MATT brings the Banana to FAB RATS garage!! 

I love watching the interactions between all of you. You can tell you are the best of friends. I think Matt is Paul's brother from another mother!

The older I get the more I appreciate a quiet vehicle.

It’s great to see 2 friends working well together!!!

More people need friendships like this, the world would be a better place. Working on a project together and laughing the whole time, best day ever.

"I spend more time looking for stuff than I do working" is my spirit animal.

This is the truest representation of what actually goes on when working in the shop.

Jayme in the shop with Matt reminds me of my beautiful wife when she was still alive. She used to help me work on my cars and make sure I didn't forget anything. Also get parts for me so I wouldn't have to stop and get them myself. You're A lucky man Matt. 😁

"Eye-crometer" love it, and Ed loves magnets , does he ? Magnets incoming...

"my eyecromiter" at first i was like wtf is that, then it hit me. im gonna start using that one

I'm so glad that I found the two of you. You all make my day brighter. And tell Paul that I am also a Mt Dew drinker have been for over 30 years.

Fun times watching you guys banter & work. Love the term eyecrometer.

I feel you with the gloves. Last week I spent a good 5 minutes looking for my flashlight under the car, while holding my flashlight because it was too dark to find it ;)

Absolutely loved the plumbing fitting on the rear differential!!

You and Matt work great together!!!!! Thank’s for sharing.☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍👍

13:08 Ray Flugger, owner of Flowmaster, invented the glass pack muffler, and called it Hushpower. He also designed the exhaust for the Stealth Bomber and gave it to the military for free. He sold Flowmaster to B&M Racing in 2011. Sadly Ray passed away February 8th 2020 at his home in Santa Rosa, California, at the age of 79.

"I spend more time looking for stuff than i do working" Story of my life.

The exhaust work done on the yellow Banana was awesome. Good job Paul and also for helping out Matt..👍👌

The Flowmaster 40 delta flow muffler is the perfect sounding muffler for all 6 and 8 cylinder trucks

I am a fabricator, my younger brother is or used to be a Moab jeeper . I am a born and raised Utahn, but have lived in the Midwest since 1976, my service time and my carreer took me to Ohio/Indiana, 31 Years with GM, 5 children 9 grandchildren later all live in Indiana, and so do we. Indiana has been home since 1988. I love the sentry in Moab, I lived in Hurricane for awhile. I used to use an eyecromiter all the time.

Imagine growing up with one of these guys as your dad and then getting a degree in mechanical engineering. You'd freak everyone out by just knowing how to get it done.

Gotta love a shop that you can show up a “little light” in the parts department 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Watching this AGAIN for the UMTEENTH TIME!!🤙🏻

I'm as inspector for a major jet engine manufacturer for 40 years. I thought I have heard of many gages and measuring tools. We even have to have an eye exam for 20-20 every year. But never heard of an eyecrometer. Love it!!

I could watch you guys work all day.

Thanks for reminding me that I’m not the only one forgetting where I put my stuff. “I just had it in my hands!!!” 😡🤬😳

Paul seems like the best friend ever.

“Are you guys gonna turn down for what”😂

"My eyecrometer" lol! (7:58)

Just catching up on all the videos I didn't get to see before I found FabRats. I like Matt's pipe fitting welded to his rear differential lol. I had to back it up and pause it and look it over. I'm almost done watching every video yous made Paul. This is my favorite channel of all the ones I watch. Paul does some good fabrication work.

Hi guys, I’m a new sub over from Matts channel. Great video. Paul, I think you need to attach your gloves together with a long piece of elastic/bungee cord through your fabrication jacket sleeves, so when you take them off you can’t loose them.

You and Matt are hilarious together! 🤣

It’s fun seeing you two guys working together.

You need to tell Matt that he needs to bring this silly fun version of Matt back to his channel.

I sure hope that Fab Rats charges more when Matt helps.

LOVED IT! What a gem... Two Masterbodgers working in tandem BRILLIANT! Is there a problem? There is not.

Fits like a glove. Where's that glove ?

Yahoo mountain dew just watched this video loved the video always love to see Jayme and Michelle and we can't forget Matt

Loosing or misplacing tools, etc, is a learned talent.

"These Toyota guys..." That was funny 😅

Awesome collaboration . Flowmasters are awesome. Subscribed.

Wish I was in town when Matt was there too. I loved meeting you all and hope I can get everything together for Paul to build up my XJ. For everyone that wonders, these people are as nice (or nicer) in person as they are on their videos. Something about Long Valley I guess.

Future Matt here to remind you to tighten up ALL of the suspension hardware...hehehe

What a pleasure to watch two master fabricators join forces and make it happen :) Looking forward to the steering upgrades as well!

I've always loved the "pert near" part of building custom exhaust. And I would have totally put dumps on it haha

Wow! You guys really DO have a lot of fun! 👍 I think I get it now.

That was ‘exhausting’ 🙂 Great video!!!

Nice job guys! Gotta keep that banana mobile. I have always preferred the sound of the Flowmaster over Cherrybomb, especially on those straight six’s.Good choice Matt.

Every time Matt says "oww" say "Careful Matt, that's hot." He'll appreciate it. "Eyecrometers"? Sound like delicate, expensive pieces of equipment. They really need to be protected. I'd hate to see something happen to those eyecrometers! I would suggest wearing safety glasses, but they would just end up with the gloves and the marker. Great video.

We need to see those corvairs!!!!!

"Give her the onions" 🤣🤣 that's gold

Double spacers on the lift arms 😬. Love it haha

"I spend more time looking for stuff than working." Boy, ain't THAT the truth! :)

It's awesome to see somebody else that misplaces things as bad as I do while working on stuff in the garage

Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Good thing your wife was there to keep track of all the tools. Lol

Fun day in the shop. Nice.

