best affordable suvs 2015

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this week on dirt every day, it's cheap truck challenge! (steady rock music) - [voiceover] oh wow. (laughing) (upbeat rock music) every year we do cheap truck challenge. it's our week of battlingagainst the budget. we get a cheap vehicle andwe build it up really cheap

to show you guys how to gofour-wheeling on a budget. i've done a bunch of cool cheap truck challengevehicles in the past. this year i brought dirt head dave in as my co-host and my partner, we're going to buildsomething really cool. i really wanted somethingbig, bad, with a big block, something we can put giant tires on, something we could reallytake out and abuse,

maybe with one ton axles. instead i got us this. what do you think, dave? i've been followingalong for like four years, thinking we were goingto build something cool, and you got us this pile. this is a jeep liberty. america! like the liberty bell!

it's already broken. like the liberty bell. it's got a round knock. just a little knock. but it's a jeep. and jeeps have been dominatingthe universe for ages. and whatever the other guys bring, this is a jeep, you can't beat a jeep.

we are team dust dawgs, and here's our winning, winning, cheap truck challenge 2016 rig. it is a 1986 k5 blazer, it has a manual sm 465 transmission. six and a half to ones, we'll be good for rockcrawling and hill climbs, so long as our 305 chevy keeps running, because it's carborating andit likes to cut out a lot

on the uphills, but we're goingto add tire and horsepower. 35s, nitros. it's a convertible, v8,four-wheel drive, solid axle. it's awesome. we're winning. there's nothing else you need to do. we already are right atthe edge of the budget, because we spent $2000just buying this thing, but we're going to try and keep it under

two grand to fix it up. we're going to do a few simple things, take it out, have a good time with it, see what we break, seewhat holds together, and show you guys how to have a good time on a nickel and dime. now there's two ways youcan build a four by four. you can build a really nice four by four that you can drive to work everyday at the hamburger joint,

and it can also work off-road, or you can build a four by four that works really good off-road and it's kind of miserableto drive to work every day, but you can still do it. we're going to build onethat's fun to go off road in, maybe a little bit miserableto drive in the street, but it's still going to be awesome. so dave, what do youthink we should start with

on our libery? - we're going to putbig tires on it first, we're going to weld the rear diffso that we get some traction, and we need a roll cage. that's pretty much it. it's got to be safe. and then we're going to stripa bunch of weight out of it. we have a v6 that hasa pretty bad rod knock, so to make up for the rod knock,

we're going to remove theweight, make the vehicle lighter, so that the engine doesn'thave to work as hard, and hopefully it won't blowapart when we're off-roading. but it might. and if it does, it'll be epic. - so we got the diff cover off. it is an open diff carrier, so what we'll end up doing is we'll weld all the spider gears up,

clean all the grease or the gear oil out, so that we can get it clean enough to where we can weld it. so the key on weldingafter cleaning something with brake clean is to makesure it's not chlorinated so that it doesn't createthat gas after you weld it. when i got the liberty,it had a broken back window, so rather than just have itfall out as we're four-wheeling, i'm going to try and just

break all the old glass out. dave's underneath thereworking on the rear axle while i'm breaking glass up here. you might've noticed theother guys are not here. they are at work making money so they can afford to buyparts for their cheap truck. which is very respectable. we're going to rip all this carpet out so that it's all metalup to the front seats.

the front seats will stay there, the headliner will stayabove the front seats, so it's nice and cush. - it's like a mullet suv. it's all like, business infront, party in the back. yeah. remove the hatch withoutdropping it on dave. oh man, that's heavy. this thing is going to be so much faster.

how's it look? looking good. so i tacked all four gears together, i'm going to rotate itand tack the other side. probably burn about apound of wire into there and this thing'll be spooled up. so here's the thing aboutwelding your rear diff. almost every axle out there has some sort of locking differential

or limited slip available. you want to do it cheap, do it this way. it might break parts, that's the gamble you get when you put in a weld at the rear end. i love this old headliner. come out. dave, you ready to helpme get this seat out? i'm ready, freddy.

i think this is a gumball. or a lemonhead. here, taste this. one, two... hey, i got the window out. there's the window regulator. and there's the glass. and the door panel, and the fixed glass. so we probably just deletedlike 30 pounds out of this

high performance machine. right here is the rocker panels. these are the parts that you always damage when you go rock crawling. so what we're going to do istry and get a piece of tubing that'll go from there to there. most of the time, youdon't want to use pipe on a vehicle, especially on a roll cage. but on something like thiswhere you're just putting

rocker protection or like a bumper, you can use pipe, it's cheap, it's easy, it's usually pretty strong, pretty thick. all right, fire it up. tell me how it sounds ready! (engine starts) oh yeah! - [dave] way better.

