Improvised Tie Rod: A Lesson Learned

As we set out on our adventure, we decided to take matters into our own hands and improvise a tie rod instead of waiting for parts to arrive. We built a junk tie rod, which was supposed to be a temporary solution until the real thing came along. However, things didn't quite go as planned. The makeshift tie rod kinked forward, and we were left wondering if it would hold up under the stresses of the trail.

The Humble Beginnings of a Bad Tie Rod

I remember thinking that our temporary tie rod was the perfect solution. I was convinced that it would be able to withstand the demands of the trail. However, as soon as we started driving, I realized that my assumption was wrong. The tie rod had kinked forward, and I was left struggling to get it back on track. Tom, who had also built a makeshift tie rod, seemed just as frustrated as I was.

A Lesson in Admitting When You're Wrong

As we sat there trying to figure out what to do next, Tom finally admitted that his tie rod wasn't going to work. He told me that he always hated it and had warned me from the start that it was a bad idea. I have to admit that I didn't listen to him at first, but I'm glad he spoke up when he did. It takes a big man to admit when you're wrong, and Tom certainly fits the bill.

Welding Straps to the Tie Rod

With our makeshift tie rod still malfunctioning, we decided to weld some straps to it in an attempt to stabilize it. This was a last-ditch effort to get us back on the trail without having to go all the way back to town for parts. We worked quickly and efficiently, knowing that time was of the essence.

The UPS Delivery

Just as we were finishing up our repairs, the UPS truck arrived with our much-needed parts. We breathed a collective sigh of relief, knowing that we could finally put our makeshift tie rod behind us. The new parts would allow us to build a sturdy and reliable tie rod, one that wouldn't let us down on the trail.

Trial by Fire

With our new parts in hand, we were eager to test our repair job. We headed out onto the trail, determined to see if our makeshift tie rod had taught us a valuable lesson. As we made our way up the mountain, I couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation. Would our repairs hold up? Would we be able to tackle the challenging terrain without any issues?

The Chute: A Test of Endurance

We decided to take our buggy on the famous Chute trail, known for its slippery conditions and steep inclines. As we climbed higher, the snow started to fall, making the trail even more treacherous. We were all a bit apprehensive about taking it on, but we knew that we had to be brave if we wanted to make it through.

A Close Call

As we made our way up the mountain, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. The traction was poor, and I could feel myself sliding backwards as I tried to push forward. Suddenly, my buggy started to spin out of control, and I knew that I had to act fast if I wanted to regain traction.

A Missed Opportunity

I remember thinking to Rory that he should have spotted me through the turn so we wouldn't have missed it but unfortunately Rory was not in town that day. This experience taught us a valuable lesson about the importance of having a spotter on a challenging trail like this.

The Trail Rating: Two Thumbs Up

As we finished up our repairs and headed back down the mountain, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. We had faced our fears and overcome them, and we emerged victorious on the other side. Our makeshift tie rod may have been a disaster, but it taught us an important lesson about perseverance and adaptability.

The Drive-Trap: A Success Story

I'm happy to report that my drive-trap is now working perfectly I heard it a tiny bit before this rain started coming down we're doing well Tom thinks so does Jamie's all right thanks for calling I told them that I was going to do the shoot but they said "no no no" that's the only way we were gonna know.

The Weather: A Perfect Day

As we looked out at the beautiful scenery, we couldn't help but feel grateful for the perfect day. The sun was shining, and the air was crisp and clean. It was a great time to be outdoors and enjoy nature. Despite our earlier setbacks, we knew that we had made it through a challenging trial and emerged stronger on the other side.

