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Fords Make The Best Jeeps? What Is Dave Talking About? Fixing His Ford F-350 Problems So Its Ready For Jeeping!
Last spring Dave broke his Jeep and it has NOT been fixed for this year’s Easter Jeep Safari. It isn’t like he can’t fix it, but since he’s been wheeling with, and working on,...
Extended Cab Land Cruiser Pickup Build Part 1: Simple But Trick Chassis Mods For This Ambitious And Rad Off-Road Project.
This new project from the guys at Designed and Built is one that I really dig. I’m a fan of FJ Land Cruisers and if you are too then you are going to like this one. It’s not a typical FJ...
Murder Nova Burnout Truck – Build Series Part 2: It’s Going Back Together After Paint, And Then It’s Time For The Power!
It sure wasn’t pretty, but they got that part in the works and now it’s time to get some suspension under it! It’s time to build a burnout truck and that’s just what they are going to...
Kingpin – The 1956 F600 Crew Cab Project: Cab Fab, Chassis Work, Bed, Tubs, Fenders And More. Metal Fab Greatness!
When I walked up to Kingpin at the PRI Show in Indy last December I thought it looked cool, but I had no idea how cool. This truck is truly something special. I spent 20 minutes walking around it...
This Look At And Discussion Of Split Rims and Old Truck Wheel Mounting Is Pretty Interesting – Dangerous Stuff, Interesting Process
I have owned a couple of vehicles with split rims. Known as “suicide rims” because of the fact that the outer ring can fly off and kill the guy mounting the tires, they are not a popular...
LEFT-FOR-DEAD Grandpa Special OBS CHEVY BEGINS PROTOURING MAKEOVER: Suspension, Wheels, Tires, And More.
How many times have you seen a bitchin old Grandpa style pickup driving down the street and thought, man if that thing wasn’t brown and was slammed it would be awesome? Yeah, jillions of times....
Dirthead Dave Is Getting His Mini Truck On With Hand Made Airbag Mounts on the rear of his Nissan Minitruck
Dave Chappelle, the one that can weld and build killer trucks of all kinds, not the funny one on TV, is our kind of dude. One day he’s working on his horribly ugly, but cool, bagged Mustang II,...
1974 Dodge BIG BLOCK Shortbed Truck! A Mortske Budget Friendly Transformation Resulting In One Cool Mopar Muscle Truck!
A 1974 square body Dodge like this is always fun to see, but a grandpa owned ride like this isn’t very common anymore. I mean this thing was clean and grandpa perfect, and then Mortske got a...
Rebeldryver’s Garage Tech – How To: Chevy/GM Truck CV Axle Replacement on a OBS 1990 Chevy K1500.
How many times have you jumped into a repair on your car or truck with virtually no clue on how to actually do it? I mean before YouTube you would have to just muddle through it using crappy photos...
Dissecting a Tesla Cybertruck! Underbody & Wheels Off Chassis Inspection and Walkthrough, First Look At This Weird Machine
From the very first moment that anyone saw the design renderings for the Tesla Cybertruck, everyone scratched their head in wonderment. After all, this thing looks like you gave a pencil to a 5 year...
Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion: Lowering, Rebuilt Suspension, Custom Fabrication, MORE!
In the first video we shared the shortening of the bed and chassis to convert this long bed to a short bed. If you missed it, you can use the link below to check it out. In this second video there...
Get It Right: Here’s The Proper Way To Measure For Custom Shocks From The Crew At Ridetech
You want to install custom shocks on your car. Maybe you just want to make a simple change with a single adjustable tube shock or maybe you are going bigger with air suspension or perhaps multi-way...
The 1955 Chevy Apache Pickup Rebuild: C-Notching The Frame On The Stroker Apache Build
The LS3 stroker combo was put into the Apache in the last video and now its time to start getting the rest of it ready to rock. To make sure this thing doesn’t ride like hell after all the cool...
Dirthead Dave Is Going To A Birthday Party! Airbag Suspension, 4-Link, And An Epic Road Trip In The Old Butter Jeep.
Dirthead Dave’s yellow Jeep YJ was sitting for too long, and he recently got it back up and running and on the trail for Ultimate Adventure. But now he’s going off an another adventure to...