The Blue Collar Offroad Podcast

Nick, jake, Curtis, Luke and Richie sit down to get caught back up. Luke rolled the Gar at some point, Nick became an influencer, and Curtis has been hunting. Ol' Stid has been moving weight. 

Nick, Luke and Richie sit down and talk about some shooting stuff, period correct blowers, and richie pouring concrete. 

Mike Oglesby joins Luke to cohost for a short one, we talk about the tj that could, a little body chop, and some hotrod shit. 

Logan, Curtis, and Luke give Richie the run down on the GAW. Harlan was a fucking riot, Curtis rolled his shit, Luke broke his, and Logan drives by braille.  

Richie and Jake give a recap of the Web Wheelers ball, Luke gets back from Harlan, and we start to cover the damage report. Apparently 33s can break a lot of shit. 

The walts and grembo return for a update on what grems shit boxes are doing, Harlan/WWB prep, some tool talk and as always mocking curtis. 

Apologies on grabbing the wrong file. Fixed an editing issue so we are reuploading. 

Anyways, bullying works, we chat about the webwheelers ball, harlan, Richie going wheeling, Nick, Curtis, and Jake filled in. Good times where had. 

Nick and Curtis sit down with Richie and Luke, A random Stid pops in, bullying works.

You guys won. 

An update on the Manche, some future plans for it, and a less than ideal update on the status of the podcast. This is gonna be the last update for a while. 

Hayes returns with the tale of the death of King Julian, rock bouncer issues, and a cj on tons. We give a quick update on the web wheelers ball and what is happening. 

Ryan Stratemann of Stratemann Automotive joins us to talk about when 14 bolts just aren't enough, a set of 47 boggers breaking everything, and a bunch of info on 5.9L cummins. 

Much like that 231J with a hack and tap, 250k miles, and a beer cans worth of atf we get a bit off the rails. Talking about how stuff can just spiral on builds to the point of absurdity. 

Somehow broncussy gets said, tubes are being thrown, Luke had a good time at Harlan, and Richie comes back from night shift.  

Brab prater joins us again for an update on the rigs new LS, the 4 link, and transmission fun. The wet mess that was the meet and beat and orbitals come up a time or two. 

Garret joins Cody, Luke and Graham to talk about Toyota magic, Iroks, and a 3800 powered sami on 9s. Throw in some old diesel stuff and you have a banger of an episode. 

@Jake_Stid_ And Nick @littlexjthatcould Join us to talk about getting rained for weeks on end, Cody is sick, and Grem shows up late. Over all fucking awesome time at the meet and beat despite the weather.

Luke and Richie are off to beat their meat at AOP. we talk shit about Luke behind his back, super tractors, more info dumping on the accidental dodge halfassed restoration from hell, towing with the RV, and more!

Graham goes into the truck transmission rebuild, has interesting opions on exhaust hangers, Luke bought a tent, Richie preps for the meet and beat, and Cody provides some info on his parts collection. 

Jared Huffman @HuffmansFab joins us to talk about growing up wheeling in TN, starting a fab shop, fab 9's fab 10s' CNC Buggies, Ls power, what goes into designing the chassis, especially the brow, and more!

Nick Leblanc joins us to talk about meet and beat prep, just casually rebuilding a th400, breaking ax15, sm465 and gets Graham going. Just a casual reminder the Trail trash meet and beat is only 3 weeks away.

Eddy comes on to talk about building a telehandler buggy, curtis talks about the fuel air bomb his fuel cell made, and of course some shit box tow rig talk!

Hayes from @runsprimeracing joins us to talk old tow rig adventures (69 c30) junky xjs with turbos and tree limbs, and finally Mort and King Julian's relations. 

Graham Luke and Cody are joined by @Geeks4x4 to talk about coil swapping an excursion, rock crawling a v10, and some 7.3 and 5.9 banter.

Nick and Jake went to winterfest, Grembo got sick, and Cody does something.

Grem makes progress on his cummapart, Luke and Logan put studs on Luke's cummins, richie gets the commanche on the road and Cody gets his gears turning. 

Kyle Stalter joins us again after a few years of shooting the shit . We bully him into cutting more out of what is left of the xj, and towards getting it running sooner. Some cummins talk of course and a few tangents. 

