The Wrangler is an off-road SUV made for driving on trails and rough terrain. People often choose it because it’s built for off-road use and is easy to work on. The podcast mentions it because it’s connected to the Rubicon Trail and related support.
The Range Rover is a large SUV made for comfort, but it’s also built to drive on rough roads. It’s a “flagship” model, so people often associate it with a high-end lifestyle. That’s why it might show up in a discussion about vehicles that can do both luxury and off-road driving.
The Toyota Tacoma is a popular pickup truck. Here they’re talking about the cab’s window setup—there’s a smaller middle window you can open, and they like that feature.
The Toyota Tundra is a larger pickup truck. The caller is complaining that his Tundra doesn’t have the same kind of middle window you can open that his Tacoma does.
“Shocks” are the parts in the suspension that help smooth out bumps and keep the truck from bouncing too much. The caller is saying the suspension/shocks feel different in hot conditions.
The Prius is a small car that uses a gas engine plus an electric motor to save fuel. It’s mainly meant for efficient city and highway driving. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because the speaker thinks it should get more options or updates.
The Corolla is a small, everyday car from Toyota. It’s built to be affordable and efficient for regular driving. The speaker brings it up because they want certain features or improvements to be offered on more common models.
LiPo batteries are the lightweight, high-power batteries many RC cars use. They work great, but they need the right charger and careful handling to stay safe.
Low voltage protection is a battery safety feature. It stops the RC from draining the battery too far, which can otherwise shorten battery life or cause damage.
In RC vehicles, the electronic speed controller is the box that controls how fast the motor runs. It also helps protect the battery by limiting how low the battery voltage is allowed to go.
Hobbywing makes RC electronics, including the controller that runs the motor. The host says Vanquish uses a rebranded Hobbywing ESC, so it’s the same basic controller inside.
The Vanquish is a luxury sports car designed to go fast and feel smooth while doing it. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because the speaker is talking about the car’s electronic control parts. The point is about what kind of technology is used inside it.
An owner’s manual is the instructions for a product. The host recommends the Hobbywing manual because the rebranded ESC works the same way as the original.
This means the RC’s controller stops the motor when the battery gets too low. If the battery is too depleted, the charger may not be able to restart charging until the voltage is corrected.
Cell voltage means the voltage of each individual battery cell inside the pack. RC batteries are often made of multiple cells, and one cell can be low even if the rest aren’t.
A storage charge is how you charge an RC battery when you’re not going to use it for a while. It’s meant to keep the battery from aging as quickly while it sits.
Anderson Power Poles are heavy-duty plug connectors. People use them on RC builds because they’re easy to connect and disconnect, especially when you’re swapping batteries often.
CAN bus is the car’s communication wiring that connects different computers. If something goes wrong, the car can light up lots of warning lights and different systems may act weird. The host is saying you can test by unplugging parts one at a time to find which computer/module is causing the problem.
Term
thermal strip
A thermal strip here is basically a section behind the dash that holds wiring/connector points. The host is using it to point out where the plugs are so you can check which module might be causing the problem. It’s a location cue, not a performance part.
Sway bars help keep the vehicle from leaning too much when you turn. Here, the host is talking about sway bars in the context of troubleshooting electronics/modules, not just suspension feel. They mention damage to the sway bar can change how the system behaves.
The transfer case is the part that sends power to the front and rear wheels on a 4x4. If the car’s electronics or wiring network has a problem, the transfer case can be one of the systems that gets affected. That’s why it shows up in their troubleshooting list.
Ohms are a way to measure how much resistance there is in an electrical circuit. The host is saying to use a multimeter and check the two wires, expecting a specific reading (about 120 ohms). That helps confirm whether the wiring/circuit looks healthy.
They’re checking the circuit with a meter and expecting a specific resistance number. If the number is off, it can mean something in the wiring or resistor isn’t connected right.
Term
two 60 ohm resistors in parallel
Parallel wiring means both paths are working at the same time. That usually makes the overall resistance lower than either single resistor, so the exact meter reading depends on how the circuit is set up.
These are special meter probes that can poke through wire insulation to get a reading. You still have to be careful where you do it so moisture doesn’t cause problems later.
Fuel injectors are electronically controlled valves that spray fuel into the engine. The host explains that injector firing depends on proper electrical characteristics (like resistance) and the ECU’s switching/grounding behavior.