A Day of Failure: A Story of Resilience

As we looked back on our adventure, we realized that it wasn't just about the tie rod or the drive-trap. It was about how we handled ourselves in the face of adversity. We learned to be patient, adaptable, and resilient, qualities that will serve us well on all our future adventures.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood morning it is another day of working in the shop we are working on the banana but first we've got to clean up this disaster of a mess the weekend came like it blindsided us and we had jobs we had editing we had thrashing on the banana going there's all kinds of stuff happening and I wasn't here for it I haven't been here since Wednesday did you get your calves branded no it was too cold cold that's too cold that would have warmed him up Easter Jeep Safari is right around the corner and I have got to challenge Colt from bleeping Jeep to a wheel off XJ style well he's got Rat's Nest I'm really excited about this I'm really excited about this new welding helmet the school was like not my thing but America so the school's going in the record yeah all right so TomTom asks you what trail we should test the banana on it was between slip lock triple sevens and the shoot you guys responded you wanted to do all of them mostly triple sevens but some of you even wanted me to drive backwards at the shoot like Rory does harder thanks Rory for doing that so now we're gonna have to do it but we can't do any of that until we get this running okay we have got stuff all over the western United States that we need picked up for this so we're gonna be sending Lizzy she's gonna be going to ace she's gonna be going to the parts store O'Reilly's probably to get some parts for this we've got Parts at six state that need to be picked up and parts at Adam's drive shaft in Las Vegas we don't have time for them to overnight them Liz needs to run down there and grab those it's going to be a fun day this is a true table for Corvair heads but since I'm out of the Corvair head rebuilding business we're gonna repurpose it yeah so we've got to build you gotta build a thing got a couple questions on where we got this little Welding Table from right here and this is from Miller so it's a good sized table for a crowded shop okay Tom's suit up we're welding a jig foreign so what we're doing here is we're re-drilling these hubs so that we have the correct bolt pattern the o5s is a metric and we don't want that we want the eight and six and a half Barnes makes this awesome jig for doing this I think you can do it freehand with the drill but we're going to put it in the mill because we like precision and accuracy this this Mill is not as bad as the drill press it is one step above the world's worst drill press so it'll probably get this job done it's a little sketchy but I think it'll get it we got the stuff at O'Reilly now my ace and I need to get a snap ring for this axle Matt told me to get the size bigger and the size smaller but this is the biggest they got and I think I think it's the right size so I'm gonna get two of these because that's what we need and we'll see if they fit out again and it was the biggest size that I could find be it that's it not gonna work perfect awesome well it worked yeah so let's see the bolts we got the bolts right here try one in there get the right one perfect it came in a two-pack they got the right flavor of latte okay this is the break Hardware stuff all the squeal clips what kind of banjo fitting does it take standard so wait a minute you had us get Ford rotors we're gonna have to drill out the rotors it's not gonna bolt on Ford rotors won't bolt-on they won't slip on because we're drilling out to them to the state get them on there let's see they might they might they might because they might be Hub Centric all right I think they fit yeah they fit now I think they're gonna fit they almost fit they're not you don't think they're hub-centric it looked like it was loose yes they are up-centric so we can just drill these holes out bigger okay I'm heading out all right drive safe see you in a bit we did it we got one done I think so while Tom sets up the next one I'm gonna start pounding these out and pounding them back in oh yeah you got a way to do that no I'm nervous this is the hammer that's not it's too little foreign we do need to get a new one of these we're going to need to go to Schultz since it's definitely reaming it though for two and 10 without drill bits Shopkins this is working all right we're all the way down I'm happy with that we just have to ream all these holes and press these in and we'll be good we'll be good so we did all that Precision work so we can just grab the drill and ream them by hand yes let's go get the drill bit so even though wallowing Works Tom says we're not gonna do it we're gonna go get the right size drill bit we've got to go to lunch in a minute that's when we'll get the drill bits to finish the hubs but while we're waiting for lunch to get here we're going to just install one of these hubs to see if we're smart enough to do it kind of doing things out of order just because that's how we do it to confuse you let me see the boys looks like it may line up all right so I think we've got these ball joint deletes stacked up correctly we're just gonna tighten them up and see if they still work when we get them tight this whole setup is made by American Iron and if you'd like to go check out their parts you can go to their website right here yeah that's not working is it this is the perfect project for us because there's a little bit of precision and a little bit of just winging it there's a lot of wing in it one of them come right out all right we have two hubs re-drilled completely so let's get the red lock tight put these studs in they're all in that bin and then we can attach it to the knuckles yeah the permanency of red Loctite okay pop that thing in here we're gonna see if these actually fit oh they fit never had a doubt hey Tom what's doing I'm pulling out the rag that was stuffed in here to keep all the slag from welding out of the axle it's a good thing we did that yeah it was genius ooh that one got crispy never hammer on a bearing mat that's what we read all right let's get that long axle let's put this together okay remember we got to check the gears first second third fourth reverse this is where we find out if we measured cut and fabricated the housing properly it's all got to come together right now or not foreign so here's the question are we through the center of that joint me too okay so is that binding up what are you feeling there yeah it's fine and this won't quite even close so I think a quarter inch will do it let me show you what's going on with these inner axles so all right so ignore ignore these outers we're not using that style anymore we're using this style so we narrowed the housing so that we could use this is a snow King axle out of a 78 Ford 78 Ford snow King and then this is the Yukon replacement axle for the the axle that we're using so because the way these seals work on these the seal surface is just barely machined down from the shaft size and they they made the seal surface really long so we cut an inch off of this and we're still really happy on the seal area and if we weren't we could machine this take this to a machine shop and they would machine that down to get it further the problem with this snow King one is the axle slightly smaller diameter than the seal so once we're off the seal area we're off the seal area yeah all your gear lube would just leak out the end of the axle too that would be sad what do you want to take off like an eighth of an inch like a yeah let's take off an eighth of an inch and see what happens see if it goes together if it does then we're done yeah we're done till it starts leaking foreign we got a false reading last time yeah you got more to take off than or did you not push it in all the way I pushed it in all the way let's bolt it up you're fine now we can put the c-clip on here yeah should we grab that you want to do it is it coming back apart it shouldn't be coming back apart for any reason okay yes so these holes are too big and sloppy anyway on the other one we're just making them bigger and sloppier so they fit the new lug pattern that we put on if you're not sure if we should be doing this then you definitely shouldn't be doing this okay cast iron drills so nice look at your chips yeah all right let's do a hub assembly and let's look at the brakes hmm is it gonna work I think so I'm just figuring out how okay if you push it in it's disengaged so right there isn't is engaged I'm trying to turn the whole axle shaft but if I push it in it's disengaged no I think we got that figured out we need this cap with or without instructions man no one no instructions oh they come with their own Molly grease yes black molly yes looks used huh okay there it goes feels good what does it say it is okay it's Freewheel it's locked since we're on Final assembly I'm going to tighten these up to like a real Speck this a little tight but now and now it's working just like it should that looks comically big on this little Jeep let me tell you the positives and negatives as I see them positive this is going to lower my center of gravity another positive it's going to put more weight on the front wheels which will make it better for rock crawling like climbing up things and getting over them negatives is it's more weight just more weight and that's negative in the sand but the banana does phenomenally in the sand so I'm thinking a couple hundred pounds of extra weight is a good trade-off for better breaks more stability and better uh rock climbing ability there's one more huge one you're never going to break U-joints and Axle shouts again oh yeah that's another big big one so yeah I'm trading a little bit of weight for a lot of good things it looks new and fancy yeah looks heavy be a lot stronger big old brakes oh our axle shaft arrives it's a spice or something no time hey nobody got time for that that's what we needed this yes no indication I'm gonna try Grease foreign we are 11 and 9 16. we are nine and five eighths 905 eighths is right there we're bottling it's time to break out the old grinder this is a little not one of Matt's little tricks that is not approved but it works well here it is such as it is never do this yes yeah if you're not okay with this please don't do this we're not okay either but we've