Matt, I’ve been watching your videos for several years now and I have to be honest with you. I would have to believe that the majority of your subscribers are men, like 90% or more, and seeing you have your Lizzy replacement wearing pink on Wednesday’s was bad enough, especially the hat, but man you have to be smart enough to not wear pink yourself. We watch your show because of your bad to the bone vehicles and your adventures and it seems like you’re evolving to something different. It’s Your show, I’m just a subscriber but I bet I’m not the only guy thinking that. Thanks.
If you had a way for disabled vet to get up there to watch the games, I would love to be there there ain’t no way I could walk around up there but I guess it’s just as good if I’m watching I’d love to enter to win either the Jeep or Robbie’s side-by-side But it’s all good
Looking forward to you loosing an eye because you don't wear safety glasses all the time. You attitude towards safety can be deadly for your viewers who YOU influence. Social media influencer telling their viewers to ignore safety like him so they can get scars? WTF?!?!?! YOU_R_A_DUMB_ARSE_MATT!!!
@@stevenjames5419Katelynn (spelling?) is a teenager (15? 16?) and has this thing about wearing pink on Wednesdays, entirely her idea. Matt's just having fun with the kid. Besides, she's actually a pro 4x4 race driver with her dad, so the kid's legit about 4-wheeling. Would like to see her learning more shop skills, that's my only complaint and it ain't a big deal.
I don't really need it when I am going to be in and out. But that said I knew I was taking my motorcycle apart for a few months at least, and you better bet there's a wall of sandwich bags labeled in my shed. Best part is, I am a big fan of magnets, so its an actual wall lol.
Matt's words of wisdom at the end of the video: "I put on my socks this morning, and now I can't walk". I'm 70 and I know *exactly* what he is talking about! Great job getting that Suzuki off the mountain! Caitlynn is quickly getting on-the-job training!
Truer words have never been spoken, and it starts earlier than you'd expect. I threw my back out while leaning on the car to replace a clutch master cylinder. I was in pain for a week, like WTF I'm only 38.
Matt, you rock those pink bibs! Leave 'em long and just tuck them into your boots! Do you think Tom would get and wear a matching pair? Now that would be a sight to see!
Matt is so right. When I hit 40. We were on a weekend trip to Wilmington, NC. First day, a Thursday, we were walking downtown, getting ice cream. I sneezed, and threw out my back! I was stuck in the hotel room the rest of the weekend!! My family enjoyed the beach. I watch TH-cam on my phone all weekend
3:10 I was on a safety induction at a petrochemical plant over here in Scotland. The guy giving the induction lecture on site safety had a glass eye. More to the point, that glass eye had a huge chunk chipped out of it. Just let those facts sink in for a minute. "Do as I say - not as I do!"
Get some sound deadening mat and line the trans tunnel. Itll insulate the floor from heat, kill vibrations and reduce the straight cut gear whine heard inside.
Don’t worry Matt some of us over here across the pond when measuring understand fraction, decimal and metric. Unfortunately being 70, when I went to school back in the early sixties, we were in some sort of confused transition stage. We had to learn fractions of an inch, which was in use at the time, decimal that was going to be commonly used soon, and then just in case it would be used in the future, which it now is, we had to also learn the metric system. So now I measure something and think about it in all the different units, so to me a quarter inch is 0.25 of an inch or 6.4 mm. My diagrams I make when I’m working out a design is a combination of all three because it might be thinking in fractions, metric or decimal at whatever stage of the design. It can make for some confusing drawings! By the way, the pink pants need a pair of pink boots would really set off the ensemble.
Tell me Katelynn is not just such a fun person! Mad props to Matt for a little humility for the sake of a huge team win. If you see her in the back ground, she has a happy look on her face.
Definitely need to make them pink overalls OVERSHORTS!!! I'm in Vermont from Utah and grateful for what you guys do in filling some of my needs of what I am missing! peace friends!
A long long time ago (back in the '70s) my father had a white jumpsuit that he used for doing car work. When my mother went to wash it, she also threw in a couple dozen of his dirty red shop towels. Ended up with a couple dozen clean red shop towels and a bright pink jumpsuit ! So, Matt just get a set of coveralls that actually fit you in white and a bunch of new red shop towels. 😄
Banana got me subscribed years ago when Winder towing recovered a truck from a totally unrecoverable position on the side of a logging trail. It was an epic recovery.
Matt, the first car I had title to, was a 1962 Corvair 95 window van. I pulled the engine and replaced the clutch. I also rebuilt both carburetors. It never ran on more than 5 cylinders because I had a bad lifter for cylinder 6, and it leaked oil everywhere, but it did run. I paid 30 bucks for it, and sold it for $150.00 to a guy who owned the local garbage dump. He replaced the bad lifter and gave the van to his grandson.
Ziploc bag _before_ you toss it into the bucket of mystery is a top-tier move. Also, great to _finally_ see somebody else getting in on pink wednesdays. Have a little fun with life!
for easy storage of bolts and stuff use red cups and masking tape for labels. you can stack the cups and have things stored neatly in a box until assembly. i did that exact thing when working on semis for 10 years. when sometimes having 3 different brands taken apart you need it organized in a way that dont take up much space. the cups are way more durable than you think .
Kaetlin (spelling like my niece because it's the only way I know) makes the whole team way more than11% better. Her smiles and laughter always make me smile and laugh too.
Nothing like a really well run Ace Hardware. The one closest to my parents house in PA was Hornung's True Value which became an Ace later on, but they were by far the best stocked well run Ace I've been to in my life.
I once rented a tractor from our local Ace. When I asked what size hitch ball I needed the owner reached into his pocket pulled out keys and said "Just use my truck. It has the right ball on it."
😂 Thanks for the metric conversion. Fortunately, I have tape measures with both imperial and metric measurements showing. Cheers from the land down under - Australia.
