Engine Teardown Nightmare! This Crankshaft Welded Itself To The Balancer! Watch How Peter At HED Get’s This Thing Apart.

Over the years I’ve pulled a few engines apart that surprised me because they had damage inside that you would think might keep it from running, or at least running as well as it seemed to in...

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CHEAP 8.1L CAM TEST-HOW TO ADD 30 HP AND 30 LB-FT FOR TOWING. 8.1L DART CARB INTAKE VS EFI-WHO WINS?

I love me some 8.1 horsepower, and in the video below our friend Richard Holdener is back at Westech Performance doing some cam testing on his dyno mule 8.1. He also does some testing with a carb vs...

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Big Truck Frame Repair: This Scania Truck Is Totaled. Can This Frame Be Straightened Out And The Truck Repaired?

Big truck frame repair is kind of mezmorizing sometimes. Whether it’s the guys in eastern Europe that take a completely pretzeled chassis and straighten it out so they can weld it all back...

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Desert Racing Tech: The SCIENCE Behind BAJA 1000 Support Vehicles! Check Out The Optima Batteries, Ford, Steel-It, Polvoorde Racing Support Rig.

Having just finished watching all the racing action from the Dakar Rally, and their famed trucks, it’s cool to see what a BAJA 1000 support rig looks like. They aren’t the same, as the...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: It’s The Last Stage Of Dakar 2026! Dramatic Stage 13 Racing Action Is Below!

Here comes Stage 13! It’s the final stage of Dakar Rally 2026, and will determine who’s going to take home the win. These racers are still going to have to race in this stage, and there...

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Installing a Two Post Lift Is Easy! With Just A Few Tools, You Can Install Your Own Two Post Lift At Home In A Couple Of Hours!

I bought my first Two Post lift from a friend of a friend in Southern California for just $800 but it had to be taken down, transported to my shop, and then installed again. I called a couple of lift...

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Buy Eisenhower’s Personal Jeep! One Of The Wildest Historical eBay Finds Ever –

You know that we love history around here and when it revolves around something mechanical, it ratchets up the coolness factory but a HUGE amount. Well, this is one of the most mechanically awesome...

Ram Bumping Up Production Of Half-Ton Diesels Due To Demand

The Ram 1500 EcoDiesel has been selling better than expected. How much better? The first batch of trucks, all 8,000 of them, sold out in three days. Not too surprising since the idea of a...

Kelderman Air Ride Lift Kits Are Now Available For 2014 Rear Coil Dodge Ram Trucks

For years Dodge Ram trucks have come with a coil sprung front suspension on 4-wheel drive models, and in 2014 Dodge designed a similar suspension system for the rear of their 2500 series, 3/4 ton,...

Big Air Challenge Video From The SCORE Desert Challenge Is Right Here! Watch Trucks Fly!

This weekend’s SCORE Desert Challenge in Imperial California is THE place to be if you want to see the best in desert off road racing. But, if you couldn’t be there Thursday night for the...

This Wild Jeep Project Is Powered By Four Harley-Davidson Engines: It Runs And Drives!

After spending a great day land speed racing and surrounded by some of the wildest machines in the racing world, we naturally decided to hit the land of eBay to see what we could find that would...

Watch As This Truck Tug-Of-War Goes Bad: Flames And Parts Scattered!

This didn’t go to plan, I’m sure. In this clip from BustedKnuckleVideo, this blue Chevy 4×4 hooked up to a K5 Blazer in a “grudge pull” event and went absolutely for...

Want An Air Cooled Camper Van That Isn’t A VW? How About This Insanely Rare Dormobile Corvair Conversion?

We know that tons of you out there love old campers and motorhomes. We also know that lots of you like freaky stuff and this 1963 Corvair van fits the bill on both accounts. For starters it is a...

Ramp Truck Battle! Would You Buy This Sweet 1963 Ford Cab Over Or This Equally As Sweet 1966 GMC? State Your Case!

This will likely turn into the Hatfields and McCoys right quick. I went out and found two of the coolest ramp trucks I have ever put on BangShift and I am sticking them both in the same blog item and...

Watch Freiburger, Rick Pewe, and Fred Williams Bring A 1950 Jeep Back To Life In Pewe’s Driveway – Cool Thrash

We have highlighted several of the cool Dirt Every Day episodes from the MotorTrend Youtube channel over the years and they have all had Fred Williams in them doing various stuff. From converting...

Winter Is Coming! Be Prepared With This 1947 Oshkosh Snow Blower Truck That Could Eat A Town

As the shorter days, cooler temps, and changing leaves start to make their presence known to those of us in colder climates, that can mean only one thing. Winter is on the way! With that comes the...

Ever Heard Of A Ride Truck? Neither Had We Before We Saw This 1966 GMC – (Not Exactly) Disney On Wheels!

So when we first looked at this ad for the 1966 GMC truck you see above and below, we thought, “So what? It hauled rides for a traveling fair?” We then realized that the truck actually IS...

Ebay Find: Who Needs A Giant 1980’s Chevrolet Dump Truck?

This was just too cool to pass up. Oddly, I found it while hunting mid-80s El Caminos, so someone at eBay has a sick sense of humor. This is a 1981 Chevrolet C-series dump truck with all of the...

BangShift Test Drive: The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Eco-Diesel – A Throwback To The Future

This was my second go around with a Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit Eco-Diesel in 2014. Earlier in the year Criag Fitzgerald, Dave Nutting, and I had taken one on a 2,000 mile weekend road trip that saw...

eBay Find: This 1969 Ford N600 Is Like A Big Red BangShifty Hope Diamond

I was scouring eBay last night for car haulers because those as things that I really want, cannot afford, and have no room to keep. Those are the key elements of any successful eBay searching...