Chicago. Here we come. That is if we don't break down along the way,
there's a legitimate possibility. Let's go.
Good morning Adventures. Good morning. The day has.
Come the day. We've been talking about for very long time.
We are taking this rig up to Chicago for some major engine work to be done.
They're actually completely rebuilding the engine. They're
going to put a bunch of brand-new stuff on it.
We're going to get fuel injection. It's going to be running,
like new basically better than new good,
be better than you. Yeah. But right now it is not running,
like it is running like a piece of junk, the piece of junk that it is running.
Like it's from the 70s and we haven't driven it very much in the past year.
So if you guys saw our previous video, you guys know that we have a
bit of an overheating problem on this baby.
My dad and I were trying to kind of diagnose the problem just to kind of put a bandaid on it just
because we got to get it to the six hours to Chicago is all.
I'll tell you guys more about the issues when we pull over later,
because our plan is to basically dry for an hour, then stop then dry for an hour,
then stop, you know, to let the engine cool down a little bit.
Mmm, we have about six hours,
but with all of our stops were guessing eight or nine hours,
but we left bright and early. As you guys saw in the intro,
just so we could take our time on this trip.
We don't need the engine to blow up and us be parked on the side of the road.
So fingers crossed that doesn't happen. I'm sure it'll be exciting for you guys.
It'll be horrible for us. It'll be sad.
So, we're gonna hit the road. We're going to drive
for the first hour and then we're going to pull over at a gas station or something.
I guess. We'll see you guys then.
All right. Y'all, we are about an hour into this trip so far.
It's going. Okay. She doesn't like if I come to a dead.
Stop its died a couple times on me but she fires right back up so for now we're all good.
We have the police Pull over
At one of our stops just to check in on us
Yeah, it was nice of them. So let me explain the situation here a bit.
Keep in mind, I'm not a mechanic by any means she's running,
okay? You guys know that we had the issue with the fuel pump,
but that's pumping fuel just fine now, however,
it's running a little bit hot. I'm just based on the gauge on the inside
and this thing is always run hot
since we got it the needles pushing up near the red of the heat gauge.
So we're just going to pull over every hour.
Let her cool down and I think we'll be okay,
my dad. And I actually put some new coolant in there
and we thought that there may have been a problem with the thermostat,
which apparently regulates the way the coolant goes in and out of the engine.
This is all stuff. I've just learned recently, you guys,
I'm sure mechanics out there have all kinds of ideas of what could possibly be making it over heat,
but we thought, maybe that was it? We replaced it.
It's still overheating a little bit, so maybe it. Helped.
I don't know, I guess we'll see. We're broken down on the side of the highway in just a bit.
Oh, wondering what we're doing. I'm just boiling some water for lunch in our radiator,
fluid tank. So the fluids getting too hot,
because obviously, it's been overheating.
So this starts to Bubble, which is not good. So,
we're just stopping every hour. We're gonna let it cool down and we're only four hours from Chicago.
Now, I know we've made it about two hours so far to get there.
That's all I'm Surprise, we're making it on our lack of fuel AKA coffee.
You guys, we haven't had any coffee this morning. We've had an egg each.
Eh, I'm surprised we haven't murdered each other.
Actually, we're really just trying not to stop because it dies.
Every time I come to a dead stop. I keep finding Starbucks and I'm like,
oh, there's one here. He's like, is it in the middle of a town?
I'm like, maybe, he's like, we're not going like dang it,
but we're having so much fun, right? Yeah.
We have no radio, very limited cell signal.
No AC, no AC, it's a hoot.
Guys we've already stopped Bubbling. Let it cool down a little bit more
and we'll get back on the road in no time.
Coolant has officially cooled, off,
and is now down low and not boiling,
I just checked the map to see how far we are to our next step and so these little puppies,
pop-up tornado warning and severe thunderstorm warning that we're driving right into
and then I pulled up the Doppler radar.
And as you can see, a big old storm is forming,
so maybe they were just gonna get sucked away in a tornado.
And this horrible Adventure will be over tornado.
Here we come.
We're doing good. You guys. We are Chicago bound and I don't know what that radar was about,
but there's some cloud coverage,
but I don't see any kind of storms or lightning dark clouds or no tornadoes none of that stuff.
So, maybe we're beating, we're just ahead of the storm on you guys.
We're about an hour away. We are so close,
but look what it standing before us. A giant freaking storm you guys.
We just couldn't stay dry this trip, you know, but she's watertight you know,
so it should be just fine but it's not like I want to drive it through.
A torrential downpour. And that means we have to roll our windows up.
Yeah that's the downside, because we've kept pretty cool this whole trip. But it's hot when you roll these windows up.
There is this huge wall of rain over to our right side and somehow we just keep avoiding it.
I think it's going past just as we're going. And have this like ten minute window of no rain,
we're pretty lucky so far. I mean,
over there, I can literally see the, the line of the of the rain over there
and the sunlight poking through on edge.
It's crazy.
We're literally 30 minutes away and we hit the first traffic the entire trip.
It's like this slow crawl type of traffic and that's totally fine.
Except if I stop this thing dies, just like clockwork.
