Monster Garage (2002) s01e20 Episode Script
Rock Crawler
Minrolls are what make up rocks,
eating his rocks are one time.
Silicon and oxygen.
Those two chemicals make up
three-fourths of years' crust.
OK, Monster Hands.
They're rockin' the garages.
Heart is a can.
We're gonna rock, Doctor.
That's magma, cooled in years.
And a rockin' band.
Just the end of boys are gettin' down.
You got an ankle ball in perixine.
Courts, granite, sandstone.
Silica, shale.
So put your tent into your zone.
It's Monster Garage on the Rock.
Join us now as Jesse and his
gang of fabric mechanics,
Rip, grind, and burn.
Transforming ordinary street
vehicles into monster machines
in the Monster Garage.
The challenge.
Take a 1968 Ford Bronco and
turn it into a 1968 Ford Bronco.
That can crawl straight up a wall.
The rules.
When built, the Monster Machine
must appear to be stock.
The team can spend no
more than 3,000 bucks
in hard cash for parts.
Jesse and his crew
have seven days in ice.
On the first day, they design.
On the next five, they build.
On the seventh day, they race.
If successful, each team member
takes home a $3,400 set of
$2,400.
This is the Matti dreams!
On 1968, moves a lot
slower 25 years later.
The vehicle quals into the garage,
followed by the design teams.
The only thing Jesse knows
about the Rockablo project is
that it's the winner of
the Monster Garage viewers'
choice contest, other than
that, these crawling blinds.
So we're going to make a rock crawler.
I don't even know what it is.
I don't even know what it is.
It's a little confused.
So the best thing about this
is it's a viewer's choice.
Rock crawler.
Rock crawler.
I don't even know what it is for
sure, but I'm sure I can make it.
For rock crawling, the
motor is not a big thing.
It's not a big thing.
Steve Ramor is always on the leaning
edge of rock crawling technology.
Designing and building extreme crawlers
like the sniper and the assassin.
I've been doing off-road fabrication
and design for about 17 years.
A year ago, my wife
and I started Avalanche
Ranch, which is an 832
acre off-road park,
where we can take our
toys and play and host
rock crawling competitions
and club events.
So we need to make a parts list.
We need to front and rear differential.
Probably have to get
some good shocks for it.
Definitely have to do
something with the steering.
I think the best thing to do is just
go full hydrolite right off the bat.
Sean Smith.
A student at Art Center College of Design
can build as well as draw cool cars.
I like getting in there with my
friends and family and building.
Hot rods and shoppers
also takes me back to my
roots and doesn't let me
forget where I came from.
I kind of like that look
with the tire spaced way out.
We can do full with on the axles.
And that'll put most of the
tire outside of the body.
We're going to run solid
axles front and rear, right?
Yeah.
No independence suspension.
What size tires?
Because we can get 35.
40 is to 40.
That's really a big.
If we can narrow the grill up
to just enough for the radiator.
And the same thing for the back.
And you got a lot more clearance.
That should you automatically make it
so it can roll over and withstand it.
So everything's got to be
anchored down batteries.
When you're sitting up
there on the side of the 30
-foot cliff and rock shooting
out from underneath,
yeah.
It certainly gets your attention.
See how this is right here?
Yeah.
I'm Bronco.
It's off to the side.
Okay.
When the axle comes right here, it's hard
to get it to clear this bar right here.
Why in Lindy Lindbergh
restores vintage Broncos.
This baby blue relic was his.
But now, it's the sole
property of Mr. Garage.
Well, he's been into off-roading,
opened up the shop, directly Broncos.
And I don't even know
how you guys found me.
There's two types of drivers.
There's the hammerheads.
And there's the finesse drivers.
You can tell I'd be a hammerhead.
I'd be the guy caught on tape.
Oh God.
I think we should
definitely make a custom.
But keep that gun be color.
I like it.
Set Alabama mini truck turquoise.
The Bronco was keeping stock looks.
But that's all.
Its monster upgrades
will include a role cage.
A more flexible suspension.
Be fear axles and enormous tires.
Day two.
The six-man build crew arrives to
kick out the monster garage doors.
Mike Duncan is a 4x4 specialist
from Burbank, California.
Andy McCloskey is an
attorney from San Diego,
who wrenches on the side.
Brandon Gillen is an extreme rock
-calling champion from Sandy Utah.
Mike Allen is the editor of
popular mechanics magazine,
who lives in New York City.
Steve Ramor is sticking
around for the build.
And so is Ryan Lindberg.
Who wants to see his Bronco, Go Loco.
Stone Cold Jesse gives the hard
facts to Team Rock Brawler.
Couple of guys got some
rock crawler experience.
I know you got Bronco experience.
So basically what we're
going to do is make something
that's going to be able
to basically go vertical.
I think a great goal for today
is to get the thing gutted.
Before it can scale a rock wall,
the Bronco needs to be scaled down.
The front drive shaft comes out
followed by the entire front end.
This team is just getting started
on their Bronco demolition journey.
The crew has no time for a moment.
of silence before drilling into the
precious metal body of the pristine
Ford.
And basically cut this all well together
in the middle, so there won't be a
Ford, there'll just be an F and
a D. I like to do everything you
metal.
To modify some stomach of better.
We're making this way better than this.
Guinea.
The team continues to carve and
kick their Bronco into submission.
There he's a junk at it.
The whole rear end is removed as the
steel tubing arise for the role-cane.
This team is so hungry
for rare vintage steel.
They are satisfied with cutting up
the body. They want the frame too.
Jump.
That's like work.
A few more cuts in the Broncos late bear.
I think we're going to be done.
I don't think we're going to
be down to the last minute.
No way.
We've got that thing straight down to
get ready to go back together already.
These guys are confident
and for good reason.
So far they've been
kicking butt on day two.
But their Bronco is about to kick back.
They look like what I think it is.
Water?
Yeah, sure does.
They're letting them last very long.
We know the metal.
It could be anything.
Whatever it is, it's not good.
Lindy's old Bronco might be lame.
It may need to be taken out and shot.
I think it's fine.
Why make problems until they come up?
We'll have problems.
Maybe not this one.
Mike Allen is usually a little cleaner at
work, editing popular mechanics magazine.
He said he'd lend a hand in
the garage under one condition.
Okay, I'll come and I'll help
but I'm not getting any tattoos.
We've got a really talented
bunch of people here
and they're working
together extremely well.
I'm very impressed.
They learned this the same way I did it.
Like hanging around with people that
their mother didn't want them to.
I'm just running all this fast because
I can't try to keep up with it.
With the valve covers off, the
picture is even less pretty.
Very spacious.
Holy.
Look at this.
This is type of stuff you get
when you never change your oil.
You would never find a Chevy.
I don't care if you
never change your oil.
I want to see what the
cylinder oil is like.
I'm going to get these heads off.
I'm going to manage to be charged.
There we go.
Straight up.
And he will have to take the heads off to
really know what's up with this bad pony.
I wouldn't do this if we
were going to use this head.
So.
Head up.
Head up.
Shoulder in the coolant.
Andrew McCloskey is a gear headed
lawyer from San Diego, California.
I think they were a little
shocked when they found
out that a lawyer is
going to be on their team.
So they're kind of trying to
figure out where I fit in.
They need a couple of
people who just know what
they're doing and know
their way around the garage.
I'm very good in mechanical departments.
So I'll be able to help
that with the motor,
fuel injection, getting
the thing wired up.
These guys rock the garage
on the day two tear down.
But it's not all good
under the Broncos hood.
That's not the scoring.
That's good.
That's how you feel that.
I think this one too.
The cylinder's same too.
Bad cylinders equals bad compression.
Those are way more
than a couple thousand.
