[rousing rock music]
- [Narrator] We're getting wet in the Monster Garage.
- Is that cool? [chuckles]
- [Narrator] There's some fancy dancing.
- Here we go again.
- [Narrator] Some crazy chasing.
[Jesse Jr. laughing]
- [Larry] Get away from me.
Get away, get away, get away. Get away, get away.
- [Narrator] We're not all hot hair.
- It like whoo, whoo, whoo.
- Weirdo.
[gloves clacking] [machine screeching]
- [Narrator] But there's a light
at the end of the flashlight.
- I'm deeply confused.
[colleague laughing]
- [Wayde] Right there. Perfect.
What a shot. [acquaintance clapping]
- [Announcer] Join us now as Jesse
and his g*ng of maverick mechanics rip, grind and burn
transforming ordinary street vehicles
into monster machines in the Monster Garage.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
♪ Monster Garage
[upbeat electronic music]
- [Narrator] This week's challenge,
turn an armored truck into a dunk tank on wheels.
The rules, when built, the vehicle must appear
to be a 10-ton wave of rolling t*rture.
The team has five grand per part.
Jesse and his crew have seven days a night.
On the first day, they design,
for the next five, they build,
then on the seventh day, they dunk.
If successful, they walk away with a $4,000 set
of Mac's hottest tools.
And Milwaukee Electric Tool
will donate a $2,500 power package to a vo-tech school
chosen by this week's team.
And the clock starts now.
[glass clattering]
[coin clattering]
The king of LBC cash money
cruises through the neighborhood in this bulletproof beast,
a 1986 Griffin International armored truck.
After safely squeezing the mobile strong box into the shop,
Jesse's ready to meet the best dunk tank designers
Monster money can buy.
[upbeat electronic music]
Hong Kong born transportation design student
from Chino Hills, California, Harry Sze,
carnival booth vendor
from good old Long Beach, Mark Willett,
and aquarium builder
from Las Vegas, Nevada, Wayde King.
- How you doing? - Hey.
[bell ringing]
- Let's make a dunk tank.
- Sounds good.
- Something that can carry the weight
and we can drive around with some water in it.
- We were thinking about keeping the fact
that it's an armored truck
and just making it look
even more awesome. - Yeah.
So it pops open and you realize it's a dunk tank.
- Okay.
- [Jesse] This one sounds kinda silly,
but it's gonna be pretty hard.
It's a lot of labor 'cause that thing's like a tank.
It's built like a safe.
The big thing is whether we're gonna have
to open the whole thing up to fit the tank in,
or if we can build a tank inside there.
- [Wayde] If we make a steel frame,
we can silicone a panel in.
- [Jesse] Yeah. - You know,
there's different options that we have.
- [Mark] It's either that or not even bother
with the acrylic being the thing that contains the water.
Have a clear vinyl bag ties into it,
that's gonna hold the water.
- That's a little easy.
You know, I think we gotta figure out a way to do it
where it's actually a tank.
- It might be a backup system then to use
if we can't get the silicone to hold it.
- No 'cause if we pick one way to do it and it doesn't work,
then we'll just run it off a cliff.
- [Mark] One little thing, target arm,
either hydraulics or with some actuators or something.
Something that pulls the pin to drop the seat,
you can do it anyway.
- [Jesse] Like with a key fob
or something like that? - [Mark] Yeah.
- Maybe we should do that.
- Yeah.
- Something remote control
that can work from pretty far away.
That way, if a kid misses or something like that,
we could [mutters].
- [Mark] That'd be sweet.
- So we put a guy on the top, we open the back doors,
we have a big tank. - Yeah.
- Two viewing windows on the side
and we drive it down the street.
[cash clattering]
- [Narrator] To make this money hauler hold water,
the team will automate the roofing doors,
build a watertight steel and acrylic into the back,
then add a seat and power target to drop the dunkee.
[upbeat electronic music]
[rousing rock music]
[cash clattering]
Day two,
enter the sharp-sh**ting crew
that's hoping to hit this target dead center.
[machine rattling]
From Roy, Utah, armored vehicle builder, Larry Archuleta.
[machine rattling]
Engineer and animatronics expert
from Los Angeles, California, Christian Ristow.
[machine rattling]
Fire-breathing welder slash fabricator
from Oakland, California, Scottie Chapman.
[fire roaring]
[machine rattling]
And staying on from the design,
carnival game supplier, Mark Willett,
[machine rattling]
and acrylic authority, Wayde King.
[booming electronic music]
- [Jesse] All right, so you guys
got the gist of this already, a dunk tank.
I think it's just gonna be a bunch of labor.
You know, maybe we can do it with a little bit of flare,
make it kinda cool.
I know this place that sells these like porthole windows.
We should go see if they have some of those.
- [Acquaintance] Cool.
- Tank is what's gonna take the longest
to seal it up and everything.
So we should probably, by the end of the day,
have something dialed in where we know
how big we're gonna go
and what we're gonna use to make it and all that stuff.
- [Wayde] Let's figure out the thickness
we're gonna need the gallons.
Then it's gonna determine if I have it at the shop.
We'll get that over here.
You know, if we don't, then we'll see what we can get.
- [Jesse] Okay, cool. Let's do it.
