 Starter up again. I dash comes on. Yeah y'all we have some truck upgrades to discuss today. Welcome on back to the channel. I am right now preparing for a three-week jaunt into the Mondadnias. I'm talking Colorado y'all and we're going all over the state. I'm gonna be staying up there for nearly a month and this is the truck that's gonna get me around and on all my trucks my last three four trucks. I've had a cap and I've had a rack on top but this time on the latest adventure wagon I decided to put a iron skillet on the top of the dagum thing because it just looks like it can hold a way more stuff at a more weight distribution effectiveness if that makes sense. We'll get into it but I've also got a couple of tasty additions on the inside of the truck that I want to talk about. Been testing them out for a few weeks now. Anybody that has a diesel truck I would highly recommend these things but Banks Power sent me a couple of things. We're gonna go over there in just a second. The chickens are absolutely going nuts over here. I've got to give them their morning jog. They like to do a little morning jog, give them some grains, scratch around, then they go make the eggs. Doctor, eat the bugs. Eat the bad bugs please. Oh gee speaking of bugs. That thing almost landed on my face with a stink bug. It is. Let's see what we got here. Oh a little Martha. So our other chickens are around here free-ranging. That's Pete, one of our Easter Eggers. There's Puff, her sister. Both laying eggs now. Beautiful little blue eggs. I thought you guys would be the craziest wild little raptors out of the bunch and you've turned out to be some of the sweetest. We just we just like it. Two weeks ago, not even a week ago, you could not touch this chicken. Since she started laying eggs, full transformation into a nice little sweetheart. I don't know what it is. We got a problem with Martha. She is she's low lady on the totem pole right now on the the dream team. She's just not performing and she has she has a problem with her eggs. I'm waiting to see today if she drops one and if it's okay. But her first five or six eggs that we've had to throw out because they have holes in them. They're like incomplete eggs. So I think her egg lens not fully developed. A little Martha, I've been very sweet to you. Been trying to feed you up. Get you to get on that nice egg laying train with the rest of the team. And you're not you're not performing. Now what happens to non-performing chickens? Do I need to start throwing some recipes out there? Okay, cordon blue, chicken noodle soup, enchiladas. Okay, there's there's a lot of options out there. Okay, and you happen to be one of the most delicious breeds of chickens. Further meat, not just for their eggs. Okay, Martha, she's getting a little nervous. She's getting a little nervous talking about that. I'm gonna let her down. You got a fat in up. You're skinny. You put on some weight. You got to start dropping some quality eggs. Yes, you girls. You're doing good work. Proud of you. Got a bonus spinach bundle for the top producer this month. Keep working. Keep grinding. But anyway, that's part of the daily life here. Let's get into the truck and let's actually start on the inside and go to the the bank's modules and the accessories that we have on the inside. First thing we're going to look at is the bank's pedal monster. I didn't even know what the pedal monster was until banks email me and said, you got to have one of these for your truck. You'll it'll make a you'll just see a huge difference. And they were right. And I already knew about something called the it's basically pedal lag in this truck and in other modern diesel trucks, especially the eco diesel trucks. But there's a delayed response in when you press the throttle and the response of the engine. So what the pedal monster does is it allows you to determine the timing of that throttle. So you can make it to where it's literally like old school where it's on a wire, you know, as soon as you hit it, the engine's going to jump or you can make it in a what, you know, a balance. You know, there's all sorts of settings. There's three different modes on it. And then there's settings within that mode. So I'm going to show you guys that we're going to start it up and take a test drive and all that stuff. So we're going to start with this first because this is the last thing I need to do is just kind of tuck this thing away and zip tie it. Just make it nice and pretty. But this has been connected up to my truck for a few weeks now. This wire is going up to the I dash. I'll show you guys that in just a minute. But you just take this right here. This plugs in it's dark in here. I know it's kind of hard to see. But at the top of on my truck specifically at the top of my foot pedal, there is a little connection that connects to the computer that goes to the engine and tells it how to respond to this. So this isn't like an old school engine where this is connected to a wire. It's all done by a computer. So what this does with the pedal monster does you just replace that plug with the one that comes with it has a male and female in and then you run that to this device and then allows you to totally adjust the throttle response according to how you want. So the pedal monster actually does not give you any more horsepower, any more torque, anything like that. It actually just adjusts that timing. So if you've ever been driving your vehicle and you know, maybe you're going up a hill and like you're pressing gas, or maybe you're trying to pass another car and you're pressing it. And it's it's like four seconds later than it downshifts and then it goes well this can basically make it immediate. So as soon as you press it just just goes it's really nice. And I've noticed it's especially nice for towing you just don't have to work as hard. Keep working that gas pedal to get it to downshift. It'll just do it with the slightest movements and you can adjust that movement as much as you want. Next thing we got in the adventure wagon that connects to that pedal monster and then comes up to the dash is the I dash this module right here when I cut the truck on it turns on whatever recognizes RPMs and it gives any read out that you can think of that the truck will put out. So instead of me sitting here and just kind of explaining what all this thing does, I think the easiest thing to do is just show you it's fired up and then we should see the I dash come on. This basically just suction cups to the window. I haven't done