I love how Paul always says he should've grabbed a different glove, then proceeds to use the same glove, cracks me up every time

So far the FJ is my favorite build of any of the channels.

On my first ship, I was a young man, changing heads on a diesel, I got everything snugged up, and I asked my LPO (Leading Petty Officer) what the torque spec was….he laughed at me and told me to pull till I see stars……so I did, busted off a head bolt below the deck of the block. I will hand it to him he took 100% of the blame but called me a SOB for a good week.

I love living in my remote town and getting my parts in two days.. it’s a trade off that I’m happy to make.

Wow! Good to see Hunter actually doing shop work and not just talking behind the camera.

I like how you and Matt like to test the temperature of freshly heated objects with your hands.

Ya’ all are regular people, that’s what makes watching your videos enjoyable.

If you want your third member builds to outlast engines, transmissions, transfer cases then you have to dump your crush washers for fixed spacers. Once you have set your crush measurement for the strongest depth between pinion and ring. Measure the crush measurement, remove the crush washer, remeasure in the event you distorted or made a change to said crush measurement. Get on the overly large (according to you) lathe, make a static spacer of the exact length with as close as possible interior measurement so it just taps into place. Material should be hardened then polished back to specs before installation. If you are using low horsepower engines and compound gearing such as yours, then you can use AmeraBronze materials for most applications in order to keep the pinion bearings from being pushed apart and sideways. We built rearends for many Nitro Fuel cars with no problems with pinions, rings, etc. Our nemesis was always axle twist. Before retiring the Little Red Wagon I did some maintenance on the rear end. Pulled the axles. Right axle had 21 full turns with less than half inch left in the side gears. Left side had 19 full turns. In the axle's defense it had been a full season of campaigns before the rear axle was gone through. Built a Sled Pulling Little Red Wagon that still has original third member and axles and it still exists in full operational mode in Arkansas at a private collector. Everything works as it did during competitions. If you can get him to pull the rear end you can find my method of pinion spacing. I sent this to you a couple of times before, this time it is a bit more detailed. Next rear end, hope you adopt this method to slow your yearly breakage numbers. Good luck y'all.

Paul and Michelle,you should be proud of your crew and own boys for all the hard work ( and play) they contribute to your video's.

FJ is what brought me to this channel. Glad to see Hunter doing more wrenching. Shawn is an amazing asset. Love seeing boys learning. 😊😊😊

Missed a perfect opportunity for a firecracker scare, when he was lighting the gallon jug. Would have made Paul jump for sure 😂

I can identify with "We'll dig those out in a minute when I don't have the right parts." 11:24 😂

You Fab Rats are SO amazing to watch! Seriously the "you break it you fix it" crew is so fun to watch!!! Love our Fab Rats!!

Just a little tip from a 46 year machinist. Put the shaft you're putting a bearing on in a freezer for 20-30 minutes and heat your bearings up in some cooking oil before dropping on shafts. Far better on the bearing than using a torch plus you get a bit of lubrication putting it on.

Paul : that's hot should've gotten a better glove Continues to do the other bearing and hold it with the same glove 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Hi everyone, I'm watching from Germany, but I'm Portuguese. I love seeing you, you make me dream of one day building something for myself, I would love to go live there and meet you all. Thank you for providing me with moments like only you know how to do, on days of loneliness you are the ones who brighten my day. Love you all.

Every time that I watch you and your team, Rory and his team, Matt and his team my appreciation for the level of your wheeling skills grows. You all have some serious Off Road skills. The ease with which you drive off road, and on some seriously muddy roads the hundreds and thousands of hours that makes up your experience shows. Properly applied experience always makes the difficult appear easy.

I’m retired Air National Guard (2005) and watching you all brings back memories of my days working on the aircraft with the team. I miss those days. Remember team work makes the dream work.

💯😂 Hunter learned really quick the second time he picked up the transmission what side to grab first😂👍🏼

I’m so glad you show the mess ups and problems. Makes me feel great about myself

Hour To Store and Hour Back To Shop.. THE LIFE OF LIVING IN THE STICK'S. LOVE IT..