- [Narrator] Before they tear into the truck
and start building, the team will have
to crunch some numbers.
- Just so I get a rough estimate.
So right about there, if we're gonna come here.
So let's just do it five feet.
- [Acquaintance] Why do it off?
- [Member] Give me right to left.
[upbeat electronic music]
- 76 1/2 from side to side.
- And how tall?
- Four feet.
- [Jesse] That would give us exactly what we need.
- [Narrator] After sizing out the tank,
they need to know if the suspension
can handle the weight of all that water.
So Wayde busts out a tool rarely seen in the garage,
a calculator.
- Comes out to 947 gallons.
That's almost 8,000 pounds of water.
- Yeah. - That's not bad.
This truck can haul that.
- Yeah.
- That's a lot of dollar bills and quarters.
Let's load it.
[rousing rock music]
[panel clattering]
[panels clunking]
- Can't you guys both drill at the same time?
Or are you taking turns?
- No, we're holding hands. Watch.
[Scottie chuckling]
- That one's clear.
[panel clattering]
[bodywork booming]
- It is one piece or two?
[bodywork booming]
- [Narrator] As they crack into the empty vault,
Jesse hits the road with his daughter
to do some window shopping.
- I need some porthole windows.
- But, you know, the big guys here are great.
- Do you have two?
- Yeah, should have two.
About $695.
- Is that your best price on those two big ones?
- No, I'll give you a better price.
I'll do six. I'll do $600 if you buy two.
- Okay, I'll take 'em for that.
I'm gonna send my guy.
Here's 300 bucks deposit for those. Cool.
[door banging]
[engine rumbling]
- [Narrator] The budget busting doesn't stop at the windows.
Christian's been busy ordering hydraulic components
to power their doors and roof.
- The hydraulic stuff has been a little bit more
unexpectedly challenging than I thought it was gonna be.
A lot of my decision making today has been based
on what I can get and what I can get in a short timeframe.
We're basically doing a hinge two-way door like this,
or a two-panel door
that'll kind of accordion up outta the way.
So I'm gonna do that with one hydraulic cylinder.
[booming electronic music]
- [Narrator] Moving a few sheets of armor around
shouldn't be a problem for Christian.
- I have six robots that I have at home
that I've built over the years
and what I do with them is I stage performances,
large scale theatrical performances,
basically robot theater.
- [Narrator] His idea of theater isn't exactly "Hamlet."
- Eventually, they always degenerate
into sort of destructathons
where everything gets destroyed and set on fire.
And more often than not, the robots end up like damaged
and upside down and destroyed.
[rousing rock music]
[vehicle clattering]
- [Narrator] The hardened steel roof
is strong enough to stop a b*llet,
but it's no match for 30,000 degrees of plasma power
in Scottie's hands.
- [Mark] Beautiful.
I mean she does it like she's cutting butter.
[chuckles] I mean this thing's beautiful.
- [Narrator] With the outer skin fileted,
Larry hits the ribs sawing through the tubing
that frames the strong box.
- This is what he uses for his girlfriend.
- Man, know this guy less than one day,
he's all ready talking crap.
This is only the beginning. You're used to it.
You know how to use it.
[bodywork rattling]
- I think that does it.
- No, the light's gonna go over the top.
We're just gonna slide it right out.
[bodywork clattering]
- I'm taking the frame structures off.
We're gonna reuse this original roof
as the actual door on the top,
so that way, it'll stay totally stock-looking.
We're gonna try to play by the rules.
[booming electronic music]
- [Narrator] Scottie Chapman knows how to handle heat.
- Let's see. I like to breathe fire, I like to eat fire.
I like to dance around with fire.
[fire roaring]
I like heat.
- [Narrator] Open flames aren't the only thing
Scottie's drawn to.
She also spends a lot of time burning rubber.
- [Scottie] When I say I have a race car,
people would think, oh, you have like race car,
and they picture like, you know, fancy car
with a fancy paint job, you know.
But it's a '73 Lincoln Mark IV
and has quite a few dents in it.
That's what it's made for. It's full-contact auto racing.
But the best thing about it is just when I get on the track,
I get to drive the way I want to drive
when I'm driving in traffic on the freeway.
- I got all the hydraulics and all the hardware
that we're gonna need to use to fix the acrylic to the frame
and it came out to 1,600 bucks.
[cash clattering]
So that's a chunk of our five grand down the drain
at the end of day one.
- They just spent $1,600 on the hydraulics.
Jesse spent $1,300 on part.
He's saying that acrylic is two.
- And what more do we need?
- The steel.
- Oh. [Mark laughing]
Slight little thing.
- Where's the freebie, freebie, freebie, freebie?
- On the two grand, does that cost?
- Yes.
- And two grand for the plexi, five, topped out.
We haven't bought the rest of the steel yet.
- Okay.
Whatever. We'll just do a donation or something.
- That's the word we needed. That's the word we needed.
- Touch me again, Grandma.
[Mark laughing]
- [Mark] That's the word we needed.
- Just remember, ATM.
[smile clicking]
[rousing rock music]
- [Narrator] Their first day
and most of their money is history,
but this team has made some headway.
They'll be back in the morning to start fresh
and go for broke.
"Monster Garage" Factoid.