OBD1 ports are older diagnostic connection points on the vehicle. The host is saying there’s a resistor box near those ports that changes how the car matches up with different injector types.
A resistor box is an extra electrical part that helps the car’s wiring “match” the fuel injectors. In this segment, whether that box is installed changes which injector resistance the system is set up for.
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Lexus GS350
The Lexus GS350 is a nicer, more upscale sedan made by Lexus. It’s known for having a V6 engine and for feeling more “driver-focused” than a typical family car.
The Camry is a mid-size car from Toyota made for comfortable everyday driving. It’s usually picked for smooth rides and practical ownership. In the podcast, it’s mentioned because the speaker says they own one.
The Ford F-350 is a big, heavy-duty pickup truck. Here it’s described as a 4x4 diesel (Power Stroke) long-bed, which is the kind of setup people use for towing and tougher off-road driving.
“38 inch” is the size of the tires. Bigger tires can help the truck roll over obstacles, but they can also make the truck harder to steer and put more stress on components.
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They really are.
What's really cool about what they're doing right now is they're kind of changing the
way the business is set in the sense that you get to now buy things all a cart.
Absolutely.
So if you want the upper frame bracket, you can just buy that.
Yeah.
If you want the lower link bracket because it has the integrated bump stop and it's super
stout and it looks really good too.
You can get just those before you would have to buy the whole kit.
Now you're going to be like, that's the bracket I want.
He's also brought joints in-house.
So now you can buy those all a cart from cartridge joints, rebuildable Johnny joints,
himes, offsets, all sorts of different ones.
Do you know what else he brought in-house?
Aluminum links.
Aluminum links.
That's pretty rad.
He found a way to source aluminum links so that there's no extra charge on the suspension
kits. They now all come standard with aluminum links.
I know I'm totally jealous.
And thanks to the a la carte system, you can also order aluminum links if that's all you
want.
So if you want to move your Toyota from Lee Springs to a link suspension kit, check out
four-wheel underground.
We want to check with you guys today about On-X Off-Road.
Definitely one of our favorite apps for off-roading.
Yeah. What's better is not only their software, but they also are doing a lot to be a part
of the off-roading community here in the country from the trail revival program, which I actually
got to be a part of and use to do some maintenance on the Rubicon Trail too.
They have an elite partnership.
So if you are an On-X Off-Road user, you can go to any of their 40 plus partners on there
and you get discounts with any of those partners.
So from bringing the people to the brands, to the listeners, to everybody involved, it
sounds like they really want to be a part of our community.
So let's be a part of theirs.
Go download On-X Off-Road from your favorite app store.
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poke some fun at Toyotas, or let us know how your JL came with a Starbucks membership.
Then leave it all on the line and we'll get to it on the podcast.
Keep crawling.
What's up, everybody?
Buddy, welcome to Snail Mail.
Snail Mail.
Welcome back to Snail.
No, I guess not back.
We had snails going on.
Yeah, we had snails going the whole time, but we.
We are back now.
We pre-recorded them.
So it's been three weeks.
I think so.
Three weeks, I think, since we've looked at the snail mail list.
And you'll hear, we guessed on Monday, but we can get, repeat our guesses.
I think we have about 60 and you said 60.
I was thinking 65 to 70 is what I said.
I'm curious, did we record how many we got down to when we did the mass
recordings to upload as we're gone?
I don't know if I did the math, but we can do the math.
We wanted to do a quick pause.
Let's see.
So I have 35 written above on the last one.
And on the first one we did, it said started at 50.
Okay.
So we started at 35.
We got six done.
So we ended around 29.
No, no, we, I think we started at 50 and we got, I don't know how many done.
And we ended at 35.
Gotcha.
Okay.
That's not too bad.
Because we did, you're good at math.
Well, we did 10.
And then we did four.
And then we did six.
So we did 20.
We should be around 30.
So we should be around 30.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
We're at 49.
Hey, not bad.
You guys were nice to us.
They were very nice to us.
I think they're talking on Discord more.
Yeah, that might be.
All right.
So 49 voicemails, three text messages.
Sounds good.
I do have something I wanted to play that a listener sent in.
Okay.
It was Nick from Montana.
Uh-oh.
And it just, made me laugh very hard.
And I think you'll pick it up.
I'm not going to explain the context behind it.
Okay.
But I'm curious how many people out there will appreciate the joke.
Ready.
I think.
A pleasure.
Thank you.
This ship that was involved in the incident off Western Australia this week.
