 the newest fast food restaurant in town burger king i need an excuse to eat for the longest time we only had mcdonald's and steinbeck we think we know why i think it was the previous owners that sort of blocked all other restaurants from opening i think they were friends with people in the council city council and stuff that's a conspiracy steinbeck conspiracies but it's kind of obvious now that they sold yeah and as soon as they sold suddenly we have a wendy's we have a burger king with a bar burrito like we have options now we still love mcdonald's still that's still my favorite for their fries like when we're talking fast food it's not like we eat it all the time it's just now and then but when you do treat yourself nothing beats large mcdonald's fries extra salt it tastes more like food less like oil i like wendy's burgers better yeah any burgers are better than mcdonald's burgers yes any but wendy's is pretty good though they've been going downhill a little bit the burgers keep getting thinner and thinner doing the same thing that mcdonald's did more expensive more expensive and thinner patties a and w i gotta say that's my favorite because they got the onion rings teen burger with onion rings and a root beer too salty every time i eat that eat a and w i feel like i need like six bottles of water and that still doesn't cut it dehydrated till the next day i like it salty whoppers coming soon it was supposed to open mid december already but due to covid we're still get we're still getting that uh so i'm gonna head over to the shop right now dad's over at his shop which is right nearby he's gonna come and help me install that rear brake light panel that i bought and i'm gonna get those new marker lights installed today that's the plan i feel very good what is today december 31st no what day of uh oh 27 weeks trimester three baby we're in the home stretch three more months i sure feel like today has been a rough one got all our tools out and ready old blues getting a bath once i'm done because the shop is nice and warm right now and i want to work on these while it's actually warm so we're up here and uh you can see the one in the back there is like raving out there and it's been like that for about a few days now it almost makes it look like i have my beacons on at night so that's not good but you see the front is flashing there this is one that's supposed to be light up here too right the front supposed to be lit up side just supposed to be lit up and that but only these top pieces have been lit up and this one is still lit up it's just not completely and i'm i'm gonna test it now hopefully that's not the wiring inside underneath because then i've got a bigger problem hopefully it's just the led that's that's just on you know dying breath here so i was going to replace all of these as you can tell some of them need to be replaced but these screws that are screwed down into the cab here are really tight and even with my impact drill uh or my impact uh driver i couldn't get them to turn so i'm scared of either stripping them or breaking them off and right now there's nothing open if i break off one of these screws i don't have a spare one and there's nothing open where i can go get those parts and we have to leave tomorrow there's go pick up a load in minnesota so uh i decided to leave this on for now and we'll change them out maybe after winter it's a little dirty outside right now anyways so we'll change them out after winter i'm just going to change just just these pieces for now from the ground you won't even be able to tell you can't see those things from the ground all you can see are the lights right so i'm going to do this roll first and then we're going to move up to that row over there that one's very excited he's just having a party over there it's a bit of a raver you do you buddy all right the problem is that the parties while we drive and i don't like that too much because it might confuse other drivers coming towards me thinking that i have an oversized load behind me if for what looks like a beacon is flashing right it's very bright at night in here you can tell it's just that but my beacons are here all right let's get this done i'm going to get these both these rows replaced and then dad's going to come over and we're going to do the taillights here's all the new ones most of them are still in the wrapper you see they came with the whole housing and everything too but i'm just i'm just too nervous to strip or break off one of those bolts and that has to seal onto my roof so i'm going to be driving into the snow and you know when it melts it turns to water and if it's not sealed properly to my roof the screw down tight water can get into into my truck inside my roof and cause all kinds of mold and damage in there and short stuff out and i don't know i don't know worst-case scenario right it would be bad so we don't want water getting in there and if i break off one of these bolts it's not going to be properly sealed so i'm going to just undo these little screws on here and just take these out they'll fit onto the other ones and in summertime uh i'll replace these or i can keep them as spares too you know that i'll replace the housing then when i have a little bit more time uh maybe a few more tools and the ability to go buy parts if i break any this here is the panel that i bought for the back the tail and brake lights here backup lights and red lights crosser at least i think that's how it is i think those are backup lights we'll see and the license plate goes in there and that goes uh how to match these when they're cleaned and go right under there good news and bad news good news is it works see that one just off to the center right over there it works great however it's not gonna work with the old housing unfortunately the brand is a little bit different if you look at the bottom of these there's a big gap in here you see that's where that goes fits on there nicely this doesn't have that gap in there so it doesn't fit on there i have to get the housing off as well and i have to use the housing that's designed for it you see that see there's