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This time on Dirt Every Day Extra I'm
answering viewer questions we put the
call out on our Dirt Every Day Facebook
page and I said what do you guys want to
know post up your questions message me
your question and I will print out a
bunch of them and answer 'em so I have
about a half dozen or a dozen questions
here and I'm going to go through them
all and give you a little bit of
feedback on the types of stuff that you
guys are apparently interested in first
question, Zach Kearns what do y'all do
with the trucks keep them or sell them
just interested are you interested Zach
you want to buy a truck is that what
you're asking so we build a lot of
different projects it's different for
every show different projects some of
them I own some of them the company owns
some of them are owned by sponsors it's
a mixture of those things a lot of them
we keep we have had to destroy and crush
vehicles in the past I hate doing that I
hate destroying a vehicle no matter what
it's one thing if we're going rock
crawling and this happened it's another
thing if the thing just is jumped by the
time we're done with it but we have had
to do that a few times sell the vehicles
we don't do that very often though I'm
leaning up against a giant truck that I
don't have a whole lot of use for so
like this truck may end up for sale
someday why would I sell it because I'm
dumb and here's the problem I should
sell these vehicles get rid of them take
that money invested in the real estate
something that's going to pay off so
that when I'm old and gray I can still
be living large and doing great things
on my yacht probably not going to happen
i'll probably sell this truck someday
take the money turn around buy five other
half built junk piles of 4x4s
turn them into cool stuff so that you
guys have something to watch so yes we
do sell stuff every now and then most
the time we keep everything probably
should moving right along, Kris Petrolopolis
question you got any hookups or
discounts on ARB Air Lockers? I want to
put one in my Xterra, and those
things not cheap Mr. Petropoulos I don't
I don't you can't really give a deal to
you Chris and then I have to give a deal
to everybody and honestly all of those
companies that we work with like they're
out there like you trying to make a
living but I can tell you right now the
ARB guys would have a special deal going
on where
if you buy an air locker you get a air
compressor it's like the other parts
that you need for the Air Locker I don't
know how long this deals going on so get
a hold of ARB right away if you want to
get an Air Locker and I also don't know
if they have one for the Xterra I assume
they do because they make a lot of stuff
for a lot of imports like Toyotas and
Nissan's and stuff so they may have
something for your Xterra I really like
the ARB air lockers I've had them in a
bunch of rigs they are tough they work
really good you need to make sure the
plumbing is done well but once it's done
well you can turn on your air locking
differentials and go awesome places so
definitely look into that moving right
along Kyle you've got to take my
2006 toyota prius and raise it and make
it an off-road prius probably not going
to do that Kyle you should take your
Prius and trade it in on a really cool 4
by 4 it's honestly it's cool to do those
types of things but at the end of the
day if you want a vehicle you can take
off road and really depend on you should
probably start with a 4x4 we
built stuff like our Road Runner that's
four wheel drive we did a lot of work to
it the the return on investment isn't
there like your Prius all the things
that make your Prius a Prius like great
fuel economy you will not have that if
you lift it and put big tires on it and
make it four wheel drive it's not going
to work the same so rather than try and
make a Prius into something it's not get
rid of the prius get yourself a real
four by four go four wheelin you can get
yourself a really good two wheel drive
to like one of the selectable rear
locker like the toyota prerunner edition
tacoma those things are amazingly great
off road I personally always try to push
people towards a four-wheel drive more
capability more cool places you can go
Ronald Pelletier hey guys your show is
amazing i'm from Quebec I speak French
that's cool and I got a 1989 GMC Sierra
short bed stepside single cab and it's
on a 2005 GMC Sierra frame with a 5.3
liter I did everything on my own kind of
fast project 13 years moving right along
just like my projects i'm looking for a
four or five inch lift kit i want to
know what is the best bang for the buck
that you got in mind keep
on trucking I get these questions a lot
what's the best whatever for my truck
the best Locker the best winch the best
bumper the best suspension kit the best
tire I have not used every single tire
lift kit suspension winch anything in
the business I've used a lot of them
there's certain ones that I like but I
can't say that they're the best ones
because everybody's a little bit
different and I'm not really like I'm
not a spokesperson for all of these
different companies or any one company
so I try a lot of different things I
personally think the best bang for your
buck is to build your GMC Sierra into a
four-by-four that uses it has a solid
front axle you this is much more than a
four or five inch lift kit this is a
huge fabricating project where you cut
all the independent suspension out of
the front end and you put a solid beam
front axle under there there's a company
that I've worked with in the past my
buddies at fab works off road they make