Yeah.
The one the front fell off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's not very typical.
I'd like to make that point.
Well, how is it untypical?
Well, there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time
and very seldom does anything like this happen.
I just don't want people thinking that tankers aren't safe.
Was this tanker safe?
Well, I was thinking more about the other ones.
The ones that are safe.
Yeah, the ones the front doesn't fall off.
Well, if this wasn't safe, why did it have 80,000 tons of oil on it?
Well, I'm not saying it wasn't safe.
It's just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.
Why?
Well, some of them are built so the front doesn't fall off at all.
Well, wasn't this built so the front wouldn't fall off?
Well, obviously not.
How do you know?
Well, because the front fell off and 20,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the sea caught fire.
It's a bit of a giveaway.
I'd just like to make the point that that is not normal.
Well, what sort of standards are these oil tankers built to?
Oh, very rigorous maritime engineering standards.
What sort of thing?
Well, the front's not supposed to fall off for a start.
What other things?
Well, there are regulations governing the materials that they can be made of.
What materials?
Well, cardboard's out.
And?
No cardboard derivatives.
Like paper?
No paper.
No string, no sellotape.
Rubber?
No.
Pleasure, thank you.
It was involved in the incident off Western Australia.
That's not the fault.
The full video is awesome.
But yeah, I'm just going to leave that there.
Okay, no context to that.
How many people understand the joke?
It's lost on me.
It's lost on you.
Was there something associated with the show where the front fell off recently?
That was probably not supposed to have the front fall off.
Anyways, got it.
All right.
Got it.
Thank you, Nick.
Yes, got it.
That is funny.
All right.
So first voicemail up today is Mr. Donny Don.
Donny Don.
Toyota Don.
Iron Pig, FJ 55, Toyota Don.
Here we go.
Hey, boys.
It's Rover Don here.
Just listening here was April 3rd.
Nailed episode there.
And Jeff Morgan.
Jeff Morgan, you know what?
I can't even complain.
Jeff's just well done on the FD date.
That was a five point dunk.
Well done.
Although it isn't, you know, he's not wrong that, you know,
you look at back in the movies, the big baddie, the top guy, the evil villain,
often drives a Range Rover.
So, you know, I see that.
The thing is that, you know, in the real world, the baddies often drive Toyotas,
but it's not the top dogs.
It's the low level dirt people, the scumbags, if you will, the terrorists,
that they're usually driving Toyotas.
So apparently you start off in Toyotas and if you survive and thrive and get ahead,
you eventually, you know, aspirationally, you hope to become the big guy
and get your Range Rover.
You know, what that says, I'll just leave that to you.
We all know the suckage is real and keep going.
Talk to you later.
Do you know what he said?
I don't know what he's talking about.
It's like he was speaking English, but I couldn't understand what he was talking about.
I personally would rather be the good guy that drives the Aston Martins.
Just FYI, okay.
My name is James.
My name is James.
James Black.
All I got to say is go follow Cruisers of War on Instagram.
Okay.
Never heard of it.
Oh, I'm going to go follow it though, right?
Yeah.
I'm intrigued.
And well, and then you, and then both.
Both of you, Jeff Morgan from Oregon and Rover Dawn, Toyota Dawn, Rover Toyota Dawn,
will be happy.
Cool.
It'll be a meeting of smiles.
All right.
Cruisers of war.
Cruisers of war.
All right.
We'll go check that one out.
Because I'm leaning towards the fact that Jeff Morgan from Oregon is not a Toyota guy.
Why would you think that, Jimmy?
You guys can both meet on the same happy term.
All right.
Next up is MJ from Southern Cal.
MJ.
Maybe that's what Google says.
That's what Google says.
All right.
Let's see.
All right.
Hi Tyler, Jimmy.
Hi, Jimmy.
This is MJ from Southern California.
Hi, Tyler.
I'm the one that walked up to you at Overland Expo with my phone, or really my wife's song.
And I was like, is this you?
My phone was dead.
But I told you I had the answer to camping and glamping.
Yes.
Camping and glamping.
I think the difference is the food you eat.
And I'll give you a perfect example that we've experienced.
We've gone camping and well, go glamping.
We're out in the middle of nowhere and nobody brought us food.
Nobody brought food.
So we sent one car out and he came back with a set of hot dogs and two bags of bread.
That was camping.
We ended up eating hot dogs.
We were eating beef jerky sandwiches in the middle of the night because there was no food left.