already done it he wasn't even here to celebrate with me it went in all the way I think it did significantly further further than it did pull it out and see if the seal marks let's get a magic marker on those all right here's the our machinist blue dye I don't know it looks like the same spot but well I was able to pull it out that time I guess we should have measured that oh we can we have that measurement yeah we're definitely we're definitely in further so let's see what we got yeah let's put it together okay put that bearing on yeah it looks it looks seated seated all the way around okay now is it move back and forth okay it's not binding anymore no binding we probably didn't need to do that spline trick I don't know if we need anything uh we cut an axle we didn't need to on that side made some splines on this one we didn't need to we just like it was turns out it was just our incompetence now that we got this done we're going to continue on with the brakes just like we did on the other side all right after driving two and a half hours to Las Vegas I finally made it I just pulled into Adam's drive shafts pick it up looky there it says Adam's drive shaft thank you appreciate you coming down lucky there Adam's drive shaft now let's head back to the shop and we're gonna get there just like that let's go give it to Matt look at that thing yep I need you to load the record back on the trailer oh I love this drive shaft what Tom's doing right now is calculating the new volume of the front calipers super boring stuff and making sure that we have the right master cylinder so that when we step on the brakes the Jeep stops I think it's very unnecessary it's absolutely necessary that we know exactly how much better our pedal feel is going to be after we put in this master cylinder I gotta walk around and figure out what we need points all right we increased our caliper diameter our caliper Area 15 but we increased our master cylinder 26 percent so our brakes are going to feel 11 better because they're not adequate right now because we've got the stock XJ master cylinder and we've been running it that way for a long time and we had the bigger disc brakes up front and we added the big disc brakes in the rear the banana brake pedals always felt a little like well like a rotten banana um now it's going to be like a green banana we showed a video of uh peanut and Max and we didn't show lady and there were lots of concerned comments about what's happened to lady we even had people that like rest in peace lady they just don't know the Ed's over feeding you and you're obese check the rear diff check the transfer case install yolks we need uh brake hoses pinion seal differential vento drag link tie rod we're gonna need to uh charge Ori put Titan leaks slash adjust rear Rock lights the banana has a longer list than the record now foreign so there's a reservoir right here that has to be full of oil to lubricate these pinion bearings and if you just fill the differential and drive down the road it might be a while before this bearing sees any lubrication so I always like to leave the seal out until I'm ready to fill the differential and I fill this spot first that's fine okay go ahead and spin it one more time and oh that's looking good that's it put this on smoking you you should never do that to your gears what Hammer them like that why not because it destroys them we should have torqued that one for sure that bolt should have been torqued I've been brought in the tool to torch he's all worried about breaking period but he has no concern for just totally hammering on the gears I've I've never not done it that way I've set up dozens and you can say oh yeah well you broke the 44. Yeah I broke the 44 with 37 inch tires 300 horsepower and years of day in day out abuse what's next drive shaft let's put that drive shaft all right Adams was super fast we've ordered this drive shaft he called me two hours later said it was done we sent Lizzy down to pick it up here it is going in not a lot of wiggle room I'm hoping this all fits okay Lizzy go read the list and Let's cross off some things check rear dip cross it off install yolks cross it off front drive shaft cross it oh we gotta find them so go out in the bin and look for one that says brake parts or something like that okay so Lizzy what we're looking for out there remember there's lots of stuff out there we're looking for this brake hose out there it'll look brand new got a banjo fitting on this side so there'll just be a hole through it and then that on that end yeah because she's out of Salt Lake this one is the one for the Jeep there's only one this is the one this is it you found it we had one let's watch this drive shaft do you want to come spin this hub okay cool okay rotate it and I'm going to polish this weld okay so it's just barely touching this link that's a full stuff it can't get any worse than that because if this wheel drops it gets better it gets better the other one rubbed also that's the thing that's the thing about things sometimes they rub okay what's next lunch okay drive shaft is done all right let's get real here for a minute I've got to steer this XJ I'm gonna have to do it with a drag link over here to this knuckle and I'm gonna have to do it with some other stuff like we got some parts here we've got this part that doesn't fit without some misalignment spacers we got this part that doesn't fit unless we put an insert in and then ream it out for this angle we've got these parts that won't fit unless we have misalignment spacers and a stepped tie rod so what we're doing right now is all these parts that don't fit we're going to do some Machining Machining to get them to all work together and steer this thing see how that works see how that's the right thickness oh it's perfect I eyeballed that and it's perfect it was I can't believe how good this is doing so let's measure we're going to measure out here a little bit 0.9754 we're going to measure back in here a little bit 1.05 so how far off I'm in a couple thousands like 60 well that one that's not where the bolt you're measuring the wrong spot okay I gotta go call another shop Jolene was helpful but I got one more place to call okay okay Kobe you're in charge and I'll let him do anything crazy okay so these actually go in from the bottom right there I want you to see how precise that is so here's what Tom may not take be taking into consideration the only interface is between this and this taper so it doesn't even matter if I get this perfect because this is the final product right there so Tom knows a lot about precision and measurement but he don't know nothing about farmer Machining shade tree mechanics that's something I know a lot about this needs to weld in so it needs to be welded on the underside and what I'm doing is I'm doing a counter bore here so we can get a nice bead around the top once this is welded in then I can hone it ream it to the final taper the product will be legit she is right there there's the weld we need to fill so I was getting this all ready to weld up and Tom came out and looked at it and said he wanted to TIG weld it so we're gonna let him do that I got this all chamfered out so he can just fill that with Weld and make it look really good look at that Lizzy do you think we should take weld out yes they're multimatic 220 welder it's a MIG welder and uh and a TIG welder so this is going to be sweet in our shop because you can switch back and forth between the two super quick this is the same welder that Lizzy tested at SEMA just apparently yeah so we're going to give it a try in our shop it worked good down there at Sema wider than I thought transfer case I'm going to work on the Ori bracket bolt that one sounds easy to me I just want to make sure that this is out of the way so it doesn't grind those so I'm going to grind those off really quick there's one there's two somebody said that you're wearing off onto me and I'm being more careful oh wow but I think it's the other way we're gonna we're gonna land in them Lizzy I need you to vote is Tom adopting more of my practices or am I adopting more of his I think you're both there you have it folks we have inside information right there from Lizzy how do you feel about that I feel like it's gonna work just fine I think you're right okay it's not perfect but I also haven't TIG welded in a long time cool it looks really cool I think it's gonna work no it looks really hot super hot I've got to figure out how sharp these can turn and put steering stops on them and then once that's done I can figure out how to set up my Ram Center my steering all that stuff all metric how are we doing you're gonna hit the Nook you're hitting the knuckle it doesn't fit I can grind the knuckle what about the break I'm on the break it's just one thing after another all that work we just did for the high steering gonna work how far off we are from fitting these can definitely be ground I'm not worried I wouldn't worry about grinding the caliper but that's not the problem look this is where this needs to be cut out that what so you need Wheels with a totally different offset I think these are designed for like 42s or 20 inch wheels what if we go grab a wheel off a super duty or a spare off the super duty and stick it on here I want to try the more Vera ones first significantly I mean noticeably different offset hitting something yeah it's a little bit it's clearing the break so these wheels will clear the brake calipers they will not clear they won't clear this all right we don't need this High steer arm right here so we're going to cut it first and see if we have a possibility of fitting over the brake calipers if we do then I'm formulating a plan over there we're gonna make this work this might clear the break now that it's not getting a weird angle on it a victory I've waited three and a half hours for a victory and I just got one okay 0.782 okay that's our baby right there drilling holes is one of Matt's strengths he's impressive with the drill noticing how well people drill holes is one of Tom's strengths it's like a human drill press like a MAG Grill activity needs nothing to magnet onto that's what I want to be done okay now we just need to tighten this up and see how it looks looks pretty good that is looking really good man foreign it's time to go home we are only slightly defeated I'm going to check to see if a wheel fits before I leave though I think it's going to fit slowly defeat is pretty far it's hard to