Rebuilding the Overlander Rack: The Adventure Begins!

Hello Bigfoot Enthusiasts, Scott here from Squatch America and welcome to a terrific Tuesday to all our membos. So apparently there's been an incident with the uh Squatchmobile and let's just say um I think we kind of overdid it with the uh overlander rack a little bit. It might have been a little bit overweight so as you can see here this uh railing right here might be slightly cracked right there is here on the other side and you can notice the flexing there. Apparently these side rails can't handle as much weight as I put on it. Who knew? You know I think we're gonna need a PhD in engineering to fix this and that Adam got that. into Whitney to the Ace Hardware. We're gonna go buy some metal and some bolts and some bits and bobs as Hannah calls them and if you notice I'm wearing different clothes because she made me take a shower because what did you say I smelt like? Sweat and diesel. Yeah she said I smelt like sweat and diesel but do you know what I told her? That's what America smells like. All right folks we got our steel and we got our bolts and we went to grocery shopping at Brookshire's since 1928. We're back at the campground and we got my bits and bobs. We got some bolts and the steel to reinforce this with so tomorrow I'm going to start tearing this thing apart and then we'll do the reinforcement and see if we can put it back together. in here in the research tent where we do our videos in our field research. I can't believe all this came out of the truck. So tomorrow we will get all this back out there and put back together. I hope fingers crossed that we can get her done tomorrow. So it is tomorrow. Okay it is the next day. So back to working the truck. So I'll show you what we got right here in the front bar for the truck. I never did bolt down the front of this because you can't get a bolt behind here because all the uh see if I can get the camera down there because this sticks out right here this sticks out right here and I can't get a nut up there. So I'm going to drill a hole right here and we're going to put like a rivnut in there. It's a rivet type style nut we're going to put in there and screw this down. I got the wiring set aside over there on that side ready to start the rewiring process when we go to put this back together and these poor old racks. I've had so much different junk on these over the years and drilled holes. They're probably not going to stand up anymore but uh we'll keep them until it hurts. How's that sound? All right we got her. I didn't film a whole lot because this was a pain in the butt but I'll show you what we got. So I took that piece of angle iron and I stuck it up underneath there over there and we bolted it down kind of like a splint and then we moved his racks back and bolted them down here and these are bolted through that angle iron also. So you can see where that crack was right there. That was you know dipped down so now we're flat leveled. I got the metal beat back where it needs to go. We're going to work on what we're going to do with the racks up here uh to get the tent and stuff back on because I moved I moved these from here they were right here to back here. I mean my bars were long enough but I'm going to put the bars underneath this rack because um it gets the tent way too high so we're going to drop it probably about four inches if we do that. So I used to have it hanging over here to put this um the uh solar panel on. So we're gonna we got a mount coming for the solar panel I think I said that before and we're going to figure out how we're going to do this. So this is the part where it looks like I'm doing nothing I just stand there and stare at it but I'm figuring stuff out. So I'll bring it back when we're there all right here we are um I got the bars put up kind of figured out a really cool way to put my mount my lights up here which would be cool. Got the bars mounted in the front not in the back. Not weird how the uh those u-bolts I took off it do not fit back on it. So I'm gonna have to go into town to get those tomorrow. So I'm gonna take the night and we'll you'll see the finished product next week because I got to get this edited tonight and get it up for Tuesday. So it is Sunday stores closed already so you'll see the finished product next week. So you keep watching we'll keep squatching and go out find bigfoot and rebuild your truck well don't really you know that damn sasquatch