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Matt's Off Road Recovery.

Rory must be making decent money from YouTube. Moab Motorsports is no longer and he only does trail recovery and trail repairs.
 
Rugby said:
Rory must be making decent money from YouTube. Moab Motorsports is no longer and he only does trail recovery and trail repairs.
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It's been that way for a while now.

Anyone see any of the Off-Road Games? What a yawner. Uninteresting events and way too many who-the-fuck-are-they participants.
 
Brecklin said:
It's real fucking great watching them in the tow race area running over/smashing that car. Debris everywhere and gave the appearance of a bunch of unruly people not giving a shit about where they were or what they're doing. We do that shit but it's on private land that friends own and not broadcast on YouTube to a channel with the popularity of Matt's.

I sound like a Debby Downer but don't do that shit on public land and show it to the mainstream popular media. Doesn't really support the cause to keep wheeling land open.
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I totally get your point. Plus those rolling coal like nobody's business. KOH at night without the alcohol.
 
I'm shocked no one has talked about the cutting and welding the 205 inputs together. Is that considered a hack or resourceful?
 
06h3 said:
I'm shocked no one has talked about the cutting and welding the 205 inputs together. Is that considered a hack or resourceful?
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Hack as fuck, IMHO. On the trail, sure. In a shop, getting ready for a big show? Standard Matt. :laughing:

I watched zero of the games. Every video was 2:30:00 long, and I don't care about influencers crawling.

Did Matt's hack-job break?

Those were both 205-ish. Couldn't he have swapped shafts?
 
subybaja said:
Hack as fuck, IMHO. On the trail, sure. In a shop, getting ready for a big show? Standard Matt. :laughing:

I watched zero of the games. Every video was 2:30:00 long, and I don't care about influencers crawling.

Did Matt's hack-job break?

Those were both 205-ish. Couldn't he have swapped shafts?
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I didn't either, not interested in the format.

The old 205 was the slip yoke kind, the new one was old style.

edit: ORD says 1980-'91
 
06h3 said:
I'm shocked no one has talked about the cutting and welding the 205 inputs together. Is that considered a hack or resourceful?
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I did not watch it. In the 80s that would’ve been resourceful and cutting edge. Now it sounds a little hack with what can be manufactured.

When I first started wheeling, I had a friend who used to race Barstow to Vegas, and all the other desert races in a CJ5. His rear 9 inch had both sides cut down and welded back together. It took abuse that I did not think it should have. It was probably 31 spline also.

Sometimes you do what you have to because there are no alternatives. I don’t really think that’s the case here, but I didn’t watch it.
 
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frank c said:
I watched Seth from Berm Peak wheel Rudy's XJ. Looked like Seth had a good time. He didn't roll the rig, and rode his mountain bike down the course after finishing.
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That was entertaining and not too long. Now I'm waiting on watching Matt going mountain biking with him :laughing:
 
My problem is, he is supposed to have a reliable vehicle to rescue stuck or stranded people, but he hacks shit together which potentially makes his vehicles less reliable.

My guess he had the right parts ordered already, and he did that just for more comments. I bet a future video he will fix it right because of all the negative comments.
 
Wasn't there also something wrong with the front diff? He said all the bolts had backed out and they would fix it properly another day? Did not see how they fixed it just them tacking something on the carrier and slapping the cover back on.
 
I like watching the MORR vids and like the guys. That said the 205 shaft shenanigans made me cringe. I pretty much WTF something in most of his videos.
 
LScout800 said:
Wasn't there also something wrong with the front diff? He said all the bolts had backed out and they would fix it properly another day? Did not see how they fixed it just them tacking something on the carrier and slapping the cover back on.
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All the carrier bolts backed out (completely, AGAIN) so they put new (maybe) bolts back in a tack welded them to the carrier, not as hack as the input shaft coupler IMO.
 
bradp674 said:
My problem is, he is supposed to have a reliable vehicle to rescue stuck or stranded people, but he hacks shit together which potentially makes his vehicles less reliable.

