repair,

Nokian will replace it for free.

So check this out at nokiantires.com slash Surpass.

Also, we're getting to the point where we need to start talking

about winter tires, you should start thinking about it before the first snowfall.

Don't be that guy.

Exactly what don't be that guy that shows up.

At the tire place when the when the weather looks like snow that week.

Literally, that guy.

Oh, no, it's not when it looks like snow that week.

It's when it's snowing when it's literally snowing.

And they're like, oh, my tire, my car isn't driving well.

And I've driven by the tire like the discount tire or whatever.

And it's just a line.

That's so dumb.

You know why it's because there's a misnomer that winter tires aren't fun

and it's a shitty purchase, but it's not because if you have good snow tires,

it's pretty fun to drive around the snow and that's for any vehicle.

And the reason is is because you can have a lot of control

and still be a little bit sideways and have no horsepower whatsoever.

Right. Yeah.

So you can have a ton of fun on snow tires in any car, anything.

So that's my that's my pitch for snow tires.

You don't care about safety.

Care about yourself having fun in the snow.

Yeah. Yeah, I was going to move on to the C 10 project

because I'm still doing things there.

But I wanted to show you something that I that I 3D printed.

OK, because we talked a little bit about 3D printing.

And I've yeah. And I bought a scanner now.

Right. Like an Einstein shining 3D scanner,

which apparently they should have given me for free

because I got about 150 people asking what scanner I used.

They should have just given me the damn thing.

But I don't like what is this scanner look like?

Is it a little handheld device?

Or yeah, I'll show I'll show you here.

Oh, it's in a case. That's.

Oh, yeah, these things.

This thing used to be like a gajillion dollars.

So it looks like this.

It looks like a remote kind.

What kind of remote looks like this?

Is it like I didn't see that version?

You were just showing me the front of it.

And I was like, oh, yeah, that looks like a TV remote.

And those are like buttons or something.

It does not look like a TV remote.

It looks like the StarTac.

What was the phone?

The you know, the thing in the motor,

the big Motorola Motorola StarTac.

Yeah, that was it.

So this is what I made.

So this is the part that I made.

Oh, yes. Yes.

It is the.

I got to get my face out of the shadow and focus.

It is the heater ducting piece

that goes from the air box to the floor output on a 911.

On a 911 early.

And they're made of Bakelite.

They're garbage.

So this is like this is the first prototype.

I made something made a few changes,

but you can see I put like put a little rib nut or nuts in there.

No, I just put nuts in there and epoxy them out for this for this version.

The other one, I made the whole little bit smaller

and I actually just physically what I did is in the the CAD software,

where you could import a nut, import a nut and I put it in there

and then I deleted the area that the nut was.

So then the plastic just has the space for that.

And I made it like just ever so slightly smaller.

And then I just pressed the nut in.

Love it.

And then it's and it's and it's good to go.

And now I have I now have floor air in my car.

The rear vent, the lever in the middle of the car that open and closes the rear

does not work.

I think the cables are broken, which is probably not fun.

I've replaced those.

It's it. It's suck.

OK, show me the parts.

There's a bunch of different parts

and I can't figure out which one to buy.

There's like a million different versions.

So show me what you bought the car.

No, because the no, no, I haven't just show me the part that you bought.

I'm trying to shortcut myself.

This was years ago.

I don't know.

OK, well, when you're in your email, just put heat or something in your email.

Yeah, I don't know what I replaced.

It was the valve on the back or it was like my cables.

I think. But the worst.

I think it's actually a hard line for the majority of it down.

The worst part is is that something crawled into my air box and died.

So on a on a dry day, you drive around.

It's fine. There's any humidity at all.

It smells like a dead mouse or something in my car.

It's really bad for morale from the front air box from the front air box,

because I I one of the vents won't close because it's broken and one is stuck close.

So what I did is I took the vent off and I shoved like rags in there

to block off that air and it's still a little bit stinky.

So it's got to be the air box.

Why haven't you disassembled this?

Because I just found out like two days ago or what is it?

Monday, Saturday, that is stinky.

Two days. Oh, OK.

So it did. OK.

So something crawled in there died, something just died in there,

which is bad for all.

I can't drive around in the rally with some stinky stuff in there.

Sucks for the animal, too, probably.

And that air box is not really that fun to take apart,

because it's got all the like the cables that go to it.

And you got to use a little clip stuff off.

There's a lot there. Yeah.

It's stupid.

I have to open it up, which means crack it open and it's to get to the blower.

So did you already put those parts on?

Yeah, they work right.

This it's awesome.

Yes, you took it apart enough to put those in.

And then well, these are not going to find the dead animal.

No, these just have these little clamp things that go over.

