i think colby's input about the exhaust was right on the money. he agreed with the boys that the loud was cool, but has the wisdom to know it should be quieter. makes using it less annoying, makes it easier on the video production, and over time will be appreciated by any who use the truck
I know some love the louder rumble of a louder exhaust, but this is a working truck. You may spend hrs getting to your destination AND since you rarely ever use headsets to communicate, you'll have to yell over the noise. Louder isn't better in a work truck. Glad the Banana is back to working status
Hey Matt. We live in Indiana. You have a bunch of new fans here. Our Dad loved watching your channel. We brought him Friday He was sent home on Hospice care. His kidneys were shutting down. We had you channel playing the whole time for him. Thank you for making my Dads. Last few hours great. He passed last night. Just wanted to thank you Sir 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
My wife has pancreatic cancer and I completely understand how you feel. My wife also enjoys watching the show ,it reminds her of when she could cook food for my crew. It's tough I'm losing my best friend of 34 years to cancer... my prayers to you an your family.
The fact that Matt told Kaulin not to do any burnouts and then when they were looking at it in the yard after the muffler fell off, he still said "*I* knew better than to take it out with these" shows what a great dad and person he is. No anger towards Kaulin for doing the burnout, he holds himself at fault because he's in charge. This is the most wholesome channel on RUclips, y'all are great.
So we had to develop an exhaust system for a 500hp Mustang stadium racer that had to meet a 90 DB maximum and was tested every race. Lessons learned: Baffled mufflers blew the baffles out. Straight thru tube and oval mufflers were too loud. Final design was a 3" dual exhaust that first went through an X-pipe and then a pair of oval straight through mufflers. (Dyno-Max stainless) But there are three styles: center in/center out, center in/offset out, and offset in/opposite offset out (diagonal flow). The last type met the sound requirements and didn't blow apart. Also included tail pipes that came all the way out the back and angled slightly up. The DynoMax engineer told us the sound needs to be released "to the open sky" where it could dissipate, not just squirted out from underneath the chassis. That alone was worth a couple dB.
I love seeing the Banana moving under it's own power again. Matt might not be where he is today without the Banana because it was the Banana that got me into this channel when it was the only off-road rig he had for off-road recoveries. The Banana and a Yankum Rope was all he had and he didn't like using winches. I do like all of Matt's other rigs. But I bet a lot of us would be sad if the Banana wasn't around anymore. Especially those of us from the early days of the channel.
Matt, two words. Belt Grinder. They do things you never dreamed of. Cut steel, brass, aluminum, plastic, glass, wood, etc. They cope, flatten, and remove material at an amazing rate.
If you want the spud truck to be quiet when driving(also easier to keep cool and warm when you want) add sound deadening/insulation. Makes a huge difference and I think we are passed being worried about a little extra weight.
And not using a skill saw with a wood blade for cutting aluminium. I know they are young and lack experience, but I am sure that no time in my life, at any age, would I have thought it OK to do that. I bet they didn't even use any lube (WD40 or paraffin or even diesel/kerosene).
I use my Milwaukee M18 circular saw with a carbide blade that came with the saw on aluminum almost daily with no lubricant. It cuts straight doesn’t get hot and hasn’t hurt the blade at all. Been doing it for about two years with the same blade. I know it sounds crazy but it works and I’m not changing it if it ain’t broken.
Having the Banana back up and running finally is great to hear and see, after being down for so long it has to feel good to have it going again and can't wait to see it out in a job again
When you find a muffler combo that sounds good and is close to the “right” loudness in the shop, change it for one or two sizes bigger / quieter then weld that on. Remember how quickly the novelty of noises like the banana’s gearbox wore off, even if they sounded kinda cool to start with… 😅
Many of the seasons songs are winter songs with no mention of Christmas. Therefore you can sing them until the end of winter, which here in northern Minnesota can mean sometime in May.
I love the way Kaulin and Rhett are right in there with you learning from the master. You can see that their interest is genuine just was with Rudy when he was working with you.
I think Matt can sing Christmas songs year round because he really is Yukon Corneilus from the RUndolph the red nose reindeer show. I keep expecting him to taste things and say "Nothing".
Having no pipe after the mufflers keeps it loud. A simple 90 after the muffler creates a little back pressure and will lower the volume. I had a short straight pipe on my 62 Corvair. Its sound was great, but too loud for the street. A 90 wasn't as cool as the straight with a bologna cut, but it made daily driving comfortable. 😊
While everyone else is commenting about the exhaust or the Banana, I'm going to go on record here and say that that shifter, with it's loud, clunky ratchet/gate mechanism will annoy everyone who drives it!
Love the program! Commenting on the last bit about using the Skil Saw on aluminum. I'm a 71 year old fabricator, at it my whole adult life, using a carbide blade on non ferrous metals is perfectly legit. Copper, brass, bronze, aluminum, it all cuts like warm butter with a good blade. Imagine the spectacle we produced when we borrowed the neighboring cabinet shop's industrial table saw to rip 2" strips out of a 4' X 8' X 3/8" thick sheet of bronze! We needed it for custom handrail cap... Let er rip, potato chip!
Great to see the Banana is back in service, I think a loud exhaust would drive you nuts if you had to drive it all day(spud truck). Happy new year to all of you
Lovely welding, but one very small (safety) tip for you. Please bent the last part of that tig wire what you have in your hand so the tip is pointing down. Then there is no risk that somebody accidentally gets that sharp tip in the eye. Great work team and lovely video !!!
