Your one of those channels, that could literally post an outhouse build and I’d still press like every time 😂👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@JanelleVocate-Ames

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Matt and Paul have taken over!!! Love it!

@King_Maximus

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly that would actually be educational for some that watch 😂

@williamd1891

2 жыл бұрын

They make shit entertaining.

@deckum23

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamd1891 I see what you did there.

@extersmedleyjr118

2 жыл бұрын

Well according to Paul his wife wants a bathroom at the shop so might get your chance!!

That bumper/tail light combo is perfect. That will give Matt something to look at‼️😂

@TrevorDennis100

2 жыл бұрын

The bumper looks like a handlebar moustache with eyes right above it.

@creinhart9905

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

That bumper and tailgate look fantastic! Great job👍

@Bleepincolt

2 жыл бұрын

This truck is so rad!

Holy crap when did Fab Rats jump to 300k+ subscribers! Awesome to see some Utah boys doing what they love and making a living of it. Great job

Looks great! The light cut outs gives it more character.

@davestevens4263

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yah my thoughts exactly, I’m not the only loose nut to think of character, well I’m a fabricator & artist !

That bumper is awesome! Your fabrication skills are exceptional

People have absolutely NO idea just how goes into a custom build like this. You are an inspiration to us all. It is great to see it coming together at last. I know you will get it done. Tailgate and bumper look great BTW.

For the rear since it’s tapered I think you should make some low profile fenders to match the general shape/idea of the front fenders. The front fenders stay straight while the hood tapers to the front. Do the same/opposite to the rear. I think it would look sweet

Merry X-mas to the entire Cox family. Paul, it's pretty amazing to see how much of an inspiration you are for so many! Few human beings have what you do, thanks for the entertainment.

I am addicted to this and the G/N Projects I want to see Paul rock crawling and Ed cruising around! excellent work!

Paul your fabrication skills are really gonna shine bright on this build! Amazing skills Fab RAts!!!!!!! What a Yota this is gonna be and i cant wait for the trail testing to begin its gonna be epic0!! Merry Christmas Fab Rat family!!!!!!

Hey Paul, that rear bumper looks nice and I get the extension to protect your bed/body. I think it would look more complete it you wrapped the ends around the body a bit... Like add a triangular section right next to the ends. Protects the body even more, and can be used as a step to get in/on the bed from the side. Also would match the rock sliders on the sides. I usually don't like "2x4" bumpers but this looks nice! Oh yeah and Merry Christmas to the whole family!

@Chris-D9

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, and also have those side piece canted the same angle as the rock slides

@marklar7551

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, an angle piece will be easier for Matt to hold on to as you drag him drag him to safety!

The bumper looks great but I thought you were going to weld on tabs for pulling.

Coming from near 40 years of welding, You do Beautiful work. And you got a great personality.

The back bumper and the tail lights look really good.

Man it's been a long time since I've been this excited to see the end product of a KZread build. The Yota is looking freakin sweet!

Coming along great, I especially like the back bumper, it's a work of art.

the bumper looks great! its amazing how quick you just knocked it out too

The FJ45 brings memories of our years working in Africa. Particularly in Botswana in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. The FJ’s were the work horse of government, medical, farmers, and fun off road safari. It has the fuel consumption on the fender- 4.5 kilometers per liter. Utah looks more like Southern Africa than northeast Pennsylvania. The kind of hills where Matt is looks like Lesotho.Botswana has the desert sands to navigate. We worked there with a community development NGO. Keep the fun KZreads coming!

I know you will have the FJ45 finished in time Paul. Who else would/could pull Matt out "WHEN" he gets stuck? Love the rear bumper. Cutout's for the lights look great, and the overhang each side to protect the bodywork is genius forward thinking. It almost looks like it was made for that truck :) :) :)

It's awesome to start the day with Paul's welding/fabrication & a cup of coffee. Merry Christmas ☃️🎄 to everyone in the 🌎. Be blessed.