Just beer and hot dogs.
And then I've gone to the same place, same timeframe.
And we're eating ribeye, crab legs, shrimp, that's glamping.
Doesn't matter who you with, where you're sleeping, it's the food you're eating.
And yes, you're going to ask, can you be camping and glamping on the same trip different times of the day?
Yeah.
I think you can.
Thank you guys.
Keep cross.
Sounds like I'm going to go throw up on a bear box here.
Well, that would you be camping or glamping if you did that?
If I throw up on a bear box, I don't think, I think I can do it in both.
It depends on if I was drinking pormosis or real mimosis.
Yeah, that's definitely up there.
So it all has to do with the food.
I disagree.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think there's amenities that make it also be camping or glamping.
But to the point, I mean, that is there, I mean, so let me ask, let me flip this around.
What if you're eating jerky sandwiches, but you're in an RV?
That's a fair point.
Are you camping or are you glamping?
So I like my conclusion better.
I'm just like, I'm not, I don't know, I don't really go crazy over food while camping.
Right.
You know, I do.
I know.
Right.
I was like, Jimmy just eats chips and salsa or chips and chips.
No, chips and more chips.
What did you end up getting?
Not salsa.
Oh, it was shrimp sauce.
Yeah.
The shrimp scampi sauce.
Scampi sauce.
That's what I think.
We sat down at this all you can eat buffet at the one of the hotels we were at, the casinos,
and we all go in and we're all just like getting like, we're starting off with salad.
Some of us started on this other stuff and Jimmy sits down at the table with us.
With chips and salsa.
Bowl, like a massive plate of just chips and salsa.
And we all just kind of look at him.
He's like, what?
So he starts eating this.
He gets like, we're talking, having a good time.
And we kind of, he's five, 10 minutes into eating his chips and salsa.
And we're like, how are the chips and salsa?
He goes, it's not salsa.
It's like the shrimp cocktail sauce.
He had a big old bowl of cocktail sauce.
He just said, they're still dipping his chips in it.
He gets cocktail sauce on his chips.
Oh my God.
That was hilarious.
It was worth eating chips.
I mean, I could have just eaten the chips, I guess, but I got the cocktail sauce.
So even if we're at it all, you can eat buffet.
There's some awesome stuff there.
Jimmy is going to eat chips and cocktail sauce.
Only because there wasn't peanut butter.
So I don't know for like people like Jimmy, I don't think food really matters
whether he's camping or glamping.
But I still, I don't know.
I'm still not sold on exactly.
I think you have the best definition of it so far.
What do you do versus what you normally do?
Yeah.
What?
Making it one level above your normal and your glamping.
Yep.
I will say going and just only taking a cab over to go camping in is pretty fucking nice.
Yeah.
If that's your normal, if that's normal, though, then it's camping.
All right.
Sure.
Oh, my eyes are watering.
Thanks, MJ, for calling in.
And actually, yeah, telling us who you were.
So that was fun.
All right.
Next up is beer Craig.
Beer Craig.
What up, buddy?
Here we go.
Hey, it's beer Craig.
I'm enjoying the new discord already.
I said I was going to call in last and then the same day I called in.
So that's cool.
But this is unrelated to anything that has been settled in downtown
podcast or any voicemail.
But I just want to speak my mind on something with Toyota.
I have a Tacoma, they have a Tundra.
And my Tundra did not have a manual, like middle window I could open.
My Tacoma has that little middle thing, but it has a button I can open.
And they, you know, redid the Tacoma with all this stuff.
You know, I got shocks in the heat and stuff.
Literally the only thing I want in my Tacoma is I want a Tundra.
But if I have a Tacoma, I just want the whole motherfucking window to roll down in the back.
Like a 400.
That's all I want.
I don't understand the strategy of the Tundra all the way down.
Forerunner all the way down.
The Tundra and the Sequoia are the same, but the Sequoia window didn't go down.
The Forerunner and the Tacoma are the same.
But then the Forerunner window goes down, but not the Tacoma.
I know this is a dead subject that's been beat to death.
Like I get it, but I'm just mad.
So I just ran.
I'm hot as hell.
And I just want the whole damn window to go down.
And so that, thank you for listening to my rant.
I appreciate it.
I'm going to nail this hang up right now.
I'm not going to fuck it up.
So keep prowling.
I appreciate you guys.
You're great.
Thank you.
Sorry, this is a dumb voice about.
