**A Unique Find: Exploring the Excursion**

As we arrived at the farm store, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. We were on a mission to find a unique and potentially affordable vehicle to add to our collection. The vendor had mentioned that he had an "improvised special" that caught my eye, and I was eager to see what it was.

As we made our way towards the Excursion, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at its size and complexity. It was massive, with a surface area that seemed almost too wide for the space it was in. The vendor assured us that it would fit, but I wasn't so sure. As we began to maneuver the vehicle into place, I realized just how tight the space was and how much of a challenge it would be to get it up onto the floor.

Despite the initial reservations, we were determined to make the Excursion work. We ran as fast as we could towards the four-five-eight section of the trailer, and then back up again, trying to get a feel for just how massive this vehicle was. But as we stepped away from it, I couldn't help but think about all the other YouTubers who had crashed their own planes while filming.

The Excursion itself was a beast, with an 8,000-pound weight capacity that made me question whether our bin pack could handle it. But with some careful maneuvering and a healthy dose of skepticism, we managed to get it up onto the floor without incident. As I looked at the vehicle in all its glory, I couldn't help but feel a sense of respect for the farmer who had "improvised" this special.

The vendor told us that the Excursion was a one-owner vehicle, with a history of being used on farms and ranches. It had seen its fair share of use over the years, but still looked like it was in decent shape. The oil filter, which we'd pulled off to inspect, revealed that the previous owner had done an oil change just two years prior.

But as we delved deeper into the vehicle's history, we discovered some fascinating details about its past. The surface peeling off the radiator was a clear sign of age and wear, while the rusty auction special sticker on the side panel added to the sense of nostalgia and retro charm. And then there was the rockers - or rather, what used to be a running board that had been reinforced by the farmer using some sort of clever fix.

As we explored further, I couldn't help but think about how these vehicles were once the norm for farmers and ranchers who needed to tow heavy loads. But with advances in technology and changes in societal demand, they gradually fell out of favor. And now, here we had one sitting right in front of us - a relic of the past that was still worth something.

Despite my initial reservations about buying this vehicle, I couldn't deny its unique charm and character. Whether or not it would make for a good addition to our collection remained to be seen. But one thing was certain: we'd found ourselves an interesting project. And as we stood there, surrounded by the various parts and remnants of the Excursion's past, I knew that this was going to be a fun journey.

**The Frame and Suspension**

One of the most impressive features of the Excursion - its frame. The vendor had told us it was made from i-beams from a skyscraper, which seemed almost too good to be true. And yet, as we looked closer, we could see just how sturdy and solid this structure was.

The differential itself was another marvel, with what our vendor identified as the 10.25 Sterling differential. It was massive, with a huge weight capacity that made me question whether we'd be able to handle it. But as we inspected the area where the leak had occurred, I realized just how easy it would be to fix.

The line itself had been replaced recently, and while there were some signs of wear on the rubber, it seemed like an easy repair. The vendor pointed out that this might have been caused by a cross-threading issue during the replacement process - but despite this mishap, the differential was still looking good.

As we continued to explore the Excursion's innards, I couldn't help but feel a sense of respect for the person who had done some work on it in the past. It may not have been perfect, but it showed that with a bit of TLC and some know-how, this vehicle could be brought back to life.

**A Home for the Excursion?**

As we stood there, surrounded by the various parts and remnants of the Excursion's past, I couldn't help but wonder where our new friend would go from here. We'd decided not to keep it ourselves, at least not initially - instead, we were planning to put it up for auction.

But as I looked at the Excursion in all its glory, I couldn't help but feel a pang of regret. This vehicle had so much character and charm, and it seemed like it would make an excellent addition to our collection. Maybe, just maybe, we'd reconsider our decision and take this beast home after all.

The vendor told us that the Excursion was priced affordably, considering its size and complexity. It was a unique find, one that we wouldn't want to pass up - at least not without a good fight. As we made plans for its auction, I couldn't help but wonder what kind of adventures this vehicle would have next.