In the middle ages, women accused of witchcraft
were bound and dunked as a test.
Those who floated were deemed witches and condemned to death
while women who sank were declared innocent
but usually drowned in the process.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
[tires screeching]
[cash clattering]
- [Narrator] Day three.
The dunk tank crew arrives ready to dive right in.
- Well, we spent most of our money already yesterday
on some actuators and some portholes
for the side viewing windows.
So we can do a group hug, he'll get excited.
So let's just put the hands in and let's rock.
- Yeah, I say let's do it.
- There we go. - Let's do it.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
[equipment screeching]
- [Narrator] An early delivery
is just what Christian needs to get moving.
- Back it in.
- All right, awesome.
[pensive soundtrack music]
- Those are our door actuators. This is our roof actuator.
Yeah, that's the hydraulic pump.
- [Narrator] The new arrivals mean Christian
can start fabricating the mechanism to automate the doors.
[mellow electronic music]
Early in this build, two things are certain,
Christian's pretty smart
and he ain't happy with the garage's gear.
- Where's the mill and where's the lathe?
That's what I wanna know.
This is something I would normally do in a lathe,
but what are you gonna do?
[machine rattling]
Kinda more used to working with machine tools
than these fabrication tools.
So I'm figuring out different ways
that some of these tools can double for machine tools.
Basically using a tubing notch sort of like a mill.
This is the riding collar. It's actually a guide.
And then see, now, I've exposed the threads in there
and I can basically just fill that with weld
and that locks everything together.
[machine rattling]
Whoo, collar still moves.
So this is the beginning of the door opening.
Attach this to the end of the cylinder,
to his hydraulic cylinder.
Hydraulic cylinder actuates. Boom, door opens.
- [Wayde] Christian, we can gut
the both of those back doors, right?
- Yeah, the door mech, the closing, all that crap can go.
- We're gutting it. - But you want
the solenoid, right?
- I think we should hang onto the solenoid to play with.
- Done.
- We might even use it for the-
- Done.
- For the other thing.
- Yeah, we're gonna save the solenoid
possibly for the dunk tank,
or either way, the actuators to open the door.
- Fruitcake, come here.
- Hold this actuator. Do something.
You've been lazy your whole life.
[booming electronic music]
- [Narrator] As part owner
of Acrylic Tank Manufacturers, or ATM,
Wayde King knows how to motivate a crew around acrylic.
- We build custom acrylic aquariums in Las Vegas.
We deal with stands, we do the life support, the lighting,
we build the tanks,
whatever they want in acrylic, we make it.
- [Narrator] His high-end acrylic creations
don't come cheap,
but it's not the paycheck that inspires Wayde.
- The best part is when you see a little kid
run up to something that you started from nothing
and he runs up there and he sees all the fish in there
and he's all excited.
It's a great thing.
- [Narrator] The good news is their steel
has finally arrived.
The bad news, their vault of monster cash
is now almost empty.
With fresh metal in hand,
Larry welds a steel grid strong enough
to support 10,000 pounds of water and tank.
[rousing rock music]
- I'd put legs where the main supports are
and where the center beams are.
- I'll get a level, lay a level in the middle
and do one leg right here to begin with
and then do the rest from there.
[rousing rock music]
[machine rattling]
- Done, done, done, done, done.
- [Narrator] De-armoring a vehicle
is a new experience for Larry.
- I work for a company
called International Armoring Incorporation
out of Ogden, Utah.
I bulletproof cars,
anything from Suburban to BMWs and Mercedes.
- [Narrator] He usually builds cars
that can withstand live fire from enemy troops,
not playful kids.
- When you see a car that's all shot up,
you take that much more pride
in the next one that you build,
you know, to know that that one did its job.
[eerie ambient music]
- The components of Christian's custom door movers
are ready to go.
[equipment screeching]
So he heads for the back
to begin locking the intricate pieces into place.
[panel banging]
- Wow.
[machine rattling]
[funky electronic music]
- [Narrator] The windows Jesse bought have finally arrived.
But for the builders, the plan is far from crystal clear.
- [Acquaintance] What the hell's that?
- How many hundreds of dollars did we spend on that?
- 13.
- [Colleague] Where's Bones?
- What the hell are we gonna do with those?
- Who picked this thing up?
Are we sure these are what we're supposed to get?
- The answer man is far away from the LBC
challenging the VW dragster and milk truck.
So the crew back in the garage
will need to figure this one out on their own.
- These are just gonna be cosmetic on the outside.
- [Scottie] And they're not round.
I thought they were gonna be round.
- [Wayde] Yeah. - The picture.
And they're huge.
It's like changes so much.
I'm thinking if we use those windows,
this isn't gonna get done
'cause we don't have the time.
Like just welding the tank is gonna take a long time.
- Well, if we're using those windows that Jesse got,
I have to use 33 by 33 inch, you know-
- At least.
- Acrylic to put in there so it hides it.
- You don't wanna look through the port
and then see a framing.
You wanna look through the port and see-
- You know, the tank.
- Correct.
If we're gonna use those windows, call it now
so I can get the acrylic out here.
- [Narrator] Adding the larger square windows
means they'll need bigger sheets of acrylic
for the sidewalls.
This makes for a better view, but alters their order
and doubles the area to seal for leaks.
