We Put $5,000 Brakes on our $500 Ranger

all right you got it Max

Speed we bought this Ford Ranger for

$500 and soon we'll be racing through

the deserts of Mexico in the Nora 500

but before we do that we need to make

some major upgrades in order to survive

yeah in the last video we upgraded the

suspension as you may be able to see and

as much as we would love to take the

truck to the desert right now and see

how good that new suspension is and we

probably need the truck to be able to

stop yeah so to do that we bought this

willwood front and rear brake kit along

with some other braking accessories for

a grand total of

$5,000 we're also upgrading our wheels

and tires and plan to add some more

power at some point so to handle all

that extra Force we have to upgrade our

front hubs and Knuckles as well as our

rear

end once we get our new brakes installed

we'll take it back to California City to

test them alongside our new wheels and

tires and the suspension that we

installed last

week so what do you say let's in all

this stuff so we can head to the desert

let's do

it okay quick plan of attack we'll need

to prepare our nude axles and hubs then

we'll put the calipers and rotors on the

rear axle then go to the front we need

to put a brake proportioning valve

somewhere in the engine bay and Plum the

lines from that valve to the calipers

that we installed we're going to be

putting a lot of force on these things

so we're going to try to make sure they

don't break so we've got some beefy

components here axles hubs Knuckles the

whole thing so we got Dean and Dean

knows how to do this stuff so he's going

to help us finish up in the time that we

have left we got to get cracking we got

this camberg racing rear end a lot of

the time you have to buy your brakes

axles differential and housing all

separate but cambering actually sells

these as complete packages which takes a

lot of the work off our hands we're

getting this axle all checked out make

sure our axle lengths are correct I have

these axles sitting around at my place

so hopefully they're the same thing the

odds of the axles fitting are about 98

99% as long as can use a tape measure

right we should be good so what we got

here is a 10-in Evan Weller third member

and this third member it runs what it's

called a school both axles will spin at

the same time there is no slip it's just

all power to the ground all the

time on the

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money we've got knuckles for the ranger

because they're big they're strong

they're beefy they're from a four-wheel

drive truck so they're built for heavy

duty stuff this is not a perfect bolt-in

solution though this line right here we

got to cut all this stuff off so it

works with the kit that we have got a

cutting wheel going to give that a shot

and uh just Lop all that stuff

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off that didn't

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work so uh while modifying these

Knuckles here I did go a little

overboard with the cutting wheel uh cut

in just past you know um it happens when

you're cutting 90° two ways you know I

don't know yeah dude not to you I guess

CU job's the master I would never say

that I want to fill this up it's not

structural at all so I it's not like a

safety concern it's just more of

Cosmetics I want to fill this in with

some wire some welds and then sand it

off make it look nice before we go ahead

and paint

it hell

yeah it looks

like but I'm gonna you know wait you're

already done yeah I fill it in it does

not look good Joby but uh you know a

grinder and paint makes me the welder I

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ranger all right it's time to slap this

stuff together and see if we've got the

clearance we need to have

brakes oh

yeah

clears I believe this needs to go on the

back of that red anodized piece

hopefully we don't have to take it off

to do that so here we

go clears The

Hub it doesn't go over oh oh oh is it

like a little puzzle

oh that was going to suck that didn't go

that was going to really suck job all

those years playing Uncharted really

paid off that was some Adventure

puzzle this is a pretty big freaking

rotor pretty massive willwood four

piston uh caler as well I mean the

clamping force on these wheels is going

to be awesome and we need a lot of

braking power since we're putting 37in

tires on this thing that's a lot of

rotational Mass the wheels and tires

together weigh 120 lb and you know when

you're going let's say 100 m an hour

that has a lot of momentum going around

in the circle so you need to clamp down

as hard as you can and I think these

wheel Woods are going to help us get a

done just a little bit little dab will

do you just at flying some anti- Seas on

the back of the brake pads here just to

keep the system from binding up and

squeaking making noise better braking

operation that is something you should

really be doing uh on your daily driver

for sure and will only make the Baja

Blaster that much better to

drive so satisfying it's notched out so

just stays right there willwood rules

dud well noie what do we think how's it

coming all right well the rear brakes

are done they're not plummed up or

anything yeah sure yeah but the cool

stuff's done the cool stuff is done the

biggest change that we are getting with

this willwood system is that we're going

from a drum Brak system that came on the

truck stock to a disc brake system a

pretty beefy one at that job disc brakes

are pretty much better than drums in

every respect some recent Vehicles still

come with drums on the rear that's a

proven system they're cheap to

manufacture

but you can't beat a not to mention the

Ste that comes along with it that's

right buddy looks great dude thanks and

it be clear our upgraded brakes will

disperse heat better be more responsive

and more reliable however they won't

directly help us stop faster that's more

of a feature of our new

tires we got tires 37 in tall and we got

some raceline rhinos it's forged so it's

going to be super strong and it's a bead

loock to physically grab onto the tire

and keep it on the wheel without blowing

the beads off so we can run super low

pressures and get out of any tricky

situations they're going to be huge

they're going to be heavy they're going

to look great we just have to put them

together which means about a th000 bolts

need to go into these wheels so I've got

many hands boys them things are dirty

dude give me them clean

wheels

1080 that's my guy look at

that oh my god dude the

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difference wow wow wow wow you versus