Would it be used for farming or ranching? Would it become a beloved companion on the open road? Only time would tell, but one thing was certain: our new friend had already stolen a piece of my heart.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyeah when a prius gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds more like a lawn mower but when a v10 excursion gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds like well and it sounds kind of like a viper actually the viper's a v10 just listen to that this is by far the loudest car that i currently own and as cool as it sounds i can't keep it like this i have to get it fixed welcome to hooves garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i have another one owner auction beauty right here it is a 2000 ford excursion with the mighty v10 and it was a one owner vehicle that was traded in to a wholesale auto auction and i bought it for only two thousand dollars now i've had one of these before i had it on the youtube channel but that was with the mighty 7.3 liter turbo diesel that i sold on cars and bids with 200 000 miles on it in average condition for 20 thousand dollars a sum that i thought was a huge amount of money for an excursion something as ancient as this but apparently i sold way too soon because now we're seeing some record-setting prices well over the original msrp of the ford excursion stuff like a hundred thousand dollars for low mileage examples even cars with a hundred thousand miles they brought sixty seventy thousand dollars but this one does not have the diesel it is the 6.8 liter very very thirsty v10 engine the gasoline equivalent that could still pull a lot way better than the 5.4 v8 but a massive v10 engine under the hood and it's still a four wheel drive it limited a one owner 220 000 miles which is one of the reasons why it's so cheap another reason why is rust which we'll see in a little bit but also because bits were stolen off of this rig yeah two things were stolen from this excursion one of them is kind of a nuisance the other one is a huge criminal epidemic that really really needs to stop but before i show exactly what was stolen on the ford excursion and why i'd like to thank shipstation for sponsoring today's video shipstation is the leading web-based order management and shipping software designed to make retailers exceptionally efficient at processing fulfilling and shipping their e-commerce orders 100 of my order fulfillment from my merch sales is sent out using shipstation because it makes selling just about any kind of product so much easier getting started selling online or making the switch is so easy and will save you so much time effort and money did i mention it's easy seriously it is easy shipstation gives e-commerce sellers of all sizes the same deeply discounted rates usually reserved for fortune 500 companies shipstation is trusted by over 100 000 sellers worldwide in the us uk canada and australia shift station works with over 45 carriers and easily compares rates and delivery times to quickly find the best option every time they also work with over 300 platforms like amazon ebay etsy and more so it's no wonder 98 of companies that use shipstation for a year never stop using it saving money while making shipping easier it's a no-brainer now you can spend that extra time and money you save by wasting it on hoopty purchases like i do most likely though your business isn't a youtube channel where you waste all your money on cars and these days you've got to do whatever it takes to protect your bottom line and ship station is a great place to start sign up for a free 60-day trial today at shipstation.com movies and start saving with every shipment that's two whole months of discounted shipping absolutely free so visit hoovie's shipstation.com station make ship happen now this excursion was a sight unseen mystery purchase that i just went on the fact that it looked really nice in the photos and it was a one-owner truck that was traded in and it was at an auction house being ran through i figured it had too many miles and probably something wrong with it which is why they only wanted two thousand dollars on it and i thought well why not these things are getting so dang expensive especially in four wheel drive like this no it's not the diesel but the v10 is a pretty potent and very thirsty engine that people still seem to like and well i thought why not a second stab at it also the limited package which you get the nice two-tone trim leather interior which now i shall give you a tour of the first thing actually that was stolen out of this rig and you can see pretty decent leather interior that's held up not bad for 220 000 miles this seat bottom's been replaced but uh the knobs have been taken and this is a very common thing to happen at dealers auctions and i don't really understand why it seems like dealers are superstitious and they take these things hoping that they take a piece of it maybe they own it or they need it for their cars i don't really understand it's a big problem at auto shows as well you see new cars at auto shows the knobs are gone because either they've been stolen or actually the dealers themselves have taken them off because they do get stolen so that's one weird kind of annoying thing that i have to like use tweezers to work my air conditioning and my four wheel drive but that's just a minor issue obviously people love the excursion for its size it sits on the f-250 platform it's several feet longer than a chevy suburban a lot wider like six inches taller than a suburban or an expedition and look at all the room you have this is just unbelievable the amount of space it can tow as much as a three-quarter ton pickup truck and you can haul well like nine people in this thing it's not something ford or really any other automaker would make ever again thanks to government mandates even though the demand on these is so high that prices are skyrocketing i mean this engine under here it is a total dinosaur the mighty 6.8 liter v10 under the hood which gets all of like six miles per gallon city maybe eight if your lucky highway uh not all that much better but other than all the gas it's consuming it's actually a pretty solid engine