03x14 - Crazy Bike

[bunniefuu]

- [Big Schwag] Uh oh, Monstrosities.

Jesse's got his work cut out for him.

He's gonna take a truck and turn it into a motorcycle.

- Oh, yeah.

- [Big Schwag] But he's not too worried.

- I like this one 'cause there is no reason why to do it.

- "Monster Garage" philosophy.

If it's wrong, it's right,

but for some dudes, it's just wrong.

[Randy blabbering]

- Whoa. Whoa.

- [Big Schwag] So suck down a cold one

and blow it out your horn.

The next episode of "Monster Garage"

is pulling into your driveway.

- [Narrator] 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

This week's challenge, take a 1972 Peterbilt semi-truck

and turn it into the biggest, baddest chopper ever made.

The rules, when built,

the monster machine must appear to be stock.

The team can spend no more than 5,000 bills for parts.

Jesse and his crew have seven days and nights.

On the first day they design, on the next five, they build,

and on the seventh day, they race.

If successful, each team member takes home

a $3,400 set of Mac tools, and the clock starts now.

Day one,

the latest victim of the "Monster Garage"

trundles to its fate.

[horn blaring]

Enter the Blastolene Brothers.

This duo was drafted for this design

'cause they specialize in king-size creations.

- Alright, Jesse. - What's up, man?

- [Narrator] Santa Cruz artist Michael Leeds

works with everything

from stained glass to motorcycle crafts.

- I kind of consider myself to be like a benign sociopath.

- [Narrator] But his most bodacious creation is Big Bertha.

- It's got a 1000-cubic-inch B12 gas motor

running on propane and it started life off

as a 1941 Sea Graves hook and ladder fire truck.

I completely stripped it down in the frame

and I designed my own body for it.

So I'm really familiar

with transforming something into something else.

"Monster Garage" was just tapping into that need

for people to be able to express their autonomy.

- [Randy] I think he's got something.

- Rip those chains off, you know?

Just let me loose, you know?

Just let it out.

[Randy screaming]

- [Randy] Mr. Jesse James.

- [Narrator] Randy Grubb of Grant's Pass, Oregon

is the other half of the Blastolene Brothers.

For the last 20 years, he's made his living

as a world-class glassblower, but he shifted gears

and now he makes massive monster hot rods.

- I built what's called the Blastolene Special.

It features an 1800-cubic-inch gasoline burning V12

out of an M47 Patton tank.

It's been open-wheeled roadster that ended up being

about 22 and a half feet long, weighing 8,500 pounds,

a polished aluminum body.

Jay Leno saw the car and was very captivated by the car,

which was a major coup,

and now it's part of the Jay Leno collection.

My focus now with art is the automobile.

I call it rolling sculpture,

- Lay it on us.

- Let's build a motorcycle.

You guys are used to working with big stuff.

I'm used to building small, little, tiny 10 pounds

in a five pound bag type of stuff, so.

- [Narrator] Jesse James should feel

right at home on this project.

He builds motorcycles every day.

This one will just be a little bit bigger.

- We'll start off with this little Peterbilt

we got out there.

The most important thing about it

is to the elements of the truck.

What's the coolest thing about it, a big rig?

First and foremost is the sound.

You know, bur, bur.

[engine rumbling]

And second is all the trucker elements,

which are all super heavy duty, durable, big.

- Well, this is gonna be 4,500, maybe 5,000 pound bike

we're building here, you think-

- It's not gonna weigh that much.

What's that motor weigh?

Seven or 800 pounds?

- Thousands, guy. - About 3,000.

- [Narrator] The sheer mass of the motor in this rig

is way beyond anything Jesse's used to.

That's why the Blastolene Brothers are here.

- The motor weighs 3000 pounds?

- That's a 3000-pound motor, brother.

So this two wheel sucker that you're gonna be hopping on,

if it falls over, we're gonna be getting

a flat shovel to get you up.

- I guess where that big rig thing comes in.

- And that's the negative about a two-wheel design

is the sheer mass of this thing, trying to hold it up.

- You guys are talking like women

'cause every time a woman goes to get a bike,

it's like, oh, I can't hold up a Harley fat bike.

It's like, you're not bench pressing it over your head.

- [Randy] It's gonna be over two tons.

- You're balancing it.

- This is gonna weigh over two tons.

- My bikes weigh like four or 500 pounds.

I can't pick them up but...

- [Michael] Right.

- I'm able to zip around on them.

- [Narrator] But two tons or none,

Jesse just can't bring himself to make a tricycle.

- The only thing I'm resistant, trike-

Man, I've just never been able to make myself do it.

Number one thing is you can't split lanes.

You gotta sit there in traffic, so why even have a bike?

And number two, it's kind of like you're a p*ssy

'cause you can't ride on two wheels 'cause you're gonna,

afraid you're gonna, it's like training wheels.

You know what?

You're afraid you're gonna fall over.

No chick's gonna want to come jump on the back of that.

[Randy laughing]

What's the actual footprint of the bike gonna be, you know?

