 Good morning guys. In Ehrenburg, if you haven't seen previous videos, that is over by the Colorado, Arizona border. I've been hanging out with the nicest dude named Badge and his wife Elle and their dog Patch. Just to get you up to speed, Badge is a mechanic. We've been fixing tons of stuff. Right here, this is a new steering wheel with cruise control. Alright, so let me go through how one of these shakes in the morning. This thing is a little bit too powerful for the bus. I have the alternator running, the bus is running right now. This thing draws like 1.3 kilowatts, so at first step it's a touch screen, so you've got to hit the power on. And it's too powerful. Well, I guess I'll just show you. So if I hit the plus, which is high, it'll just turn off. See what I'm saying? Alright, so this is what I do. Since it's already blended once through, whoops. Hang on, there we go. Since it's already blended once through, so I just hit the minus button on here, like several times. Here's try number two. Once it starts blending, I hit the plus. Sometimes it takes up to like 10 tries, depending on how much stuff I put in there, especially if there's frozen berries. It has an initial power surge right off the bat, and just can't keep up with it. I know somebody is thinking, what did you put in there? Well, it's a peanut butter banana kale protein powder smoothie with like 20 something ounces of water. And I should mention there's chia seeds, flax, almond meal, and the protein is made out of and kale, and it's all mixed together. Got something on my face? Today is the day we're putting this new old steering wheel with these fancy cruise control buttons in Danny Adventure Bus with the help of a badge right here. This is not the same switch there, but badge thinks we can replace this part with that part because these connectors, as you can see, are different. So, hoping that, because this part goes into there, and that part wouldn't go into here. So, hopefully we can swap out. It seems to be a lot of the same components. This is out of a newer bus, if you saw the previous video, when I went to the junkyard. But most of the stuff is all the same in the Ford front end. Here's the moment of truth. Oh, shit, Jax, it fits! Success! Great success! It fits, Jax! Alright, so in order to get one of these plugs off of the blinker, you have to remove two torque screws right here. The blinker is different, so it's not going to work out. I don't know where I put the other blinker. Multi-function switch. Multi-function switch has different plug, male and female. So, I'm going to have to go to a different junkyard and get the proper blinker based on the year. The 2006, 2004 and up is different than 2003 and older. Close, but no cigar. No cigar. But this one here, just go get a new one. Okay. Because it's just a multi-function switch, right? It goes up, it pushes up. It is weird. For what? The cruise control. Yeah? Yeah, it's pretty good. Interesting. The wires are right here. Yeah, that's that little clip, right? Come together. Alright, what's the prognosis so far, badge? Everything looking good? Yeah. The only thing we're losing is the turn signal thing, right? Yep. Which is no big deal. No big deal. We upgrade them all the time. Yeah. Okay, so now all we have to do is pull the steering wheel down. This here, these two bolts. And you see how they go. Yeah. We have to drop it down and then get the shifter out, right? Because the shifter comes through here, right here. Right through here. Uh-huh. Yeah, we got to get that out of the way. Okay. So, other than that, we got her good. She's good. Alright, so one other thing was happening with Dan the Adventure Bus. There's a lot of play right here. And I thought to myself, you know, this thing could be messed up or whatever. That just pointed out that you just unscrew these and these. And there are bushings in there that you just snap on. So, that's why there's a little play. Nothing wrong with the transmission or anything. Just the bushing shifters. Shifter bushings. Something to mention. The steering wheel goes left from center three times and right from center three times. So, if you don't know where it is, go all the way to the right and then count the revolutions to the left and then take it back to the middle. That's it. What are you gonna do, man? I don't know. Look at that. I get to start it with my key again. Holy shit. It's like going downtown. Wow, it's like Christmas. Let's see. Oh, we have a... So, this is slightly tighter than the last one. The last one was all over the place. So, we have this wired back together. I helped out. It's kind of easy once you have the same terminals. You just plug everything back