I had a samurai hard top in the early 90's. Lost spark while wheeling, the frame flexed and flexed the cap into the rotor when it hit the firewall and took the contact off of the rotor. I bent up a new contact from a ski lift ticket that was on my jacket. 👍
If you mess up your back putting your socks on, then don't wear them. lol Every time you lifted up that transfer case both my shoulders were screaming with pain.
If Kaitlyn’s one contribution to the projects is making sure they can easily put parts back together because they know what they are due to labeling, she will have made a valuable contribution.
@@buysncharge well, considering on the last project they got bogged down by a random bucket of bolts. I don’t think that method works for this team. Your method is fine if the same person takes it apart and puts it back together but that doesn’t always happen for this team.
@carschmn I'm being obtuse. I place my nuts and bolts into a piece of cardboard. I wire wheel them. And spray paint them. So I know who woke on what. Unless it a a one part install. Then I might just mark bolts with a paint pen.
grab a stack of red cups and a sharpie. as you remove a part, put the bolts in a cup, label it, and throw it on top of the stack. When you reassemble, you go through the stack top-down.
Put Lucas transmission treatment in the transfer case to quiet it down. We put a new gear in a John Deere pto that was louder than what you are having. We never had any noise after adding the Lucas transmission treatment. Try it,it works. Great video.
Katelyn, it is a good thing you are there. Carry a supply of bags and a marker pen. You will soon teach the others of the value of doing it that way. And masking tape to mark things too big for a bag. Go Team Pink.
Hi Ed! Good to see the man. Well, that was fun for Kaitlyn coming down those drops, but she handled it well. Luckily, she is a bit compulsive which is a good quality and a great addition to the team.
hey guys, been wanting to tell you how I think you can solve the problem of towed cars hitting the back of the wrecker, back in the day, we towed cars with a chain wrapped around the 2" ball, then going through a pipe about 3" round and 4' or longer and wrapped around the front bumper of the towed car, it keeps the towed car from closing the gap and making the chain/rope slack, you could use schedule 80 3" abs/pvc down at the bottom two ropes holding the car, you wouldn't even need someone to brake the car then, TRY IT!
@8:15 No lie, when I do tear downs it's my wife's job to clean, bag and label all the fasteners. Stack them in order and it makes reassembly an absolute breeze and they're clean if you need to apply thread lock, anti seize or anything else to them. That's a job that's incredibly easy but adds so much value to a project.
@11:37 (as at least four guys with arms held aloft lift a transfer case) "It's like Iwo Jima" - hahahaha. Hilarious. Who said that? Was it Jake? comedy genius.
@@FYMASMD Oh good grief. How is that in poor taste? Having five or so guys lift something with arms aloft is very much like the famous Iwo Jima flag raise image. It's quite a clever visual comparison actually. They're not equating their momentary struggle to fighting the Japanese, or downplaying the sacrifices made in the Pacific by making the visual comparison to a much-celebrated photograph. It's not an insult to the guys who fought or even the guys who died to say something is visually similar. My Grandpa fought in the Pacific and I'm fairly certain if those guys who died on that island could have been back home working on a car with their friends they would have been. And I'm even more certain that if they knew they were going to be remembered almost 80 years later they'd be ok with that. If anything, I think Iwo Jima and other such sacrifices made by brave men should be cited, mentioned and remembered MORE not LESS. And if done so in everyday settings like workshops and garages where guys work - not just in history classes or on memorial days - all the better. Merely mentioning a thing isn't mocking it. Don't confuse the topic of a 'joke' as the 'target' of it. And in this case there was no target. I mean this is in the nicest possible way, but get over yourself. :)
Hey Matt! I was driving home to see my folks this weekend and I happened to drive by the National Corvair Museum locating in Sangamon County Illinois just south of Springfield, IL. Thought of you instantly!
Yup. I'm 64 and I have a bunch of scars. Over the years I've done most of what they do, including mountain biking, Corvair repair, crazy car towing with my brother, and getting stuck on a dirt road or in snow. I pulled a 283 motor still coupled to the three-speed manual transmission out of a 1961 Chevy Nomad wagon, by myself, at 18 yrs. old. Yeah, scars galore.
Matt at 10:45 reminded me of helping my dad change the clutch in a Falcon. We live in Australia. It was an XW Falcon station wagon. We only had the front wheels on ramps on the garage floor. Got rid of the tailshaft, loosened all the bolts to the bell housing then dad layed underneath while I pulled the bolts and he had it on his chest. Dad wriggled and I pulled and we got him and the gearbox out from under the car. Replaced the clutch and reversed the gearbox procedure. Amazing what you can do when you don't have enough money to do it for you. Great memory of working with my dad..
A friend and I did essentially that on a early 50's VW Beetle. He was a high school wrestler from Iowa, could easily press the engine and slide out and back in.
i love how matt is teaching the younger crew how to do this kind of work and not just hiring older people with more experience yes granted they already know a lot but i can see when they arent so sure about something they go straight to matt and he shows them how to do it an they get it done immediately i wish i had a chance like this when i was their age
Matt: " I put my socks on this morning - now I can't walk!" I hear you! I'm at the same age - I hurt myself yawning yesterday! Keep up the great work! Another awesome video! I love how you are pushing to have the younger members and the female members of your team stretch their capabilities and do uncomfortable things - allowing them to have so many wins! Great leadership and mentorship! (I need to do more similar things with my 2 daughters.)
