03x18 - Wrastlin' Truck

[bunniefuu]

- [Schwag] Okay, Big Schwag here folks.

Jesse wants to build a wrestling truck,

but what's he really thinking?

- Are we gonna be able to do hot oil wrestling in this?

- I have no idea.

- [Jesse] Coleslaw wrestling.

- Yeah. - And shaving cream wrestling.

- [Schwag] It's a Monster Garage beat down.

[driving rock music]

- You, I'll shove it up your [glass shattering].

[crew laughing]

- [Schwag] And it's getting ugly.

Jesse's gonna be a little bit busy this week

dealing with City Hall.

Keep your mask on, the next Monster Garage

is gonna make you cry.

Oh!

- [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.

[driving rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster

This week's challenge, turn this 30 foot U-Haul truck

into a mobile wrestling ring

worthy of professional body slamming maniacs.

[wrestlers scream in slow-motion]

- [Announcer] Oh, slapped him right out of his-

- [Narrator] The rules: the truck must appear to be stock.

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

Jesse and his crew have seven days and nights.

On the first day they design.

For the next five they build.

And on the seventh day, they wrestle.

[garbled ring announcement]

If successful, they walk away with a $3,400 set

of Mac tools.

And the clock's crushed now.

[glass shattering]

[audience cheering]

For this week's design, Jesse has called on a friend

who spent plenty of time grappling on the mat.

Pro wrestling champion Goldberg

has come to lend some ringside expertise.

- [growls] Here we are again.

- Goldberg.

- [Narrator] Jesse's been buddies with Goldberg for years,

starting when he built him a custom West Coast Choppers

El Diablo Rigid.

- I wouldn't be half as cool as I am without Jesse James.

It's definitely gonna be a proud moment, man.

I've been wanting to get on this show for a long time

and I thought I was gonna have to k*ll him

because he hadn't put me on here.

But now we're gonna be on the same team,

so I'm only afraid for our opponent.

- [Narrator] So now Jesse wants to take the chaos

of professional wrestling Monster Mobile.

- It's like being a carny.

I'm in the circus.

So now we're the traveling circus of the U-Haul, cool.

Gimme another opportunity to get my a*s kicked.

Thank you, I appreciate that.

- You're not gonna lose, this is for t.v.

- Thank God.

We got the script?

Am I winning?

- Yeah.

- It's good. [Jesse chuckles]

- [Crew Member] This is a reality show.

- Yeah.

- Then I'm definitely fricking winning.

- To set up like a Monday Night Raw or something like that,

it's a huge major production.

You gotta have an arena and trucks and trailers

and sound and stage and lights and all that stuff.

I want to condense all that into one vehicle.

We have to- - Wow. [chuckles]

- We have to break it down into the elements.

Wrestlers, ring, is the two most important ones.

- [Narrator] Jesse decides how his homemade match

will appear on the card.

- I mean, to make it go automatic,

I think it's gonna have to be a cage match.

'Cause we're gonna have to do four corners for the ring

and then some kind of truss that pulls

with cables or something like that.

That pulls the sides closed.

- Right.

- I mean, I don't know anything about

what the surface has to be on the bottom of the ring.

- One spring, right in the middle of the ring.

- Right, that'll compensate for the whole floor.

- Well, what if we use the suspension of the truck?

- The leaf springs are so hard on it,

I don't know if the body weight

would actually make it fluctuate.

- We can loosen it up. - It doesn't

have to move much.

- Pull some springs out of it.

- [Narrator] Ellis Edwards is a stunt man

who isn't afraid of danger

or of making mechanical suggestions to Jesse James.

- You could actually have poles in here welded into place,

which would let through pulleys,

let these walls go down.

- I gotta think about that.

I think of a good way to do it

because every time we've tried

to raise the sides on something

or anything, it's gotten real screwed up.

So I got until Monday to figure that one out, so...

- [Narrator] It looks like Jesse's holding off

on the details until he's met his build team.

- This is gonna be like the skateboard ramp,

the school bus, the...

What other big ones have we done?

Where it's just a ton of labor.

- [Narrator] Based on what's been designed so far,

the plan is to first take off the truck's roof

and toss it for scrap.

The side walls will cable open to reveal a wrestling cage

and a set of VIP seats for the mobile match of a lifetime.

- There's so many people's asses I want to kick.

- We'll just put a megaphone on the top of it

and you can just call 'em out.

Attention.

- You're next. - Free a*s whooping.

[group laughing]

- Like an ice cream truck.

- Yeah, exactly Like an ice cream truck.

Except for the song goes...