fully defeat me you can momentarily fully defeat me but permanent now that's it I've learned a lot about Super Duty axles stuff you never wanted to know yeah how close are we might you might be able to fit a chopstick in there maybe toothpicks let's see I'm sure toothpicks oh man that ain't the only question we have here that we got one more question it's going to be pretty much level at ride height and then stuff is like that always okay and that and fully droop is there it's not hitting all right we met a few defeats and we met a few victories I don't know what the ratio is but it's not feeling super hot yeah it's like one to one but we're gonna be back at it tomorrow morning Matt came up with some very Creative Solutions to fix some very difficult problems and I think they're gonna work we've learned a lot about Super Duty axles in a very short amount of time see you in a minute good morning we're back we had a heck of a day yesterday but the important thing is that we are back and that's all that matters that's true all right um Lizzy stopped by the part store this morning got us the rod end that we needed beautiful that looks right I'm so happy so now that I feel a little bit better I can talk about what happened yesterday so these American Iron Knuckles are awesome they're super beefy and I'm running a really weird offset wheel when I called Racine and said I want a wheel in this offset they're like nobody wants a wheel in that offset but they got it too anyway I'm trying to keep the banana as narrow as possible so I can get into tight Trails now that we have the Suzuki that's less important that's why I'm kind of okay with some of the things that are going on here we need something that can get on the really narrow Trails for the ATVs and the side by sides there's some 50 inch Trails all around southern Utah and they always give me permission to take my 72 inch wide Jeep in there but now we're gonna have a smaller one that's a difference they're for a different story let me tell you what happened here so these Knuckles are so beefy that I was able to drill a hole to the side of the real hole and it's still beefier than the aftermarket knuckle over there I measured them so they measured 9.6 these are 202 so I've still got more meat the stock meat was 1.6 so they should be plenty strong for what we're doing these knuckles were really made for 20 inch wheels and we're running 17-inch Wheels I think even the positive offset 17s would still work yeah because the the more bears are narrow too they're more common narrow but they're they're on the narrow side of offset did the more bear fit or they were clearly okay so if you have the right offset offset or 20 inch wheel these Knuckles will fit so sorry American Iron that we did a lot of trimming on your knuckle but this is going to be an even better test because if they'll survive in this modified form then the stock ones will be way stronger than what we're doing this is a Rock Bouncer knuckle man these are tough they're super nice all right all right so what do we got to do today there's a couple things um right now I'm working on getting the mount for the ram assist for this and then we're doing brakes all right I've just got a little bit of PTSD from yesterday I don't know if I want to start working on this or not on most of the ram assist kits that you see um they're having you clamp onto the tie rod with the ram I don't like that it I think it puts twisting forces on the rod ends and I know it doesn't matter if you're running Himes but I've also seen where they flop you turn one way the whole thing flops just a little bit with the play takes the play up then you turn the other way it flops the other way I don't like that I like going off from the the steering arms here um I was told by a lot of smart people that it wouldn't work we've got them installed so we're waiting for that shoe to drop but up until now they're functioning Supreme that actually saved us once on the more bear too when we lost the tie rod he was attached with his Ram to the knuckle and we were able to drive it out the other comment that I got was that since the Rams not moving at the same rate as the steering box there's going to be a problem but it's fluid fluid seeks its own level it doesn't the fluid doesn't even know that that's going on it finds a balance and it all works perfectly ready poses okay we're working on that drag link waiting for parts sort of charge all eyes waiting to be done tighten the links and adjust waiting to beat the bleed brakes with brakes rear Rock lights or a bracket and Bolt and Link bolts let's compact up the link bolts yeah okay let's tap this this is gonna work really good now just just try it this is they're supposed to tap dry in cast iron the tips will just fall out okay there's some threads in there pretty good foreign looser than I like but there's so many threads I don't think it's going to be a problem okay Lizzy we need to put our great Brands to work this is going to be a compromise because we're pulling Tom out of the equation we need to figure out how to calculate angle not really out of the equation I'm just doing something else okay Lizzy I need you to measure from the floor to the end of it and you're going to go to the blue okay everybody got 50 inches yeah okay we'll go 49 and a half okay Lizzy go look down that tell me if you think that this side is perfectly straight actually I thought all right let's put a mark right here that way we know okay let's swing this across this and see what we get see about where it's gonna go okay okay measure between those two points what are we looking for 49 we're at 52. and a half 52 and 3 8. okay so let's move this over here to 49. that's 49 right there okay that is safe boy that's a sharp turning radius they don't even know if that's feasible we know that 45 degree angle was some number 50 inches with the length of this so then we just plotted the same thing out on a horizontal plane and that's what we came up with so here's what I'm thinking we can probably turn sharper than that then the tires will let us with the fenders yeah I know these can handle more turning angle than the older takes these because they've got the bigger U-joint okay Lizzy let's steer this thing over here are we on that line no not even well we're pretty close yeah or close we are close little changes here make big changes there okay let's see that see that's pretty dang Le well if my calculations are correct and they are we should be able to do this on the other side with a similar degree of accuracy but we don't even need to set this up Tom's morning is about to change oh my gosh look at this where'd this come from I've been hiding it for special occasions Tom's in a slightly irritated mood today so I've I broke through the safety glass for the Emergency smoked salmon this is gonna fix the mood for sure somebody brought this that's coming apart thank you to whoever that was better get something it's delicious but it tastes a little bit like brake fluid okay Lizzy go out in conyx go into the Bendix Mark breaks there's a little Tombstone shaped thing with a hole in the middle 5 8. and then a spring clip I need one spring clip here's one spring clip that's what they look like and the Tombstones are roughly the same size as this all right stand fish yeah oh boy two of them oh well that wasn't too hard what'd you get for us oh see how easy no the other hand Lizzy you should make jewelry starting with that I can't do anything you could weld a big old look no no no stop wow I don't know which way to do it probably both ways one of each oh look at that what do you guys think next record games Super Bowl rings yeah oh that's a good idea yeah it's right there that's where I want it okay Lizzy what's next on the list can we cross off put a half across through that one okay let's go to the other side Tom did the exact same thing okay oh and feed them just a tiny bit they've had a whole bunch of meat today so real tiny like like one handle like 40 40 pallets a piece all right so now we're gonna swap out this master cylinder for the bigger one it's going to be 11 better out with the old in with the new is it gonna fit I don't know oh it fits it fits good on the edge of a dangerous presentation on the point of a precipice okay Lizzy start just gently slowly pumping it but don't go clear to the floor two hours later she's had a confident peanut wants to go for a ride so bad we do too we do two peanuts we'll take all the dogs with this lead brakes done we are still waiting on parts they're not going to be here till tomorrow night guaranteed tomorrow night at 7 p.m we don't have time for that we've got to get this out and get it tested so we are going to do what any good farmer would do and we're going to make it work with these and we're just going to kind of hack it together take it out on the trail that's what we're doing Tom's even behind it what's your opinion on this whole thing oh at the tie rod this is super sketchy never ever do this we're gonna be welding those right into here that's some random length that won't be right and there's no ability to adjust them and we will have totally ruined them at that point okay Tom what I need you to do is just very very very very patient and happy I'm happy at the same time yeah okay we're just gonna do this We're Not Gonna feel good about it we're just going to make it happen it's gonna be ugly and it'll probably work ha ha ha ha what do you think of that I'm not as the sketchiest tie rod I have ever seen in my life not suitable for amateurs or professionals so is there a gray area in between there's got to be because here we are so now that we have this temporary tie rod here that's only going to do one Trail if we're lucky it will at least it's all the right measurement so we can get the hydraulic ram figured out so what's gonna happen if we're not lucky then we'll have to come get it with a wrecker and that'll be lucky Oh either way well that should be much easier what do you think of that that is super cool I think that'll work I think it'll work we're missing parts so we had to Cobble this one together I hope it works well it's the end of the day I've got to send everybody home tomorrow morning we're hitting the trail with Holly and maybe George's who knows good morning it is test day Tom has just finished up the last little bit of welding and we and we're going to take the banana out you guys asked for it we're doing triple sevens we're doing the