In my neck of the woods, we have alkali clay with a bit of salt in it. You can't leave that in your suspension or undercarriage if you like your rig. It eats everything. The alkalinity causes electrolytic etching of dissimilar metals covered by the clay. To help with this, most private offroad parks have a "bathtub" you can drive into. The tub typically has 3 different depths to cover the different sized rigs. Before going in, a majority of the clay is washed off with low pressure spray bars. These are just powerful enough to knock off the loose clay, but not strong enough to jam clay into places it should not be. Then you pull your rig into the bath, where a slightly acidic cleaner is added to the water, along with some SLA of SLS. Then, a bubbler is activated to agitate the water and knock loose the more stubborn clay. You can let your rig soak for anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or more, depending on how stupid you drove on the trail. Once done in the bath, it's back to the spray bars for a rinse of your like new undercarriage. I've have this done on a freshly built rig with urethane joints and lithium grease on the urethane. The grease didn't look like it had even been touched,
I am 45 years old and I completely understand what matt is saying when I stand up I pop like breakfast cereal. 😂😂 Well done Katelynn you are fearless on driving
25:45 your pink pants are reflecting in the sun off your dash and the whole cab has a pink glow.. .. great shot .. i think you should cut the pants right below the knee and make them not the same length to give it some style
Perhaps 6 inches of lace added to the bottoms of the biboveralls' legs would solve solve your sartorial concerns. I suggest a tighter weave lace to reduce being caught on nuts, bolts, and weeds.
Oh my goodness!😮 LUV the PINK coveralls Matt!! Editors, you missed a perfect opportunity for "I'm a Barbie girl" montage with Matt and Kaitlyn. 😂❤ What a great sport MORR!
Wait wait wait... are you FINALLY hitting bare metal with anti-rust paint before putting them in? I'm shocked! ALSO: Colby drives an FJ Cruiser??! Well that's me sold, I've got to have one for myself now.
I really like the way Matt teach his team, in this case, Catlin. Even though it was scary and tricky, he let her do it... I do believe that's the way you learn. Great job!!! PD. : For a second, I went back in time and remembered when Matt used to say he didn't like to winch 😅
I have had a little cherokee 12 years now. The stock drive train is 100 times stronger than I would have thought. I have a 4 inch lift and 31s. Try to stay small and light in it. I've only broken one u joint.
@@scottcummings8074 i always heard that was about the threshold, any bigger than that & you're spitting u joints (& teeth from a rough ride) everywhere
@@purplepup8897 ya, that's why I didn't go bigger yet. I've got 35 and 37s on my other 4x4s. I consider my cherokee and built samurai my side by sides. Stronger than a rzr and street legal.. barely.
@@scottcummings8074 it also gets to be a pain when you lift one high enough that every whitetail you hit bends the axle tube, lol. Yeah a feller is better off getting a old beater for a woods buggy. There's lots of guys in my area that spent over $20k on side-by-sides, for the sole sake of drinking beer in the woods. Like heck get a samurai so you get a little bit of fuel mileage anyhow lol
As far as dirt and washing, the US Army did a study that found that too much washing with high pressure water damages vehicles, I am guessing by forcing sand past seals into bearing surfaces. So the Army did away with most of that. You still need to wash the undersides from time to time though.
Loving the pink shants! (short/pant 😂) So impressive Matt how you lead by your cool chilled example where very little phases you and all energy goes into finding solutions. With your staff/family, educating without berating and teaching how without micromanaging. Your skills, both engineering and interpersonal are amazing.
Never pressure wash undercarriage! Reminds me our hunting club president had a Ford 4x4 Highboy crew cab short bed. Never got stuck in the mud here in the Georgia mud we call sticky snot. He never washed it. Decided to sell it he was getting too old to hunt. He washed inside outside and underneath! Ole Girl still looked good in his driveway. Next morning he goes out to drink his morning coffee notices driveway has several oil puddles under the truck. Never had an oil leak till he washed it. All the mud caked on seal all the leaks! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
7:44 In a three link the only link that supports the axle laterally is the panhard. In a four link the triangulation of upper and lower supports the axle laterally. Worn joints cause slop and can contribute to death wobble, but that's usually in the drag link or panhard link. In some situations the situation is made worse but insufficient caster angle. You would hear clunking under acceleration (in 4WD) or braking if the three control arm joints had slop because the panhard provides no torsional or longitudinal support of the axle.
I had forgotten Matt was using a triangulated four link with a steering box. Ignore what I said above about a panhard, clearly it doesn't apply here. I didn't see the fourth link earlier. I wonder how the bump steer is.
Great video. I saw that spark. That happened to me , but in the Dark! Scary. Battery wasn’t tied down and on windy roads, arcing on the hood frame. Great job Katelynn! That was pretty scary , but you did it!🤙😎
We never forget our first! Mine was a 1975 Plymouth Valiant Custom with a Slant-6. Slow but indestructible. Rust claimed the body, but I pulled the engine and transplanted it into another Valiant for a friend.
25:31, do you have bronzer for your legs so the super white does not interfere with the camera ? ;) Caitlyn is AWESOME with her rock crawling- no screaming freaking out- "Take over" just does, reacts and handles ! Good- nope Great ! Job !!! :) (must be the pink somehow- you'll need to talk with Matt about keeping his pink fresh ! )
I had an 88 when I was 16. I gave that transfer case hell when it would engage. I thought it was already bad because it wouldn’t engage correctly. Went to drive it 900 miles and decided I’d check all the fluids. Figured I’d drain and refill the transfer case as it because of the issues. I got a few drops out 😅 filled it back up and she worked like new and never missed a beat.
Gotta love Matt! Every time something looks like it's not going to work because it's not a simple bolt in, Matt saves the day his way. Ain't Pretty, but as an old friend of mine used to say, "It worked didn't it"? That's all that matters!
Watching the corvair section of the video made me miss the video where Matt went hundred of miles to get a new old corvair. Since then I started watching videos of people doing the same and trying to make the cars run to head back home.