together. A little bit kind of complicated to explain, but once you take one off, you can put it back together. It's a great note. Those are working. Well, the blinker yet, it's from the old blinker anyways. The only thing we got is a blinker that you said was an issue, right? So, you're gonna get another blinker. Yeah. That's just two screws, right? Yeah, two screws. And then we're gonna modify it. And then if I really want to, I can get those bushings and fix the wiggle issue. But I think this is better than the last one. And as long as I don't... I don't even know if you'll notice it. Yeah, as long as I know that it's not a transmission problem, I'm okay with a floppy shifter. We can tighten it up if you want. I'm gonna take it off and make some bushings with oil cans or something. Cool. All right, let's have a coffee break. Okay. These clips are broke, right? So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna... See, that's it. Uh-huh. So we'll just put a wire tie on there and hold that. Okay. Just to be safe. All right. I don't want that fucking thing coming off when you're going down the road. Yeah, me neither. And we'll take all this shit and tie it up out of the way. We actually ended up fixing a problem which I had when I would drive all of a sudden and knowing Ding would go on. And it turns out the inside lock cylinder thing was busted. That part right here. This is broken. So we took the sleeve off and we put it on. So we now fix that. Everything's back together here with the steering wheel. Uh, the... I'm using my original blinker because, like I said, it wouldn't fit in with the other... with the new blinker. And now we are playing with the auxiliary fan. That is for the rear AC blower. That is that thing right up there on the ceiling. So the old switch with all these, I don't know, diodes or whatever they're called, they were all busted and spinning around. So I got this piece right here, this Indak piece. This is the original knob and everything. So we're trying to figure out... We're trying to figure out... There's no label here. We're trying to figure out low, medium, high and off and on and stuff. So, anyways, it's been challenging. Oh, what do you guys think? Everything works. Low, medium, high. This thing works. Horn works. This doesn't move as much. Badge is a man. Thank you, dude. I appreciate that. Alright, everything with the steering wheel is all buttoned up. But we've got the Energizer bunny badge over here. He's...whoa! What's that? We're playing with the internal fan right now because the switch isn't working so... I don't know what the heck he's doing. I put 12 volts to it, right? It's called a power probe, right? Yep. And I can put power right directly to the motor and it don't sound very good, does it? Oh, that noise is... I think the motor is gone, Ski. Okay, so... How would I replace that? Right there. Myself. I'm gonna take this battery box out. The bolts and then just swap it in? I don't think that's been...that's not a new one. No, this is 15 years old. Can we put that there? Put it inside and then we put the power to the other. So he's trying to clip on the negative. Put that there. Alright, that's on. Then we put the positive... and then we push this button, right? And that puts 12 volts to it. So that sounds like a weak motor, huh? Just go see how much it's pushing out the vent. Okay. Hardly anything. Alright, so there's basically no air coming out. See, the heater switch has melted right away. Oh! Interesting. Totally, huh? Yep. That's...the problem is a bad heater switch. Bad heater switch. You're a bad heater switch. Bad heater switch. Bad heater switch. Wanna go badge? Man, you're just full of tricks, man. Bad heater switch. You're the best dude ever. This guy, I love this guy. He's so funny. There's your guilty bastard right here. Aha! So there is...whoa! The whole backside is all smoked. Look at that. Yeah. See, it's all smoked here. And then it's melted right through here. That should be like that. It's melted right through. Interesting. So, let's... I'm gonna call the parts store and see if they have this. Hopefully they do. I would imagine they do. What's this? Long day. I think long video. We're gonna go out to eat somewhere. Maybe the pizza place, maybe not. I just want to thank this dude. For all of his know-how. Hang on, you can't even see him yet. For all of his know-how. Generosity, kindness, friendliness. And, um... All the above. All the above in a cute dog. And a dog. So, dude, seriously. I don't even know how to repay you. Thank you. Yeah, it's been awesome. We'll do a tour of his rig in another video. But we'll also get to chat with him about why he's living out here on the mobile life.