 Chris from Tennessee, you're watching TJVs. Everybody we have this stretch trailer behind us which is not stretched out at the moment. We need to bring it back to Winnipeg. Then we're headed home. Good morning Diesel. Good morning YouTube. Good morning World. Good morning John Deere Combine. Good morning folks. It's gonna be a good day. Look at that visor. I'm getting one too. I got a center drop visor coming. I'll talk to you more about it when it comes because there's a story behind it. I'm excited to show you that. It'll look better than that one. I wanted the V-shape. It makes the truck look angry, sort of, you know. That's my favorite one anyways. So hopefully, I don't know. I'm not too sure when it's coming. When it does, we'll make a video out of it. I'll probably install it myself if I'm able to. We're here in Brandon, Manitoba on the way back. Halfway back already. You know me, it's, uh, go go go when it's time to go home. This is the only stop of today. I'm gonna avoid all the potholes and park in the back and Timmy's is right there. Timmy's. Timmy's. Oh look at this. They fixed their potholes. Fantastic. That's awesome. I really hope that lasts more than three weeks. That's gonna be great. Look at this. It's nicely rolling through here. Not losing a half my truck. That is awesome. Good job. Park up there between those guys. Oh, the big one right here. This one always sneaks up on you. Right when you leave the asphalt. Oh, oh. There it is. So tomorrow is Canada Day. I've seen quite a few Canada flags flying around everywhere already. It's good to see. Diesel, you want anything? I want a homemade. Okay well, that I can do. We're going home. Actually yeah, I am going to let you out. Let's let you out here while we're here. Then we'll go grab a coffee. Nice clean TMC truck there. Has Iowa plates on it. You don't see too many American trucks in Canada. It's usually us Canadian drivers that are bringing stuff back and forth across the border. The US drivers, for the most part, they just like to stay in the US it seems. I can't really blame them. There's lots to do down there. It's not like they're dependent on coming up here. Like we are for going down there. Up here if you're a truck driver and you can't cross the border into the US. That's pretty much a death sentence for your career, figuratively. You can't make a lot of money here without being able or having the ability to go down to the US and deliver there. Most of our exports, the whole is the massive pothole here in Yikes. Most of our exports do go to the US. I mean yeah, there's lots of stuff going on in Canada as well, but all of that freight is mostly all gobbled up already. It's very hard to find that. Yikes, man, what happened to those potholes? What's up with that? Yikes. I mean there's so many cities and towns in the US too. There's so much freight moving around everywhere. I'll try to get on to the highway here. I want to go that way, eastbound. Waiting for this white SUV to decide what they want to do. Well, if you had used your signals, man, I would have, well your back signal is on. I didn't see his front signal. Some vehicles, the signals are not very visible and that's a problem too. What do you think I'm doing, Karen? Hold on, we got a red light. Construction. Construction and that lane ends. And most people have figured it out. Some people haven't. Diesel. Banana's over here. This is why every time I eat a banana, they swarm around me. And I don't share my bananas. I'm greedy with my bananas. And I look like the bad guy. That's my banana. Because I'm the favorite parent. Who's your favorite? Yeah. I gave you pizza crust this morning, dude. Just kidding, Mom. Stopped crust. For May. She never really eats the banana herself. I sit here and watch her. She eats like one bite of the banana. She gives the rest away. You know, I eat like three or four bites. Good morning, everybody. Today I want to get the marker lights on the front underneath the headlights hooked up on the truck. It's Sunday. What is it today, June? No, it's July. Third? Fourth. Is it July 4th today? Not tomorrow. Is it? No. I haven't heard the fireworks from next door yet, so it's gotta be tomorrow. It's the third. Yeah, you might be right. Because Friday was Canada Day, July 1st. That's right. And then Saturday's the second. Today is July 3rd. Sorry. Tomorrow is July 4th. Good day, old blue. So like I said earlier, our project for today are these marker lights in the front. When I bought the truck, there was a visor missing on one of these headlights. It was a different kind of visor. It was detachable. This one's actually built right onto there. So these ones come with marker lights and signal lights down here. You want to know what kind of engine it is. It's an ISX 485. It's got 370 rear ends. Honestly, you want to see the engine? Comments. Maybe one day if I ever, well, I will have to change out the rear ends eventually. They've got almost 3 million kilometers on them and they're still running great. But eventually I'm going to have to rebuild them or put new ones in there. And maybe I'll change the axle ratio or the rear end ratio then. So that my RPMs are a little lower at highway speed. For now it's running great. 