I say this with the utmost respect: You are the shop teacher that every kid needs. The way you explain what you are doing, the methods and devices you have built to make working solo possible are inspirational. You’re like an off-road Adam Savage.
Tom, one of the things that makes your videos interesting to me is the way you accomplish difficult tasks alone. It is not easy to do that. I grew up around an auto repair shop that had at least four mechanics at all times. Often, one would call on another for help. You do it alone - and that includes filming what is happening. Congratulations on making the hard jobs look less hard! 👍👍
I love your high-tech approach to getting these heavy parts in and out. Other channels all just use a few guys getting hernias, to muscle them in and out. Yours are the engineering methods that can be scaled up for working on heavy equipment.
Tom, I watched this yesterday and found my self motivated to accomplish a difficult task. I did most of the work my self then had my son help with the most dangerous part. Now the hot tub has been moved and I can start the next step in the project. Thank you Tom, I wish you and your family all the best.
Tom, great content, as usual! I truly appreciate your balance in explaining a challenge and then talking through the problem solving with us - not too much in depth/minutia, but I truly appreciate the level of details provided vs. 'glossing over' or not showing any of that, as some channels do. Keep up the great work and content!
Great reuse of Great parts! Everything does not have to be brand new, the most expensive way to go. All be it nice! Love to see you use the stuff you have collected over the years. Alit of rigs would never get finished if it was not for this kind of engineering. Thanks again Tom Tom!
Dig Doug was already a great truck. By the time you're done with him, you will have an amazing time wheeling. You do great work, Tom. Can't wait for the next update.
Tom, I followed you from Matt’s to your own program and I’m pleased to see it is doing good. Your program improves every episode and I look forward to upcoming episodes. My background is Quality Engineering in the Vehicle Maintenance arena. I was responsible for a fleet of vehicles that traveled throughout the US with a reliability score over 99%. This amount of reliability was neither cheap nor quick. One of the areas contributing to that reliability was understanding and applying the proper torque to various types of fasteners. I picked up on your application of anti-size and remembered how application of lubricants was addressed in the torque manual. If you are interested in pursuing this matter further, I would be glad to discuss it with you. Keep up the good work! Robert
Preventive maintenance is what my father taught me. I've never paid anyone to do anything to any of my cars, well, except for balancing my wheels after I mount my tires. After untold millions of Miles we've had no major mechanical breakdowns,, one of our secrets is a quart of Rislone, with an oil change, it disolves sticky gum and varnish that build up in a pushrod internal combustion engine, try it for yourself you'll notice how smoother your engine runs in 500 feet or 5 minutes.
Tom keep up the great work! Your channel is growing and we appreciate all the work it takes to film edit fabricate and build and countless other behind the scenes stuff that it takes to produce all these great videos for us gear heads that wait for every new video to drop. Thank you again to you and your lovely wife and family for doing this it’s amazing. God Bless🙏🏼🇺🇸
Great work Tom Tom! You are also one of very few TH-camrs who understands how to talk to your viewer, as opposed to shouting “you guys” to your audience. I’m looking forward to seeing this truck go!
Tom sure is a thinkin' man. He takes a lot of time to put the camera where we get the best view. He also thinks about the narrative value as he works. World class story telling and we are lucky to be allowed to come along.
Watching you work on the transmissions made me remember another crazy memory. I was driving a 1968 impala. 327 turbo 400 12 bolt rear end. The girl sitting right next to me bumped the transmission into reverse at about 15 miles per hour. It made one hell of a noise. Shook to a stop. I put it in gear and drove. It survived. The skinny bias ply tires probably helped.
Decades ago a similar car passed me on a country road. One of the passengers did the same with the gearshift. The front driveshaft u-joint snapped. The driveshaft dropped to the road and caught, and the car pole vaulted over the front and landed on the roof. No damage to the front bumper. I was in a perfect position to watch and I came to a stop before a car load of passengers slithered out. Wild.
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lol similar thing happened to my brother driving Dad’s 59’ caddy. No damage!!!