So what I'm going to happen to do is get a little bit of speed pop it into neutral
so I can break and keep the engine running.
And then when I'm ready to go, pop it back into drive and then we're driving again boy.
Am I glad that you are driving this trip and not me. 30 minutes left,
come on, It's starting to pick up. All right,
I'm really getting tested right now. You guys torrential downpour.
I got two miles left, it's nothing but stoplights,
so I literally have to pop it in neutral every time I stop,
busses trying to crash into me, couldn't be easy,
could it
just my luck this would happen at the last two Mile Stretch.
I'm literally driving through an ocean right now. Holy cow,
we made it. You guys, that was hard, man.
I thought driving a rickshaw in Sri Lanka was hard,
man. Whoa, wait, there's a proper food chain to this traffic.
You've got Big ol boys like that.
Who are at the top of the food chain and the buses.
Oh my God. The bus is they will whip on by you,
like a giant whale or something and they don't care about you one bit.
We are at the absolute bottom of the food chain.
I think we're even below the scooters that rain was crazy,
and then we made a wrong. Turn had to turn around and the smallest little turnout,
but here we made it. Yeah, we did it.
Yeah. All right. Way to go love.
Yeah, I know what you guys are thinking, why the hell do we do this to ourselves well to entertain you guys.
So I hope it was entertaining. All right,
I'm over this. I'm gonna have a beer.
You guys, we made it to the shop. This is our new engine.
Check that out. So this is a rebuilt engine.
So they ended up rebuilding a separate one and they're going to actually drop this one in.
Is that beautiful? Or what can you imagine that being in the RV?
I really can't with what's in there right now.
Y'all, it is so nasty and this is,
it's almost too pretty. I feel like to be in there,
you guys. This is Matt, he's gonna be the one doing all the work.
Fun, fun. Are you ready for this? No,
we have complete faith in you. That's not the question.
That's what I want to hear right there. Here are the keys.
Thank you. Thank you.
We'll meet again. All right.
RV is dropped off. It's right over there
and they got their work cut out for him because we're doing,
we're overhauling this entire thing man.
It's going to be crazy. Well the list of stuff was like 75 billion long.
Yeah that's a number. Quote me. But he does work like this for a living.
He's been doing it for a very long time. We were actually just sitting around
for hours just talking to him and drink a beer.
It was awesome. I have 100% faith that he can do the job correctly.
So it all worked out. Oh, it's great.
And now we have another smaller car to get us around.
In Chicago, we are going to go up to our Airbnb,
get checked in and then go eat everything.
All the delicious things in Chicago. By the way,
this car we used a service called turo T.
You are oh, it's our first time using it but it's like airbnb's for cars.
Yeah, so in some people will deliver him to you. So we had someone deliver it to us.
The owner of the car delivered. It, it was well, you had to pay a little extra,
but it's so cool. It's so convenient, not an ad for turo obviously,
but the future is here,
While this is cool yellow.
We made it to our Airbnb. This is pretty dang swing.
All right, so we're here for a little less than a week and Eric actually found this place.
Yeah, but I didn't do it. Did a good job.
Yeah, exactly fans here.
And I was expecting This is huge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, two bedrooms. Two bathrooms.
I guess this is probably where we'll Stay the back away from the sirens in the traffic out there.
Now time for a drink. Yes,
give me a drink. We did it.
We made it. You guys, we got our wine. Oh yeah.
I feel like we deserve it. Yeah. It's kind of stressful trip you guys.
It is it was so stressful. So sweaty,
but we'll light it. We're here in Chicago.
Again, feel like we're just here. I know.
Speaking of Chicago, what you got over there babe?
Oh, this check out this free of pizza,
you guys. Oh, we accidentally got the biggest pizza in the land,
I was working. And Eric was like, I got a pizza Brewin over here and I was like,
okay cool. Look at this thing that he did.
Yeah, here, we got artichoke hearts. We got Peppers there.
Pepperonis on here. Spinach. Oh my gosh.
Got mad about it because we didn't eat much today.
So you guys saw the we dropped off the RV at the mechanic.
Okay, so it's going to be in the shop for a few weeks while they're working on that.
Putting in the new engine and doing a whole bunch of other stuff,
we're going to be spending some time in Chicago
and our goal is to go there
and watch them do a lot of this work
and just be in the shop with them and just see this whole thing.
Get ripped apart. Yeah, we figure. We're very intimate with the interior of the RV.
Now we want to know all about the engine. What's going in there?
Yes, we're trying to learn as much as we can.
I think this whole experience has sparked a little bit,
and I think, from now on, we will be building things and renovating things and buying old thing.
Things are not the end of it. In case you guys are worried.
That once we're done with the RV, we're done doing stuff like this.
Now we're already scheming about the next project.
We're going to do a little teaser for what's to come,
but we're still itching to be out on the road.
So we have a plan. I think we're going to rent some other type of vehicle.
And we're going to take a trip over to South Dakota because we've never been there before,
and we're going to have all kinds of Adventures over there.
While the RV is in the shop, we're going to cheat on it again. I guess a little cheat,
but you guys are gonna like this.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. We can't wait for This adventure coming up.
Alright goodnight Adventures will see on the road.