 Hey, this is Taylor from Salt Lake City, Utah, and you're watching Trucker Josh Vlogs on YouTube. Diesel Whistle. That's your D. Chevy. Chevy. Chevy. Good day to you. Good Sunday. Sunday day to you. The day of the sun. Sunday. We're here in the shop. You saw some past videos already, right? We got this bracket off the back here. And we're going to be replacing it with these ones here. So today we're making the best of a kind of situation. I ripped off a mudflat bracket. It happens. Okay. Don't tell me it doesn't happen. All right. It happens to the best of us. It happens to you too. It could happen to you too if it hasn't. All right. It's kind of embarrassed about it, but whatever. I backed into a bit of a pile of dirt. And I think I explained this already, right? Mudflap got caught under the tire. I kept backing up. Didn't realize it until I heard a ding and the spring broke in there. And la di da. Upgrades. I had to fix it because I can't go down the highway like this. I'm going to have DOT on my rear end pretty quickly. If they see this going down the highway, you have to have mudflaps at least around here. I don't know. In Wisconsin, I see people running without mudflaps all the time. God, that's dangerous. It's throwing rocks at people. Put some mudflaps on there. And they look better anyway. So I figured, you know what? Old blue deserves a treat. You know what? I didn't know how to apologize to Old Blue about her mudflap off his mudflap. It's mudflap. So I figured, you know what? Let's just get it a treat. These are clear LEDs. I'm going to take them out of here right now. I'm very excited. I'm taking them out. Come on. Show me the goods, baby. Show me the goods. Oh. I got my horns over here too that I want to install. I was going to install my horns today before this happened. Of course to change plans. Okay. Okay. So the chrome is wrapped in a protective layer. This is what they look like. They've got clear LEDs. Are they going to fit in my bolt pad? I don't think I'm even going to have to drill new holes. They're going to fit. Oh. They're going to fit. They're going to fit. I'm going to take my bolt pad. Oh. I don't think I'm even going to have to drill new holes. They're going to fit. Oh. It's much easier. Yes. See, these two bolts have to go through the frame. And when I was looking at it, they looked further apart than the old brackets. But it looks like they're going to fit. This is for the driver's side. So I need the other one. I unwrapped the wrong one in my excitement. Where can I put it down? Okay. Be good. Stay. I love shiny things. Is this sort of like when you buy your wife a ring and the excitement she gets and she gets something shiny? This is like my diamond ring, except I bought it myself. For myself. Well, my business bought it for me. Thanks, Trucker Josh Transport. He's got to fit through those two holes or I might have to drill a new one. I hope I don't. I hope I don't have to drill a new one. Can you see from here? I put you on a tire. Okay. Looks like it's going to go right through. Oh, I hope so. I hope so. Let's get these bolts off of here and try it out. She's modest though. She's all covered up right now. Don't worry. We'll take that off right away. Oh. Oh. Hmm. Okay. I think these bolts are a little thicker. Might need to bore out these holes just a little bit. But first I'm going to clean this up a little bit. Sand it down. Just to see if, just to make sure that I have to do that. I don't want to if I don't have to. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to. A little more work than I thought it might be. I had to bore out those holes just a little bit to fit those bolts through there. And let me tell you, that's not easy. That is some solid steel. That's why they call it the frame. Man. Yeah. So this is on here now. I've got to tighten it up and then it'll be straight and hang the mudflap on it. And that'll be that. All right. I've got paper towel in my ears for hearing protection. I have ear plugs, but they're at the house for some reason in my bag. So it works. It's protecting my ears because I'm drilling out these holes to be a little bit bigger for this. This one's done. This one's on. I just need to hang the mudflap on it and hook up the lights. I splice those up. I'm doing this one now. The bolts were actually so rusted in here, I had to break them off. And there they are there. Or there's that one there. It was so rusted on. Where do I have that piece? I have that piece around here somewhere. I have it around here somewhere. See, two of these, they both broke off like this. Trying to get that off of there. Whatever. I didn't need them anyways. I don't care. Oh, yeah. And I think I just about blew up my impact. One sec. I'll wait for that to turn off. All right. So I have this handy tool. All right. You're going to laugh at me. Mechanics. Okay. But it works, right? So if it works, it works. This is my impact. My Makita impact. And it has this attachment on it, which turns it into a drill. And a very effective one. I must say, if you're wondering if this contraption is a good idea, I don't know. If it's a good idea or not, but it works. It works so well. This thing is so powerful that it actually blew apart these screws a little bit in here. I had to take this whole thing apart just now and tighten everything up. And that's all tightened up, ready to go. And this is how I board those holes out to be just a little bit bigger. I know. I don't have all the right tools, but I have tools that work. So did you know your impact can be a drill? Now you know. And so when these screws got loose on here, I thought it was about to blow up. So I stopped using it until I figured out how to fix it and I fixed it. In the meantime, I went and got dad's air pressure, air pressure. You know what that thing is, air compressor and air impact. And it works the same way, but it's not as good of a drill as the Makita. This thing works fantastic. You want to see this thing in action? I know. All you mechanics out there, your minds are now blown. I should never touch my face with that again. That was a bad idea. It's got power to it. Don't do that, kids. Be careful with your tools. Don't be like Chuck or Josh. I'm just a little goofy. Watch out. He's got power tools. Okay. I'm going to put you on the tire here. Okay. You guys got to hang on though. Okay. So I need these holes here to be just the fraction bigger. Just a bit, just a bit bigger. So I've been using this and it works great. It's our secret. Okay. You don't need to go and buy a new tool. This is why I have the ear protection. It's just really noisy. That's all. Am I yelling? I can't hear anything. See, I've already drilled them bigger. Now I just need to bore them out just a little bit. Okay. See. Works great. You just got to remember