We had an audio file issue with episode 215 getting messed up and sounding like a robot fighting the tin man. So we are releasing episode 216 early. The boys get together to catch back up after 215 with Richie, Luke, and the walts plus Hiesenburg. We are trying to save the old episode but this was a great time and while we work on it. 

Amcjeepman Joins us to talk about wheeling the South East before it became what it is today, the amc 360, some of the small details to get them right, who makes good cam parts, and of course CJ's!

In true fashion long time friend of the show Caleb Spillane Joins us to have the truest form of BCO podcast. We talk the good old days, the good times, the bad times, the fun stuff hes gotten up to and somehow never manage to actually stick to a topic. He will definitely be back on at some point to go over some of the other fun shit hes been up too! 

Kyle Orszula Joins us tot alk about building the one ton manche, coming down form MI to TN and living near windrock. We get life updates from Grembo (The j in j truck is still for junk) and Kissh finally has both lockers! 

Wyatt Greene joins us to talk about building a Jk into a tube framed double triangulated, LS powered rock banger. 43 SX's KMC's and some good times wheeling the Southeast and Ohio. @Wheelingreene on instagram

Aidan McHugh joins us to talk about wheeling aop, building a small tire rig for it, and just shoot the shit with the boys. Cool dude and a fun episode. 

A chill one with the boys after the holidays to catch up, Richie is back, the Comanche is getting a front locker, J truck updates, and an unusual amount of banter. 

Welcoming in the new year Dean Benner joins us to talk about building a insanely cool competition buggy, a Nissan Leaf motor coupled to a 4 speed atlas, home made battery cells, the tools required to build them. He talks about how he got into competition, and got his son into it with his son competing in WeRock and X rock.  

Cody, Graham, and Luke sit down for the pre Christmas show and shoot the shit, Grems J truck proving itself to not be the best dd, cummins fun, and electric crawlers. 

Rob Craven joins us to catch up 180 episodes later, Talk about DCS lights a bit, some KOH stuff, and everything is broken. JK engine issues, Cummins Transmission issues, and 4600 class discussion.  (We reference a good bit of stuff from around the episode 26 time frame)

Bob Siwinski joins us to talk about the happenings of new englands best campground, talk some shit, serve some humble pie and to bring us back to our humble roots. As always it is a good fucking time when Bob shows up. 

Grembo is broken down and out, Richie is on nights, so RJ and Mark Knibs join us for one with the boys from the club. Some talk about rear steer coolness and another xj gets a 9". 

Logan, Luke, Curtis, and Graham, what can go wrong? And why is Jimmy Hoffa in Lake Superior? 

Marty Emersion host of the event Blizzard Blast joins us to talk about racing, mud racing, mega truck stuff, hosting blizzard baja, and bouncer stuff!

Nick and Jake join the guys to catch up, some updates on what nick has going on, and the large rebuild that Jake is doing. 

So this has been a long time coming, Colin was with us for the 1 year anniversary, and now 2 years later he returns with house fun, unibody patches, a 14 bolt, and no mechanical sympathy. We talk about how times changed, the old days of the club, Cody gets a fair bit of shit and gives it back. 

Much to Frankie's disapproval Grembo, Richie, and Cody wheeled FNF. Flops, bad driving, minor mechanical stuff, and shenanigans ensue. Luke's 4.0 hatred carries on. 

We sit down with just the 4 of us, a somewhat coherent plan, and just get into it. Grems working on cummins stuff, Luke goes to ohio, and we end up arguing over roll cage tubing size. 

3 Kids, 4 doors, 40's on a mini van and 8k+ miles. What more do you really need? Chris Iosua returns from a trip to Moab, Colorado, and Arizona living out of his JK with his family then heads to the ball! 

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DeRon of whiskey out doors joins us to talk about the small tire life, hemi swaps, and of course Dispute on the rocks. We are sorry for the delay in getting the episode out, Cody and Luke both had daily driver issues! 

3d printing, cnc machines, transmission mounts, and the cheapest engine mount money can buy. We also bring up the logo's history and how it came to be. 

@Wedwhyjay (aka Greg) has a bitchen J truck, tons, 6.0, np435/205 you know the works. He was at the web wheelers ball and had the J truck working, talks about the Red yj that sits sad in the corner on 9s, and we have our normal tangents. 

