Earl is BACK! And better than ever. Ram 2500 Cummins

Ojeda Militia welcome to the demolition key but actually we are not going to do any keys today in the garage and we are not going to do any keys today in the zero one barn, today we will see Earl and it has been a while since you saw to Earl, the last time was when we put the new platform on Earl. Earl for those who don't know, it's my Dodge Ram Cummins turbo diesel

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, it's a great four wheel drive truck, it's beautiful, he, he. His name is Earl, he is a handsome and muscular man, actually we are going to work on Earl today.

He's at my good friend Holden Bros Diesel's store and we're going to go there to do some things that will make Earl last to the end. of the world, so they affectionately refer to it as "the world." Earl and I were here filming the video we posted after we got in the elevator, so I'm playing these two videos in one day, it's hard for a guy. like me talking about the diesel Holden Broz, maybe we should get these guys to put some Duramax in this bad boy Allison Transmission Duramax would really break up the old Humvee, but I also like that it's just a Humvee like that's a cool engine.

It leaves a lot to be desired, but it's a very stylish truck and

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ything is stock, very basic military shape and it starts

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y time, well, see you at Holden Bros. Holden Bros Diesel. My brother Mark introduced me. These guys, you see, they just got a bunch of pickups, dude, look at that diesel, how about a bunch of pickups? He introduced me to these guys because he had his Dodge here, tuning it up, checking it out, fixing it up and putting in new injectors and everything that I've had Earl here once before, a two-year-old girl on the lift with the big bet on him.

I'm here with Willie Holden, the owner, what's going on? Willie came with me when I first bought Earl because he bought a third. Before that, I bought an old, what was a six is ​​a six four, yeah, and it was a '64 Ford. He stunk, it broke instantly and he was like, Hey, you shouldn't have done that and I could have told you about it before you bought it. So I thought, well, I'll have Willie come with me next time, so Willie came with me and reviewed this thing that you guys saw on the video. He made sure this was right, yes, and this truck has been amazing, very good, yes, it's like you know what you're saying, yes, it's like you know that you make money when you buy and obviously this was something that the guy took care of it and basically didn't bother, which leaves us with a good night's sleep for Get all the parts right, so I'll come

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and fix all your Peggy, so what are we going to do today?

Willie. So we're going to do quite a few things on this little table, we've got some kind of basic stuff going on. On this, there's a cold air intake, yeah, it helps you breathe a little

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, it's a giant filter, that's cool. I'm not used to diesel parts like that. It seems crazy, these things are really cool to look at and work really well. Okay, so we're going to throw this guy in there, we're also going to put a soap screen on top of this thing, no, to help the filter last a lot longer and extend the life of that like four or five. times great, we're going to do what's called bonding the separator plate on this thing, so the factory valve body cross leaks really bad and if you increase the line pressure on these things, they actually won't be able to do the line. pressures so factories 160 we're going to increase this to 225 with a custom tune that helps the clutches apply with more holding power allows you to shift a little bit quicker helps the converter as far as locking up just okay and basically in every way without really going into the transmission case, so we're going to break the valve body, you'll probably feel that while we're driving it's definitely supposed to be the nose is harder and we're also going to connect it to the last adjustment that we have to It's called user-defined tuning.

So we actually have options that not many people do to adjust the shift firmness and timing on the bottom end, which feeds into a lot of interesting things and I'll go over that with you when we install it in the truck after everything is done. There are factory filters that match this when we take the valve body apart, great, that's on the transmission side, so we're going to clean up some of the other things. I bought a sprocket seal from us, a rear sprocket seal is leaking. On these trucks a lot of people don't know it, but it's actually a two-piece design: it has one on the yoke and one on the pinion, so we have the good thing about aam to put it

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on the front axle.