I feel I don't understand why all trucks don't have that
because Toyota probably owns the patent on it.
That's the only reason I can't.
But so if that's true, why aren't they putting it on all trucks?
That's a great question.
I don't know.
Why is it only on the Tundra?
They should put it on the Prius.
They should put it on the fucking Corolla.
They should put it on everything.
I agree.
Yeah, it would be awesome.
Great.
Full cab airflow through there.
The only reason I can think that it's not on the forerunner still
is because the tailgate curves in a way.
No, the rear window on the forerunner rolls down.
On your forerunner.
But not fifth gens.
Fifth gens it does.
It does.
The sixth gen it does too, I believe.
Yeah.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know why.
I don't know why they don't put on the Tacoma.
That's a great question.
Why is it not on the Tacoma?
That thought never occurred to me before,
but I don't have a second gen to your third gen
or anything Tacomas anymore.
First gen or none?
None.
Never has there been a mini truck
or medium sized truck that has had that feature.
That's a good question.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Is there something in the back of the cab
and that back wall on Tacomas that keeps it from happening?
Is there not enough space to put the motors?
I think it's structural.
Structural.
They can't put it in.
Why is it not structural in the Tundra?
That's a great question.
I think they use that space between the cab and the bed
or the back of the cab,
but that gap has something structural that is there
and they never thought about doing it
or can't figure out a workaround for it or something.
And maybe the size of the Tundra cab is so big
that they can work around it.
I don't know.
Maybe that's something I could think of.
I don't know.
Let's call Toyota.
All right.
Let's call it a Contax.
Yeah.
We'll find out, Bear Craig.
We'll get to the answer to this.
Why the Tacoma doesn't have a roll-down back window?
Yeah.
That's a great question.
Never thought about that before.
Yeah.
I know when I was buying my Tacoma,
the power rear window option was there,
and I was like, it's so small.
Why the hell would I want that?
It's nice if you ever want to open it,
but there's no point in ever opening it.
Like the Dually, the Ford has the power rear window
and it's on like cables that wrap around a cylinder,
like a fishing line kind of thing.
Like a garage door.
Yeah, exactly.
And I've always been like, oh, that's kind of nice.
There's a button here to open the rear window.
And then I open it and I'm like, that's useless.
You can't do anything through that back window.
Yeah.
So I've gone to the, I have the manual one on my truck,
and the window is probably twice as big to open
compared to the automatic one.
Interesting.
Yeah.
And, but I'm to the point where I'm like, I just want,
just give me a blank full window.
Like I don't need, I never open the damn thing.
And it takes up like visible space, you know,
of looking out of my review mirror.
It's like, just give me a full window.
Like I don't care anymore.
So unless I get a wolf box, then I don't need it.
I almost mentioned that and I was like, we're not sponsored.
They are really nice though.
I will, I will say I'm sold on wolf boxes now.
So yeah, you like it after the whole adventure.
I need one for the, the Dooley.
Whenever I put the camper on, I have no view out the back.
That's true.
So I'm thinking about getting a wolf box just for the Ford.
So then make it a quick attachable item for when I put the camper on.
That's not a bad idea.
That's not a bad idea.
Also, fuck the tailgate plugs on Ford tailgates.
Fuck you, Ford.
Anyways, that's enough.
Okay.
I can't get them back together and I almost couldn't get them apart
to take the tailgate off to put the camper on.
And when I took it off, I didn't open the tailgate first.
So I had to put the plugs back together to get the tailgate open
cause it's electronically open tailgate.
Oh geez.
And you need electricity to open your tailgate.
So you can't get the tailgate off the truck
if you don't have the plugs plugged in.
So I tried to plug the plugs back in.
They won't go back together.
So I have to cut the fucking plugs off and redo them with different connectors.
Oh geez.
To get them to go back on now.
Damn.
That sounds fun.
Fuck you, Ford.
All right.
Next up, talk about rats.
Let's do a rant today sometime.
Everybody just call in with your rants
and we'll save all those voicemails.
I like it.
Next up, DOT Travis.
Oh yeah?
Nice.
Haven't heard from you in a while.
All right.
Here we go.
Hey, snail boys.
It's been a while, but I'm still here.
This is DOT Travis.
Hey, I was listening to episode 697
and Tyler was talking about his H10 OPTIQ and his battery troubles.
First, I love my H10 OPTIQ.
I just finished building the kit version
and it's a really good kit with some high quality parts.