7:01 it's like lathe work. Experienced machinists know that you DO NOT use compressed air near the table of your mill, ways of your lathe or inside your scroll chuck. Big nonos that drive chips inside the machines and make a mess of surfaces.
As a millwright many years ago I got a 2" slice on the side of my face. I finished my shift and then had it stitched up. The guy I was working with said "Chicks dig scars". I said "Yeah , but wives DON'T". After 25 years of sawmill maintenance I am more scar tissue than man.
As a guy who has owned 4 Samurais, I loved how it was an attempt to just push it to where it needed to be. You can do that with a Sammi. I have many times. And Ed was there at the right time!! Long live the Suzuki Samurai!!!
I can absolutely sympathize with Matt's comment about putting on his socks and not being able to walk. I have literally sneezed my way into 3 days of being bed-ridden and on muscle relaxers. I have found that my exuberant youth--hunting, fishing, rock climbing, dirt biking, three-wheeling in Wyoming followed by 7 years active duty in the Marine Corps--has left me with a body that makes all kinds of noises that only seem to be getting worse as I work my way through my 50s.
1) Matt definitely should cut the pink overalls into pink overshorts (Diesel Dave style). 2) Kaitlyn has some GUTS for working that dead Suzuki down the ledges. Kudos.
Yooooo Matt! I was there when you did that recovery! I was so surprised at what I saw. I can't believe it. I was talking to one of the guys in the black jeep. I told him I was a big fan. That was awesome, man! Great job! You can actually see me in the corner there at 34:18
We're only 4 days from the Off-Road Games. Get your tickets before it's too late. www.offroadgames.com
Amen I sleep in my socks lol smarter than the avrg gump lol Amber is my wife by the way
Matt, I’ve been watching your videos for several years now and I have to be honest with you. I would have to believe that the majority of your subscribers are men, like 90% or more, and seeing you have your Lizzy replacement wearing pink on Wednesday’s was bad enough, especially the hat, but man you have to be smart enough to not wear pink yourself. We watch your show because of your bad to the bone vehicles and your adventures and it seems like you’re evolving to something different. It’s Your show, I’m just a subscriber but I bet I’m not the only guy thinking that. Thanks.
If you had a way for disabled vet to get up there to watch the games, I would love to be there there ain’t no way I could walk around up there but I guess it’s just as good if I’m watching I’d love to enter to win either the Jeep or Robbie’s side-by-side But it’s all good
Looking forward to you loosing an eye because you don't wear safety glasses all the time. You attitude towards safety can be deadly for your viewers who YOU influence. Social media influencer telling their viewers to ignore safety like him so they can get scars? WTF?!?!?! YOU_R_A_DUMB_ARSE_MATT!!!
@@stevenjames5419Katelynn (spelling?) is a teenager (15? 16?) and has this thing about wearing pink on Wednesdays, entirely her idea. Matt's just having fun with the kid. Besides, she's actually a pro 4x4 race driver with her dad, so the kid's legit about 4-wheeling. Would like to see her learning more shop skills, that's my only complaint and it ain't a big deal.
Katelynn is right about labeling bolts, were usually to lazy to do it but its so nice when you do.
I don't really need it when I am going to be in and out. But that said I knew I was taking my motorcycle apart for a few months at least, and you better bet there's a wall of sandwich bags labeled in my shed. Best part is, I am a big fan of magnets, so its an actual wall lol.
Ha! I just wrote a comment like that. You're so so correct. And she's so correct. Every shop should have at least one person like that.
Don’t want to sound picky, but her name is spelt Katelynn.
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@@clivehorridge thanks for the correction
What are you nuts? 🔩
"I have to pull the exhaust out to get to the last bolt because this is a Chrysler product". I haven't laughed so loud in a long time. True words!
Matt's words of wisdom at the end of the video: "I put on my socks this morning, and now I can't walk". I'm 70 and I know *exactly* what he is talking about! Great job getting that Suzuki off the mountain! Caitlynn is quickly getting on-the-job training!
True story I pulled some muscles in my back in 2003, was getting ready for work several years later and re- injured it tying my boots 😊😅
I hear ya - same age. The small tasks years ago now become an event. lol
Kaitlyn is worthless. I don't think she's even capable of learning
Caitlyn is a champion rock crawler with her dad.
Truer words have never been spoken, and it starts earlier than you'd expect. I threw my back out while leaning on the car to replace a clutch master cylinder. I was in pain for a week, like WTF I'm only 38.
Great to see Eric. We miss him in the videos. Always good to see Ed too. Katelyns laugh is infectious. She's a good one to have around
Matt, you rock those pink bibs! Leave 'em long and just tuck them into your boots! Do you think Tom would get and wear a matching pair? Now that would be a sight to see!
this channel is already about one straw from breaking this subscribers' back.
Matt is so right. When I hit 40. We were on a weekend trip to Wilmington, NC. First day, a Thursday, we were walking downtown, getting ice cream. I sneezed, and threw out my back! I was stuck in the hotel room the rest of the weekend!! My family enjoyed the beach. I watch TH-cam on my phone all weekend
"threw out my back'
Any time you sneeze lift one foot off the ground. It will prevent the back pinch. Best advice my chiropractor ever gave me.
I bend over before my sneeze to avoid the thspinal.
I love spelling and grammar police
@@olegearhead2483 are you being sarcastic? Or sourcatsick??
Matt: I’m not a “dog person”
Also Matt every time he sees a dog: you’re a good dog, I can tell.
A Flat Coated Retreiver to! Awesome dogs.
When has Matt ever said he's not a dog person? Every time he gets the opportunity, he will pat any dog that comes his way.
@@KarlEller he said it in a video quite a while back. Said he isn't your stereotypical dog person
Dogs that go out on family trips usually are good ol dogs
3:10 I was on a safety induction at a petrochemical plant over here in Scotland.
