The blu3collaroffroad's Podcast

Ryan Stratemann of Stratemann Automotive joins us to talk about when 14 bolts just aren't enough, a set of 47 boggers breaking everything, and a bunch of info on 5.9L cummins. 

Much like that 231J with a hack and tap, 250k miles, and a beer cans worth of atf we get a bit off the rails. Talking about how stuff can just spiral on builds to the point of absurdity. 

Somehow broncussy gets said, tubes are being thrown, Luke had a good time at Harlan, and Richie comes back from night shift.  

Brab prater joins us again for an update on the rigs new LS, the 4 link, and transmission fun. The wet mess that was the meet and beat and orbitals come up a time or two. 

Garret joins Cody, Luke and Graham to talk about Toyota magic, Iroks, and a 3800 powered sami on 9s. Throw in some old diesel stuff and you have a banger of an episode. 

@Jake_Stid_ And Nick @littlexjthatcould Join us to talk about getting rained for weeks on end, Cody is sick, and Grem shows up late. Over all fucking awesome time at the meet and beat despite the weather.

Luke and Richie are off to beat their meat at AOP. we talk shit about Luke behind his back, super tractors, more info dumping on the accidental dodge halfassed restoration from hell, towing with the RV, and more!

Graham goes into the truck transmission rebuild, has interesting opions on exhaust hangers, Luke bought a tent, Richie preps for the meet and beat, and Cody provides some info on his parts collection. 

Jared Huffman @HuffmansFab joins us to talk about growing up wheeling in TN, starting a fab shop, fab 9's fab 10s' CNC Buggies, Ls power, what goes into designing the chassis, especially the brow, and more!

Nick Leblanc joins us to talk about meet and beat prep, just casually rebuilding a th400, breaking ax15, sm465 and gets Graham going. Just a casual reminder the Trail trash meet and beat is only 3 weeks away.

Eddy comes on to talk about building a telehandler buggy, curtis talks about the fuel air bomb his fuel cell made, and of course some shit box tow rig talk!

Hayes from @runsprimeracing joins us to talk old tow rig adventures (69 c30) junky xjs with turbos and tree limbs, and finally Mort and King Julian's relations. 

Graham Luke and Cody are joined by @Geeks4x4 to talk about coil swapping an excursion, rock crawling a v10, and some 7.3 and 5.9 banter.

Nick and Jake went to winterfest, Grembo got sick, and Cody does something.

Grem makes progress on his cummapart, Luke and Logan put studs on Luke's cummins, richie gets the commanche on the road and Cody gets his gears turning. 

Kyle Stalter joins us again after a few years of shooting the shit . We bully him into cutting more out of what is left of the xj, and towards getting it running sooner. Some cummins talk of course and a few tangents. 

We had an audio file issue with episode 215 getting messed up and sounding like a robot fighting the tin man. So we are releasing episode 216 early. The boys get together to catch back up after 215 with Richie, Luke, and the walts plus Hiesenburg. We are trying to save the old episode but this was a great time and while we work on it. 

Amcjeepman Joins us to talk about wheeling the South East before it became what it is today, the amc 360, some of the small details to get them right, who makes good cam parts, and of course CJ's!

In true fashion long time friend of the show Caleb Spillane Joins us to have the truest form of BCO podcast. We talk the good old days, the good times, the bad times, the fun stuff hes gotten up to and somehow never manage to actually stick to a topic. He will definitely be back on at some point to go over some of the other fun shit hes been up too! 

Kyle Orszula Joins us tot alk about building the one ton manche, coming down form MI to TN and living near windrock. We get life updates from Grembo (The j in j truck is still for junk) and Kissh finally has both lockers! 

Wyatt Greene joins us to talk about building a Jk into a tube framed double triangulated, LS powered rock banger. 43 SX's KMC's and some good times wheeling the Southeast and Ohio. @Wheelingreene on instagram

Aidan McHugh joins us to talk about wheeling aop, building a small tire rig for it, and just shoot the shit with the boys. Cool dude and a fun episode. 

A chill one with the boys after the holidays to catch up, Richie is back, the Comanche is getting a front locker, J truck updates, and an unusual amount of banter. 

Welcoming in the new year Dean Benner joins us to talk about building a insanely cool competition buggy, a Nissan Leaf motor coupled to a 4 speed atlas, home made battery cells, the tools required to build them. He talks about how he got into competition, and got his son into it with his son competing in WeRock and X rock.  

Cody, Graham, and Luke sit down for the pre Christmas show and shoot the shit, Grems J truck proving itself to not be the best dd, cummins fun, and electric crawlers. 

Rob Craven joins us to catch up 180 episodes later, Talk about DCS lights a bit, some KOH stuff, and everything is broken. JK engine issues, Cummins Transmission issues, and 4600 class discussion.  (We reference a good bit of stuff from around the episode 26 time frame)

Bob Siwinski joins us to talk about the happenings of new englands best campground, talk some shit, serve some humble pie and to bring us back to our humble roots. As always it is a good fucking time when Bob shows up. 

Grembo is broken down and out, Richie is on nights, so RJ and Mark Knibs join us for one with the boys from the club. Some talk about rear steer coolness and another xj gets a 9". 

Logan, Luke, Curtis, and Graham, what can go wrong? And why is Jimmy Hoffa in Lake Superior? 

Marty Emersion host of the event Blizzard Blast joins us to talk about racing, mud racing, mega truck stuff, hosting blizzard baja, and bouncer stuff!