It's a super fun rig to crawl around with in the rocks.
Check out some of the upgrades for the H10 from Night Customs,
especially the Terra Bug or the Terra Recon.
It's pretty awesome stuff.
Second, if someone hasn't already brought it up,
there are LiPo battery packs for RCs that do have a BMS,
like from Spectrum or Gens Ace.
But none of them that I know of have a built-in low voltage protection.
And the reason why is because the electronic speed controller
almost always does.
Vanquish uses a rebranded Hobbywing 1060 ESC and their H10 RTR.
So you can download the owner's manual from the Hobbywing website
if you need some literature on it.
The rebranded ESC is almost always functioning
the exact same as the name brand one.
But back to batteries.
I don't know your exact situation,
but provided your ESC cut off for low voltage properly,
it sounds like your cell voltage just dropped below
what your battery charger is happy with
and refused to charge it back up.
There is a non-manufacturer recommended way
to bring the voltages back up and save the battery
if that is the case.
It can be done safely,
but requires a device to check individual cell voltages.
It's not expensive,
but if you don't plan on getting more RCs,
then the new battery is probably the better option anyway.
Just remember to always put them on a storage charge
after you're done with them.
Anyway, I'm no expert,
and I'm still learning the RC hobby,
but it's kind of turned into an addiction.
And I just remind myself
that there are worse things to be addicted to.
And hey, if you guys want to check out some of my RC stuff,
I do have a dedicated Instagram for it
and find me on Instagram at rodknotrc.
Anyway, stay safe and see you boys later.
Nice.
Yeah.
There you go.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Cool.
Good information.
Yeah.
I have, I bought a lithium battery for my RC
and I charged it up once
and then realized that my Marlin truck
that I have doesn't have the right connector
to run a lithium battery.
And I never used it since.
I never converted it over to the lithium.
So it's in a little fireproof bag thing
that's just been sitting there.
So I'm sure that battery is done for now.
Not necessarily.
LiPo holds a charge for a really long time
and usually you can, they don't discharge far enough.
Yeah.
Where maybe they'd be dead, dead.
I guess I need to talk to vanquish
to see if they have a,
if we can figure out a way to connect those dots.
I just took the connector off the vanquish out on there
and put Anderson power poles on
and then cut the connectors off the battery
and put Anderson power poles on.
And okay.
So every time I get new batteries now and out,
I've just got to put power poles on them
instead of the connectors they come with.
So that works.
Cool.
Sweet.
Next up, Jeff Morgan for Morgan.
All right.
Here we go.
Yeah.
Hi, this is Jeff for Morgan.
Just heard your podcast where Tyler doesn't know
how to troubleshoot canbuffs.
And I had it as an issue to talk about
because something I see on the trail
is a lot of jail who are disabled.
All the Christmas tree lights are on in the dash
and nothing seems to be wrong.
And that's usually canbuffs.
If you go behind the glove box on a JLJT,
there's a thermal strip with a bunch of green connectors.
Those are all the canbuffs to different modules,
to your sway bars, to your transfer case, whatever.
If your vehicle won't start or won't run
or won't do something,
a quick dirty way to troubleshoot canbuffs
is to unplug each one of those one at a time
and see if you lose just the module to your sway bar.
But then the canbuffs may be grounded out
because you've smashed your sway bar
and it'll continue working.
The other thing is you're carrying a meter now
because you've been listening to me.
Take your meter out and check the two wires on there
and you should see 120 ohms of resistance.
Canbuffs is typically a line that runs down the vehicle
and then it tees off in the JL.
It's on that terminal strip.
And you should see 120 ohms
because there's two 60 ohm resistors in parallel.
So then it turns into 120 ohms.
So if you don't see that,
you've lost a resistor or broken the sever of the wire
to the resistor at one end of the vehicle.
Also check each wire to ground
and they shouldn't be grounded.
If they are, again, you're going to have funky readings.
The voltage when it's running,
you should see as little as two and a half volts
and something a little above two and a half if it's good.
So yeah, that's kind of along the short of canbuffs down
and dirty, but on the, what Tyler was talking about,
into a potted resistor board,
you can get those wire piercing leads for your multimeter
and you can go through the jacket that way.
As long as you do it in the spot where it won't get wet.
And I'm running out of time because landrovers still suck.
I'm not sure the time restraint is because of landrovers, but we'll take it.
Yeah, I'll accept that.
Great information over my head.