"Ouch! that's hot , shoulda got a better glove"... proceeds to install the second and third bearing with the same glove. LOL XD

Can't start any Friday without a a Fab Rat fix

The Fab Rats Rock !!! Paul, Shawn and Hunter definitely the A Team ingenuity 💛🖤💛

I noticed that you guys don’t swear and I love that. I’ve adopted the use of some old saying’s like “dad burn it” instead of gosh darn it. It’s just fun to use language like that to throw people off!🤪

Mr. Paul Cox you are a legend you’re the best I’m an old man and I just love watching you work your crew is awesome your family is awesome you are awesome man Thank the good old Lord for the Internet so we can see stuff like this thank you sir👏👍✊🇺🇸

Paul? I've been out of the transmission business for many years now, and I don't profess to be "Mr Know-it-all" but a noisy automatic was never a good thing. Either air bubbles passing through the pump(fluid starvation/internal leak), bad pump gears or defective converter were the cause of that kind of noise in my experience. Again, I gave up grease and moved on to making sawdust after 25 years of working with Automatics. All of the manufacturers started injecting garbage transmissions into their offerings with the early 4 speed automatics. Hope I'm wrong! Really enjoy your channel!

Your channel makes my day. The projects are only a means to enjoy the interaction among your family, Hunter and Shawn. The interest among your high school boys, be it fabrication in your shop or high school athletics, is a joy, especially, when you stop work to head to track practice. Thanks for reminding us that the universe still has hope.

Paul as I worked in industrial mechanical maintenance for 30+ yearsI have been to a few schools bearings being one of them I would like to make a suggestion that you investigate a Induction bearing heater much better than heating with a torch..... I watch every show and enjoy them totally keep up the great work

I have a 1964 fj40 , that is stock and is being brought back to life ! Great vehicle !

Well, there's tight, there's industry tight!..........Then there's FARM TIGHT!!!! Ain't nothin better than Farm tight!!! Your welcome! great content guys, God speed!

I worked for a pharmaceutical company at one point and we had some items delivered in dry ice. Most people have seen the fog clouds they put across a floor, but I bet many of you don’t know that if you put some in a Soda bottle, add hot water, cap it and give it a quick toss, it’ll bang like a canon. You need to toss it quickly, as it will take your fingers off. We did this enough times that the neighbouring wear-houses complained.

Paul those bearing/races should have part numbers stamped on them!! Love you guys

Hunter/Landon I know when you are young you are invincible but protect your backs. Once you bugger up your back there is no coming back from it. I hurt mine when I was 17 or 18 loading a riding mower in the back of a truck at my job, I am 51 now and finally had back surgery a few years ago to try to fix it. I still have back pain here and there but not like I dealt with for the 30 years before I had surgery to fuse a few vertebrae.

It’s crazy I have this exact same rear axle setup in my xj shaved 14 bolt arb and zero problems, it’s super rare to see so much carnage must have shock loaded when the axle shaft broke and destroyed some parts.

The last time i had a th400 whine like that? it was the front pump,, sounded like the converter to me also, but the sound traveled from the pump to the converter, changed the converter, same noise,, tore the pump out of it , put in a NEW pump and yup thats where the noise was coming from. JUST SAYIN......✌ your mileage may vary, lol I know Weston and Roy @ south central,, Good guys, They said the same about you.. I remember the derby daze,, but never got a chance to meet ya.

You all got 'er done - Great Job, and video!

The editing during the Timelapse to the music was on point in this vid. 🔥

You guys need a bearing heater. They work good. 🇺🇲

I believe the correct torque spec for the pinion is RFT. stands for Red Faced Torque. When I was apprenticing I asked my Boss the torque spec for something. His response was "Tighten it up till it strips, then back it off half a turn". I loved that old guy he taught me enough that I made a living wrenching for 50 years. Love your content. Good to see you allowing your boys to build stuff. Graden always amazes me what he accomplishes on his own. Not always perfect but the lesson is lost if you don't get to try first. Quality parenting going on here. Love to all.