If you figure the front end's here,

the motor's gonna be out to here.

- Let's say you got your motor, your four-foot motor,

you put your third member right on the end of that.

So now your whole drive train is maybe five feet long.

- We can plan all we want right here, but until we get it

and you sit down on it and put your legs around it.

Let's put the motor where we want it,

we'll put the front end where we want it,

and just connect the dots,

and we'll just build a frame around it.

- Right.

- Wow, this is gonna be hard.

- It's gonna be really heavy, bro.

- Cool.

- Really heavy.

- Trike's too easy.

- Three wheeler means p*ssy to Jesse.

- Yes. - Ain't gonna do it.

- Okay, well, okay. - Alright.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm gonna fall over.

[Randy laughing]

- You're gonna ride it. - Hell, yeah.

- Okay.

[Michael and Randy laughing]

Well, we got a truck out there

that needs to get pulled apart, Jesse,

if we're gonna do this in five days, man.

- You better give your skills some Red Bull.

- Yeah, huh?

[bright trumpet music]

- [Narrator] The wheels and steering system will be attached

to a beefy frame that surrounds the 350-horsepower engine.

[upbeat music]

Day two, the build team enter into the garage

to get this rig road ready.

Bernard Juchli of Sierra Madre, California

keeps Jay Leno's car collection on the run.

Robert Vaughan of Wylie, Texas

can drive and fix any big rig truck.

Hollywood's Dan Owens is a machinist

for motion picture camera company, Panavision.

Mike Leeds and Randy Grubb stay on for the build.

- So we're gonna make this Peterbilt into a motorcycle.

We don't have to build cars all the time, right?

- 1500 foot pounds of torque and a lot of weight.

So you ain't gonna be able to hold it up.

What's it gonna weigh, 4,000 pounds? 5,000 pounds?

- [Narrator] The builders, like the designers,

immediately question the sanity

of putting a tractor-trailer on two wheels.

- Big cam.

- We don't have to do it if you guys are scared.

- [Bernard] Well, hell no. Let's do it.

- I'm not worried about a thing.

- We got a rider. - Yes.

Let's build it, guys.

- Cool. - Let's do it.

- Exactly.

- [Robert] Leave the easy ones for someone else.

- [Narrator] The team heads outside to ponder the Peterbilt.

- It ain't that big. - But it's heavy, brother.

- [Randy] It'd be nice if this was all polished.

- No, I want it all [tool whirring] looking.

- [Bernard] Okay, well, you got it.

- [Narrator] Now to dig into the diesel.

[upbeat rock music]

[metal clattering] [tools whirring]

- [Randy] If you throw that just right, it'll fly.

All right, yeah, is it gonna work?

All right, you all ready?

- [Narrator] The Turbocharged Cummins motor is so heavy,

the team must use a forklift to pull it out,

but the motor would rather pull the forklift in.

- Okay, hold it, hold it, hold it.

[forklift beeping]

- Oh, yeah.

- [Narrator] Seeing the four-foot tall motor

hanging in space outside the truck,

Jesse can finally comprehend

the scale of this little project.

- Wow, I didn't know those motors were that big

when I said let's make one into a motorcycle.

- [Bernard] Oh, they're huge.

They're huge.

- [Jesse] I'm not worried about a thing thing, I'm good.

If you guys are scared.

- [Randy] Alright, Jesse, come on man.

- It's not that big.

You can do it.

I think the center of gravity's gonna be the-

- [Randy] It's gonna be like a, hoo.

As soon as you get about two degrees.

- [laughs] Yeah.

- [Bernard] Make a believer out of you.

- Now that I see the height and the center of gravity,

my mind's saying, trike.

[all laughing]

A trike's too easy.

It's like training wheels.

No chick's gonna want to jump on the back of that.

- [Randy] Trikes are for pussies, Jesse.

- They are.

That's just self preservation instinct taking over.

- [Randy] Like I said, once the sober reality strikes,

you may change your mind,

But I hate to bring that into it.

- I'm just afraid of being portrayed as a p*ssy.

- [Bernard] I think that would-

- Since I already called it out, you know?

I don't know, I mean,

since that big old motor's in it, I mean...

- What about doing a thing where it's asymmetrical

and you're sitting next to the motor.

- [Michael] It's like you're floating in air.

- Be like Lord Humongous in his trike.

Just walk away.

Damn. I hate trikes.

- [Narrator] Jesse reluctantly resigns himself

to building a trike, so it's back to the drawing board.

[upbeat music]

[saw clattering]

Now that the bike has become a trike,

they'll need a rear axle,

so the team tears one off the truck.

- [Robert] We're done.

- [Narrator] Every piece of the '72 semi is so big,

just moving them into the garage is a challenge.

[steady rock music] [engine rumbling]

With the massive 14-liter straight six set in place,

the team can finally try to figure this thing out.

- I think our rear end fell together pretty nicely here.

Our front ends are a big consideration still.