My friend had a 455 HO in a lemans. He got a temp license suspension, so I would drive him to school in his car. It had a manual valve body in the transmission. You had to put it in nuetral at a stop sign, or it would creep forward. The shifter was pretty janky and easy to put in revers. It had all the tire you could fit in it. We would both laugh when I missed nuetral. That honkin engine would just spin those big tires, no prob. Like spinning on ice.
The new lights look great. The audio and video sounded and looked good. Nice job getting everything set up. I enjoy how you show everything step by step. Keep up the good work.
Tom got a sub boost from his work at Matt's Off-Road Recovery but he earns every sub with his attention to detail and videography. I'm glad he had the cahones to step out and do his own thing. What a guy! I'm gonna go have an orange about it.
You can always put a vice grip on the flex plate and then it will stop at the bell housing. Usually that works. Also, on the show “Fringe” Dr. Walter Bishop sings the Noble Duke of York Diddy. Good job, Tom. I’ve never seen a transmission going that easy.
Tom you need to put that picture of you in the wrecker on the wall! I think the placement of your spare tire shows your next level thinking. And when I look at the new fender Wells on the bed of the truck I envision, A flat piece of steel bent to the shape with a little bit of hangover for a mudguard. I'm sure you've already thought of that and this is your project and design, I am glad to be watching! Thank you from the sunshine state!
When you said I’m going to use what I got I remembered. Around 1975 I removed a junkyard blown up small block chevy motor from my 1962 corvette. I put a 396 built big block in it with a boom on a 3 point hitch on the back of a massey ferguson tractor. The 350 broke because I didn’t know i shouldn’t rev it to 6 grand every day 😂. I was 20 years old. Another mistake was blowing up the numbers matching 327 and dumping it in the wrecking yard.
2 things. You need a Lisle 23800 flywheel turner and an under the lift transmission jack, lol. As a mechanic for 42 years, I'm not crawling under to remove transmissions anymore, lol. Love your truck and videos!
The tools you learned to buy early in your career. Especially when the guy next to you loans it to you one time, then, as he loans it to you the second time, he says "you know what time it is?" And when you say no because you don't wear a watch, he says "it's time for you to buy your own because I'm not loaning this to you again."
Those axle brackets are amazing! Its so cool to have access to things that really smart people who have worked out all the issues with angles and just weld it to the axle!
I love send cut send. One of the really awesome things they do is allow you to put a project together and then allow other folks to order the same parts. If you haven't already looked into it, it might be a really good way to sell your grinder mount.
Tom! Really enjoy your videos. I don’t usually comment, but, please wear a respirator or mask when grinding/cleaning. Especially when in close quarters like doing the cleaning up on the frame as you did! Your family needs you to be around!!!!
Tom it looks like this was your first time removing the transmission because you always torque your bolts, and you found a few loose. Good thing the bolts didn’t back out while you were on the trails.
My favorite trick to keep the crank from spinning - use a double box end wrench and run a bolt through one end into a a torque converter / pressure plate hole on the flywheel / flex plate, and then another bolt through the other end into a bellhousing hole. Locks it down with no prying acrobatics.
Great content Tom! Dig Doug is coming along well it should never an amazing wheeler. A couple thoughts, I work by myself a lot, a $12 LS flywheel holder (uses Starter mount fits into ring gear) is useful. Also, if you fab a little bracket that picks up the adapter mount you can use it to support the Trans while removing only the xfer case. Likewise could pull engine/Trans with transfer case still supported. Excited to see more progress!
Been there, may or may not have done that. 😇 Although in my case, it was carburetors. Allegedly. "You didn't see me do it; you can't prove I did it; I didn't do it."
44:20 .. Back in the 80's I had a Chevy 4X4, Step Side with 42" tires, and a transmission(s) I set up myself, with 23 Forward Speeds, and 13 reverse :)
Your videos always have so much spit and polish to them, making them a pleasure to watch. Never boring, always moving at a great pace.. I always wonder; is it you or Angela that possess such remarkable editing skills?
SendCutSend is very popular with the heavyweight combat robotics scene. They're making components out of AR500 steel and precision is critical. Glad they were able to come through for you!