Let me say you have to take at least the blower motor cover off.

Yeah, but that's four bolts,

and which is actually only three on my car, because one of them is broken and gone.

So that's very easy to do.

OK, anyway.

That's exciting. Tell me about your C 10.

What are you doing? Are you actually going to tell you about that?

But I realized something else that's broken, Chris.

Hold on one second. Yeah.

I would like to state that you have said you are doing things

to the C 10 since you lived in Woodbury.

Yeah. And then I moved and things keep breaking.

Now you want rather you'd rather dig a trench

than pay someone to dig the trench so that you can work on your truck.

I was talking to Nikki about this.

I was like, I'm not doing anything that I would have enjoyed.

Or no, you know what she asked me?

She goes, do you enjoy having shit boxes?

This was literally like a real question.

She's like, do you enjoy having shit boxes?

I was like, she's like, or do you want to just like sell a couple things

and just maybe get like a decent truck?

And then that's just it works.

You can take it to the dealer or whatever.

She's like, do you enjoy this?

She doesn't understand.

Well, no, and here's I'm going to explain it for you, too.

I used to love having shit boxes

because I had time and a space to work on things.

I had a dedicated like it was it was in my garage.

There was an install where nothing was parked.

It was literally just that was the shop workstation.

I knew where all my tools were.

Everything was nicely organized.

It was bright. I could work on it here.

I don't have a set up yet.

And so that's why I'm like, oh, crap,

the wiring down to the garage doesn't work.

Well, it's sure be nice to work on things in a space

where I have all my tools and I want to have a dedicated workshop space.

But I need to get it all set to go first, right?

Yeah, I know.

So no, I think it's important to know box is when I can't fix them.

The the point of the shit box isn't because it is shitty.

The point of having a shit box and working at least for me.

And it's less shit box than it is project.

You know, shit box is this funny word.

Well, happy car that yes.

But I'm going to talk about that super duty that I have.

Well, yes, a absolute toilet.

Shit box has kind of got like this term like it's an endearing thing.

It's an endearing thing and honestly working on that stuff

and the time that you spend on it is pretty sacred, right?

Like spending some time in the garage working on the project.

That stuff's all great.

No one wants to work on something

that is a giant piece of shit that you don't love,

that is rusty and serves a purpose that has nothing to do with any hobbies,

fun, interest, anything.

And that's what I feel like you're about to say that about the skid steer too.

Yeah, I think that the I mean, yes, I wouldn't kind of skid steer.

If I were you either, I would just have like some kind of thing.

What are you going to like have a guy out?

Just like I'm sure there's a mechanic or something.

I'm sure there's guys that are you kidding me?

Have any idea how expensive that would be?

Oh, I'm sure it's astronomical.

It's probably about the same as working on a car at the Porsche dealership or something.

Yeah, I'm sure it's a lot.

I don't know. I think there's I will say I don't want to lump skid steer

in the same category as cars as a hobby.

It's no, I'm not saying it's a hobby. I'm not.

Well, you're kind of equating, like working on a shipbox car.

I know. I'm talking here.

Yes, because both of these categories, it's all shit box, right?

It's all things that need to be maintained.

Some of it is fun and hobby related.

Other parts of it are just like, well, this is a shitty tool that I have

that I would like to keep using the tool and I don't want to buy

a $50,000 tool.

So I'm just going to keep preparing this tool, but it's not fun.

Right. I 100 percent.

And you you are getting paid to work on it technically, right?

Because, yeah, it's opportunity cost with like, OK, it's my time,

but I'm not spending, you know, you have so many things going on that

it's it's just like, what can you spend that time on?

I know, I know it's not even the time of.

It's not even the time that you're spending, it's or the money.

I don't think as much as it's as much as it is like this,

the skids instead of the skid steer, what could you be working on?

Or instead of the ditch, what if instead of trenching that ditch,

you could be in your garage, cleaning it and getting it ready for winter

so that you can work on something.

If you could build that 2.4 engine that you could work on the C10.

But instead, you're going to be driving somewhere to rent the ditch

which to bring it home to dig the thing to go to Home Depot to get

the conduit to bring it over there, put it in and feed it through

and get a thing and and and pull the wires through.

It's going to take you three weekends or two weekends instead.

Dude, I just did this with my backyard.

I know you hired a dude.

So I took a ton of time with the trooper.

First of all, I got the four wheel drive working again.

One of the front hubs, someone had taken it apart and flipped

like the little piece that engages it and disengages it backwards.

Yeah. And so it was engaged when it wasn't

and in and disengaged when it was.

No, it just wouldn't do anything at all, which is.

Oh, it wouldn't do anything.

So I fixed that and then I had four wheel drive,

which is the first time that things ever had four wheel drive in my ownership.