- And we can do a big tube up in here

and then put a little bit smaller one inside

and it'll look like a telescopic fork.

- Right.

- [Narrator] The team maps out

a chopper-style fork for the front end.

They'll put their plan in motion tomorrow,

but for now, this team's ready for a rest stop.

"Monster Garage" factoid.

Last year, professional truckers in the United States

drove 200 billion miles,

enough miles for 1000 round trips to the sun.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

Day three,

the crew enters the garage

prepared to do some heavy lifting.

- So we're gonna use the motor as part of the frame.

- The motor is the frame, right.

- Really accentuate the motor, too.

- [Bernard] Yeah, it's gonna be all business, you know?

- [Randy] Well, we're all on the same page.

I hope Jesse is.

- I like it, all machinery exposed.

No BS, just all the stuff

that makes it go and stop and nothing else.

- We're talking about a beam coming up, bolting right here.

No frame members past the motor at all.

Bolt the front end-

- You're gonna run all the way up.

- No, no, no, just to here, end it right here.

- Well, that would be cool naked.

Now what about the front end? I mean-

- We'll build a big plate that'll come up here,

tie into here, you know, our steering head goes here.

It's just a motor hanging there.

- [Narrator] Jesse gives a big 10-4

to the team's frameless design.

They'll build the front and rear ends of the trike

right off the engine block.

- [Dan] Before we start doing a lot

of cutting and measuring, get that universal joint in there.

- [Robert] That's gonna be the first thing we put in there.

- [Narrator] Dan and Bob install a U-joint

connecting the transmission directly

to the rear differential with no drive shaft in between.

[steady rock music]

Now the team can start to frame up the back end.

Because the tubing they'll use to tie the rear axle

to the motor is so thick,

it must be tortured with the torch

so it will succumb to the wheel of the pipe bender.

[steady rock music continues] [metal clanking]

[saw whirring]

- [Randy] Go.

- [Narrator] A disagreement develops over the front end.

- We're thinking about building a massive girder front end.

- You can use one of the knuckles off the other side

of the front end for the steering head.

- [Narrator] The team planned to build

a chopper-style front fork, but Jesse has another idea.

[hard rock music]

He wants to take off the front axle

and attach one of the truck's front hubs to the front

of the motor so the steering knuckle can be operated

from the side saddle seating position.

As Jesse tries to explain his concept,

he runs into resistance from the team.

- You know, basically we're building

a single-sided front end with this.

- See, but then, we were talking about bringing a fork down

and now your wheel is turning inside the fork.

- [Robert] You're talking about a fork-

- [Narrator] Rather than move forward with Jesse's plan,

the team keeps suggesting alternatives.

- Okay, this is another option.

Boom, this is your front wheel, this is your rear wheel.

This is like a sidecar wheel.

- [Jesse] So it's a four-wheel car.

- Asymmetrical trike. - It's an asymmetrical side.

And you're... - Like training wheels.

Let's just do it like this.

Let's keep a little bit of spine.

- [Narrator] Jesse just wants to get the project moving.

- Just do what I say.

Shut up, fancy guys.

- And we designed a girder front end for it

that I think would have a little more traditional look.

It would work well.

This is neat because it uses the truck part.

- I'm subordinate to the process.

I'm here to do what Jesse wants.

- It's what the man wants, so it's what we're doing.

[Randy laughing]

- It's gotta be satanic and evil-looking or forget it.

If it's all safety, "wow, that looks logical," then don't,

just buy a Hyundai XL.

- [Narrator] One of the front wheel hubs is torched off

so the steering knuckle can be used for Jesse's front end.

[hard rock music]

- [Michael] See, this thing sticks way too far out.

- [Randy] Yeah.

- [Michael] Yeah, this is gonna look silly.

- I think so, too.

- [Michael] This thing is taking way too far out.

Who says that this has to go out 90 degree to the car?

Why don't we go back with it?

- [Jesse] It's gonna take some of the stress out of it, too.

- Absolutely. - Yeah.

- And now it's starting to look like something.

The stuff I work on is a lot more exacting than this,

but this is a fun project.

- [Narrator] Swiss-born Bernard Juchli is the man

who maintains Jay Leno's exotic car collection.

- I work on all his cars and bikes.

A lot of these old cars you can't buy parts for,

so we make 'em in house,

from steam cars all the way up McLaren F1.

And of course, they all need work.

This is a lot like working at Leno's, you know?

The quality of workmanship, of course, is a lot different.

When you're working on the million-dollar Dusenberg,

you gotta be a little bit more careful

and a little bit more exacting.

Working for Leno, you know, if we don't get it

done this week, we'll get it done next week.

It's not an option here.

- We wanna put a nice bend in this box tubing

and we don't have a way to do that

with a traditional bender, so we're gonna take

a pie cut out every two inches

and piece that curve together

out of a bunch of little segments.

- [Narrator] The pie-sliced arm is welded back together,

then doubled up so it can support the two-ton motor.

[sparks crackling]

- Pass this piece over to our machinist, Dan,

to cut some precision holes.