My guess he had the right parts ordered already, and he did that just for more comments. I bet a future video he will fix it right because of all the negative comments.
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NEW TC was supposedly sitting on the shelf for over a year, ordered to direct swap but "we forgot the odd input shaft deal".
 
I quit watching after the off road games shit show (and I only watched a few minutes at that). For fucks sake they had a guy die last year, and I think they were doubling down on tempting fate this year. Their course markers were living breathing human beings!

The hack fuckery that goes on there and the millions of mouth breathing, adoring fans will lead to even more shitheads out destroying public lands and making a bad name for all of us.
 
ho lee chit. all they had to do was swap the input. no, lets f up a $200 input and hope this welded crap don't break! then they didn't use a gasket on the input retainer, meaning it will probably crack and leak as well.
I guess thats why I take so long to do stuff. I want it together right.
 
CarterKraft said:
All the carrier bolts backed out (completely, AGAIN) so they put new (maybe) bolts back in a tack welded them to the carrier, not as hack as the input shaft coupler IMO.
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The dude doesn't know what a torque wrench is for. His buddy set up the diffs for him and he just hammered them a bit with the impact. Same problem happened on the XJ, back when it was kinda fun to watch. Now it's just hot garbage, made for clickbait.
 
also, the 80-91 crewcab 205's are not slipyoke. and thats easy to swap out also.
 
PinionLabs said:
Just enjoy the vids, commie. The only 'influencer' in your communist utopia is the guy with the AK in the salt mine.
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This remark doesn't make much sense in the context of things.

I want to know is the guy a recovery specialist or just a body shop guy?
 
I’m in the tow game along with recovery and rd side repair. I’ve left comments on tons of his videos asking about his permitting process. We are in Northern California and we get calls from AAA to go to burning man every year to winch out junk and to tow junk home for the participants. We have to pull permits to go across state lines. When I take my service truck to Reno to work on busses we have to pull permits. Curious if he has permits for az, ca and wherever else he goes.
 
subybaja said:
Hack as fuck, IMHO. On the trail, sure. In a shop, getting ready for a big show? Standard Matt. :laughing:

I watched zero of the games. Every video was 2:30:00 long, and I don't care about influencers crawling.

Did Matt's hack-job break?

Those were both 205-ish. Couldn't he have swapped shafts?
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HA! I felt the same way, I like Youtube for 20-30 minute time wasters, 2+ hours was a turn off.

You guys are too much, you know deep down you like the slip yoke hack and you want to watch to see if it holds up.
I would have done the same, the difference being I would have lathed it down after I was done.

I did watch a few highlights, mainly watched people pull on recovery ropes at faster than 5MPH like that other thread here... and none of them broke.
 
NorCalJalopy said:
I’m in the tow game along with recovery and rd side repair. I’ve left comments on tons of his videos asking about his permitting process. We are in Northern California and we get calls from AAA to go to burning man every year to winch out junk and to tow junk home for the participants. We have to pull permits to go across state lines. When I take my service truck to Reno to work on busses we have to pull permits. Curious if he has permits for az, ca and wherever else he goes.
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Fine is cheaper than what money the video makes.
 
Bebop said:
Fine is cheaper than what money the video makes.
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Do you ever notice you never see the clients any more? I seriously thinking that half of these videos are completely staged. Because he is way too unconcerned about damaging people's vehicles in the recovery process. I watched a video where got a Jeep Gladiator completely stock drive train and suspension stuck a good 3-4 times on a trail that he was supposedly recovering it from. It would seem you might ask a few questions on the phone like a) does the truck have a stock suspension , b) is the trail full of big boulders, c) do I need bring some kind off-road ramp material to insure that I rip parts of your body, drivetrain and suspension off as I recover your vehicle. Little things like that.
 
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