to let your tools cool down because I think that's why mine expanded and I had to tighten it up and stuff because I let it get a little bit hot, but right. I know who would have guessed. All you had to do is get this little attachment from China. Got it on Amazon. It turns this impact into one of these things. And I'm trying. I'm being a little goofy right now. So I actually, I do know what I'm doing. I'm just, just so you know, got to clarify a little disclaimer there. Otherwise, you know, you get people being like, oh my goodness. He's going to blow his head off. Well, I might. It's unlikely professional right here. Whatever works, right? It works. It's going to be just a little bigger. I want to see up closer. Look at this thing work. It works. Great. You learned it here, folks. I'm going to start calling myself a mechanic, Josh. Impact, Josh. One tool, Josh. You can do it all with just one tool. It's going to be a commercial. Why buy another tool if you have a tool that works, right? All right. All joking aside, I'm going to get this done now. I want to get this thing hung up so I can continue on. I still have to hook up the lights. And that's going to take a little while yet. So success. Not all the way through, but take a look at that. I can suck it through with the bolts now. Welcome to the gun show. It actually took a lot of effort, even with power tools. Just sweating. There's no air conditioning in here either. But who needs air conditioning? That's for those weak Canadian folk air conditioning. I really wouldn't mind some air conditioning in here. I might install one one day. The shop I build on our land one day is going to have air conditioning in it. I tell you what, this Canadian is melting. But we got this on. Very excited. All right. So now we take the bolts or the washers. Sorry. The washers over that there. Hook the bolt onto it. The grabs. The lock bolt. And the power tools can do the rest from there. So grabs. There we go. Now we just suck it in. That's a mandatory thing, right? It's a great day. Or a woman who likes tools. Just need to hang the mudflaps. I think that looks great. That is awesome. Feel accomplished. I feel good. I feel manly. Let's go get the dogs and show them what I did. And they're going to be so impressed. I put them in the pickup for now and rolled the windows down. Just outside here. Just because of all the noise. Chevy was understandably losing his mind. Gijo, what are you doing in there, man? Excuse me. How could you work without your assistant? What if you would have made a mistake? Hearing protection out now. I'm glad I did that. Probably would have had a headache later if I didn't. See? I knew what I was doing, diesel. No worries. No worries. You guys notice? I also replaced these. We have a visor on the left side now. And a visor on the right side. They match. And they have this LED marker light, signal light underneath here. Which I have to hook up today as well. Hopefully I'll have time. I'm going to do the rear end first. And then if we have time, we'll come around and work on those. Now, luckily, the previous owner dropped off some extra mudflaps. The only problem is these mudflaps are a little bit too long. They drag on the ground. So I got to cut them. Watch out, Chevy. You've got a sharp knife here. It's all over. These are really good mudflaps, too. They're really heavy. All right. Now, in order to be regulation compliant, you have to have these reflectors under here as well. This one's a little bit dinged up from the incident. But I bent her as straight as I could. We'll get new ones eventually. I forgot to pick those up. This one will work. It'll work just fine. All right. This one is all finished. Wired up and everything. I'm just doing all the electrical work right now. I've got this plug that goes to that light. I'm splicing them out to also go to these lights. And I'm crimping them together with these little guys. And then once I have them crimped, I have some shrink tube or whatever you want to call this stuff here. You heat it up with a lighter. You cut it to size. You heat it up with a lighter. And it actually seals right up real nice. Check this out. I got some here. Extended these wires from this one here. These wires were a little short. So that's what that shrink wrap does. See, those are the crimps underneath there. And I got that shrink tube around there. That'll keep it sealed from the weather. Now those, I've got to connect over here to these. And then I got to connect these to all of those. And then put some more of that heat shrink stuff around that too. And I'm getting tired. It's been a long day. Can you imagine if I was paying 130 bucks an hour to someone to do this? This has taken me, I'm almost up to seven hours. I'm not a mechanic. This is the first time I've ever done this. So I'm learning as I go. So I could probably get it done in a couple of hours. But can you imagine if I was paying someone 130 bucks an hour for seven hours? Would be, what, 800? Almost a thousand bucks after tax and everything? A thousand bucks. I saved a thousand bucks today. And I learned a new skill. I can install mudflap hangers now. Or mudflap brackets. What are they called? LED mudflap hangers. Yeah, this one's all ready to go. I'm just trying to get this one ready to go. I probably won't have time to work on the front ones today. Britt's at home already. She was at a bridal shower during the day today. And that's over now. And she'd like me to come home. She's already called me once and said, hey, I miss you. Come home. And that's a hint. That's a pretty straightforward hint. Saying, hey, wrap it up, Josh. Come on home. I'm gonna get this done. At least gotta get these things done. And then I gotta polish it. It was polished, but I got my hand prints all over it. I took the stuff off too soon. Oh well. Having fun though. This is a lot of fun. This is exactly why I have my shop. So I can learn new skills like this next time. It won't take me seven hours. Maybe next time it'll only take me three or four hours. Maybe less. All right, everybody. Moment of truth. I think I'm done. There we go. Look what I can do. That looks awesome, doesn't it? Nice. Oh, very happy with that. Very happy with that. Nice. All right, let's do left and then right. Oh, oh. Looking good. Looking good. Very happy that all worked out. Holy smokes. I can be useful. Look at this. So my next thing is the centerpiece here, right? The matching centerpiece with the clear LEDs as well. It's like a... There's just a bigger piece in there. And that's about 400 bucks. I might get that next month. I'm going to install that then and there'll be another moment when it works. Cool. Well, you see when you rip off one mudflap bracket, you repair it and you make it better. That is definitely better. Nice.