- [Narrator] It takes some builders a little time

to adjust to the often primitive conditions

in the Monster Garage.

- [Dan] Step into my boutique, Randall.

- [Randy] [laughs] Certainly.

- Yeah, this is our in-House machine shop over here.

- [Narrator] Like precision machinist, Dan Owens,

who works for Panavision Hollywood making all manner

of mounting brackets and adapters

for high-end motion picture cameras.

- This project is the definitive "Monster Garage" project

and I'm working with some of the best people

I think I've ever worked with in my life.

And I'm not really one of those guys that's into team sports

and "yay, team" and all this kind of stuff.

I'm pretty much of a iconoclast,

pretty much of an individual.

I'm sitting there working with these guys

and like, actually I'm enjoying the spirit

of kind of going, "yay, team," you know?

They should restructure the whole school system

so that machine shop's a Letterman sport.

- [Narrator] The big beefy arm is bolted

and welded to the truck's wheel hub.

- [Randy] Oh, wah.

Yeah, right there. Perfect, perfect.

- [Bernard] Okay.

- [Randy] Boy, that brings it right into line.

- [Narrator] An air tank is mounted

to power the brakes and horn.

- It's gonna have air brakes, an air horn.

[horn blaring]

[steady rock music]

- So y'all go Hollywood over there,

I got some welding to do over here.

- Y'all are bothering me right now.

- [Narrator] Robert Vaughn's a diesel-powered Aggie

from Wiley, Texas.

- I've got eight years working as a diesel mechanic

in the oil field.

I've got a commercial driver's license

and that came in real handy while I was going

to Texas A&M because I was driving

the truckloads of logs in for the bonfire,

which is one of my favorite pastimes at A&M.

I've probably pulled in over a hundred truckloads of logs

for Aggie Bonfire over the years that I was working on it.



I really enjoy putting my hands on something,

figuring it out, making it work,

and then being able to step back and look at it

and say, "wow, check this out."

Oh, when I was like 11 years old,

I had this Huffy bicycle I made into a chopper

and that was kind of neat.

That's what's cool about "Monster Garage."

You get to do something really stupid and it's great.

Trikes are for pussies,

but this is not your average p*ssy trike.

- Jesse may think it's for a sissy,

but I think it's gonna be a pretty badass machine, man.

I don't think anybody that rides this thing

is gonna be called a sissy. - Hell, yeah.

- The progress has come along pretty good, I think.

I'm actually starting to like this silly-looking thing here.

I wasn't too keen on it at first,

but I think it's gonna work.

It's gonna look cool.

- [Narrator] Day three began with a pile of Peterbilt parts

and ended with a built Peter Bike.

"Monster Garage" factoid.

Records were made to be broken.

In 2001, Bubba Blackwell broke Evel Knievel's record

by jumping a motorcycle over 14 semi-trucks,

but Knievel still has him beat on broken bones.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

[horn honking]

- [Narrator] Day four, the team enters the garage

and jumps right on the rig.

- [Bernard] We got batteries that are 13-inches long.

We're gonna set 'em on-

- [Narrator] The team fabricates and installs trays

for the two big batteries required to start this beast.

[upbeat music]

- [Randy] Look at.

Look at these babies.

- [Narrator] The rear wheels arrive

and are promptly mounted.

- That is, b*tch.

- Yeah, that's cool.

- Those guys are doing good.

- [Narrator] With a little monster modification,

Bob and Mike get the truck steering wheel

mounted directly on the steering box.

- [Michael] Here, look at this.

Good enough for me. - That'll do.

- Okay, we're cruising.

- [Narrator] Now the team can map out the steering system.

- [Michael] How's that wheel position for you?

- That's cool, but smaller. - Smaller.

- That's steering wheel's too big.

- Okay. - I dunno, lemme see.

[group laughing]

- [Narrator] Dan pulls the 50-gallon diesel fuel tank

off the truck.

These guys want to use as much

of the original Peterbilt as they can.

These components are cool, strong,

and best of all, they're free.

- If we cut it down to almost nothing around that rear end,

close to the radius of the tires

and it's round all the way across.

- [Narrator] After the diesel fumes are purged

from the tank, Randy cuts the big barrel in half.

[metal clanking] [tools whirring]

- [Michael] I definitely think

we should put that stuff on the inside.

- [Randy] Huh?

- [Narrator] Randy is shocked

that his own Blastolene Brother

would question the integrity of his welds.

- Are you implying that my gas tank is gonna leak?

- [Michael] Oh, I would never do that, you silly.

- Thank you, Michael.

Guaranteed not to leak a drop.

- [Narrator] Jesse works out the seating arrangement

and starts tacking things in place.

[upbeat rock music]

[tools whirring]

Jesse steps back and notices that the trike's front end

is riding too high for his taste.

- I thought we were planning on having it

a little bit lower in the back from the front.

- I rake 'em towards the front.

It makes it look meaner, like it's going fast.