♪ k*ll, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll ♪

[driving rock music]

[tires screeching]

- Day two!

Watch it, or you're next!

- [Narrator] To build the Monster Mobile Wrestling Ring,

we had to ditch our normal digs.

Jesse and the g*ng will work in U-Haul's

Damage Restoration Facility in nearby Paramount, California.

[rock music]

Now the build team can do some damage of their own.

[clicking]

From Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mark Carpenter,

professional wrestling's top ring constructor.

[clicking]

Angel Figueroa, a welder/fabricator

from Long Beach, California.

[clicking]

Mike Dilgard, U-Haul's own garage guru

from Phoenix, Arizona.

[clicking]

Ron Powers, hydraulics expert from San Jose, California.

[clicking]

And from Valencia, California,

Marty Coronel, a welder by day,

bartender by night.

Thanks to the pros at U-Haul,

the truck Jesse drives into the garage

is outfitted with a custom Jesse James mural.

[driving rock music]

- U-Haul truck into a mobile wrestling ring.

I don't think this one's gonna be technically that tough

unless you've got some secret wrestling ring stuff

that I don't know about.

- Let's see what you wanna do. - I think it's just gonna be

a chunk of labor.

Strong, big cage to anchor everything on.

It's gotta look stock.

Wanna, like, split the sides and have it fold down

and close up, which means we're probably

gonna have to peel it apart first.

Get it down to like a flatbed

and then we'll rebuild it back up.

- [Narrator] Mark, who's built dozens

of professional rings, has concerns

about the narrowness of the U-Haul.

- Regular ring is 20 foot square,

center pole to center pole.

- [Jesse] And this is what, eight feet wide?

- Yeah, eight feet to the outside.

- It's just a little smaller, it'll be cool.

Then the person getting pummeled

can't run away as easy.

[crew laughing]

- That's for sure.

How wide do we wanna make the ring then?

I'm just, uh...

- Well, let's get that,

let's start measuring this thing

and figure out, you know, I'd say

before we really, really go after it,

let's take some good, decent measurements.

Let's mark the outside of it

and kind of do it a little bit civilized.

- [Narrator] Did he say civilized?

Because Jesse's got Goldberg in mind,

he takes a different approach.

He skips the usual frenzied tear out

and looks for a way to expand the width of the truck

and mechanically widen the cage.

- What if we take three quarter pipe or half inch pipe

and build a mesh

and have these separate panels so when they come out,

they come out and they do this.

You have your panel here

and this will come out and just do that.

- [Narrator] Jesse's paying the price

for not enough planning in the design.

Now there's too many cooks in the U-Haul kitchen.

- How about if we go with,

these are the bottom of the floor.

Okay, when that folds out to here like this,

the corner posts are right here and they swing out.

So what you have is a double fold.

- I'm thinking about your double fold thing.

- [Crew Member] Okay.

- [Narrator] Jesse's been moved by his ambitious team

and decides to scrap the mini cage idea entirely

and make a full sized wrestling ring.

- If we're gonna really do something cool

and do a wrestling ring, I think we should

do like this and do some, a actual,

real wrestling ring pops out.

'Cause then when people see that, you know right what it is.

When they see a cage

and stuff like that, they're gonna be, what's that?

You know, they're not gonna know what it is or what it does.

- [Narrator] But it's got to be a simpler design.

- I'm just trying to think of another way to do it-

- Right, okay, but-

- Instead of some big old crazy mechanical-

- Right, but if we take the same thing

you're doing here-

- [Narrator] The ring builder comes up with the idea

to fold the ring's floor to an A-frame inside the truck

that will expand on hydraulic cylinders.

- It'll snap down

and the ring will lock up and the ropes will tighten up.

- That'll work.

But if we make these,

we lighten these sides down to nothing,

you know, we could pull a pin

and let 'em flop down on their own and then

[imitating a motor] hit a button

and the ring pulls tight, opens up, done.

- [Narrator] The new plan calls for the ring

to be folded inside the truck.

Four separate hydraulically powered rams

will push the ring open and body slam the walls

to reveal a wrestling ring on wheels.

[clattering]

Lots of changes to the Goldberg-inspired design

have eaten away at build day one.

The team tries to make up for lost time

by scrapping the truck's original walls

so they can build lighter ones.

[driving rock music]

[rumbling]

[crashing]

[whining]

- On three.

[crashing]

[driving rock music]

[crashing]

- Ha!

- [Narrator] With the roof down for the count,

Marty tries her hand at cutting out the first sidewall.

- It's a lot harder than it looks.

I give props to every guy I've ever laughed at

for using one of those.

My dad included, sorry Dad.