[hammer clattering]
- Ah. Come on.
[hammer clattering]
[upbeat electronic music]
[hammer clattering] [bell ringing]
- [Colleague] Yeah.
- [Narrator] While Scottie and Body Drop
hammer out some issues,
Larry and Mark square off against 1/4 inch
of tempered steel plate.
[upbeat electronic music]
[hammer banging]
- One, two, three.
[hammer banging]
[panel clattering]
One window.
- [Narrator] Scottie and Wayde then fabricate
matching top and bottom tank frames
and fit a sheet of metal into the base
before welding it in watertight.
- Put your foot right on the bottom
so I can push against it.
- I think that's good enough.
- [Wayde] Hey, Fruitcake, how long for the next window?
We only have three days left.
- No. [bodywork clattering]
- That's not the pun.
- [Narrator] Their pan is too big to fit through the door.
So Wayde forks it in through the roof.
- Set, take the backside. Great.
- Ah.
- [Colleague] Thank you anyways.
- Yeah, gotta come down.
- [Narrator] Once their tank top is clamped in place,
the dunk tank crew decide to call it a day.
- I learned how to sea clamp today.
- [Narrator] Despite money woes and a change of plan,
they've managed to stay afloat.
But this build is still a long way from holding water.
[rousing rock music]
Day four,
[frenetic rock music]
the build crew starts the morning
focused on what's important.
- What do you guys think we still need to spend money on?
- [Mark] I do need a contact switch of some sort,
a micro switch that we're gonna put under the target.
- [Colleague] Yep.
- [Mark] I was thinking just like a car alarm type of setup.
- [Scottie] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You click, you know, a door actuator, all's it is
is gotta trigger that mechanism.
- Great. Well, who knows how to do that?
- [sighs] I don't know. - [Wayde] Robot man.
- Then I'm gonna do it my way.
I'm gonna do it the way I know how, which is-
- [Mark] Bingo. Okay. - Hobby stuff.
All right, that's more money and more time.
- If we get pretty boy off the phone here, we'll get going.
- You want your acrylic today?
- God, I give him a compliment and he still can't take it.
- Listen, Fruitcake, you keep calling me pretty boy,
I am gonna beat you with the acrylic.
[crew laughing]
[upbeat electronic music]
- [Narrator] While he waits for the acrylic,
Wayde works himself into the corners.
- I'm just putting some supports here now
so we can put the uprights and clamp 'em.
And once they're in, then she can weld 'em.
[upbeat electronic music]
[machine rattling]
- The seats start just like this piece of sheet metal.
All the scrap, all the pieces, cut 'em, weld them.
Everything is fabricated from just raw steel.
There's no such thing as Dunk Tanks R Us.
[booming electronic music]
- [Narrator] If there were such a thing as Dunk Tanks R Us,
Mark Willett would run the joint.
- A lot of people go, "Oh, you're a carny."
No, what we do, we have all the games,
the prizes, the booze and stuff like that.
- [Narrator] But don't let all the hard work
keeping people entertained fool you.
The job does have its benefits.
- It's purple and it's a dinosaur, but it's not.
It has its perks.
It's, you know, gets you in places
that you normally wouldn't.
- [Narrator] Mark and Wayde handle the heavy lifting
and muscle the tank's solid steel rear wall into the frame
before Scottie steps up to lay down a watertight feed,
bonding the back wall to the base.
[rousing rock music]
- Hi, so right now, what we're gonna have to do,
we gotta get these shy walls up now.
- We can't really do that until the window gets in.
- What's Fruitcake's real name?
- Mark.
- You call him Fruitcake.
He told me not to call him Fruitcake today.
So call him something and I'm gonna ask him
when his window's gonna be ready.
- [Mark] Fruitcakes - Mark.
- Can we temporary hang a window up?
Even if it's temporary.
- I'll make it happen.
- Thank you.
- And how are you gonna bolt 'em in
when we have these walls on this thing that?
- We'll get Mark to drill 'em. He's doing nothing else.
- Okay. Yeah. [chuckles]
- At least he can drill a hole.
- [chuckles] I hope.
- Kidding Mark. - Bones. [chuckles]
- Fruitcake.
[rousing rock music]
- Here we go.
- To correctly frame and install the sides of the tank,
Mark and Larry position one of Jesse's big brass windows.
- There you go.
- [Narrator] Perfect timing. Jesse's just arrived.
- Look at that stuff, man. That looks cool.
- [Acquaintance] Should do something.
- Nah, it's bitching. I like those side windows.
I'm glad I got the bigger ones 'cause it's gonna look cool.
- [Narrator] Before he starts working on the target,
Christian needs to tie up some loose hydraulic ends.
This is the exciting world of tightening hydraulic hoses.
- Well, since it's obvious
that they don't need my help on anything,
I'm gonna make a thing to hold all my welding cables.
Is that cool? [chuckles]
[upbeat electronic music]
[drill screeching]
- [Wayde] What? Are you gonna put two hooks on there?
One for the ground and one for the feet?
- Yeah, one to come out so I can swing and weld over there
and everywhere else
without having to wind my crap up every time.
[machine screeching]
- Very nice.
[upbeat rock music]
- [Narrator] Midway through day four
marks the most welcomed arrival of the week.