We're going to do some service on the front rear differential, so we'll change the fluids, clean everything out, let's take a good look, a lot of the things we're doing today are just to make sure it lasts a long time and things like that. needs to be done and I want to do this thing that you told me, I'll probably do it up to 500,000 miles, we do it there, we do the right thing and we take care of it, that's right, if we take care of this truck, we change the oil change, air, clean air, stuff like that, the worst thing we're going to deal with is probably a turbo failure, a transmission failure at gunpoint, it's kind of inevitable for all of these trucks, but we're going to try to spread that out. maintenance, you know, as much as we can in the future, perfect, so what we're doing on the front axle of this truck while we're here is we're going to remove the bearing from the unit that comes in like this, so it's a assembled bearing. pressed everything that holds the load in the front is encapsulated in this little piece that can't be repaired, you can't do anything with it when it wears out along the way, yeah, and they're expensive, you know, 200 for a cheap one of 1 to 5 or 600 for something really good we go ahead and move on Matt he bought the big boy kit so this is really cool it's basically a type of Dana 60 troe suitable for this truck so let's remove that bearing we're going to install a shaft that's going to use two tapered bearings that sit here these guys, so we're going to have one on the inside, we're going to have one here on this end, we're going to give you that strength, yeah, there's a lot

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The weight distribution is a lot easier for you in the long run because you're not going to be removing it and installing it all the time, much stronger if you run it through the water, if it goes a lot of miles, you take it out. Either you pack the bearings or you replace them and that's it, really a good investment. The other part will be the cube assembly. This will allow us to use a manual locking hub instead of a permanent rotating front axle, which is good for a There are many reasons why you can increase fuel consumption: increase the pull on the steering wheel or decrease it quite well because you don't have this joint rolling throughout the launch is a free spin kit right yeah basically everything from the transfer case forward. it's spinning normally even when I'm in two wheel drive, yes exactly, so there's a lot more friction, a lot more wear and that's going to make the fuel economy worse, it's going to make everything a little bit worse. where those things don't turn unless you have four wheel drive, yeah the dealer only did that because it's easy to mass produce and for the most part they will make it through the warranty cycle before repairs are needed. this is something for the long term investment user so with that we are going to get really amazing 41 I think they are 41 30 but much larger outer axles 35 super style splines basically unbreakable we use them on over a thousand horse trucks all the time time on the all wheel drive releases they are actually very reliable and we uh this one didn't have lockers in the front right these ones don't come with that so now I'm going to lock up the front which is cool yeah factory , this was fixed. inside so we didn't have the option to manually lock and unlock the hub so with this setup they are all chrome moly and steel, much stronger, this material is basically unbreakable so now when we are done we will have a manual . locking hub to engage and disengage four wheel drive, cool, our ball joints are the next deal, so here you have a factory style ball joint, right here this is the bottom one, they wear out their hop, you throw them in the trash and the part about it.

What sucks is pressing it in and out of the knuckle over and over again and it ends up where you have tolerance on the inside, so this one has been replaced so many times that they came back with what's called a knurled setup, so we went in and I fixed it because it has lost part of his press. Now we are going to install this ball joint that is made in the USA and is fully rebuildable. If you use it, you simply buy a kit, tear down these parts and reinstall the new wear elements. with the ball joints still installed so you never need to take them out of the novel again, it becomes super super strong, very very good product, so that will eliminate a ball joint problem, finally we are going to do some head studs, that was the main thing . which is why I even started thinking about making things because I always heard that head bolts are a big problem, yes absolutely, especially on the six seven, formerly five 9 axles, they work a lot better because they don't have as many holes in the back. top of the platform. there are no six sevens that have what are called vapor ports and that just gives you a lot more places to deflect and blow the head gasket so we're going to install a set of 625's from ARP.

This is their strongest bra. These are super super sturdy. A lot of people would say this is overkill, but we like that part, yeah, the last thing you want to do is go back there, so what we're going to do is, without removing the cylinder head, we're going to remove a cylinder head bolt and install. one stud at a time and we've had very very good luck with that, it will save you some money and keep you from having to remove the head from the top, and for those who don't know, there are bolts that hold the head on. turned on and there's a gasket in there and that head gasket can blow out so the purpose of this is to put extra pressure on that head to keep that gasket from blowing out here I guess because it's an expensive repair much more expensive than buying this . and once installed, yes, in addition to what we have put on the table here, we will do some general maintenance, change the fluids, maybe another u-joint on the rear driveshaft and we will give this truck a lot. dizzying more reliable.

