Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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AS SEEN ON TV Tools that Beat Yours: Are As Seen on TV Tools Better Than We’ve Been Giving Them Credit For?

AS SEEN ON TV! We’ve all fallen for the trap at some point or another and bought some kitchen gadget, tool, or “performance” part that had huge claims as to how wonderful it was....

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Here Are All The American Powertrain Shifter Fitment Options On TREMEC 5 & 6 Speed Transmissions For Your Project

Wondering if there is a way to get your Tremec transmission’s shifter to line up in your application? Have a weird one and want to move the shifter forward or back to make it just right? In the...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: How To Build A Custom Roll Cage For An FJ40 Land Cruiser

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might...

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This 1981 Toyota Truck Is Amazingly Clean And A Total Throwback – Want Is Strong!

There was a theme I picked up on as a kid here in New England. That theme was rapidly disappearing Japanese trucks. I don’t mean like being stolen by aliens, I mean like evaporating from road...

Mickey Thompson Set To Release New Deegan 38 All-Terrain Tire – Great For Towing And Wheeling

In today’s world, the all-terrain light truck tire is the workhorse of any tire company’s product range. Mickey Thompson had a solid lineup of truck tires already but things are going to...

Raptor Action! Check These Cool Photos From Raptor X At The Texas Rally Ranch

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Ford F-150 Raptor is one of the most interesting, cool, capable, and all-out bad ass trucks to ever roll off an OEM assembly line. The vast majority of them...

Diesel Zen Video: Big Rig Drag Racing At Tulsa Is Torquey Fun

Racing working big rigs on the quarter mile is certainly no new thing but we still smile every time we see it. The wildly modified trucks we sometimes show are cool but the trucks that actually put...

The Ghost Fleet Of Mallows Bay Is The Largest Collection Of Sunken Ships In The US – Here’s The Story

(By Greg Rourke) – In a little backwater on the Potomac River in Maryland lies the largest gathering of sunken ships in the US, and possibly the world. So how did this honor fall on Mallows...

Runaway Diesel Video Compilation: Watch A Bunch Of Diesels Run Full Bore On Their Own Oil

We have to thank BangShifter John Eken for the tip on this video featuring a multitude of runaway diesel engines. From BMWs to front end loaders, and locomotives, this video captures the nightmare...

Racing Season Needs To Hurry Up – We Need Things Like Nine-Second Diesel Trucks Again!

Is it spring yet? No…crap. At least time is on the march, because right now I’m missing the smell of PJ1 and race fuel. The strip is calling our name, and while Lohnes will be out for the...

This Chopped and Channeled 1971 Model R Mack Is Awesome – Take A Video Tour

(By Greg Rourke) – We see cool project cars on BangShift every day. What we don’t often see is the cool way some of these cars get hauled around. Here we have a guy who looked at a truck...

This 1971 Chevrolet C10 Camper Special Is A One Owner Truck With Great Patina

Whenever you find a truck like this, which has been driven and owned by the same person for its whole life, there is nothing cooler than looking it over and trying to understand each and every...

Watch The Sloppy Mechanics Make 992 Horsepower To The Tires On Their Junkyard Colorado

We dig the Sloppy Mechanics. Not just because they clearly know how to have fun and make power, but also because they do it their way. Instead of building things that intimidate people because they...

Rough Start: Give Your Inner Child What They Always Wanted: A Big Red Fire Truck!

Unless you are an absolute savant like the three of us were as kids, chances are pretty solid that the first vehicle you could name without any provocation whatsoever was “fire truck!”...

Disaster Bridge Video: This 11’8″ Span In Massachusetts Eats Trucks and Bad Drivers For Lunch!

(By Greg Rourke)  – Low clearance bridges are the bane of the trucking industry. Legal height for trucks is 13’6″, but that doesn’t mean they can just go anywhere. Case in...

Huge Aftermarket News: MOMO and Weld Racing Join Forces – Weld To Maintain Kansas City Manufacturing

Some very significant news has broken this am in the high performance aftermarket. MOMO, the internationally known high performance wheel manufacturer and Weld Racing have joined in a partnership...

Exclusive Photos Of The New American Powertrain 1968-72 C10 Transmission Hump

So this week BangShift will be dropping knowledge on all sorts of new parts, components, and products from aftermarket companies across the board as we’re attending an annual event that centers...