- How are you doing? Good to see you.
- Good seeing you, bro.
Got some acrylic?
- Yes, sir.
- You the man.
[door rattling]
Beautiful. Look at this.
Even chamfered the edges, very nice.
- Ah.
- [Narrator] Keith from Wayde's shop in Vegas
is right on his tail with acrylic delivery number two.
- We got our side windows.
- Beautiful.
[rousing rock music]
- [Narrator] Scottie's back to work in the box.
This time to weld the angle iron window frames
into the sidewall.
Christian's been busy behind the welder too
framing the retractable roof
before playing crush test dummy
to see if it can handle the force
of his high-powered hydraulics.
[panels booming]
- I don't know, maybe I could try
to do it a couple more times, see if I can break it.
[panels booming]
I can't seem to break it.
[frenetic rock music]
[panels booming]
Yeah, I think it's sturdy enough.
- [Narrator] At the end of day four,
the build crew rolls out for the night.
They don't seem worried, but there's only two days to go
before the closing bell rings.
[bell ringing]
"Monster Garage" Factoid.
The first commercial armored car
was introduced in Minnesota in 1920.
It took seven years before Paul Jaworski's Flatheads
successfully committed the first armored car robbery,
nabbing $105,000, or over a million bucks today.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
[upbeat electronic music]
- [Narrator] Day five.
With only two days left to go,
the armored dumpster crew is all business.
- So today's the fourth day and we're outta money.
- [Acquaintance] Sweet.
- [Wayde] Here we go guys.
Well, we got welding, we got acrylic,
we got actuators, we got roof.
Well, let's rock and roll guys.
- Let's get it. - Let's go.
- Let's go.
[rousing rock music]
- [Narrator] This team has a top priority.
They raise the retractable roof
and jockey it into place
to meet the strict engineering standards
Monster Garage demands.
- Oh yeah, it's great.
I've never built anything this precise before in my life.
- As long as it opens and closes, I'll be happy.
- [Narrator] Christian's got the opening
and closing covered.
He welds an outer hinge at the seam
before attaching the actuator
that'll give the top some pop.
[rousing rock music]
Jesse rolls up early with the old school monster chopper
and some high expectations.
- Hey, they're not done yet.
- [Narrator] He has some very important work to finish.
- That's pretty handy.
I like it.
Brass knuckles, man.
- [Narrator] To play it safe,
Scottie checks in with the boss before altering the design.
- Were you totally set on having a ladder on the outside?
- What?
- On the drawing, you know there's a ladder.
I don't know, on the drawing,
there's ladder. - Well, how are you
gonna get there? - On the outside.
That's what I'm wondering.
- Why aren't you in there welding?
- 'Cause I'm almost done.
So it's okay that the ladder's on the inside
instead of like the drawing where it's on the outside?
- What?
- Were you up there designing?
- Hell no, I wasn't designing the ladder.
It's just a tank inside a truck,
it's not like the Lunar Orbiter.
Why don't you just do whatever the hell you want?
I don't care.
- It's not what I want.
It's what you want that matters, you know?
- That's right. I want you to do whatever you want.
This is life's battle in its simplest form,
[chuckles] man versus woman.
[Jesse muttering]
- [Narrator] A parts run has Body Drop guessing,
but Christian knows exactly what this is.
- It's the outlet section to the dual station four-way
three position spring D10 double station
double acting manual valve bank that I'm using.
- Translation, it's the thing that controls stuff.
So I'm about to assemble the modular valve bank.
I should actually be testing the hydraulic system
as a whole before the end of the day today.
[upbeat electronic music]
- [Narrator] He's finished the plumbing
and juiced up the system.
So it's time to put the back doors to the test.
- Anything happen?
[doors banging]
Cool.
- Do it again.
[hydraulics wheezing]
[doors banging]
- I like that guy.
Christian. He's smart.
- Go ahead and close it.
[hydraulics wheezing]
Okay, hold that.
Okay, open.
[hydraulics wheezing]
Little bit more.
- That works pretty bitching though.
- Yeah. - I have to say,
that's probably the best hydraulic stuff
we've ever had on this show.
Usually this stuffs all like. [groans]
- [Christian] Well, it's not my first time doing hydraulics.
- Should we make a big box cover for all this?
Yeah, so kids don't, well, what's that?
[Jesse muttering]
- I don't know.
- [Narrator] Jesse wants to wrap the back
with a protective cover that'll also brace the actuators.
But Christian's having trouble letting go of his project.
- Christian. - [Christian] Yeah.
- Don't weld those in yet.
- Why not?
- [Jesse] I'm gonna put some framework around that.
Are you not listening to what I say? Look it.
- I thought you said weld them in.
- Look it, this stuff right here,
the way you got that mounted,
you need something pushing up against it.
- [Christian] Right, well, that's why
I put it on the sidewall, but-
- Trust me, I know how to make it strong and support it.
- Okay.
There's one thing that I would like to do
to the back doors to improve 'em
and [groans]
Jesse doesn't seem to want me to do that, so.
- [Jesse] Long as everybody does what I say
when I say to do it,
my communication skills are just fine.
- [Narrator] Wayde and Larry have no time to argue.
When it comes to prepping
the two inch thick bulletproof acrylic,
they know the drill.
