- What's up guys, Junior here
with Custom Offsets, Arkon,
all that good stuff.
As you guys know, like right now,
currently it's like quarantine.
Everyone's been sitting inside and
as I've been sitting here pondering, debating,
I think it's time
for a little bit of an update on the Bronco.
So as you guys may or may not know,
I do have a 1994 Bronco build.
If you do know, welcome back.
Thanks for returning for more updates.
If you don't, just go check it out.
There's a bunch of videos on Custom Offsets and Arkon
about the Bronco build, everything we've done to it.
If you watch those videos, you saw that there was a lot
of rust and issues that we had
when I installed the lift kit.
Well, unfortunately in the 2 1/2 years that I've owned it,
it's just progressively gotten worse.
The bodywork has just started falling away.
So I think it's about time
for a little bit of an upgrade
or just a newer body.
So that's what we're here to do today.
And over the next couple of days
is pick up a new Bronco.
So flying out to Cali, picking this thing up,
and driving it back home
and in good old Custom Offsets fashion,
of course, we're recording all of it
to bring it all to you.
I fly out at 3:00 today,
which is in about six hours.
I don't know what to expect
as far as driving a Bronco 32 hours home.
I do know the Bronco is in immaculate condition.
The body, the underside, everything looks brand new,
and you just have to wait to see the color
until we get there, I guess.
So I'm excited for this.
So let's go check it out.
(digitized music)
All right guys.
So we're finally in LA, gonna go check into our hotel
and get ready for tomorrow.
I'm excited to see this thing and drive it back.
Not excited to drive it back,
just excited to see it.
(digitized music)
All right.
So Friday morning, we're now walking
in the light, misting rain,
gonna meet up with the dude
and check out this Bronco.
I'm excited. I'm anxious.
I think I have some like sightseeing stuff planned,
as well, on our way back home.
So, let's go check this thing out.
I don't know if we can walk in here or not
but I see it already.
Here it is.
How's it goin'?
How's it going, man?
- Jared.
- Don.
- Good to meet you. - Nice to meet you. Hello.
- We're doing a little bit of vlogging,
so got the camera rolling.
- Nice.
- So this is it, huh?
- Yeah, dude, after we agreed,
I had 10 people call me trying to buy it.
- Well, I appreciate you waiting out on me.
Awesome.
- Yeah, well good thing
you guys have each other.
It's a long road back.
- I know.
That's what I was like,
and she was like, well, she can come along, too.
And she kind of make it work.
I was like, we'll make it work then,
It's the floor pans, which they're probably-
(fist bangs)
leagues better than mine.
(digitized music)
All right guys, so just finished the test drive.
Just bought the vehicle and now like let's just
take a second to check out and see the vehicle.
1993 Ford Bronco.
Underneath on this thing
is leagues better than mine, which is really all I need.
The one thing that I will need to replace though
is the rear motor for the window in here.
Doesn't work.
So that'll be a little bit of replacing
that I'll have to do.
It's like a blue interior.
I don't know how necessarily I feel about it.
I might put the gray in, I might keep it.
I don't know.
We shall see.
But yeah, there it is.
So gonna drive this thing back home now.
It's like 32 hours.
There's Elvis Presley's house.
There's Michael Jackson's house,
and I'm heading back to Wisconsin.
Peace. All right guys.
So this is exactly what you think it is.
It's the "Fast and Furious" house.
Good old "No Trespassing" sign, but yeah, that's it.
That's the house from "Fast and Furious."
We had to stop here quick and just kinda check it out.
'Cause why not while you're here?
That's pretty cool.
Here's the last stop.
The Hollywood sign.
Just wanted to stop, check it out.
Obviously, we're here.
This is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity
to get shot of a Bronco with California stuff.
So here we are, just kind of sightseeing
a little bit and we're gonna head back home shortly.
There's a little spider.
That's all we got.
(digitized music)
So most important part of the trip is getting gas.
We just parked and I looked at prices.
It is $3.50 per gallon here for 87.
Back home, it is like a $1.70 currently.