I also want to say that I have fallen in love with the first generation Struck. I still think they are ugly but I want to build one now so this is exactly what I want actually so it has the extended cab but no rear doors it's a small area behind the front seats but it's not a single cab it has tow mirrors which is awesome it's a pretty clean truck the 350 and it's dual so this says the first chin Cummins dual and they I have some bigger tires on this frame I want to build myself a first gen , come and hit, what do you think?

I mean, this is later, this is like after Bronco, further down the line, look, there's another first-gen dually. Needs much bigger tires but looks great, also needs mirrors for towing. We're also going to put some little shackle extensions back here that will raise this a little bit. They're actually just bigger shackles, so they'll elevate this. Pull yourself up a notch because I just want to have a little more clearance around this thing. It would work like this, but the front is actually a little higher in the front. The front is higher than the rear. This is a stretch at this point, but that's it.

We'll raise it about an inch or two more back here and I think it'll look perfect. Also, give us enough free space back here. I don't think we need to implement any of this. I think we're fine. This thing has bigger tires than stock, so it's pretty tight, but I think a little clearance will be perfect. Also, the last time you saw this bed, the Electra wasn't hooked up, they kept going while they had it here. I got all the electricity hooked up so this is totally done here as far as the beds go so this is the place we haven't done yet so this is shown when the wheel spins the universal joint spins and everything spins in that direction. this side is the wheel and this side has the free spinning kit so when I turn it you see it doesn't spin so it doesn't spin all the stuff up there so there's a lot less friction and a lot less things that have than to turn when You're rolling in two wheel drive, this truck is currently thirty five and I thought about putting it in a 37, which is what the Humvee has, or maybe even going crazy and making something bigger, but I think I'll leave it. at 35, because this Earl truck is my work truck, I use it for this type of work and I want it to still be convenient for work and not too stupid, so I think I'll save the use of giant Krazy Stoopid tires on something that It's not my everyday work truck that we use to do everything we do.

I don't know what your size is 35 35 a large beta 35 or should we just use 37 40s forty four okay so the other piece we're going to What to do with this isinstall what is called an automatic agent. This is the latest model. This thing is a little smaller and has a little more functionality than the original version. This works up to the latest 2019 2020 model. or super cool because this gives you access to whoever is tuning your vehicle permanently. You can perform live data recordings. You can change the setting. You can do all that without having to visit a shop or visit anyone, your phone stops, you end up having an app on your phone, you can go in and select different profiles, any tune you want to install in the truck, make adjustments, talk to the tuner, all I can do with carbon. all day and then I can turn it down and be normal, that's right, that's what's going to be really cool about our tuning, UDT tuning, we use ctt for those things, we'll give you the ability to adjust tunes on the fly using your phone, No.

Change it to be a super under-dash data school and have lifetime support so you have lifetime access to all your truck tunes forever. You can adjust the fuel delivery from zero to nine the firmness of the shift from zero to nine tunes from one to five on the fly and there is an app on my phone that I just look at through a direct link, go to the App Store, download the app Auto Agent As soon as you turn on the truck, it will sync with your phone when you open it. app and you have live meters that are there, you can set limiters, you can set all kinds of things, it's really cool and when we install it maybe we can go back and do a little more detail, wait, you have the same thing where it's perfect, they're done the front free spins kit almost almost finished and we're going to call it a day today and we'll be back here in a couple of days to finish something it'll be like a second until we see each other okay I'm back.

Here in the truck we drive Earl, what's going on? Willie, what's up? Okay, wait for this, tell me what we're going through, okay buddy, so we installed our auto agent easy hook and did what's called user-defined UDT tuning. your settings, that gives us the ability to adjust all kinds of things on the fly, so check it out, it works like this and we have a big drop down menu that we can scroll through here and check all kinds of things. shift firmness lock times all kinds of cool stuff that makes the drivability much better the truck has minimal smoke, yeah, stomp this thing, buddy, stomp the carpet good, boom, dig, little puff, little puff, super clean, you're going to change in smog and roll like it's happy customer right here bad a lot of hate we can make it very cold oh yes, actually we can, so what's cl

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y the rule let's click the lightning button we're gonna go down we're gonna go feeding seven feeding seven it was sent so it's okay yeah like that like that we're ready to rock so let's see what we got now maybe stock injectors and what you got set up there's a little bit to clean up , there's more coal rolling than ever before those, yeah, and we're still. on a light tune, you know, we're running tuned to this, it's a super conservative thing, it keeps our T, for example, low.