- [Narrator] If Jesse's gonna be seen riding a trike,

it better be beyond bad,

so he insists that the ride height be right.

- Well... - Yeah.

You're right, I think we gotta adjust that.

- [Bernard] I don't see how we're gonna change that now.

- The front needs to go up three inches.

- We're gotta run outta ground clearance.

- That is gonna bring the pan down pretty low.

- You betcha.

You gonna be dragging that oil pan

on the ground all the time.

[metal clanking]

We can go down two inches.

- Well, at least level.

I mean, if we could get it level, that would be cool.

- Yeah, check it out.

See this here?

- Oh. - We'll take the mount off,

we'll fit it down in there,

and we'll weld the son of a [censored] all the way around.

Yeah, we can get down almost two and a half inches.

Yeah, that'd be great.

That'll make this and this one piece as strong as hell.

- [Randy] Okay.

- Much better than what we got now.

- [Randy] Okay.

- [Bernard] Just when we thought we had it figured out,

Jesse comes and changes it.

- [Robert] What are we doing?

Where are we going?

- [Randy] We're going back here.

Alley-oop.

- [Narrator] To lower the front end,

Bernard will cut a chunk out of the arm

and sink the motor mount deeper into the metal.

- And then once it sits down,

we'll weld all the way around it.

It'll be stronger and we'll get

the front end of the motor down.

[sparks crackling]

Whoa. Whoa.

We'll get it back- - Ow.

- Sorry. - Whoa, that was my toe.

Go.

- [Bernard] Sounds easy.

- [Randy] I got the hot end over here.

It's getting pretty warm.

- [Narrator] Another monstrously productive day.

The team hits the road feeling tired, but good.

Day five,

[upbeat music]

the team hits the ground running.

- Okay, you boys ready?

[cash register chiming]

- Take it on there.

- [Narrator] The front tire arrives and gets mounted.

Now the trike is starting to look like something.

- I think it looks good.

What do you think?

- [Bernard] Badass.

- It's just a motor going down the freeway.

[group laughing]

Does it look like it's spewing hate?

- [Bernard] My grandmother can push this clutch.

- [Randy] I told you it's about like pushing

the clutch in your car. - Oh, yeah.

- [Randy] Do it again.

About two and a half inches.

- Okay, so we need two and a half inches of travel.

- [Narrator] Now the team rigs the pedals

and wires the gauges.

[upbeat rock music]

The front end is reinforced

to help keep this two-ton trike in one piece.

- Caution, this vehicle makes wide right turns.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

- [Narrator] The steering box is mounted

to a bracket on the motor, but with an unexpected turn.

- Well, we got a situation with the steering here.

- What's up? - Backwards.

- [Michael] You gotta turn left to go right,

turn right to go left.

- [Narrator] When it steers to the left,

the trike turns to the right.

- So all we need to do is turn the arm around

and have it come out this side

and then we'll put a kink in it. How's that?

- No.

That's an easy way out.

Let's figure out a cool way to do it.

- [Michael] I think that's pretty cool.

- That's sticking a bandaid on it.

- [Michael] We actually could-

- Let's flip it around and make it right.

- [Michael] You could flip it up.

- [Jesse] You can flip this on its side.

- That's right. - Like this.

- That works, right? - Yeah, with the arm-

- The arm coming down. - It's like this.

- [Robert] Arm going down.

- Wow, you guys are car guys.

Look how heavy that steel is.

[laughs] Woo.

- [Michael] When you turn the steering wheel,

this box is gonna wanna shift.

- Okay. - This way.

- [Jesse] Just don't spazz, I'll get it figured out.

- Okay, I'm just, you know...

- [Jesse] We'll figure out, I'll make this sturdy.

- Okay, breathe.

- [Robert] We'll step back and start over again then.

- [Michael] Okay, cutting torch.

- [Narrator] Bob torches off

the team's bulky steering bracket,

so Jesse can remount the steering box another way,

but it doesn't sound like the rest of the team

is very happy about it.

- [Bernard] I see what you're doing, but I don't like it.

- I don't like it, but as long as he likes it.

This is not the way the Blastolene Brothers would do it.

- Oh, well. - Come up with something.

- [Narrator] With the stench of descent filling the garage,

Jesse remounts the steering box his way.

- [Randy] All right.

- [Narrator] The team can grumble about the aesthetics

of Jesse's steering solution,

but at least it turns in the right direction.

- Just a... - Ah.

- [Narrator] Randy starts to attach the fuel tank.

- The welded gas tank bottom.

- [Narrator] But Jesse suggests he hold off

so it can be pressure tested first.

- Did you test it, put some water in it or...

Yeah, maybe before you get it all the way in there.

- It's already in there. - Locked in.

- It's already locked.

Saying my welds are [censored]?

- Well, no. - No, I did 'em.

- No, I saw 'em, they were good.

- [Randy] No, I'm a little-

- Especially those big black carbon marks.

- [Randy] Yeah. [laughs]

- [Narrator] It's as if Randy's tank

is already full of his ego.