Drain plugs in transmission pans should be standard. That said, I like to pull the fluid out through the dipstick tube. A strong receiving tank, a hose down the tube and another connected to a hand vacuum pump. Simple, clean, no splash.
I use send-cut-send for personal and for work even though I live on the east coast . They are a great company to work with and very reasonable prices. Love the videos Tom!
A bent intake valve works great for holding flexplate. You bend it at 90° then put it in a bellhousing bolt hole and swing the valve into the flex plate.
Great video. You make all this look much easier than it ever is for me. I am jones'n over your tranny jack. Being on a harbor freight budget I have exactly that...one from HF. Its awful. Good only to lower yet to raise a tranny into place? Not so much. Thanks to Angela for the almost cameo and to TomTom for another installment of the DigDug makeover.
Tom, there is a special tool designed to hold the Ring gear on flywheels and flex plates. You can usually buy them at most automotive suppliers, they make life so much easier.
As a Seabee working on NAVSTA's we were always told NOT to empty the bottles because the Airedales would have to have them tested and purged before they could use them... especially Oxygen cylinders.
You can make a flexplate holding tool that uses the bolt to hold the tool. Air cooled Volkswagens have such a thing for holding the flywheel... search VW flywheel tool. You could make something similar.
I’ve enjoy your videos here, got to know you over with Matt. I’ve wondered a bit your past work, then here you mentioned the Navy , I served on the USS Archerfish (SSN 678), from 70 -73. I was a Sonar Tech.
I say this with the utmost respect: You are the shop teacher that every kid needs. The way you explain what you are doing, the methods and devices you have built to make working solo possible are inspirational. You’re like an off-road Adam Savage.
Tom, one of the things that makes your videos interesting to me is the way you accomplish difficult tasks alone. It is not easy to do that. I grew up around an auto repair shop that had at least four mechanics at all times. Often, one would call on another for help. You do it alone - and that includes filming what is happening. Congratulations on making the hard jobs look less hard! 👍👍
Doing all your own work, at least allows you to do stuff your own way,with nobody in it !
with the occasional assistance of Mrs. Tom Tom
@@oldguysrule5895Isn't one of the reasons we got married?...live-in assistant?
Guessing u haven't watched diesel creek then 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@billbillinger2491Sometimes.
Your work is impeccable Tom. Great teacher also.
You're killing it with your channel. Dig Dug is gonna rock.
Dig your channel. More methodical work than most channels
I love your high-tech approach to getting these heavy parts in and out. Other channels all just use a few guys getting hernias, to muscle them in and out. Yours are the engineering methods that can be scaled up for working on heavy equipment.
Thank you...for actually taking things apart and not sawing/ torching through everything.
His method is preferred, but come work on vehicles in Michigan! The torch gets way too much use out this way lol.
@@MJBclassics It can't still be suck if it's a liquid.
You doing things on your own. Inspires others to get out and build their own projects. Thanks and great job.
Loving the drivetrain build and your complete explanation of what and howvto do it.
Tom, I watched this yesterday and found my self motivated to accomplish a difficult task. I did most of the work my self then had my son help with the most dangerous part. Now the hot tub has been moved and I can start the next step in the project. Thank you Tom, I wish you and your family all the best.
Tom, great content, as usual! I truly appreciate your balance in explaining a challenge and then talking through the problem solving with us - not too much in depth/minutia, but I truly appreciate the level of details provided vs. 'glossing over' or not showing any of that, as some channels do. Keep up the great work and content!
Great reuse of Great parts! Everything does not have to be brand new, the most expensive way to go. All be it nice!
Love to see you use the stuff you have collected over the years. Alit of rigs would never get finished if it was not for this kind of engineering.
Thanks again Tom Tom!
Tom I'd just like to take a moment to thank you. Informative, entertaining, and wholesome as always. I'm proud to be a fan of your channel!
Dig Doug was already a great truck. By the time you're done with him, you will have an amazing time wheeling. You do great work, Tom. Can't wait for the next update.
Dig Dug is looking good. I love the precision work you do.