And I just went back there and I started ripping stumps with that thing.

And it was awesome that that the gearing is so low.

Like fourth gear is like first gear.

It is crazy how low the gearing is.

So you just put it in a high low box to.

Yeah. Yeah.

That's for case. Yes.

OK. Yeah. It's awesome.

Yeah. So I just put it for low and I had this like a

this log ripper thing.

It just you pull it open like this.

You put on something and as you pull it gets tighter and tighter and tighter.

You know, it's just like picking up a block of ice.

One of those things, but much more serious.

And I ripped like 50 stumps out.

And there was just this little clearing in my house.

Like, yeah, this is great.

And I saw them up, put them in a pile.

Super nice.

And then I realized I don't have time before it's starting to get dark.

And the only time I really have to do this is after like five

o'clock, five thirty hour and then it's dinner.

So then it's like, yeah, then I have an hour and now it's getting dark.

And I'm like, I can't do this.

I will never finish this before for winter.

And maybe there's other things I'd rather be doing,

although I did kind of enjoy doing it somewhat.

Yeah. The guy comes over and I go, hey, his name's Doran or his name's Glenn.

You know, it runs Doran Design. Cool guy.

He comes over and I go, hey, man, you've got like a ton of work done.

I'm like, yeah, dude, this is like three weeks, four weeks of just being out

here like an hour.

I'd have like an hour in between meetings.

I'd run out there, grab the chains and just do stuff.

Yeah. And I go, I'm like, how much money did this save me?

You know, like in the grand process, that's the question.

And he goes, he looks at me, he goes, dude, like zero, zero dollars.

Yeah. Because when I pay him to come out, he's zero dollars to it.

Yeah. It's it's not.

So I paid him and he came out and he brought a little excavator

with like a little like like it's just it's just like an orange

and it can spin in 360 degrees.

This little head that he had.

Yeah. Super cool.

The guy picked up a coffee cup with it.

He's like super talented like this.

This dude was like, it's just showing off.

He's just super legit.

And then and then they brought like a little excavator or a little.

It had tank treads.

It was like you're a cat, but it had tank treads on it.

Well, I don't know what it's called.

Is it called the same things?

It's still like a.

No, it was a cat.

Did it have a bucket?

It was not. It's a cat.

So that's not a skid steer brand.

Catapular brand like your case skid steer.

That's what yours is, right?

Yeah. Well, skid steer is the term because a Bobcat.

Most people would call that a Bobcat, but a Bobcat is brand.

It's like it's like clean.

Yeah. Right.

It's it's a skid steer is tissue.

Bobcat is Kleenex.

You know what I mean?

And it is a yes.

If it had a front bucket and it had tracks, then it's a skid steer.

OK, so he brought over skid steer and he brought over the excavator

and he brought over two trailers and two trucks to take away all the brush.

It was six loads of brush by the way that that I cut.

And then like another couple, three, four that he cut.

So there was like tons.

I'm surprised they didn't have a big chipper.

I didn't want any of the chips.

I didn't want any of it.

And you can't get anything back there.

You can't get anything back in my backyard.

It's it's a really tight fit to even get the two ways.

Yep.

So they had to load it up.

They took it away.

And I watched him just go shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.

With this excavator thing.

He's just grabbing the buck door and just pulling it like this, grabbing and pulling.

He would pull it out, whip it, put it a pile, put it a pile, put it a pile.

And then the truck will back in and go, and I'm like, yeah, holy shit.

In probably 60 seconds, 60 seconds, he could have done what took me.

Yeah, weeks, weeks.

And it's all about having the right tool, right?

It's the right tool for the job.

Yeah, exactly.

And so he's like, yeah, you saved zero dollars, right?

And I'm like, fuck.

But and then they graded it and everything.

And it looks all nice back there and whatever.

But you have an appreciation for it now.

I do have appreciation.

You have the experience.

Absolutely.

But now that's I'm thinking of all the time I am not doing that now.

I can do something else.

I can go for I go for a walk with my wife.

I can work on the car.

I can I got to take the oil pan off this thing and scan it in and redesign it

and all these different things that I kind of want to do.

So I'm essentially buying my own time.

Yeah, I get I'm buying the ability for me to do what I want.

So I want you to think about it that way.

I can't afford my time back.

Yeah, I have more capability than I do money.

I think I think that's the best way of saying it.

I'm more capable than I am rich.

One of the things my grandpa was like, oh, man, I really wish I would have

was, you know, I asked him about all this stuff before he passed away.

But I was like, hey, you know, like, what do you wish?

You know, he's like, man, I really wish I could have built a car.

He never built a car.

He loved cars.

He loved watching me build cars.