Loved the comment from Peanut! Also, I cut a lot of aluminum with wood saws when I built aluminum windows many years ago. The metal chips are harder on the saw motors than saw dust but the wood blades and rpm work well on the softer metal and the teeth hold up fairly well. That said, we didn’t have the lower rpm metal saws and specialized metal blades back then. They do work better!
I used to mill the surface of Ali saw fences with a CNC wood routing m/c and wood router bits, it was the only thing with long enough travel. Plus saw blades put the marks in the fences in the first place!
we used black and Decker skill saws with saw blades that had offset teeth to cut all our Aluminum sheeting for building tanker trailers, they lasted a long time
Yea, a regular framing circular saw with a triple-chip fine tooth blade will work great for aluminum. Same goes for using a regular miter saw or a table saw.
as a HV driver i know about dual rear ends , unless you have something like a Tillotson or Hendrikson coupling setup you will shorten tyre life dramatically , handling will be comprimised , and chassis cracking will occur , have a talk to Dave Sparks (Heavy D )and see what he thinks , basically a setup using either coupling allows the diffs to move sideways independently of each other , kinda like rear wheel steering , check out Kenworth , Freightliner or Peterbilt prime movers to see what i mean !
Probably what happenes with any 20 year old or older wiring harness. Crumbling insulation, corrosion on exposed strands (that can travel to pin/socket in connector, wire strands breaking just after a connector. Crankshaft and camshaft sensors really need a proper connection - ok, everything needs good connection, but these sensors are more susceptible to noise, so proper connections (and sometimes shielding) have to be in place for them to work properly.
I had something similar happen to my old 97 jeep wrangler where it just wouldn’t run and we couldn’t figure it out for a year. Then we decided to start unwrapping the wiring harness and found one wire several inches behind the fuse box (where the harness dips down in a U shape) that must have had a pin hole in the insulation as a whole inch section inside the wire was just blue powder instead of copper wire. Cutting that out and reconnecting brought it back to life until my brother decided to try a burnout with it and tore the rear axel out since the frame was half rotted and also needed work. I miss that jeep, it was underpowered (4-cylinder) and always needed work but was lots of fun.
Big snowstorm in Kentucky. Thanks to watching this channel , I was able to get up my driveway on off to work. I was thinking, "What would Matt advise?" Traction control off! Thanks everyone. 🚙
You could do a fuel level indicator outside on the tank for the spud truck, with a transparent tube tucked in on the side so it's protected. Fail-proof :D
Matt I REALLY enjoy your channel. I’ve learned so much from you guys and put it to use yesterday recovering a vehicle in a snow storm here in Indiana. I do have a suggestion concerning your exhaust. Give your engine builder a buzz and have him inspect your exhaust system. The design, mufflers, and twist and turns really have me concerned on a 600 hp engine. I have nothing but respect and hope this comment is taken in the good hearted nature it’s been written.
I've got a pair of Flowmaster 50-series mufflers on my truck (replacing a pair of 40-series that were way too loud). It has a built Chevy 350, with long headers, making close to 400hp. It does not have an X-pipe or H-pipe, just true, separate duals that dump just in front of the rear axle. The lack of X or H pipe does make it quite a bit louder, but the price was almost double with one added. It has a very deep rumble, but it is also quite loud, even with the 50's. When driving home, my wife can hear me when I accelerate after the corner into our street. That is a good ½ mile away. Perhaps it is my old age (I'm almost 60), while I love the tone, I would prefer it to be quieter. That is especially true when hauling a big, heavy trailer on the highway.
The thing with the exhaust is that when you get the bed on it, it will change it. The bed might quiet it down inside the cab, or it could reverberate and be loud and droning. Good luck! I love exhaust too...
Kids will be kids until they pay for mistakes themselves. I found out the cost of tires when I had to replace my dads tires that I told him were defective... he told me he had defective tires when He was my age, no problemo as he had to pay and now my turn. You knew Matt when you let them take a rig out without finishing the welds on the exhaust. Great stuff all in all, hope its coming to a finish line to be used
15:55 So apparently Flowmaster Mufflers can totally accommodate you in either one of your exhaust-sound preferences (i.e., growl or quiet), just like how Halls cough drops will give you either "tough love" or "soft love". :D
The Christmas season officially ends with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which typically falls on the Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany (usually the second Sunday in January). While the festivities may continue for some time after, the liturgical celebration of Christmas concludes Jan 6th. One can celebrate Christmas through the end of Epiphany season which is the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, in the Western arm of the Church. In the East, Christmas begins on Epiphany to the Sunday before Ash Wednesday.
Always a good start to my morning to watch a Matts Off-Road video!! Good to see the Banana back in action again. Lots done on the Spud truck too. Too bad about the mufflers falling off! 🤣🤣 Favorite comment came at the end when Kaulin said: "It works really good though!" 😆😆
Something that I discovered in my younger years, while experimenting with exhaust, was: to put a loud muffler on one pipe and a quiet muffler on the other one. I thought it made a nice mellow sound.
The Spud Truck and all of the recovery vehicles need a screen on the dash like Paul Cox put in his tow truck. He uses it all the time and it's perfect for getting to the customer with On X Off Road. And, I would build a center console for the Spud Truck too. Taking in consideration there will be a person sitting in the middle seat. BUY JUMP SEATS FOR THE WRECKER SO PEOPLE CAN SIT SOMEWHERE I THE BACK.