this type of kit so that you can do this
but as far as just a lift kit just to
clear bigger tires there's tons of
companies that offer that for your
project so if you want to go extreme you
want to put a solid axle up front put
big tires on you can really use it
offroad go check out the guys at Fab
Works if you're just looking for a lift
kit pick up the latest issue of Four
Wheel and Off Road Magazine go through
the advertisers there's tons of
different companies that offer that type
of kit I'm not going to pick just one
because I haven't done I'm done it
shootout between all of the different
suspensions so don't expect me to pick
just one you guys can ask me my opinion
and I will give you my opinion but I
can't say this is the best of whatever
Moving to Vegelis Kavatis Hi Frank hey
my name's Fred your name is Vegelis whatever
him Hi Frank my name is Vegelis and
I am from Greece originally but I leave
in Boulder Colorado I started watching
your show on Netflix and I felt in love
with all this amazing trails and great
job thanks um I feel felton love to I
recently got in 2014 Jeep Wrangler
Sahara it's my first four by four
looking into going on trail trips with
my dog and myself
don't have any idea where though any
suggestions ideas thanks again for the
amazing tracks and info so you want to
get into four wheeling and you don't
know anybody or anything about it lots
of things you can do pick up magazines
off-road magazines they often will
feature shops or trail off road trail
ride events so those are good ways get
on the internet there's tons of forums
for different types of vehicles like
there's probably a jeep owners and a
Toyota owners and a Ford monster truck
owners forum so you can go to those
places also go to your local four-wheel
drive shops grab the phone book if they
even still offer that and go find some
local four-wheel drive shops go talk to
those guys and be like hey I'm new to
this I want to go four-wheeling where do
I get started like where are the trails
locally that are legal to use are there
any Jeep clubs or four by four clubs for
my personal type of vehicle that I can
go along with do you guys ever take
newbies and new guys that are getting
into the sport and want to go
four-wheeling you're in Colorado
Colorado has tons of awesome trails go
to the local bookstore and see if
there's any book of off-road trails
google it go to amazon go to the
four-wheel-drive shops those guys sell
books of maps for cool off road trails
all over Colorado there's clubs in
Colorado and you're also close to Utah
Utah has the Moab Moab is my favorite
town in Utah and coming up the week
leading up to Easter is Moab Easter Jeep
Safari it's the one of the biggest Jeep
events in America all these jeepers from
all over the country come to Moab Moab
beautiful it's a really cool town small
town red rocks cool trails you can sign
up with the red rock four-wheelers and
get go on a tour trail or you can go out
on your own so that's an event that I
would definitely check out thank you
Vegelis for writing in good luck with
your jeep next is CJ David Lavisk is Tube
Sock a manual or automatic Tube Sock is
a manual transmission it has an AX15
it used to have an AX5 when it was a 4 cylinder
gas
now it has an AX15 which is a
five-speed behind before cylinder diesel
I people ask me all the time what do you
like better manual or automatic I don't
really have a preference I think the
more power you have an automatic seems
to work better the less power it's more
fun to have a manual because you can
choose the gear that you want the more
gearing options you have it's better for
a smaller engine so if you have just a
four that's why I like Toyotas are
really popular to have like a 22RE
four-cylinder engine and then they have
a manual transmission and dual transfer
cases behind that so having manual
transmissions with less power a smaller
power plant seems to work out better for
vehicles that I have with big power like
my Avalanche has an 8 1 or my army truck
that has an 8 1 or my summer camp Jeep
that has that supercharged 6.2 liter all
of those trucks have automatics I'm a
big fan of the 4L80 which is a
4-speed has an overdrive but it's very
similar to the turbo 400 GM automatic
transmission really strong beefy
transmissions they can be built really
well so most of the time I don't really
have an opinion it doesn't matter to me
you can run a manual around an automatic
there are different driving styles and I
think it's really important that if
you're getting into four wheeling or
learning to drive all you kids out there
bug your parents tell them you want to
learn how to drive stick shift stick
shift is a cool thing to know how to do
it allows you to do different things off
road than an automatic transmission does
so dive into whatever you have but also
be open to trying different things get
behind the wheel something with a manual
transmission and learn how to drive it
that is a trait that not a lot of people
it's kind of a dying trend but I think
it's still really important to know how
to do that's it for today's Dirt Every
Day Extra we are going to do more
questions next time and you never know I
got all types of project oh and I still
got this big Ford if anybody really
wants it it's going to be for sale
seating for like four six and the bed is
big you can take all of your kids you
got like 13 kids living out in the woods
or the swamps look at these giant swamp
tires perfect for you
I don't really I don't want to sell it
because then I'll buy a bunch of other
junk I don't need that's it for Dirt Every Day
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