And bad compression
equals bad performance.
That isn't fun for seeing obstacle.
Can we get a refund?
I think we got it as far as we could.
The end of day two comes
with a sinking feeling.
On top of an already
heavy workload, the team
will have to swap out
their Broncos motor.
Once to garage factoid,
the world's largest
rock is found in the Australian outback.
Airs rock, the mysterious red monolith
rises 1,400 feet from the desert.
And is over five and a half
miles round its perimeter.
Day three, the team gets
going and reviving the
forcedless carcass they
left for dead last night.
Andy had Mike.
Are you guys cool with
dealing with the motor?
Yeah, I can jump right
on that, no problem.
Mike and Brandon and Linda, you
guys want to start doing tubes.
Okay, there we go, right?
We can thank Sparkle for the
wonderful racing buckets we got here.
Ling glee.
You can't see something,
I can't get ready.
Let's spend some food.
After Andy and Mike Allen dig
out the dirty clogged up heart,
there's nothing left of their
steel horse, but part of the
frame, a transmission, two
doors, and a cracked windshield.
The rest of the teams
starts on a new rib cage.
Lindy brought a pipe bender from
his own shop to do the job right.
This vendor is a mandrel vendor.
It bends around the form.
It bends one way instead of a muffler
vendor pushes the pipe in the middle.
And it puts a kick in the pipe.
This doesn't kink the pipe in here.
It makes it a lot stronger.
So if we do actually roll this one kill
ourselves or everybody just the over here.
She's trying to validate
the same line of the door.
By taking careful measurements
before every cut, bend and weld,
the roll cage turns out
plumb, level and square.
That looks pretty good to me.
It was great, perfect.
That's great, I'm good.
I'm going to do my best.
And if it sucks, I'm blaming it on Steve.
Brandon Gillen started anarchy off
road in Salt Lake City, Utah to support
his championship rock crawling habit.
I was a serious champion.
I took first place for
the year, the year 2001.
It means a lot more than me.
If you win and something that
you built with your own hands.
Brandon knows firsthand that the
steel cage is a crawler's best friend.
There's been some accidents
in the rock crawl scene.
It's dangerous.
When you roll over, you know, on
rocks, a jagged, a sharp thing,
come in through your roll cage.
A good friend of mine lost a leg.
Same friend, his son actually
just got to tell this broken.
Work on the roll cage continues.
I'm just going to come in
and catch up underneath here.
You mean Jones is a four?
She can.
Pretty bitch.
Just matching this to this?
Oh, yeah.
The entire roll cage is welded
directly to the sturdy frame,
protecting both motor and driver.
You'll be able to land this rig
as hard as you want to unrock
and nothing will give them.
Mike Duncan, a four-by-doctor
in Burbank, California,
is a specialist at
driving jeeps upside down.
We've been in the
desert racing for years.
We used to race a scrambler and
everybody in the racing circuit
thought we were really crazy.
After about a year's worth
of racing, I endowed it.
End over in about 65 miles an hour.
I couldn't count how
many times it went over.
I lost count after about
the second end over in.
The viewers were going
to like what we did here.
Maybe Jesse will flip it over,
roll it, crash it, thrashing.
Yeah, it's all good.
Yeah, we expect to roll
this thing over repeatedly.
That's the test.
It needs to roll over and survive.
That's just cutting.
To accelerate the process,
Steve heads over to DynaTrack
to see how their axles are coming.
Jim McGeen put the DynaTrack
assembly line on hold
to make custom axles special
for the Monster Bronto.
Coming along on these things,
we specialize in building
super strong axles for
all types of applications.
Everything from competition rock
crawlers to mining machinery
as well as pluses, truck,
ball kinds of vehicles.
And we're going to get these guys climbing
over rocks by the end of the weekend.
That's our goal.
While an ordinary axle delivers
power to only one wheel,
custom locking differential
have gear teeth
that engage under power to make
sure both buyers on the axle
are clawing their way
to the top of the rock.
Add an extra thick,
roll molly axle shaft,
and this beefy bronto
will be tough to beat.
Steve, maybe we'll take just about
all the torque you guys can make.
Back at the garage, Steve
returns from DynaTrack
with a pair of mock axles.
The actual difference
will be here tomorrow.
We've got these dummy tubes
to kind of get us started.
This baby needs to crawl before it rocks.
Some brand new rubber
booties from BF Goodrich roll
into start the team
off on the right foot.
These are prototype BFG crawler TAs.
They've never been put
on any vehicle before.
We got the first set.
These are the new aluminum
military style beat lock.
They're originally used on humbers.
And this ring basically
presses the tire bead.
And sandwiches it on the inside.
Right in here.
And then on the outside.
The beat of the tire is sandwiched.
In that space, lots of positions.
We can run super low tire fractures.
And we don't have to worry about
the tire rolling off the beat.
The lower tire fractures
allow a lot bigger footprint
between the tire and the rock surface.
We got a lot more traction.
Steve and Lindy struggle
with mounting the tires
in the bead lock rims.
Jesse gets on the bodywork.
Sectioning and welding the front grill.
So the fenders can taper
in and clear the tires.
With no more parts arriving,
the team starts to run
out of things to do.
I'm a little concerned about
getting all the parts in time.
Tomorrow we get the axles.
We're not getting them
water until Thursday.
We're heading to the game Monday.
We're like behind the game now.
We're going home.
That's a wrap.
For the second day in a row,
the team leaves the garage.
This facing what looks
like a rocky road ahead.
Day four.
Team rock crawler races
into work to work.
Once inside the garage,
the builders find a pile of new parts.
None of which they'd had to pay for.
It's a freebie fast.
This team's getting more
donations than the Salvation Army.
Hydraulic steering components
from Avalanche Engineering.
A fuel cell from fuel safe.
And at least transfer case
from advanced adapters.
King shocks and springs.
Exhaust headers from Mac.
A fuel injection kit from Evalbrock.
And last but not least, the pro
rock 60 axles from Dinotrack.
Add to that the tires,
rims, seats and motor.
For a total freebie package of 29,000
230 bucks.
Still they've got no motor.
So Mike Duncan brought one from his shop.
Mike's replica of a Ford 289
will help the team work
out some clearance issues.
The new fuel cell mounts
perfectly in the cage.
She's in.
We're straps.
We've got gas.
Down.
And slide it this way.
While the team is setting the
gargantuan axles in place,
Machi Lindy steps in to help out.
Just kick it.
Just kick it.
Oh, yeah.
Not that much.
That could have been ugly.
I'm in this.
I think kick it hard.
Next time we do that,
let's move the Bronco.
Now that's work to do.
These are nice.
With the real axles in place,
the team descends on the Bronco
in an avalanche of activity.
Brackets are made so the shocks
and springs can be mounted,
and the tires go on.
Even Mike Allen gets in on the action.
Brandon starts making control
arms for the coil over suspension.
He wells threaded bums
into the heavy wall tubing,
so a hive joint can be threaded in.
These are going to be our
front lower control arms.
These will be three of
these on the front end,
and then on the back end they'll
be four as a four length.
The rear axle will have four
control arms stabilizing it
with coil springs and shocks,
allowing the axle to articulate
up and down as much as two feet.
Jesse arrives who continue the bodywork,
clearing the way for the
monstrous 40 inch tires.
So this is the stock fender.
We're going to section nine inches out.
All this in here,
going to disappear.
We'll re-radius our wheel
opening for the big tire.
So this is that nine inches out.
So this should slide
right up and try to drive
a nice straight tack line.
The Atlas transfer case
is one of the best ways
to increase the crawler's low end torque.
Torque is the measure of rotational force
that must ultimately turn
the Broncos 40 inch tires.