Do u plan adding a cooling system to the supercharger ?? It’s very very very recommended to keep them temperature low during recovery’s & trail riding ⭐️ awesome build can’t wait to see more LS swap builds 🔥🔥
On the Banana cranks/no start issue …I live and work in the very center of Utah. Your crew has been through here and worked jobs around here. As a full time technician I see this frustrating situation at least once a day. Intermittent bugs are even more frustrating. I have completely removed a bunch of harnesses and successfully located, repaired and reinstalled them. It’s all too common on our beloved old cars and trucks. I had to finally give in and scrap a nice old truck because I didn’t have the facilities to lift the body at that point in time. But nowadays we do it all the time. Matt…next time you’re in Nephi stop in and say hi. It would be a thrill (and bring hats and tshirts)…
@@mediocreman2 It's not loud at all, just a nice sounding rumble, straight through muffler, full length exhaust system, just too loud at 75 mph for 3.5 hrs on the highway.
@@mediocreman2 It's a 2013 4x4 2500HD with a 6.0, just a tuner, KnN filter and a high flow muffler. I think the KnN filter is more annoying than anything at highway speeds.
My truck was absolutely painful to drive when I first got it. The Flowmaster 40 baffles had all burned out. It had a wicked cackle when driving around town and an insane drone at 2000 RPM that was unbearable. I got a Flowmaster 70 installed and it was nice, nice sound and no drone. Then I had to rebuild the exhaust due to interference. Put a Dynaflow with 3 inch exhaust on it. The drone came back. I added a small straight through muffler that alleviates the drone, but not as nice as the Flowmaster.
@@tallpaulsynd I don't remember the brand of muffler, it is a 3" pipe about 40" long and 10" around, sounds nice but on the highway it's horrible, I drive between Phoenix and Vegas a couple times a week hauling a trailer and I can't stand it on the highway, the KnN filter doesn't help either, I only get about 1.5mpg better milage, but when I'm loaded, I'm only getting on average 4.9mpg on a good day.
I’m taken back when Friberger and Finnegan had the muscle truck in the desert, they were about def when they made it out, wasn’t long that David was all about hearing protection. The Roots is more fun to hear imo.
Dad had a 74 Chevy with 454 with Glass packs back in the day hauling a goose neck equipment trailer you could hear him coming from miles away sounded cool as long as you dint have to listen to it all day Surprised the deck is not being tig welded. Nice to see Banana back working again was wondering where it has been Happy New Year Matt crew
And Rhett, too. Around 20 minutes, he's using the drill press without any. I've worked at four different shops and I've been to many others to work on equipment. I haven't seen any shop in the last 30 years, not even tiny shops of less than 10 people, that allowed anyone to walk out into the actual shop area without safety glasses at any time.
@tdave1234 it's always fun n games until you have to go to an eye Dr. or an emergency room, need a tourniquet, or call EMS. Couple vids ago Kawlin took a rock to his beak. That is not far from like...... eyes. I'm sure losing an eye is worth the perceived inconvenience of wearing safety glasses.
"It's this thing" ...* cheeky smile * 😂 This thing is an inspection cover, under it you have the flywheel and torque converter. Bashing that on the rocks without protection is a bad day.
Quick tip when building exhaust. Worked at exhaust shop for 10 years. Hang all the mufflers first where you want them . And work from the rear to the front with the piping. And Colin if you want all your welds like that. You have to back purge the inside of the pipes with argon 🎉
As a former muffler tech those were some FINE welds. I have seen so many mud dauber weld to see someone actually do quality welds make me proud. Also over restricting the exhaust can KILL a motors performance. I had a supercharged 350 with hooker side pipes. The difference between the glass packs and the turbo mufflers was night and day. The first time I installed the turbo mufflers I thought I had fouled out 2 plugs the HP drop was so bad.
I do mind loud exhausts. Every time i have a loud motorcycle or car come past my house i cringe. I prefer my motorcycles to be quiet and my car has a stock exhaust. Loud pipes simply annoy people.
And the latest trend is to get a pops and burbles tune. I have a moron in a Subaru that drives by every day, accelerates and then lets off, accelerates and then lets off. I'm pretty sure he was neglected by his parents. 😅
@@mediocreman2drives me crazy. It’s SOOO lame. I hate it already on those grounds alone and because it is pointless. But then it scares the crap out of my dog so now I’m ready to go John Wick on anyone who drives by with that crap.
A suggestion add 2 3 inch glasspack style mufflers add 18 inches of pipe and then the mufflers you want then make sure you have 12+ inches of tailpipe off the flowmasters, you might be pleasantly surprised how quiet it gets, I ran a 450hp 302 in a maverick for years with an xpipe and 2 40 series and full tailpipes, you might be shocked.
Matt, I worked with a guy that started whistling Christmas tunes in August. In Tampa Florida. A bit unusual, but no one complained. Tomorrow January 6th Epiphany, is the 12th day of Christmas. That's when my family took the tree down. Even in the 60's that timing was unusual. So that gives you a fair range to answer that particular question. Can't help you with the exaust.😅
Sorry I'm late, decided to sleep in a bit this morning. Now, where's the Bombi at ? Jake !!?!??! Spud truck was fine without the muffler, you don't need a muffler. All the noise you guys make in that sector, somebody surely would have bitched by now if noise was a problem😂
Dash pad replacement. Dash pad replacement DAsh pad replacement Install it before you put in that cluster. It’s a lot easier. As another person said on here sound deadener before you mount your seats and floor mats or carpet.