[rousing rock music]
- Let's get it in and make the turn.
Watch it from dropping, Bone. Watch your fingers.
Bring it in and then you're gonna have to lift up
and go on the rubber.
- [Colleague] Yeah, I know. I know.
- [Wayde] Okay, line up the bolts, boys.
Daddy just put it in place.
Now look, you see that bolt that went through?
You guys see the bolt?
- [Colleague] Yes. - [Acquaintance] What bolts?
- [Member] Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
- [Acquaintance] I don't see no fricking bolt.
Do you see a bolt?
- [Narrator] While most of the crew
is busy with the bolting,
Jesse fabricates the framework for the rear cover.
[suspenseful rock music]
- Be all right though.
Some screen or something around it?
- That'll look nice.
- [Narrator] As Jesse wraps up the rear,
Christian's focusing on the drop.
He'll need to craft their seat release in a hurry
because as far as Christian's concerned,
he's got a lot of work ahead of him.
- I have a feeling it's gonna be up to me
to figure out whether they work or not
and up to me to finish the roof
and up to me to do the remote control.
[machine clacking]
Great.
- You the man, bro. You are the man.
- You guys are the man.
- [Narrator] The powered-up solenoids work like a charm.
So Christian welds them into place to try it with the seat.
- Well, the seat works.
I mean I don't know if it triggers.
Somebody wants to drag a battery up here, try it.
- Okay. You ready?
- [Scottie] Dunk him.
- [Acquaintance] Dunk him.
- Making sure they're pulling. Yeah.
- I don't think those solenoid,
I don't think they're strong enough.
Why don't you hop off and see if it just does the seat?
- Okay, hold on.
[seat clacking]
- [Narrator] The added weight of the dunkee
is too much for the solenoids to handle.
So Christian tries a quick fix,
lowering them to increase the leverage on the trigger.
[machine rattling]
[metal clattering]
- Ready? - Yep.
- Nope.
- Try scooting back.
- I don't know.
- No. - It's not working.
[metal clattering]
- It's effects.
- [Acquaintance] Still not working?
[seat banging]
- Works great with no one on it.
[Christian muttering indistinctly]
- I shouldn't have listened to Mark.
He's like, "Oh yeah, solenoid's gonna work."
I guess this is the point in the show
where I start like bitching about my teammates. [chuckles]
The guy who builds these things for a living was like,
"Oh yeah, solenoids are gonna work.
I'm sure solenoids are gonna work."
Like, "Okay."
- I'm worried about this part.
- [Wayde] About which part?
- The seat. - [Wayde] The seat?
- [Scottie] I'm worried about the seat.
He's worried about the seat.
- Did you guys figure out the solenoid on it?
- We're still working on it. - What's your plan?
- I think my plan is to bring in an air cylinder
and a CO2 tank and a solenoid valve.
- Donate some stuff. - And do it with air.
- We have till 12 o'clock tomorrow night.
- We'll figure it out, maybe.
- Let's get the hell outta here.
- [Presenter] Day five ends
with the fate of this build left hanging.
To finish on time tomorrow,
they'll need to be firing on all cylinders.
- [Narrator] One builder thinks it's all up to him.
- I feel like I'm gonna have to save this stupid ship.
- [Narrator] One builder gets hurt.
- I think Christian just broke his a*s.
- [Narrator] Is this build headed down the drain?
- I think if it doesn't hold water,
that's the metaphor ends to itself.
- [Narrator] It could go either way. Stay tuned.
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
[pensive ambient music]
- [Presenter] Day six,
[rousing rock music]
the armored dumpster crew
strolls in for the final day
and answers that all-important question.
- Question is, are we worried about midnight?
- No.
- [Colleague] For the first time, I am worried.
- I was gonna say, I have my apprehensions.
- I'm not.
- It's just there's a lot left to be done.
The roof still has to be done.
The tank still has to be done.
The seat trip mechanism still has to be done.
The remote control still has to be done.
I think we need to make a decision
about what we're gonna do about the seat mechanism.
- Up those up to 24 volts. See what happens.
- We could try that. I mean if that works, it's done.
- [Narrator] Before they ditch
the power solenoid for pneumatics,
Larry swaps in a new battery
with twice the voltage of the old one.
[seat clattering]
[Scottie laughing]
- [Scottie] Slam dunk.
I think Christian just broke his a*s.
- Nice thinking, Bones. That was a good idea.
- Bones saves the day.
- [Narrator] Now that the seat works,
Mark sets his sights on the target.
- That stopper, so we don't break the hell
out of the switch, spring
so it doesn't ride on it all the time.
When to hit it,
[stopper clanking]
gonna get the noise of the clank, switch is gonna trip it.
- [Narrator] With the target and seat complete,
Christian dials in the remote.
- It's just a hobby style
two channel automotive like a car, remote control car style.
[equipment clattering]
- [Narrator] The remote trigger works.
They're one step closer.
Jesse shows up with his favorite helper, Jesse Jr.
- [Jesse] What's that? I said iced latte.
[mellow rock music]
[puffs] That's not iced.
Did that scare you, little guy?
- No.
- You okay?
[Jesse Jr laughing]
- Daddy.