Tim Gibson rejoins us for a follow up on the web wheelers ball, only catching fire 1 time this trip, an update on the new tow rig, trailer, and apperantly putting a comanche on trailing arms. Ya know just the normal stuff. Luke dies from the flu and Richie is missing. Oh and its a FORD FUCKING RANGER! 

Richie, Grembo, and Luke made it to PA. Good times where had, 4.0s died, ls's sang, and Broncoish puts all 460 CI of that big block to work. Seriously though, thank you to all who showed up! It is always a blast meeting every one! 

Luke has his jeep doneish, Richie drives the Comanche, and Grem drives the JT. What a week, the web wheelers ball is like 1 week away at this point, infact next week we will  be on the road on Thursday!  

Strokers having a stroke, a lack of stripper jokes, Cummins talk, DOT treps doing the DOT thing, and 2 small businesses worth checking out. A solid episode with a solid animal fact. 

Logan @Bronco_ish joins of for a tangent laden shit show. He has a sick rig, is a cool dude Localish to Luke, wheels a bronoish thing. We learned that pandas are cucks so thats cool, and dana 44s still suck. But a built dana 60 likes to party.  

We lost our shoes, got attacked by muffy, and we talk about dodging cones! Veronica and Eric from @barefootmotorsports join us to talk about the new Eric Miller Chassis, retiring her old tj thing, Profender Frankenshocks, and we clear up the aop mystery. 

Grembos J20 is trucking along, Richie's Manche updates, wheeling Glass Mountain, and apparently a ton of tangents! -1 Luke. +1 Shopkid interjection. 

Cam from Crazy Cruisers joins us to talk about the wild world of Xrocks, WeRock, and what it takes to get to competing on that level. Some interesting information comes out about the Behemoth Drive Train 300 cases, and a touch of info about the release dates on the Mickey Sticky's! 

Brent Hockman of Brent Built/Shecrawls comes on to talk about his Rock lizard build, what got him into wheeling, building troubles with the small size of the new rig, and where his favorite places to wheel are. Rear steer fun is brought up, the issues he ran into with king pins followed up with a cool motor choice and the complications it brought. 

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Some episodes deserve a funny name or caption, this one deserves a healthy dose of well earned respect. Carl Jantz of Jantz engineering, winner of Alaska Offroad Warriors, snow wheeling fame and just a legend. He joins us to talk diffs, dodge nitros, Superjeeps, Jana 76s, answer tech questions and spread knowledge. 

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A deep dive into William Andres himself, how he got in with flex rocks and roll overs, and of course the shop talk. Karnage motor sports out of Miami for jeep work! 

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Richie lights a Comanche on fire, Luke goes sped mode on steering v3, Grembo gets in his feels about np208s, and Cody tries to direct the shit show. Manual old truck's reign supreme, 203/205 vs 241/205 and atlas rears its head, some one may have sat on a shifter. Who knows? 

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Normally we would put something funny for the title, but today we cant. This ones a little different than the normal wheeling stuff but we hope you will enjoy! Team up Racing joins us to talk about fortheneed.org and helping inspire the next generation through working with their hands. They help foster kids, homeless kids, and children with special needs to learn automotive and life skills. 

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Grembino returns, (kinda) Cody's jeep still moves, nv5600 talk, and the berating of Luke's xj carries on. BlueCollar10 with glue tread hooks you up!

Logan Young (aka the mechanic) Joins us to update us on the ton swap, wheeling with Luke, the Meet N beat, and of course the creeper van. Curtis makes an appearance and mom and dad are fighting. 

Jake Warner of Bigshocks joins us to talk the usual 1 ton manche stuff, with a side of Turbo LS served to rowdy perfection, mud truck stuff, and then a truly shocking amount of shock knowledge. Thank you to OnX and Big Shocks! 

Hopping on a plane to go and party in the mountains with a group of dudes you never meant will not make mom happy. But it will make for a great story! Add in some KOH, being a Quartershort of a full cast and you have one hell of an episode! 

David Goggles, a Hayes on the mountain, shop kid being awesome, and a random Stid left this podcast a Quarter short. Long story short The Meet N Beat year 3 special is here. 