I don't even know what a canbuss is.
That's, I know of canbuss.
I still don't know exactly how they work though.
With typical electrical circuits,
you have an electrical circuit with devices on it.
You may have a resistor transistors or whatever in the way there.
For your basic circuits though,
that like on a 22RE, you've got voltage that goes to an injector, right?
And then it grounds the other side on a switching thing
in order to fire the injectors.
The ECU grounds the injector to fire it, right?
Okay, yeah.
And so like it's simple, it's voltage and ground
and you can tell if things are shorted.
You can tell if things are not reading voltage correctly.
You can tell if like on your, those are the resistors.
Let's just take the injectors for a 22RE.
There's I believe a 10 ohm injector and a 13 ohm injector.
I think that's correct.
And they have an extra resistor in the older generation to it.
That's that box that's right up next to the OBD1 ports.
Okay, the resistor box there.
If you have that resistor box there,
then you have the lower resistor injectors in the 22RE.
If you have that resistor box is not there next to your OBD1 ports,
then you have the higher resistance injectors for the 22RE.
But you can tell all that by just measuring ohms and everything.
CAN bus, I want to say CAN bus has like a programming aspect to it.
It's a solid state that runs run by a source code.
And then you can program that source code to do
different things depending on the incoming signals that it receives.
That's my understanding of CAN bus.
I could be completely fucking wrong on that though.
Yeah, so I have no idea.
I wish I knew more about CAN bus is because I know that they are a
multi-logic kind of thing and you could program them to do a variable
multitude of different things.
So I would I wish I knew more about them so that
A, I knew how to troubleshoot them and B knew about their capabilities
so that I could utilize them.
So Jeff, if you know more about CAN bus, let's have an episode about CAN bus education.
There you go.
Sounds good.
I will just put my dunce cap on and sit in the corner.
No way.
You pick up on stuff pretty quick.
Yeah, except for electronics.
I don't know.
I'm good with mechanical electronics.
I'm not the best at.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, even with, I mean, yeah, there's a testament there to the
mechanical and at Trail Hero X, I was like, Jimmy's on this.
Jimmy's doing this.
Everyone's like, no, we can do that.
I was like, no, you guys want Jimmy on this.
Yeah.
And then you kind of turned around.
You looked at it for a little bit like, I got it.
I was like, see, we want Jimmy on this.
So that'll be episode seven or eight and maybe nine or 10.
There's 10 episodes, I think, this season.
Anyways, next up.
Yes.
Transcription not available, but they called back right away.
Okay.
And it says it's Brian from Utah.
So are we going to do both?
Let's do the first one first.
Yeah, it's the same caller.
Okay.
He hit the three minute mark and called back.
All right.
So here we go.
What's up snail boys?
Brian from Utah here.
Hey, I feel like Jimmy and I might have a few things in common.
I own a couple of Toyotas.
I got a, well, a fancy Camry, also known as a Lexus GS350 and a
08 FJ Cruiser that's mostly stock.
And I also own a, what, the four by four version of Clifford,
97 F350, four door, four by four power stroke, long bed.
I think it's on like six inches of lift and runs like 38 inch
Toyo MT's or something like that.
Anyway, I'm crazy that I can know all this stuff about you guys and
you didn't even know I existed until just now.
Anyway, just wanted to call in and give you guys a shout out and a
couple of other things.
I got some topics that I like to maybe call in here and there for
and we'll, we'll see how it goes.
But for now I wanted to give a shout out to Nick from Montana.
That guy, oh my gosh, when he referenced you guys as Wafflecocks,
I just about died laughing.
I'd rewind the podcast a couple of times to make sure I heard what I
thought I had heard.
I don't encourage him.
On that note, I wanted to give a shout out to the assistant and the
secretary for sticking around and putting up with you two part
snippers and fix and giving you the time to do the podcast because
very entertaining and it's got some good information.
Love the axle talk.
Even some of the radio talk pause here so Jimmy can groan.
Anyway, I got to be honest.
Some of the radio talk does go over my head.
Maybe that's because I'm similar in stature to Jimmy.
But hey, you know what?
Some of us, Jimmy, we just got to be dead average for the American male.
Like not everyone can go running around like an oversized Gumby.
To throw the average off.
Anyway, for what prompted me to call in boys, I was listening to Nick
Chastise, Jimmy on I think this episode 684.
And he was, you know, he didn't wear a mask while he was
showering you Tyler with glowing hot metal fragments.