[whooshing]

- [Narrator] Marty Coronel became a metal burner

thanks to some good old fashioned fatherly love.

- My dad, who told me, go to college,

get a degree, get a degree in anything,

it'll just open up doors for you.

I don't think he meant welding,

but I am a product of his doing

because when I was a kid,

I was the one in the garage helping him build.

I was his little helper, and you know what?

That's how come I turned out to be a tomboy, I think.

[driving rock music]

Which side we gonna push?

[clattering]

- [Narrator] The design for this ring is all Mark's,

but he's already making sure that success or failure

doesn't rest fully on his shoulders.

- And I wanna make sure everyone understands

what we're doing before we move forward.

This is not my project, it's a team project

and it has to be thought out and everybody has to agree

and we're all agreed when we're building it.

This has gotta way we're gonna go.

So we're all at fault if something goes wrong,

we all need to be at fault together.

[whooshing]

- [Narrator] Master ring builder

Mark Carpenter has put strangle holds

on nearly 40 professional wrestling rings

for his own company, MTJ Manufacturing.

- People ask us, what does it stand for?

And it stands for my three children, which is Mark,

my oldest son and my daughter Taylor,

which is my middle daughter

and my youngest daughter Jillian.

So it's Mark, Taylor and Jillian.

- [Narrator] He may be soft-hearted at home,

but at work he's all business.

- When you feel like I do and your reputation's on the line,

and especially in an event like this

where you have no control of what they're gonna put on t.v.,

you'd better get outta my way.

- [Narrator] The happy little team moves forward,

but at a snail's pace.

As the first day begins to wind down,

the team body slams the second wall.

[crashing]

[crew yelling]

- Whoo! - Yeah.

- [Narrator] By the end of day two,

the team has stripped the truck down

to the flatbed.

The build's greatly changed from when Goldberg left it,

and day three is tomorrow's big event.

[driving rock music]

Monster Garage Factoid:

Each year the WCW transports nearly 28 million

tons of wrestling rings and equipment.

That equals 622 of the US Navy's largest battleships.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- Day three.

Better be watching, or your a*s is mine.

- [Narrator] The truck's walls were removed last night

and this morning there's a delivery

that will help the team rebuild them.

The 2,400 pounds of steel rods

and huge square tubing puts a suplex to their budget.

[buzzing]

And Mike makes a delivery of his own.

- U-Haul just made a donation,

they just don't know it yet.

[whooshing]

- [Narrator] Mike Dilgard has been U-Haul's

number one Special Projects Mechanic for over 40 years.

- The company's been good to me.

- [Narrator] But this man of few words isn't very happy

with this U-Haul assignment.

- [Crew Member] Do you like working for them?

- Up until this job.

It's all smoke and magic and mirrors.

I mean, you watch the show,

you know what [glass shattering and cow mooing].

- What's [tool clattering]?

- What's real about it?

- [Crew Member] So explain to me where you got these

and what they're for.

- They fell out from underneath the truck.

I don't like people interfering

when I'm supposed to be doing something.

- You, I'll shove it up your [glass shattering].

[crew laughing]

You make life hard.

I don't like people to make my life hard.

I just like working on cars and machinery and stuff.

Fabricating.

- This is what California earthquakes are like.

- [Narrator] Without the original walls

the U-Haul's lost its structural integrity.

- That's an earthquake.

- [Narrator] They need to sandwich a new frame

to the bed's edges that will keep the thin aluminum floor

from flexing under the sidewalls weights.

But some builders need convincing

about the double layered steel.

- Here.

- There's no, when you take this board out,

there's no strength in this board,

in this mode.

You gotta keep it straight.

- I don't think we need it, to be honest with you.

- I don't think need it either.

- This is, once this is bolted to the floor and these-

- But you need a- - Going all the way across-

- It's aluminum.

We need to bolt it to make sure it's secure.

The walls and everything have to hinge on this.

If those bolts shear, we lost everything.

- I don't even, I don't even see how this-

- He's a truck man and he's the one

that's responsible for it

and he's the one who has to make the decision.

Not us.

- It doesn't really matter if it's a truck or not.

It's talking about mechanics of materials.

- Okay. - And that I know.

- [Narrator] It's only been a day and a half

and they're already acting

like a bunch of trash talking pro wrestlers.

- By the time we're done talking about it,

I could have already welded it up on there,

so let's just do it.

I'm from that school of thought

of just [bell ringing] and let's get it done.

- I've worked with materials.

I have a master's degree in engineering from Stanford.

I know, you know, I've dealt with materials before.