And he was always super enthusiastic about it, like a project that he always

meant to like with the rabbit pickup trucks and stuff that he had around

and the engines.

And but he spent all of his time doing what you are doing,

which is which is labor intensive work that he didn't want to pay

someone else to do because he just he knew that if he could do it,

that he should do it.

And I agree.

You know, it's it's like you got paid to do it if you can do it yourself.

It's a yeah, it's it's a.

Diminishing returns, maybe it's a trap.

I don't know what you call it, but it's it's a lesson that I still am learning

like, oh, I don't have to do everything.

Yeah, it's usually a foregone conclusion for me that I do it.

And I don't have to do it.

You don't have to.

I know you are you are which is why the rusty old plow truck.

I haven't turned I that's not true.

I have turned wrenches on it.

But me to me to have been doing you have.

Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah.

Uh-huh. The stupid pedal extensions that almost killed me.

Anyways, I've usually just brought it down to the lower job, which is great

because the the guy's loved that truck.

Like the dude used to work at the the plant

when they were building them.

So he's all about it's the best truck you could ever buy.

If you're going to buy a new truck,

make sure it's an old 250 like no.

OK, judging by the way, this one is performed.

The answer to that.

Well, have you looked underneath this thing?

This is probably the rustiest vehicle that is still on the road.

Oh, I've been a Minneapolis.

That's not true. OK, it's it's very rusty.

But it's a plow truck and that's like one of the hardest things

you can do on a truck is like just use it to plow.

It's just it's hard on everything.

And so I was like, well, I don't want a nice truck to use for that.

But I do like drive it around occasionally

to let go pick something up or if I want to tow the boat somewhere.

So I'm trying to keep it somewhat maintained.

And last time I brought it down to the shop

because it like was going all over the road like this.

It felt like one of the wheels was maybe not fully connected

to the axle, we'll say, because it was just kind of like steering me

wherever it wanted to go.

Yeah, I brought it over. It's like, all right, guys.

Yeah, the hub is probably the wheel bearing or the hub is shot.

So they start taking it apart.

He calls me goes, yeah, you're right.

There is no bearing anymore.

Also, the U-joint for because it's solid straight axle.

But of course, it still has U-joints, you know, where the wheel turns

where it articulates, he goes, both sides are frozen up.

So not only is it trying to steer you wherever,

but then when you try to correct, you're fighting these U-joints

that are just like totally seized.

So it's like your steering won't return to center.

And what you don't have any faster scrap it.

No, no, no. Well, yeah.

Yes, basically, because then he keeps going, he keeps going.

And then he goes, also your calipers, your brake calipers are so rusty

that they are dragging the pad.

The pistons just aren't able to fully release.

So yes, you still have brakes.

But every time you hit it, it's just dragging the pad a lot

until like finally heats up enough to like maybe expand out.

He goes, so realistically, if I wanted you to be just like safe

to drive it on the road, he goes, you're at like.

Five, six grand and I go,

that's more than I paid for the truck.

So what is it going to take me to just get it back out of there?

Or should I I literally asked,

or should I bring you the title and sign it over?

Those like, yes, walk away.

What do you say?

He goes, we can we can put it back together.

We already have the new wheel bearing here.

He goes, I can have my guy throw the rusty stuff back in

and just put the new wheel bearing because there's no way to put it

back together without a bearing.

And so it was like seven, six hundred bucks, something like that.

I was like, fine, that way I can get it back.

I can use it on my property just to plow,

but it's not going to be a truck for using outside of the property.

So I need a truck.

And I hate rust.

So I've been looking down in North Carolina.

Oh, I see.

I see.

Now they have rust down there.

I don't think they have rust down there.

That's kind of, no, north of there, north of Virginia.

Yeah, north Virginia.

Yeah, they'll have some rust.

And I was going to, well, I probably won't get this

because it's probably not the greatest truck.

But I was like, you know, it would be a really cool truck.

I was just researching, like, what are these trucks

that were available, heavy duty truck.

They made a V10 six speed manual, four wheel drive,

single cab bench seat, short box, Ford F 350.

Yeah, that sounds awesome.

And I was like, how cool of a truck is that?

And I mentioned this to my dad and he goes,

you realize that's what my friend Keith

has sitting in his garage.

I was like, what?

And this is the guy that came over the other day.

This is my dad's old grade school friend

that lives close to me now.

And he is the guy that doesn't,

he's very meticulous and takes care of his things.

So this truck has 9,000 miles on it.

How many?

9,000.

2004, I think.

Yeah.

Wow.

And it's like absolutely pristine.

Here's the thing though, Jake.

I was like, have you heard of Bring a Trailer?

He's like, oh yeah.