and you can see it looks pretty dry under here no big leaks for a 220 000 mile vehicle it doesn't look that bad and it looks fantastic in the photos you walk around it you can see there's a little bit of home brew repairs here they bang the fender a little bit here and then this probably didn't fit anymore so they just put some screws in did the same thing here on a rear piece of trim just a bunch of home screws into the body something you would expect but something you can't really see on an excursion you definitely want to look before you buy one is open the doors because behind the doors are the rocker panels they're completely covered up by the doors and when you open them you find yes rust rust has taken a t-rex sized bite out of this rocker unfortunately and it keeps going and going and going and that's something that i couldn't see in the photos and you know how much i love rust and it just goes well all the way around this thing unfortunately and then you see this puddle on the floor here that is unfortunately brake fluid from this rear brake line right here i have to keep topping off brake fluid so that is definitely something i should not be driving this thing at highway speeds i'm not don't worry but that's not my big issue see more rust another t-rex bite here and i think the issue is this is where you would mount say a step rail and when you screw into that you're compromising the original finish of the vehicle by drilling holes and putting in running boards in addition you're giving dust and dirt and mud and stuff moisture a place to collect and just eat away at the car and this is somebody's well home brew repair of this they took just basically like a fence rail post i think and welded it on there so they could have a step rail to go up but this isn't something structural because this does have a frame this thing can keep going rusty like this forever and it is you know pretty presentable with the door closed unfortunately though this thing did have something big stolen out of it and that's under here there's the exhaust going out the back the muffler behind the drive shaft and then you go here and there's no catalytic converter this has such easy access to the cast that somebody probably cut it out in well seconds maybe a minute at that with a good powered sawzall and they were on their way with several hundred dollars worth of rare metals inside of the catalog converter and this is just getting so annoying so out of control friend urination bob he owns a car dealership he has to deal with catalytic converter thieves constantly several times a year he has converters stolen either out of his yard they jump the fence or they take him from cars that he hasn't had moved in the back it's a constant problem the barn that i still rent a few miles away the owners of that have a few cars parked outside some trucks they had their cat stolen even in my own neighborhood here a few catalytic converters have been stolen but it is everywhere prius is a huge target because of the valuable metals inside of them back in the mid-2000s they were putting platinum palladium all kinds of crazy things in the catalytic converters that are now very very valuable and thieves are just stealing them at record alarming rates and well they're not really prosecuted if they are caught and thrown in jail they're out almost immediately and doing it again it is so frustrating and so costly for owners who have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars in some of the rare cars cases to get a new catalytic converter and it just absolutely needs to stop there's two ways that it's gonna stop one everybody's gonna go all electric there won't be catalytic converters then the point is moot and we're just all driving electric cars but really that's not gonna happen for a long time the realistic thing is they really need to crack down on a federal level on these people that are stealing catalytic converters because i guarantee you they're stealing catalytic converters and they're doing it to do other terrible things drugs you know put them back their maserati and haul them all over places they are doing bad things with this money it's not like they're giving it to their church or feeding their family on it and rather than throw them in jail for their drug habit if they can support themselves without doing anything illegal who cares if they're doing things illegal like stealing cattle converters to do drugs or whatever they're doing that's when you nuke them and this could be an epa thing this could be a federal fine and serious jail time thing and you could crack down on the people dismantling these catalytic converters they need a title for every single one a copy a picture of it just like a junk car before you go and get it shredded they need a copy of the title it should be the same thing with catalytic converters and state by state they're doing some things but on a federal level this is something they should be doing it's going up like a hundred percent every year the theft it's just getting so out of control and it's actually resulted in this excursion sounding admittedly pretty darn cool so let's hear it yeah when a prius gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds more like a lawnmower but when a v10 excursion gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds like well and it sounds kind of like a viper actually the viper's a v10 just listen to that this is by far the loudest car that i currently own and as cool as it sounds i can't keep it like this i have to get it fixed the car wizard isn't an exhaust shop he doesn't do mufflers so i need to take it to a muffler shop but not before i hoon it just just a little bit my poor neighbors now i actually called to shop in between clips here to see if i can get this thing fixed today and well i could but it was going to cost me 900 to put on a new catalytic converter and that's that's an astounding amount of money on a 2 000 ford excursion so i kind of stopped it gave me pause and now we're just going to drive straight up to the car wizards and then look it over because if this thing's a total goner it makes no sense to just put 900 into a vehicle that's not going to be viable for me or somebody else