@joshuaatkins5197

2 жыл бұрын

Cool to know there's a whole pack of weirdos thinking the same thing.

Hey Paul I'm loving the fj build so glad I found your channel I hope you an the family are doing better an have a happy holidays also your dad lives through you everyday he taught you the amazing skill you have an I see you teaching your boys so he will live on forever

That rear end is just awesome. Taillight and bumper combo look great! Build is coming along and loving every minute of it.

Back in 1969 I saw my first J45 and I have wanted one ever since.! I think a powder blue paint job on that thing would look just dandy.!

@georgea.9684

2 жыл бұрын

That would look sweet!

Always a great adventure when Paul explains how he's going to do things....thanks for taking us along !!..... Did you send Michelle off to vocational school to learn more parts ??..... lol

Your awesome editing Michelle makes Paul's excellence ... GENIUS. Merry Christmas to your family, friends and all of your wonderful subscribers! Happy days!

3 weeks yup, Im fabing up some extensions on my bump stop since i installed 40's. Paul gave me inspiration to diy the tasks. Thanks Fab Rats.

The 'Method to your Madness' is pure genius. Thanks to the entire FabRats crew for sharing your adventures on YT with all of the world!

Coming along nicely, the bumper looks sweet! Merry Christmas Fab Rats! Love your channel, keep them coming!

The Yota is coming together so nice, what a sweet rig she's gonna be 👌

This rig is so rad. I hope you have no plans on painting it. I love the Friday videos of this

Hey Paul, project is looking good and the progres is impressive. i think it would be real interesting if you could put a time clock in one corner of the screen every time you are working on this project. That way your viewers would be able to see the time that it takes to fabricate this stuff. Just an idea from a long time fan. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and all the best to you and yours in the New Year!!!

I love watching your videos before I leave for work each day. Merry Christmas to the whole Fab Rats crew and community.

You are an amazing artist. Thanks for sharing this build with us.

Smoking sweet that bumper looks like it was Factory made so it was your factory. Get er done. Thank you enjoy your videos. Makes me feel like I should have kept my 68 Bronco headed for 45 years from California to Missouri just sold it 2 years ago this month to get here in Missouri.👍🏽👍🏽🙁🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏽‍♂️.

Merry Christmas Paul , Michelle and all the Fab Rats family. Thinking of you today on your first Christmas without your dad, he will be proud of all you have achieved in life and business

I'm so glad you explained the bumper extending passed the bed and I believe you are correct it should work well. The yota is coming along great. To you ,your wife and kid's Merry Christmas

It's awesome to see your vision for this FJ come together. 😀

MERRY CHRISTMAS... LOOKIN AWESOME U GUYS!..."Suggestion" cut an inspection hole for gas tank lines/pump in box bed, then you don't have to take box off or take gas tank out to get at fuel pump........ thanks 4 video. be kind.

Your doing a great job on this build. I love how you show the problems you are faced with and the solutions to those problems. I can not wait to see this going up the side of a cliff! Keep up the great work and know there are a lot of us that feel that way. I have watched all of your video’s most multiple times.

I sit here memorized watching this channel. Great little escape from reality. Thanks for taking us along on your journey. Merry Christmas

@dbrown8388

2 жыл бұрын

👍

Coming along very nicely. Now comes the little things that take up alot of time. Merry Christmas to you and yours Paul.

It's funny. I watch a TON of KZread channels. Yours is the only one that I periodically pause.. so I can see how much time is left.. because I don't want it to end yet...lol. I'm so grateful for your show. Merry Christmas to you all.🎊🎊🎊

Paul, in the rear bumper why not put some LEDs recessed in the outer angles for use as rock lights. You can wire t hy rm to the reverse lights & a standalone switch. Looking great thus far!

Merry Christmas to You & All Your Family. Wished I could get some 10mm sockets as always loosing Mine. Those taillights looks cool!