370 of rear ends. Cummins ISX 45. And she runs beautifully. Runs beautifully. Really like it. It's running really good for me. It doesn't burn a drop of oil. The previous owner told me that he had this truck for eight and a half years. And in that eight and a half years, other than regular oil changes and services, he only had to add a total of three gallons to the engine between services. In eight and a half years, it's got about 600,000 kilometers on the rebuild. That's what, 380,000 miles or so? Somewhere under 400,000 miles. So the engine's actually pretty new. It runs fantastic. Knock on all the wood you can, guys. Knock on some wood for me, please. We want it to continue running like that. The truck itself has 2.85, almost 2.86 million kilometers on it. So it's an old truck. It doesn't look that way, right? If you take care of it, they'll last a long time. I can get this truck up to 5 million kilometers. No problem. The rear ends here. Everything's dirty, excuse me. I'm here today to wash the truck as well as do the markers. But the rear ends here, are 3.7 or 3.7 ratio. And they're original. They did have the fluid change in them. When I bought it, that was one of the conditions of sale that the seller offered to me. He changed the diff fluid in both this. He changed the transmission fluid up front. Transmission's original as well. So the truck is aging. Motor's pretty new. So eventually, what I'm going to have to do is I'm going to have to put new rear ends in here and a new transmission or rebuild the transmission. Hopefully not too soon, but so far, you know, you treat it nicely. Should go a long time. And other analysis, little parts here and there, you know, like a bearing wheel seal might go. Airbags and airlines. Maybe some electrical. It breaks. You fix it. You keep going. Good. I'm a regional driver here. I'm from Canada, first of all. From up here in Manitoba, we're just above North Dakota. So my area of operation are pretty much the prairies of Canada. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta. And Northern Midwest of the US. North Dakota, South Dakota. Maybe some of Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa. Yeah, that whole region. There may be Montana. I wouldn't mind Montana, because I don't like to play favorites, but Montana is like my favorite state. I love Montana. Love it. Love everything about it. It's great. I love going there. Beautiful state. And everything there just, it makes sense. You know, the way they run things, it just makes sense. I like it. Anyway, so let's get going on these marker lights here. We're gonna get these installed. Hopefully it won't take too long, but knowing me, it probably will. When you're watching this, it may be July 4th in the US. I want to wish my friends to the south a happy Independence Day and a happy July 4th. Be safe with your fireworks, but have fun. Set off some real big ones for me, okay? Do it for me. I want to be able to hear them from this side of the border. That's my challenge to you. We do have some new stuff here in the shop to show you, I guess, hanging on the wall. Good little Kenworth metal sign up there. And we also got a Kenworth banner over there. And we put up the US flag here. I think it was... I think it looks better with the colors and color schemes this way. And over here we have the greatest hockey team on the face of the planet. Obviously. Winnipeg Jets. One day we're gonna bring this down the cup home. One day. We have a slogan in Winnipeg. You know, we may not be the best but at least we're not Toronto. I hope my Toronto friends have a sense of humor. If not, I just made them very angry. Very angry. They take their Toronto Maple leaves very seriously. And all it is, it's a pretty cheap material actually. But it looks good. And the marker light down there there's the wiring for it. I got a wire into there for the marker light, signal light and ground. Progress update. I drilled a small hole through the back of the housing here just to get these wires through nice and clean. We're gonna seal that up once we're finished. These are the wires for the signal light and marker lights. These go through here up to here to this one. Up here we've cut them off. I'm about to splice them and crimp them all together to these here. I've tested a load test of these or whatever you want to call it with my tester there. The red light is the the red wire is the signal wire brown wire is the marker light wire and the white wire is the ground. So we're gonna connect the red to the red, white to the white and the black to the brown. Connect all of these together here with a little bit of extra wiring that I cut here just for this. So that's gonna connect all of those there. They're all