First of all thank you for 85K downloads! Second Kyle is a cool dude with a rig on 42s, a good bit of info on bleeding full hydro and what makes a good system and plenty of tow rig tech! 

Dead hens, crawl boxes, small animal facts, and wonton O' Manche await you. Josh Dautenhahn managed to even drag the reclusive Richie out of his shell! A sweet Mj that looks good and gets wheeled, a discussion on clubs in wheel results in an awesome episode! 

When you have ran the test set of reds, know JHF personally, and can prank Tom Woods well you might just be the guy. Oh and something about moon rovers at FNF? 

Joey Urban of Urban 3D comes on to part the podcast out, talk some 3d printer stuff, lockout removal with a fork, and properly tuning your 300 dollar turbo kit. 

@squirely_xj joins the boys to talk about how far you can take a dana 30 on roids, why the one ton is not always the choice, racing a dana 30 in King of Elbe, and what makes the PNW Wheeling scene tick! Awesome dude, easy conversation, and a OG Cherokee boy. 

A thorough explanation with the details that can be given of the TTR Axle debacle that is currently rocking the Midwest. Also it was found after the podcast that the rear axles are in-fact also wrong. So the front axles that the boys bought were not correct and the rears are not correct either. 

After that Jake The Stid pops in and the boys chat some hydro stuff, putting metal to metal, and maybe some tow rig stuff? Who knows? 

Jon and KC of Trail Trash hop on to to talk about where they have been, why the page has been so quiet, the prep work going into the meet n beat. Some interesting hydro info if you drive a shit box xj and all that jazz. May 3-5 Be There! 

Marvin and Will from Flex Rocks & Rollovers and Karnage Garage respectively join us to talk about the Rain Forest Challenge. A grueling 10 day long race taking place in the jungle. Teams come from all across the globe to race, the food looks amazing (and gets talked about quite a bit), the mud will suck a person up, and the winches are insane! Toyota v8's with twin turbos, K24s bangin limiter, and Will/Marvins story telling makes this a banger of an episode!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlraJR-AseY

If your gonna build a race car you might as well build a 4400 car, if your gonna go big, you might as well go really big and make King of the Hammers your first race! This episode is like riding on a cloud of titties. Also BFG race support rocks! 

Bikel and Shopkid (Aka Connor. Cool dude) Join us to talk about Killdozer/The Budget Bouncer/Zj things. Bikel cut a 4 runner in half so he won't need to Runs-Bypasses any more. Fun animal facts, rice syndrome and madness ensue. Plus 4okee things.  

We bring Eddie Kemp from the trail trash crew back on to talk about his recent trip out to the King of Hammers.

talked about how the 40 hour trip out and back went, try to comprehend the sheer openness of the desert event as east coasters, and how to properly winch from a cactus when you get bellied out with your long wheelbase.

We have a Sam on, this one is not the Naked and terrified one. Instead he is a fabricator with a killer rig that just looks....Right. I think that is the word. We talk trail hero, LS swaps, and the origin story of the teal machine! Oh and a lot of tire talk. Like a lot. 

Congrats to Jordan, this one sets the bar for an introduction story. It was one of the rare times Luke, Cody, and Grem sat back captivated by the intro story. Some BMX and mountain bike stuff, desert racing, and of course he is part of the rare Parking Lot Floppers Club. 

Hayes returns to fill us in on what is going on in Runsprime Land. And well this BBF Is infact not doing that. The bronco is cool as hell though! 

Cody, Luke, and Grembo sat down at like 10 at night to get a episode out for this week. Cody had to work, Luke was recovering from working 23 hours the day before, and Grembo was sick on  our normal recording day. This was a fun one that went every where and any where.  

Stid stud we dunno. But cool dood, 1 tons, 40s and tons of tangents await. Cant wait to introduce him to the BCO way at the Meet N Beat! Also some tow rig talk, tangents on the gym as well. 

You know her or you've at least heard of her. Leah joins us to talk about how she got into wheeling, what she is doing to help get other women into wheeling, the experiences that brought her into wheeling, and how it has sprouted into being involved with Flex Rocks and Rollovers, X-rocks, and started Shecrawl's. We also go and get into why Toyota axles are in fact a bit on the small side, why reds are in fact not the move for AOP, and more sticky bashing. 