Just another tip, not many people know this, you can cut stainless steel with normal carbid cutting discs just make sure not to cut any other steel with that disc, stainless starts rusting when you cut it with a disc that previously cut mild steel or when you thew mild steel sparks onto a stainless sheet.... When that happens you have rusting stainless steel....
December 25 is officially the start of Christmas. Christmas Day begins Christmastide which is the 12 days of Christmas. So at the very least you can sing Christmas songs all the way up till January 6. that said a lot of them work throughout the year anyway.
It's funny how Ed covered his ears during the second test. I believe that should inform everyone that it is overly loud.
i think colby's input about the exhaust was right on the money. he agreed with the boys that the loud was cool, but has the wisdom to know it should be quieter. makes using it less annoying, makes it easier on the video production, and over time will be appreciated by any who use the truck
I know some love the louder rumble of a louder exhaust, but this is a working truck. You may spend hrs getting to your destination AND since you rarely ever use headsets to communicate, you'll have to yell over the noise. Louder isn't better in a work truck. Glad the Banana is back to working status
Plus they'll be walking around it with the engine running for extended periods too
I agree- quieter.
@@Baer1990 Right the welder they will hook up. And it has the control to rev up to get the amps
This is so true.
Keep trying to talk good sense to these guys!
Hey Matt. We live in Indiana. You have a bunch of new fans here. Our Dad loved watching your channel. We brought him Friday He was sent home on Hospice care. His kidneys were shutting down. We had you channel playing the whole time for him. Thank you for making my Dads. Last few hours great. He passed last night. Just wanted to thank you Sir 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
Sorry for your family's loss. It's never easy to lose someone you love, but losing a parent is 1000xs more difficult.
condolences to your family
I started watching Matt because my Dad did, he passed away with Cancer a few years ago and I still watch to this day
Hello Matt's off Road Recovery 💯🤩💯🤩💯🤩💯🤩💯🤩💯🤩💯🤩💯💯💯💯💯💯🤩💯
My wife has pancreatic cancer and I completely understand how you feel. My wife also enjoys watching the show ,it reminds her of when she could cook food for my crew. It's tough I'm losing my best friend of 34 years to cancer... my prayers to you an your family.
The fact that Matt told Kaulin not to do any burnouts and then when they were looking at it in the yard after the muffler fell off, he still said "*I* knew better than to take it out with these" shows what a great dad and person he is. No anger towards Kaulin for doing the burnout, he holds himself at fault because he's in charge. This is the most wholesome channel on RUclips, y'all are great.
I noticed that too Matts great 👍
To be fair, I dont think Matt knew Kaulin did a wee burnout when he left the yard at that point 😂😂
So we had to develop an exhaust system for a 500hp Mustang stadium racer that had to meet a 90 DB maximum and was tested every race. Lessons learned: Baffled mufflers blew the baffles out. Straight thru tube and oval mufflers were too loud. Final design was a 3" dual exhaust that first went through an X-pipe and then a pair of oval straight through mufflers. (Dyno-Max stainless) But there are three styles: center in/center out, center in/offset out, and offset in/opposite offset out (diagonal flow). The last type met the sound requirements and didn't blow apart. Also included tail pipes that came all the way out the back and angled slightly up. The DynoMax engineer told us the sound needs to be released "to the open sky" where it could dissipate, not just squirted out from underneath the chassis. That alone was worth a couple dB.
I love seeing the Banana moving under it's own power again. Matt might not be where he is today without the Banana because it was the Banana that got me into this channel when it was the only off-road rig he had for off-road recoveries. The Banana and a Yankum Rope was all he had and he didn't like using winches. I do like all of Matt's other rigs. But I bet a lot of us would be sad if the Banana wasn't around anymore. Especially those of us from the early days of the channel.
At 11:55 you know it's loud when ED plugs his ears
13:56 "right now you could go race cleetus and probably win" sounds like a call out😏😏
Matt, two words. Belt Grinder. They do things you never dreamed of. Cut steel, brass, aluminum, plastic, glass, wood, etc. They cope, flatten, and remove material at an amazing rate.
"Driving this thing is unbearable!"... when the video clip shows wide smiles and joyous laughter..😂😂
That is the difference between a 5min test and 5hour drive
Was that hole always there on the passenger door? Just noticed it for the first time. Looks like forklift damage.
@@williamd1891 It happened one of the first times they put it up on their lift.
@@williamd1891 There was a little whoopsy when it fell off the lift. No names... It is going to call on some of Robby's best bodywork skills.
Matt is the master of saying one thing and doing another.
If you want the spud truck to be quiet when driving(also easier to keep cool and warm when you want) add sound deadening/insulation. Makes a huge difference and I think we are passed being worried about a little extra weight.
Just a hint when welding aluminum , when using a wire brush, it helps to use a wire brush dedicated for ONLY FOR ALUM.
And not using a skill saw with a wood blade for cutting aluminium. I know they are young and lack experience, but I am sure that no time in my life, at any age, would I have thought it OK to do that. I bet they didn't even use any lube (WD40 or paraffin or even diesel/kerosene).
