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Oh, yeah. So, we got a call for a RZR on plan B. It's got broken steering. I'm in the banana and I've got the trailer in tow. I also got my crew with me. It's a brisk 50°, clear blue skies. It's going to be a good day. And in the back swinging the camera, I got Dylan. Let's do this thing. We're locking in the hubs. We're getting serious now. Also, this morning we aired up the ORI struts because it's cold and they kept sagging. But, as you can see, the banana is tilted driver side high. So, I'm going to hurry up and just ever so gent just give a little out of the shock cuz it is riding super rough and it is leaned out. There we go. Oh, yeah. Now that I let some nitrogen out of those shocks, it's riding way better and it's sitting more level. So, the guy does not have an exact pin. I tried having him show me on a map and he just couldn't show me where his RZR was sitting, but it's not a huge area, so we're going to try and find it. All he could tell me was that he can see Freedom Rock from the trail. So, maybe we can see the RZR from Freedom Rock. I don't know. We're going to find out. Freedom Rock is just over there, so we're getting close. And then maybe we can spot the RZR. Did you bring your binoculars? Nope. Next time. All righty, we've made it to Freedom Rock. Let's go see if we can find this RZR. And if not, we'll have to go do some hiking cuz I'd rather find it than go drive around and get stuck somewhere. So, Freedom Rock. Yeah, and I've got pictures, so I think that's the slab of rock he's talking about. Is it with all the black mark down it? Okay, yeah. So, that's where he's at. That black mark. So, we've got to go up and down. Kind of weird taking a trailer across the obstacles. Like it's not something that like people normally do. All right, well, we found it. Ooh. So, we've got to climb up there and drop in and get it. Let's get down there. All right, so they're going to take the long way around and drive, and I'm just going to take the short way and just walk, you know. Oh, I can just Can I go there? There are tire tracks. Will I be able to get back up? Super easy. Barely an inconvenience. I think we might just come down right here. Pretty wide. Lots of rock. Might save us some time. Looks like we're following Red today. All right, so yeah, it's looking like tie rod is broken on this machine. Woo! Yeah, it's a tie rod issue. Right? No. Well, there's something wrong. Maybe it is somewhere in the steering box. If Red drives this forward, we can kick the tires and back it up right here. I just got to get the banana flipped to where we can load it up backwards. Let's get this thing started real quick. Yeah. >> How's my front end looking, Dylan? Good. One turn around, baby. Yeah. All right. Hop in this. Let's get this. Let's figure out how to steer the tires. Okay. So, it must have grinded some gears in that rack and pinion. All right. Stop. Back up. Yeah. Nice. Dylan? Moving. That's pretty straight. Okay, I'm going to back the trailer up a little more. Go on. You're good. Nice. Keep going. Okay. Stop. All right. Okay. Back up. All righty. Hold on. Lots of holding the brake. You got to start hitting leg day. We did it. Looks like it's time to put another MTO 2 on. That is a Yeah. There's like 4 lbs of hair in that one. Front and back is extrapped up. I also found a new spot to hold on to these Razors. So, right here, this strap is hooked up there to this bar. And it's pulling the side-by-side forward super hard, so it's putting good tension on those back straps. And then I got the front ones X'd. This is probably the tightest I've ever tied down a Razor, cuz I do not want it coming off anywhere. >> You want to see red rocks, red sand, and maybe use some carnage? Well, you got to be at the Matt's Off Road Games to see it. March 19th through the 21st. You don't want to miss it, because we are giving away a 1988 GMC Jimmy. She's a little bit of a diamond in the rough right now, but we're going to fix her up into something you can be proud of. If you want to see what you could win, go check out Robbie Layton on YouTube. You could be rolling in that thing. To get your tickets, go to mattsoffroadgames.com. [music] We'll see you there. Or not. Depends if you're boring or not. You ready to go? What? Are you ready to go? Sure. All right. Let's rock and roll. >> Oh yeah, that's going to be beautiful. Definitely needs to marinate tire. Oh yeah. The tires are pretty amazing. It's always nerve-racking. I don't care how long I've done it. Just go straight up. All right. All right, let's go. Now that's out of the canyon, we've got the sand dunes left to navigate. And let me tell you something about the sand dunes. On the west side of the dunes are all the big sand dunes. And on the east side are the smaller ones. So, whenever we're pulling something, you never go this way. We So, if something's over there, we always come down, make a huge loop, back up, and back on top. Luckily, we're already in the lower sand dunes, so we'll just kind of make an L-shape. Now that we're cruising through the dunes, we're about halfway back to the staging area, but he's got a camp trailer in sand hollow, and he wants it loaded up in that. So, we're going to go into sand hollow and get it dropped off. Keep coming. Stop. All right. How's that? Perfect. We're done. Now we just got to pull out the trailer. Go get lunch cuz I am quite hungry boy. All right, well, we got it. There you go. Sorry you had to call us, but we got it out, so. Perfect. Worked well. Yeah, thank you. >> Nicest tow guys ever. >> [laughter] >> Have a good day. A wise man said, "If it isn't hard, you ain't learning nothing." So, as we saw today on today's drop, this tire is going to die here soon, so we better get it swapped out before that happens. And we also noticed the other side's doing the same thing, so we're going to get both sides swapped, and that puts us with brand new tires all the way around on this thing. Just look at all those. These are the original Milestar Patagonia MT. They've been on this trailer for probably about 5 years, and they've seen a lot of abuse. They've run at nearly zero PSI that entire time. They've had a very rough life. All right, let's go take this tire and get it changed. We're replacing with a Patagonia MT02, which is a phenomenal tire. >> All right. The off-road trailer has all brand new tires around it, MT02's. Should be good for another couple hundred jobs. Hopefully get the spud truck back soon so we don't have to keep using this. But until then, we got to keep it in tip-top shape. >> Thanks for watching. Uh gracias for watching. I'm working on my Spanish. He's ready for Baja. Shirt bin. That's the water bin. Shirt bin. Oh, nice.