Thoroughly enjoying this build, Tom. Thanks for all your effort in documenting your project!
Tom, I followed you from Matt’s to your own program and I’m pleased to see it is doing good. Your program improves every episode and I look forward to upcoming episodes.
My background is Quality Engineering in the Vehicle Maintenance arena. I was responsible for a fleet of vehicles that traveled throughout the US with a reliability score over 99%.
This amount of reliability was neither cheap nor quick.
One of the areas contributing to that reliability was understanding and applying the proper torque to various types of fasteners. I picked up on your application of anti-size and remembered how application of lubricants was addressed in the torque manual. If you are interested in pursuing this matter further, I would be glad to discuss it with you.
Keep up the good work! Robert
Preventive maintenance is what my father taught me. I've never paid anyone to do anything to any of my cars, well, except for balancing my wheels after I mount my tires. After untold millions of Miles we've had no major mechanical breakdowns,, one of our secrets is a quart of Rislone, with an oil change, it disolves sticky gum and varnish that build up in a pushrod internal combustion engine, try it for yourself you'll notice how smoother your engine runs in 500 feet or 5 minutes.
Tom keep up the great work! Your channel is growing and we appreciate all the work it takes to film edit fabricate and build and countless other behind the scenes stuff that it takes to produce all these great videos for us gear heads that wait for every new video to drop. Thank you again to you and your lovely wife and family for doing this it’s amazing. God Bless🙏🏼🇺🇸
I really like the way Tom makes hard jobs look simple , with clean clear explaination , less fuss , and zero drama . well done Tom thank you sir .
Tippage is a very technical term. I use it often. You're a pleasure to watch.
I learn so much watching your channel and I can’t wait to see Dig Dug in action..
Once again a combination of engineering expertise, craftsmanship, and hard work. Tom, you're the MAN.
Thanks for bringing us along. I know it takes a lot longer to get things done, but we appreciate it.
Another fantastic video, thank you for all your great work and for letting us come along for the ride!
Thats one sweet hook up on the drive train. All those new shiny parts under there sure are S W E E T !!!!!!!!!!
That Yaw, Pitch, and Roll graphic was super useful when it came time to actually mate the the components together. 27:33
Respect to ya Tom.
No shop full of people.
No cringy jokes.
Just a man and his work.
Awesome video
Great work Tom Tom! You are also one of very few TH-camrs who understands how to talk to your viewer, as opposed to shouting “you guys” to your audience. I’m looking forward to seeing this truck go!
Tom sure is a thinkin' man. He takes a lot of time to put the camera where we get the best view. He also thinks about the narrative value as he works. World class story telling and we are lucky to be allowed to come along.
Watching you work on the transmissions made me remember another crazy memory. I was driving a 1968 impala. 327 turbo 400 12 bolt rear end. The girl sitting right next to me bumped the transmission into reverse at about 15 miles per hour. It made one hell of a noise. Shook to a stop. I put it in gear and drove. It survived. The skinny bias ply tires probably helped.
Decades ago a similar car passed me on a country road. One of the passengers did the same with the gearshift. The front driveshaft u-joint snapped. The driveshaft dropped to the road and caught, and the car pole vaulted over the front and landed on the roof. No damage to the front bumper. I was in a perfect position to watch and I came to a stop before a car load of passengers slithered out. Wild.
lol similar thing happened to my brother driving Dad’s 59’ caddy.
No damage!!!
My friend had a 455 HO in a lemans. He got a temp license suspension, so I would drive him to school in his car. It had a manual valve body in the transmission. You had to put it in nuetral at a stop sign, or it would creep forward. The shifter was pretty janky and easy to put in revers. It had all the tire you could fit in it. We would both laugh when I missed nuetral. That honkin engine would just spin those big tires, no prob. Like spinning on ice.
The new lights look great. The audio and video sounded and looked good. Nice job getting everything set up. I enjoy how you show everything step by step. Keep up the good work.
Another great video Tom. Working safer and smarter.
Tom you are a one man show, you explain things so we can all understand clearly.
