I feel like mo is always like we're way behind schedule is this just my mind playing tricks on me
or is this really happening and here's the thing you make a mistake with this kind of stuff it's
like tragic and Fu expensive I'm just paranoid I guess is probably the best word to use to describe
it all right so we're on the side of the road at the moment right here shows it on and I'm not
touching the brake right now this is exactly what I was worried about this is going to be either an
epic like Victory or an epic fail of an episode because this is our first time actually taking
the new toad out plus if you watched our episode a few weeks ago where we just totally like this like
redneck oil catch can thing yeah lots of you very helpful comments decided that that probably wasn't
a good long-term solution and so thankfully Eric who helped us get the Expedition set up gave us
a better option so we'll tell you about that in a few minutes but it's on the rig it's installed but
we haven't actually done a like Shakedown trip with all of these new things and we're kind of
like going against our own advice cuz we always say like you know that Shakedown trip should be
maybe like an hour away or maybe two hours away not too far so if something bad goes wrong you're
not that far away no we're we're going 6 hours away our Shakedown trip yeah I'm slightly nervous
about that just because this this is a lot of things that haven't been proven out yet so we're
about to uh prove that we're good or prove that we failed so I don't know stick around we'll find
out you'll find out with us oh it's scraping there yeah it's scraping on the bottom scraping of the
toe bar basically because it's a drop hitch right this new blueox that we have is so long that when
when we do go over a big dip this does drag and so but we can't like put this directly on the hitch
because to line up with the Expedition it needs to be dropped down so it's straight and not you
know bending the toe bar one way or the other so what we might do is just have to take that off and
then go to like a Walmart parking lot it up all right and then well it's just mainly because I
feel like the exit from here that's where if you went slower [Music] D we could try I mean maybe
without the Toad on it maybe we should try where we will just go to one of the parking lots that's
down the street where we can be flat to hook up but maybe what we can do is try just go slow and
I can kind of watch yeah see where it's and if if it does scrape again then we'll know okay that
doesn't work or if the Toad's not on it we're fine cuz what I don't want to have to do is complicate
our process with having to pull this off every single time that we leave this area the entrances
to some of these campgrounds are like angled in things like I feel like that there's some that are
worse than others and I've seen horror stories of people like pulling their whole entire like
back walls off of their fifth wheel sometimes with how severely dipped some Campground like
entrances and stuff like that can be we'll figure this out I feel like ouro is always like we're way
behind schedule which is exactly where we're at again yep so let's uh get this show on the road
yes let's do it feeling so ill prepared we did this whole like test run thing just around the
block with this hooked up and that was fine but the one thing we haven't installed yet is we got
this strip of fabrics it's called a toe Defender from ET trailer we'll link it below just so you
can see what it is but it's designed to protect the toad from any rocks or debris that would come
up this is a much nicer vehicle than the jeep was so we really want to protect it but we haven't
installed it yet because we didn't really need to install it to just make sure that this was working
fine which it was hopefully for the Long Haul but anyway so now we got to get that installed
so we need to get that put on hopefully quickly so we can get on the [Music] road
[Music] so I'm going to put it in toe mode now we've done this like two or three times only and
the interesting thing like I feel like that I'm so nervous and this is part of the reason why I'm
so nervous is because we towed our Jeep for five years so for five years everything was the same
process over and over like the way we hooked up the safety cables the way we hooked up the lights
I mean everything was the same process and now the process has changed and I'm so nervous because I'm
afraid we're going to get something wrong cuz I haven't done this over and over for 5 years this
is like now my fourth time doing this now the more times that we do it and we do it over and
over again just like even with rving right like it becomes easier and you become more confident cuz
you've done it multiple times all right so here we go okay so if I remember correctly I don't put my
foot on the brake to start and I have to basically put this in accessories which is twice then I do
put my foot on the brake pull this into neutral not drive now with your foot on the brake still
because obviously it would roll forward right so you're going to do this five times so 1 2 3 4
5 okay neutral tow enabled leave Transmission in neutral and then I can shut this off that's not
shutting it off I started it okay please tell me it's still okay still if you do have your foot off
the brake it won't start message is still there I know that was my bad like see that's what I'm
saying like this now this is only my fourth time you'll get the muscle memory after a couple times
of doing it that's that's my point and that's why I'm just I'm so nervous okay let's just move
forward couple things that we installed to help uh protect the toad the new toad is this roadm toad
Defender that we got from ER trer and so what it does is basically protect from any elements debris
dirt rocks from coming up underneath and hitting the toad pretty simple install to be honest we've
got the the catch can the oil catch can that I'll show you here that I installed and so that will
