Your Tires Should Fit (or, Making Trucks Stuff) – So Many Details on Proper Wheel & Tire Clearance for Your Trail Rig [Originally Aired 02.23.23]

It’s not like the Garage Hour to leave you behind on-trail – we’ll laugh at you a bunch, but then we can fix it (perhaps with a Sawzall).  Some thoughts on making tire-to-wheel-well fitment right before we find you: trailing arms, tire sizes, Pahnard bars, shackle positioning, pinion angles, bump stops,...

Diesel Dodge VS Damnable DMV, Truckers VS Teslas, Bosch Battery Boy VS Broadcast Boos, the Internet of Your Downfall (& Control in the Guise of Failure), + Fat Tony, Kaiser Soze & a Wreckful Childhood (…So Go Do Something Nice) [Aired 09.25.22]

Do YOU know better than to put propane in your Tesla’s tires?  Do YOU know Teslas need special gas that doesn’t come from the gas station?  …Then YOU might be smarter than the college laureates who could buy one but not own them.  College…  Have some:  09.19.22: Diesel Dodge VS...

Gearhead Awesomepile: B-1Bs & F-15s, Bilsteins & F1, Santa Anas & Taco Bell Hot Sauce, + Truckers, Rioters, & Aliens [Aired 04.01.21]

…Crammed it all into this one.  Script writer: go script yourself.  With a device-thwarting free-news cable-cobbling in-lab intro, this is classic Garage Hour goodness – better hydrate.  Fried cheese curds, cheating Chinese Teslas, F1 or circle-track, Bilstein 5100 and 6112 under your 4Runner, de-Wayneing the NRA, U.S. bombers in India...

Brake This & Break That – Garage Hour Does Hi-Po Brake Fixes & Avoiding Low-Quality Bits [AIRED 01.10 & 01.12.21]

Ahhh, repetitiveness…  You get into a groove, chatting up tricks for good braking technique and dodging lousy Chinese and third-world parts that’ll ruin your day (not to mention make you look stupid), then take a tug of a fine sip from Trinity Brewing, and suddenly there’s two episodes in a...

Pike’s Peak Hillclimb Hangout – Garage Hour Snoops Practice Sessions @ Glen Cove, w/ Driver, Crew & Racecar Interviews [Aired 08.28.20]

Who said work can’t be a nose full of tire shrapnel and downforce?  The Garage Hour lurked up a few hours of awesomeness on Pike’s Peak this year, and managed to behave like a good race official (almost the whole time) while providing some good luck in the process (without...

AR-15 Q & A: .223 VS 5.56, Handguard Styles, Trigger Types & Lots More AR Need-To-Knows [Originally Aired 05.03.20]

When you’ve got to know the basics, it’s not okay to be a poseur.  The Garage Hour goons gathered up a few know-it guys from Freedom:30 Arms and peeled the onion on an episode all about new-guy questions about the AR-15 – y’know, helping you get over the hump.  We...
Active Shooter Defense School of San Diego

Active Shooter Defense School of San Diego
Active Shooter Defense School> When it's time to defend yourself with a firearm, will you know how? ASDS teaches and trains to make gun owners smart shooters.
Tony's Lube & Tune in San Diego, CA

Tony's Lube & Tune in San Diego, CA
Tony's Lube & Tune> Complete auto repair, upkeep and maintenance, plus specialty tuning of WRXs, STis and Evos.
Trinity Brewing - Just Down the Road from Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs)

Trinity Brewing - Just Down the Road from Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs)
Trinity Brewing> Some of the finest sips in Colorado are made at Trinity. Drop in and enjoy more than 40 exotic brews and perfect classics (with ales, pales, sours, stouts, seltzers and hoppy weirdos on tap at all times).
Subie Stickers of the Subaruniverse

Subie Stickers of the Subaruniverse
Subie Stickers> The original source for Subie goodies: if they don't have it, they'll make it. Don't be a punk - 10:GOTO Subie Stickers.
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