Cali, you're beautiful, but I hate you.
All right.
So that gas station right there has gas for $2.89.
I just paid $3.50 at Mobil, which is right there.
That is called getting finessed.
I went to the Mobil instead of the, whatever that's called.
Doesn't even have a name
and it's not like it's in a better part of town.
It's in the same area.
I just got shafted.
(digitized music)
Here's the current situation.
(wind blows)
There's the problem.
So what ended up happening
was I got a cardboard poster
apparently stuck on the front of the grill
and now my coolant is just leaking everywhere.
(car tires roar)
So I'm gonna let this cool off and then we'll keep going.
Okay, so for those of you that didn't hear
or couldn't because it was like insanely windy
in the middle of the desert where we decided to break down,
what ended up happening was Rockstar energy drinks
are bad for you.
One of their signs,
it was like probably four feet tall
of like a can of Rockstar energy,
as we're driving decided to like fly up in front of us.
And like, I just kind of thought
or assumed or hoped that it just kinda like flew past
and that was it.
Well, what ended up happening was it literally
is like four feet tall.
It came in and it literally went
over the whole entire grill.
So it covered the grill and about, I don't know,
10, 15 miles later, the Bronco didn't like that.
And it got super hot, oil pressure dropped,
coolant started like bubbling out and smoking all over.
So we stopped at a gas station that was like,
we waited a little bit, let it cool off,
started it, got to the gas station.
I'm gonna put some more oil in it.
Add some coolant to it, let it sit for like an hour or two.
And then we will get back on the road.
I did notice, though, as we were driving,
it was kind of a downhill.
So that helped, but like more air getting in there
'cause it was sitting,
and it wouldn't go past 60
and then it kinda got to 70 and I was going 75,
but that was kind of downhill, too.
So yeah, we'll give her a little bit
of a break and hopefully be back on the road soon.
(digitized music)
Okay, so coolant and oil worked.
We're now in Vegas getting gas
because gas was $3.99 at the Shell we stopped at.
So now we're at a 7-11 in Vegas
where it's actually $2.50.
So it's significantly cheaper.
So we're gonna gas up.
The last like 45, 50 minutes of driving though
have been with no AC.
I think when everything was kind of building up
to blowing up, something with the vacuum system,
vacuum lines, I don't know,
I asked Banker, he knows more than I do,
like popped or opened
or something, that the vacuum seal isn't there, essentially.
So the AC is doesn't work.
Everything else works.
So I've just been going, but no AC.
So I am like dying right now.
I might just end up driving with the door open.
If this was a Jeep, I would just take the doors off.
So I'm gonna gas up and see if I can figure that out.
But I don't know how to do any of that.
So I might just suck it up for the next five hours
I think we're still driving.
I'm sorry.
All right guys.
So it's like 11:00 at night.
I can, I drove until I couldn't see.
And then I drove more than that,
and so it's time for gas
and we're just gonna call it a night, I think.
Made decent headway.
I think we have, well, let's see what we have left.
Oh, we have 22 hours
and 1,603 miles.
If we were to continue driving right now
we would arrive at 10:47.
I'm guessing that's tomorrow night.
If we just literally drove straight
for the next 22 hours, but we're not doing that.
We're doing this as realistic as possible.
The truck's been driving fine.
At idle now, it sounds like it's chugging like a diesel,
but not, yeah, no AC sucks.
Goodnight. Peace.
(digitized music)
All right, guys.
So we've been driving through Utah all day.
We had our first stop of the day.
Finally gettin' low on gas so gassing up.
Truck's been fine so far.
The AC decided to start working, too,
so some point last night,
I don't know what happened, but the AC is working.
So that's nice.
These Utah hills are kind of,
mountains, whatever they're called,
are kind of kicking the Bronco's (bleep).
We'll go 80 down them and we'll go 60 up 'em.
So I'm just gonna keep at it.
Keep drivin'.
(digitized music)
All right guys, there's not really much of an update.
It's kind of been a quiet day, which is nice.
'Cause this is like the longest day of driving.