@@TrevorDennis100 22:12
You can see him spraying the blade from a squirt bottle during the cut. @@TrevorDennis100
and make sure its a stainless steal brush
I use my Milwaukee M18 circular saw with a carbide blade that came with the saw on aluminum almost daily with no lubricant. It cuts straight doesn’t get hot and hasn’t hurt the blade at all. Been doing it for about two years with the same blade. I know it sounds crazy but it works and I’m not changing it if it ain’t broken.
When Rhett digs in he's very serious on getting the job done! Another credit to you and Jamie on raising your kids to be responsible!
Who's Brett?
I'm sure he meant Rhett.😅
Both those boys are starting to get a man face. Seem like capable kids. Love to see it.
Having the Banana back up and running finally is great to hear and see, after being down for so long it has to feel good to have it going again and can't wait to see it out in a job again
When you find a muffler combo that sounds good and is close to the “right” loudness in the shop, change it for one or two sizes bigger / quieter then weld that on. Remember how quickly the novelty of noises like the banana’s gearbox wore off, even if they sounded kinda cool to start with… 😅
The shorter the louder it is , the bigger the less noise it makes.
Many of the seasons songs are winter songs with no mention of Christmas. Therefore you can sing them until the end of winter, which here in northern Minnesota can mean sometime in May.
As long as there is snow on the ground, Christmas songs are allowed.
I love the way Kaulin and Rhett are right in there with you learning from the master. You can see that their interest is genuine just was with Rudy when he was working with you.
It's funny that Ed was covering his ears during the second test. I think that should tell everyone it's too loud.
Huh? What?
I could not agree more!
I can’t hear what you said , it’s too loud can you repeat it!?
I caught that, he's protecting what little hearing he has left.
@@JeffNielsen-l9c I don't know what they said either!
I think Matt can sing Christmas songs year round because he really is Yukon Corneilus from the RUndolph the red nose reindeer show. I keep expecting him to taste things and say "Nothing".
But it’s probably time to start singing groundhog songs. Again.
Okay, I’ll show myself out…
I liked Peanut's comment about cuddling. 😊
I've always preferred hearing the engine over the exhaust, it helped accent its fine tuning.
It also helped mask my location around the law.
Remember when you put the bed on you will get a drumming resonance that if too loud will drive you nuts.BTDT.
Having no pipe after the mufflers keeps it loud. A simple 90 after the muffler creates a little back pressure and will lower the volume.
I had a short straight pipe on my 62 Corvair. Its sound was great, but too loud for the street. A 90 wasn't as cool as the straight with a bologna cut, but it made daily driving comfortable. 😊
While everyone else is commenting about the exhaust or the Banana, I'm going to go on record here and say that that shifter, with it's loud, clunky ratchet/gate mechanism will annoy everyone who drives it!
Should have welded round bar on the ends of the aluminum bed to match the rolled end. Those squared ends are going to hang up on stuff
I thought he would've at least finished them with some grinding (rounding) and a bit more welding.
Love the program! Commenting on the last bit about using the Skil Saw on aluminum. I'm a 71 year old fabricator, at it my whole adult life, using a carbide blade on non ferrous metals is perfectly legit. Copper, brass, bronze, aluminum, it all cuts like warm butter with a good blade. Imagine the spectacle we produced when we borrowed the neighboring cabinet shop's industrial table saw to rip 2" strips out of a 4' X 8' X 3/8" thick sheet of bronze! We needed it for custom handrail cap... Let er rip, potato chip!
Saw the wrecker in Denver on Friday. Was soo cool to see it!
Them broken SxS will be hearing you comin' from 10 dunes away! 🤠
Great to see the Banana is back in service, I think a loud exhaust would drive you nuts if you had to drive it all day(spud truck). Happy new year to all of you
Lovely welding, but one very small (safety) tip for you. Please bent the last part of that tig wire what you have in your hand so the tip is pointing down. Then there is no risk that somebody accidentally gets that sharp tip in the eye. Great work team and lovely video !!!
It'll also help prevent you/someone else from picking up the wire by the HOT end too!
If you watch this channel, they don't really do "safety"😅
@@Steelegotcha safe enough. I hate all the drama about safety regulations. Just use common sense, and sometimes a little blood spill makes you tough 😁
@@_DutchFox_ "Common" sense ain't so common any more.
Why would someone be that close?
Loved the comment from Peanut! Also, I cut a lot of aluminum with wood saws when I built aluminum windows many years ago. The metal chips are harder on the saw motors than saw dust but the wood blades and rpm work well on the softer metal and the teeth hold up fairly well. That said, we didn’t have the lower rpm metal saws and specialized metal blades back then. They do work better!
I used to mill the surface of Ali saw fences with a CNC wood routing m/c and wood router bits, it was the only thing with long enough travel. Plus saw blades put the marks in the fences in the first place!
we used black and Decker skill saws with saw blades that had offset teeth to cut all our Aluminum sheeting for building tanker trailers, they lasted a long time
I'm wondering how they'd cut 'without' a saw blade? 😉
Yea, a regular framing circular saw with a triple-chip fine tooth blade will work great for aluminum. Same goes for using a regular miter saw or a table saw.
@@TrevorDennis100they don't cut as well, but they last longer
I'm really a Bombi sort of guy(especially w/5.3), but I heard that Spud truck supercharger wheeze twice and now I'm all about that thing.😂
MORR is always a great location to find all your authentic content. Absolutely one of the most entertaining channels on RUclips.❤
7:51 YES!!!! glad to see the Banana alive again!!! This channel wouldn't be where it's t without it! Long live the Banana!!!!!