shoot I'm probably not going to do slip lock because that's on the other side of the park but we're gonna go get this done how's it going to do what's your prediction it's gonna do just fine just fine I think it'll be amazing all right before we go test the banana I wanted to remind you that we are going to be at the hurricane Easter car show Saturday April 8th we're gonna be there Saturday April 8th from nine to five all proceeds from this event go to support a non-profit uh like the last year they supported the all abilities Park yes we raised over a hundred thousand dollars for that cause thank you so much so last year we raised money to buy the equipment for the all abilities Park this year we're raising it to cover some of the construction costs so yeah come out and see us and support this great car all right now we got to get out and test the banana see if it'll do triple sevens and see if it'll climb the Chute all right so Holly's running a little bit late Kevin and Brittany were here so we decided we're gonna go run the slip lock Trail while we're waiting for Ollie and then we'll come back and do triple sevens and the shoot yeah it's not really a tie rod Bring It On Up my parts didn't come in for my real tie rod we improvised so we built a junk tie rod did it just change you just yet kinked forward get me the winch controller Jamie well this is emblematic embarrassing and uh predictable I saw it this morning I was just like all right perfect so perfect So You're Gonna Keep willing we're driving out of here two-wheel drive okay 20 miles an hour just drive up there Tom hated my temporary tie rod and I loved it until and now I hate my temporary tie rod and Tom Still Still hates it uh yeah I always hated it okay so we're gonna go back and we're gonna weld some straps to it and then we're gonna hit Triple sevens all right so it takes a big man to admit when he was wrong and it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man and I am not a big man but I'm the bigger man I told him this wasn't gonna work it was a horrible idea it was the worst tie rod in the world too harsh not too much it was all true he did say that so so what are we doing now we're just gonna sleep it make us super strong because our parts haven't come yet they'll be here any minute so it's gonna be a race to see if it's faster to make a new one with the parts when they arrive or to do something with this horrible thing UPS is finally here and we're just about done with that that uh tie rod is that what you're waiting for I hope so okay so now we at least have options we can slam that in there really fast and not worry about it at all yeah I vote for that looking good bring that is a trail of spare yeah I'm gonna set it right here to remind us to never do that again all right we got Wii Trail rate we are now yeah we'll give you a trail rating I'll give you two thumbs up this time all right let's go do this before it rains all right we got the banana all fixed up ready for the trail Jamie's got the weather it's raining off and on but it's still a beautiful day Tom it is a nice day it's like 50 degrees it's a perfect day to go test our super good tie rod Maybe how's the drivetrap doing now much better I haven't heard it at all Matt thinks he heard it a tiny bit I think we're gonna make it yeah there it is a little bit all right foreign foreign thank you foreign all right that's just too slick to do I did it before I didn't listen to Holly and Walter spotting me and that's how I got all these scrapes right here and then they spotted me through it but there's just no traction today other than that how is it going it's been a day of failure hey it's been a great day it's beautiful I'm so happy with this I'm not even worried about my axles or U-joints or anything my gear is nothing it's just doing it I am a little worried about the interference between my drive shaft and the links but that seems to be solving its own problem all right so a lot of you asked did I take this up the Chute for a test so here we are at the Chute mind you this is the slickest conditions I've ever been in been talking to Holly and and Kevin and Brittany and they say they've never been when it's this slick it's snowing so let's do this that was sketchy they will he's wider I'm not wide enough to wedge oh you're not oh I was like pure pure traction no wedge we missed it all right go do it again he's like I don't know if I want to do that I I know hahaha I'll get you some stuff here we turned all our cameras off for you it's weird this is like my buggy like it's exactly like my buggy except wide it's 93 inches wide and you can't see it's like three times the weight I can't see over the dash and it's like twice as wide and twice as long all right we did it we tested the banana we did slip lock broke it we fixed it we came back did triple sevens we did the shoot we didn't do it backwards I know some of you asked for that but the conditions are way too slick today not the day for that not today Rory said he would come down and spot me through it so next time Rory's in town we'll do it so totally awesome hanging out with these guys hey it's a good trail ride day thanks for the call Matt yeah you weren't there for the intro she stole I made a call I said I made it we got a call thanks for watching so this is where here I bent the tie rod our makeshift hokey tie rod I'm going to do the same line see if we can do it without failuregood morning it is another day of working in the shop we are working on the banana but first we've got to clean up this disaster of a mess the weekend came like it blindsided us and we had jobs we had editing we had thrashing on the banana going there's all kinds of stuff happening and I wasn't here for it I haven't been here since Wednesday did you get your calves branded no it was too cold cold that's too cold that would have warmed him up Easter Jeep Safari is right around the corner and I have got to challenge Colt from bleeping Jeep to a wheel off XJ style well he's got Rat's Nest I'm really excited about this I'm really excited about this new welding helmet the school was like not my thing but America so the school's going in the record yeah all right so TomTom asks you what trail we should test the banana on it was between slip lock triple sevens and the shoot you guys responded you wanted to do all of them mostly triple sevens but some of you even wanted me to drive backwards at the shoot like Rory does harder thanks Rory for doing that so now we're gonna have to do it but we can't do any of that until we get this running okay we have got stuff all over the western United States that we need picked up for this so we're gonna be sending Lizzy she's gonna be going to ace she's gonna be going to the parts store O'Reilly's probably to get some parts for this we've got Parts at six state that need to be picked up and parts at Adam's drive shaft in Las Vegas we don't have time for them to overnight them Liz needs to run down there and grab those it's going to be a fun day this is a true table for Corvair heads but since I'm out of the Corvair head rebuilding business we're gonna repurpose it yeah so we've got to build you gotta build a thing got a couple questions on where we got this little Welding Table from right here and this is from Miller so it's a good sized table for a crowded shop okay Tom's suit up we're welding a jig foreign so what we're doing here is we're re-drilling these hubs so that we have the correct bolt pattern the o5s is a metric and we don't want that we want the eight and six and a half Barnes makes this awesome jig for doing this I think you can do it freehand with the drill but we're going to put it in the mill because we like precision and accuracy this this Mill is not as bad as the drill press it is one step above the world's worst drill press so it'll probably get this job done it's a little sketchy but I think it'll get it we got the stuff at O'Reilly now my ace and I need to get a snap ring for this axle Matt told me to get the size bigger and the size smaller but this is the biggest they got and I think I think it's the right size so I'm gonna get two of these because that's what we need and we'll see if they fit out again and it was the biggest size that I could find be it that's it not gonna work perfect awesome well it worked yeah so let's see the bolts we got the bolts right here try one in there get the right one perfect it came in a two-pack they got the right flavor of latte okay this is the break Hardware stuff all the squeal clips what kind of banjo fitting does it take standard so wait a minute you had us get Ford rotors we're gonna have to drill out the rotors it's not gonna bolt on Ford rotors won't bolt-on they won't slip on because we're drilling out to them to the state get them on there let's see they might they might they might because they might be Hub Centric all right I think they fit yeah they fit now I think they're gonna fit they almost fit they're not you don't think they're hub-centric it looked like it was loose yes they are up-centric so we can just drill these holes out bigger okay I'm heading out all right drive safe see you in a bit we did it we got one done I think so while Tom sets up the next one I'm gonna start pounding these out and pounding them back in oh yeah you got a way to do that no I'm nervous this is the hammer that's not it's too little foreign we do need to get a new one of these we're going to need to go to Schultz since it's definitely reaming it though for two and 10 without drill bits Shopkins this is working all right we're all the way down I'm happy with that we just have to ream all these holes and press these in and we'll be good we'll be good so we did all that Precision work so we can just grab the drill and ream them by hand yes let's go get the drill bit so even though wallowing Works Tom says we're not gonna do it we're gonna go get the right size drill bit we've got to go to lunch in a minute that's when we'll get the drill bits to finish the hubs but while we're waiting for lunch to get here we're going to just install one of these hubs to see if we're smart enough to do it kind of doing things out of order just because that's how we do it to confuse you let me see the boys looks like it may line up all right so I think we've got these ball joint deletes stacked up correctly we're just gonna tighten them up and see if they still work when we get them tight this whole setup is made by American Iron and if you'd