 What is happening y'all? Welcome back to the channel. I'm in a fantastic mood because I woke up this morning with a brand new Chevy truck sitting in my driveway. So in today's video I'm gonna be introducing you to the new adventure wagon that we're gonna be going on all of our trips for 2020 and beyond. And there's some new things happening with engines these days and these 2020s and I want to get into that. I think a lot of you're gonna be interested in that. But first off let's take a look at my old adventure wagon, Toyota Tundra. I'll just say I really like my other truck, my Toyota. It went places like they say. It went all over. It just didn't happen to be four-wheel drive. It happened to be bad on gas mileage but other than that I think never let me down and I went on plenty of adventures in them. I had three different ones and I finally just decided I am going in some hairy places. It's time to graduate to four-wheel drive and you'd be surprised which you can get away with the good set of tires on a two-wheel drive truck which is what I did with my Tundras. But one day me and Lunkers TV were fishing together. We had separate boats and I put my boat in and I got stuck at the boat ramp and then I put his boat in and I pulled his boat out which we have the exact same boats with his truck which happened to be a Chevy Colorado with a little Duramax in it and I could not believe how much power it was producing. It was producing as much power at the wheels at that boat ramp getting up that hill and pulling that big old boat out as my truck you know that's almost twice the size. And then we went on some fishing trips, pulled the big bass boat with the little Colorado with the little Duramax and I was like how is this thing producing this much power? It doesn't seem fair. I started doing my research and I want to give a Duramax a try. I don't want a huge 2,500 size either that you know those things tow like 30,000 pounds it's insane. I just need a mid-size and I was like they don't make that diesel in the mid-size. Then when I started doing a little further research I discovered that GM is starting to put diesel engines into their mid-size trucks. It's supposed to be a really reliable engine. Duramax is really well-known name. It's a bigger engine than what's in that Colorado and it's supposed to be a really good blend of power versus fuel economy. But my trucks for me it's literally like a home away from home. I spend a ton of time in them on the road and literally just using the tailgate as you know that's my my camping area. It's literally part of the camp for me. It's part of every time I'm loading a boat or a buck in the back of the truck that tailgate area the whole truck just is you know it's important to me because that's why I spent a lot of time making a lot of these videos and everything. Now finding a white Z71 SEL edition Texas edition with the Duramax motor in it in this 1500 size Silverado it was pretty hard to do. I got with Moritz Chevrolet which just so happens I did not know this but the managers of both the places at Fun and Sun and Moritz Chevrolet they're like really good buddies and I guarantee if you're Texas fishermen if you've seen any Fun and Sun boat trailers in the parking lot there's a lot of them that are hooked up to Moritz Chevy so they cater to a lot of outdoorsmen. I was able to go test drive one that they had on the lot it wasn't the exact one that I wanted but they they found one they got it there and they're not the easiest to find so big shout out to Moritz for finding this truck and helping me get into one and really talking me through it. So without further ado let's crank up this motor and let's talk about the horsepower and the torque. Quiet huh? It's insane you know most diesels you think of they're just loud the engine wire in the car even is just it's hard to even talk over in the older ones they've come a long way in improving the sound dampering but this one right here is so quiet like you can almost can't even tell the truck is on when it's in an idle you start to hear it once it gets up a little bit but you know for road trips perfect. So what little I do know about the engine so far is that it's really not kicking out a whole lot of horsepower I think it has 270 something horsepower which really isn't a whole lot when you compare to like their 5.3 models and they even have a 6.2 liter v8 model and those produce way more horsepower but on the torque side of the game it is great it's producing like 460 something foot-pounds of torque and at low rpms that's 1500 rpms this is probably the most exciting thing about this truck and the biggest difference from all the other trucks I've ever owned but let's take a tour of the rest of the truck that makes it a really good adventure vehicle. Even last night when I was driving at home you gotta be kind of careful it's got some some sneaky power you know I looked down I was going 85 and it's not just big bursts of speed it's just continual power which is what you need when you're pulling a boat or anything. One thing I am gonna miss about my Tundra is the the camera used to sit like perfectly up there on the dash and now when I try to set my camera up the dash is like so high up against the windshield it's just not a very good angle. Keyless entry on this bad boy which is also different press that right there Wabam that truck starts up and it's got analog and digital one thing that is new that I turned off is the heads-up display or the HUD and it looks flashy on this screen because it's a LED I'm not really all about it so to turn it down you just turn the brightness all the way off it's like you're looking through the windshield it's got the windshield has numbers in it and you have to adjust your vision closer versus far maybe it's my eyes I don't know we'll stick to some of the cool things I really like that I'm gonna use as an adventure wagon here so it's got trailering options you can go to the trailer you can connect all your different components to