The guy giving the induction lecture on site safety had a glass eye.
More to the point, that glass eye had a huge chunk chipped out of it.
Just let those facts sink in for a minute.
"Do as I say - not as I do!"
That is amazing .
To that I say 'lead by example' and 'monkey see, monkey do'
@@mircomuntener4643 yeah, that'll be why everybody on that sight all had a glass eye, also with a big chunk knocked out of it?
@@gordonmurray3153 *ssiigghh*
Cool story bro
I was always taught, “dying isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you.”
Get some sound deadening mat and line the trans tunnel. Itll insulate the floor from heat, kill vibrations and reduce the straight cut gear whine heard inside.
Don’t worry Matt some of us over here across the pond when measuring understand fraction, decimal and metric. Unfortunately being 70, when I went to school back in the early sixties, we were in some sort of confused transition stage. We had to learn fractions of an inch, which was in use at the time, decimal that was going to be commonly used soon, and then just in case it would be used in the future, which it now is, we had to also learn the metric system. So now I measure something and think about it in all the different units, so to me a quarter inch is 0.25 of an inch or 6.4 mm. My diagrams I make when I’m working out a design is a combination of all three because it might be thinking in fractions, metric or decimal at whatever stage of the design. It can make for some confusing drawings!
By the way, the pink pants need a pair of pink boots would really set off the ensemble.
I had ab 89 ford. You never knew till you tried the wrenches whether a bolt was metric or inch.
Matt in pink trousers hangin at the back of that car, I think now I have seen it all 😂
Like an Easter version of the trousers
YEP.
on wednesdays we where pink
Tell me Katelynn is not just such a fun person! Mad props to Matt for a little humility for the sake of a huge team win. If you see her in the back ground, she has a happy look on her face.
Mat...not so pretty in pink 😊
Definitely need to make them pink overalls OVERSHORTS!!! I'm in Vermont from Utah and grateful for what you guys do in filling some of my needs of what I am missing! peace friends!
Nobody needs to see that!
hotpants!
Perhaps we can call them OverSomes and not Overalls? 😂
20:42 great to see Eric is doing well
Was he not?
@@recoveringmillennial9695 i meant in general. He’s one of my favorite recurring friends of Matt because he’s so practical.
Loved him in the gold nugget recovery. He was truly upset when he had to steer it out, but like a good friend he did it any way! LOL
Need more Eric!
I thought he worked there
A long long time ago (back in the '70s) my father had a white jumpsuit that he used for doing car work. When my mother went to wash it, she also threw in a couple dozen of his dirty red shop towels.
Ended up with a couple dozen clean red shop towels and a bright pink jumpsuit !
So, Matt just get a set of coveralls that actually fit you in white and a bunch of new red shop towels. 😄
Shame colour catchers weren't invented until 1993
Banana got me subscribed years ago when Winder towing recovered a truck from a totally unrecoverable position on the side of a logging trail. It was an epic recovery.
It is great to see Ed and Eric; those guys are what made MOR a gem in the beginning. Love watching anything with Eric in it.
Yep and now we have Matt wearing pink bibs.
Good ole Ed looking alright. Glad he can still get out.
Matt, the first car I had title to, was a 1962 Corvair 95 window van. I pulled the engine and replaced the clutch. I also rebuilt both carburetors. It never ran on more than 5 cylinders because I had a bad lifter for cylinder 6, and it leaked oil everywhere, but it did run. I paid 30 bucks for it, and sold it for $150.00 to a guy who owned the local garbage dump. He replaced the bad lifter and gave the van to his grandson.
ive never seen a Corvair that didnt leak oil
I have, right after it ran out of oil from leaking all over!@@jimsmith9819
Ziploc bag _before_ you toss it into the bucket of mystery is a top-tier move.
Also, great to _finally_ see somebody else getting in on pink wednesdays. Have a little fun with life!
for easy storage of bolts and stuff use red cups and masking tape for labels. you can stack the cups and have things stored neatly in a box until assembly. i did that exact thing when working on semis for 10 years. when sometimes having 3 different brands taken apart you need it organized in a way that dont take up much space. the cups are way more durable than you think .
Kaetlin (spelling like my niece because it's the only way I know) makes the whole team way more than11% better. Her smiles and laughter always make me smile and laugh too.
Then keep watching my friend.
My niece is a Caitlyn, but I think this one is Kate-Lynne (not sure about the capitalisation or apostrophe).
Katelynn
Great episode, seeing Matt hang off the tracker in pink overalls is hilarious and it was great to see Ed.
Nothing like a really well run Ace Hardware. The one closest to my parents house in PA was Hornung's True Value which became an Ace later on, but they were by far the best stocked well run Ace I've been to in my life.
I really miss the Ace Hardware store from my childhood. It was a great place to find parts and listen to old guys telling funny stories.
The Ace near me stopped doing popcorn during covid. They never brought it back. So, I no longer think it's a well run Ace.
Most advertising slogans are hooey, but Ace really is the place with the helpful hardware man.
The Ace in my town is full of empty shelves! Been terrible for years
I once rented a tractor from our local Ace.
When I asked what size hitch ball I needed the owner reached into his pocket pulled out keys and said "Just use my truck. It has the right ball on it."
She's so right. Labelled bags are the way to go. It saved my behind so many times.
😂 Thanks for the metric conversion. Fortunately, I have tape measures with both imperial and metric measurements showing. Cheers from the land down under - Australia.
I had a samurai hard top in the early 90's. Lost spark while wheeling, the frame flexed and flexed the cap into the rotor when it hit the firewall and took the contact off of the rotor. I bent up a new contact from a ski lift ticket that was on my jacket. 👍
Matt’s comment at the end about wrecking your back while putting your socks on is too relatable. 😅
I wrecked my shoulder typing this comment.