so we'll head there now hopefully i have enough brake fluid to get me there there's actually a warning light that comes on when the fluid gets low so i have a catch there this thing now it sounds truly as mean as it looks full throttle that's 60. that sounds better than the viper it sounds like a a race car it sounds like something exotic like lamborghini-ish it doesn't rev very high it shifts about 4 500 rpm if it kept going that's incredible but actually when you get off the throttle it's reasonably quiet so maybe i could keep it this way no no no i i can't keep it this way but it's been a while since i've had one of these i sold mine a little over a year ago maybe it's been two years ago now and i did forget the road presence of this thing it does feel gargantuan normal suvs just feel like little teeny tiny ants that you can just run right over and that was actually a problem with the excursion when they were testing these things they were doing crashes head-on with other cars and it would just monster truck over the car so they actually put bumper reinforcements down below so it doesn't do that and those bits are all rusted in this thing now but oh well i i get why people love these things i get why you would seek one out and spend a lot of money spend a hundred thousand dollars for one no i would get an escalade diesel probably before i spent a hundred thousand dollars on one of these but it is really really cool yes open the wizards there's no muffler newton right i fit right in holy crap that thing's loud it is obnoxious and amazing i guess you bought it in newton no no i didn't buy it in newton yeah i'll turn it off so we can actually talk you know we make fun of newton people for having no mufflers but do you ever think they're just stolen off cars left and right because that's well that's what happened here the cats or whatever yeah yeah stolen catalytic converters and they're 900 to replace so before i do that i figured would just look this thing over it was only two thousand dollars for a v10 excursion four wheel drive but she way cheap you're full holy crap yes wowza well i guess is there a room anywhere there's room in the end oh over here oh the four post okay all right well i see you got my dad's trans am up here you're gonna save redneck christmas i am so they're playing smoky in the bandit at the drive-in tomorrow and i wanted to borrow my dad's trans am they had one in high school so both my dad and my mom had high school 78 trans ams and of course it wouldn't start he never drives it but figure out what's wrong yes it's out of air in the tire that's why it won't start uh no that's not why it won't start it's this guy it's a fuel pump that's i guess some old mechanical fuel pump huh it's yeah it doesn't do anything it's not pumping so on these it's on the front of the engine right that's run by a push rod or something yeah it's on the timing cover through there yeah okay and how does that feel there's a diaphragm inside that's probably torn okay we can get fuel we could siphon fuel and it would come through there and if we sprayed starting fluid on the carburetor it would start right up so that bit the dust bit the dust easy fix huh yep we're still waiting for parts in the ferrari land rover we're still waiting on suspension tuning finicking yep and michael has coveted he came back from a wedding with kobet so he's the one on that what else do i have here oh my oh oh my god you have a nissan monocross cabriolet in here yes what is it doing the top doesn't work that's it the one thing that makes these special it doesn't work i don't think most people say most of them are broke really i don't know this one's going to get some sensors or something in the rails is bad and it shouldn't be taken care of hopefully that's all oh i mean it's like the worst suv ever made but it is special they're becoming collectors items because of that reason there's hardly any left anymore an all-wheel drive cvt convertible you can't even really call it an suv i don't what is it it's a thing it's a cross is it a cross dressing it's a careful all right it's a cross cavalry let's go look at a real suv you remember my 7.3 excursion this one is a limited and it's the v10 yes and luckily it's not a three valve v10 no it's the pre-three valve which are actually pretty pretty decent engine yeah yeah and the spark plugs i think the threads get stripped well these on the spark plugs can break off in the head if you go to change them that half of it breaks off in the head but right that's the one thing or i've known people will do a bad tune up on them and then they'll blow the spark plug out and then it really sounds much much worse than this but otherwise yeah pretty solid and i i don't see any issues other than the brake fluid leaking out very quickly from the back i don't really see anything splooging all over in the front yeah for a 2 000 excursion it caught on power yeah well okay you like this little uh fix here that's nice i also like the step rail oh right you didn't notice that yeah that's because of the rust you know these things love the rust and the rockers which you can't see because of the doors but they uh it's on there real good that's just angle brackets you buy at the farm store yep i guess it works it works this is a clean one owner improvised special so shall we uh it's gonna be a little tight maneuvering here to get it up on the floor post but i imagine it'll fit just run as fast as you can into the four five eight and then back up ah that yeah we're not doing that that's that's a different youtuber that crashes his own plane and such these things are just so massive they are you know it's hanging off the edges it's so wide that is ridiculous so even on the other side it's yep hanging off a little bit on the front yep all right well let's see if this bin pack can take the uh 8 000 pounds of excursion huh i think it can well there's my brake fluid it wasn't out make sure i don't hit the beam oh yeah yeah good call this isn't our usual setup so we have to do a little limbo here okay well here we go another rusty auction special eh it is crusty it's a surface surface peeling off the radiator is nice and dry looks like they probably tore our cooler line at