50 series for sure . MAKE Sure the air filter system is good . Sand inside the supercharger is not good , you can ask Cleetus.
I was thinking the exact same thing about the air filter.
My opinion put an X pipe before the muffler buds , that thing is looking awesome!!!!!!! Great new welding toy! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽. 70 series for me too
Good to see Banana getting TLC & back in shape. As far as Christmas songs go - there are 12 days - so
you are good singing up to Jan. 5....
The banana lives again, very good. Noisy trucks are fun in the short term, but painful when you have to do some time with them. Thanks guys.
Very nice progress on both of those rigs. Nice to have the Banana back again.
as a HV driver i know about dual rear ends , unless you have something like a Tillotson or Hendrikson coupling setup you will shorten tyre life dramatically , handling will be comprimised , and chassis cracking will occur , have a talk to Dave Sparks (Heavy D )and see what he thinks , basically a setup using either coupling allows the diffs to move sideways independently of each other , kinda like rear wheel steering , check out Kenworth , Freightliner or Peterbilt prime movers to see what i mean !
Tell us what was wrong with the Banana's wiring harness.
Probably what happenes with any 20 year old or older wiring harness. Crumbling insulation, corrosion on exposed strands (that can travel to pin/socket in connector, wire strands breaking just after a connector. Crankshaft and camshaft sensors really need a proper connection - ok, everything needs good connection, but these sensors are more susceptible to noise, so proper connections (and sometimes shielding) have to be in place for them to work properly.
Seems like they replaced the whole wiring harness because they were done trying to find out. 🤷♂
Sounds like a job for @chadsfab
I had something similar happen to my old 97 jeep wrangler where it just wouldn’t run and we couldn’t figure it out for a year. Then we decided to start unwrapping the wiring harness and found one wire several inches behind the fuse box (where the harness dips down in a U shape) that must have had a pin hole in the insulation as a whole inch section inside the wire was just blue powder instead of copper wire. Cutting that out and reconnecting brought it back to life until my brother decided to try a burnout with it and tore the rear axel out since the frame was half rotted and also needed work. I miss that jeep, it was underpowered (4-cylinder) and always needed work but was lots of fun.
@@saschaeuler7883 Notice Chad's not been on Matt's channel for a while? And yes he could have done that harness in less than 4 months.
Big snowstorm in Kentucky. Thanks to watching this channel , I was able to get up my driveway on off to work. I was thinking, "What would Matt advise?" Traction control off! Thanks everyone. 🚙
You could do a fuel level indicator outside on the tank for the spud truck, with a transparent tube tucked in on the side so it's protected. Fail-proof :D
Good idea. My mother's Belarus bulldozer has that 😅. In its 50+ years it's never failed to show the fuel level 😂
@@mmorgz6622 Not a phrase you hear everyday .......
"My mother's Belarus bulldozer" 😲🤣 Love it.
26:38 And peanut misses the Banana 😊
Yea Rhett! The Banana sound great! Nice Job Kiddo!
Matt I REALLY enjoy your channel. I’ve learned so much from you guys and put it to use yesterday recovering a vehicle in a snow storm here in Indiana. I do have a suggestion concerning your exhaust. Give your engine builder a buzz and have him inspect your exhaust system. The design, mufflers, and twist and turns really have me concerned on a 600 hp engine. I have nothing but respect and hope this comment is taken in the good hearted nature it’s been written.
Money can't buy happiness but it sure can buy a sick shop I wish I had at my place
I've got a pair of Flowmaster 50-series mufflers on my truck (replacing a pair of 40-series that were way too loud). It has a built Chevy 350, with long headers, making close to 400hp.
It does not have an X-pipe or H-pipe, just true, separate duals that dump just in front of the rear axle. The lack of X or H pipe does make it quite a bit louder, but the price was almost double with one added.
It has a very deep rumble, but it is also quite loud, even with the 50's. When driving home, my wife can hear me when I accelerate after the corner into our street. That is a good ½ mile away.
Perhaps it is my old age (I'm almost 60), while I love the tone, I would prefer it to be quieter. That is especially true when hauling a big, heavy trailer on the highway.
The thing with the exhaust is that when you get the bed on it, it will change it. The bed might quiet it down inside the cab, or it could reverberate and be loud and droning. Good luck! I love exhaust too...
Sunday mornings with MORR is great way to begin the end of the weekend
Kids will be kids until they pay for mistakes themselves. I found out the cost of tires when I had to replace my dads tires that I told him were defective... he told me he had defective tires when He was my age, no problemo as he had to pay and now my turn. You knew Matt when you let them take a rig out without finishing the welds on the exhaust. Great stuff all in all, hope its coming to a finish line to be used
We’ve all been there.
Matt has some amazing kids!
@@cflwhatit’s alright we can’t all be good at reading and comprehension 😂😂
@@cflwhat that’s ironic I’m the one missing the sarcasm 😂😂
@@cflwhat my first comment was a joke and you replied “ I read just fine” that’s ironic 😂😂😂
@ yeah you were the butt of the joke it’s starting to seem like it wasn’t a joke how long it took you to get that…😂
Absolutely NOTHING wrong with running more than one muffler in series. Especially high flow mufflers, you get the power gains, but with the flow.