Thats my sock and back life every morning.
If you mess up your back putting your socks on, then don't wear them. lol
Every time you lifted up that transfer case both my shoulders were screaming with pain.
I did it this morning putting up work boots on bent over a little too quick and bam been a candy cane all day
I Did it today as well. 😮
What is this witchery?!!? Placing stuff in bags and marking them ?!?!?
I just memorize each nut and bolt. Way easier.
If Kaitlyn’s one contribution to the projects is making sure they can easily put parts back together because they know what they are due to labeling, she will have made a valuable contribution.
@@buysncharge well, considering on the last project they got bogged down by a random bucket of bolts. I don’t think that method works for this team. Your method is fine if the same person takes it apart and puts it back together but that doesn’t always happen for this team.
@carschmn I'm being obtuse. I place my nuts and bolts into a piece of cardboard. I wire wheel them. And spray paint them. So I know who woke on what. Unless it a a one part install. Then I might just mark bolts with a paint pen.
grab a stack of red cups and a sharpie. as you remove a part, put the bolts in a cup, label it, and throw it on top of the stack. When you reassemble, you go through the stack top-down.
Put Lucas transmission treatment in the transfer case to quiet it down. We put a new gear in a John Deere pto that was louder than what you are having. We never had any noise after adding the Lucas transmission treatment. Try it,it works. Great video.
Katelyn, it is a good thing you are there. Carry a supply of bags and a marker pen. You will soon teach the others of the value of doing it that way. And masking tape to mark things too big for a bag. Go Team Pink.
20:46 Jake seems like such an awesome guy seriously!
@21:18... Heck yeah, rock the pink overalls! And, yes, trim them off into Short-Alls! 😊😊
The pink bibs are great 👌
for a Barbie movie.
Hi Ed! Good to see the man. Well, that was fun for Kaitlyn coming down those drops, but she handled it well. Luckily, she is a bit compulsive which is a good quality and a great addition to the team.
hey guys, been wanting to tell you how I think you can solve the problem of towed cars hitting the back of the wrecker, back in the day, we towed cars with a chain wrapped around the 2" ball, then going through a pipe about 3" round and 4' or longer and wrapped around the front bumper of the towed car, it keeps the towed car from closing the gap and making the chain/rope slack, you could use schedule 80 3" abs/pvc down at the bottom two ropes holding the car, you wouldn't even need someone to brake the car then, TRY IT!
already mentioned multiple times in previous videos, how many cars did you tow back in the day offroad with 3-4-5 foot drops?
@8:15 No lie, when I do tear downs it's my wife's job to clean, bag and label all the fasteners. Stack them in order and it makes reassembly an absolute breeze and they're clean if you need to apply thread lock, anti seize or anything else to them.
That's a job that's incredibly easy but adds so much value to a project.
Will have to keep in mind (I'm 17 lol)
All you need to do is to add about this many millimeters of lace to your pink fashion statement overhauls😂
Good job for insisting, Katelynn!
New Merch item: Matt’s Off-road parts bags. $19.95 per box 👍🤣👍
@11:37 (as at least four guys with arms held aloft lift a transfer case) "It's like Iwo Jima" - hahahaha. Hilarious. Who said that? Was it Jake? comedy genius.
Yeah pretty poor taste to a guy whose uncle and father stormed Iwo Jima.
@@FYMASMD Oh good grief. How is that in poor taste? Having five or so guys lift something with arms aloft is very much like the famous Iwo Jima flag raise image. It's quite a clever visual comparison actually. They're not equating their momentary struggle to fighting the Japanese, or downplaying the sacrifices made in the Pacific by making the visual comparison to a much-celebrated photograph. It's not an insult to the guys who fought or even the guys who died to say something is visually similar. My Grandpa fought in the Pacific and I'm fairly certain if those guys who died on that island could have been back home working on a car with their friends they would have been. And I'm even more certain that if they knew they were going to be remembered almost 80 years later they'd be ok with that. If anything, I think Iwo Jima and other such sacrifices made by brave men should be cited, mentioned and remembered MORE not LESS. And if done so in everyday settings like workshops and garages where guys work - not just in history classes or on memorial days - all the better. Merely mentioning a thing isn't mocking it. Don't confuse the topic of a 'joke' as the 'target' of it. And in this case there was no target. I mean this is in the nicest possible way, but get over yourself. :)
I completely missed it the first time through. Thanks for tagging it! Hilarious
Hey Matt! I was driving home to see my folks this weekend and I happened to drive by the National Corvair Museum locating in Sangamon County Illinois just south of Springfield, IL. Thought of you instantly!
The museum is located in Glenarm, IL.
Lol same here!!
Yup. I'm 64 and I have a bunch of scars. Over the years I've done most of what they do, including mountain biking, Corvair repair, crazy car towing with my brother, and getting stuck on a dirt road or in snow. I pulled a 283 motor still coupled to the three-speed manual transmission out of a 1961 Chevy Nomad wagon, by myself, at 18 yrs. old. Yeah, scars galore.
Matt at 10:45 reminded me of helping my dad change the clutch in a Falcon. We live in Australia. It was an XW Falcon station wagon.
We only had the front wheels on ramps on the garage floor. Got rid of the tailshaft, loosened all the bolts to the bell housing then dad
layed underneath while I pulled the bolts and he had it on his chest. Dad wriggled and I pulled and we got him and the gearbox out from under the car.
Replaced the clutch and reversed the gearbox procedure. Amazing what you can do when you don't have enough money to do it for you.
Great memory of working with my dad..
A friend and I did essentially that on a early 50's VW Beetle. He was a high school wrestler from Iowa, could easily press the engine and slide out and back in.
i love how matt is teaching the younger crew how to do this kind of work and not just hiring older people with more experience yes granted they already know a lot but i can see when they arent so sure about something they go straight to matt and he shows them how to do it an they get it done immediately i wish i had a chance like this when i was their age
Then, when they go into more professional auto shops, they get everything wrong. Lol.