one time that's one way to fix it let's see it's a little oily there but not too bad that's oil filter this oil change was two years ago oh okay so we need to do that yeah oil change for sure what's up with you what's up with you in the oil change things lately i i don't know hey this is uh oh man this is dust shield we'll just pull that off okay it's no good anymore there's lots of corrosion on this thing yep how many miles did you say was on it 220 000 miles 220 yep you know easy illinois miles you can see this is the rocker here and you know that's where left oh that's where a running board would have been mounted and at one time that's what it does there's some farmer fixes it that's how they reinforced it that's actually pretty brilliant now let's see they they went right to the frame wow oh wow that's how you do it farmers only.com you've been on there no that didn't exist when you met your wife yeah i met her on aol oh very nice there's our cat yeah missing 900 some stupid thief oh man this is sort of to be expected on an excursion of this age where it came from you know but it's not anything that's going to you know fall apart it's not like the car is going to rust in half you got the frame right here and it's still yeah very solid it's probably got quite a bit of life left in it even like it is these frame rails they look like i-beams from a skyscraper or something it's ridiculous and then this differential holy crap it's it's just enormous i think that's the 10.25 sterling differential that's a big boy yeah here's our leak it's just the line leaking that somebody replaced this and didn't i don't know they didn't do something right that's a new hose so an easy fix then yeah so they re that one's the old one see it's there's no writing on the rubber but you come over here got a line yeah what the heck so somebody just failed yes they might have cross-threaded this and it's spraying all over the place um easy fix all right so i need an oil change i need an exhaust fix and a brake bleed and then i'm back in business you're back in business yeah and so i know you're busy but uh yeah go to town i suppose have fun and then i don't think i'm gonna keep this thing i was thinking i don't want to give this thing to somebody but then it's like average mbg was 11 miles per gallon which that's on the highway yeah so i give them this car and then they have basically a car payment and gas if they're driving very far but maybe if they're doing short distances lots of kids i don't know we'll find a home for it yeah yeah i don't really understand why these are bringing a hundred thousand dollars when they're perfect though but they are really cool a relic of the past the thing is is that you can't buy this anymore no no you certainly can't nor should you probably i mean it's just such an irresponsible ridiculous vehicle that people mostly didn't use to tow heavy things they were using it to haul kids to soccer practice which is just ridiculous and when they were building them they kind of ran out of demand for them so that's why they quit making them but now well obviously there's a huge demand so should they make the excursion again should they not i don't know they they won't but it's still cool thank you for watchingyeah when a prius gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds more like a lawn mower but when a v10 excursion gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds like well and it sounds kind of like a viper actually the viper's a v10 just listen to that this is by far the loudest car that i currently own and as cool as it sounds i can't keep it like this i have to get it fixed welcome to hooves garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i have another one owner auction beauty right here it is a 2000 ford excursion with the mighty v10 and it was a one owner vehicle that was traded in to a wholesale auto auction and i bought it for only two thousand dollars now i've had one of these before i had it on the youtube channel but that was with the mighty 7.3 liter turbo diesel that i sold on cars and bids with 200 000 miles on it in average condition for 20 thousand dollars a sum that i thought was a huge amount of money for an excursion something as ancient as this but apparently i sold way too soon because now we're seeing some record-setting prices well over the original msrp of the ford excursion stuff like a hundred thousand dollars for low mileage examples even cars with a hundred thousand miles they brought sixty seventy thousand dollars but this one does not have the diesel it is the 6.8 liter very very thirsty v10 engine the gasoline equivalent that could still pull a lot way better than the 5.4 v8 but a massive v10 engine under the hood and it's still a four wheel drive it limited a one owner 220 000 miles which is one of the reasons why it's so cheap another reason why is rust which we'll see in a little bit but also because bits were stolen off of this rig yeah two things were stolen from this excursion one of them is kind of a nuisance the other one is a huge criminal epidemic that really really needs to stop but before i show exactly what was stolen on the ford excursion and why i'd like to thank shipstation for sponsoring today's video shipstation is the leading web-based order management and shipping software designed to make retailers exceptionally efficient at processing fulfilling and shipping their e-commerce orders 100 of my order fulfillment from my merch sales is sent out using shipstation because it makes selling just about any kind of product so much easier getting started selling online or making the switch is so easy and will save you so much time effort and money did i mention it's easy seriously it is easy shipstation gives e-commerce sellers of all sizes the same deeply discounted rates usually reserved for fortune 500 companies shipstation is trusted by over 100 000 sellers worldwide in the us uk canada and australia shift station works with over 45 carriers and easily compares rates and delivery times to quickly find the best option every time they also work with over 300 platforms like amazon ebay etsy and more so it's no wonder 98 of companies that use shipstation for a year never stop using it