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Fuel Stop and Trailer Safety Check

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What happens here

The team pulls into a Flying J gas station in Emporia, Kansas. The presenter's companion inspects and tightens the ratchet straps securing the GMC Yukon XL to the trailer. The presenter demonstrates how he positions the car on the trailer for optimal weight distribution, explaining the importance of the axle placement to avoid excessive tongue weight on the truck. He also points out the helper bags installed on his truck's suspension. He then begins filling the truck with diesel fuel, aiming to stop the pump at exactly $60.69, which he successfully achieves. His companion then replaces the fuel cap.

Goal: Refuel the tow vehicle and ensure the towed vehicle is safely secured.

Tools and materials

  • Fuel pump — Dispensing diesel fuel, GMC Yukon XL GMC used for Vehicle being transported, Helper bags Unknown
  • Diesel fuel — Powering the truck

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is dead in the winter. Oh, just filling up here in Emporia, Kansas. I think we're not going anywhere. Good. We're checking the straps. Always got to check the straps when you're towing something. Yeah. You want to Nice bow. She did that. It's mine versus yours. Yeah. Well, I didn't tie a bow. I just kind of looped it. Just go through doop and then through there and back cuz then the wind and if you look at yours compared to mine yours looks neater and it looks like it busted your like a fifth grader did it. Yeah. I guess the right way to do it is to like kind of roll it up nicely and zip tie it or something. You can kind of like slide it up and down or what I really want to do is get a designated set of straps for this, you know, Uncle Rob Escalade, Uncle George, and cut them and singe the ends so they're the right length all the time. And then if I strap on something else, I use different straps for that cuz most of what I do is the same configuration every time. My routine is I pull up until the back tire gets to the license plate here. And I know that the weight distribution, you know, toes nicely cuz the axle's pretty far back on this trailer. So, if I'm too far forward, then it puts a lot of tongue weight on. And I like to keep it back just to, you know, take some spot off the truck. And I also got helper bags on here featuring my plasti dip bumper from 6 years ago. And it looks like we are full. Can we make it 6069? I like it. Yes. Did it Yeah. Pull it out fast so it doesn't fly, you know, get on the paint. Even though the the truck stop that we went to before doesn't all over it, but it's whatever. I didn't even ask her to do that. She just did it. Nice.

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