catch any oil and so it's not being pushed back onto the toad as well now time to finish hooking
up the toad and get on the [Music] road [Music] so we are finally ready to get off now we decided we
were going to go ahead and try this one more time pulling out of here with the toad attached with
the drop hitch I think if Ben just goes super slow and eases out of here we're not going to drag so
we're going to find out if we do we're going have to change our process but finally like literally
this is hours later cuz I forgot we had to put on the to guard thing ha oops all right let's
go ready Alaska let's
go you want to go to the dog park oh stretch stretch since there's a line for fuel we're
going to have to wait a few minutes for this I'm going to take him over to the dog park one
of the cool things about a lot of the L's travel stops is they actually have like a Bonafide like
do Park area so I'm going to take him over there while you're waiting for fuel and then we need
to just check on things in the back yep we had a little mishap when we were first pulling out
where the brake was adjusted correctly dang it this guy pulled in for me oh man maybe you just
need to inch your way up closer in [Music] line so I just was back checking on the Expedition and
so far so good everything looks fine couple things that I've been paranoid with is just
like the tires you know make sure they're not I don't know I just we had issues with the Jeep
when we first got started and so I'm just anyway paranoid I guess is probably the best word to use
to describe it but just back there checking everything seems to be good the other thing
that seems to be good is that I'm not seeing any oil residue from that blowby which we still have
to show you what we did there because much better solution not rednecked but everything
looks good as far as expedition's clean and no oily residue which is amazing we're a little
less than halfway so we still have a ways to go yet tonight so fingers crossed everything
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Madness all right so we're on the side of the road
at the moment because the brake is stuck on the Expedition and we don't
know why so got to figure that out cuz we're toasting our brakes at the moment
the brake is not even warm so I don't even think it's a false alarm yeah it's false it's not even
breaking uh well hold on are the brake lights on on the back this is what I was concerned
about it's the brake on so there's an indicator in the RV and it keeps showing us that the brakes are
on so therefore we're thinking that we're just dragging it and then you second guess yourself
because you start thinking oh well maybe things do feel heavier like if the brakes were on right
and there's resistance and so then you're like oh like you do this whole thing of mental gymnastics
when you see something like that and then it's hard to know for sure like is this just my mind
playing tricks on me or is this really happening but you don't think it was on even though the
lights showed that it was on I don't think so because it's not even breaking the AP they're
not even warm to the touch so it's not even actually breaking the car so you think it's
not working at all I don't think it's even like breaking well we would know for sure if you went
up there and hit the brakes and I could sit back here and watch the brake pedal but I feel like
we're not in a good spot to do that right now the traffic here yeah this is exactly what I
was worried about is trying to do this Shakedown trip in this condition right here shows it on and
I'm not touching the brake right now so and so like and then it flashes I'm wondering and it's
like it's just is there a reset on this like is there a way to just reboot it yeah just unplug it
probably so I just reboot it and now the light's off let's see hit the brake now it turned on so
now let's see if it turns off it doesn't uh oh there there it went so now maybe it just need
to be restarted I don't know I mean let's hope so because either way where we're at but you you
checked it and you're sure that the brakes weren't stuck on right so that's that's first and foremost
because if those if we were just dragging this for the last half mile yeah those brakes should
be like smoking they would be hot yep so that's good so it's just a matter of maybe maybe this
just isn't getting an accurate reading right that should be but and there's no Range Extender on it
either which is weird yeah so we might have to just do some further troubleshooting tomorrow
when we're in a safer location too yeah cuz there look at the traffic well we're just not in a very
good spot right now yeah so okay well let's keep going and just hope we can get to where we need
to go safely first and foremost and then to be continued on that all right I think I might have
found a solution it's a catch tank from Pittsburgh Power uh not sponsored or anything and not cheap
so this will go right up in here the tank will fit right in here mount on the bracket the bracket is
going to mount right to the frame and then I'll be able to come in here and justo drain it close
it off and then any of the fumes will just come out right over here on the side it'll
be a little more robust than the catch can that I had here I feel a lot better with it going into
this metal catch can here that's uh not plastic and could be uh you know blown off by a rock or
two solves a big problem for me in the fact that our new toad we've got the new Expedition I did
not want this white rig beautiful white rig getting all oily and dirty like the Jeep had
gotten because behind the RV it just sucked up those fumes into the radiator and just when we
turned on the air conditioner or heater it really smelled really bad I put a clamp under here put
this little plastic piece right here and then this plastic piece is going to clamp onto the breather
tube this as far as I can go but you have to stretch that black
stone grilled cheese baby oh hi H it has been an interesting several
days here in the keys we are up a creek literally Without a Paddle