saving money while making shipping easier it's a no-brainer now you can spend that extra time and money you save by wasting it on hoopty purchases like i do most likely though your business isn't a youtube channel where you waste all your money on cars and these days you've got to do whatever it takes to protect your bottom line and ship station is a great place to start sign up for a free 60-day trial today at shipstation.com movies and start saving with every shipment that's two whole months of discounted shipping absolutely free so visit hoovie's shipstation.com station make ship happen now this excursion was a sight unseen mystery purchase that i just went on the fact that it looked really nice in the photos and it was a one-owner truck that was traded in and it was at an auction house being ran through i figured it had too many miles and probably something wrong with it which is why they only wanted two thousand dollars on it and i thought well why not these things are getting so dang expensive especially in four wheel drive like this no it's not the diesel but the v10 is a pretty potent and very thirsty engine that people still seem to like and well i thought why not a second stab at it also the limited package which you get the nice two-tone trim leather interior which now i shall give you a tour of the first thing actually that was stolen out of this rig and you can see pretty decent leather interior that's held up not bad for 220 000 miles this seat bottom's been replaced but uh the knobs have been taken and this is a very common thing to happen at dealers auctions and i don't really understand why it seems like dealers are superstitious and they take these things hoping that they take a piece of it maybe they own it or they need it for their cars i don't really understand it's a big problem at auto shows as well you see new cars at auto shows the knobs are gone because either they've been stolen or actually the dealers themselves have taken them off because they do get stolen so that's one weird kind of annoying thing that i have to like use tweezers to work my air conditioning and my four wheel drive but that's just a minor issue obviously people love the excursion for its size it sits on the f-250 platform it's several feet longer than a chevy suburban a lot wider like six inches taller than a suburban or an expedition and look at all the room you have this is just unbelievable the amount of space it can tow as much as a three-quarter ton pickup truck and you can haul well like nine people in this thing it's not something ford or really any other automaker would make ever again thanks to government mandates even though the demand on these is so high that prices are skyrocketing i mean this engine under here it is a total dinosaur the mighty 6.8 liter v10 under the hood which gets all of like six miles per gallon city maybe eight if your lucky highway uh not all that much better but other than all the gas it's consuming it's actually a pretty solid engine and you can see it looks pretty dry under here no big leaks for a 220 000 mile vehicle it doesn't look that bad and it looks fantastic in the photos you walk around it you can see there's a little bit of home brew repairs here they bang the fender a little bit here and then this probably didn't fit anymore so they just put some screws in did the same thing here on a rear piece of trim just a bunch of home screws into the body something you would expect but something you can't really see on an excursion you definitely want to look before you buy one is open the doors because behind the doors are the rocker panels they're completely covered up by the doors and when you open them you find yes rust rust has taken a t-rex sized bite out of this rocker unfortunately and it keeps going and going and going and that's something that i couldn't see in the photos and you know how much i love rust and it just goes well all the way around this thing unfortunately and then you see this puddle on the floor here that is unfortunately brake fluid from this rear brake line right here i have to keep topping off brake fluid so that is definitely something i should not be driving this thing at highway speeds i'm not don't worry but that's not my big issue see more rust another t-rex bite here and i think the issue is this is where you would mount say a step rail and when you screw into that you're compromising the original finish of the vehicle by drilling holes and putting in running boards in addition you're giving dust and dirt and mud and stuff moisture a place to collect and just eat away at the car and this is somebody's well home brew repair of this they took just basically like a fence rail post i think and welded it on there so they could have a step rail to go up but this isn't something structural because this does have a frame this thing can keep going rusty like this forever and it is you know pretty presentable with the door closed unfortunately though this thing did have something big stolen out of it and that's under here there's the exhaust going out the back the muffler behind the drive shaft and then you go here and there's no catalytic converter this has such easy access to the cast that somebody probably cut it out in well seconds maybe a minute at that with a good powered sawzall and they were on their way with several hundred dollars worth of rare metals inside of the catalog converter and this is just getting so annoying so out of control friend urination bob he owns a car dealership he has to deal with catalytic converter thieves constantly several times a year he has converters stolen either out of his yard they jump the fence or they take him from cars that he hasn't had moved in the back it's a constant problem the barn that i still rent a few miles away the owners of that have a few cars parked outside some trucks they had their cat stolen even in my own neighborhood here a few catalytic converters have been stolen but it is everywhere prius is a huge target because of the valuable metals inside of them back in the mid-2000s they were putting platinum palladium all kinds of crazy things in the catalytic converters that are now very very valuable and thieves are just stealing them at record