lights on the side top side they all work beautiful but i do need to get these off shoot shoot all right we've had success and i'll show you how we did it so i did get the housing off of there that's the new one on this side here and the trick that i used was this right here gave me enough leverage to get those bolts out of there and they didn't break off they didn't strip so let's hope that the rest of them are just as nice to me okay so i'm going to get them all done now and i'll show you what they look like when i'm finished or maybe i'll talk to you halfway through yeah well let's let's do the front and then i'll show you the difference between the front and the back i'll do the front for i'll talk to you in a bit anyway all right very excited i think success i love success well dad's here now we've got the riveter out hopefully i don't cause more trouble than good so far you're fixing things that i broke so uh i was uh taking these screws out of the housing and my worst fear like i said before the bolt broke off in the rivet so now we've got to put new rivets in there and we don't have exactly the same kind as what they did have but hopefully this will work i have a little bit my doubts because that thing in there is a little bit too small it has a little bit too much play in there it may not develop a big enough cap behind there to actually suck it down stay it there and if it does great then these original bolts they will fit perfectly but problems problems always problems so what i've done is i figured out how to use the old housing i'll show you in a minute let's see if this works see you suspense drum roll looks like it stayed looks like so far it stayed all we needed to do is it just to hold the housing down let's see if i have that this bolt is as the one that broke so this one has a bad sorry i can't start with that one you got to get the other one i think that one was in here do you have that one down down there i guess i have it down there but i don't think it's here anywhere so we're gonna have to do this for all of these eventually but for now what i'm doing is i'm making these new lights work in the old housing they fit almost perfect almost perfect no one will notice from the from down on the ground that's right no one can see it no one can see it it's just these are a little bit old you see that there but that'll be a project for a summer day when we've got nothing else to do which is never we're gonna take all of these off and probably put new rivets in all of these but uh yeah so we're just replacing this housing here and then using the same housing you see these have a flat bottom that i showed you on the other ones before already and the others have a an indent in here and there was a piece sticking up in here that went into that indent and since these are flat it didn't fit on there so it took a saw i don't know what that piece was on there for but it was useless so i just cut that off and put the seals on here and then they fit and it looks like that when we're done now the bowl fits in there nice feels nice and snug if that fits if that works awesome and then dad saved the day again well it's not quite saved yet so i have a long way to go so i can teach my son these things someday or my daughter whoever's whoever it's going to be in three months yes now it is more and more that daughters become heavy-duty truck drivers maybe yeah i just have so much i don't even i don't have all the tools because i don't know how to do this until now i guess but yeah i've got to pass this knowledge on to the next generation i better pay attention here and i picked it up just as uh as i ran along you know first break a whole bunch of things and oh that's not the way it works so i'm in the process of breaking a lot of things eventually i'll figure out how everything works and how to fix it first i gotta break a few things okay where is he that's down there i saw that down there already that's gonna be one new housing that we're using uh okay all right that one and then we that should work just fine we're just be very careful leave this one up here i'll uh update you as we uh progress here don't worry dad's on scene everything will be okay we got the front row all on and sealed dad was able to get that rivet in there that worked and i just i'm just testing the back ones there now i've just got to screw them into their housing and that's it i didn't get the signals on the fender done today yet but maybe tomorrow before i leave those shouldn't take too long but every time i say that it takes a long time so well see what's going on i got paparazzi back here taking pictures of me you can't get away uh and dad fixed my taillights i we're gonna have to get a special custom steel bar made to install the new taillights but the old taillights had broken through the bolts had broken through dad was able to get the bolts off and put big washers on there and resecure the old ones on for now we don't have time to weld together a whole new piece of steel we don't have the steel right now either and everything's closed and it's late so that'll be a project and it's new years yeah so that'll be a project for another day i might even just get our shop like where i bring it for services for them to do because they got steel workers there who could get it done in in an hour probably they have a feeling that you're probably you save yourself no money we do in that part of self because we have to especially get that steel bracket made and those guys that do it they do a great job but they're expensive yeah that's not my truck over here dad's shop we're bringing his tools back well i'm supposed to be opening this door so dad just got his hood painted it's kind of dirty you know i had a nice new wash for uh what was it the day before maybe actually a really good job and then they asked me to do one more short trip to uh to a teap river oh and we got it all splashed up but huh it still looks good and did you get the visor painted too yeah i've got the visor painted as well and he's got the old c-15 right it's a c-15 yeah but the the good block uh oh it uh six and two or something