a super clean install on this like you wanted to completely tuck this you could but any vehicle that has one of these ports right here. So if you've got one of these, I think it's called an OD2 port, something like that. You can plug the I dash into it. We have got to go get some diesel my friends. So we're gonna head to the Buckeys and go get us some along the way. I'm gonna show you what this thing actually reads out and how cool it is to watch what your truck or vehicle is doing. First thing is bobbing up on the I dash is to tell me I got a low fuel level, which is actually appearing before it even does on my truck dash. And one thing I like about that is I can get a more exact fuel read out on the I dash. So I can know how many miles I've got left until I'm actually gonna run out of gas. Whereas the truck won't once it gets below, I think it's 50 miles, then it just says low. So you don't know exactly. So any sort of information that your truck is going to put out to you, you can pull up on the I dash and that includes error codes, you know, things that are going wrong with the trucks. I've got a lot of those. It'll actually tell you what the problem is. Because it's plugging into that port. That's the same thing that the mechanics and the technicians are going to plug into and see what those codes are. So you can see those and diagnose those before you even take your truck into the shop, you know, give your technician a heads up, say, Hey, I'm getting this code, you know, maybe they can go ahead and order the part or something for you. I don't know, it might speed up that process of you getting your truck back faster. So I like that fact. One of the main things that I find outstanding and the truck honestly should tell you this by itself. I can't believe that it doesn't. The I dash will tell you when your truck is going to go through a region. So a region on a diesel, y'all, if you've got a new diesel truck, you know exactly what I'm talking about. But you never want to stop your truck when it's going through one of those cycles, you want to let it burn through completely. So right now, it's telling me I'm at 58%. When that reaches 100%. That's when that region trigger is going to cut on. And I know that my truck is going through a region cycle. And you can actually watch all the trucks going to come out, cut up, cut on again. Here we go. You can actually watch your engine exhaust temperatures go up, you can see that it's burning off that excess. So I think it's good to know exactly where you are through that region cycle. And you can just keep driving burn that excess off. You've got to pull on here and get a little Dessal at the Bucky's real quick. Back in action. Start her up again. I dash comes on. So you can flip through these different settings. And you can say I think it's five different pages, custom pages. And you can kind of adjust things. You can literally adjust every little thing. But right here on this setting, this is monitoring the pedal monster. And this allows you to adjust your power as well. So I'm in city right now. I can adjust this. I can keep going up sport. And when I do that, you know, I mean, it is like it track is insane. Track is basically like, like I talked about having a wire like an old school wire that goes straight to the throttle. That's what this would be like. So just kind of give you an example here. I normally keep it midway through the city setting. I think this right here, the tires might come out from under me on this one. Oh, yeah. Like the it is just straight response when it is on track. So if you've got a serious diesel, and you've made a lot of modifications, and you really want to squeal tires and just make it easier on yourself, this, this would be the setting right here. I mean, I'm barely pressing it. And it is just won't go in. Let's turn that back down. Just give her a little gas right here. You guys can see where the stock performance would be. The stock throttle response versus the pedal monster response. So at the setting that I have it on right here, it's it's probably about 20% above stock performance. So I've been playing around with the iDash for a few weeks. I love it. And I've got it on an eight gauge system. I want to see as much as possible what is going on. But I asked them, I said, Well, you know, hey, what is the best? What are the best categories, the best readouts for monitoring a diesel? And right now I've got it on RPM. So you can see your exact RPMs. And you can just take mental notes of when you know, you're getting the most power at certain RPMs and whatnot. It's just more specific than your actual analog gauge manifold air density. That's on both gasoline and diesel engines. That's like a true performance monitor. So you can see the exact density inside of the manifold. My engine has a turbo on it. So I thought it'd be cool to monitor when that turbo is kicking in and adding that additional pressure. So I can see that I can see my horsepower. And it's really neat to see like the horsepower as you're driving. And I've towed with this thing a bunch. Very interesting to watch that. A couple other categories I think are cool for diesels. You can monitor your torque so you can see how much torque that your engine is requiring or commanding. So what I find fascinating is watching the torque versus the horsepower. So there's times like when I've had my boat towing up a hill and the engine is asking for more torque than the horsepower. When you see the horsepower go up a little bit, then you'll see the torque ramp up to like 100%. And it's not shifting any gears. That's what's really neat. You're putting all that torque into that gear and it just keeps tugging it. It's really cool. I've just learned a lot having it quite honestly. So Banks didn't sponsor this video or anything, but I just want to give a shout out to them because they have been watching my videos, saw the videos on my truck. They seem really interested in these smaller diesels as well. So that's why they wanted to create this pedal monster for this specific truck and they just came out with it. So they're available. I'll leave a link for them. If you guys want to check them out, do your own homework on Banks. Nice thing about these two things, you can install them in 30 minutes. There's no tools required. It's just very simple plug and play. Even I can do it. And I know nothing about working on diesel trucks. So a couple of gizmos to make the adventure wagon plug away a little better. And let me also show you guys