Nice to see Ed out on a recovery. Miss seeing out with you guys
22:56 SENT ME, good job editor! Got me in stitches!!!
I've been an Amsoil dealer for 22 years. Good to see you want the protection of the best lubrication products on the market.
Matt: " I put my socks on this morning - now I can't walk!" I hear you! I'm at the same age - I hurt myself yawning yesterday! Keep up the great work! Another awesome video! I love how you are pushing to have the younger members and the female members of your team stretch their capabilities and do uncomfortable things - allowing them to have so many wins! Great leadership and mentorship! (I need to do more similar things with my 2 daughters.)
I just want to say Katelynn is a perfect fit for the crew. Great job Katelynn
TomTom now you need a Gold bolt to put in last !
I get notifications for Matt's and Paul's video's minutes apart. What a great way to start the day ✓
In my neck of the woods, we have alkali clay with a bit of salt in it. You can't leave that in your suspension or undercarriage if you like your rig. It eats everything. The alkalinity causes electrolytic etching of dissimilar metals covered by the clay. To help with this, most private offroad parks have a "bathtub" you can drive into. The tub typically has 3 different depths to cover the different sized rigs. Before going in, a majority of the clay is washed off with low pressure spray bars. These are just powerful enough to knock off the loose clay, but not strong enough to jam clay into places it should not be. Then you pull your rig into the bath, where a slightly acidic cleaner is added to the water, along with some SLA of SLS. Then, a bubbler is activated to agitate the water and knock loose the more stubborn clay. You can let your rig soak for anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or more, depending on how stupid you drove on the trail. Once done in the bath, it's back to the spray bars for a rinse of your like new undercarriage. I've have this done on a freshly built rig with urethane joints and lithium grease on the urethane. The grease didn't look like it had even been touched,
I am 45 years old and I completely understand what matt is saying when I stand up I pop like breakfast cereal. 😂😂
Well done Katelynn you are fearless on driving
Pink Pants Wednesday! Matt saw the light.😂 now it's time for Tom Tom to participate. 😂🤣😂
I like the pink coveralls, there’s even a little pocket in the front, so that when you wear them you have a place to put your dignity.
😂 Always useful 😉✌️
25:45 your pink pants are reflecting in the sun off your dash and the whole cab has a pink glow.. .. great shot .. i think you should cut the pants right below the knee and make them not the same length to give it some style
Perhaps 6 inches of lace added to the bottoms of the biboveralls' legs would solve solve your sartorial concerns. I suggest a tighter weave lace to reduce being caught on nuts, bolts, and weeds.
Oh my goodness!😮 LUV the PINK coveralls Matt!! Editors, you missed a perfect opportunity for "I'm a Barbie girl" montage with Matt and Kaitlyn. 😂❤ What a great sport MORR!
25:08 Max’s reaction…priceless 😎
Wait wait wait... are you FINALLY hitting bare metal with anti-rust paint before putting them in? I'm shocked!
ALSO: Colby drives an FJ Cruiser??! Well that's me sold, I've got to have one for myself now.
@36:09 OMG! Operational backup up lights on a MORR vehicle! 🎉
I really like the way Matt teach his team, in this case, Catlin. Even though it was scary and tricky, he let her do it... I do believe that's the way you learn.
Great job!!!
PD. : For a second, I went back in time and remembered when Matt used to say he didn't like to winch 😅
I came here for awesome offroad builds but stayed for Matt in pink overalls! Love the commitment guys!
I cant believe the stock 231 has lasted that long, amazing.
I have had a little cherokee 12 years now. The stock drive train is 100 times stronger than I would have thought. I have a 4 inch lift and 31s. Try to stay small and light in it. I've only broken one u joint.
@@scottcummings8074 i always heard that was about the threshold, any bigger than that & you're spitting u joints (& teeth from a rough ride) everywhere
The 231 is super strong and there's no real reason to swap it. He could just replace the chain and it'd be good for another 5 years
@@purplepup8897 ya, that's why I didn't go bigger yet. I've got 35 and 37s on my other 4x4s. I consider my cherokee and built samurai my side by sides. Stronger than a rzr and street legal.. barely.
@@scottcummings8074 it also gets to be a pain when you lift one high enough that every whitetail you hit bends the axle tube, lol. Yeah a feller is better off getting a old beater for a woods buggy. There's lots of guys in my area that spent over $20k on side-by-sides, for the sole sake of drinking beer in the woods. Like heck get a samurai so you get a little bit of fuel mileage anyhow lol
Glad to see Ed with a weather check and out on a call in the Banana !
Preach it brother! Bearings and seals of all kinds hate pressure washers! 😊
That may be true, but if you live in the snow belt, you either wash the salt off or rust will remove what your bearings and seals attach to.
As far as dirt and washing, the US Army did a study that found that too much washing with high pressure water damages vehicles, I am guessing by forcing sand past seals into bearing surfaces. So the Army did away with most of that. You still need to wash the undersides from time to time though.
Loving the pink shants! (short/pant 😂)
So impressive Matt how you lead by your cool chilled example where very little phases you and all energy goes into finding solutions. With your staff/family, educating without berating and teaching how without micromanaging. Your skills, both engineering and interpersonal are amazing.
Holy cow! That rescue seemed really sketchy! Caitlin did an amazing job keeping cool! Well done crew.
Never pressure wash undercarriage! Reminds me our hunting club president had a Ford 4x4 Highboy crew cab short bed. Never got stuck in the mud here in the Georgia mud we call sticky snot. He never washed it. Decided to sell it he was getting too old to hunt. He washed inside outside and underneath! Ole Girl still looked good in his driveway. Next morning he goes out to drink his morning coffee notices driveway has several oil puddles under the truck. Never had an oil leak till he washed it. All the mud caked on seal all the leaks! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
7:44 In a three link the only link that supports the axle laterally is the panhard.