alarming rates and well they're not really prosecuted if they are caught and thrown in jail they're out almost immediately and doing it again it is so frustrating and so costly for owners who have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars in some of the rare cars cases to get a new catalytic converter and it just absolutely needs to stop there's two ways that it's gonna stop one everybody's gonna go all electric there won't be catalytic converters then the point is moot and we're just all driving electric cars but really that's not gonna happen for a long time the realistic thing is they really need to crack down on a federal level on these people that are stealing catalytic converters because i guarantee you they're stealing catalytic converters and they're doing it to do other terrible things drugs you know put them back their maserati and haul them all over places they are doing bad things with this money it's not like they're giving it to their church or feeding their family on it and rather than throw them in jail for their drug habit if they can support themselves without doing anything illegal who cares if they're doing things illegal like stealing cattle converters to do drugs or whatever they're doing that's when you nuke them and this could be an epa thing this could be a federal fine and serious jail time thing and you could crack down on the people dismantling these catalytic converters they need a title for every single one a copy a picture of it just like a junk car before you go and get it shredded they need a copy of the title it should be the same thing with catalytic converters and state by state they're doing some things but on a federal level this is something they should be doing it's going up like a hundred percent every year the theft it's just getting so out of control and it's actually resulted in this excursion sounding admittedly pretty darn cool so let's hear it yeah when a prius gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds more like a lawnmower but when a v10 excursion gets its catalytic converter stolen it sounds like well and it sounds kind of like a viper actually the viper's a v10 just listen to that this is by far the loudest car that i currently own and as cool as it sounds i can't keep it like this i have to get it fixed the car wizard isn't an exhaust shop he doesn't do mufflers so i need to take it to a muffler shop but not before i hoon it just just a little bit my poor neighbors now i actually called to shop in between clips here to see if i can get this thing fixed today and well i could but it was going to cost me 900 to put on a new catalytic converter and that's that's an astounding amount of money on a 2 000 ford excursion so i kind of stopped it gave me pause and now we're just going to drive straight up to the car wizards and then look it over because if this thing's a total goner it makes no sense to just put 900 into a vehicle that's not going to be viable for me or somebody else so we'll head there now hopefully i have enough brake fluid to get me there there's actually a warning light that comes on when the fluid gets low so i have a catch there this thing now it sounds truly as mean as it looks full throttle that's 60. that sounds better than the viper it sounds like a a race car it sounds like something exotic like lamborghini-ish it doesn't rev very high it shifts about 4 500 rpm if it kept going that's incredible but actually when you get off the throttle it's reasonably quiet so maybe i could keep it this way no no no i i can't keep it this way but it's been a while since i've had one of these i sold mine a little over a year ago maybe it's been two years ago now and i did forget the road presence of this thing it does feel gargantuan normal suvs just feel like little teeny tiny ants that you can just run right over and that was actually a problem with the excursion when they were testing these things they were doing crashes head-on with other cars and it would just monster truck over the car so they actually put bumper reinforcements down below so it doesn't do that and those bits are all rusted in this thing now but oh well i i get why people love these things i get why you would seek one out and spend a lot of money spend a hundred thousand dollars for one no i would get an escalade diesel probably before i spent a hundred thousand dollars on one of these but it is really really cool yes open the wizards there's no muffler newton right i fit right in holy crap that thing's loud it is obnoxious and amazing i guess you bought it in newton no no i didn't buy it in newton yeah i'll turn it off so we can actually talk you know we make fun of newton people for having no mufflers but do you ever think they're just stolen off cars left and right because that's well that's what happened here the cats or whatever yeah yeah stolen catalytic converters and they're 900 to replace so before i do that i figured would just look this thing over it was only two thousand dollars for a v10 excursion four wheel drive but she way cheap you're full holy crap yes wowza well i guess is there a room anywhere there's room in the end oh over here oh the four post okay all right well i see you got my dad's trans am up here you're gonna save redneck christmas i am so they're playing smoky in the bandit at the drive-in tomorrow and i wanted to borrow my dad's trans am they had one in high school so both my dad and my mom had high school 78 trans ams and of course it wouldn't start he never drives it but figure out what's wrong yes it's out of air in the tire that's why it won't start uh no that's not why it won't start it's this guy it's a fuel pump that's i guess some old mechanical fuel pump huh it's yeah it doesn't do anything it's not pumping so on these it's on the front of the engine right that's run by a push rod or something yeah it's on the timing cover through there yeah okay and how does that feel there's a diaphragm inside that's probably torn okay we can get fuel we could siphon fuel and it would come through there and if we sprayed starting fluid on the carburetor it would start right up so that bit the dust bit the dust easy fix huh yep we're still waiting for parts in the ferrari land rover