The new motor should put out
about 300 foot pounds of torque.
This is multiplied by the
gears and the transmission,
transfer case and differentials.
The finished crawler will put out over 60
,000 foot pounds of torque at the wheels.
Compared this to the stock
Broncos 5,000 foot pounds
or a Honda Civic's 2,000 foot pounds.
You basically could let
this thing idle by itself.
It was not the side of your wall in
the right of the side of the hill.
It would go about half mile an hour.
With their new parts,
the team is finally making some headway
and a new motor from Wayne
should arrive tomorrow.
Months to garage facto aid.
The first Ford Broncos
were released in 1965
around the same time the Rolling
Stones released satisfaction.
Both were big hits.
Day five.
Mindy brings a half cab
Broncos top from his shop.
One half cab top.
This will help keep the stock look
without adding too much weight.
Jesse arrives to
continue the fender work.
We can't believe the original.
Somewhat.
Day two lives ago into the
input on the rear steer valve.
Was that right, right?
It's not here yet.
The hydraulic stuff won't
be that complicated.
We just got to get the valve.
I'm just looking at all
the stuff we have to do.
We got the motor!
Finally, Wayne himself
rolls in the motor.
He built in two days.
It's time.
The attorney gets on the case.
This is the Edelbrock Pro
Flow fuel injection system.
Basically it replaces your carburetor
with the specialized manifold.
It's got a fuel injector
for each cylinder.
So the carburetor anytime you
get on any type of extreme angle.
You won't have enough
gas to keep running.
So fuel injection just solves all
of those problems instantly later.
Test fix.
Come in together.
The new motor is bolted to the stock
transmission and at this transfer case.
So think we're going to go.
The motor transmission and transfer case
are bolted together and ready to go in.
Mike and Andy want to put
the motor mounts in first.
But Lindy has another plan.
Twin sticks are way in the way.
I guess they're hot to hold on.
Go on in.
You guys think about the shift.
We're going to try it.
It doesn't work down.
Do it.
It's in.
Get over.
Go down over here.
Just for the record.
There.
Okay.
We tried.
You're in the Bronco guy.
As Andy predicted, the transfer
case shifters need to come off.
Lindy gets on it.
There you go.
Let's move it.
Oh, that's under it.
Push back.
There we go.
You okay, Mike?
I'm Mike Fingers.
That's the freighter was
broken, but I don't think so.
Ford.
All right, right there.
Get the bolt in it.
The motor's in.
And Andy wants to fire it up.
But he's still waiting for Alex.
The garage manager to show up
with a few kind of useful parts.
We don't have the start.
That's for wires too.
I'm trying to wait for this crack.
It's like fricking five
bucks with the parts up.
Well, I think that's more parts.
Where's Alex?
We're going to mount the radiator.
Mount the front fender.
Mount the grill.
Finish the hood.
Fire the motor.
Break in the can.
Putting the drive shafts
that we don't have.
Mount the steering ramps.
Build all the lines.
We'll eat all the hydraulics.
Mount the rear steering valve.
We'll eat the brakes.
We'll serve vendors.
We'll eat all the hydraulics.
Mount the rear steering valve.
We'll eat the brakes.
There's one day left and
there's still missing parts.
There's way too much work to do.
Day five has rocks in its head.
It's over.
Day six.
This team will not be crushed.
On the final build day with
a huge workload remaining,
the team pounces on the
unsuspecting Bronco.
Except for Lindy, who
is not yet shown up.
Well, here we are, Friday morning.
After late night last night.
We're running out of time.
I think we're going to
be going out of time.
Hopefully some time before noon today
we'll be able to hear this thing running.
The team speculates on
Lindy's whereabouts.
I don't know.
I think he's probably still asleep.
Lindy, you fuck dude, where are you?
Look who's here.
Look who's here.
Sleeping beauty.
He's bringing his toes. He
must've stayed out last night.
Did you wake up a little
late from last night?
What are you saying?
You didn't have to worry.
Steve unpacks the long-awaited
steering ramps from Parker Hanoffin.
But finds a problem.
These are the hydraulic ramps
for the steering front and back.
The ramps are good.
The shaft is pretty big.
These things are way big.
We just don't have that
kind of room down there.
Steve and Lindy troubleshoot.
How to work around the enormous bracketry
that came with the steering ramps.
Top here.
Take that panorid bar.
Just cut it off.
And it's already
OK.
We're going to pull through there.
And now it's going to push you in there.
Get the panorid bar.
We'll cut it.
Lindy steals the front panhard bar
from the running guts of the
old Bronco to test his solution.
This is worth the perfect time.
Oh, look at that.
That would probably
qualify for monster garage.
Yeah.
We could probably get by with that.
But more than we've seen in the past,
it will definitely qualify
for monster garage.
Lindy's modified steering
ramps seem to work just fine.
Mike Allen unwraps a present
from high angled drive line.
It's heavy.
Heavy duty front and rear drive shafts
custom made to fit this bucking beast.
Mike installs a shafts with
some beefy new you joints.
One of the gun right now.
You know radiator.
No hoses.
The fittings are holding us up right now.
The wing for electric and up with bolts.
It's starting to seem like
the real hold-up is Alex.
The monster garage manager.
It's Friday.
But there's still no radiator.
Hoses or hydraulic fittings.
Alex, if you don't have
all part till this morning,
you're going down.
You got to be kidding me.
Jesse's learning how
the colon is new boxer.
It's the lean machine.
And it's leaning.
Watch out.
Let's do better.
Keep watching.
Jesse feels a different
energy in the garage today.
You guys are all serious now today.
On the last day.
Yeah, we still made it.
It's going to be so good.
Let's go.
Yeah, we have a hurry.
Well, Andy gets the motor ready to fire.
Steve and Lindy fill the
shocks with nitrogen gas.
Jesse starts mounting the rear fenders.
The team is beginning to unravel.
What?
This has to be level, right?
No, this has to line up.
So that's level.
The fenders like this and like this.
And that doesn't matter.
That's not going to be
like this and like this.
Because we cut in the same.
They're both going to be the same.
I didn't figure that.
Because the lines got a matchup.
Idiot.
How are you going to handle
the level working here, right?
That's not it.
I told you that.
To weld the back on until
we got this straight.
Because otherwise, we're going
to have to cut it off and fix it.
Okay.
So the fender runs down.
I know who to blame.
Yeah.
So I'll have to be imparting
for the last four days.
And now the final day when we
actually have to get it done.
Everything's all serious.
See when I reach out.
We got that fenders.
They're level.
But hold on.
There you go.
I think it's more important that
this line's up than the sheep.
But what?
I think it's funny that you guys
are fighting about something that's
neither one years decision there.
You don't have that.
Because I'll fix it no matter what.
I'll make it level and fit.
You like that?
What do you think?
You guys should have a knife
fight to see who's right.
Like in West Side Story.
A dance fight.
Or a break dance war.
That would solve it.
Hold on.
Oh.
The glory of day number five.
Two hours into day five and results.
Oh, hey!
The clock is running out on this team.
Alex, the monster garage manager.
Returns with the wrong hydraulic
fittings for the steering.
They can't cross until they're free.
Are you told him what the cross
partner was and didn't help him?
Every speed speed we have.
Or just try anything here.
All right.
Take this.
Take all that.
Take any other fitting that's wrong.
And can you go there?
A frustrated Steve sends Mike
Duncan to the hydraulic shop.
Before they close to
make sure they get the
right fittings to finish
the steering system.
He's getting frustrated.
You're getting frustrated.
We're all going to the time.
If he gets back here and st from again.
Okay.
We're going to time.
I know that.
Rock roller.
Lindy cuts out a new tailgate that
could read two different ways.