Also, listen, you could plow with that on your property

and not be gray the truck because you're not

driving around the salt, nothing.

You're just driving around your driveway.

I do need to put salt down on my driveway.

So I'll probably get a salt spreader.

Yeah, that's the good idea.

So it is going to be salty.

But it's more than just the salt, Chris.

It's like there's so much force on the frame rails

and the plow and your ball joints.

It just, it does a number on everything on those trucks.

Like it just beats them.

Don't you have a skid steer?

I do.

Like why don't you just do that?

Those sucked to plow with.

Why?

Tractions?

You need snow tires or tracks then.

And I don't want to run metal tracks.

That's fun.

I don't want to run metal tracks

because that'll just completely destroy the asphalt.

So I'll need rubber tracks with maybe studs,

but then I can't use them anywhere else.

And also I would need at least a bigger blade.

Like the truck blade is like a seven foot blade.

People plow their driveways with their four wheeler.

With a bucket?

I can't plow with a bucket.

Either way, I need a blade.

Get a plow.

Get a blade for it.

OK, so now I need a plow and they don't go that fast.

The truck, I can literally cruise up at 30 miles an hour

and it's done.

It's so much faster.

So much more efficient.

Yeah, but then you've got this truck

that you're putting into a neighbor's house to do,

if I need to.

I can tow with it.

So you just told me you're not taking that thing

off your property anymore.

And now you're telling me you're trying to tow with that.

I need another truck.

No, this is a free tool.

This is just a free tool that's just going to stay here.

No, it's not totally free.

A, you have to pay for it.

B, you already have a skid steer.

So you are adding a vehicle to the fleet.

No, I'm saying the rust bucket, it's free at this point.

Either you want a new truck and it just stays here.

It's just going to stay out back behind the barn.

Admit it, you just want a new truck.

That's it.

You want to buy a truck.

I don't even want a truck.

I do want a truck.

You want to probably going to get that v10 truck.

You want to rather than I was like,

and then I was Googling, I was like,

would they make headers for these?

Like, do they sound awesome?

They don't sound awesome.

And also there's problems with the spark plugs.

Just like what a triton v10, right?

The triton v10, something about spark plug problems.

I don't know.

But I don't like diesels, Chris.

So I want the v10 and not the diesel.

Yeah, you want the one that doesn't work as well.

And a manual trans.

Yeah, I guess.

I don't know.

And then you should just use the skid steer.

Just use the skid steer.

Sure, I use both.

At least for one year.

Different purposes, different purposes.

Get a blade.

Here, I challenge you to get a blade

and do it one winter with just the skid steer

and see how it goes.

So slow.

It's great for shoveling or like, you know,

for scooping the snow and piling it.

I use that after I plow with the truck.

Then I go with the skid steer and I pile it up and move it.

How much have you got?

How much does it have?

Some come plow your driveway.

I think it's about 40 bucks a time.

OK, so let's say it's 50 bucks a time.

I don't like where this is going, Chris.

I don't like where this is going at all.

50 bucks a time.

You probably need it.

Realistically, you could just use the brush

thing on the skid steer for most snowfalls.

Going to be really nice.

Because that also gets it down to the ground.

Down to the ground.

Any ice.

50 bucks a time.

Let's call it five times a year where you actually need a plow.

Six.

Doesn't snow that much.

Even eight.

Let's call it 10 times a year.

You need a plow truck.

$400 a year.

How much is the truck?

Which one?

The V10 thing that you want from North Carolina.

I don't know.

I just found it this morning.

It's listed asking seven.

OK, seven grand.

That's 20 times.

That's probably.

It's going to pay for itself.

Might as well.

I love it.

Thank you for making the logical validation.

Cost to get it back.

It's going to cost you $1,000 to get it home.

Oh, yeah.

Those V10s are less fuel efficient than a diesel.

$1,000 to get it home.

There's going to be maintenance.

So rather than just maintaining the vehicle,

already own, you're going to be adding another vehicle.

I'm maintaining it.

Which one?

Exactly.

You're already maintaining the skid steer.

So it is not additional maintenance, really.

So you're adding a vehicle to the fleet

that is going to cost you money.

It's going to cost money to buy it and maintain it.

And it's a depreciating asset because you're

going to be putting miles on it.

Rather than just pay some dude $40 and then it's done.

And you don't have to do it.

You're not cold.

You're not driving up and down the driveway.

You don't have to put your freaking boots on.

So I bought this truck.

I don't even think I'd put the plow on it.

I probably would.

But I agree.

If I didn't need a truck, I wouldn't buy another plow truck.

I would just put a blade on.

Actually, the side-by-side is what I'd do

because that makes most sense.

I need to tow my boat.

Why?

And why?

