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Matt's Off Road Recovery.

So what broke and who called it here?
I think you can hear Matt saying "the last time I tried that I broke my transfer case"
 
I'm reminded of this reading this thread recently:
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Johnny Longrifle said:
A few that I can think of off the top of my head:

I called them out on the design of the roll cage in the Morrvair. The A pillars are unsupported and are going to fold down at the slightest bump. Maybe the B and C are as well, I don't remember.

I gave them grief about not having grab handles in the Morrvair. Everybody was wrapping there fingers around the bars trying to hold on.

Then just recently I asked him why the wrecker boom attachment point was welded to the rear shock mounts, and unsupported vertically.

You can go find look for yourself, but I'm willing to bet those kinds of comments get deleted. Every comment I left on hack rats videos got the axe as well.
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You know, maybe you need to do your own build on youtube and show everyone how to do it correctly as you see it. Guess what someone will tell you, you did it wrong also! :lmao:
 
Johnny Longrifle said:
A few that I can think of off the top of my head:

I called them out on the design of the roll cage in the Morrvair. The A pillars are unsupported and are going to fold down at the slightest bump. Maybe the B and C are as well, I don't remember.

I gave them grief about not having grab handles in the Morrvair. Everybody was wrapping there fingers around the bars trying to hold on.

Then just recently I asked him why the wrecker boom attachment point was welded to the rear shock mounts, and unsupported vertically.

You can go find look for yourself, but I'm willing to bet those kinds of comments get deleted. Every comment I left on hack rats videos got the axe as well.
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So what's your YT channel name? Matt runs a successful business doing this crap. He doesn't do everything the way I would neither do you or anyone else.

I heard a million times how my truck wouldn't work the way I designed it, it won't function properly, it's a stupid overall ideal. All the "experts" told me how stupid I was. I LOVE it and it works WAY better than I hoped and better than any "expert" expected.
 
bigun said:
You know, maybe you need to do your own build on youtube and show everyone how to do it correctly as you see it. Guess what someone will tell you, you did it wrong also! :lmao:
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Johnny Longrifle said:
A few that I can think of off the top of my head:

I called them out on the design of the roll cage in the Morrvair. The A pillars are unsupported and are going to fold down at the slightest bump. Maybe the B and C are as well, I don't remember.
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To be fair, the morvair's cage sketches me out too, but maybe the idea is it just has to save everybody once.

When I was building my cage my buddy gave me some good advice when I pointed out certain aftermarket cages that didn't have all the triangles he wanted me to add.

He said: "They will probably do just enough to save your life once. And then that's it, you have to home and your week or your weekend or trip or whatever is over. We want to build our cages so you can flop it back over and keep having fun."

One of those friends cartwheeled his rig at 70 mph in the desert and the only thing that broke was a light bar, so now I listen when they talk.
 
So what does he keep breaking (at the hammers?) and do these axles not have lockers or does just not have them working right now.
 
Wheelerfreak said:
He said in a recent video he and no lockers in that rig. I thought I heard in the video posted that he broke a driveline:confused:
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I think he broke or pulled apart a driveshaft in trail maters video.

At the hammers he sounded like he broke the transfer case.
I figured he had enough final reduction to not need giant transmission/tc/drive shaft parts.
 
The first break on the first day was t-case output front and back. It was on his son's youtube. Not sure about the back door break. That thing's just so damn big and heavy and has a ton of contact patch. Even with reduction, it's still gonna eat light truck parts.
 
KacksterK5 said:
The first break on the first day was t-case output front and back. It was on his son's youtube. Not sure about the back door break. That thing's just so damn big and heavy and has a ton of contact patch. Even with reduction, it's still gonna eat light truck parts.
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That sounds like it's going to suck to fix/improve?
 
Remember they are using a junkyard 205 the T case they built it for is a one off custom that didn't have all the gears or something
 
bigun said:
Remember they are using a junkyard 205 the T case they built it for is a one off custom that didn't have all the gears or something
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I actually forgot about that...
So with the doubler and quality parts it might be ok?

I'm wanting all you naysayers to tell us what he's doing wrong. :homer:
 
AKnate said:
Meh, use all that YouTube $$$ rolling in.

The way these youtubers act, they're making well in the 5 figures each month.
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Yeah I just mean the packaging is pretty locked in at this point, not a lot of room for a 2x bigger transfer case or transmission combo.
 
Mikel said:
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I'm watching it right now, not impressed...LOL
He just pulled the T-case and it's not a JY 205 :shaking:
ETA: I spoke to soon, he is in fact putting in a brand new 205 that Rory picked up and delivered. I guess this one was before KOH and I thought it was more recent.
 
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AKnate said:
Meh, use all that YouTube $$$ rolling in.

The way these youtubers act, they're making well in the 5 figures each month.
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An 8 year old was clearing $2,000,000 a month at one point.
 
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bigun said:
How many of you, have built a rig and have it preform flawlessly from day one?
I know "Crom" didn't, I was thinking about setting it on fire a couple of times on the first outing while I was fighting with the propane system.
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Most of us built rigs as best we can and then find it's limits as we use it. It's a bit different when you design something from scratch for a specific purpose and it ends up woefully inadequate. Usually that is the military that does that sort of shit. :flipoff2:
 
I have built a few vehicles from scratch and my teething period has been considerably longer than those guys. Heck, they still break from time to time :laughing:
 
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