In a four link the triangulation of upper and lower supports the axle laterally.
Worn joints cause slop and can contribute to death wobble, but that's usually in the drag link or panhard link. In some situations the situation is made worse but insufficient caster angle. You would hear clunking under acceleration (in 4WD) or braking if the three control arm joints had slop because the panhard provides no torsional or longitudinal support of the axle.
I had forgotten Matt was using a triangulated four link with a steering box. Ignore what I said above about a panhard, clearly it doesn't apply here. I didn't see the fourth link earlier. I wonder how the bump steer is.
Great video. I saw that spark. That happened to me , but in the Dark! Scary. Battery wasn’t tied down and on windy roads, arcing on the hood frame. Great job Katelynn! That was pretty scary , but you did it!🤙😎
We never forget our first! Mine was a 1975 Plymouth Valiant Custom with a Slant-6. Slow but indestructible. Rust claimed the body, but I pulled the engine and transplanted it into another Valiant for a friend.
with Ed holding the two trucks as an anchor point and Mat hanging outside the suzuki like a catamaran, this must be one of the best
One word. Doggie bandanas to go with the t-shirts. 🎉
Matt, You need some BIG Fluffy Pink Boa's to make up those short cuffs. All in good fun. Keep up the good work!
I like that. Jesse Ventura style!
Great recovery.....PINKY BIBS.....NOT SO MUCH.....Kate did a hellofa good job steering broke vehicle down trail !..... thanks for sharing this with us
Wow, that tailgate on deja blue looks so nice and clean! It would be a shame if anything happened to it.
Got the horn Collin.!!..."ya get that trophy cowboy belt buckle...."Hurricane Shop Rodeo" LoL
11:36 "It's like Iwo Jima!" 🤣
Jake says the most random things 😂
thanks for the conversion at 24:00
never know what the hell fractions of an inch are :D
25:31, do you have bronzer for your legs so the super white does not interfere with the camera ? ;) Caitlyn is AWESOME with her rock crawling- no screaming freaking out- "Take over" just does, reacts and handles ! Good- nope Great ! Job !!! :) (must be the pink somehow- you'll need to talk with Matt about keeping his pink fresh ! )
I had an 88 when I was 16. I gave that transfer case hell when it would engage. I thought it was already bad because it wouldn’t engage correctly. Went to drive it 900 miles and decided I’d check all the fluids. Figured I’d drain and refill the transfer case as it because of the issues.
I got a few drops out 😅 filled it back up and she worked like new and never missed a beat.
I love the saying "I don't think it's going to be a problem, It's going to be a solution"
Didn't know you still had the 231, that's impressive.
I haven't been into an ACE still doing the popcorn in ages, my dad used to swing in there on a Saturday for literally nothing else
Love the pink overalls! Just itching to show Kaitlyn how to rock that hat! Bring it to the brow cowgirl!
Gotta love Matt! Every time something looks like it's not going to work because it's not a simple bolt in, Matt saves the day his way. Ain't Pretty, but as an old friend of mine used to say, "It worked didn't it"? That's all that matters!
Matt is spot on with the aging comments, I missed 2 days of work because I sneezed and hurt a rib 😂. You just wait youngins it’ll get ya eventually 😂
Watching the corvair section of the video made me miss the video where Matt went hundred of miles to get a new old corvair. Since then I started watching videos of people doing the same and trying to make the cars run to head back home.
Found vicegripgarage yet?
I believe the correct method of cutting overalls is daisy dukes style.
7:01 it's like lathe work. Experienced machinists know that you DO NOT use compressed air near the table of your mill, ways of your lathe or inside your scroll chuck. Big nonos that drive chips inside the machines and make a mess of surfaces.
Thank you Matt and crew for the adventure and update on the Banana ! Seeing that Ed is doing is awesome also !
Matt per your safety comment........Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever. (Keanu Reeves as Shane Falco in the Replacements)
As a millwright many years ago I got a 2" slice on the side of my face. I finished my shift and then had it stitched up. The guy I was working with said "Chicks dig scars". I said "Yeah , but wives DON'T".
After 25 years of sawmill maintenance I am more scar tissue than man.
What's the back story on the rental jeep?
Not much of one afaik, it's just jaime's jeep, they call it the rental jeep because it's nice and new and funny.
11:31 It’s like Iwo Jima! 😂
As a guy who has owned 4 Samurais, I loved how it was an attempt to just push it to where it needed to be. You can do that with a Sammi. I have many times. And Ed was there at the right time!! Long live the Suzuki Samurai!!!
I never had a Samurai but I had a few VW Beetles (original air cooled). I did a one person push start more than once with them.
I can absolutely sympathize with Matt's comment about putting on his socks and not being able to walk. I have literally sneezed my way into 3 days of being bed-ridden and on muscle relaxers. I have found that my exuberant youth--hunting, fishing, rock climbing, dirt biking, three-wheeling in Wyoming followed by 7 years active duty in the Marine Corps--has left me with a body that makes all kinds of noises that only seem to be getting worse as I work my way through my 50s.
1) Matt definitely should cut the pink overalls into pink overshorts (Diesel Dave style).
2) Kaitlyn has some GUTS for working that dead Suzuki down the ledges. Kudos.
18:22 Like Father like son 😂😂
Yay perfect Sunday morning
Yooooo Matt! I was there when you did that recovery! I was so surprised at what I saw. I can't believe it. I was talking to one of the guys in the black jeep. I told him I was a big fan. That was awesome, man! Great job! You can actually see me in the corner there at 34:18