At 8:00; "eyecrometer"! I love it and am going to steal this phrase!

Nice! That Flowmaster exhaust sounds good!

Jaime is The Gloveometer!

That lil elbow screwed into the diff cover is GENIUS! so stealing that idea when servicing an axle.

This comment may be completely, well no, it is completely out of left field, but I can’t tell you what videos like yours and Matt’s mean to people sometimes. I am a single guy in my early 30s in the San Francisco Bay area, and most of the people around here suck. It’s so hard to find wholesome traditional values and lifestyles. On top of that we have the quarantine and everyone around here locking themselves in their house for months now. It’s a shitty place and it’s even lonelier now, but with his channel and now yours, I find a bit of Wholesome Americana to inspire me as I work on my small business and dream of being a family man like you guys. Thank you for giving us a window into your wonderful life, you worked hard to make it what it is and that makes me want to work harder every day too. Skål

Great Bleepin Job! Making all those turns in exhaust is the hardest!

Came over from Matt’s channel, love the shop. I agree I do more looking then working!

This is what I call friendship at work

You 2 guys are not working just having fun being together Tks for sharing

My buddy Jesse put his muffler high as he could go too and it cooked the rear floor carpet. Looks good

Matt, I love your differential fill plug!

Love the Corvares Matt. I have an old Chevy van I'm working on now myself.

Awesome exhaust install!

Gotta love getting a new Flowmaster installed. Flowmaster is all I use.

It not hot it just does not take you long to expect a piece of pipe that has been welded LOL love your videos be safe have a great day and watch out for a hot objects

Love the streak plumbing 90 on your rear Axel

I like that oil fill plug u fabbed up for Matt’s rear end cover!

Thanks for sharing this fabrication video with us,,, Makes me wish I was not retired,,, :-)

Who says RU-vid videos are not educational. I just learned a new word, "EYECROMETER". Great work!

It's the heat that makes it hot

Hey Paul, here is the same suggestion that I just left on Matts off road recovery channel . My original Idea was to build an off road camper trailer and power the wheels on the trailer. In short, how many home made trailers have you seen made from the back half of an old pick up truck with the drive shaft simply disconnected. The are a number of ways one could supply power again, Electric for sure would work but you would then need batteries to provide the power and they would weigh a lot plus a speed controller... A much easier way would start with a Toyota pick up rolling chassis (including engine and trans) remove the front suspension, add a hitch out front and you would be half done! All the driver of the Jeep would need is a "fly by wire" throttle for the trailer engine to provide some more push when needed on those sandy hills All in all you would have an articulated 6x6 ... Oh, one last thought, that engine on the trailer tongue could also turn a generator - think welder. PS... That lathe is awesome, that's what got me watching your channel. and in the same spirit as Matt's Corvair wagon, I built a Vega wagon back in 1988/89 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rjnkz6Ia5p0.html

4.0's sound good with a chambered muffler. I had an 89' with a towing cam and a super 44 in it. It had a little lope to it :)

Turned out great, I used to work in a muffler shop in the late 70,s we used welding rod to make a mock pipe and then bent it on a custom bender. Welding was acetylene and cutting everything with a gas torch, no such thing as a sawsall back then. Most people wanted dual exhaust especially truck owners as soon as they got a new truck.

My my what a beautiful part of the world you live in ,Love the backdrop as much as the recovery's .I was admiring the drawings in the movie Cars and thought what imagination (I am from Africa )till i first stumbled on your channel then i saw its a true representation of your world ,love the channel,watched almost all,i have been doing similar things also with bigger things , earth movers to be recovered and salvaged in strange places ,you are a very practical man with the virtue of remaining calm ,all the best hentie

Theses or any of the other videos is never old

Love the vids!!! Am a 35 yr disabled fabricatior/ welder. Thin was my game!!

great work

the muffler puzzle is complete and sounds good !!!!the Toyota part helped;)

You spoke of the 4 l straight 6 banger. My 1972 orange gremlin had 475.000 miles on the original 232 amc engine what the 4 liter was patterned after and it finally died crank nose broke off of it Great engines for sure

haha!! Just put the same flowmaster on my truck!! Funny timing!!!

Great video thank you!

Hmmm, There is Finnegan's garage, and the care that he takes when building the headers for Blasphemi, or Game Over, with the perfectly cut angles, and the purging of the tubes, and the scientific welding. Then there is Matt and Fab Rats, and their fabrication style. Polar opposites, lol. Love it!!!

Tying your project with your profession, and my history- when I was a kid my dad threw me in a Corvair wagon to go hunting. Got it hung up on a rock up and fried the clutch on some random logging road, we left it there to be towed out later and had one of the hunting party tow it out on the way back.

Fun to watch.

Eyecrometer made me chuckle, gonna have to use this now

Man I feel you when you say you spend more time looking for stuff then actually working... I hate wrenching these days just because of that :)

The still you chose for this video is hilarious. Your sense of humor is what sets this channel above

Y’all are the best!! I love watching the videos. Keepem coming!

Paul and Matt I do love the pipe fitting rear diff add plug Haha

That Jeep of yours is soooo cool !

looks great!

at 2:30. you all are the real engineers. I work with a bunch of kids fresh out of college at boeing that aint got a lick of common sense.

Flowmaster, nice!

nice plumbing job !

All those issues getting the exhaust over the rear axle is why I just dumped mine down and to the side. Been running that way for a year and it works great. I kept smashing it in the stock location.

Nice job love it