like to go check out their parts you can go to their website right here yeah that's not working is it this is the perfect project for us because there's a little bit of precision and a little bit of just winging it there's a lot of wing in it one of them come right out all right we have two hubs re-drilled completely so let's get the red lock tight put these studs in they're all in that bin and then we can attach it to the knuckles yeah the permanency of red Loctite okay pop that thing in here we're gonna see if these actually fit oh they fit never had a doubt hey Tom what's doing I'm pulling out the rag that was stuffed in here to keep all the slag from welding out of the axle it's a good thing we did that yeah it was genius ooh that one got crispy never hammer on a bearing mat that's what we read all right let's get that long axle let's put this together okay remember we got to check the gears first second third fourth reverse this is where we find out if we measured cut and fabricated the housing properly it's all got to come together right now or not foreign so here's the question are we through the center of that joint me too okay so is that binding up what are you feeling there yeah it's fine and this won't quite even close so I think a quarter inch will do it let me show you what's going on with these inner axles so all right so ignore ignore these outers we're not using that style anymore we're using this style so we narrowed the housing so that we could use this is a snow King axle out of a 78 Ford 78 Ford snow King and then this is the Yukon replacement axle for the the axle that we're using so because the way these seals work on these the seal surface is just barely machined down from the shaft size and they they made the seal surface really long so we cut an inch off of this and we're still really happy on the seal area and if we weren't we could machine this take this to a machine shop and they would machine that down to get it further the problem with this snow King one is the axle slightly smaller diameter than the seal so once we're off the seal area we're off the seal area yeah all your gear lube would just leak out the end of the axle too that would be sad what do you want to take off like an eighth of an inch like a yeah let's take off an eighth of an inch and see what happens see if it goes together if it does then we're done yeah we're done till it starts leaking foreign we got a false reading last time yeah you got more to take off than or did you not push it in all the way I pushed it in all the way let's bolt it up you're fine now we can put the c-clip on here yeah should we grab that you want to do it is it coming back apart it shouldn't be coming back apart for any reason okay yes so these holes are too big and sloppy anyway on the other one we're just making them bigger and sloppier so they fit the new lug pattern that we put on if you're not sure if we should be doing this then you definitely shouldn't be doing this okay cast iron drills so nice look at your chips yeah all right let's do a hub assembly and let's look at the brakes hmm is it gonna work I think so I'm just figuring out how okay if you push it in it's disengaged so right there isn't is engaged I'm trying to turn the whole axle shaft but if I push it in it's disengaged no I think we got that figured out we need this cap with or without instructions man no one no instructions oh they come with their own Molly grease yes black molly yes looks used huh okay there it goes feels good what does it say it is okay it's Freewheel it's locked since we're on Final assembly I'm going to tighten these up to like a real Speck this a little tight but now and now it's working just like it should that looks comically big on this little Jeep let me tell you the positives and negatives as I see them positive this is going to lower my center of gravity another positive it's going to put more weight on the front wheels which will make it better for rock crawling like climbing up things and getting over them negatives is it's more weight just more weight and that's negative in the sand but the banana does phenomenally in the sand so I'm thinking a couple hundred pounds of extra weight is a good trade-off for better breaks more stability and better uh rock climbing ability there's one more huge one you're never going to break U-joints and Axle shouts again oh yeah that's another big big one so yeah I'm trading a little bit of weight for a lot of good things it looks new and fancy yeah looks heavy be a lot stronger big old brakes oh our axle shaft arrives it's a spice or something no time hey nobody got time for that that's what we needed this yes no indication I'm gonna try Grease foreign we are 11 and 9 16. we are nine and five eighths 905 eighths is right there we're bottling it's time to break out the old grinder this is a little not one of Matt's little tricks that is not approved but it works well here it is such as it is never do this yes yeah if you're not okay with this please don't do this we're not okay either but we've already done it he wasn't even here to celebrate with me it went in all the way I think it did significantly further further than it did pull it out and see if the seal marks let's get a magic marker on those all right here's the our machinist blue dye I don't know it looks like the same spot but well I was able to pull it out that time I guess we should have measured that oh we can we have that measurement yeah we're definitely we're definitely in further so let's see what we got yeah let's put it together okay put that bearing on yeah it looks it looks seated seated all the way around okay now is it move back and forth okay it's not binding anymore no binding we probably didn't need to do that spline trick I don't know if we need anything uh we cut an axle we didn't need to on that side made some splines on this one we didn't need to we just like it was turns out it was just our incompetence now that we got this done we're going to continue on with the brakes just like we did on the other side all right after driving two and a half hours to Las Vegas I finally made it I just pulled into Adam's drive shafts pick it up looky there it says Adam's drive shaft thank you appreciate you coming down lucky there Adam's drive shaft now let's head back to the shop and we're gonna get there just like that let's go give it to Matt look at that thing yep I need you to load the record back on the trailer oh I love this drive shaft what Tom's doing right now is calculating the new volume of the front calipers super boring stuff and making sure that we have the right master cylinder so that when we step on the brakes the Jeep stops I think it's very unnecessary it's absolutely necessary that we know exactly how much better our pedal feel is going to be after we put in this master cylinder I gotta walk around and figure out what we need points all right we increased our caliper diameter our caliper Area 15 but we increased our master cylinder 26 percent so our brakes are going to feel 11 better because they're not adequate right now because we've got the stock XJ master cylinder and we've been running it that way for a long time and we had the bigger disc brakes up front and we added the big disc brakes in the rear the banana brake pedals always felt a little like well like a rotten banana um now it's going to be like a green banana we showed a video of uh peanut and Max and we didn't show lady and there were lots of concerned comments about what's happened to lady we even had people that like rest in peace lady they just don't know the Ed's over feeding you and you're obese check the rear diff check the transfer case install yolks we need uh brake hoses pinion seal differential vento drag link tie rod we're gonna need to uh charge Ori put Titan leaks slash adjust rear Rock lights the banana has a longer list than the record now foreign so there's a reservoir right here that has to be full of oil to lubricate these pinion bearings and if you just fill the differential and drive down the road it might be a while before this bearing sees any lubrication so I always like to leave the seal out until I'm ready to fill the differential and I fill this spot first that's fine okay go ahead and spin it one more time and oh that's looking good that's it put this on smoking you you should never do that to your gears what Hammer them like that why not because it destroys them we should have torqued that one for sure that bolt should have been torqued I've been brought in the tool to torch he's all worried about breaking period but he has no concern for just totally hammering on the gears I've I've never not done it that way I've set up dozens and you can say oh yeah well you broke the 44. Yeah I broke the 44 with 37 inch tires 300 horsepower and years of day in day out abuse what's next drive shaft let's put that drive shaft all right Adams was super fast we've ordered this drive shaft he called me two hours later said it was done we sent Lizzy down to pick it up here it is going in not a lot of wiggle room I'm hoping this all fits okay Lizzy go read the list and Let's cross off some things check rear dip cross it off install yolks cross it off front drive shaft cross it oh we gotta find them so go out in the bin and look for one that says brake parts or something like that okay so Lizzy what we're looking for out there remember there's lots of stuff out there we're looking for this brake hose out there it'll look brand new got a banjo fitting on this side so there'll just be a hole through it and then that on that end yeah because she's out of Salt Lake this one is the one for the Jeep there's only one this is the one this is it you found it we had one let's watch this drive shaft do you want to come spin this hub okay cool okay rotate it and I'm going to polish this weld okay so it's just barely touching this link that's a full stuff it can't get any worse than that because if this wheel drops it gets better it gets better the other one rubbed also that's the thing that's the thing about things sometimes they rub okay what's next lunch okay drive shaft is done all right let's get real here for a minute I've got to steer this XJ I'm gonna have to do it with a drag link over here to this knuckle and I'm gonna have to do it with some other stuff like we got some parts here we've got this part that doesn't fit without some misalignment spacers we got this part that doesn't fit unless we put an insert in