- [Narrator] After delivering the dreaded
wet-faced bear hug,
Jesse steps up to finish off the actuator, brace and shield.
[machine rattling]
[drill screeching]
Christian's ready to run some roof rails,
but Mark has some concerns
that the platform still needs attention.
- [Mark] I was thinking of putting the toggle in the back
so we can shut that trigger off.
- Okay.
- Good idea, bad idea. Don't even worry about it.
- I wouldn't worry about it for now.
It might turn out to be something we'll wanna do later,
basically like a dead man switch
so that that this could never accidentally actuate,
which is a good idea.
So we may do that later.
I'm actually just putting these riders,
these kinda tracks up top.
We're just gonna have wheels
that kinda ride along the top of them.
And then I'm gonna bend this up into a ramp
and that's what's gonna get it moving
in the right direction.
[machine rattling]
These wheels came from my container at home.
They're shopping cart wheels.
- [Narrator] As soon as it starts to come together,
he can see there's a problem with his plan.
- [Wayde] How's it roll? Okay?
- No, it doesn't roll okay.
As soon as the wheels go into here,
it goes into a lock position.
It goes like this. It's locked.
- Gotcha. - This doesn't wanna come out.
This also do that.
- [Narrator] While Wayde holds the rope,
Christian starts to make more modifications.
But in his haste, he forgets where he's standing.
- Oh. Ah, ah, ah.
- Medic, medic.
- [Christian] Ah.
- [Narrator] Garage medic, Kenny Coaster, rushes in,
but after a fall this brutal, there's little he can do.
- We gotta take him over to the hospital.
- Watch his head.
- They went up on the back.
[ominous ambient music]
- All right, let's go. - [Driver] Okay.
- [Narrator] Unfortunately for this crew,
the first thing their tank gets filled with
is the blood of one of its builders.
- [Wayde] Oh, did he rip that arm open, dude.
- [Larry] Yeah.
- [Wayde] He got his muscle, it looked like he got nerves.
It split right open.
- [Mark] He was sitting on the seat
when the seat got tripped.
- [Wayde] We're up there welding.
We're on the seat using the whole thing. Then he falls down.
So now he's bleeding, his arm's hanging.
So I'm calling up Fruitcake
to get up there to hold him and to grab him, grab him.
So he grabs him and he couldn't move
'cause the other part, hit ribs.
- [Narrator] Immediately,
the question turns to how this happened.
Was it a signal picked up by the remote
or is the bouncy hair-triggered target to blame?
The footage doesn't provide an answer,
either way, Christian is down for the count.
- [Christian] Ah.
[sirens blaring]
- I think the cut is probably the least of his problems
'cause that's a laceration that we can easily repair.
He had a little problem with one of his lungs,
so they're doing a chest x-ray to make sure
that one of his lungs has not collapsed.
But he was breathing well when I was in there
and he's improving.
I don't think you're gonna get him back today.
He'll probably spend the night tonight.
- I don't know if we'll finish now.
I mean she's a welder, he's a carnival geek.
The other guy's an armor truck guy, I'm acrylic guy
and he was the actuator guy.
We had five right guys for the job.
I mean four hours left
and five hours left without one guy short now
who did all that, so it's gonna really hurt us.
- You know, I understand he's good and he knows his stuff
and he is a talented, great fabricator and stuff like that.
But can't do any of this without help.
You know, it's always better when you're doing it
with a bunch of other people instead of just by yourself.
- Did it even work this with this whole?
- He was welding the bottom bracket
and he says he was gonna weld the other bracket on.
- [Scottie] You wanna just take over the roof job?
- [Jesse] Well, it'd be nice if he was like a team player,
but obviously if he was, he wouldn't have fell.
He would've told someone to not hit that
or unhooked the ground or something.
[rousing rock music]
Why don't you wire in a k*ll switch on that?
- Definitely.
- Before it's too late again.
[machine rattling]
You guys clear out there? We're hooking up the battery.
- [Acquaintance] Yeah.
- There we go.
Wow, that really hammers.
[panel clattering]
- Going up.
Keep going, keep going, keep going. Good.
Well, the roof's done.
- [Narrator] But this build isn't money in the bank,
it still needs to hold water.
- I think if it doesn't hold water,
that's the metaphor ends to itself.
- I think the welds, well, for the most part, hold water.
I think, if anything, where it's gonna leak is the windows
because we have all these holes drilled in 'em.
- The bolts themself can leak.
So what we wanna do is get some of that caulking
inside the bolts on the inside.
- [Presenter] To keep it all watertight,
each bolt, washer and acrylic hole
gets a squirt of some rope-tested sealant,
windshield caulk.
[rousing rock music]
- A little higher.
There you go. There you go.
[drill screeching]
[drill screeching]
- The last one.
- Let's start filling it up with some water.
- [Colleague] Let's do it.
- [Presenter] Four hours to go
and the dunk truck's ready to be tested.
[hydraulics wheezing]
- Oh, sweet. Look at that thing.
[Jesse laughing]
- [Presenter] As water slowly fills the tank,
the discussion turns to what separates success from failure.
- I say, if you can count the drips,
like that much, that's a success, right?
That's a failure. - [Wayde] Jesse.
- What do you think? Is that fair.
- That's fair. - [Jesse] Okay.