I mean we had seen over a thousand degrees we're on a stock turbo a thirty five inch tire with stock gears and a serviceable truck we're awesome right now man 225 line pressure so the clutches don't they skate, that's crazy, you have all these readings in this photo, you can see all the temperatures and pressures and everything just in an app on your phone that gets ready, so Earl is shaping up. I just left Willie Holden Burroughs' diesel. They were very kind to me. I'll link to them in the description below and I think they do a good job.

These trucks feel good. We have done a lot of things. Oh. We have a. I'll show myself at home what they did with the truck stance. I already told you what we were going to do. I'll show it. We'll also get home when they clean this thing up. Get up before you take the last look. I just brought Earl home. What do you think? Do you like how it looked before or better? I like it too, man, it looks so good and the thing about the look is that you don't really see it. matter girls a work truck and we gotta roll to get some work done so we got it man we got this bed all set up yes sir it's to haul anything and everything we need to haul so like the Most trucks have a low hitch. bumper hitch and this one has a plate, this thing is a lot more reinforced so we can carry a lot more weight, attach it right there, we also have a gooseneck ball, this thing folds up just like that and we have a tie.

There are drops everywhere, so it will be very easy to secure loads. It's still kind of a platform because it has a very shallow platform back here, but what I really like is that it has rails along the sides, my other one had No, it was just a flat bed, so we had to tie everything down . Thank you. I'm looking for that. Now, if we just need to put something, you know, some shovels or something back here that won't fly away, we don't do it. You have to worry about tying them down because they're not going anywhere, so this tailgate comes down and then there are work lights and you can turn them on if you're working back here, we have these work lights here. so for the big work lights, I think you can turn yours on, yeah, and there's some up there too, so all of this will be lit, everything will be lit so you can light up everything that's behind you or if you're working on the bed, you can turn on the work lights and they will illuminate it from one side to the other so that you have your bed illuminated back here so this is ready to do anything.

We have these raised shackles in place for the rear springs to give us a little bit more tire clearance because it has a leveling kit so it's high in the front and then back here it was a little tight which gave us allowed to go up a couple more inches to give this truck a good stance in the rear to match the front, looks great and has those big 35 tires. I really thought about putting something bigger. I was thinking about making 37s or something like that to really make this truck rugged. Then at the end of the day, this is a work truck and I need it to be really good at the job and I thought, man, I don't want to do anything that's going to make you rub it or take it off or make me have to lift it even more, which will do that it doesn't tow so well.

I decided that I think we will stick with thirty-five at least for now and continue with the current level. We will leave him in this position for a while. I think what do you think? Link God, you are strong. Oh look. that new sticker that I just put on there has our locking hubs on the front our beautiful rancher bumper this trick is taking shape well, coming up Earl we have some more things to do here and it's going to be awesome and then I think Earl, well I know there's another big thing we'll do with Earl later on, but that's pretty much the utility stuff I want to do with Earl, well that's almost all the utility stuff and then this will be very useful for all the Things we do with everything our work, all our fun steps.

I also noticed that this thing has little panels here and I think it must be for drilling, like mounting things on doors, because you wouldn't want to drill. where you could see it on the outside, but you could drill into the bracket to have all the tools hanging there, whatever, so cool, so much space for activities, good job, what do you guys think of the whole thing Earl and the new bed? I'm really liking it, I think it will be awesome and super useful, thanks buddy, and you'll see this get used a lot here on the channel.

I'm going to link bedrock in the description below because I love it. This thanks to everyone for taking care of us outside the ranch. I love you and see you next time.