Here's what you should do.

I have the answer.

As always, I have the answer.

Oh, I'm sure you do.

Always do.

You currently have a Macan.

That is your only modern reliable vehicle.

I need something else, exactly.

You crashed the perfect vehicle for this once.

Yeah.

You did.

Because you could have towed the boat around.

Get it where you need it to go.

Put it in the water.

I mean, it's not as nice as a one-ton diesel truck for towing.

No, but it's also useful for the rest.

Exactly.

I know.

Believe me, I know this, Chris.

You already crashed the perfect vehicle.

I know.

That sucks.

I agree with you.

It sucks.

Because you never, like, if it were me,

I wouldn't want to own another one.

Because I already own one of those.

So then it would make me want to get something else.

Yeah, exactly.

I don't think it's one of those.

Try and find that vehicle, Jake.

One that fits a family lifestyle for you and Nikki

and your kid.

Here's the thing.

This, the truck, a truck would, because I don't go anywhere.

I would, the only reason I ever drive anywhere

is to go to the hardware store and get something, which,

oh, a truck makes sense.

And, like, I can put Rhett's car seat

in the center of a bench seat.

I don't even want an extended cab.

I don't want a crew cab.

I want just a single cab, short box, bench seat, manual seat,

manual trans, manual seat, too.

Yeah, also.

We're calling that seat a babymaker seat.

That's what those bench seats are, babymakers.

Yeah.

That thing's got a babymaker in it.

Yeah.

All right, I think my dad's friend that

has the perfect truck.

He also spec'd it from the factory with hand crank windows,

because he wants it simple, light.

Doesn't want it to go wrong.

Wait, he's the original owner of this truck?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, he never drove.

Vinyl floors.

And he said he paid extra for, what was it?

It was something ridiculous.

Like, he paid extra to have the AC deleted or something.

Or maybe it was the radio or something.

I don't know.

I was just like.

I have another idea.

What?

What about getting something that's like not the scout?

Because that was just too slow.

Because you're going, because I've thought of this too, right?

But if we're talking about needs to be somewhat practical,

not a fun, like, oh, let's just make it like a fun thing.

I was like, ooh, maybe like an old, like, import

a defender or something.

Yeah.

Yeah, why not get like a Japanese SUV or like a.

Oh, that'll tow the boat.

A cake truck.

You already have one of those in your little driver.

That's what the side by side is.

Yeah.

What about like some sort of?

I know.

Help me out.

I mean, maybe a maybe a Land Cruiser, a Land Cruiser.

A G-Wagon would work.

I want to get just a G-Wagon expensive now for what they are.

I know.

But something like that, you know, like a VA, you know,

you know, something with some little bit of off-road pedigree

that we could go do something.

You know, I don't think that.

What are you going to do?

I don't go up to Spider Lake and drive around the mud.

I can do that here.

I do that anyways, and it's not for fun.

Yeah, I guess you're no fun, Jake.

I'm sorry.

You need to get it together, man.

I'm very if you don't start working on other fun stuff.

You know, it's OK.

Here's another.

We already messaged Jeffrey.

You guys have already done this.

Oh, yeah.

Now you need to message Jake to tell him he's

to start working on cars again, because otherwise he

shouldn't be on a car podcast.

Really, at all.

I mean, really, what do you even do in here

if you're not working on cars anymore?

Is that what you're going to tell me?

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All right.

Let me know what type of truck I should get.

OK, so I have been looking at the C10, though.

So first of all, because you were talking gauges,

the one thing I did is I got a actual year

correct 1964 Stewart Warner really cool

tachometer for the truck.

The problem is, those tacks back in the day

had to have a separate module, a driver module.

So you couldn't just, they had mechanical ones,

but I'm running an HEI.

The signal was too weak or something?

It was, yeah.

Something there had to be a signal modulator, more or less.

So those are unobtainium and never work anyways.

So I found a guy that makes just a little PCB board that

does the same thing.

And it's modular.

You can program it to do whatever you want.

And I saw that.

I got all the wiring correct.

It's all good.

It's on there.

It works kind of.

It's like, I adjusted it.

There's fine adjustments on the board itself

to be like, all right, up, down, whatever.

What'd you do?

Did you use a timing light to figure out what was accurate?

Yes, exactly.

So I'm driving around with the timing light on the dash too

and comparing them.

And it's like it's dead on down low.

But then it's like the multiplier isn't correct.

So like it, when I'm revving up at like four.

Did you get a V8 one or something on accident?

No, this you can adjust what the actual cylinders are.

And then it's supposed to make the correct signal

for this.

And but it, yeah, something doesn't work.

So I'm supposed to figure that out, which sucks.

So I also got new wheels for the truck.