keep track of the data it's got trailer brake assistance it has engine braking which I think is first in its class so if you're going down hills and stuff you can actually use an engine brake look at this camera these camera angles and you can shift back and forth like there's the back right there there's the the front of the vehicle you also have different views of the front and back of the vehicle so you can go above you can go full-blown with a like CGI truck in there so that's an actual image of the parking lot I'm sitting in and that is a fake truck obviously you can view that angle from both front and back so that's really nice you could also go to your trailer camera like if you had a camera hooked up on your trailer you could view all the way back there how they do it it's like all the cameras are looking different directions they they stitch the image together and create one to get like an overhead view you can look in the bed so you can see what's in there when I put the cap on here this view really won't matter but probably the key one for most people towing boats and trailers you got that real nice close-up HD picture of the hitch itself so you can just pinpoint get it perfectly so you're not having to go back and forth and if you go up here literally in the rear view mirror itself you flip it up and it is a HD camera it sees like six lanes back there or something it's really wide that honestly is really weird that takes some getting used to so I haven't used it that much just I'd leave it flipped forward for now those things right there are huge for any outdoorsman carrying around trailers gear campers things like that another fancy feature is the tailgate operation you can go up and down automatically with the tailgate so just with a push of a button that'll go down see it going down right there it's just crazy and you hold it and that'll come all the way back up you have to hold it in till it closes but there it's shut now the thing I probably needed the most four-wheel drive but it's basic you know you have automatic I don't know if I'd ever use that but you got four high four low and too high which is what we're in right now then for trailing you've got your trailer mode so that will kind of adjust the the shifting of the gears to you know give you more power where you need it and slow you down where you need it towing a heavy trailer and some of the other nice features inside the truck for me is we've got a 120 outlet up front got one in back for charging it has one in the bed as well so if you want to get that filet knife out at the boat ramp and just start sawing on them you could do that through the power of the truck the bed is also lit it's got lights all inside of it as well it's got leather seats you know they are ventilated so you get you get the butt breeze you also got heated seats so the butt breeze is nice in Texas and then we've got a power rear window probably won't ever use that when I put the cap on there all these little accoutrements are gonna be nice on on road trips and with the family and all that stuff but hey when it comes down to it it's a truck you know I treat most my trucks like a truck I'm getting in and out of it with wet muddy boots you know I'm putting dead animals in the back I'm towing things that's what a truck is supposed to be used for the things that really matter the Duramax engine the four-wheel drive obviously and then all of these the technology and the cameras to help with towing and trailer link trailer trailer and plus just the additional features that you can turn on with the engine to help with that that's really gonna help I've never had another Chevy diesel but from what I've been told this is a nice addition on the newer models they put the def tank access right there next to the fuel tank I think it used to be under the hood and it was kind of a pain so now you can just add your depth load which is something you have to have on on diesels now right there when you're filling up so just makes it a lot easier access I even like the sound of this diesel I'm really digging it but now I want to take this through a real-world scenario we're gonna hook up the boat we might even go give it a little dangle and actually at my my parents house they don't live too far away I've knocked over their mailbox before pulling a boat out of the driveway I have two big brick pillars like right on either side and it's it's a hard scenario to get a boat in so I want to see how the turn radius is on here and how these cameras could help me get that boat in that driveway without knocking over these mailboxes and the first thing we're gonna look at is the tailgate view or the hitch view that's on here hooking up the boat so let's check this out these are like all the trees I don't even understand how this works because it's showing like up into the trees that is very crispy now I had this on my last truck but it was not as crisp all right it's gonna be the collision warning oh this is nice too because I can see on the sides if I'm gonna hit I'm always like cautious because I have trees this is a tough driveway let's go right on the hole yes that's what I'm talking about okay why bam something else that's gonna be nice with this truck is putting the boat in the water some of the shallower rants I've been to I've had issues my exhaust being underwater because my exhaust would be you know somewhere right over here and with this one it has dual exhaust and it's tucked up underneath the truck I think that comes on the z71 package it is true dual exhaust it's not just like one pipe and a fake one love the position of the tow hooks right here the hook things that is like super easy some trucks it's tucked way up under there that's a simple thing but I really like that 2000 RPMs it just feels like it's barely working just smooth that's a really nice part of it the one disadvantage of the diesel is it is a lower towing capacity this one's rated for 9,000 pounds and you know I think my last truck was 10 or 11,000 