And I get it.
Like who doesn't love shower in their buddies with metal sparks?
But seriously, you need to wear protection while giving shower.
Well, sorry, while giving Tyler a golden, I mean, glowing shower.
One more pause here for you.
But Jimmy, the mask that I use, I think it's a parcel is the brand.
I think it's a PT-101.
It's a full face shield.
It feels, you know, like a paint mask, if you will.
And you can put canisters, different canisters on each side.
You know, depending on what you're trying to filter out.
Not too bad of a price.
It's probably around, I don't know, 100 bucks, I think off Amazon.
I think is where I got it.
Definitely protects again.
Hit the three minute mark.
All right, let's keep going.
I'm sure he's going to keep going with that.
All right, here we go.
But yeah, a fun shout out so far.
Yeah.
Howdy boys, Ryan from Utah again.
Sorry, ran over the three minute mark.
I don't know if you've got the model number and the make of the mask.
It was, sorry, it was a parcel.
P-A-R-C-I-L, link a PT-101.
Got it off Amazon.
About a hundred bucks or less, I think.
And anyway, yeah, it's been a good mask.
I enjoyed it and hope that helps.
Hope that informs some of your decisions.
And we'll talk to you boys later.
Take care.
We cannot let him and Nick get together.
I mean, Utah and Montana aren't terribly far away.
I was laughing very hard.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Good call, Brian.
You got us both smiling and laughing.
That's for sure.
Fun shout outs there.
Not sure about the Nick one,
but I'll make sure to play that for the assistant.
And I'll check out the partial PT-101 mask for sure.
I do have some like N95s that I've laying around the shop
that I use when things are getting bad.
But I guess I need to use them more often.
I've got no comments.
There's no other way to follow that up.
Follow that up.
No, no.
You don't have any comments on protection or anything?
Nope.
All right.
I guess you're going to get a golden-shimming glowing shower.
Glowing shower.
Father's Day is coming up.
You might get lucky.
Maybe.
Hopefully.
One of the goals of Father's Day.
All right.
Shall we leave it there?
That was a good one to end on.
Yep.
Well, we'll end on that one.
We'll start it back up with Richard from Atlanta next time.
All right.
And interesting.
Jason from OCD Innovations called in after Richard.
We'll get to those next time.
You guys, everybody out there, have a great weekend.
Thank you so much for calling in.
It's been like Jimmy, we said three weeks,
three and a half weeks since we got to listen to voicemails.
And they're a lot of fun.
Yes.
You guys, you guys are great out there.
So keep calling in.
Thank you, everybody, for getting to interact with you guys some more.
So I appreciate it a lot.
Definitely.
And if you guys want to get some interactions with us quicker,
go over and join the Discord.
The link is down in the show notes.
So you can go click on that and then jump over there.
And there's always some fun conversations happening,
especially from Nick from Montana.
So, you know what?
If you hopefully, Brian, you don't join
because we probably would not be able to talk after that.
No, they're going to go off.
Because yeah, you guys are going to be talking too much.
Therefore, we're not going to be able to chat.
I'll have to start another Discord.
Yes.
Just for them.
Just for them.
Perfect.
That's funny.
All right.
That does it.
Everybody have a great weekend.
We'll see you guys Monday.
Got a really cool interview for you and Memorial Day weekend.
So be safe out there.
Everybody make it back home for Monday.
And or I guess technically Monday is still a holiday.
So you could be out enjoying it still.
But in the case we might see a Tuesday,
I don't know what you're doing,
but we'll still release on Monday.
So that does it.
Have a good weekend.
Be safe.
We'll see you guys soon.
Bye bye.
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About this episode
RC and off-road gear take center stage, starting with Four Wheel Underground’s shift to an à la carte suspension ordering approach—plus aluminum links included. The show then pivots to RC battery and electronics basics: LiPo packs with BMS options, why chargers may refuse after low-voltage cutoff, and practical storage advice. A caller also shares RC build and connector upgrades. The episode later turns into truck-cab vent/window nitpicks and troubleshooting, plus a quick maritime safety tangent.
Caller 2: MJ from SoCal concludes the Camping vs Glamping
Caller 3: Beer Craig says he likes the Discord
Caller 4: DOT Travis talks about his love of RC Cars
Caller 5: Jeff Morgan from OR tells everyone how to solve the canbuss issues
Caller: 6 Brian from UT gives some important shout-outs
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