and then ream it out for this angle we've got these parts that won't fit unless we have misalignment spacers and a stepped tie rod so what we're doing right now is all these parts that don't fit we're going to do some Machining Machining to get them to all work together and steer this thing see how that works see how that's the right thickness oh it's perfect I eyeballed that and it's perfect it was I can't believe how good this is doing so let's measure we're going to measure out here a little bit 0.9754 we're going to measure back in here a little bit 1.05 so how far off I'm in a couple thousands like 60 well that one that's not where the bolt you're measuring the wrong spot okay I gotta go call another shop Jolene was helpful but I got one more place to call okay okay Kobe you're in charge and I'll let him do anything crazy okay so these actually go in from the bottom right there I want you to see how precise that is so here's what Tom may not take be taking into consideration the only interface is between this and this taper so it doesn't even matter if I get this perfect because this is the final product right there so Tom knows a lot about precision and measurement but he don't know nothing about farmer Machining shade tree mechanics that's something I know a lot about this needs to weld in so it needs to be welded on the underside and what I'm doing is I'm doing a counter bore here so we can get a nice bead around the top once this is welded in then I can hone it ream it to the final taper the product will be legit she is right there there's the weld we need to fill so I was getting this all ready to weld up and Tom came out and looked at it and said he wanted to TIG weld it so we're gonna let him do that I got this all chamfered out so he can just fill that with Weld and make it look really good look at that Lizzy do you think we should take weld out yes they're multimatic 220 welder it's a MIG welder and uh and a TIG welder so this is going to be sweet in our shop because you can switch back and forth between the two super quick this is the same welder that Lizzy tested at SEMA just apparently yeah so we're going to give it a try in our shop it worked good down there at Sema wider than I thought transfer case I'm going to work on the Ori bracket bolt that one sounds easy to me I just want to make sure that this is out of the way so it doesn't grind those so I'm going to grind those off really quick there's one there's two somebody said that you're wearing off onto me and I'm being more careful oh wow but I think it's the other way we're gonna we're gonna land in them Lizzy I need you to vote is Tom adopting more of my practices or am I adopting more of his I think you're both there you have it folks we have inside information right there from Lizzy how do you feel about that I feel like it's gonna work just fine I think you're right okay it's not perfect but I also haven't TIG welded in a long time cool it looks really cool I think it's gonna work no it looks really hot super hot I've got to figure out how sharp these can turn and put steering stops on them and then once that's done I can figure out how to set up my Ram Center my steering all that stuff all metric how are we doing you're gonna hit the Nook you're hitting the knuckle it doesn't fit I can grind the knuckle what about the break I'm on the break it's just one thing after another all that work we just did for the high steering gonna work how far off we are from fitting these can definitely be ground I'm not worried I wouldn't worry about grinding the caliper but that's not the problem look this is where this needs to be cut out that what so you need Wheels with a totally different offset I think these are designed for like 42s or 20 inch wheels what if we go grab a wheel off a super duty or a spare off the super duty and stick it on here I want to try the more Vera ones first significantly I mean noticeably different offset hitting something yeah it's a little bit it's clearing the break so these wheels will clear the brake calipers they will not clear they won't clear this all right we don't need this High steer arm right here so we're going to cut it first and see if we have a possibility of fitting over the brake calipers if we do then I'm formulating a plan over there we're gonna make this work this might clear the break now that it's not getting a weird angle on it a victory I've waited three and a half hours for a victory and I just got one okay 0.782 okay that's our baby right there drilling holes is one of Matt's strengths he's impressive with the drill noticing how well people drill holes is one of Tom's strengths it's like a human drill press like a MAG Grill activity needs nothing to magnet onto that's what I want to be done okay now we just need to tighten this up and see how it looks looks pretty good that is looking really good man foreign it's time to go home we are only slightly defeated I'm going to check to see if a wheel fits before I leave though I think it's going to fit slowly defeat is pretty far it's hard to fully defeat me you can momentarily fully defeat me but permanent now that's it I've learned a lot about Super Duty axles stuff you never wanted to know yeah how close are we might you might be able to fit a chopstick in there maybe toothpicks let's see I'm sure toothpicks oh man that ain't the only question we have here that we got one more question it's going to be pretty much level at ride height and then stuff is like that always okay and that and fully droop is there it's not hitting all right we met a few defeats and we met a few victories I don't know what the ratio is but it's not feeling super hot yeah it's like one to one but we're gonna be back at it tomorrow morning Matt came up with some very Creative Solutions to fix some very difficult problems and I think they're gonna work we've learned a lot about Super Duty axles in a very short amount of time see you in a minute good morning we're back we had a heck of a day yesterday but the important thing is that we are back and that's all that matters that's true all right um Lizzy stopped by the part store this morning got us the rod end that we needed beautiful that looks right I'm so happy so now that I feel a little bit better I can talk about what happened yesterday so these American Iron Knuckles are awesome they're super beefy and I'm running a really weird offset wheel when I called Racine and said I want a wheel in this offset they're like nobody wants a wheel in that offset but they got it too anyway I'm trying to keep the banana as narrow as possible so I can get into tight Trails now that we have the Suzuki that's less important that's why I'm kind of okay with some of the things that are going on here we need something that can get on the really narrow Trails for the ATVs and the side by sides there's some 50 inch Trails all around southern Utah and they always give me permission to take my 72 inch wide Jeep in there but now we're gonna have a smaller one that's a difference they're for a different story let me tell you what happened here so these Knuckles are so beefy that I was able to drill a hole to the side of the real hole and it's still beefier than the aftermarket knuckle over there I measured them so they measured 9.6 these are 202 so I've still got more meat the stock meat was 1.6 so they should be plenty strong for what we're doing these knuckles were really made for 20 inch wheels and we're running 17-inch Wheels I think even the positive offset 17s would still work yeah because the the more bears are narrow too they're more common narrow but they're they're on the narrow side of offset did the more bear fit or they were clearly okay so if you have the right offset offset or 20 inch wheel these Knuckles will fit so sorry American Iron that we did a lot of trimming on your knuckle but this is going to be an even better test because if they'll survive in this modified form then the stock ones will be way stronger than what we're doing this is a Rock Bouncer knuckle man these are tough they're super nice all right all right so what do we got to do today there's a couple things um right now I'm working on getting the mount for the ram assist for this and then we're doing brakes all right I've just got a little bit of PTSD from yesterday I don't know if I want to start working on this or not on most of the ram assist kits that you see um they're having you clamp onto the tie rod with the ram I don't like that it I think it puts twisting forces on the rod ends and I know it doesn't matter if you're running Himes but I've also seen where they flop you turn one way the whole thing flops just a little bit with the play takes the play up then you turn the other way it flops the other way I don't like that I like going off from the the steering arms here um I was told by a lot of smart people that it wouldn't work we've got them installed so we're waiting for that shoe to drop but up until now they're functioning Supreme that actually saved us once on the more bear too when we lost the tie rod he was attached with his Ram to the knuckle and we were able to drive it out the other comment that I got was that since the Rams not moving at the same rate as the steering box there's going to be a problem but it's fluid fluid seeks its own level it doesn't the fluid doesn't even know that that's going on it finds a balance and it all works perfectly ready poses okay we're working on that drag link waiting for parts sort of charge all eyes waiting to be done tighten the links and adjust waiting to beat the bleed brakes with brakes rear Rock lights or a bracket and Bolt and Link bolts let's compact up the link bolts yeah okay let's tap this this is gonna work really good now just just try it this is they're supposed to tap dry in cast iron the tips will just fall out okay there's some threads in there pretty good foreign looser than I like but there's so many threads I don't think it's going to be a problem okay Lizzy we need to put our great Brands to work this is going to be a compromise because we're pulling Tom out of the equation we need to figure out how to calculate angle not really out of the equation I'm just doing something else okay Lizzy I need you to measure from the floor to the end of it and you're going to go to the blue okay everybody got 50 inches yeah okay we'll go 49 and a half okay Lizzy go look down that tell me if you think that this side is perfectly straight actually I thought all right