The rear bumper looks good Paul! Nice fabricating

Rear bumper looks great , custom , tuff & fits the build . Looks like it’s coming to eat you when your backing . One fabricator to another,( you do great work ) & mechanic work that’s where I draw the line . Keep up your great channel & life . You might pass up Matt with subscribers & with your yota beast. !!!!!!!

VERY GOOD!!! VERY, VERY GOOD!!! I truly enjoy seeing sharp details being given time and careful attention while creating a quality finished piece of practical art.

The bumper is a work of art, very cool.

Love this build series. Please don't paint it as I love the way it looks now!

I love this channel so much! Paul, and a few other guys like Taylor Ray, and the guy from Bourbon Moth Woodworking have really inspired me to start building things. I've learned to weld, sort of, and have been really improving my woodworking skills. I hope to one day be at Paul's level of fab skills, and now that I finally have a shop big enough to turn around in I'm working in getting there!

Bumper and tail lights look very well integrated...really nice!!!

The bumper is beautiful, keep going Paul!! That’s gonna look so sweet when you’re done!

Merry Christmas and happy new year to your team and family. Thank you for sharing your amazing journey with prototyping cars. God bless you and your family.

Bumper looks better than a factory job ever could. Way to go Paul.

This is probably my favorite build so far. Love the YOTA!!! Looking forward to seeing it all finished.

That Bumper is a work of art! Can't wait to see the FJ when it is finished, it is already looking SWEET!

I can't wait to see the final results on the FJ . You'r doing an amazing job. And keep practicing Randal

Looks great y’all!!! Hope you and yours have a merry And blessed Christmas!!!! Hope next year is even better. We all know your pops up a looking down with such pride and love for y’all!!!

The bumper and tail lights look really good! Always love watching you fabricate!

Looks awesome Paul! Merry Christmas to you and the whole crew

You never cease to amaze me! I NEVER miss a video bro 😎

Love the frenched taillights !! FJ coming along super great !!

Love a friendship like that. Push each-other back and forth till it gets scary lol.

Starting to come together really looks nice i love the ass end looks. I like how the bumper and tailgate goes together like it was ment to be that way. Really good job cant wait to hear what it sounds like for the first starting.

Lokking good Paul, glad to see it coming along, cant wait for it to be done and see it running!

I love how just about everything is custom! I cannot wait to see this in action!

I would use the overhang on your rear bumper and tie some bar work from there across the rear fenders to your sliders. You are going to lean that thing up against something, might as well give the fenders some rigidity. Love everything you have done, will be the baddest fj45 in the land.

I started watching Mat and he introduced me to you and your family you are the people others are blessed to know thanks for sharing with so many people

saving stuff, looks like you learned well from your Dad :)

Sitting here on Christmas day enjoying some great Fab Rats content. Merry Christmas to all the Fab Rats family!

Simple and functional. Plus it matches the look and feel of these old rigs. Nothing worse than a Classic FJ, Jeep or Pickup with a gigantic Iron Cross style bumper. I need to get to work on my own. To install my receiver I cut out the rear most cross member (Not an FJ) and replaced it with a 2X3 square tube with the receiver and safety chain loops welded on. I then gusseted the ends so it was more like a weight distribution hitch but welded on. So now the receiver is tucked up nicely for a better departure angle but I need a bumper to complete the back end.

hey random person scrolling through the comments have a Merry Christmas🎄🎄🎄🎄

@darrellfolk5284

2 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas to you Too!

@chubbrock659

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks iceman, merry Christmas to you too

@jamesmoseman6426

2 жыл бұрын

U too!

I love the bumper and lights. Came out looking great!

Really enjoy your way of building and how you repurpose all the parts you reuse 👍

Love the bumper! It has some character for it, just like the rest of the rig.

This rig is looking spectacular! Loving it!