Feeds on rock dinners.
Or found unlocks dead.
The hose?
You got new hose, no?
We ashamed it.
These are all those fittings.
That's what I initially wanted.
It's been 15 minutes.
Got everything that I needed.
Right now I got to get the plumbing.
It was already there.
When was the four of these for the Rams?
Yeah, we got another problem.
I'm not going to go there right now.
Apparently, Mike Duncan didn't get
everything he needed at the hydraulic shop.
He's still missing a couple of fittings.
Alex needs to go get these.
You're on somebody, guys.
But it's after five o
'clock on Friday afternoon.
And there are no hydraulic shops in the
Pacific Times zone that are still open.
I need to get a little snowman build.
Like there's got to have any
in fades for hydraulic on it.
Go swipe them.
We're going to have a
partner with the other guys.
Let's call them a bicycle.
We're going to go hunting.
Mike Duncan and Steve go
cannibalize the fittings
they need from the
Mini Cooper snowmobile.
It's parked in the lot
outside the garage.
There's a couple 90 degree fish in the
back, but I think it's in the adapter.
There.
Where?
Is that anything?
Okay.
Okay.
Get another one down here.
Okay.
We could use the same lines.
In the months of garage,
there are no rules.
Other than the rules.
We're little fittings, don't know.
And this team will have to
do what it must to survive.
Do you still fittings?
We're stealing.
We're down to the wire.
Somehow this shop.
Eight of two fittings or eight.
I've misplaced them somewhere.
It's getting late.
I've got to improvise.
This thing's rolling
out this door to night.
You're gonna have to get back here.
Yeah.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Good plan.
Ready, Hater?
One step closer.
Jesse goes that around a
chopper way better than me but
Drop-knock.
Drop-knock is that his thing.
It's the first shark he goes over in
this thing. He's going to get stuck on.
Jesse plosses to admire some
of Lindy's craftsmanship.
Those brackets look good, Lindy.
For that, scary. That round?
Nice job.
Some good work.
Is that a part of your
manufacture of your shop?
It's 10 o'clock and the
radiator is installed.
The computer chip is plugged in.
The steering hydraulics are plumbed.
The brakes are bled.
This Bronco is ready to buck.
It still looks like a Bronco.
Oh, yeah, that's nice.
Like it.
It's a little as far as I can.
The boulder runs and the front
end rear steering are working.
But there's a new problem.
We got a lead.
And there's no time for problems.
The thermostat housing
just broke in half.
Six dollars per hour that we didn't get.
So Lindy's going to grab one.
You know, one off of his Bronco.
We're going to swap it out.
And we're ready to do something.
Pressing.
In a last minute sacrifice,
Lindy cannibalizes his own Bronco
to replace the cracked
thermostat housing.
Are we done?
Let's go start.
When they start the motor again,
Coolant is still leaking.
Luckily, Jesse's been
schooled by the best.
It's like a goofy scar.
Hey, let's go.
The team gets the Burley Bronco outside,
where Jesse is showing
off his slick new ride.
A 1979 Osmobile Delta 88.
After a few donuts, Jesse decides this
car doesn't handle as well as his Ferrari.
So it must be destroyed.
The old car is feeling the pain.
Its exhaust manifold is glowing red hot.
The temperature lights on.
Yeah, how's it going?
An explosion of boiling coolant
is the Delta 88's death rattle.
But the raining radiator
fluid isn't enough
to extinguish the inferno under the hood.
Jesse steps in to quiet
the car's restless soul.
Now, Jesse will pay the body.
Put it out of its misery and style.
Now it's overheating.
Blue radiator.
No, it's cool.
All right, man. Be careful.
I don't want to do it anymore.
That's right.
You're my friend.
I don't want to do it anymore.
Damn it.
Yeah.
That's pretty fun.
What time is it?
It's got the time.
12.03.
So now I'm talking about
Yeah.
This crew took on and
heroic dose of force
and built a rock solid gravy.
While a team collects their bounty,
their pony gets a different
coat of the same color.
The stuff will protect the thing
when Jesse's out there beating
the thing up in all the rocks.
The entire crawler is
coated inside and out
with light acts for an invincible finish.
Are you ready, monster fans?
Big swag here, and we are moments away
from another monster garage challenge.
As always, sitting on
the rock next to me,
Frankie White side.
Frankie, where the hell are we?
Out in the Mojave Desert swag,
where it's so darn hot, even
the locals have to take cover.
Well, I know one thing that
can always take the heat,
a fresh hot monster
right out of the garage.
That's right, Flintstone, and this
one is turning off the pavement
and hitting dirt as we speak.
It's the viewers' joy special,
the monster rock crawler.
The viewers have spoken,
and I like what they say.
Nice!
Check it out, swag.
There's only one man I
know who can draw a crowd
in the middle of the desert.
Monster garage is built upon a rock,
and his name is Jesse James.
Holy Moses, Frankie!
Let's listen up, as Bill
team member Mike Duncan
lays out the rules for this challenge.
What we're going to do, Jesse,
is going to go down between
the two cactus over there.
We're going to make a right.
We're going to go pass
that to Paul Cactus there.
We'll hang a ue.
We'll head down into the rocks over here,
and come back up, make a left,
and there's some little technical
stuff up in there we can do.
Why?
Well, Frankie looks like Jesse
wants to break the rules.
Let's see if he can break some rocks.
So far, so good.
Oh, good shot from the drive shaft hand.
swag, a car becomes a rock crawler
by modifying the transmission,
transfer case, and differentials
to produce a very low gear ratio.
This results in a
massive amount of torque.
For the monster rock crawler,
we're talking 16,000 foot
pounds of torque at the wheels.
I couldn't have said
it any better, Frankie.
Oh, yeah.
Jesse's hit the big stuff.
All right.
You've got to start.
I think he likes it, swag.
Oh, Jesse's stuck in his monsters,
losing precious bodily fluids.
That's transmission fluid, swag.
Is it?
Yeah, if you can.
Oh, little upset stomach,
he's in stopping Jesse and his monster.
Go get a buddy.
He's working at swag.
Let's see what the big deal is all about.
Oh, yeah.
Jesse's put on his helmet.
That's a red sparkle,
in 1964 fury 400.
What can only be one thing?
Time for round two.
Well, swag, Jesse said he
wanted to roll his new monster.
Let's see if he can.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no.
That's got a hurt.
Looks like he broke one
of the support rods.
He broke the ball.
He ripped the ball right out of it.
He really launched it.
That was a beauty.
Kick five in a beauty.
Oh, he tackled the front drive shaft.
That's not good.
We set it from the start, Frankie.
There's two kind of
drivers for rock crawler.
The footest and the hammer hand.
Jesse ball, Pete James, he's
the head of all hammers.
I'm off the door.
So that's his real failure.
He definitely crawled over rocks.
Rock crawler.
Looks like Jesse's
gonna roll it after all.
Thanks to his desert followers.
Way to go, monster fans.
What a way to rock.
Jesse's got a new dog swag.
What's he call it?
Her name is really the Dominator.
And the top and all of it just so
happens to be Jesse's birthday.
The crowd gathers around to help
the master fabricator sell up her.
And Jesse likes the dog get first
links on the desert dessert.
I think I'll pass on the cake, Frank.
You go right ahead.
I'm not hungry either, Schleg.
Looks it, folks.
Jesse's got no time for
rockin' without rolling.
Without falling and anything that
looks like a dog going on it.
He's got spooked supply.
Metal the burn.
The next Mustang garage challenge
is just around the bend.
You!
My heart, myself.
Wendy.
Steve.
Mike.
I'm Steve.
Andrew.
Frosty.
Back to us.
Monster grives, CDs.