- rev her up! (engine revving) wonderful. do it again. awesome! i think we just addedabout 600 horsepower. hey, look who's here. hey. hey guys.

oh. wait. you guys got engine repair in a bottle? yeah, you need some? no, i got my own. i got presents for everybody. so i got these reallysweet dirt head shirts. i'm not on dirt head. i don't want that.

- wait. - where's the dust dawg shirt, dog? - here you go. - never guess what team picked the colors. - oh, here's yours, joe. looking good, guys. we'll take your wheels, we'll go get steel, and we'll get you some tires.

the shop is yours. - we found this in the trash. this is the dirt heads'tuneup in a bottle. we got our own tuneup in a bottle. it's better. our bottle's bigger. our bottle is a little bigger. the best way to add power toa carborated small box chevy is nitros.

- maybe not the best,but probably the easiest. - this is kind of the, what gets nitros into the motor. i haven't installed nitros before, but this is a good thing to learn on. oh boy. ah, perfect. - so now i get to mount

this sweet nitros bottle. be sure to put bothbrackets in the same way, because then the, like,mounts oppose each other, and that's not good. and don't drill under your gas tank. i mounted the bottle. - good. what jets did you put in the plate? - i put the biggest ones in.

so it's a 150 shot. let's get it to run decent and then we'll... - then we'll blow it up with nitros. (laughs) - that's going to be alast ditch effort anyway. - that's going to be ifliberty's passing us. - yeah. - all right, these are our two tires.

the guys in the blazer aregetting these cooper mtps, these are a proprietary tire you can only get at discounttire and america's tire. in the liberty, we'regoing to run these bfgs, it's a tall, skinny tire, so they are running a smaller rim, a taller tire, a wider tire, and more sidewall. i really like a tall, skinny tire,

and i think this is going to look awesome on the liberty. awesome's going to get those mounted up, we'll be back in the shop making magic. now, this is a day star spacer lift kit. they're pretty simple, pretty inexpensive, it's a polyurethane spacer that goes underneath thecoil spring in the back, and then another polyurethanespacer for the front strut,

and in a matter of minutes, we'll have two and a half inches of lift, which will definitely helpus clear the bigger tires. meanwhile, dave'sworking on the roll cage, and then we'll buttonup all the other stuff. - i'm building a quick and easy roll cage without having to use tubing. i'm trying to prove thatyou can build something safe at your house with basic tools

like a chop saw and a welder. i'm going to weld it to the roof, and then i'm going todo my down kickers from, and then i'm going to dosome 45 kickers to the back. prove that you can do iteasy, quick, down and dirty and cheap and still be safe. - our tall, skinny tire should clear now that we've massaged the firewall. - i'm in the cab now.

nerds! - we're in the home stretch. i'm wiring, doing all the electrical to wire up the nitros. joe's going to hold this, and we'll have a code word,like fidelio or something, and he's just going to go... then we blaze past the liberty and win. - all right, the moment of truth.

- so we're putting onour 35 inch cooper mtps. like a silly liberty, you have to put a bunch of polyurethane, plastic lift parts on. i need to do just a little bit of trimming to get our steering andsuspension movement back. - this is pretty oversprayed. - it's perfect. - looks good.

- all right, this is what itall comes down to right here, this is the dollars andcents of cheap truck. there's the building of the vehicles, the buying of the vehicles, and the four-wheeling of the vehicles. but this is where we decide who really knows how to spend money. the dust dawgs startedout with a k5 blazer at a whopping $1600,

liberty bell, $2000. so what did they buy? nitros, $500, including their tank filled. hubs, $150, that's $650. tires, $950. that comes out to a whopping $1600. we got a lift at $140 from day star, we got tires from $1150,

somehow we have smallertires, skinnier tires, and they're more expensive. - [voiceover] hah! - and tubing, we spent $194. - i want to see the invoice. - i want to see the receipt. - i think that brings it out to $1599. - i think that brings itout to you're both liars.

- yeah! we win in the budget of buying stuff! dust dawgs are winning in the purchase, dirt heads are winning in the upgrades, it is a tie going into the finale, where we're going to finish these trucks and go battle it out in the dirt. rawr yeah. - i agree, we're going to win.

- we are at the top of the mountain here, this is the start ofthe greatest epic battle you guys have ever seen. once again, we are goingto take two low buck trucks and hammer them to seewhich one is still running at the end of the day. this thing is so big, this is so massive, that i brought the biggest guy i know to be the referee here.

this is cooper. - hi all. - cooper, what do youhave in store for us? - well, today i've gonethrough and come up with maybe between one and fie obstacles that are really going to keyin on some of the key points of the four-wheel drive characteristics of both of these players here in the game. we got a le mons style start,

so rather than just checkingthe lungs on your vehicles, we're going to checkthem on your co-drivers. they're going to have to startby running up hill with the keys doing a hand-off toyou guys so you can get hot on this course we got lined out here with some definite peril, who knows. - so we have one obstacle today, and hopefully if we get through that, you'll see more action.