Aren't you just going to MSD or something?

I already have MSD.

So why don't you just run the tach?

Oh, the gauge is the problem.

Yeah, I want the stupid period correct.

What does it rev up to?

The gauge?

Yeah.

Too much.

Don't worry.

What is it?

What?

8?

OK.

Yeah.

So why don't you just get like a, just rebuild it

with the guts from like a video that revs to 8.

Modern.

Just a modern gauge.

Yeah.

Just like maybe you can find something like that

that might work.

I don't know.

Or I can just message the guy that I bought the little thing

from and be like, this does not work.

Yeah.

And he can send me a new one.

That would also work.

I bought wheels.

Let's see them.

Can you pull them up?

I don't know how.

What do you mean?

You're on Mac.

Just go to your Photos app and then pull it up.

I don't ever use the Photos app on Mac

or on my computer.

I don't understand it.

I think send you a photo.

You're going to send me a photo so I can send you

a photo because I don't know how computers work.

I've already got it here, Jake.

Hold on.

I don't believe you.

I don't even know where the photo is.

Damn it.

I do.

I found it already.

Just chill out.

All right.

Tell me about these wheels.

So I wanted something unique and cool,

and I love steelies, right?

But I already have steelies on the truck.

I wanted them wide.

So these are 10 inch in the rear, 8 inch in the front.

And what I thought was always cool is like circle track,

dirt track racers.

What's that say right there?

The name of the adapter company?

I don't know.

They run what's called a wide five hub.

And a wide five hub comes from way back in the day with racing

because there's actually it came from like dump trucks

or old Fords were the one that made it.

So usually you have a wheel bearing on your axle

and then everything outset from the wheel bearing

is where your mounting surface and all your hub is.

The heavy duty version that like dump trucks use

as well as old Fords.

And then they modified for racing

is there's literally two bearings.

One inside, one outside, and then your hub is inside them.

So your hub comes out further than your wheel face.

And so it's called a wide five

because now you need to have provision

and space for this hub assembly.

And so that's why all of these guys ran

this old school cool like heavy duty thing

because you're going sideways and have all this force load.

So that's kind of the lore behind the wide five.

I like the look of them, it's cool.

And then I ran, I needed adapters

to run them on the truck.

And so that's what those are.

So I have basically what is more of like

a complex looking steely,

but it has some cool like motorsport heritage to it.

Yeah, it looks really cool, man.

I'm just getting waiting for the tires.

So I got those.

I love the wheel, it needs to go faster now.

Yes.

If you have those wheels on there

and the long two equal length headers just arrived

because I can't put the carbs on it

with the factory log cast manifold.

It literally would just like not

get through the carbs, right?

And not fit.

So I got those, which is cool.

And then from the headers back.

So this is a six into two.

So it's three merged into merge collectors is how it works.

And so I was trying to figure out like

this is the rabbit hole I started to go down to

and you'll like this exhaust is like super to me.

The sound of vehicle makes is almost more important

than how it looks.

Yeah, I'm with you.

It's really, really a big factor.

It's easy when it comes to like picking

off the shelf muffler for, for instance,

for like a Mustang,

cause everyone in their brother loves posting exhausts.

With a six cylinder dude though, it's, it's

I know more important things in the muffler.

There's more important things in the muffler.

Exactly.

So here are the factors that goes into it.

And my whole point of this is

you don't know what's going to sound like

cause this is such a unique setup, right?

So factors are like

You're talking to a guy who's been down this road.

I know, but so you have

and let me tell you about this.

Let me tell you.

My car sounds like shit at wide open throttle.

I know it does.

And let me help you.

It's off throttle.

My off throttle sounds really bad.

Yes.

So factors include, you know,

equal length primaries.

So you can go into unequal length as well.

So this is a whole thing where like

Honda guys have started creating.

Okay.

Let me back up.

Why does a Subaru like a WRX sound like a WRX?

That we're-

Because the headers are unequal.

Exactly.

So if you put an equal length header on a WRX,

they just sound like a Honda.

Yeah.

But some people love that verbal.

So now there's this whole like cottage industry

of making unequal length headers

for like four cylinders and everything else.

Because now you can have a Honda,

the verbal's like a Subaru

and at least it doesn't sound like a Honda.

Yeah.

So that you're losing power though,

because you don't get the effect of-

Well, if you have forced induction

with which many of these people do,

it doesn't matter.

Even with forced induction,

the-

It matters less.

Yes, you're right.

So anyways, that of course is a factor.

Then you also have your collector configuration.

So is it gonna be six to two?

Like mine is, is it six into one?

Is it six into three and then into one?

So you can like basically link two cylinders on each

and then go from that into that.

