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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Classic YouTube: Jeep CJ For 1983 – Bring In The Buffalo?!

By the time you are reading this in the morning, the Jeep Wrangler JL will debut at the LA Auto Show. We showed you the same teaser that FCA showed us at SEMA (which you can see HERE) but for the...

A 1939 Ford COE Truck And Matching Curtiss Aerocar Land Yacht Make A Bitchin Pair

The vintage RV’s we normally see around are 1960’s and 1970’s models, with the rare 1950’s sighting, but you almost never see 1940’s or 1930’s RVs except on those...

Tough Truck Violence: Destruction-Testing In The Pacific Northwest!

I know that Tough Truck racing was originally meant to prove that you had the beefiest rig around, but somewhere along the line there was a split. On one hand, you have those who still try to survive...

Big Block, Turbo 400, And 4 Wheels Out Back Makes This Square Body A Great Start

We’ve been in the market for a Square Body, 1973-1991, Crew Cab Dually for the past couple months and have looked at too many to count. We finally purchased one a couple weeks ago and are...

Crew Cabs Rule! This 1985 Dodge Ram W350 Crew Cab Is The Mopar Battlewagon The Air Force Loved!

Chad has been on a square-body Chevy kick ever since he got ahold of his 1987 Chevy dually. Can’t blame the guy, the truck is sweet, but when it comes to brand favoritism, I have to lean...

Rough Start: This 1990 Chevrolet Kodiak Is A Great Start For A Custom RV Or Hauler Build!

On one hand, I’m enjoying watching Chad dive back deep into the world of square-body GM trucks with his recently-acquired dually. He’s been dying to get an older crew-cab truck for a...

Parking Lot Heroes: Watch The Stock/Stock Modified Classes Run The Bogs In Texas!

Pro mud trucks are one thing. Nothing goes well like watching a thousand horsepower and tall, skinny tractor tires turn ye olde mud bog into short work. It’s something else entirely when your...

Dino’s Gitdown 2017 Is GM Truck Heaven. Thank The Grinder TV Guys For Killer Coverage

We’ve never gotten to go to Dino’s Gitdown, because we’re always doing something else that weekend, but man we wish we had this year. If you are into GM trucks, and like them all...

If We Were Shopping For A New Body Style Dually, And Had A $15,000 Budget, This Would Be Our Jam

Anybody that reads BANGshift.com on a regular basis knows that we love Crew Cab Duallies around here, and that we’re pretty excited about them regardless of what year. With that said, we do...

Smoked Turkey: A Cummins Diesel Blows All The Way Up! Cylinder Head and Most Of Block Launched Into The Air

BangShift reader TruckPuller sent us a tip on the wildest engine dyno failure video we have seen in quite some time. It features a straight six diesel engine on the dyno, which we think is a Cummins,...

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Fail, Fail Again – Here’s A Rock Bouncing Video We’re Scratching Our Head Over

Before you start hucking rocks at us here, understand that we like rock bouncing, we get rock bouncing, and we think rock bouncing is generally bad ass. This video however has us scratching our head....

Vintage Tractor Porn: This 1950s Allis-Chalmers Video About Crawler Tractors Rules!

It has been far too long since I last indulged my love of old tractors here on the pages of BangShift so let’s fix this today, shall we? Here we have a 1950s video produced by the...

Suffering From Snow Worries? This 6×6 Suzuki Samurai Will Save Your Sorry Hide!

We are heading quickly from the colorful and crisp Autumn season to what I casually refer to as the “cold, gray bucket of suck” that is winter. (Ok, Brian Gordon from Fowl Language Comics...

Cool eBay Find: This Ancient Joseph Van Blerck Marine Engine Is Cool And It Runs (Video)

Four cylinders, 350ci, clunking-clanking noises, and likely some amazing smells. That’s what you are buying if you get your hands on this engine that is 112 years old and is claimed to be the...