You left out one step on your bolt extraction that makes all the difference. Space the nut you weld about a washer thickness off the flat surface the bolt is broke off in. Weld on your nut. As soon as you finish welding, take the ball end of a ballpeen hammer and hit the center of the nut some. Decently hard. Allow it to start cooling on its on, no coolant or penetrating oil. Start taking the nut each direction very softly with a wrench just like you did. When you back it out using the hammer method,.look at the edge of the threads. They will be rolled from where you drove it down with the hammer. The threads are the first to get to the highest temperature and the hammer blows make the threads give up by rolling their edges over. The hammer strikes make this method way more effective. I really like your channel.

A little trick you might already know when trying to find center like your bumper, take the measurement in inches and change it to feet and inches lets just say like it 67 5/8" or 5' 7 5/8" long and we need to find center, so lay your tape out 1/2 of 5' is 30 hold your marker there then take 1/2 of 7"which is 3 1/2 move your marker then take 1/2 of 5/8 which is 5/16 so move your marker 5/16 more and thats center it really simple no math

The details like notching the top of bumper for lights are very impressive. And know that some of us appreciate the amount of time those details take. Good work Paul thanks for sharing

I Love watching an Artist do their thing! That bumper is Dope!

That reference port on the regulator is also for vaccum. That way you maintain a set pressure across the fuel injector. You might have your fuel pressure set at 60 psi. If the intake manifold is 0 PSI (WOT) then you have 60 psi across the injector. If the intake manifold is full vacuum (idle) then you have the pressure the fuel pressure regulator is set at PLUS the vacuum in the manifold across the fuel injector. More fuel will flow for the same injector pulse width unless you hook the reference line of the regulator to the intake manifold to compensate for the vacuum. This can make it harder to tune.

Rear bumper came out sweet! I love the cutouts for the tail lights. It made it look that much cooler looking I think

It looks good!!! Should have put the receiver all the way in so the hole for the pin is on the back side. I did mine like that and then you dont need to wrap the receiver tubing because the 2x4 tubing is the wrap. But its super nice that it doesnt stick out at all.

Very perfessional. That’s perfect and professional mixed.

Love the bumper! the cut outs for the taillights make it! The angled corners match the angled top of the bed! I usually dont care for the whole clear coat over "patina" but on this rig it would look tough. The "patina" is perfect. Merry Christmas to you and your family!

I love it. Paul, you do magic with anything you build. God bless. 👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

We need more content let's say three days a week love you guys

#1 You need to strategically eyecrometer a place on your shop wall to showcase your amazing elk antlers that are up on the mezzanine! #2. Check the measurement from each side rear 1/4 panel to the end of the new bumper. It may be that the camcrometer is making it look a little wonky but you may have to use the equalizer to even each side up! #3. Merry Christmas, stay safe, healthy and have a FABulous holiday season!

I’m loving this build. Looks great! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

Can NOT wait to see the finished product in action. Great work on the FJ45.

love your videos. you keep it real. most people dont show the whole process. they only show the good parts. fabrication is trial and error on the things you build. adapt and overcome is what i teach my kids.

There are a few KZread channels that I press 👍 before I view them. I can do that because I know I’m going to enjoy either the content, humor or personality. You are one of those.

I’m sure you already have some info out there on the interwebs, but I was wondering about your tools, what brands do you use or have the best success with and most recently, your exhaust building showed me how much your tube bender does, I’d love a tour of the shop with names of the tools and all that. Thanks for all the hard work you do and making YT a fun place to wander about getting knowledge and ideas. Merry Christmas to you and your family and may y’all be blessed for many years to come!

Warn we’ll be wanting a cut on that rear bumper 😂. Love this build!

Always exciting to see you succeed in tapping threads into fresh metal

Perfect bumper/light combo. Great job!!

Nice work. I think I might have raised the bed one inch for the gas tank problem. Yes, I know that would mean a 1" strip needs to be added to the bed sides bottom to meet up with the rock sliders. But it also means more ground clearance for the body in the back and more ground clearance on the tank, and more diff clearance on the tank. The inner fenders could be 1" shorter too. It also may mean that there didn't need to be a tail light notch in the bumper.

Always enjoy watching you create new machines, Merry Christmas !!!!!!!

Great Job.... So exciting to see this come together..