To me it's an overkill, but it's, you know,

if we got the extra steel, it's cheap,

I'll put it in there.

[whooshing]

- [Narrator] Hydraulics expert Ron Powers

has made a hobby out of making things mobile.

His favorite invention?

A collapsible full vert skate ramp.

- It's 12 feet tall, 10 and a half foot radius,



And when that thing opens up, it's like

almost 20 feet from the ground.

The full vert is definitely one of a kind.

There is nobody that has that.

There's been a lot of people who said,

I'm not sure if you can do that.

That's pretty huge.

And so we proved them wrong because we know it works.

Ow. [clattering]

Okay, here are your 11 footers.

- [Narrator] Angel builds trusses

that will be the outer edges of the expanding ring.

These crucial supports will be the foundation

for the entire ring as it expands.

- Basically this has a wood frame in here.

We're putting a truss in.

Okay, and that's gonna connect.

That's gonna be on the side of the truck.

That's what's coming out.

The poles are gonna mount on a corner of that.

We'll take it from there.

- [Narrator] Marty's done welding the debated double steel

for the truck bed's edges.

And they drilled dozens of holes for dozens of bolts

to hold it to the truck.

[whirring]

[banging]

[whooshing]

- I've got your hydraulic pump.

But if you want, you are gonna have to fight me for it.

- [Marty] Knock him out, Ron!

- [Narrator] And now we present a special

Monster Garage feature;

Wrestling for Parts.

[driving rock music]

[yelling]

[thumping]

- Parts, ah!

- [Narrator] Ron grabs his prize

that will power the hydraulic arms.

- Got the power, the power!

- [Narrator] But Mark's eagle eye spotted a problem

with Ron's hydraulic pump.

- This, it says, okay,

the picture is different.

- Trust me. - I know.

- This is a, this is a lift gate.

- No, this is a one way.

I understand that.

- We use them on lift gates all the time.

- [Narrator] This single direction pump

will only open the ring, not close it.

- You need that, and it's got a big tank

and we need that power supply and make sure we got power up

and power down or power in both directions.

- Yeah.

- So you need to get the different pump than this one.

- If we bring it back real quick

and just tell 'em we haven't used it,

hopefully swap it out, yeah.

It's a hundred dollar difference.

So I screwed up.

But I can live with that.

- [Narrator] With nearly the entire day

spent on one simple task

Mark makes a final push on building the ring.

- Ooh.

Steel, it's real buddy.

- [Narrator] Before the day is through,

Angel lays out the frame

for the side walls.

[rock music]

- We're done with one truss,

we did reinforce the body

and we're welding on the second truss.

We're a little bit behind.

We had a lot of, a lot of

little bickering amongst us today.

- You're [bell ringing] kidding.

- We're we're all starting to understand one another,

we're all starting to understand where we're going.

- [Narrator] This is not the perfect example of teamwork.

Tomorrow they'd better show some tag team unity.

[thumping]

- Day four.

Tune in to see whose a*s I'm gonna kick today.

- [Narrator] With motivation from Goldberg,

the team lays out giant steel tubing

for the expanding ring rams.

- What we're planning on doing is we're planning on taking,

making telescopic tubes

to push the sidewalls out,

which the truss there

and the corner poles will be attached to.

What's gonna happen, is they're gonna slide out

[clanking]

and the floor's gonna come down and the ring comes out

and locks in place and it's ready to go.

- [Narrator] Mark's homemade rams

will be sleeve square tubing.

Hydraulics will telescope the inner steel tube

to reveal the full sized ring.

[rock music]

Before they grapple with the specialized rams,

Marty jumps ahead to worry about

how wrestling fans will get up to the bleachers.

- How are people getting up-

- [Narrator] This team can't seem

to get on the same page.

- Can you see what's gonna happen?

The first person that goes to step up,

what are they gonna do?

They're gonna wanna get up there and step here.

- We can make us some stairs and hang off this wall.

- I'm thinking if we reinforce

maybe one of the panels,

since the panels are going up here,

let it be a walk.

- [Narrator] Jesse's in the garage,

so Mark looks to him

for a wise decision on premature concerns.

- Hey, hey Jess?

I got a question for you.

What are we doing up in here?

- Whatever, we'll make 'em climb up there.

That'll be their price of admission.

[laughing]

- Okay.

- We make it all easy then-

- That's fine, then we'll make the ramp.

- That's all- - Yeah.

- [Mark] They can have to climb into the ring

to get it.

- Just concentrate on the ring first.

We'll get that.

And then once we get that knocked out, we can,

all of us can work together.

The bleachers are gonna be easy.