Tom got a sub boost from his work at Matt's Off-Road Recovery but he earns every sub with his attention to detail and videography. I'm glad he had the cahones to step out and do his own thing. What a guy! I'm gonna go have an orange about it.
Always giving us a clear explanation of what you're doing and that's why we love watching your channel ✓
I’m so glad you started your own channel
You can always put a vice grip on the flex plate and then it will stop at the bell housing. Usually that works. Also, on the show “Fringe” Dr. Walter Bishop sings the Noble Duke of York Diddy. Good job, Tom. I’ve never seen a transmission going that easy.
Yea man dig dug is gonna be a beast Tom Tom looking great
Great work!
Tom you need to put that picture of you in the wrecker on the wall!
I think the placement of your spare tire shows your next level thinking.
And when I look at the new fender Wells on the bed of the truck I envision,
A flat piece of steel bent to the shape with a little bit of hangover for a mudguard.
I'm sure you've already thought of that and this is your project and design,
I am glad to be watching!
Thank you from the sunshine state!
A wooden wedge or a rubber doorstop works great to stop the flywheel.
Wow ! Your Eyecrometer is almost as valuable as the software that runs it ;) Great video, with allot of good info again Tom. Thank you.
When you said I’m going to use what I got I remembered. Around 1975 I removed a junkyard blown up small block chevy motor from my 1962 corvette. I put a 396 built big block in it with a boom on a 3 point hitch on the back of a massey ferguson tractor. The 350 broke because I didn’t know i shouldn’t rev it to 6 grand every day 😂. I was 20 years old. Another mistake was blowing up the numbers matching 327 and dumping it in the wrecking yard.
"hey neighbor, whatcha doin?"... "oh just winching my truck into the shop" lol Love it!!!
2 things. You need a Lisle 23800 flywheel turner and an under the lift transmission jack, lol. As a mechanic for 42 years, I'm not crawling under to remove transmissions anymore, lol. Love your truck and videos!
The tools you learned to buy early in your career. Especially when the guy next to you loans it to you one time, then, as he loans it to you the second time, he says "you know what time it is?" And when you say no because you don't wear a watch, he says "it's time for you to buy your own because I'm not loaning this to you again."
Man I been trying to watch this all day. Finally I get to finish it. Dig dug looking great
Those axle brackets are amazing! Its so cool to have access to things that really smart people who have worked out all the issues with angles and just weld it to the axle!
yep. like the look of them 👍
I love send cut send. One of the really awesome things they do is allow you to put a project together and then allow other folks to order the same parts. If you haven't already looked into it, it might be a really good way to sell your grinder mount.
Tom! Really enjoy your videos. I don’t usually comment, but, please wear a respirator or mask when grinding/cleaning. Especially when in close quarters like doing the cleaning up on the frame as you did! Your family needs you to be around!!!!
Tom it looks like this was your first time removing the transmission because you always torque your bolts, and you found a few loose. Good thing the bolts didn’t back out while you were on the trails.
Nice work Tom.
Dig dug is coming along really nice
I agree about the flex plant bolts. I found a quick snap pull will losen them. As to a slow steady pull.
That's going to be one awesome truck!!
Outstanding video. Thanks.
I agree with the other comments, you would be a great teacher
I'll give you much respect if you rebuilt a 700R4 ( MD8) and it worked. Not a easy thing to do ( for anybody).
I learn a lot from your videos. Thanks for taking the time to film and explain the steps you are taking.
Tom, good for you for always taking the time to wear proper welding gear.
Glad to see your attention to detail, everything is looking great ! Keep it up your on a roll :)
My favorite trick to keep the crank from spinning - use a double box end wrench and run a bolt through one end into a a torque converter / pressure plate hole on the flywheel / flex plate, and then another bolt through the other end into a bellhousing hole. Locks it down with no prying acrobatics.
Love all the stickers and shirt. The personal thank you was the best!!
Outstanding audio and. video...a pleasure to view and listen to.