what's on top of this thing to help with cargo tremendously. I've let it cool off to about a crisp 98 degrees outside. Got a little shade. So I'm not just killing myself out here. While I was at monkeys, I got one of these jugs racing jugs. I thought to myself for these little indentions right here, this would be perfect to strap down inside of the bed of the truck or even on top. You can even put water in one of these. I think I'm going to end up putting diesel in here so I can have a five gallons extra diesel on them on the road. I was going to do a fancy Jerry can holder on top of the pioneer rack system and all that and get fancy but that gum it's expensive. This was like 30 bucks. And I'm most likely going to be throwing a kayak and some other stuff on top of there, which I'm going to show you here in just a second. There's two very, very large bags. Got to carry enough stuff for my whole family. Initially, they're going to meet me up later. It's going to be an absolute butt load of things. And I'm most likely going to be testing the 300 pound loadout capacity of this rack that's on top. Let's look at an example of how this thing is going to work out during campuses. Let's step up here and check it out. Grab on to the platform. Here we go. So up here, we've got our Duffy's. These have got our sleeping pads, our sleeping bags, just a lot of extra camping gear that's not extremely heavy but takes up a lot of space. I've got a real big husky crate that I just slide into the bed that's got the cots and it's got the main tent and it's got a few other things in it tarps and whatnot. I keep that in there because it's super heavy. It's probably 250 pounds. But the pads are usually keeping the back of my truck and they take up like the whole back seat. So this is perfect. And I'm not too heavy right to strap those babies down. We also have a cooler right here. So we've got a mid size cooler. I can also use this as storage. This is a cheap one from Academy but it's got little little holes right here so you could ratchet it down onto the platform. The whole reason I wanted this platform is just so much more square inches that you can utilize to put stuff on it and ratchet it down securely. So we've still got you know our underbelly typical rack. There's your bar right there. But with this platform right here, I can fill up all this whole square footage, you know, I could put a kayak on this side, I could do other stuff on this side. So I'm definitely gonna make it arrangeable where when I go on different trips, I can switch things in and out. And that's what's real nice about this. This is made by Rhino Rack. My dad has a Rhino Rack. He likes it. I decided to try this one. It's pretty pricey. I think this whole system right here was around $2,100. But I just haven't had a truck without a rack system in a while. And I thought this was the cat's pajamas. So hopefully it'll be worth the money. And you know, they'll sell you a bunch of that extra doodads you slide in here. And you can do all sorts of stuff you can customize this however you want. But that's basically the platform, how you use it. Like I said, you know, you got your jerry can or water jug, whatever, you can stick that up there out of the way. But as an additional little nice feature, having it up here like this, I've got actually another jug that has a valve. And you twist that valve, you can use that to, you know, take a shower, wash dishes, brush your teeth or whatever. Maybe wash your bloody hands after you kill it out. Okay, hopefully, hopefully that's what's going to happen. And then lastly, you know, I've got a solar panel up here. And just miraculously this thing fits fits in these little grooves just all nice like where you could set this up here and really get get it angled at your camp and really get some sunbeams coming in and energizing your your jackery unit. This also has some reinforced ringlets on the side so you could take some paracord or take some hooks and hang it off the platform itself. If you're getting some morning sun, you know, this midday, and you could also just set this puppy flat, set her flat down for that midday sun and then you're really charging up. So that puppy right there is going to be getting a ton of use with the life of the truck. I just love having a truck cap. I love having the rack. It is so useful. I like to avoid a trailer having another set of axles or two or three. That's just more problems that can happen, especially when you're in hairy places. You can put everything inside of a truck on top of the truck. And then it's easily accessible to and almost becomes part of the camp and it can be advantageous as I think this is then I think it's extremely useful and not just a showy thing. If I could complain, just a few things right on rack. This thing should just come with a couple of little couple of rings, couple of cleats, something because I mean, they're like 50, 50 bucks for a couple of rings, maybe more than that, like 100. A lot of their accessories are just super pricey. You can get a typical ratchet strap up under here. But the just the way they have this system with so many different cleat tracks are just tracks to put all sorts of accessories. I mean, you could throw a couple of rings in the box and it probably wouldn't hurt production costs too bad. So if you have a decent garage and you're and you're okay at doing some machining probably makes a little inserts to go into this track and it's it's really similar to the M lock, you know, the M lock sort of connection if you all are familiar with that. So y'all I think the adventure wagon just stepped it up a little bit and it's ready to get out in the woods. And hopefully it's going to have some antlers and a lot of fish on top of it. And we get to monitor the performance of everything while we're cruising down the road. I don't know much all but I'm looking forward to looking at some furry things out in the woods instead of just slobbery old summer scales. Anyways, y'all thank you for tuning in to all the episodes if you want to check out more around here at the Treehouse more chicken whatnot family stuff, Lake life family channel link down below. And I hope wherever you are driving a blessed adventure out in the woods or water somewhere. And the best of luck to you God bless you. Marcia. What you doing here? Oh dad gone Marcia. Marcia laid an egg with no shell. Oh little sugar bugger. I think you're going to get cut from the team and I hate to tell you what that means. Y'all pray for Marcia.