Oh yeah, that's a lot.
- [Presenter] As soon as the water starts to rise,
the flaws in the tank have nowhere to hide.
- It's coming down over here inside the truck to the left.
- There it is.
- It's going through the bolt where it should, you know,
it's where the holes are.
[machine whizzing]
- [Presenter] Three hours to go
on the last night of the build.
And if they don't get the leak sealed, their fate will be.
Time's a wasting and so is Mark's patience.
He taps in some Long Beach spring water
and quickly puts the caulk to the test.
[frenetic rock music]
Not a leak in sight.
The welds and bolts hold up under the pressure
of all 947 gallons.
- [Larry] To a major degree, it's holding water.
- [Presenter] But now, for the real test.
- [Scottie] Hey, he's ready to go swimming.
- [Colleague] All right.
- Today, man.
[Jesse laughing]
- Come on, Jesse Jane.
[ball thudding]
Wap, wap, waa.
- [Scottie] Oh, come on.
[Jesse laughing]
- All right, I'm going home.
- [Scottie] Close doesn't count.
[ball thudding]
Dude, you throw like a girl.
[trigger clattering]
[Scottie laughing] [colleagues laughing]
- Yeah.
What were you saying?
- [Scottie] You know, I don't even care about the tools.
Seeing that was worth it.
- [Colleague] Oh God. - [Scottie] That was insane.
[Scottie laughing]
That just never gets old.
[bell ringing]
- We have a winner. - Good job.
Mac tools, "Motorcycle Mania" CDs.
- Some cash?
- Yeah, cash and prizes. - [Scottie] Right.
- [Presenter] Word comes back
that Christian's going to be fine.
No builders were permanently harmed
during the making of this episode.
[mellow rock music]
Build cost tally,
hard cash, $4,986.57.
Freebie value, $4,813.96.
Vehicle purchase, $9,000.
Grand total, $18,800.53.
[cash clattering]
♪ Monster, Monster Garage
- [Narrator] Hey, all you dunk meisters,
the big schwag here.
Soon, we'll be taking this monster
out for some merriment and mayhem.
But first, West Coast chopper, Pete Finlan,
applies some finery to the armor-plated skin.
Check out them rivets. Run, Bones, run.
Now, that's what the schwag calls purdy, purdy gnarly.
Jesse, the original LBC master dunker, James,
takes to the streets in is tricked-out
Watch out, Jesse, don't spill any of that water.
[Jesse laughing]
But where's Jesse taking the dumpster?
Who are the lucky few who'll be the first
to get to try it out?
- Not that much splashed out.
- [Narrator] Miller's Children's Hospital?
Is the big guy feeling okay?
[gentle circus music]
- Wow. Whoo hoo, party.
Hi, I'm Jesse.
Jesse, how you doing?
What's your name? - Mariah.
- Mariah. Hi, I'm Jesse.
Hi. Oh.
Hey, Ali, you wanna take some kids outside?
- [Narrator] Now, the moment of truth has come.
Jesse opens up the monster volt,
and inside, 947 gallons of liquid Long Beach water love
just waiting to wet down some lucky victim,
guess who.
[audience applauding]
- [Attendee] Harder.
- [Attendees] Oh.
[audience applauding]
- [Jesse] Who's next?
Come on. Come on, man.
Oh, a little closer. [chuckles]
Oh. [laughs]
Good, this never stops being funny.
- Jackson give it a try.
- What? Come on, Jackson.
Uh-oh lefty. - [Attendee] Come on,
Jackson, you can do it.
- [Jesse] There you go.
- [Attendee] Whoo, hoo, hoo, hoo.
- High five.
[upbeat rock music]
[audience laughing]
- [Narrator] Jesse doesn't want Body Drop to be alone,
so he calls for some fun finned friends.
Don't worry about the fish, folks. We'll take care of them.
Body Drop doesn't like sushi.
- You wanna try it?
You wanna go in?
- [Narrator] Hey Jesse, why don't you
climb up on the dunk seat?
- No, I can't go in 'cause I'm made of sugar,
and if I get wet, I'll melt.
Hey, there's some kids upstairs
and I think we should let them do it.
So we made it remote control
so they can do it from their room.
- [Child] Hello.
- Hi. - Hi.
All right. You wanna try it?
- Yeah, I just push in.
- Yeah, whenever you want 'em to go.
You ready? - Yeah.
[audience laughing]
- [Attendee] Whoo.
- You wanna try it?
Wait till he gets up there though and waves.
Let him sit there for a while, don't do it right away.
[colleagues laughing]
Wait until he thinks it's not gonna work, he thinks maybe,
you know, I might be off the hook on this one.
- No. - Yeah, give it to him.
[Jesse laughing]
Well, cool. Thanks for testing it out for us.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
- [Narrator] This operation has been a success.
Dr. James prescribed smiles for kids who are sick.
He pulled a body drop trick and managed to keep himself dry.
- And if I get wet, I'll melt.
- [Narrator] But now, he's got metal to burn, sparks to fly.
[indistinct] Monster Garage challenge
is just around that bend.
[gentle ambient music]
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05x02 - Armored Dunkster
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A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."
A team of five people with mechanical, fabricating, or modifying expertise was assembled to modify a vehicle into a "monster machine."