like that what uh here's this truck oh three no three old school this engine's done close to three million miles already yes has there been rebuilt yes it has been rebuilt once they think it's the top ad had been rebuilt yeah a bit over a million miles ago okay so going strong old school put dinosaur juice in it and go yeah and then every tool known to mankind is somewhere in here if you can think of it it's here if it hasn't even been invented yet it's probably here already it's got a hoist barrels i don't know what that is it looks like some kind of oil it's an oil gun you have an oil gun i didn't know you had one of those maybe as you uh recently a good buddy of mine was so kind to the accident yeah it's supposed to be working nice the barrel is empty but uh you just want to fill it up with oil we'll get a new barrel for the engine oil and set that thing and put the airline to it at whatever model leader i want 36 38 liters of per engine and it will until it's all done it shuts up off yeah one of those and just in case you get bored you got a little gt yeah right here it's sliding it's sledding you got a whole bunch of light sockets over here a hitch for pulling your pickup behind your semi just in case yeah something whatever that is just in case that's an oil pump uh to uh if i have an uh i probably won't use it uh it's an oil pump like if i have a barrel those big containers full of oil and i want to pump it into like a truck comes and picks it up okay and if you don't have pump itself just stick this hole in there switch it on that hose it sucks it all out pumps it into your truck just in case just in case you give me a whole bunch of fuel conditioning you know those all those fuel conditioning over there got a bandsaw here cut my finger open on this once when i was a kid when i was playing with dad's tools when i wasn't supposed to i cut my finger it wasn't that bad sliced about maybe halfway up my finger now i think i still got a a worknail from that i don't know which one it was a long time ago i touched it that was a close one losing your finger that would suck it right in there playing with dad's tools when i shouldn't have i think i was probably maybe around 10 8 to 10 you weren't a teenager yet anyway i was just a kid didn't know what i was doing then whatever else he's got on these shelves here just in case he's got some headlight bulbs there look at that not very well organized but i know pretty well all this crap is that one for whole bunch of wrenches sockets little screws big screws all the screws socket sets grinder uh what's called vice grip drill press drill press my dad it's a small one but it works nice the wall is all filled with tools this is what i mean when i say dad's got every tool you can imagine plus more and this here this beast just for fun he's got a big air compressor a friend of mine another trucker wanted to get rid of it didn't work right for him so i did a little bit of fixing on it and worked great now he can get his tires off himself yes got the big gun guns to it this one thing we'll get the big air guns going and my sister Cheryl made for him martin's workshop where all the fixing happens and where all the things he might use one day live he might use one day maybe just a case yeah you can see uh he had a lot of paint missing on here before right on his fenders that's all fixed up now it's almost all gone already but at the same time i put these nice bezels on here put new lights on these here i thought those were real in here grill yeah i thought these were new they looked very shiny and new they're new i just put them on now i just want to put the truck back on i just got to get some better headlights on there oh okay i use them what i had so i might use them up first and just in case you need to touch the sky there's uh ladders i can get you all the way up to heaven over there just about so long ways up there yeah man you want to pull up the clouds a little bit yeah it's you almost up there not quite almost guitars steering wheels tape now you know what i mean wait i just messed up like everything is mixed up there one day one day i might even organize it hey one day well you know where everything is that's all that matters i know pretty well everything is that it looks really messy but i know where it's at all right back over my shop not quite as many tools now you know how big the shoes are that i have to fill i've got a kid on the way i gotta make sure that uh i hold up this reputation of handy man you know okay i'm gonna crawl up there finish this up and we're gonna go home done that took a lot longer than i thought i would i think it's worth it what do you think it's gonna look even better at night on the road how you feeling pregnant really pregnant how's third trimester only one day into it um so far exhausting but rewarding there's a baby in there that won't stop kicking and won't let me sleep still kicking yeah so on those marker lights uh i don't know if i explained it fully in the vlog here or not but uh i showed you how that old housing had that piece that came up with those two bolts in it that served no purpose whatsoever but the old marker lights had that indent on the inside that could go over that piece and the new ones were flat so instead of risking breaking off all the bolts and having to re-rivet every single bolt in the roof what we decided to do was make the old housing work with the new lights dad had a little handsaw that i forgot to show you while i was at the shop has a little handsaw and i cut that piece off it was just plastic it looked like it looks like metal right but it's just plastic it served no purpose i don't know what it was doing there so the new lights could fit on their flush so i had to go on each one and saw it off like a little lumberjack it was a bit of extra work but that way i didn't have to risk breaking off more bolts because that was a nightmare and it would have taken a long time to re re-rivet every single one so that's a project for the future when we do that but other than that it looks good we'll be ready to head on the road the next day and thanks for watching