Full Rebuild Process - Tracked Amphibious Vehicle

This ARGO in swamp with tracks on: https://youtu.be/TvDiHmiS4m8 My other videos: youtube.com/@DonnDIY/videos Support me on: www.patreon.com/DonnDIY Follow me on: www.instagram.com/DonnDIY

Bro is incredible. He saved this beautiful puppy and gave it back its initial charm! 👍🏻

72 years old here, greetings from Southeast Texas. I have a lot of mechanical experience with military & oilfield heavy equipment. I've done a lot of things, learned many trades, built many things. It was a pure pleasure watching this video. From start to finish. 1st class all the way. Your attention to all the details was excellent. Your skills with all the tools and equipment was also excellent. The fact you did it all by just yourself was impressive. You are a master craftsman and I thank you for such a great experience. You will get a lot of enjoyment & work out of it now. It is in better then new shape in my view. Well done sir, well done! It was really a joy watching your fabrication & all your work. Thank you for sharing all of this with us. It was great!

With over 40 years in the industry, you are one of the most talented I have seen. I have watched you for years. I guess the thing that impresses me the most is you are not afraid of a grinder, a millwrigh's best friend.

As a former Argo tech it was great to see you go all the way and split the shell and pull/fix the frame issues! We serviced a couple of fleets of these things back in the day for oil/gas and the Canadian forestry service. Often when the fleet machines were dropped off for service they were beyond mangled and often packed solid with mud... it was a total pain in the rear doing bearings chains and sprockets without splitting the shell (some tight spots to work in)... considering how relatively clean it looked when you unloaded it I can only imagine how many units we serviced and sent back out with frame issues that were missed during inspection... Cool that you did the floor pan it should really help reinforce the frame for another 20 years if not longer (guessing this is an 03-05 think 06 was the change over for fuel injection). Great Build and thank you for a trip down memory lane :) P.S. Just read your video description... would be crazy if this was a unit we worked on back in the day lol

Just watched this -- my first of your videos -- and subscribed. Brilliant video. All the steps with good viewing angles in focus; details when necessary; timelapse when not. Short annotations to clarify. (No AI generated voiceover mispronounciations!) A proper restoration. Proper parts where necessary; economy where possible; improvements where needed. Nice, clear, pucker engineering. No hype; no "personality"; no loud music; no stupid beards, hats, tats nor facial expressions. No explosions, pointless destruction. No "cute" cats, kids or dogs.

(1) Great to have a workshop so big. (2) Great to have all the tools - hate to think how much they all cost. (3) Just got to admire the guys skills, I envy that most of all.

Love the format. For guys that known what's going on, it cuts to the chase. No filler.

Superb!!!!!!! Enjoyed watching this more than any movie or documentary. Watching the meticulous care, thought, planning, ability to improvise, improve, strengthen was enlightening. Use of various tools, jigs, milling machines, welding and especially, the straightening of that shaft was priceless. I envy you your natural, native abilities and skills built over no doubt, countless hours, weeks, months and years of hard graft. Thanks for sharing the re-build with us. I especially like the fact that you don't bore the viewer with self-congratulatory comments. Instead, you quietly do - and we get to see the 'what, how and when' and are not frightened to point out a missed step or its corrective action. That makes it real. Brilliant!!! You have a gift. Bless you!!

Amazed you took it on, amazed how much work and seriously impressed with all that you did - thank you for sharing.

Hi. Usually people do appreciate engineers more, than regular mechanic for some reason. I dont know why? But what I see here, is a pretty damn excellent mechanic, who can handle all the engineering stuff and also all the mechanic stuff. So, all I can do, is just say, that I appreciate a very very much of your work! It is something, that not everyone can do. So, be brave! You are talented one. Very talented actually! Pleace, keep that on your mind! And well.. pleace keep doing just that, what you are doing! This is nice!!

I use to work on 6x6 Argo at the shop I was at. They are not the easy to work on. You did a great job taking it all apart! That's the way to rebuild one.

I used to work for a shop that sold and serviced these . While I didn't get to work on them I did get to drive them occasionally . Lots of fun!!

50 years of rebuilding its good to see someone with your skills a lot of skills are being lost thats why scrapyards are full of good kit nobody can be bothered to fix and restore gear .👍👍👍👍👍👍

Totally! It caught me off guard with its creativity.

The first cake eating sequence was priceless! Well done as was the whole video. Thanks for taking the time for us.😆

nicely done. Love how you paid attention to details. Powder coating is the way to go. Great job.

I don’t know why it is but I’m always thrilled to see those bearing puller tools. Bushing removers, and then setting the new ones inside that transmission. Maybe it’s the mystery of it, but this one captivated my attention the whole way through. Thanks for speeding it up here and there!!

Awesome to see a young man demonstrating why their called Industrial Art's, Well Done!

Best restoration video I've ever watched.