Next the team turns his attention to the gear shift.

Randy favors just extending the existing shifter.

- You know the big Ed Roth hay hanger, straight shifter.

- [Robert] Up there, up there.

- [Bernard] Yeah, big rocket job.

- [Jesse] That's gonna be a little bit Ret*rded.

If we could go in with the rod straight out

with a high man laid down flat

and then coming in here with a link.

- [Narrator] Jesse wants a more sophisticated solution

that will bring this shifter closer to the driver.

- This cross motion, it's really complicated

and we're really kind of unsure

whether it's it's gonna work properly.

- I'll let you do it however you want to.

If you wanna do it the easy way, go ahead.

- Lemme try it.

I'll stick it together and I'll see if it works.

If it doesn't, then I can do the easy way.

- [Jesse] It sure would be a lot neater.

- [Randy] Yeah, you can reach it there.

- Yeah, go ahead and do it that way.

I'll cut it off and do it right after you guys are gone.

- [Randy] No, no, hold on,

we're talking about running it forward.

- [Jesse] No, you do whatever you want.

I told you you could have full crack at that.

Do it the total easy ret*rd way.

- Yeah. - You could do that.

- Do it the easy ret*rd Randy way.

I don't think there are any good solutions

other than the stupid Randy solution,

which Jesse is making fun of,

so we're not real hot to do that one,

but I don't think we have any other options.

- [Narrator] The team is tired of feeling

that it's Jesse's way or the highway.

- [Michael] He did say we could do anything we wanted.

- Woo-hoo.

[both laughing]

- [Bernard] Yeah, as long as it's not the easy way.

- [Randy] Yeah, it's the hard way that won't work very well.

- [Michael] Yeah.

[group laughing]

- [Narrator] These guys may be smart,

but right now, they're sure acting stupid.

- [Michael] Let's cut it off.

- [Robert] Yeah, oh no, no, it was like that in the car.

- [Narrator] Dissing Jesse in his own garage?

Not a good idea.

- Hey, let's sit down.

I want to figure out

where the [censored] we're at on all this stuff.

- [Randy] Little pow-wow?

- If that's what you want to call it.

All right, I'm feeling a little bit

of negative from both of you guys.

- I'm cool.

- You know, I heard you guys bitching a little bit

about the project and stuff like that, so, you know?

How do you think you got on this show?

- I think you wanted me.

- Why do you think I wanted you on the show?

- Because I think you liked the Blastolene Special.

- Yeah, because I had a lot of respect

for the stuff that you did.

But if you two guys come on here

talking [censored] about me, I don't demand

that you guys respect what I do, but you know?

- No, it's just, you know, they're putting the camera

in our face and saying, what is your opinion of this?

Now, are we supposed to say-

- Well, if you think something sucks or you think

something's not gonna work right, you know, tell me.

- Sounds fair.

I think we're all engineers.

We all look at things a little bit differently.

I mean, we're all compromising here to create something.

Do you feel I'm not working hard enough? I mean...

- [Jesse] No, I feel-

- I'm really hard for you, Jesse.

I'm doing the best job I can.

- [Jesse] I know, I just don't-

- I'm just trying to follow your instructions.

- Don't talk [glass breaking] about me and the project.

If you really have a problem with it, tell me.

All five of you guys are probably

the most highly skilled guys we've ever had here.

If I didn't think you guys knew what you were doing,

I wouldn't say anything.

Well, I don't wanna bust your guys' [censored],

I just wanna make sure everybody, you know, this is a team.

- Hey, I'm not- - And everybody

is working together and I wanna make sure you guys are cool.

- I'm sorry if you got some negative vibe

or something, man, it's not meant to be.

- All right, cool.

- [Narrator] With only one day left to build,

Jesse seems to have the team back on target.

Will they finish the project

or will the project finish them?

- [Big Schwag] Mr. Chopper turned a truck into a triker.

Will it bike like a biker or just bike?

- Here goes.

- [Big Schwag] Watch and learn.

- Uh oh.

- Solid as a rock.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Narrator] Day six, the last day to build.

The team seems so ahead of schedule midweek,

but they still haven't even fired up this motor.

- [Robert] What do we beat on it with 'em?

- [Narrator] It's not 'cause they're using tiny tools.

Randy bolts on the tires.

- The rotation and the vibration can tend to loosen nuts up,

so semi-truck are set up

with left hand threads on the left side

and right hand threads on the right side.

- [Narrator] Jesse's been running hot all week,

so he brings something to cool things down.

This radiator is a lot smaller than the original,

but this engine won't have to haul



Bernard is eager to prove to Jesse that he doesn't need

to make the shift linkage the easy way.

- Current plan on the shift linkage is

to attach this at the back,

this is gonna be our shift lever.

When we move the shift lever sideways,

this here will move sideways,

and then we can go four and a half like that.

[steady rock music]

- [Jesse] Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Good job.

That's perfect.