And so I'm not complaining, but made it
through Colorado, through all of the mountains,
through a huge rainstorm
that you couldn't really see through.
I only hydroplaned once, but it was fine.
It was all downhill.
Uphill, the Bronco only goes about 45,
downhill, it can go, the speedometer goes
to 85 and it was going past that.
So, but now we're almost in Nebraska.
We're gassing up and we're just still driving.
Okay guys.
So not really much to update.
We finally got a hotel for the night,
which I think that's good that there's no update.
No really hiccups other than the stupid little quirky things
from that Rockstar energy sign.
Yeah, so the vehicle's, the Bronco's been running fine
for the most part, but we're finally crashing for the night.
We did 17 hours of driving today,
covered like 1,200 miles, I'm pretty sure.
Stopped like five or six times for gas.
So we're gonna go to bed.
See you in the morning.
And I think we'll have nine hours,
just over nine hours left of driving,
and then we'll be back
and then we can really dig into it
and keep going with this build series
and kind of get everything swapped
over and keep going with it.
Night.
(digitized music)
Okay guys.
So Sunday morning, we're like nine hours from home,
about 680 miles.
Slept like crap last night at some Super 8
with a door that just opened every 10 minutes
throughout the whole middle of the night.
I'm ready to be home.
So we got about 9 1/2 hours of driving.
So with stops, we'll probably be trying
to make it 10, try and make them quick stops.
But yeah, I am not planning on talking
to this camera again
until we're home, unless something happens.
So hopefully I won't be talking to this camera again.
Let's get to the road.
(upbeat music)
All right, guys.
So we made it back to Appleton.
Wow. That was nuts.
I've never done a drive like that before.
So like last year, we drove to Daytona, right?
And that was a big drive.
This is like double that.
And that's technically only one way.
Kind of crazy but we're here.
Really, the whole last part of the drive,
the biggest issue was
as I'd get lower into the RPMs
or like as I was like stopping to like
get off an exit or something like that,
the truck would die.
So I had to kind of keep it a higher RPMs
or like at stoplights, I had to kind of like
grab on it a little bit so it wouldn't die.
I have a feeling a lot of that is coming
from the whole issue with the potential vacuum leak.
I'm not quite sure yet,
with that whole stupid Rockstar energy sign.
I don't wanna say their name anymore,
but with that whole sign, all of that,
honestly, if that little issue hadn't happened
in the first like three hours of the trip,
I don't think there would have been a single issue.
So I guess that gives you guys some entertainment content.
So it's not just a straight through, "Yup, we made it,
congrats" video.
But yup, we made it. Congrats video.
Here it is.
I still don't know how many receipts I have.
I guess I have them all right here, though.
Seven, eight, nine.
I filled up 10 times.
That is roughly like $400 in gas right there
plus hotel rooms for three nights.
Yikes. Okay.
Well, there's that.
I didn't really want to know that.
The back of this thing is completely gross.
Behind here, you can see the difference.
Made it in one piece.
So next steps are gonna be getting this thing
into the shop, getting Banker and Brent to look at it
and kind of figure out what's wrong.
I don't know if there's something like with the spark plugs,
maybe there's a lot of like soot.
So, we'll get them to look at it.
We'll get it all kind of cleaned up and back
to how it was when I originally bought it
before Rockstar energy decided to ruin it.
I'm tired.
I've got like four hours of sleep in me.
I'm gonna go home.
That's all I got for you.
Thank you for checking out this pickup
of this 1993 Ford Bronco XLT.
We'll be back with more, as you guys know,
that's kind of what we do.
We'll get everything swapped over
from the old one to the new one.
We will get this one like updated and back
to running 100%,
kind of get the engine tuned up, fixed up,
whatever needs to happen.
I'm not really sure.
And I'll kind of go a little bit further
with the build, too.
So obviously last time,
it was like a bumper lift kit, wheels, tires.
Well, got a little bit more
for this time, as well.
Got headlights to put in.
I'm gonna customize those.
I'm already looking at floor linking the rear end
and we'll go from there.
But that's what we got for you guys.
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Peace.
(upbeat music)