the guy she tells you not to worry about

am I right all right I mean this truck

was pretty fun to wheel in a stock form

it was like pretty capable now just

seeing like the sheer size difference

gives you a really good idea of like how

capable the truck's going to be when

it's not only fully completed but even

just with the suspension system that we

have on there and these tires it's going

to be able to take much bigger bumps and

also with these really big blocky tires

here I think that River wash is going to

be uh pretty fun now let's continue with

the

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build all right so we've got a

proportioning valve here from willwood

this is a pretty nifty bit of Kit and

it's pretty simple the way it works is

it's got two inlets one for the front

axle one for the rear axle for your

brake power coming out of the master

cylinder this knob here modulates how

much brake fluid can get through to the

rear axle and by changing that amount

you affect the bias overall if you dial

out braking in the rear well you've got

more front bias if you dial up braking

in the rear you got less front bias so

it's pretty simple just got to make a

couple lines get a couple fittings on

here and then we'll be dialed

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in okay I'm starting to wonder if this

is the right fitting just trying to

thread in this fitting for one of the

front output lines from the

proportioning valve and for the life of

me I can't get it started I thought that

I was pretty sure this is the right

fitting but starting to think might be

wrong theme of the video the theme of

the video and all the videos and our

lives thus far we've got cool brakes but

I can't find the hardware with which to

install them so I'm going to keep

looking and uh yeah maybe have to go buy

some more

bolts so we have our our cables here uh

we've got a few of them Adam is

currently at the king of hammers he's

the one who ordered all these and

devised the braking system uh but he did

not leave us a drawing or any sort of

schematics or a heads up or you know

like hey here's a here's what I was

thinking I think we can figure it out I

think we can do it it's only breaks on a

race

car it's fine

so we're replacing our original hard

lines from the factory with these longer

braided lines they're more durable uh

and they're longer which we need because

now we have a lot more suspension travel

so our brakes are going to be further

away from the truck than they used to be

we need some extra line to make that

work so that's what these are going to

do they'll give us plenty of clearance

plenty of travel and they're very tough

so even if they do rub on something

which we're going to try to avoid they

won't immediately blow apart so it's

also going to be more resistant to

bulging which the stock stock rubber

lines would have been especially as they

get older and degrade when you put a

bunch of pressure on the brake pedal you

can bulge those lines and then your

pressure is going into the line rather

than into your brakes and slowing you

down we won't have that problem with

these no matter how hard we're pushing

on the pedal all the pressure is going

straight to the caliper to slow this

thing

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down W he saves the day again with some

fittings and lines cuz as usual we

missing a bunch of

stuff but now we're back in business

right no more trips to the hardware

store right

guys all right the brakes are officially

on the truck jooby we got bleed them and

then head to the desert for some

dessert hey it's me from the future now

before we hit the desert I wanted to

show you a new shirt that we made

specifically for the Baja blaster you

can see it's got the ranger on there

ripping through the desert and there's

even a little frog trying not to get run

over it's available in washed black and

natural and we even made a long sleeve

version for those chilly Desert Nights

and what's more we're also releasing a

new sticker and a new brown logo hat get

it all now at donut media.com and give

it the

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beans and we're back at the cctt DD what

does that stand for California City

Trophy Truck donut drum perfect we have

four different scenarios set up to test

all of our upgrades we have a straight

line speed test a braking and cornering

test a loose wash traction test and

finally a whoop section that means

jumps to see how much the weight has

affected the acceleration and power of

our truck we're starting off with our 0

to 60 test we've set up the same half

mile course here last time we hadit 34.9

seconds so we got a stopwatch here we're

going to see what Justin can do now what

do you think slow I think H yeah all

right Justin as long as you feel like

we're not about to explode uh you're

good to go we're checking it out I felt

the vibration and we're getting a little

bit of smoke so let me just diagnose

smoke oh sick okay well let us know I

guess he's got a vibration and a little

bit of smoke and he said he thinks it's

the drive shaft that drive shaft is

perilously close to the gas tank which

is one of the few things we really don't

want to rip open or have smoke yeah okay

it should just be something off the

exhaust we're good to

go okay on go 3 2 1

go he's already up the speed looks like

he's hauling look at that oh my God this

feels horrible but it feels faster

somehow 30 seconds 30.7 8 seconds so the

extra grip from the tires overcame the

added wait and got us across the line

almost 5 Seconds faster incredible it's

pretty cool something's making noise I

think that's the drive

shaft that was the scariest scariest 30

seconds of my life

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really the carrier is absolutely gone