gonna connect together and then they're gonna go to these here and then I've already got my heat shield my heat shrink my shrink my heat the stuff that shrinks right here we'll put that on here as well actually I can put those on right now already I haven't cut right here okay I'm gonna slide this over that there with my left hand just to challenge myself so it's ready it's already on the wire that way once I connect these wires to these the heat tube here is already on there and I can seal it up so that the moisture doesn't get to it okay let's get this done I'll update you once this marker light's working if it works let's hope it works I haven't tested it yet to even see if the lights work in there I'm just trusting that Amazon sent me a good a good product it's made in America I think assembled in America I have no idea let's test the only one way to test this out let's wire it up electronics like this have always interested me I've always been it's always made sense to me in my head how wiring works I can do wiring pretty well there's other things that I could improve on when it comes to mechanic skills but when it comes to like electronics for stereos or lights I've always liked lots of lights so I know how to wire those up so that's a skill that I'm putting to use here right now and all this is just for that little LED bar beneath the headlight that's worth it every light matters you guys ready for the first test now I've got these finished here these are all done I just have to shrink that up this I've got crimped onto that but these are not crimped in yet but they're just sitting in there just to make sure that I got the wiring right I'm like 99.99 98 percent chance that I got the wiring just right but just in case I need to switch something around I don't want to have to waste a crimp like that and I know some of you in my last video have said oh you should solder it well I should probably do a lot of things decided not to my shop my rules that's the main thing in this shop okay okay so we've got the marker light so see that there so the front of this should be lit up there we go now if I turn the signal on should start flashing beautiful right on so we can patch it all up now finish it seal it up and move on to the next light the next one will go by even faster see those are sealed up and seal these up next see these here just want to shrink them up around there one at a time a little lighter heat them up and they seal to the wires on both ends I want to go till you get a little bit of white sealant that comes out the side there I tell you that it's sealed from the other side as well there we go see that one's done see it's got a little bit of coming up the back there on the other side as well means it's sealed on both ends there we go that side as well working good beautiful more lights the better you can never have too many lights never that's all I got time for this time I've got a couple other projects that I want to work on yet garbage back where it belongs I've got these these are breather or air cleaner lights that go inside the air cleaners I also have those horns to install yet it'll be another day real soon breather or air cleaners will be lit up in here and they'll be amber so eventually for now the previous owner brought those to me he had them already he just hadn't installed them so I'll install those for now and eventually I'm going to replace them with those dual revolutions I've been talking about that glow amber on the highway and then blue in the parking lot but for now the amber will be in there it's cool some lights are better than no lights right a lot of lights are better than some lights and an excessive amount of lights is better than a lot of lights I don't know so the final step now that we've got it all done is just sealing off that headlight compartment where I drilled the hole through now don't laugh at me okay because silicone are not friends and we never have been I've never gotten along well with it but it does the job I just have a hard time making it look pretty alright I don't think it looks that bad alright so I sealed that because it was sealed to begin with so when I see this the wires coming through here that sealed so that tells me that water probably shouldn't be getting into that compartment could cause some problems so I drilled a new hole in there put the wires through there and I'm going to let that dry overnight like that and it isn't that pretty but it'll do the job and at least the job is done right and I did it myself so I don't want to pay people to do work I could do myself even if it's not the prettiest because there's people that do this every single day they got the know how the tools the experience they can just if it's done in like half an hour right it took a couple hours and took my time and it's not the prettiest but I get the bragging right saying hey I did this me and old blue were a team together and I want to do as much of the work as I can I've been