Just wanted to say thanks for autographing my tool pouch i got from y'all 😊🤘🏼🇺🇲

My auto tech class.... This is like a how to tutorial.... I gotta meet these guys in person some day.... Grandma Lolli would be a great bonus if its possible... She is everyone's adopted Grandma.... She is at least for me...

I’ve gotta say, Michelle’s editing gets better and better every video! Not that there was ever anything wrong with it because there wasn’t. but you can tell she’s getting really skilled at it!

Maybe you could keep a list of the part numbers for your bearings and stuff so next time it goes you can get the new parts correct the 1st time

Watching Paul with the Mapp gas and a bottle, reminds me when I worked in a body shop. We would take the Oxy-Acetylene torch and turn both on and without lighting it stick it in a bucket of car wash water and soap. Let it blow up a bunch of bubbles and then remove the torch and toss a match into the bubbles. WARNING, DO NOT DO THIS BELOW AN OVERHEAD FLORESANT LIGHT! Hearing protection is recommended.

Next episode you guys know Pauls gonna get donated 47 pairs of "the right glove" for handling hot bearing!!

Everything you guys built breaks down in three to six months. Nice!!!

One nice thing about living "soo far" from everything is not having to put up with unwanted drop ins, those folks you wouldn't go out of your way to see. 😊

It's never just a little bit broke, always fubar, lol nice to see all hands on deck, Hunter gaining confidence in his ability is cool..Damn good crew!

Paul if your going to heat bearings up try holding the torch in the center with the bearing laying on a steel plate for about 15secs maybe more you’ll get even expansion and you don’t need it so hot. And old machinist taught me that years ago.

Good vid. This is what I watch your channel for.

Converter whine to ANYONE else would be a problem, Paul says "she just needs to get broke in". Take note ya'll, let's see how long this one lasts. 🤨🤔😆

That metal on metal sound it makes when you checked the wear pattern tells me there's failure on the way. Paul, you know that no new bearings should be squealing in a diff after install! I hope the gear oil isn't masking it 😬 Also, seems like the shine sauce wore off pretty quick or is it just in the way the video portrays it? Let's hear more about this other Toyota build! 😍😍😍😍

Thank Y'all for Explaining everything you are doing and why ❤Great Job Y'all 👍🏼

Just had to drop a comment to say how amazing this video was.

pumped to see Landon's "Kentucky Waterfall" in all its glory!

Hey Paul, back when I used to build diffs I used to put my carriers in the freezer for a bit for easy ring gear and bearing installation etc. Less burnt fingers LOL

Thanks for taking the time to video your shop time, I learn something every time (like patience 😳 and never give up).

Good to hear that Hunter is taking care of his hearing. Hint. Hint. 😉 Great to see you guys having some fun at work trying to blow stuff up!

One of the things that I really enjoy is you just do whatever is before you you don’t try to synchronize your content and it really seems more like life than staging stuff

Fine job guy's, now all you need Paul is Chrome Molly axle shafts and it will be cool. Thanks for the video guy's can't wait for the next one.

Should try "10 factory" axles, 10year warranty, no questions asked !

Its cool seeing the difference in the generations in the shop just by the way youll wear your hats, Paul is my age with the bent Bill, Hunter with the Dale Jr. backwards facing hat , and of course Paul's boys with the flat bill hats . . . Just so cool all that in the shop at once working together. Great job as usual

After the test drive. Landen was standing there like a wife about to yell at you.😂😂

Go for it Jayce. When I was in high school 50 years ago, I was 5'10" and 145lbs. Classified as a 'B'. I was a high jumper. My best was the bar @ 6'3" but my saggy school T shirt caught the bar even though my chest had plenty of clearance (western saddle roll style -Fosbury Flop had just been invented). Then we ran out of time after 1 attempt. Had to call it a day. No 2nd chance. My jump may have been 6'5" or 6". I'll never know. The next day of practice something popped in my launch knee and if I flexed my leg it would make a loud noise and the leg wouldn't support me. Doctors never found it. Oh well. Good luck.