Yeah.
You only get the stuff if you make it.
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eating his rocks are one time.
Silicon and oxygen.
Those two chemicals make up
three-fourths of years' crust.
OK, Monster Hands.
They're rockin' the garages.
Heart is a can.
We're gonna rock, Doctor.
That's magma, cooled in years.
And a rockin' band.
Just the end of boys are gettin' down.
You got an ankle ball in perixine.
Courts, granite, sandstone.
Silica, shale.
So put your tent into your zone.
It's Monster Garage on the Rock.
Join us now as Jesse and his
gang of fabric mechanics,
Rip, grind, and burn.
Transforming ordinary street
vehicles into monster machines
in the Monster Garage.
The challenge.
Take a 1968 Ford Bronco and
turn it into a 1968 Ford Bronco.
That can crawl straight up a wall.
The rules.
When built, the Monster Machine
must appear to be stock.
The team can spend no
more than 3,000 bucks
in hard cash for parts.
Jesse and his crew
have seven days in ice.
On the first day, they design.
On the next five, they build.
On the seventh day, they race.
If successful, each team member
takes home a $3,400 set of
$2,400.
This is the Matti dreams!
On 1968, moves a lot
slower 25 years later.
The vehicle quals into the garage,
followed by the design teams.
The only thing Jesse knows
about the Rockablo project is
that it's the winner of
the Monster Garage viewers'
choice contest, other than
that, these crawling blinds.
So we're going to make a rock crawler.
I don't even know what it is.
I don't even know what it is.
It's a little confused.
So the best thing about this
is it's a viewer's choice.
Rock crawler.
Rock crawler.
I don't even know what it is for
sure, but I'm sure I can make it.
For rock crawling, the
motor is not a big thing.
It's not a big thing.
Steve Ramor is always on the leaning
edge of rock crawling technology.
Designing and building extreme crawlers
like the sniper and the assassin.
I've been doing off-road fabrication
and design for about 17 years.
A year ago, my wife
and I started Avalanche
Ranch, which is an 832
acre off-road park,
where we can take our
toys and play and host
rock crawling competitions
and club events.
So we need to make a parts list.
We need to front and rear differential.
Probably have to get
some good shocks for it.
Definitely have to do
something with the steering.
I think the best thing to do is just
go full hydrolite right off the bat.
Sean Smith.
A student at Art Center College of Design
can build as well as draw cool cars.
I like getting in there with my
friends and family and building.
Hot rods and shoppers
also takes me back to my
roots and doesn't let me
forget where I came from.
I kind of like that look
with the tire spaced way out.
We can do full with on the axles.
And that'll put most of the
tire outside of the body.
We're going to run solid
axles front and rear, right?
Yeah.
No independence suspension.
What size tires?
Because we can get 35.
40 is to 40.
That's really a big.
If we can narrow the grill up
to just enough for the radiator.
And the same thing for the back.
And you got a lot more clearance.
That should you automatically make it
so it can roll over and withstand it.
So everything's got to be
anchored down batteries.
When you're sitting up
there on the side of the 30
-foot cliff and rock shooting
out from underneath,
yeah.
It certainly gets your attention.
See how this is right here?
Yeah.
I'm Bronco.
It's off to the side.
Okay.
When the axle comes right here, it's hard
to get it to clear this bar right here.
Why in Lindy Lindbergh
restores vintage Broncos.
This baby blue relic was his.
But now, it's the sole
property of Mr. Garage.
Well, he's been into off-roading,
opened up the shop, directly Broncos.
And I don't even know
how you guys found me.
There's two types of drivers.
There's the hammerheads.
And there's the finesse drivers.
You can tell I'd be a hammerhead.
I'd be the guy caught on tape.
Oh God.
I think we should
definitely make a custom.
But keep that gun be color.
I like it.
Set Alabama mini truck turquoise.
The Bronco was keeping stock looks.
But that's all.
Its monster upgrades
will include a role cage.
A more flexible suspension.
Be fear axles and enormous tires.
Day two.
The six-man build crew arrives to
kick out the monster garage doors.
Mike Duncan is a 4x4 specialist
from Burbank, California.
Andy McCloskey is an
attorney from San Diego,
who wrenches on the side.
Brandon Gillen is an extreme rock
-calling champion from Sandy Utah.
Mike Allen is the editor of
popular mechanics magazine,
who lives in New York City.
Steve Ramor is sticking
around for the build.
And so is Ryan Lindberg.
Who wants to see his Bronco, Go Loco.
Stone Cold Jesse gives the hard
facts to Team Rock Brawler.
Couple of guys got some
rock crawler experience.
I know you got Bronco experience.
So basically what we're
going to do is make something
that's going to be able
to basically go vertical.
I think a great goal for today
is to get the thing gutted.
Before it can scale a rock wall,
the Bronco needs to be scaled down.
The front drive shaft comes out
followed by the entire front end.
This team is just getting started
on their Bronco demolition journey.
The crew has no time for a moment.
of silence before drilling into the
precious metal body of the pristine
Ford.
And basically cut this all well together
in the middle, so there won't be a
Ford, there'll just be an F and
a D. I like to do everything you
metal.
To modify some stomach of better.
We're making this way better than this.
Guinea.
The team continues to carve and
kick their Bronco into submission.
There he's a junk at it.
The whole rear end is removed as the
steel tubing arise for the role-cane.
This team is so hungry
for rare vintage steel.
They are satisfied with cutting up
the body. They want the frame too.
Jump.
That's like work.
A few more cuts in the Broncos late bear.
I think we're going to be done.
I don't think we're going to
be down to the last minute.
No way.
We've got that thing straight down to
get ready to go back together already.
These guys are confident
and for good reason.
So far they've been
kicking butt on day two.
But their Bronco is about to kick back.
They look like what I think it is.
Water?
Yeah, sure does.
They're letting them last very long.
We know the metal.
It could be anything.
Whatever it is, it's not good.
Lindy's old Bronco might be lame.
It may need to be taken out and shot.
I think it's fine.
Why make problems until they come up?
We'll have problems.
Maybe not this one.
Mike Allen is usually a little cleaner at
work, editing popular mechanics magazine.
He said he'd lend a hand in
the garage under one condition.
Okay, I'll come and I'll help
but I'm not getting any tattoos.
We've got a really talented
bunch of people here
and they're working
together extremely well.
I'm very impressed.
They learned this the same way I did it.
Like hanging around with people that
their mother didn't want them to.
I'm just running all this fast because
I can't try to keep up with it.
With the valve covers off, the
picture is even less pretty.
Very spacious.
Holy.
Look at this.
This is type of stuff you get
when you never change your oil.
You would never find a Chevy.
I don't care if you
never change your oil.
I want to see what the
cylinder oil is like.
I'm going to get these heads off.
I'm going to manage to be charged.
There we go.
Straight up.
And he will have to take the heads off to
really know what's up with this bad pony.
I wouldn't do this if we
were going to use this head.
So.
Head up.
Head up.
Shoulder in the coolant.
Andrew McCloskey is a gear headed
lawyer from San Diego, California.
I think they were a little
shocked when they found
out that a lawyer is
going to be on their team.
So they're kind of trying to
figure out where I fit in.
They need a couple of
people who just know what
they're doing and know
their way around the garage.
I'm very good in mechanical departments.
So I'll be able to help
that with the motor,
fuel injection, getting
the thing wired up.
These guys rock the garage
on the day two tear down.
But it's not all good
under the Broncos hood.
That's not the scoring.
That's good.
That's how you feel that.
I think this one too.
The cylinder's same too.
Bad cylinders equals bad compression.
Those are way more
than a couple thousand.
And bad compression
equals bad performance.
