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Lost a Bet, Gained a 454: Tearing Down Motor Home #2 with a Backhoe
Here’s the deal: I lost the bet. When we bought these motor homes, the plan was to make our money back within a year. That didn’t happen. It’s been well over a year since we dragged them onto the property, and my wife has been more than patient. She wants this thing gone, and honestly,…
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When Your Transmission Tries to Kill You (And Then Leaves You Stranded)
I’ve had trucks break down on me before. I’ve never had one try to actively murder me in my own driveway. But we’re getting ahead of the story. We were headed out to the Blues for a family camping trip — camper in tow, the free quad I’d just revived a few videos back riding…
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The Shop’s Done, We’re Back, and Here’s What’s Coming This Fall
I’ll be honest — there was a stretch this summer where I watched our subscriber count actually go down for the first time ever, and it made me nervous. Not “panic and quit” nervous. More like the kind of nervous that reminds you why you started making these videos in the first place. Here’s the…
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Free Isn’t Always a Deal — Except When It Is
A buddy of mine texted me asking if I knew anywhere he could “throw away a four-wheeler.” I misread that completely. I thought he had one he needed hauled off. Turns out he just meant: did I want it. Free. So I show up, and there it is — a 2007 Yamaha Grizzly 660, sitting…
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Liam’s Commando, Episode 4: Ghost Brakes, a Frankenstein Linkage, and a Power Steering Pump That Tried to Kill Itself
Liam’s been chipping away at his ’72 Jeep Commando, and he’s brought that build onto our channel as a collaborator. Here’s the recap of episode four. Liam and his buddy Bread started this episode chasing a problem every old-Jeep owner knows in their bones: brakes that just… don’t. Air pressure test on the lines, no…
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The Green Burb: Why I Traded for a Pile of Crap (And I’d Do It Again)
I need to be honest with you right off the bat: I didn’t buy this Suburban because it made sense. I bought it because I was bored. Let me back up. A while back I had a Kia Spectra — and looking back, that thing was the perfect commuter car. Thirty miles to the gallon,…
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The Dream Shop: Start to Finish
I’ve posted the individual updates as we went — the excavation, the posts, the framing, the metal, the doors — but I wanted to put together one piece that tells the whole story front to back. Because looking back at where this started versus where it ended up, it’s honestly a little wild. It started…
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A Family Day at 7 Mile — And the Quadrajet Finally Earns Its Keep
Some days on the channel are about grinding through a stuck bolt at 11pm in the shop. This one wasn’t that. This one was loading up the whole family — plus one — into the Big Chief and heading out to Riverside State Park’s OHV area, the place everybody around here just calls 7 Mile,…
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Guest Wrench: Liam Tackles a Dana 20 (And Wins, Eventually)
I didn’t turn a single bolt on this one, but I still want to talk about it, because Liam just posted Part 3 of his Commando series and it’s the kind of video that reminds you why we all do this in the first place. For anyone who hasn’t been following along, Liam runs Jeep…
