Cheap Truck Challenge! - Roadkill Episode 3

In this

episode

of Roadkill we sit down with Rick Payway and Fred Williams from Four Wheel and Off-Road Magazine and join their

cheap

truck

challenge

. This is a contest in which everyone has to buy a

truck

for $2,000 and ride it. for another 2000 and then go head to head in the number of competitions that test the vehicle's capability, its reliability and its cool factor. Our truck is a 79 Ford Bronco. We spent too much on it for $2500, but our argument was that it was ready to go as is. It even already had a six-inch lift and some 33-inch mud-terrain tires.

It has a beefy c6 351 v8 transmission the best 205 gear driven transfer case a nine inch ford in the rear and a dana 44 in the front rick opted for a 1980 toyota pickup truck this thing is almost retro it's cool . I think he really misled the price because it has a new low range Marlin Crawler transfer case. He put lockers at both ends. It has a lift kit. New Mickey Thompson. 33 inch wheels so it will work great even though it is fake. Fred's truck is great, it's an 87 suburban and I really like it because it's a stripper model without air conditioning.

It also has four speeds, which will help a lot. He put an off-road designed lift kit on it and some cool super swimmers. In the end, we all spent about the same on our trucks, at $3,500 each. We'll find out how they stack up against the competition. We are here. at fred williams' house in atascadero california he's the four wheel jeep crew who's setting all this up we're only two and a half hours late who misses rick payway late as always guaranteed the sun will set behind those bushes for him moment when Rick arrives, where is Fred with the

cheap

beer truck

challenge

, it's the competition against the budget, if you are a 17 year old boy and you worked all summer and only made a few thousand dollars, what would you buy, how would you fix it? ready, each editor got a vehicle, made some improvements to it and then we'll go out and take them on four wheels, but they also have to remain reliable and something you can drive to work or school every day, yes, no, we're still here at the house, the payment method is not here yet, as always, I have a good feeling about this one.

This is a total flashback, like everyone I knew in the '80s had one of these right now. The last thing is to install the drive shaft. I removed it because The transfer cases are new. I didn't want to risk burning them, so I'll put them on. There are only eight bolts made. I'm ready to start. The worst thing about this challenge is that I don't have any. track Fred said be on time, which for me I am and we're going to go for a spin. Do not know where. I don't know what he says to bring a gallon of milk.

I also have no idea what that means, so. I'm ready, I've got my driveshaft, I've got my truck, I'm ready. What I would like to point out now is that the hot rod team showed up after we had driven our truck here completely ready to go. We were there for four. hours waiting for payment and is still working on it after driving here with his luxury Apollo motorhome. The first thing we are going to do is take a walk and drive. Everyone can drive everyone else's vehicles. We will check the fuel savings. That's all. a road test works fine oh Toyota, where is the seat belt on this part?

Make sure you lose fuel economy. Let's drive there first. This thing has a real second clutch every day. I'm shuffling, let's just go. Driving right now, here it comes, oh yeah, this is winning the drag race, really, yeah, oh yeah, you want some, yeah, oh, now it's wasting our gas, which was a gallon, hello officer, this steering wheel It's falling down, you see, this is our special. top secret ranch testing facility in the middle of nowhere we start with a drag race and an obstacle course we'll play around in the mud so we have a few different things we'll try we also have some guests these are the Land Off Road Training Instructors Rover, these guys are used to very high-end vehicles, so they will be perfect for testing and judging our junk piles.

This is drag racing now, unlike most drag races where you start on a flat surface because our vehicles are a little bit older and maybe need a little help because they're cheap. We are starting on this hill. The Land River guys here will show us how it's done. Ready. I was a little worried about the brakes on these. vehicles once I saw the finish line and the distance to the ditch, but actually that's not a big ditch. I hope I can clarify that in a jump car that looks close enough, two out of three are completely fake, let's sabotage the points system for first, second and third.

It's the dns to get zero david and finnegan dnf toyota the guy claims victory I don't believe it, okay, okay, one more time, one more time, who's the official? Suck it so you don't get fired. What happened? The key for ronco to win. neutral drops, oh no way, that's not a long term solution, no one won the race, yeah, our competitiveness isn't going to pay off right now, I can tell, as long as I win an event, that is the only thing that matters to me, the winner of the endurance race. a mile was the bronco what's the deal so snore she's a little tired after drag racing and doesn't really want to run right now flat tire come on baby let's suck the carburetor rev the engine put a rag over the intake and do it What it does is it stops the air flow and the engine vacuum sucks all the dirt and fuel through all the little venturis and everything else and cleans it up, it runs it now it's ready to go, it's perfect, much better, Yes, that's what happens when you don't open the hood of a newly purchased car before trying to participate in a cheap truck challenge, so what follows is a crawl race showing the tracking relationship of the vehicles to see what so slow can they go if you crawl creepily. some rocks, so we will start all the vehicles together in low first gear and see which is the slowest on the course.

I can drive it, can you? Hey, you have help, no, no one drives it, you have to go among the oranges. flags, so in theory Rick won that deal because he was the last one there and we lost because we were first, but man, I was asked the question: what 17 year old kid wants his truck to be slower, so by the standards apparently inverted evaluation methods? The next thing I call is a victory in the crawling competition. Clearly, the winner was the Toyota. This is the milk truck challenge, where we have a jug of milk attached to the hood of the vehicle and as you drive forward it starts dripping and that shows how well it works. your suspension is working, this is like you are a kid hanging out in the woods with your friends and suddenly you have to get in your vehicle really fast and run out of there, so this will be a timed event to see who can make it at the end of the fastest run, the guy with the most milk in the jug at the end of the run gets extra points once I got to the creek bed and turned left up the hill, I thought I was already losing milk.