That isn't fun for seeing obstacle.
Can we get a refund?
I think we got it as far as we could.
The end of day two comes
with a sinking feeling.
On top of an already
heavy workload, the team
will have to swap out
their Broncos motor.
Once to garage factoid,
the world's largest
rock is found in the Australian outback.
Airs rock, the mysterious red monolith
rises 1,400 feet from the desert.
And is over five and a half
miles round its perimeter.
Day three, the team gets
going and reviving the
forcedless carcass they
left for dead last night.
Andy had Mike.
Are you guys cool with
dealing with the motor?
Yeah, I can jump right
on that, no problem.
Mike and Brandon and Linda, you
guys want to start doing tubes.
Okay, there we go, right?
We can thank Sparkle for the
wonderful racing buckets we got here.
Ling glee.
You can't see something,
I can't get ready.
Let's spend some food.
After Andy and Mike Allen dig
out the dirty clogged up heart,
there's nothing left of their
steel horse, but part of the
frame, a transmission, two
doors, and a cracked windshield.
The rest of the teams
starts on a new rib cage.
Lindy brought a pipe bender from
his own shop to do the job right.
This vendor is a mandrel vendor.
It bends around the form.
It bends one way instead of a muffler
vendor pushes the pipe in the middle.
And it puts a kick in the pipe.
This doesn't kink the pipe in here.
It makes it a lot stronger.
So if we do actually roll this one kill
ourselves or everybody just the over here.
She's trying to validate
the same line of the door.
By taking careful measurements
before every cut, bend and weld,
the roll cage turns out
plumb, level and square.
That looks pretty good to me.
It was great, perfect.
That's great, I'm good.
I'm going to do my best.
And if it sucks, I'm blaming it on Steve.
Brandon Gillen started anarchy off
road in Salt Lake City, Utah to support
his championship rock crawling habit.
I was a serious champion.
I took first place for
the year, the year 2001.
It means a lot more than me.
If you win and something that
you built with your own hands.
Brandon knows firsthand that the
steel cage is a crawler's best friend.
There's been some accidents
in the rock crawl scene.
It's dangerous.
When you roll over, you know, on
rocks, a jagged, a sharp thing,
come in through your roll cage.
A good friend of mine lost a leg.
Same friend, his son actually
just got to tell this broken.
Work on the roll cage continues.
I'm just going to come in
and catch up underneath here.
You mean Jones is a four?
She can.
Pretty bitch.
Just matching this to this?
Oh, yeah.
The entire roll cage is welded
directly to the sturdy frame,
protecting both motor and driver.
You'll be able to land this rig
as hard as you want to unrock
and nothing will give them.
Mike Duncan, a four-by-doctor
in Burbank, California,
is a specialist at
driving jeeps upside down.
We've been in the
desert racing for years.
We used to race a scrambler and
everybody in the racing circuit
thought we were really crazy.
After about a year's worth
of racing, I endowed it.
End over in about 65 miles an hour.
I couldn't count how
many times it went over.
I lost count after about
the second end over in.
The viewers were going
to like what we did here.
Maybe Jesse will flip it over,
roll it, crash it, thrashing.
Yeah, it's all good.
Yeah, we expect to roll
this thing over repeatedly.
That's the test.
It needs to roll over and survive.
That's just cutting.
To accelerate the process,
Steve heads over to DynaTrack
to see how their axles are coming.
Jim McGeen put the DynaTrack
assembly line on hold
to make custom axles special
for the Monster Bronto.
Coming along on these things,
we specialize in building
super strong axles for
all types of applications.
Everything from competition rock
crawlers to mining machinery
as well as pluses, truck,
ball kinds of vehicles.
And we're going to get these guys climbing
over rocks by the end of the weekend.
That's our goal.
While an ordinary axle delivers
power to only one wheel,
custom locking differential
have gear teeth
that engage under power to make
sure both buyers on the axle
are clawing their way
to the top of the rock.
Add an extra thick,
roll molly axle shaft,
and this beefy bronto
will be tough to beat.
Steve, maybe we'll take just about
all the torque you guys can make.
Back at the garage, Steve
returns from DynaTrack
with a pair of mock axles.
The actual difference
will be here tomorrow.
We've got these dummy tubes
to kind of get us started.
This baby needs to crawl before it rocks.
Some brand new rubber
booties from BF Goodrich roll
into start the team
off on the right foot.
These are prototype BFG crawler TAs.
They've never been put
on any vehicle before.
We got the first set.
These are the new aluminum
military style beat lock.
They're originally used on humbers.
And this ring basically
presses the tire bead.
And sandwiches it on the inside.
Right in here.
And then on the outside.
The beat of the tire is sandwiched.
In that space, lots of positions.
We can run super low tire fractures.
And we don't have to worry about
the tire rolling off the beat.
The lower tire fractures
allow a lot bigger footprint
between the tire and the rock surface.
We got a lot more traction.
Steve and Lindy struggle
with mounting the tires
in the bead lock rims.
Jesse gets on the bodywork.
Sectioning and welding the front grill.
So the fenders can taper
in and clear the tires.
With no more parts arriving,
the team starts to run
out of things to do.
I'm a little concerned about
getting all the parts in time.
Tomorrow we get the axles.
We're not getting them
water until Thursday.
We're heading to the game Monday.
We're like behind the game now.
We're going home.
That's a wrap.
For the second day in a row,
the team leaves the garage.
This facing what looks
like a rocky road ahead.
Day four.
Team rock crawler races
into work to work.
Once inside the garage,
the builders find a pile of new parts.
None of which they'd had to pay for.
It's a freebie fast.
This team's getting more
donations than the Salvation Army.
Hydraulic steering components
from Avalanche Engineering.
A fuel cell from fuel safe.
And at least transfer case
from advanced adapters.
King shocks and springs.
Exhaust headers from Mac.
A fuel injection kit from Evalbrock.
And last but not least, the pro
rock 60 axles from Dinotrack.
Add to that the tires,
rims, seats and motor.
For a total freebie package of 29,000
230 bucks.
Still they've got no motor.
So Mike Duncan brought one from his shop.
Mike's replica of a Ford 289
will help the team work
out some clearance issues.
The new fuel cell mounts
perfectly in the cage.
She's in.
We're straps.
We've got gas.
Down.
And slide it this way.
While the team is setting the
gargantuan axles in place,
Machi Lindy steps in to help out.
Just kick it.
Just kick it.
Oh, yeah.
Not that much.
That could have been ugly.
I'm in this.
I think kick it hard.
Next time we do that,
let's move the Bronco.
Now that's work to do.
These are nice.
With the real axles in place,
the team descends on the Bronco
in an avalanche of activity.
Brackets are made so the shocks
and springs can be mounted,
and the tires go on.
Even Mike Allen gets in on the action.
Brandon starts making control
arms for the coil over suspension.
He wells threaded bums
into the heavy wall tubing,
so a hive joint can be threaded in.
These are going to be our
front lower control arms.
These will be three of
these on the front end,
and then on the back end they'll
be four as a four length.
The rear axle will have four
control arms stabilizing it
with coil springs and shocks,
allowing the axle to articulate
up and down as much as two feet.
Jesse arrives who continue the bodywork,
clearing the way for the
monstrous 40 inch tires.
So this is the stock fender.
We're going to section nine inches out.
All this in here,
going to disappear.
We'll re-radius our wheel
opening for the big tire.
So this is that nine inches out.
So this should slide
right up and try to drive
a nice straight tack line.
The Atlas transfer case
is one of the best ways
to increase the crawler's low end torque.
Torque is the measure of rotational force
that must ultimately turn
the Broncos 40 inch tires.
The new motor should put out
about 300 foot pounds of torque.