So like there's all these different configurations

and then like X-pipes to equalize flow

versus an H-pipe versus resonators.

And then you also have like the cone baffles.

So I was like, why isn't there a way to simulate

and like plug in configurations into some program

where we'll then make a synthesized sound of like,

okay, well this is how it should change it.

Even approximation.

That's why I looked at this.

There is.

And OEM's like manufacturers do it

with extremely expensive specialized

computational like flow modeling software,

which is not at all viable for DIY or they're like,

you know, enterprise level,

you know, seven figure software things.

Then I stumbled upon this guy

when I was Googling this

and he's a software developer who quote,

when he posted this on YouTube,

is quite possibly the dumbest project I've ever undertaken

and it was an Odyssey, blah, blah, blah.

It's hard to fully explain the depth of the rabbit hole.

I had to go down and ended up having to study

an entire thing like fluid dynamics, physics and chemistry.

He basically built exactly what I wanted

and it actually sounds amazing.

There's videos on YouTube.

He built this entire program.

You can put different parameters into it.

I haven't downloaded it yet.

But I love it because it is the most,

it's the nerdiest and most ridiculous thing

I think I've ever seen.

I'm pulling it up right now.

I'll pull it up and see if I can share.

Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.

How do I share my screen?

I don't know how computers work.

Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot.

Screen, YouTube, share.

Okay.

Oh my gosh, there's this thing.

Hello, everyone's noise out.

Oh, you're good.

That sounds like shit.

Oh.

So this is, this sounds like almost intake noise.

So he models all of it.

He goes into explain a little bit,

which is, I just want to get to the explanation part

because it's fascinating and then we can stop, but.

Well, get to the explanation part already.

I don't know where the hell it is.

Car engine sounds in games.

And when I used to play PlayStation 2 back in the day

and knew absolutely nothing about programming,

I often wondered why it wasn't possible

to just realistically simulate the entire engine.

Hey, how long is this changed?

I figured that it was finally time to answer this.

This is very long.

Okay.

So we don't need to watch it.

Stop this and just invite the guy in the podcast.

I did.

Okay.

He hasn't gotten back to me yet.

Okay. Well, we don't need to, we don't need to watch.

No, we don't.

It's very cool.

Please send us.

It's very cool.

Have you tried it?

Yeah.

No, I haven't because I don't even think it runs on a Mac.

It's like a full stack like software download situation

that you need to run it.

Well, send it to me and I'll try it.

I will.

It's very interesting.

It's totally fascinating and interesting

and like you can model different primary pipe lengths

and he's like, I even, yes, some of the weird people

that are trying to do stupid things to it,

like make unequal length and everything else.

He's like, the model fully holds up.

So it's great.

There's a later video where he's like,

so if you for some reason want to pretend

that you're in a RB's parking lot at three AM

and listen to hot boys rev their Hondas, here you go.

And it's a perfect representation and just like spot on.

He's like, I don't know why I built this.

This is a terrible idea.

What does he do?

What is his job?

Like, what does he normally do?

He's a software developer out of Toronto.

Well, it'll be interesting to see if he comes on the podcast

and if you send me a link,

I'll put it in the show notes

for people that are wondering who this guy is or whatever.

So at least send me the YouTube link.

I'll throw it in the show.

I will.

I will for sure.

So yeah, I don't know.

I'm done with you.

Never gonna get to that,

but it's fun to think about and buy parts for.

Yes, buying parts is the funnest part.

And they're just stacking up at this point.

All right, guys, next week,

I have no idea what we're doing.

Maybe we can talk Jake and put the episode together.

Otherwise we can do some news.

We'll see how it goes.

I'll talk about the truck I'm buying at that point.

Hopefully it's not the truck you've already bought.

I think it's such a terrible idea.

Everybody messes Jake, whether it's a good idea or not,

or hop on the discord and discuss in the podcast thing.

Like what am I gonna do with the F 250 at this point?

Just scrap it.

It's dude, it's junk.

It's done.

Just get rid of it.

It has a plow on it and it's on the property.

Until something else breaks or the frame breaks

or like the doors barely shut.

I mean, the thing is just done.

Yeah, it's like, yes, yes.

It's only a matter of time before that thing

is just won't even start.

And then there's 18 inches of snow on the driveway

and Nicky's pissed.

And just be like, I don't know, couple grand.

Here's a plow truck for your property.

Comes with plow.

Please take it away.

I mean, yeah, saddle it with someone else's problem.

Some other dude that likes working on that stuff.

All right, guys, that's it for this week.

You guys take care of yourself,

support the driver's club if you so choose.

We really appreciate it.

Yeah, we'll see you guys next week.

And then many of you at the rally

and wow, a little over a month.

Bye guys.

Take care.

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