driving trucks since 2006 and I grew up around trucks this is all I know I don't know anything else this is my world and it has been since I was a little kid and I want to fully acknowledge that I'm not the best at everything all these little details I'm a truck driver first and then a track of many trades second but at least I can bond with the truck get to know the truck and like I said the more expensive things are coming the new stacks probably going to go with 8 inch though I want to measure it out I want the same size as those up there I'll have to measure that 10 or 8 inch stacks and they're going to go all the way down the side here I mean another option would be to get another heat shield like this but instead of saying Kenworth having it say like trucker Josh or TJV or something but I think I'd rather like just the stack just coming straight down new stacks for the truck they're going to be flat tops and about 13 feet at least maybe 13 for 5 than 13 foot 6 but those are going to be about $3,400 and I think that's American money so it's close to $4,000 Canadian and like I've been saying old blue and I we have some bonding to do yet before I do that she's running great not burning a drop of oil like I was explaining earlier fantastic truck the owner before me took really good care of her kept her in mint shape I keep referring to it as a her right now I don't know what it is her him it's all blue you can be whatever you want it to be I don't really care I don't really care that's not important to me what is important to me is that before I spend $4,000 into new stacks I want to spend a good couple of months with this truck just getting to know how she works or how he I keep calling I guess it's a she I keep referring to her as a she I don't know but I want to get a build trust between the truck and I so that I know that nothing's gonna break right away right I was telling you earlier the rear ends here have 3,000 kilometers on them that's about two thousand two million miles and they're doing great doing absolutely great but eventually I'm gonna have to put new diss in here and I'm thinking what probably would $9,000 Canadian a diff or like eight seven eight thousand dollars for a diff there's two of them plus the transmission those are the only three things I'm really like keeping my eye and ears open for are the diffs and the transmission everything else has been replaced and even shocks are new airbags are doing really well you never know you never know right buying a truck means things will go wrong and I'm not expecting all blue to run perfect she's gonna have problems he's gonna have problems it's gonna have problems and it's probably gonna happen at the most inopportune times it's really gonna suck when it breaks and it's gonna be hard some days but overall we're just gonna keep fixing it up and keep going because that's what we do he's tick-tocking beautiful summer evenings it's actually nine o'clock already so I don't know if it's night or evening yet but the sun's still up so I'd call it evening what's going on over here he likes to stand around and he shakes violently and I thought hey put him up here and let him relax for a bit he's old, the oldest dirt right Frank? Older so we went cycling around Steinbach through all the neighborhoods we always do this just look at all the houses being built all the new suburbs so I'm not much of a flower man or anything but I like looking at them I think Britt did a pretty good job with her flowers what do you think? got these hanging back here right behind our little sitting area here and we got these over here I think she's got a few more in the front I mean you know this wasn't me because if I tried this they'd all be dead but I think she did a pretty good job she makes the yard really homey like I said I'm not much of a flower guy myself but I really like having them in the yard it makes it very comfortable being out here and enjoying our space I'm thankful she is more of a green thumb than I do we took down this carport if you guys haven't watched in a while there used to be a carport here or like a tarp covered area took it down now it's our outdoor area it's perfect it opened up the yard so much we're going to build a little deck in here eventually and a little gazebo maybe even a screened in gazebo get away from mosquitoes my project for tomorrow get rid of these things I've just been waiting for the long weekend to be over because nothing is open on the long weekend obviously it's Canada Day weekend up here and I understand it's July 4th long weekend down in the US I'll ask you in order for this tomorrow afternoon so we can stop being that redneck neighbor with appliances in their backyard not the image we're going for it's beautiful I don't really want to go inside the temperature is just perfect it's just perfect you guys got a smudge on you or something I keep thinking no it's on your end you got a smudge in your eye that's what it was it's not on my end