This is multiplied by the
gears and the transmission,
transfer case and differentials.
The finished crawler will put out over 60
,000 foot pounds of torque at the wheels.
Compared this to the stock
Broncos 5,000 foot pounds
or a Honda Civic's 2,000 foot pounds.
You basically could let
this thing idle by itself.
It was not the side of your wall in
the right of the side of the hill.
It would go about half mile an hour.
With their new parts,
the team is finally making some headway
and a new motor from Wayne
should arrive tomorrow.
Months to garage facto aid.
The first Ford Broncos
were released in 1965
around the same time the Rolling
Stones released satisfaction.
Both were big hits.
Day five.
Mindy brings a half cab
Broncos top from his shop.
One half cab top.
This will help keep the stock look
without adding too much weight.
Jesse arrives to
continue the fender work.
We can't believe the original.
Somewhat.
Day two lives ago into the
input on the rear steer valve.
Was that right, right?
It's not here yet.
The hydraulic stuff won't
be that complicated.
We just got to get the valve.
I'm just looking at all
the stuff we have to do.
We got the motor!
Finally, Wayne himself
rolls in the motor.
He built in two days.
It's time.
The attorney gets on the case.
This is the Edelbrock Pro
Flow fuel injection system.
Basically it replaces your carburetor
with the specialized manifold.
It's got a fuel injector
for each cylinder.
So the carburetor anytime you
get on any type of extreme angle.
You won't have enough
gas to keep running.
So fuel injection just solves all
of those problems instantly later.
Test fix.
Come in together.
The new motor is bolted to the stock
transmission and at this transfer case.
So think we're going to go.
The motor transmission and transfer case
are bolted together and ready to go in.
Mike and Andy want to put
the motor mounts in first.
But Lindy has another plan.
Twin sticks are way in the way.
I guess they're hot to hold on.
Go on in.
You guys think about the shift.
We're going to try it.
It doesn't work down.
Do it.
It's in.
Get over.
Go down over here.
Just for the record.
There.
Okay.
We tried.
You're in the Bronco guy.
As Andy predicted, the transfer
case shifters need to come off.
Lindy gets on it.
There you go.
Let's move it.
Oh, that's under it.
Push back.
There we go.
You okay, Mike?
I'm Mike Fingers.
That's the freighter was
broken, but I don't think so.
Ford.
All right, right there.
Get the bolt in it.
The motor's in.
And Andy wants to fire it up.
But he's still waiting for Alex.
The garage manager to show up
with a few kind of useful parts.
We don't have the start.
That's for wires too.
I'm trying to wait for this crack.
It's like fricking five
bucks with the parts up.
Well, I think that's more parts.
Where's Alex?
We're going to mount the radiator.
Mount the front fender.
Mount the grill.
Finish the hood.
Fire the motor.
Break in the can.
Putting the drive shafts
that we don't have.
Mount the steering ramps.
Build all the lines.
We'll eat all the hydraulics.
Mount the rear steering valve.
We'll eat the brakes.
We'll serve vendors.
We'll eat all the hydraulics.
Mount the rear steering valve.
We'll eat the brakes.
There's one day left and
there's still missing parts.
There's way too much work to do.
Day five has rocks in its head.
It's over.
Day six.
This team will not be crushed.
On the final build day with
a huge workload remaining,
the team pounces on the
unsuspecting Bronco.
Except for Lindy, who
is not yet shown up.
Well, here we are, Friday morning.
After late night last night.
We're running out of time.
I think we're going to
be going out of time.
Hopefully some time before noon today
we'll be able to hear this thing running.
The team speculates on
Lindy's whereabouts.
I don't know.
I think he's probably still asleep.
Lindy, you fuck dude, where are you?
Look who's here.
Look who's here.
Sleeping beauty.
He's bringing his toes. He
must've stayed out last night.
Did you wake up a little
late from last night?
What are you saying?
You didn't have to worry.
Steve unpacks the long-awaited
steering ramps from Parker Hanoffin.
But finds a problem.
These are the hydraulic ramps
for the steering front and back.
The ramps are good.
The shaft is pretty big.
These things are way big.
We just don't have that
kind of room down there.
Steve and Lindy troubleshoot.
How to work around the enormous bracketry
that came with the steering ramps.
Top here.
Take that panorid bar.
Just cut it off.
And it's already
OK.
We're going to pull through there.
And now it's going to push you in there.
Get the panorid bar.
We'll cut it.
Lindy steals the front panhard bar
from the running guts of the
old Bronco to test his solution.
This is worth the perfect time.
Oh, look at that.
That would probably
qualify for monster garage.
Yeah.
We could probably get by with that.
But more than we've seen in the past,
it will definitely qualify
for monster garage.
Lindy's modified steering
ramps seem to work just fine.
Mike Allen unwraps a present
from high angled drive line.
It's heavy.
Heavy duty front and rear drive shafts
custom made to fit this bucking beast.
Mike installs a shafts with
some beefy new you joints.
One of the gun right now.
You know radiator.
No hoses.
The fittings are holding us up right now.
The wing for electric and up with bolts.
It's starting to seem like
the real hold-up is Alex.
The monster garage manager.
It's Friday.
But there's still no radiator.
Hoses or hydraulic fittings.
Alex, if you don't have
all part till this morning,
you're going down.
You got to be kidding me.
Jesse's learning how
the colon is new boxer.
It's the lean machine.
And it's leaning.
Watch out.
Let's do better.
Keep watching.
Jesse feels a different
energy in the garage today.
You guys are all serious now today.
On the last day.
Yeah, we still made it.
It's going to be so good.
Let's go.
Yeah, we have a hurry.
Well, Andy gets the motor ready to fire.
Steve and Lindy fill the
shocks with nitrogen gas.
Jesse starts mounting the rear fenders.
The team is beginning to unravel.
What?
This has to be level, right?
No, this has to line up.
So that's level.
The fenders like this and like this.
And that doesn't matter.
That's not going to be
like this and like this.
Because we cut in the same.
They're both going to be the same.
I didn't figure that.
Because the lines got a matchup.
Idiot.
How are you going to handle
the level working here, right?
That's not it.
I told you that.
To weld the back on until
we got this straight.
Because otherwise, we're going
to have to cut it off and fix it.
Okay.
So the fender runs down.
I know who to blame.
Yeah.
So I'll have to be imparting
for the last four days.
And now the final day when we
actually have to get it done.
Everything's all serious.
See when I reach out.
We got that fenders.
They're level.
But hold on.
There you go.
I think it's more important that
this line's up than the sheep.
But what?
I think it's funny that you guys
are fighting about something that's
neither one years decision there.
You don't have that.
Because I'll fix it no matter what.
I'll make it level and fit.
You like that?
What do you think?
You guys should have a knife
fight to see who's right.
Like in West Side Story.
A dance fight.
Or a break dance war.
That would solve it.
Hold on.
Oh.
The glory of day number five.
Two hours into day five and results.
Oh, hey!
The clock is running out on this team.
Alex, the monster garage manager.
Returns with the wrong hydraulic
fittings for the steering.
They can't cross until they're free.
Are you told him what the cross
partner was and didn't help him?
Every speed speed we have.
Or just try anything here.
All right.
Take this.
Take all that.
Take any other fitting that's wrong.
And can you go there?
A frustrated Steve sends Mike
Duncan to the hydraulic shop.
Before they close to
make sure they get the
right fittings to finish
the steering system.
He's getting frustrated.
You're getting frustrated.
We're all going to the time.
If he gets back here and st from again.
Okay.
We're going to time.
I know that.
Rock roller.
Lindy cuts out a new tailgate that
could read two different ways.
Feeds on rock dinners.