Nick and Jake join the guys to catch up, some updates on what nick has going on, and the large rebuild that Jake is doing. 

So this has been a long time coming, Colin was with us for the 1 year anniversary, and now 2 years later he returns with house fun, unibody patches, a 14 bolt, and no mechanical sympathy. We talk about how times changed, the old days of the club, Cody gets a fair bit of shit and gives it back. 

Much to Frankie's disapproval Grembo, Richie, and Cody wheeled FNF. Flops, bad driving, minor mechanical stuff, and shenanigans ensue. Luke's 4.0 hatred carries on. 

We sit down with just the 4 of us, a somewhat coherent plan, and just get into it. Grems working on cummins stuff, Luke goes to ohio, and we end up arguing over roll cage tubing size. 

3 Kids, 4 doors, 40's on a mini van and 8k+ miles. What more do you really need? Chris Iosua returns from a trip to Moab, Colorado, and Arizona living out of his JK with his family then heads to the ball!  Crawler offroad "BCOP" gets you 10% off! 

DeRon of whiskey out doors joins us to talk about the small tire life, hemi swaps, and of course Dispute on the rocks. We are sorry for the delay in getting the episode out, Cody and Luke both had daily driver issues! 

3d printing, cnc machines, transmission mounts, and the cheapest engine mount money can buy. We also bring up the logo's history and how it came to be. 

@Wedwhyjay (aka Greg) has a bitchen J truck, tons, 6.0, np435/205 you know the works. He was at the web wheelers ball and had the J truck working, talks about the Red yj that sits sad in the corner on 9s, and we have our normal tangents. 

Tim Gibson rejoins us for a follow up on the web wheelers ball, only catching fire 1 time this trip, an update on the new tow rig, trailer, and apperantly putting a comanche on trailing arms. Ya know just the normal stuff. Luke dies from the flu and Richie is missing. Oh and its a FORD FUCKING RANGER! 

Richie, Grembo, and Luke made it to PA. Good times where had, 4.0s died, ls's sang, and Broncoish puts all 460 CI of that big block to work. Seriously though, thank you to all who showed up! It is always a blast meeting every one! 

Luke has his jeep doneish, Richie drives the Comanche, and Grem drives the JT. What a week, the web wheelers ball is like 1 week away at this point, infact next week we will  be on the road on Thursday!  

Strokers having a stroke, a lack of stripper jokes, Cummins talk, DOT treps doing the DOT thing, and 2 small businesses worth checking out. A solid episode with a solid animal fact. 

Logan @Bronco_ish joins of for a tangent laden shit show. He has a sick rig, is a cool dude Localish to Luke, wheels a bronoish thing. We learned that pandas are cucks so thats cool, and dana 44s still suck. But a built dana 60 likes to party.  

We lost our shoes, got attacked by muffy, and we talk about dodging cones! Veronica and Eric from @barefootmotorsports join us to talk about the new Eric Miller Chassis, retiring her old tj thing, Profender Frankenshocks, and we clear up the aop mystery. 

Grembos J20 is trucking along, Richie's Manche updates, wheeling Glass Mountain, and apparently a ton of tangents! -1 Luke. +1 Shopkid interjection. 

Cam from Crazy Cruisers joins us to talk about the wild world of Xrocks, WeRock, and what it takes to get to competing on that level. Some interesting information comes out about the Behemoth Drive Train 300 cases, and a touch of info about the release dates on the Mickey Sticky's! 

Brent Hockman of Brent Built/Shecrawls comes on to talk about his Rock lizard build, what got him into wheeling, building troubles with the small size of the new rig, and where his favorite places to wheel are. Rear steer fun is brought up, the issues he ran into with king pins followed up with a cool motor choice and the complications it brought.  A huge thank you to OnX Offroad and Glue Tread for sponsoring us! BLUECOLLAR10 for 10% off with Glue Tread!

Some episodes deserve a funny name or caption, this one deserves a healthy dose of well earned respect. Carl Jantz of Jantz engineering, winner of Alaska Offroad Warriors, snow wheeling fame and just a legend. He joins us to talk diffs, dodge nitros, Superjeeps, Jana 76s, answer tech questions and spread knowledge.  Gluetread and OnXoffroad make this all possible, so please use code BLUECOLLAR10 at checkout with Gluetread! 

A deep dive into William Andres himself, how he got in with flex rocks and roll overs, and of course the shop talk. Karnage motor sports out of Miami for jeep work!  BLUECOLLAR10 Gets you 10% off with Gluetread And a huge thank you to OnX Offroad! 

Richie lights a Comanche on fire, Luke goes sped mode on steering v3, Grembo gets in his feels about np208s, and Cody tries to direct the shit show. Manual old truck's reign supreme, 203/205 vs 241/205 and atlas rears its head, some one may have sat on a shifter. Who knows?  BLUECOLLAR10 saves you 10% with glue tread, crawler offroad gives a discount code on recovery gear somewhere in there. And OnXOffroad provides the best offroad gps out there! 

Normally we would put something funny for the title, but today we cant. This ones a little different than the normal wheeling stuff but we hope you will enjoy! Team up Racing joins us to talk about fortheneed.org and helping inspire the next generation through working with their hands. They help foster kids, homeless kids, and children with special needs to learn automotive and life skills.  A special thank you to OnX Offroad and Glue Tread for making this possible. Please use Code BLUECOLLAR10 with glue tread to save yourself some dough.