our drive shaft support is completely

gone that carries the drive shaft just

kind of gives us some support in the

middle keeps it from doing a bunch of

this and it's not happy with the things

are at and uh uh it has left the chat

which isn't great you going to go grab

the part I'll go we'll go get it

yet here we

are got two of them not sure which one

we need one of them was a lot more

expensive than the other stupendous yes

one should work y for now this is

neither one of these is long for this

world I

think so this drive shaft is a stock

drive shaft and obviously our rear axle

differential all that is not stock and

we've got a lot more travel so we need a

longer drive shaft but we really only

need the stock drive shaft to get us

through today we just want to get

through this testing so while I do think

that even a new support bearing is not

going to solve our problems it will

hopefully get us through today that's

all I want trials and tribulations on

the

trails sounds good it looks smooth way

to go

Zach after that very fun Fiasco we're

back on the road the drive shaft is held

in place currently currently I don't

know what that beeping

is up next we've got our braking and

cornering test our new grippier tires

should let us stop faster and our new

brakes and proportioning valve should

let us do it with more control if you

remember last time we had a really hard

time stopping the truck no grip no grip

no grip so let's see how well this thing

performs

okay here we go ready yeah I'm

ready hey it took that BMP real nice all

right let's see how it stops see

breaking now oh wow it slows so good oh

yeah dude it stopped way shorter than it

did on stock tires that was excellent

Joe yeah that felt

amazing oh man this is so much better oh

yeah got all the brakes in the

world no problem at all slowing down

yeah I mean it just bites and Dives and

as it Dives so much you get even more

weight on the front more grip that was

we could have gone through how' it feel

oh it's so much better it actually slows

down now brakes work slowed us down

mission accomplished but now we got to

put these tires to the test I think it's

going to be a little hairy job why what

do you mean let's go to the river bed

it's time for our third test attraction

test the objective is to make it down

the creek bed around the cone and back

without sinking into the wash last time

we made it pretty far but as soon as we

had to slow down for the turn we started

sinking and we had to pull it out with

another truck so hopefully that doesn't

happen all right little traction test

rivered here we go here we go ready I'm

ready all right just stay on these routs

just stay on these routs yeah just keep

it down skiing baby yeah just jumping

around a bit so are my

boobs all right here they come I hear

that V6 screaming give her a

shot breaks are working hard he's

turning oh my goodness

no yes yes yes yes yes W

on it can't be stopped yeah all right so

our tires clearly have enough grip for

this loose material here I mean look

dude look at this chewed it up stock

Ranger we got stuck right about here

tires sunk in the rear end got stuck

right here but with that extra ground

clearance that wider contact patch and

those really gnarly lugs on the tire

shoot through this like nothing it was

easy brakes success Tire success now

test I've been waiting for all day the

suspension let's go to the

whoops okay Bel on bash hat on let me

tighten the sucker up dude don't kill me

to go just don't kill me me we good to

go ready

yeah oh God oh

God

God yeah noan yeah noan we're off track

but it was worth it

yeah what a

machine oh that was great everybody's

okay everybody's still checking

themselves

everybody's miss the track there buddy

yeah sometimes when you're getting too

much

air

okay dude that looked awesome how' it

feel Justin way better way better I

can't imagine doing that in the stock

Stu it was pretty jarring as is

Jesus dude it's actually very smooth I'm

able to form thoughts oh

God maybe

not that was so much fun oh my

God that's cool as hell we're just

getting started that's a tiny jump

compared to what this thing's going to

be able to do offroading is the best

like why do anything else you know just

go out in nature and have fun and drive

fast like ah I mean yeah granted we're

$20,000 in the ho um and uh we don't

even have safety equipment yet

uh

harnesses

seats a hood fenders ah there's still a

lot to do okay obviously the braks are

way better obviously the tires are way

better and obviously the suspension is

way better but now I think it's time to

take all of our little tests put them

all together and get one big lap time

let's do it dude what' you do last time

522 522 you think we're getting into the

fours yeah oh yeah oh yeah I'll the only

negative for us is how much bigger the

puddles got yeah but I think we're going

to float right across it are you ready

Nolan 3 two 1

go and we're off all right all right on

the straight section it feels a little

slow I'll give you that yeah it's going

to need more power I'll give you that y

it's going to be scarier oh yeah okay

first turn coming

in oh it's got all the brakes in the

world it it doesn't make sense to be

able to break that

well got to keep on it you got it foot

down we're good we're good we're good

we're good foot down baby to the floor

okay here we go that's a

TR yeah baby yeah

baby

sick

yeah wow now what do you have to do now

we got to do the puddle Joy oh the

puddle all right you got it max

speed

we're not

good oo that was a huge Splash oh

no we're

moving yeah that's cuz these tires float

baby my so

wet okay here we go hey check this out

JY

and we are across the

line wow that was

hilarious how was that mud hole oh

pretty deep sounds like you went quiet

for a second yeah I wasn't sure we were

going to get through but we did all

right what do you think your time was

man I I hope like in the 440s I'm going

to say 4:36 ooh you're both wrong you're

actually faster

432 almost a full

minute yeah it's almost like all you got

to do is completely reinvent the

suspension spend a bunch of money on

brakes and tires and then you'll get

better at stuff absolutely the ranger is

the best car we ever own all right let's

not go jinxing

it all right it's time to go address the

power issue back to the shop boys all

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right