Can we Drive the Most Unreliable Trucks Ever Made Across the Country?

disconnected at the transmission control harness no way if it's as easy as that, it will be so different, literally. The driving experience will do it. be very, very different if that's all our problem, it's actually quite nice, yeah, and it's not really used, well, it's been open, it's like new. I bet he's still fine. I think that lasts. I think it's like Twinkies. I just put it on the starter and it started which is very noisy under here and then this line that appears to be a trans line just started leaking which definitely wasn't leaking before so why doesn't it start? that's a completely different question, okay next question, this might be the furthest anyone has

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Oh great, this isn't going well, it's going exactly as my mental predictions were. I mean, there are worse places to get stuck. I know a lot more about drones and cameras than cars, just put it that way, I'm pretty useless and Ethan knows what he's doing, you know, well that was just the fuel pump or the filter or something, um and I think I just there was an air pocket because I removed one of the lines, ran it for a second, plugged it back in and that's when it started so we know that line is a piece of hard line.

You should be able to take a piece of hose and push it over the leak. and then clamp it on both sides and I already found a spare hose on the engine, oh great, I only need a couple of inches of hose, this piece of power steering line I took out and it has a couple of extra lines of slack. so I'm going to cut that out and use it to patch the other one. Hopefully, we'll be in business so that little section of hose that I got was the perfect diameter that, um, it was, will help me.

He pinched the line and we pulled the line off the end of the back of that hard line the stainless steel hard line slid that little section of hose in there slid it over the brake now I just have to put a couple of hose clamps on it and our leak will be gone Fix yourself hey D D rock and roll man, what's up? Oh no, the transmission is not completely bolted to the engine, oh Ser, this bolt here is not finger tight and there isn't one here that could be the noise we're hearing. he could just be rattling against himself and that's probably why he wouldn't move, nor could it have any bearing on that.

I took out the middle one on this side and I'm going to put it on this side and at our next hardware store I can pick up another one of those damn machines why Ethan zie isn't as nice as will zie will zom it's a little different that one sounds a lot better than This one sounds so much better buddy I literally didn't touch anything except the transmission bolts let's save some tools and then I'll take this for a little test

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we have to hit the road real soon we're not going to make it to Vegas tonight it really sounds bad of course Yes, those brakes do.

H different, yeah, that was the second thing, thinking that the flex plate isn't screwed all the way in there, oh no, or something isn't and it's rubbing against the inside because it doesn't sound like you're in the front. from the engine it doesn't sound like it's coming from there if you go underneath it sounds like it's coming from the back half of the engine yeah so I don't know I guess we just start driving until we have a catastrophe. fails and then I tow it or something yeah because that's how it is or I just sit here and try to pull a transmission in the parking lot to maybe solve a noise because the problem is no one is going to rent us a trailer we would have to buy one, no one will rent it as a trailer to tow with a Humvee, like buying or borrowing one.

I think our only option for that, so we just uninstalled the exhaust and took off this little flex plate cover and essentially our flex plate is broken. It's, uh, I don't know if you remember one of the two Jay-Z ones we took apart, how the inside part of the flex plate was completely separated from the outside part, but it was still like drive or keep turning. Seems to be what's going on here, so that's part of our noise, this was part of our noise resonating in the exhaust, oh, that was a lot of our rattle, oh yeah, look how much it moves, yeah, that It shouldn't really move.

Uh huh oh yeah, that shouldn't move at all, no, this should be bolted rigidly to the crankshaft and I shouldn't be able to turn the crankshaft by hand, which I can't oh oh yeah, because you're moving that and the car. It doesn't move, yeah, oh, that's different. Could we get a flex plate in a store? Probably yes, what we know is that that flex plate is completely cut off and is somehow still capable of transmitting some level of power, so it can drive for how long, probably not that long. I thought it might be a while until I saw how much game there was.

The options are: we would see if we can locate a flex plate, first do a flex plate swap in the driveway of the Walmart parking lot, which is doable and would take a few hours, option two, just send it in, probably not the best option, option three, just send it flat tow or tow with trailer to Fab Rats where we can have a proper shop to fix it, but it's like 6 hours of normal driving, that's more than we can. I might do it today because yeah, we don't really want to drive, no, we don't want to drive at night because the headlights don't really work.

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going to go with the Walmart option, yes. changing parts here because basically if we go big we put more stress on the reliable vehicle yeah yeah and we also have to spend the rest of the day tracking down a trailer. Flat traction is an option because this is how it works. You can idle it for braking and steering, but I don't know how legal that is. I don't think it's legal on a highway. Stephen and I are going to do our second to last air conditioning.