Mark Knibbs (FMjeeper on all socials) joins the boys to take Lukes spot, they talk about the differences in Marks jeep since last time he was on, some stuff about terrible manche's and most important Cody starts to see the light. 

Starting the journey to UA with Sam from NNUF, we go into the details and the nitty gritty of getting a shitbox 1 ton rock crawler xj to hold together for an insane amount of road time. It blew our minds that this thing drove 400 miles and 9 hours from KY to the start of UA!  Brandon Did a killer job with the rig. So give him a follow! @Braapinbrandon and @braapfamilyoffroad!

Happy Three year anniversary! Shawn Pierce joins us to talk about what is going on with his rig, why he has Grems rig, some ultra 4 drama/speculation. Thank you all for listening!

Every one is settling back in after the AOP trip and normal life is starting to begin again. Luke has a Comanche that is in need of some love, the boys talk about when it is reasonable to build an 05+ and if it has pros over an 04. Nick Jonard ends up as a surprise guest with a large shake up to his rig after the Web Wheelers Ball.  

Logan, Curtis, Luke & Grembo did a Friendsgiving or whatever you want to call it at AOP in TN. 2 days of solid wheeling, a week of Logan and Curtis flirting, a mangled zj, and what happens on the mountain are all brought up. 

The boys talk about what happened with Good Evening Ranch, some shirt talk and how to get into the preorder, a bit of what's going on to make thanksgivings trip happen and some other fun stuff. 

RTV snakes, Yard civics, FORD FUCKIN RANGERS, and the Web Wheelers Ball are just the start of this out of pocket episode. We also have dodges with a bad habit of catching fire, we explain how the Mazda Miata is the Ohio of cars, and finish it out with some scooter larping. Thank you for coming on Tim!

Dave Hanson joins us to talk about building a bouncer, the issues with bouncers, toyotas breaking 60s, broken 44s (shockingly) and wheeling out in the Midwest! 

Chris Willey joins us to talk about running Ultimate Adventure for Bubba Rope, working in an offroad shop, maintaining snow cats, and his podcast. Go Check it out Heat Treated Garage on where ever you want to listen! Also some cool scout stuff comes up. And way, way to many jk frames. 

The more you fuck around, the more you find out, and with the level of fucking around at Field and Forrest, the boys have found out, that yes the descriptions of the trails are accurate. Some shooting of the shit about what Luke and Logan are up too, and the works. 

Mike and Hayes from @runsprimeracing on instagram joined us to talk about how they started runs prime, drinking as a sport, the web wheelers ball comes up again, hayes decent little nab, and of course Bikel's yota destruction. 

Josh Greenleaf and Adam Leydic Host (which is very odd) Cody + Grem, Luke and Richie phone in to talk about how stuff is going at the shop. Greenleaf talks about a bunch of awesome racing stories, how he got into it, what is pushing him to build a new car, and what the differences between a racer and a wheeling rig are. It was a fun and different experience for the guys!

Billy THE MOTHAFUCKIN Kid hops on to talk about reverse one ton swapping an f250. He wheels a f250 on 40s with all that V8 whhhhooooopooooows. We chat about how the 01 ended up being the beat up truggy-thing it is, wheeling SMORR, the web wheelers ball saga, and what is coming up next in that poor poor poor trucks life. 

Mikey and Chris from the Rockaholics offroad club Join the full cast to talk with us about the Web Wheelers Ball, the organization, and all that stuff. It was a great episode! 

Jake Thompson comes on to defend the honor of his lil red shit box. He gets bullied about his rigs anorexia (it only weighs 3k lb wtf?) talking about what makes a it fun to wheel, some od lil suspension tips and tricks for it (like delron sleeves on the coil buckets) and mini trucks!  

Burtis (aka hackbar fab) joins the boys to start unpacking what a shit show The Web Wheelers Ball was. Plenty of laughs, good people and lots and lots of funny shit. 

With the web wheelers ball coming up, and Tony from Rock Raisin Fab staying with us what better of a time to talk about the shit show that is brewing? A bit of tech on the new chassis coming to market from RRF and last but not least....super duties doing the not fun thing, 47re's doing the dodge thing, and yeah!