let's put a mark right here that way we know okay let's swing this across this and see what we get see about where it's gonna go okay okay measure between those two points what are we looking for 49 we're at 52. and a half 52 and 3 8. okay so let's move this over here to 49. that's 49 right there okay that is safe boy that's a sharp turning radius they don't even know if that's feasible we know that 45 degree angle was some number 50 inches with the length of this so then we just plotted the same thing out on a horizontal plane and that's what we came up with so here's what I'm thinking we can probably turn sharper than that then the tires will let us with the fenders yeah I know these can handle more turning angle than the older takes these because they've got the bigger U-joint okay Lizzy let's steer this thing over here are we on that line no not even well we're pretty close yeah or close we are close little changes here make big changes there okay let's see that see that's pretty dang Le well if my calculations are correct and they are we should be able to do this on the other side with a similar degree of accuracy but we don't even need to set this up Tom's morning is about to change oh my gosh look at this where'd this come from I've been hiding it for special occasions Tom's in a slightly irritated mood today so I've I broke through the safety glass for the Emergency smoked salmon this is gonna fix the mood for sure somebody brought this that's coming apart thank you to whoever that was better get something it's delicious but it tastes a little bit like brake fluid okay Lizzy go out in conyx go into the Bendix Mark breaks there's a little Tombstone shaped thing with a hole in the middle 5 8. and then a spring clip I need one spring clip here's one spring clip that's what they look like and the Tombstones are roughly the same size as this all right stand fish yeah oh boy two of them oh well that wasn't too hard what'd you get for us oh see how easy no the other hand Lizzy you should make jewelry starting with that I can't do anything you could weld a big old look no no no stop wow I don't know which way to do it probably both ways one of each oh look at that what do you guys think next record games Super Bowl rings yeah oh that's a good idea yeah it's right there that's where I want it okay Lizzy what's next on the list can we cross off put a half across through that one okay let's go to the other side Tom did the exact same thing okay oh and feed them just a tiny bit they've had a whole bunch of meat today so real tiny like like one handle like 40 40 pallets a piece all right so now we're gonna swap out this master cylinder for the bigger one it's going to be 11 better out with the old in with the new is it gonna fit I don't know oh it fits it fits good on the edge of a dangerous presentation on the point of a precipice okay Lizzy start just gently slowly pumping it but don't go clear to the floor two hours later she's had a confident peanut wants to go for a ride so bad we do too we do two peanuts we'll take all the dogs with this lead brakes done we are still waiting on parts they're not going to be here till tomorrow night guaranteed tomorrow night at 7 p.m we don't have time for that we've got to get this out and get it tested so we are going to do what any good farmer would do and we're going to make it work with these and we're just going to kind of hack it together take it out on the trail that's what we're doing Tom's even behind it what's your opinion on this whole thing oh at the tie rod this is super sketchy never ever do this we're gonna be welding those right into here that's some random length that won't be right and there's no ability to adjust them and we will have totally ruined them at that point okay Tom what I need you to do is just very very very very patient and happy I'm happy at the same time yeah okay we're just gonna do this We're Not Gonna feel good about it we're just going to make it happen it's gonna be ugly and it'll probably work ha ha ha ha what do you think of that I'm not as the sketchiest tie rod I have ever seen in my life not suitable for amateurs or professionals so is there a gray area in between there's got to be because here we are so now that we have this temporary tie rod here that's only going to do one Trail if we're lucky it will at least it's all the right measurement so we can get the hydraulic ram figured out so what's gonna happen if we're not lucky then we'll have to come get it with a wrecker and that'll be lucky Oh either way well that should be much easier what do you think of that that is super cool I think that'll work I think it'll work we're missing parts so we had to Cobble this one together I hope it works well it's the end of the day I've got to send everybody home tomorrow morning we're hitting the trail with Holly and maybe George's who knows good morning it is test day Tom has just finished up the last little bit of welding and we and we're going to take the banana out you guys asked for it we're doing triple sevens we're doing the shoot I'm probably not going to do slip lock because that's on the other side of the park but we're gonna go get this done how's it going to do what's your prediction it's gonna do just fine just fine I think it'll be amazing all right before we go test the banana I wanted to remind you that we are going to be at the hurricane Easter car show Saturday April 8th we're gonna be there Saturday April 8th from nine to five all proceeds from this event go to support a non-profit uh like the last year they supported the all abilities Park yes we raised over a hundred thousand dollars for that cause thank you so much so last year we raised money to buy the equipment for the all abilities Park this year we're raising it to cover some of the construction costs so yeah come out and see us and support this great car all right now we got to get out and test the banana see if it'll do triple sevens and see if it'll climb the Chute all right so Holly's running a little bit late Kevin and Brittany were here so we decided we're gonna go run the slip lock Trail while we're waiting for Ollie and then we'll come back and do triple sevens and the shoot yeah it's not really a tie rod Bring It On Up my parts didn't come in for my real tie rod we improvised so we built a junk tie rod did it just change you just yet kinked forward get me the winch controller Jamie well this is emblematic embarrassing and uh predictable I saw it this morning I was just like all right perfect so perfect So You're Gonna Keep willing we're driving out of here two-wheel drive okay 20 miles an hour just drive up there Tom hated my temporary tie rod and I loved it until and now I hate my temporary tie rod and Tom Still Still hates it uh yeah I always hated it okay so we're gonna go back and we're gonna weld some straps to it and then we're gonna hit Triple sevens all right so it takes a big man to admit when he was wrong and it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man and I am not a big man but I'm the bigger man I told him this wasn't gonna work it was a horrible idea it was the worst tie rod in the world too harsh not too much it was all true he did say that so so what are we doing now we're just gonna sleep it make us super strong because our parts haven't come yet they'll be here any minute so it's gonna be a race to see if it's faster to make a new one with the parts when they arrive or to do something with this horrible thing UPS is finally here and we're just about done with that that uh tie rod is that what you're waiting for I hope so okay so now we at least have options we can slam that in there really fast and not worry about it at all yeah I vote for that looking good bring that is a trail of spare yeah I'm gonna set it right here to remind us to never do that again all right we got Wii Trail rate we are now yeah we'll give you a trail rating I'll give you two thumbs up this time all right let's go do this before it rains all right we got the banana all fixed up ready for the trail Jamie's got the weather it's raining off and on but it's still a beautiful day Tom it is a nice day it's like 50 degrees it's a perfect day to go test our super good tie rod Maybe how's the drivetrap doing now much better I haven't heard it at all Matt thinks he heard it a tiny bit I think we're gonna make it yeah there it is a little bit all right foreign foreign thank you foreign all right that's just too slick to do I did it before I didn't listen to Holly and Walter spotting me and that's how I got all these scrapes right here and then they spotted me through it but there's just no traction today other than that how is it going it's been a day of failure hey it's been a great day it's beautiful I'm so happy with this I'm not even worried about my axles or U-joints or anything my gear is nothing it's just doing it I am a little worried about the interference between my drive shaft and the links but that seems to be solving its own problem all right so a lot of you asked did I take this up the Chute for a test so here we are at the Chute mind you this is the slickest conditions I've ever been in been talking to Holly and and Kevin and Brittany and they say they've never been when it's this slick it's snowing so let's do this that was sketchy they will he's wider I'm not wide enough to wedge oh you're not oh I was like pure pure traction no wedge we missed it all right go do it again he's like I don't know if I want to do that I I know hahaha I'll get you some stuff here we turned all our cameras off for you it's weird this is like my buggy like it's exactly like my buggy except wide it's 93 inches wide and you can't see it's like three times the weight I can't see over the dash and it's like twice as wide and twice as long all right we did it we tested the banana we did slip lock broke it we fixed it we came back did triple sevens we did the shoot we didn't do it backwards I know some of you asked for that but the conditions are way too slick today not the day for that not today Rory said he would come down and spot me through it so next time Rory's in town we'll do it so totally awesome hanging out with these guys hey it's a good trail ride day thanks for the call Matt yeah you weren't there for the intro she stole I made a call I said I made it we got a call thanks for watching so this is where here I bent the tie rod our makeshift hokey tie rod I'm going to do the same line see if we can do it without failure\n"