15:55 So apparently Flowmaster Mufflers can totally accommodate you in either one of your exhaust-sound preferences (i.e., growl or quiet), just like how Halls cough drops will give you either "tough love" or "soft love". :D
Woo-Hoo! The Banana is back! Kudos to the guy who fixed it. 😃
They just rolled it in the shop and now it's spontaneously fixed?
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13:38 I LOVE those cast-iron "headers" .. that's the ones I intend to run ..
Yeah the Banana is back! The Spud truck is getting closer to being a recovery vehicle. Good video and content!
25:00 Nice one...Reversing and tearing up that muffler...🤣🤣🤣
The Spuddy Buddy sounds Great.
What a Build!
The Christmas season officially ends with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, which typically falls on the Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany (usually the second Sunday in January).
While the festivities may continue for some time after, the liturgical celebration of Christmas concludes Jan 6th.
One can celebrate Christmas through the end of Epiphany season which is the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, in the Western arm of the Church.
In the East, Christmas begins on Epiphany to the Sunday before Ash Wednesday.
Always a good start to my morning to watch a Matts Off-Road video!! Good to see the Banana back in action again. Lots done on the Spud truck too. Too bad about the mufflers falling off! 🤣🤣 Favorite comment came at the end when Kaulin said: "It works really good though!" 😆😆
Something that I discovered in my younger years, while experimenting with exhaust, was: to put a loud muffler on one pipe and a quiet muffler on the other one. I thought it made a nice mellow sound.
Spud truck rocks!❤🎉
The Spud Truck and all of the recovery vehicles need a screen on the dash like Paul Cox put in his tow truck. He uses it all the time and it's perfect for getting to the customer with On X Off Road.
And, I would build a center console for the Spud Truck too. Taking in consideration there will be a person sitting in the middle seat.
BUY JUMP SEATS FOR THE WRECKER SO PEOPLE CAN SIT SOMEWHERE I THE BACK.
You a proud Dad there Matt……my Pops loved me even more during those adventurous test runs.
Do u plan adding a cooling system to the supercharger ?? It’s very very very recommended to keep them temperature low during recovery’s & trail riding ⭐️ awesome build can’t wait to see more LS swap builds 🔥🔥
Love my Sunday morning MORR videos! Great work y'all! Keep it up!
On the Banana cranks/no start issue …I live and work in the very center of Utah. Your crew has been through here and worked jobs around here. As a full time technician I see this frustrating situation at least once a day. Intermittent bugs are even more frustrating. I have completely removed a bunch of harnesses and successfully located, repaired and reinstalled them. It’s all too common on our beloved old cars and trucks. I had to finally give in and scrap a nice old truck because I didn’t have the facilities to lift the body at that point in time. But nowadays we do it all the time.
Matt…next time you’re in Nephi stop in and say hi. It would be a thrill (and bring hats and tshirts)…
My truck sounds amazing around town, spend a few hours on the highway and you'll want to park it and walk, lol.
Which means it probably doesn't sound that great in town for all the people forced to hear it. 😅
@@mediocreman2 It's not loud at all, just a nice sounding rumble, straight through muffler, full length exhaust system, just too loud at 75 mph for 3.5 hrs on the highway.
@@mediocreman2 It's a 2013 4x4 2500HD with a 6.0, just a tuner, KnN filter and a high flow muffler. I think the KnN filter is more annoying than anything at highway speeds.
My truck was absolutely painful to drive when I first got it. The Flowmaster 40 baffles had all burned out. It had a wicked cackle when driving around town and an insane drone at 2000 RPM that was unbearable. I got a Flowmaster 70 installed and it was nice, nice sound and no drone. Then I had to rebuild the exhaust due to interference. Put a Dynaflow with 3 inch exhaust on it. The drone came back. I added a small straight through muffler that alleviates the drone, but not as nice as the Flowmaster.
@@tallpaulsynd I don't remember the brand of muffler, it is a 3" pipe about 40" long and 10" around, sounds nice but on the highway it's horrible, I drive between Phoenix and Vegas a couple times a week hauling a trailer and I can't stand it on the highway, the KnN filter doesn't help either, I only get about 1.5mpg better milage, but when I'm loaded, I'm only getting on average 4.9mpg on a good day.
I’m taken back when Friberger and Finnegan had the muscle truck in the desert, they were about def when they made it out, wasn’t long that David was all about hearing protection.
The Roots is more fun to hear imo.
Nice to see the Banana back among the living ! 👍
Dad had a 74 Chevy with 454 with Glass packs back in the day hauling a goose neck equipment trailer you could hear him coming from miles away sounded cool as long as you dint have to listen to it all day Surprised the deck is not being tig welded. Nice to see Banana back working again was wondering where it has been Happy New Year Matt crew
I was surprised to see the spool gun as well.
You can always add in a cutout for when you want it loud. lol. But I agree. The 70 will be great for daily uses.
Framing saw for aluminum is perfectly acceptable. Aluminum is soft wood.
8:00 Banana Banana its a ranna. hip hip horay!! so glad to see the" old girl" back
The Spud Truck is just going to be a beast! Sounds good when the mufflers stay on!
Glad to see the Banana is up and at 'em again!
The blue potato truck looks fun .. banana and potato gonna be a combo 🍕🥃
Two more words for Matt .... SAFETY GLASSES !!!
And Rhett, too. Around 20 minutes, he's using the drill press without any.
I've worked at four different shops and I've been to many others to work on equipment. I haven't seen any shop in the last 30 years, not even tiny shops of less than 10 people, that allowed anyone to walk out into the actual shop area without safety glasses at any time.