- as far as the show-and-shinegoes with these two rigs, i don't know that i couldpick one clear winner. they both have their high points. the first one is a rally course. they're going to come off of adrop straight into a couple of in and outs, there's some big trenches that they usually travelopposite directions, the way we're doing it. then they're going to head off

into a little frame twister section, where they're probably goingto be rubbing a little bit, and then they're just goingto rally on through it and hopefully not run into each other or a cameraman at the finish line. booya. (dramatic music) drivers ready? (horn honks)

lungs ready? on your mark, get set, go! he's losing his flip flops. don't spill your beverage. oh god. move it! oh geez.

oh no, get it! they're dropping into the first obstacle. the liberty gives no cares. wow! blazer bumping. liberty getting it. oh my god, oh wow. oh! no way.

they're totally getting it right now. blazer might be done, the nitros might have taken the motor out. liberty's off and running. she is heading into the mini wood section. it's now into the sandy wash area. - come on, liberty! - it's a little tight with the rocks. there's a problem for the k5.

the liberty's going for two wheels again. i don't know that the libertycan steer to the right as well as it could at the start. nope, she's off and running. killing it. and the liberty crosses the finish line. oh, blazer's running again. wow. that was the rear window.

i think rob and the dust dawgs went ahead and gave the liberty a little kiss, we'll call it. liberty. i think we might've smashed some... oh, we're leaking a little. that's fine. more airflow. more cooling.

you knocked the window out of me, fred. - it felt... i didn't know what was happening. and i couldn't tell if thetruck was running or... well that's still drivable, right? - oh my goodness. - [voiceover] i thoughtyou knew that happened. - we won the first obstacle course race against these slow dust dawgs.

but i don't really thinkthat his solid front axle is suffering the type ofcarnage that's inside here. - good sportsmanship, guys. way to go. - i think if you drive forward,it'll slide back into place and we'll put a ratchet straparound the whole bottom a-arm. oh there it goes, it broke loose. you're good. - onto the next event,

just a good old-fashionedall-american tug of war! (yells) so what we got here isthe two vehicles set up with a nice strap between them. we've marked off thecenter point of the two. first one to hit the cones loses. they will be knocked down,dragged out tug of war. let's see what we got! dust dawg, ready?

dirt head, ready? that was easy. there is no replacement for displacement. the big american v8, and it was over that fast. - i smell nitros. - woo! that was sick. did you do nitros?

oh yeah, oh yeah. - you know what, that was quick enough, i almost feel like this is like a best two out of three type event. - i think so. - i think we shoulddefinitely line them up and try it again. - we're all dressed up, let's dance. - dust dawgs, ready?

- dirt heads, ready? on your mark! get set! go! - go man go! go man go! (yelling) - we got nothing. they're in a complete total standstill.

nothing but a dust bowl here. if i'm putting my money on anyone, it's the liberty. he's slowly making sometraction on this one. done! how'd we do? - you moved, i'm going to give it to the dirt heads on this one. - number one!

- one more time, fellas! one more time! we're going to go ahead andgive her the beans right now, final showdown, see who comes out on top. dust dawgs, ready? dirt heads, ready? - oh my god. - american muscle andnitrosoxide came out on top. dust dawgs for the win!

yeah! oh, too much enthusiasm, sorry. all right. here are the rules. first of all, hydration,nobody's allowed to die. second rule, this is your line, you veer off, you're out. you're off that way, you're also out. i want nothing but wood foot

and patriotism all theway through this thing. dirt head, engage. so they got to try andbeat this point here. - that totally didn't go as planned. fred hit that thinglike a sack of potatoes and broke all the stuff in the front end. this is where we're camped tonight. - good thing we broughtthis k5 blazer along to pull you out of this sticky situation.

jesus. there it is. - the liberty has setthe mark to beat at... (whistles) right here. and now, to round things out, we need these two dust dawgs to go ahead and get thatblazer on the course and show us how it's done.

all right, dust dawgs! there's your mark! now give us the laughing gas! there you go. no! stop right there. don't go any further. back up a little. yeah, dawg!

get some! come on! (cheering) back and forth. - well, the final obstacle, i don't know that you could've given her more of a college try. the dust dawgs brought it on this one. they made it a full vehicle length.

i'm going to have to go withthe blazer and the dust dawgs. - champions. - there's always next year. that's it for dirt every day, another epic cheap truckchallenge in the books, we'll see you next time. - oh, boy. - right into the cake hole. if you like this episode of dirt everyday

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