Jeep Liberty Rollover 100 Miles In The Backcountry

[Music] stick around after the video for an update on the corvair uh you're not going to want to miss it quiet on set sorry so we got a call for a jeep liberty that apparently is on its lid we didn't get any pictures because i guess it was dark when it happened they didn't take any um we're gonna be meeting the customer here in leeds and then we're gonna head up north of burl junction up into the mountains and see if we can get it out of there it's gonna be interesting because we're gonna try to get it running because it's way up in there if we can't we're gonna have to flat toe it away before we can get it on the trailer so beautiful day it's 64 degrees sun's out we got el jefe with us today how's it going we're pulling the wagon back there we got rudy and tim in rudy's xj so this should be a fun one probably going to be using the winches quite a bit well hello you want me hiding oh you just climb in the back seat here i was gonna sit there at the burrito so the gas station that we were counting on back at newcastle the there's no gas all right so we're trying to find some food like i said the gas station we were planning on the pumps were all closed down i think the stores was still open it was still open because the cost we should have got some food there but we figured we had to go to enterprise but then we noticed this place had gas and diesel which is what we need and uh we're just hoping there's some food where's the grocery section [Music] yeah like burritos or hot dogs or anything like that [Music] oh they do have oh we do have burritos so we're uh we're about 20 miles away from the vehicle the roads are starting to get a little too primitive for the power stroke so we're looking for a wide spot to pull off and unload this is some wild and rugged country out here cafe's gonna fit in nice okay rudy let's get the unnecessary things out of the back of your jeep and put them in the truck and let's load up all the gear we think we're gonna [Music] need [Music] max got kicked out of rudy's jeep for passing gas which he's still doing in here it just doesn't last as long as it would in the jeep yeah we have a pretty good ventilation system i just got to get over to these roads right here i don't know the best way to do that so we need to get on this road system right there that's a wash but it comes up here to road systems so i'm thinking like just cutting across right there yeah so you hike you liked west out of the out of the wash oh i actually hiked get west north northwest so we were talking to the customer and apparently um he twisted his front drive shaft off so it's only two wheel drive this was prior to rolling it so we are uh kind of walking into a pretty hairy mess we'll get it how certain are you that we know where we're going like where it's at because he doesn't seem very certain that he knows where it's at he sent me a pin and i've got that i'm just driving to the pin okay but he might be wrong about where the pin is it wouldn't be the first time that's for sure is this looking right to you yeah we're in the right place i think we're up there a mile or so farther too okay yeah it's pretty cool yeah it is okay max you ready to do some running come on so we're getting further along up the trail here and it's starting to get a lot twistier and tighter um just closer this is a pretty big rig i mean compared to a jeep especially jeep liberty so we'll see but yeah it's definitely getting tighter we're not even supposed to be doing recoveries with this yet because it's not finished but it's really hard to resist so he said that he said that the police were able to get here within like a half mile of where he was with their full-sized rigs so we're still seeing the police tracks so i guess we got about a half mile to go at the very least look at the dogs getting their drink you cooling off lady i think you got to get up through there i want to see the video of the liberty driving through here [Music] [Music] oh how do i look good i'd hang this way a little bit sorry this way still this way this one i'm trying [Music] okay that that must be as far as the cops came yeah the cops turned around a while back okay well there were some tracks down down in there so we're about a half mile from him now three or four blocks he says okay let's go he's got to be late 40s early 50s right are yeah guys seeing this this is this is just ridiculous i can't imagine i wouldn't expect a jeep liberty up here but uh that's what we're going to get we've gone down some pretty like we've gone through through some insane things [Music] where where did dude go i don't know you did that you know what i mean yeah you keep both one tired each bank that's the only narrow spot right there that we're heading for right now yeah and it widens up who knows okay rudy let's talk about this i'm thinking i i like how it looks over there oh man what do we got for strong trees over there there's uh there's a couple pines and stuff [Music] yeah i'm speechless i'm without speech so there's where it caved off so the master plan is to park park the corvair probably up in this hole and we'll run the winch line over to a tree across and then back to