we're still waiting on suspension tuning finicking yep and michael has coveted he came back from a wedding with kobet so he's the one on that what else do i have here oh my oh oh my god you have a nissan monocross cabriolet in here yes what is it doing the top doesn't work that's it the one thing that makes these special it doesn't work i don't think most people say most of them are broke really i don't know this one's going to get some sensors or something in the rails is bad and it shouldn't be taken care of hopefully that's all oh i mean it's like the worst suv ever made but it is special they're becoming collectors items because of that reason there's hardly any left anymore an all-wheel drive cvt convertible you can't even really call it an suv i don't what is it it's a thing it's a cross is it a cross dressing it's a careful all right it's a cross cavalry let's go look at a real suv you remember my 7.3 excursion this one is a limited and it's the v10 yes and luckily it's not a three valve v10 no it's the pre-three valve which are actually pretty pretty decent engine yeah yeah and the spark plugs i think the threads get stripped well these on the spark plugs can break off in the head if you go to change them that half of it breaks off in the head but right that's the one thing or i've known people will do a bad tune up on them and then they'll blow the spark plug out and then it really sounds much much worse than this but otherwise yeah pretty solid and i i don't see any issues other than the brake fluid leaking out very quickly from the back i don't really see anything splooging all over in the front yeah for a 2 000 excursion it caught on power yeah well okay you like this little uh fix here that's nice i also like the step rail oh right you didn't notice that yeah that's because of the rust you know these things love the rust and the rockers which you can't see because of the doors but they uh it's on there real good that's just angle brackets you buy at the farm store yep i guess it works it works this is a clean one owner improvised special so shall we uh it's gonna be a little tight maneuvering here to get it up on the floor post but i imagine it'll fit just run as fast as you can into the four five eight and then back up ah that yeah we're not doing that that's that's a different youtuber that crashes his own plane and such these things are just so massive they are you know it's hanging off the edges it's so wide that is ridiculous so even on the other side it's yep hanging off a little bit on the front yep all right well let's see if this bin pack can take the uh 8 000 pounds of excursion huh i think it can well there's my brake fluid it wasn't out make sure i don't hit the beam oh yeah yeah good call this isn't our usual setup so we have to do a little limbo here okay well here we go another rusty auction special eh it is crusty it's a surface surface peeling off the radiator is nice and dry looks like they probably tore our cooler line at one time that's one way to fix it let's see it's a little oily there but not too bad that's oil filter this oil change was two years ago oh okay so we need to do that yeah oil change for sure what's up with you what's up with you in the oil change things lately i i don't know hey this is uh oh man this is dust shield we'll just pull that off okay it's no good anymore there's lots of corrosion on this thing yep how many miles did you say was on it 220 000 miles 220 yep you know easy illinois miles you can see this is the rocker here and you know that's where left oh that's where a running board would have been mounted and at one time that's what it does there's some farmer fixes it that's how they reinforced it that's actually pretty brilliant now let's see they they went right to the frame wow oh wow that's how you do it farmers only.com you've been on there no that didn't exist when you met your wife yeah i met her on aol oh very nice there's our cat yeah missing 900 some stupid thief oh man this is sort of to be expected on an excursion of this age where it came from you know but it's not anything that's going to you know fall apart it's not like the car is going to rust in half you got the frame right here and it's still yeah very solid it's probably got quite a bit of life left in it even like it is these frame rails they look like i-beams from a skyscraper or something it's ridiculous and then this differential holy crap it's it's just enormous i think that's the 10.25 sterling differential that's a big boy yeah here's our leak it's just the line leaking that somebody replaced this and didn't i don't know they didn't do something right that's a new hose so an easy fix then yeah so they re that one's the old one see it's there's no writing on the rubber but you come over here got a line yeah what the heck so somebody just failed yes they might have cross-threaded this and it's spraying all over the place um easy fix all right so i need an oil change i need an exhaust fix and a brake bleed and then i'm back in business you're back in business yeah and so i know you're busy but uh yeah go to town i suppose have fun and then i don't think i'm gonna keep this thing i was thinking i don't want to give this thing to somebody but then it's like average mbg was 11 miles per gallon which that's on the highway yeah so i give them this car and then they have basically a car payment and gas if they're driving very far but maybe if they're doing short distances lots of kids i don't know we'll find a home for it yeah yeah i don't really understand why these are bringing a hundred thousand dollars when they're perfect though but they are really cool a relic of the past the thing is is that you can't buy this anymore no no you certainly can't nor should you probably i mean it's just such an irresponsible ridiculous vehicle that people mostly didn't use to tow heavy things they were using it to haul kids to soccer practice which is just ridiculous and when they were building them they kind of ran out of demand for them so that's why they quit making them but now well obviously there's a huge demand so should they make the excursion again should they not i don't know they they won't but it's still cool thank you for watching\n"