Thanks Guys

I’m currently considering converting to ORI’s. Glad to see you’re still using them after a few years. Tells me a lot. Thanks Paul.

On today's episode of Fab Rats... we show you how NOT to install an outer pinion bearing... LOL ⚒️ 🤣

Hunter: I don’t speed. But has a radar detector on his dash lol

Hunter is smart! " I don't speed I'm on your time" lol

Love seeing backyard mechanic style videos. From the typical shop banter and part runs with sprinkle of just making things work. There are no fancy top of the line products and parts, making these videos relatable to anyone.

Try A settling gas from your cutting torch. That's a hell of a bang.

That is a lot of work tearing down that drive train hopefully at least 6 months but good weather coming I predict 1 month. 🤣

Maybe try some ether (starting fluid) in a two quart soda bottle. A friend of mine told of adapting a cap for a one gallon milk jug and hooking up an airline from the shop to it. They'd put it out in the yard and throw some bread pieces around it. The seagulls would come down to get the bread and the air was going into the jug. When it finally exploded, there'd be seagulls laying all around it. After a minute or two, they all came around and flew off.

Hi Paul, In my young and foolish days we would take a garbage bag filled with Oxy-Acetelyne Put it into an oil drum that had the top cut off. Turned upside down. A small a piece of the bag would be sticking out from under the edge. Then we would shoot a roman candle at that piece. When she went off the drum went hundreds (4 or 5 ?) of feet into the air. The boom was so loud we were afraid we would blow out the shop windows LOL. If you do this give yourself some distance from any windows it is loud! "Remember, Shop safety is no accident!"😳 Thanks for another interesting and entertaining video.

Press the bearings would ya.. Jeez so easy and correct instead of heating them up.

Happy Saturday morning everyone!

I get so excited every time you mention Toyota build. I can’t wait to see what it is. I love all the Chevy builds too but I’m a yota man.

I burst out laughing when Shawn asked to see the forehead vein chart! Waiting for the next one!

I learned to drive on an FJ at 9yrs of age. My Dad would tell me to lock it low, 4wd lever was under the dash, and follow him through the jungle blazing a trail to our ranch😂. Lots of fun!

Great job guys. Thank you 😊

I had a 1977 FJ... stock as a rock and it sure was fun.. oh did I mention it was 1982... I never put mine through what you do or where you go .. but love the channel and the FJ

Thank you Paul and crew for the update on the FJ and some laughs !

Find a socket the same size as the inner race. Heat the socket to near red hot and place it on your bearings inner race. This will expand the inner race without burning the grease out of your bearing.

Team work makes the dream work. 💪👍🏼

Lol how many times can Paul say I should have a better glove that would be awesome to see how many times he's ever said it lol Love you guys

May want to ask a bearing expert about how you dry heat those bearing? IF YOU DO WHAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS DONE,YOU GET WHAT YOU ALWAYS GOT.

Thanks for making

Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

The youngsters gettin it done!!

Custom builds never ended

Thanks for the video guys

Great work Paul and team.

Shawn said “I’d like to see that chart.” 😂😂

Outstanding Work and Great Content 👍 Thanx for sharing your Experience Have a Great Day 👍

Hunter it is really great seeing you taking a more hands on role. Keep up the good work.

Dude, use an old kitchen countertop toaster oven to heat gears, races, bearings and such. It heats more slowly and evenly and you don't risk de-tempering your parts which causes them to fail later.

I just bought a set of Mickey Thompson’s for my 85 Toyota pick up build. Made in USA! Power of suggestion, lol

What I remember from my track coach…”run faster damnit” …. He didn’t seem to understand I have two speeds slow and slower, my contention was if I needed to go faster I had a horse and a car depending on terrain 😂😂😂

Sounds like you took a page out of my book: I put something aside for safekeeping, then when I need it, it's nowhere to be found. Dang that Murphy's Law guy, anyway! And we know what the annoying solution is to finding a lost item: buy a new one! And, presto! The original one is sitting there sticking its tongue out at you when you get back from that errand! 😂