- [Narrator] With Jesse's seal of approval on the shifter,

Bernard starts making custom pipes

to connect the radiator to the motor.

[steady rock music continues]

- The quiet guys that just work are always the best.

[Bernard laughing]

Look at that.

Awesome, Bernard.

That makes me happy.

- [Narrator] Jesse presents some goodies

he picked up at the trucker store.

- Peterbilt stickers.

Here's something for you too, Bernard.

Shift knob, green metal flake Peterbilt.

- [Bernard] Oh, man.

- I dunno.

Single screws through the hole there.

- Let's just run a shorty like that,

right into people's car windows with diesel.

[Jesse screaming]

[Jesse laughing]

You know how when you're following behind the bus

and it blows that big black thing out?

Now imagine that blowing straight into your window

when you're just minding your own business.

That's not gonna be nice.

- [Narrator] Dan pulls the air horn off the truck

to ensure the trike will as*ault all the senses.

[horn blaring]

- It works. - Thank you.

- Fart louder than that.

[Jesse farting and laughing]

- Some air brakes on it.

So we got an air compressor up here.

Compressed air goes into this tank we've got back here

and this tread valve controls the air

to the rear brake servos,

which are actually then applying the brakes.

It's also got an air pressure gauge

up under the steering wheel there.

If that gauge reads zero, you have no brakes.

- I got the starter hooked up.

This is the last wire.

There's not much wiring.

- [Narrator] With the wiring done

and time still left on the clock,

the team just needs to dump a dose of diesel

in Randy's tank to fire this monster up.

- [Randy] Hold on, hold on, hold on.

- [Robert] Oh, that's not good, Randy.

- [Narrator] Breaker, breaker.

It looks like the fuel tank has a couple of holes in it

big enough to drive a truck through.

Randy never did test the fuel tank,

but he did test Jesse's patience.

- Uh oh.

[sarcastic guitar riff]

Remember a couple days ago when I asked you?

- It's a major setback.

- [Jesse] Had you pressure tested that or water tested it

to make sure leaks, you're like,

"psh, are you questioning my welding ability?"

Hmm.

Just biding my time.

Did you water test it, put some water in it?

- [Randy] Are you saying my welds are [censored]?

- Well...

- [Michael] I definitely think we should

put that stuff on the inside.

- Are you implying that my gas tank is gonna leak?

- [Narrator] Now Randy's bravado could cost the team

what seemed like a sure victory.

- Now how do I help him?

See, it's a good thing I didn't [censored]

there last night, right?

- [Narrator] With little time to lose,

Jesse runs off to the trucker store once more

to pick up something that might help Randy out.

- Sometimes things just happen all by themselves.

- No one to blame but me.

The blame lies right here.

I'm stupid, I'm sorry. I'll fix it.

- So how long should I make him squirm

before I show him the [censored] I got

that'll seal his gas tank up from the outside?

In two and a half minutes it dries.

Let it brew for a while.

I need to go plant the seeds of doubt.

Mr. Are-You-Questioning-My-Welding-Ability?

No, no, B, no.

I'm questioning everything.

Hey, did you have enough to fill it up

to test all the way around here, too?

- Yeah, I did. Where I beat the thing in,

I didn't make room for the bolt, so I split the damn thing.

Didn't even see it.

What a stupid a*s thing to do.

We'll purge it with argon and weld her up.

- Hey, you can't purge that with argon

and get all the fumes out.

- Diesel isn't nearly as expl*sive or flammable as gasoline.

- It's just harder to ignite, you know?

The BTU factor is like 10 times as much, though,

when it does ignite, you know?

I have too many friends that are like this, you know,

from welding on tanks. - Yeah.

- How fast does it dry?

- [Jesse] Two and a half minutes.

- This would be better, huh? Safer?

- No, it would've been better

to pressure test it when I asked you.

- That was stupid not to.

You are right.

- I can't let him suffer.

- [Narrator] Randy uses Jesse's tank sealer

to fill the holes in the tank.

- National public embarrassment.

This is really great.

- "What, are you questioning my welding ability?"

Should've just said, "yeah."

[group laughing]

- Hold on a minute. - Look at that.

Can we put this on there?

- Yeah, man, right in the front.

- [Narrator] Randy redeems himself

with an offering to the truck trike gods.

- [Randy] Made by Darby in Grant's Pass. Woo.

- [Narrator] It's a blown glass skull

made by one of his friends.

As he refills the tank,

Randy's dripping sweat instead of diesel.

Did Jesse's putty seal the tank,

or will it seal this team's fate?

- I think we sealed it up.

- Let's drive it.

- Let's get this thing on the ground.

- The neighbors are gonna love this.

[Jesse imitating horn]

They're gonna be flipping off the TV

every Monday night at 9:00.

- [Narrator] The team rolls the trike off the lift

to see if the front end can really hold up 4,000 pounds.

- [Robert] Alright, they're sets on all three wheels.

- [Randy] Well, anything moving?

- [Robert] Solid is a rock.

- If anyone can break it, Jesse can break it.