Great content Tom! Dig Doug is coming along well it should never an amazing wheeler. A couple thoughts, I work by myself a lot, a $12 LS flywheel holder (uses Starter mount fits into ring gear) is useful. Also, if you fab a little bracket that picks up the adapter mount you can use it to support the Trans while removing only the xfer case. Likewise could pull engine/Trans with transfer case still supported.
Excited to see more progress!
The sink evidence mention was hilarious! I’m assuming it was the kitchen sink? Haha.
Been there, may or may not have done that. 😇
Although in my case, it was carburetors. Allegedly.
"You didn't see me do it; you can't prove I did it; I didn't do it."
God bless Tom Tom and family 🙏🏼
funny i have four post lifts i put winchs on both they work great we who work alone have great ideas to help us i enjoy watching your channel
Offroad Designs is awesome & so cool seeing them on multiple channels lately
Another great video.... Thanks Tom Tom!
Appreciate the step-by-step detail!!!!
44:20 .. Back in the 80's I had a Chevy 4X4, Step Side with 42" tires, and a transmission(s) I set up myself, with 23 Forward Speeds, and 13 reverse :)
Great job. Thank you 😊
Awesome 👏🏻
Your videos always have so much spit and polish to them, making them a pleasure to watch. Never boring, always moving at a great pace.. I always wonder; is it you or Angela that possess such remarkable editing skills?
Huge plug for send cut send!!! They're great! Fast, convenient, very affordable! Used them to make my aluminum rally tower for a CRF450L.
That was a lot of work, but you make it look easy! Another great video!
Nice tech stuff!! (And as a Navy guy, I LOVE the micrometer-chalk-ax analogy!! SO VERY TRUE!!
SendCutSend is very popular with the heavyweight combat robotics scene. They're making components out of AR500 steel and precision is critical. Glad they were able to come through for you!
You do nice work Tom and explain your projects very well , it makes a very interesting video even better.
Very good progress ! Thanks for sharing !
I think you are doing an amazing job with your projects and TH-cam videos! Keep being awesome!!
Drain plugs in transmission pans should be standard. That said, I like to pull the fluid out through the dipstick tube.
A strong receiving tank, a hose down the tube and another connected to a hand vacuum pump. Simple, clean, no splash.
I've never seen a felling wedge used like that before.🤣🤣
Great channel Tom, I enjoy your work. Thanks
fab skills - top notch! excellent video, Tom. thank you.
I use send-cut-send for personal and for work even though I live on the east coast . They are a great company to work with and very reasonable prices. Love the videos Tom!
A bent intake valve works great for holding flexplate. You bend it at 90° then put it in a bellhousing bolt hole and swing the valve into the flex plate.
Tom you are one heck of a welder they look superior, a great fabricator. Love your videos very well explained 👍
Great video. You make all this look much easier than it ever is for me. I am jones'n over your tranny jack. Being on a harbor freight budget I have exactly that...one from HF. Its awful. Good only to lower yet to raise a tranny into place? Not so much. Thanks to Angela for the almost cameo and to TomTom for another installment of the DigDug makeover.
Loctite is also necessary on the flex plate to prevent oil from leaking out of the crank. Same for the converter bolts.
I became aware of send cut send through Super Fast Matt and it's really impressive how fast they can turn out really high quality parts.
Great work Tom
Tom, there is a special tool designed to hold the Ring gear on flywheels and flex plates. You can usually buy them at most automotive suppliers, they make life so much easier.
Absolutely excellent!
Looking good , great job
Tippage! Great word! I’m using that.
As a Seabee working on NAVSTA's we were always told NOT to empty the bottles because the Airedales would have to have them tested and purged before they could use them... especially Oxygen cylinders.
Tom - I really enjoy your videos. I am going to enjoy watching your channel grow and the projects you dream up.
You can make a flexplate holding tool that uses the bolt to hold the tool.
Air cooled Volkswagens have such a thing for holding the flywheel... search VW flywheel tool. You could make something similar.
This is great Tom Tom !!
👍👍👌
I’ve enjoy your videos here, got to know you over with Matt. I’ve wondered a bit your past work, then here you mentioned the Navy , I served on the USS Archerfish (SSN 678), from 70 -73. I was a Sonar Tech.