So I made it and started going in high four gears, then I really wanted to throw it over this hill, but with my Toyota I couldn't do it, so I kept it in low four gears and second and went the rest of the way coasting. and in spurts it was like a volcano coming out. I got to the bottom and wanted to do a really tight 360. so I took it out of four wheel drive but it didn't come out of four wheel drive so I had this super long corner that cost me a little bit of time.

The weather wasn't bad, but I lost a lot of milk, so the flag went down and I ran and got into the suburban and my seat belt got stuck, I'm sure I ate a lot. of time just doing that, we go in the suburb, I just absorbed the bumps in the river bed. I really wasn't too worried about the milk situation because there are tons of milk out there. I always buy more milk. I knew it had wheelbase and power, so I thought I'd ease off the throttle and see what happened. I took it over the hills and when I went down through the bushes and trees, I think I hit one of those cameras on the side.

Luckily I was able to speed it through the big donut at the end and it came in strong, I don't know how I did it in time but I think I did pretty well not losing too much milk from the whole jug so I'm pretty sure I'm going to win. I had the idea of ​​being able to go through the passenger door since I don't have a door, which would save me time instead of the other guys having to run back and forth. I think that really worked, I didn't really have any air. What I was trying to modulate the throttle to keep the thing down absorb the bumps and stay on the train and go fast I went down the entire river bed in two wheel drive and I jumped out of bed in two wheel drive and when I had to pass for that little nacho I went up to four high, there was a point where you had to do the donut around the three flags and I kicked it into two wheel drive and I thought I was just going to turn it over, but I think that the box of transfer stayed at four because he pushed the front end too much when that happened, it killed it.

I thought, oh, I'm completely done. Oh, I turned it back on and still made it through the doors much faster than those other guys. I'm going to win this in time because who cares if you spill milk. I don't really think I won, but I think I did better than the Bronco. I can't wait to find out that Friedeburger did quite well in the Bronco. but I really expected it to take off a lot more than he had it, I'm pretty sure I'm going to win it, oh I totally owned those guys that time, it was a big win on their second win so far, the bronco. so next up is a v-notch and a hill climb all in the same thing, you're going to go up, weave back and forth, get to the top, turn and come back down, it'll be speed, but it'll also be graceful so we'll see what we can do now it's a toyota oh brand go if this suburban gets it in case you're because you were wondering on the hill climb bronco wins again everyone wanted to go through the mud aisle and they somehow way convinced me to go first and the first time I dumped it in there, water all over the hood and it kept littering, it came out to eat me, I'm pretty sure I won the mud bog because I don't think anyone else will follow me to where I just went go.

I moved my air filter up and around the snorkel to the back and skirted it to the edge. It was still all in the mud, but it was only half muddy, only half dirty. and I made it, so it was good. He had a big huge camera bag. I didn't know if I wanted to do the mud, but as soon as I saw Rick turn around, I knew I couldn't do it because I wouldn't have to make fun of him for it, so I went through the middle, but not with the speed that Fred Fry Burger does it on his big bronco, except he was also wearing a dress, so it doesn't count.

I don't want to go, in fact I got angry and couldn't get this to work. There are no doors, there is no way to keep me dry. I'm not going to check it completely. They said: do it again, do it again how they do it and when you're done. Once you think you're unstoppable, then we went back to swimming with water everywhere and then I realized that immersion is not good for the suburbs and she went off, we have a lot of water everywhere, so the We towed it here, took out all the plugs and started it up. water is coming out of the cylinders fortunately it has already started up again we are going to put a new air filter on it and we will go home to the mud pit I have to go with the suburban we are in the dunes of bismo and today we are going out to play in the sand Yesterday we were able to play in the mud and hills obstacle course.

Today we're finishing up a cheap truck challenge by coming here and just going around in the sand, maybe see if we can get some air on some dunes, but Toyota. I love dunes, I can even do it in first gear in high range. I don't have to go in low range except in some of those really tough spots that I need to get out of, but if you keep the R's up, keep the momentum going, it just floats. I can go through the bowls and reach the top of some of the dunes. It's going to be really fun when we can finally make things jump around here.

I went out here in the suburbs and I dropped the thing in the low range and I thought this thing was just going to set. stuck but I put it in third and I just got in and the thing was starting to pull the tires weren't sinking it was going full speed I pulled it out of one of those dunes bam it had this huge mess in the back the refrigerator was upside down there were drinks, water and ice everywhere, sowe unearth He kind of surprised me how well the big truck was doing today. The dunes are full of enemies and punks who were attacked by the grunt.

Now I'm renaming the Master Blaster because it's so good in the dunes that we carve higher on the dune than anyone else. That pretty bowl over there is a bit funky, but to be honest, it holds a line better than anything else here in the dunes. go first, bronco boy, okay, someone say something nice to my wife, my son and my dog ​​after this, oh, the spine destroyer, I think I can do better than that, the jump was tricky, it was more like hitting a big obstacle going a little faster than you intended and it just exploded like that and you launched the grunt into the air long enough for it to say ocean to me three times.

It hurts me. The landing was a little stiff. I don't know. I didn't see Peyway and Williams hit him. It's that difficult, so once again, I think we should have the trophy in the sand dunes. The suburban was great, but the hot rod wins again in the end. Do the math, man, we came, we saw, we conquered. I must say that if you were really going to crawl on the rocks. Rick's Toyota would be the best truck and if I had to have one to drive every day, I would choose the suburban, but it is the ultimate off-road vehicle, proven beyond a doubt.the hot rod bronco we will see you again in the next

roadkill

where we had so much fun for no apparent reason hey honey, i think he left his phone here called mom hello hello mom i miss you america has copyright be sure and strap your stuff when you're in the dunes and you