Or found unlocks dead.
The hose?
You got new hose, no?
We ashamed it.
These are all those fittings.
That's what I initially wanted.
It's been 15 minutes.
Got everything that I needed.
Right now I got to get the plumbing.
It was already there.
When was the four of these for the Rams?
Yeah, we got another problem.
I'm not going to go there right now.
Apparently, Mike Duncan didn't get
everything he needed at the hydraulic shop.
He's still missing a couple of fittings.
Alex needs to go get these.
You're on somebody, guys.
But it's after five o
'clock on Friday afternoon.
And there are no hydraulic shops in the
Pacific Times zone that are still open.
I need to get a little snowman build.
Like there's got to have any
in fades for hydraulic on it.
Go swipe them.
We're going to have a
partner with the other guys.
Let's call them a bicycle.
We're going to go hunting.
Mike Duncan and Steve go
cannibalize the fittings
they need from the
Mini Cooper snowmobile.
It's parked in the lot
outside the garage.
There's a couple 90 degree fish in the
back, but I think it's in the adapter.
There.
Where?
Is that anything?
Okay.
Okay.
Get another one down here.
Okay.
We could use the same lines.
In the months of garage,
there are no rules.
Other than the rules.
We're little fittings, don't know.
And this team will have to
do what it must to survive.
Do you still fittings?
We're stealing.
We're down to the wire.
Somehow this shop.
Eight of two fittings or eight.
I've misplaced them somewhere.
It's getting late.
I've got to improvise.
This thing's rolling
out this door to night.
You're gonna have to get back here.
Yeah.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Good plan.
Ready, Hater?
One step closer.
Jesse goes that around a
chopper way better than me but
Drop-knock.
Drop-knock is that his thing.
It's the first shark he goes over in
this thing. He's going to get stuck on.
Jesse plosses to admire some
of Lindy's craftsmanship.
Those brackets look good, Lindy.
For that, scary. That round?
Nice job.
Some good work.
Is that a part of your
manufacture of your shop?
It's 10 o'clock and the
radiator is installed.
The computer chip is plugged in.
The steering hydraulics are plumbed.
The brakes are bled.
This Bronco is ready to buck.
It still looks like a Bronco.
Oh, yeah, that's nice.
Like it.
It's a little as far as I can.
The boulder runs and the front
end rear steering are working.
But there's a new problem.
We got a lead.
And there's no time for problems.
The thermostat housing
just broke in half.
Six dollars per hour that we didn't get.
So Lindy's going to grab one.
You know, one off of his Bronco.
We're going to swap it out.
And we're ready to do something.
Pressing.
In a last minute sacrifice,
Lindy cannibalizes his own Bronco
to replace the cracked
thermostat housing.
Are we done?
Let's go start.
When they start the motor again,
Coolant is still leaking.
Luckily, Jesse's been
schooled by the best.
It's like a goofy scar.
Hey, let's go.
The team gets the Burley Bronco outside,
where Jesse is showing
off his slick new ride.
A 1979 Osmobile Delta 88.
After a few donuts, Jesse decides this
car doesn't handle as well as his Ferrari.
So it must be destroyed.
The old car is feeling the pain.
Its exhaust manifold is glowing red hot.
The temperature lights on.
Yeah, how's it going?
An explosion of boiling coolant
is the Delta 88's death rattle.
But the raining radiator
fluid isn't enough
to extinguish the inferno under the hood.
Jesse steps in to quiet
the car's restless soul.
Now, Jesse will pay the body.
Put it out of its misery and style.
Now it's overheating.
Blue radiator.
No, it's cool.
All right, man. Be careful.
I don't want to do it anymore.
That's right.
You're my friend.
I don't want to do it anymore.
Damn it.
Yeah.
That's pretty fun.
What time is it?
It's got the time.
12.03.
So now I'm talking about
Yeah.
This crew took on and
heroic dose of force
and built a rock solid gravy.
While a team collects their bounty,
their pony gets a different
coat of the same color.
The stuff will protect the thing
when Jesse's out there beating
the thing up in all the rocks.
The entire crawler is
coated inside and out
with light acts for an invincible finish.
Are you ready, monster fans?
Big swag here, and we are moments away
from another monster garage challenge.
As always, sitting on
the rock next to me,
Frankie White side.
Frankie, where the hell are we?
Out in the Mojave Desert swag,
where it's so darn hot, even
the locals have to take cover.
Well, I know one thing that
can always take the heat,
a fresh hot monster
right out of the garage.
That's right, Flintstone, and this
one is turning off the pavement
and hitting dirt as we speak.
It's the viewers' joy special,
the monster rock crawler.
The viewers have spoken,
and I like what they say.
Nice!
Check it out, swag.
There's only one man I
know who can draw a crowd
in the middle of the desert.
Monster garage is built upon a rock,
and his name is Jesse James.
Holy Moses, Frankie!
Let's listen up, as Bill
team member Mike Duncan
lays out the rules for this challenge.
What we're going to do, Jesse,
is going to go down between
the two cactus over there.
We're going to make a right.
We're going to go pass
that to Paul Cactus there.
We'll hang a ue.
We'll head down into the rocks over here,
and come back up, make a left,
and there's some little technical
stuff up in there we can do.
Why?
Well, Frankie looks like Jesse
wants to break the rules.
Let's see if he can break some rocks.
So far, so good.
Oh, good shot from the drive shaft hand.
swag, a car becomes a rock crawler
by modifying the transmission,
transfer case, and differentials
to produce a very low gear ratio.
This results in a
massive amount of torque.
For the monster rock crawler,
we're talking 16,000 foot
pounds of torque at the wheels.
I couldn't have said
it any better, Frankie.
Oh, yeah.
Jesse's hit the big stuff.
All right.
You've got to start.
I think he likes it, swag.
Oh, Jesse's stuck in his monsters,
losing precious bodily fluids.
That's transmission fluid, swag.
Is it?
Yeah, if you can.
Oh, little upset stomach,
he's in stopping Jesse and his monster.
Go get a buddy.
He's working at swag.
Let's see what the big deal is all about.
Oh, yeah.
Jesse's put on his helmet.
That's a red sparkle,
in 1964 fury 400.
What can only be one thing?
Time for round two.
Well, swag, Jesse said he
wanted to roll his new monster.
Let's see if he can.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no.
That's got a hurt.
Looks like he broke one
of the support rods.
He broke the ball.
He ripped the ball right out of it.
He really launched it.
That was a beauty.
Kick five in a beauty.
Oh, he tackled the front drive shaft.
That's not good.
We set it from the start, Frankie.
There's two kind of
drivers for rock crawler.
The footest and the hammer hand.
Jesse ball, Pete James, he's
the head of all hammers.
I'm off the door.
So that's his real failure.
He definitely crawled over rocks.
Rock crawler.
Looks like Jesse's
gonna roll it after all.
Thanks to his desert followers.
Way to go, monster fans.
What a way to rock.
Jesse's got a new dog swag.
What's he call it?
Her name is really the Dominator.
And the top and all of it just so
happens to be Jesse's birthday.
The crowd gathers around to help
the master fabricator sell up her.
And Jesse likes the dog get first
links on the desert dessert.
I think I'll pass on the cake, Frank.
You go right ahead.
I'm not hungry either, Schleg.
Looks it, folks.
Jesse's got no time for
rockin' without rolling.
Without falling and anything that
looks like a dog going on it.
He's got spooked supply.
Metal the burn.
The next Mustang garage challenge
is just around the bend.
You!
My heart, myself.
Wendy.
Steve.
Mike.
I'm Steve.
Andrew.
Frosty.
Back to us.
Monster grives, CDs.
Yeah.
You only get the stuff if you make it.
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