Drive, uh, we are. We're not staying in Vegas tonight because we won't be able to get to our hotel and we won't be driving those things in the dark. We'll go to the next city to get a flex plate. We're back. at the O'Reilly where we were yesterday and they had the flex plate we needed, sure they were half an hour out of town, not bad, the guys will probably have the plate broken when we get back, so we have the transmission al

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completely in both cars , yeah, sort of, and let's take the other hunchback, which is actually pretty reliable so far, get Big Jack to take the weight off the transmission, is it funny how far away they are from each other? we're like I can't even touch you if you want to reach out these could have been some of our noises oh oh wow yeah it's supposed to be attached super easy job if you have a humy and need to change a flex.

The license plate isn't really a big deal, you can do it in the Walmart parking lot. It turned on, yeah, I wonder how many people have

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this not recommended by OSHA or Ethan. We have a whole transmission hanging over us with a cat, it's not exactly. Most likely, I can't wait for you to see this flex plate, it's really ruined, hallelujah, it's two pieces. I would say it was almost like a six piece. Look at

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yone who was ready for it. the wall of Destruction definitely amazing wow that's just hammered that's a little different it's built differently it's like a pizza box I just have one question and that's what's wrong with our brains this is fun wow super easy we got everything screwed together All together again, much better, that's how they're supposed to do it.

I have some baby wipes for you, maybe you need them. I mean, he got scared at least once, oh my gosh. These brakes are so strong that I barely locked it to the pavement. touching them, yeah, so I don't have all the gears yet, damn, it's so much better to drive, although I guess let's get some dinner and make the plan because he's not going to die, but he's going to drive incredibly slow, that was really like that. The most fun I've had in a long time, especially the most fun I've had working on something, just changing a transmission in a Walmart parking lot.

I don't know why, I think it's funny, but it was funny, right? It's part of the adventure. It's awesome and since we build custom stuff all the time, hey, I try, don't break Wills H too. I'm fixing it, but since we build custom things all the time, when you work on consumer quality products, it's really easy, actually, yeah, you just unscrew things and then put them back together, you have to invent every part, it's like making a puzzle with big pieces instead of small pieces, okay, puzzle man, let's go eat, okay, the people at the restaurant were probably worried about Man, but this shirt was new this morning.

He had never used it before today. Look at the back. I just put the fluids in and I'm not really sure what oil was leaking. It could have been transmission fluid, motor oil. I don't know, first conclusion of the day is that I'm an idiot and I left this thing running, so its batteries are dead. Well, I had a lot on my mind last night and, yes, the good news is that I didn't. Do that with this one because we disconnected the batteries so no one could try to steal it. This, you know, not being able to start, was not a problem or a concern.

I'll boot this one up, then change the batteries and that way. This one will charge the dead batteries while I mess around with that longboard. Hey, well, if we break it down, it's faster to get to a gas station than to not have an Escape. I think we could have gotten to Vegas faster in one of these, yeah. We've been here all morning since 6:00 in the morning, you look very familiar, brother. Do you watch YouTube? Hey, let me see it's actually a pretty nice Walmart skateboard and it works like, oh, that's so much better. I knew it.

These would probably be a long board. Well, we should have bought skateboards a while ago. Actually, yeah, buddy, why didn't you have this idea yesterday? I don't know, but it's a good idea. Oh, he goes fast. Well, you don't seem very excited. that's because I'm good at lying it worked oh really what yeah come on it's alive it really works all that because some knuckle dragging moron plugged the wrong sensor into the wrong socket really that's it that's it but listen to me how lucky you are . If that was the case because if it hadn't had the shifting issue, we wouldn't have stopped and delved into the problems and found the broken flex plate which would have completely failed very quickly.

I found the oil leak that would have failed very quickly too and, uh, the fuel pump probably would have exploded all over the exhaust and burst into flames because of where it was, so we really will be the luckiest people on Earth because it was a solution that is already fixed, drives like a dream, so we could go driving, go to Las Vegas, let's go to Las Vegas, come on, if we weren't in the torque lot for 2 days we wouldn't have been bored enough. buy a skateboard that doubles as a creeper to start that thing every time we stop, it's here at 60 M per hour, it's 100% the fastest I can go, it's even probably going 75 right now, but I'm maxed out, this car moves like crazy, I'm a little afraid that we're going to lose a tire.

You guys are missing out on the Lifetime experience here through a couple of Premium military vehicles. This is the best trip I have ever had. The best trip. I have ever told you that you are missing out on the premium driving experience in these military vehicles, that's what he said. I'll be your Ethan radio slang translator for the night. This is the most fun I've had at Inter and that's it. Saying something, this guy we built some machines, well, that's great to hear. I can't wait to leave this stupid rental car and join you, whatever's going on, it's probably not good, no, it just got worse, so I'm going to crawl down and get started.

Looking at this, after our first two days of owning the Humvee, we have only gone 45 miles in the right direction and this is nothing compared to what will happen in the next 1,000 miles, so subscribe to see it.