@@Tom-BXR300 Safety is not high up on the list of requirements for this channel.
@@waynemccuen8213 it’s part of their shtick. Along with not having enough gas.
@tdave1234 it's always fun n games until you have to go to an eye Dr. or an emergency room, need a tourniquet, or call EMS. Couple vids ago Kawlin took a rock to his beak. That is not far from like...... eyes. I'm sure losing an eye is worth the perceived inconvenience of wearing safety glasses.
K, nanny state
Your program reminds me of the series Thunderbirds, for each rescue a different and super equipped equipment. congratulations straight from Brazil
Need a flex pipe in that exhaust somewhere. too stiff will just crack that stainless. Also need to backpurge
"It's this thing" ...* cheeky smile * 😂
This thing is an inspection cover, under it you have the flywheel and torque converter. Bashing that on the rocks without protection is a bad day.
Quick tip when building exhaust. Worked at exhaust shop for 10 years. Hang all the mufflers first where you want them . And work from the rear to the front with the piping. And Colin if you want all your welds like that. You have to back purge the inside of the pipes with argon 🎉
As a former muffler tech those were some FINE welds. I have seen so many mud dauber weld to see someone actually do quality welds make me proud. Also over restricting the exhaust can KILL a motors performance. I had a supercharged 350 with hooker side pipes. The difference between the glass packs and the turbo mufflers was night and day. The first time I installed the turbo mufflers I thought I had fouled out 2 plugs the HP drop was so bad.
I do mind loud exhausts. Every time i have a loud motorcycle or car come past my house i cringe. I prefer my motorcycles to be quiet and my car has a stock exhaust. Loud pipes simply annoy people.
And the latest trend is to get a pops and burbles tune. I have a moron in a Subaru that drives by every day, accelerates and then lets off, accelerates and then lets off. I'm pretty sure he was neglected by his parents. 😅
@@mediocreman2I have one in my area too, that revs high, let’s off, and the exhaust sounds like gunshots going off. I can hear him three blocks away.
@@mediocreman2 The motorcycles stop at traffic lights near me and rev their engines to the limiter. Police do nothing about it.
@@mediocreman2drives me crazy. It’s SOOO lame. I hate it already on those grounds alone and because it is pointless. But then it scares the crap out of my dog so now I’m ready to go John Wick on anyone who drives by with that crap.
A suggestion add 2 3 inch glasspack style mufflers add 18 inches of pipe and then the mufflers you want then make sure you have 12+ inches of tailpipe off the flowmasters, you might be pleasantly surprised how quiet it gets, I ran a 450hp 302 in a maverick for years with an xpipe and 2 40 series and full tailpipes, you might be shocked.
24:50 "My exhaust brings all the boys to the yard". 🤣
Bananas are back on the Menu at MORR!
Spuds are still slow cooking...looks exhausting actually till they shifted into high gear. ll
Matt, I worked with a guy that started whistling Christmas tunes in August. In Tampa Florida. A bit unusual, but no one complained. Tomorrow January 6th Epiphany, is the 12th day of Christmas. That's when my family took the tree down. Even in the 60's that timing was unusual. So that gives you a fair range to answer that particular question. Can't help you with the exaust.😅
No, today... January 5th is the 12th day of Christmas. Count again. :)
Wood skil saw is one of the best tools for cutting aluminum. Metal blades gum up with aluminum shavings
Sorry I'm late, decided to sleep in a bit this morning.
Now, where's the Bombi at ? Jake !!?!??!
Spud truck was fine without the muffler, you don't need a muffler.
All the noise you guys make in that sector, somebody surely would have bitched by now if noise was a problem😂
If you're a Bombi spotter(like I am), 8:38 is your time...Mmmm, love that head on shot. Jake, where's the snow at ?
Dash pad replacement.
Dash pad replacement
DAsh pad replacement
Install it before you put in that cluster. It’s a lot easier.
As another person said on here sound deadener before you mount your seats and floor mats or carpet.
Nice to see the Banana back under its own power. Curious to know what the harness guys found in their rejuvenation work.
Has it always had that loud vacuum leak sound? Lol
Wonder why they didn’t get ChadsFab to fix the harness?
Just another tip, not many people know this, you can cut stainless steel with normal carbid cutting discs just make sure not to cut any other steel with that disc, stainless starts rusting when you cut it with a disc that previously cut mild steel or when you thew mild steel sparks onto a stainless sheet.... When that happens you have rusting stainless steel....
After watching Robbie find all the loose hardware on his jeep you better be sure to go over your stuff.
When you are older then Christmas music is When it feels like you want it. Sing your heart out Matt😊
The morrvair fender "Can you weld this huge gap?"
The spud truck exhaust "This will be perfect..."
Not even 2 minutes in and that's some nice exhaust work. Have the two mufflers and do 45° turn downs before the axles
December 25 is officially the start of Christmas. Christmas Day begins Christmastide which is the 12 days of Christmas. So at the very least you can sing Christmas songs all the way up till January 6. that said a lot of them work throughout the year anyway.
You're a day off. Today, January 5th is the last day.
You must be counting day 1 + 12 more days instead of 11 more days. :)
Today is the 12th day.
😅. Right. Until January 6, when you celebrate epiphany, The presentation of Jesus
Better grammar would’ve been to say through January 5 the last day of Christmastide
Go tell it in the mountain works all year.... At least at my church.