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September's grader repair reaches beyond the driveway to the rally track during a week without new uploads.
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Everything Wrong with my Cheap Road Grader
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- 0:00Ethan introduces the Champion grader's two major faults: no brakes and a nonfunctional blade-shift cylinder.
- 3:45The dismantled master cylinder reveals degraded seals, rust pits and a sticky piston.
- 15:50Chris and Ethan use chains and an excavator to help pull apart the stubborn hydraulic cylinder.
- 24:45Chris reinstalls the rebuilt hydraulic cylinder and fits a replacement master cylinder.
- 28:08The driveway-hill brake test begins, followed by grading work on the driveway and rally track.
Chris tries cleaning up the old master cylinder before conceding defeat. Getting a fifty-year-old Champion road grader to stop will take a replacement, not just some workshop persuasion.
That September repair, "Everything Wrong with my Cheap Road Grader", remains Bonus Bolts' busiest video, now past 600,000 views. Ethan bought the machine to maintain gravel roads, but it arrived with no brakes and a blade-shift cylinder that wouldn't work. Chris tackles both, finding ruined seals inside the hydraulic cylinder and eventually restoring the blade's sideways movement. The brakes get their driveway-hill test before the grader goes to work smoothing the property and reshaping the rally track. The video also contains a sponsored dog-supplement segment.
There were no new uploads from Edwin and Ethan's bonus-shenanigans channel this week. Its existing videos added about 21,000 views, while subscribers stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is running well below its usual level. Among similarly sized motoring channels, omardrives had a much busier week, while Ed Bolian's was quieter.
The grader is attracting more daily viewing than the other older uploads drawing attention here: "Cheap Humvee Challenge", an auction gamble involving two sight-unseen vehicles and a long drive home, and "Building My Dream Porch!". But the Champion provides the most satisfying practical detail: after all the dismantling, bleeding and replacement parts, Chris can finally stop it with the pedal.
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Which make of road grader do Ethan and Chris repair?
The machine in the repair video is a fifty-year-old Champion road grader.