pounds so many different views that I'm not used to it and it's it's almost like a hindrance at this point instead of an advantage I'm gonna start slowing down here and getting these little nooks and crannies it might help though honestly it's not it's not wide enough I have to look back I can't use the mirrors okay turn radius is good I would say it's as good as my tundra which I really like the turn radius on that truck it's a little blurry it's a little dark I mean it's still helpful but when you really start turning that kind of goes out of the picture and it doesn't really help you what you need is the overhead view this is gonna take me a lot of practice to really get used to there's literally a dozen different types of views I still got to use my mirrors that's just I'm not used to this thing yet but didn't knock down a mailbox it's got power where you need it towing uphill not a lot of pop on the highway but it's as low speeds a lot of torque now one final test is actually at the boat ramp I want to see what that looks like how that helps and before we do that I will say that they are going to be adding accessories to this truck so I want to make this pretty much just like my my other truck I really liked a lot of the things about it with the cap and some of the accessories the rack the nice thing about Marit Chevrolet is they back up right next to 80 West Customs which is like their custom shop they put lifts tires grill guards all sorts of things so what we're going to do here we're gonna add some some nerf bars some steps I gotta have that I'm always like shuffling to the back at boat ramps so don't get my feet wet especially this time of year when it's cold they come with smaller tires than the the tundra I don't know if it's just because you know it's low it's lower clearance to the ground or they just want to spend less money on the tires but my other truck came with really good tires so I'm putting the the same BFG 80s on there they're gonna be a little bit bigger we're adding a two-inch lift but we're keeping the factory rake so a lot of times you'll see leveling kits you know two-inch leveling kits and I actually used to have on them on my old GM truck but we're gonna be adding essentially a two inch in the front and then a three and a half in the back to keep the factory rake and that basically is like how the truck is sitting now it is level because it has a trailer on it that's good for towing it's good for balance of the truck we want to keep that because I'm 80% of the time I've got a boat or something behind me so it's gonna be a little bit higher in the back but just lifted overall all right I think me and LFD are gonna give it a good old dangling and we've got some hog issues going on back here I put up these lights they don't come on the day but at night their motion detector they they go out about 35 feet so it should if they come like where miss B is that should light up miss me might need to set up a little blind back here with so this is this is gonna be new to you too on the views so you can kind of make a determination to if you like like these cameras or not to me they're kind of everything's so new and it's crazy I like to use my mirrors just what I'm used to yeah not like you know I trust my mirrors so the probably the most interesting part is pulling it out but we've already pulled it up some hills with no problem so I'm gonna step out and see where this thing sits in the water so my other exhaust actually used to hit the water this this ramp it particularly is kind of shallow whoo the boats already sliding off all right go ahead stop whoo let's take it off oh shoot there go hold the camera okay we got plenty of clearance there so that's good now we're just gonna do a little father son dangle see what we can come up with this is actually dad's first time in the new silver bullet and we've come across a lot of bait and we did find some fish that are underneath in the deeps they're like 25 26 foot down look at them right there sitting below that bait oh yes man it's nice oh we're gonna get one bigger now nothing wrong with that one I fish this spot eight hours I didn't catch a dang fish well come out here with you and I catch one like the third cast spot within the spot there we got our shad and we got our customers right there that is just amazing you can see this kind of stuff that's just on the 2d let me switch over I haven't really showed this set that much but that's what it looks like in in the mega in the mega imaging you make out the individual things but when I'm like vertical jig I kind of like to use the 2d a lefty bring it in the hammer yes he's ready for the pan we have found the mega-wad concentration when you see that you know you're gonna get bit oh yep things are happening I have a fish on that's hooked up I just caught one yours is not bigger than mine no months and the kitty cat I was right I had a theory I kept seeing all these fish glued to the bottom and they look big I was like maybe they're bass but a lot of times catfish will sit around schools of feeding fish and just eat the scraps and I just got one so that's a bonus whisker biscuit right there the fish me and dad and he pulled it out of the water it's just so effortless at the boat ramp you know a fully rigged boat just slowly pulling it out you could definitely tell a difference with that versus a gasoline engine I'm gonna rev this thing up down the road and and really you know fill the thrill of all that good old fashion v8 horsepower if this motor if this truck is really all that it's talked up to be I don't see why this is not gonna be more popular we'll see how it turns out I'll let you guys know keep updated on the channel go ahead and smash that like button for just a good old bow tie fishing in America bass boats Chevy trucks that's just pretty good combo right there me now lefty you're gonna go sharpen up the knives and make some golden crispies so till the next video LFG signing off God bless you I'll see you on the next day