- She's ready to power. - Push the button.

[engine revving]

[horn blaring]

[engine rumbling]

- [Narrator] Before he can be stopped,

Jesse pulls the chopped truck trike

right out into Long Beach rush hour traffic.

- [laughs] Look at him go.

[steady rock music]

- Yeah.

- [Narrator] After trucking through the LBC,

Jesse stops to give his opinion of the trike.

- I like it.

Totally pointless.

It's just dumb.

You could have the biggest, baddest chick ever

and she could still- - Big seat.

- And she could still ride with you, yeah.

- [Narrator] An intact semi happens down the street.

- Drag race? - And Jesse flags it down.

- What's up, dog? - What's up?

- [Jesse] Do you wanna race my Peterbilt?

- Yeah. - Come on, let's race.

- I'll run it. - Alright, hang on.

- [Narrator] Jesse lines up the trike

alongside his buddy's truck

to decide the super heavyweight drag racing champion.

[upbeat rock music]

And both behemoths come out swinging.

[horns blaring]

- All right.

Wasn't even a race, wasn't even a race.

- You guys want some tools?

- Yeah. - Awesome.

- You hang around the shop long enough,

the race will come to us.

[group laughing]

- [Narrator] Some hard earned tools are distributed

and this team is over and out.

- Robert. - Thanks, Jesse.

- Mike. - Thanks a lot, man.

- Mac tools, "Monster Garage" CDs.

A lot of work for something totally dumb. I like it.

Good job, guys.

- [Narrator] Build cost tally.

Hard cash,

freebie value,

vehicle cost,

grand total.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Big Schwag] Welcome again

to another "Monster Garage" Challenge.

Frankie, where in God's name are we?

- [Frank] Schwag, we're home, Long Beach.

Jesse wants to let the homies have a look

at his crazy new monster

before he rolls it through his stomping ground.

[upbeat music]

- Oh, my God.

- What the hell? - How the hell did he do it?

Yeah, I know it's a Peterbilt,

but why he built it like this for, huh?

- [Friend] These are antique Peterbilt arms.

[horn blaring]

- A 18 wheeler. It's not an 18 wheeler?

Not yet, but that's what it was though, huh? Yeah.

Used to be, yeah.

Now what the hell it is?

- [Jesse] What do you think it is?

- It look like a [censored] trike.

- All right, I gotta go get a prescription.

That's a hell of a contraption right there.

- [Big Schwag] The locals have had their look

and now it's time for Jesse to blow some local minds.

[upbeat rock music]

[engine revving]

♪ Stashing the bag and the joint ♪

♪ There's no real dealer

♪ Making the change of what's inside ♪

♪ The choice is mine smashed as all is fine ♪

♪ The choices we make, the chances we take ♪

♪ Given' to you we hope it's not too late ♪

♪ The choices we make, the chances we take ♪

♪ Give it to you we're gonna prove ♪

♪ What's that

- [Frank] Schwag, if I remember correctly,

Jesse's no fan of a trike.

- I hate trikes.

I'm just afraid of being portrayed as a p*ssy.

- [Big Schwag] Well, Frankie, Jesse's not a wimp,

but he sure looks happy.

♪ What's that

♪ Step up, step up, step up for Sativa ♪

♪ Step up, step up for 8 Foot Sativa ♪

♪ Wake up, wake up, wake up for Sativa ♪

♪ Wake up, wake up for 8 Foot Sativa ♪

- [Frank] Schwag, Long Beach has more trucks per capita

than any other part of the country.

What do you think the trucker dudes will think

of a Peterbilt motorcycle?

- Yeah!

- [Big Schwag] It's obvious the way Jesse's driving

this sucker, he's a full blown mother trucker.

♪ Wondering why to live is to die ♪

♪ Keeping it real until we must lie ♪

♪ Leaving the change of what we decide ♪

♪ Crossing the line of all inside ♪

♪ Again

♪ Again

♪ Step up, step up, step up for Sativa ♪

♪ Step up, step up for 8 Foot Sativa ♪

Frankie, Jesse likes his trike bike so much,

he's gonna drive it till his monster's bone dry.

Bone home, homie.

♪ Wake up, wake up, wake up for Sativa ♪

♪ Wake up, wake up for 8 Foot Sativa ♪

♪ Go

♪ Drive

♪ Get out

♪ Get out

[engine rumbling]

♪ Get out

♪ Get out

♪ Get out

♪ Get out

It's golden hour for Long Beach's golden boy

and Jesse's cruising in his 24-carat truck-sicle.

♪ Stashing the bag and the joint ♪

♪ There's no real dealer

♪ Making the change of what's inside ♪

- [Frank] Schwag, looks like Jesse's trike'd

and trucker'd out.

Time to call it a night.

- [Big Schwag] Jesse's got no time for trikes,

bikes, or builders that can't weld.

- National public embarrassment.

- [Big Schwag] He's got metal to burn, sparks to fly.

The next "Monster Garage" Challenge is just around the bend.

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