the jeep and we'll flip the jeep over into the wash further and then yeah getting it on its wheels is like number one right [Music] i now we've got it now we won't lose [Music] so we're gonna go kind of easy and slow and just see what happens here i've used i've used kinetic ropes for tree savers before they work awesome but um this is our first time using a freedom winch line in like a legitimate recovery so we're gonna see how that goes rudy standing down there in the triangle of death so there's gonna be people saying how dangerous it is you might wanna go show them how much slack is in the line i won't be standing here when you winch though i can assure you of that's what i was that is gonna happen [Music] so here's the plan now we're going to work on getting it running if you want to work on the trash picking up the mess so since it's been over on its lid since sunday and it's now tuesday um we're going to pull all the spark plugs and you know get all the oil that's seep through see past the rings out of the cylinder so that we can start it without destroying it that's the plant see if we can get it started we can get it out of here without starting it but it's if we can get it started that's a game changer freedom wins line hefty yeah it works quick no looking for a soft shackle no that was amazing and you used one of the further back hooks that's awesome [Music] okay [Music] as you were he's going to bump it we're thinking that coming out this way is going to be what makes the most sense so we're going to start with that i mean every way is bad but this way i'm hoping with no front drive it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty helpless yeah we're going to put him in front so so he can tow it when he gets stuck yeah yeah and i'll follow up there's a nice ramp just in front of that tree to get back up on the road on the road so rudy your jeep um you're gonna have to i'm gonna try to drive down there where you are but it's just so this side of those trees is where we're going out okay [Music] okay [Music] here [Music] he's got to get some transmission fluid in it i'm doing you no good yeah well how's it going so far well we thought about bringing an engine oil but we didn't think about bringing transmission fluid but luckily i know that engine oil works as transmission fluid in a pinch this whole thing's gonna need to go through and a flush for everything so this is gonna do zero harm long term and it's going to do a lot of health short term i just didn't even use my whole shame there's a huge advantage to having a little bit of drive okay i'm just gonna follow you well we're gonna drive it on out for a minute i'm probably going to get drug a lot of it i just want to say you guys said the roof clearance on the wagon was short how's that one i'm laid back pretty good but anyway we'll get it out of here we've got we've got a couple rough spots coming up but [Music] so [Music] oh i wonder if we just should just stay hooked up for a minute [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hello back up okay rudy go you're good i can't believe he drove this thing up here i can't believe you got it this far [Music] the other night i was out wheeling and uh my exhaust got bent around the axle and so just temporarily so i could drive it i cut it off and i thought i cut it off far enough back to not affect the gas tank and it is we've got a broken spring too yeah i know that one so we've got three vehicles that need to be trailered home and one trailer we'll figure it out please just stack them tired so yeah it's heating up that it's trapping it between the body and the yeah okay just just mosey on out of here [Music] what's the plan well we gotta figure out a plan i think i can drive this home without an issue the issue was in the slower stuff that the heat couldn't get like right i think that's from the freeway do you think that's from the freeway yeah that's when you're building those high egts a lot of volume so if you take it easy it's mostly downhill yeah i'll look at it here in a minute yeah you can just head out so we got up there we got it flipped back over got the fluids back where they needed to be and started up and running and pulled out of there he's on his way home he said he wanted to drive it so that's what he's doing it's awfully hard to see through that windshield yeah you're not you don't have great visibility through the windshield so but i wasn't gonna fight him okay so what's going on with the corvair we got the paint touched up then we took it up to carter's custom upholstery in cedar city and it got the interior the headliner down and a couple of other interior things the dash and the hinge cover and stuff and then we're going to be bringing it down put the glass in it that's what's been going on behind the scenes we're not going to show you any of that or we're going to show you very little anyway thanks for watching and i can't wait to reveal the corvair to you but i'm not going to show it to you till it's done

Channel: Matt's Off Road Recovery

Views: 2,065,116

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Id: cZfUaSsM3b4

Length: 22min 9sec (1329 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 18 2021