I mean it's just gonna be angles with 90 degree-

- [Mark] We found aluminum plank flooring

for the seats in the, whatchamacallit.

We got some of that.

We found it and scrounged some stuff around here.

- Some of this stuff? - Yeah.

- That's cool.

- [Mark] You know, that's why we wanted welded aluminum.

- It'll look like a high school football game.

[buzzing]

- [Narrator] Moving on,

Marty prepares to cut holes

for the corner posts on the telescoping beam.

But team leader Mark wants to approve her plan.

- These are gonna be the posts, the four corners.

I'm cutting it here and I'm gonna cut straight

down the side-

- [Mark] Straight down to the bottom-

- [Marty] There-

- [Mark] And right across the bottom.

- And straight across the inside here-

- Okay, right, right.

- [Marty] This bottom plate stays.

- Stays, right, exactly.

- Gonna have an identical match

on all four of these on one side.

They're just mirror image split.

- This one's not being cut on this side.

[both arguing]

- I can see it.

Trust me, I can see it.

I don't need-

- You need a, you need a left,

you need two like this and two like that.

- Yeah. - Exactly.

I follow that. - [Mark] Okay.

- I can't complete a sentence with him.

I'm stopped in the middle of every sentence

and I'm sorry that he's so narrow-minded.

- Right, set 'em up like that, and that's it.

- [Narrator] Marty takes the heat

and moves forward as the team's metal burner.

[driving rock music]

- [Marty] Beautiful.

- [Narrator] And Angel sets the corner posts into place.

- Don't want too much play.

[driving rock music]

- [Narrator] The ring is starting to take shape.

- That's it baby, that's it.

We need to clamp 'em.

- [Narrator] Angel welds the booms together,

and after fitting the first truss on the ends-

- Push it out, Marty, push it out, push it out.

[crackling]

- [Narrator] One ring side is ready for a test.

- Okay.

[grunting]

- She's tight.

Okay, but we we're out far.

We gotta check it out here.

- That one's farther out out.

- That one's farther out.

- Something's binding over there.

Try pushing your end in.

- But they're not coming out at the same time.

That one's further out right now.

- I know.

Okay, let's get some grease on here now.

- I'm gonna slather it up over here.

Ooh.

[buzzing]

Not bad.

- Oh.

[hissing]

- [Narrator] Ron's two-way hydraulic pump has arrived.

He builds a stand for mounting it

inside the truck's front cab.

[driving rock music]

Mark puts his second truss in its final place.

And on the build team's third day in the garage,

they're finally making some real progress.

[thumping]

As if it isn't hard enough to build a mobile ring,

now they have to deal with this.

- Today we are here.

We're gonna take these guys,

we're gonna whip 'em in the shape.

I'm gonna show 'em what it's like to be in the ring.

- [Narrator] Hey Monster fans,

recognize that voice?

It's Big Schwag, crazed commentator

for all Monster Garage challenges.

And he has a message.

- If you don't build this thing right, guys can get hurt.

Guys die every damn year in the ring.

Ropes break, ring breaks.

You a 400 pound guy up in the air

into a suplex, that ring breaks, he's dead.

You ready to see a little something?

- We're ready. [bell rings]

[driving rock music]

[thumping]

[groaning]

[thumping]

- Oh!

Ah!

Ah! [crunching]

- [Schwag] That is the real deal.

That is what pro wrestling is about.

It's physical.

Just as physical as being a fabricator,

just as physical as getting yelled at by Jesse James.

And it's gonna happen, believe me.

- Oh!

[thumping]

- A little bit of insanity.

[yelling]

[thumping and crunching]

[crashing]

- These guys, you know,

try waking up at six in the morning every day

and working for 10 hours a day at U-Haul.

- What was that?

- You got a problem with us in here,

what we're doing?

- Bro, I wasn't talking to you.

- You know why you work here?

'Cause you're a punk.

If you were any kind of man,

you'd get in this ring right now.

- Okay.

- [Wrestler] Fight the punk in the ring.

[driving rock music]

[grunting]

[thumping]

[thudding]

[driving rock music]

[thumping]

[thudding]

[driving rock music]

- I told you I could do this.

- Ladies and gentlemen, CM Punk,

man wrestles outta Philly.

Samoan Joe.

Give it up ladies and gentlemen.

Give it up!

- [Narrator] The wrestlers call it a day

at the Monster Garage.

And so do the builders.

[laughing]

- Well, we're getting things done

a little slower than we expected.

There's a little tension building.

- I feel like we're a little bit behind.

- [Mark] Yeah, I- - I think today

we really thought we

were gonna have the floor done,

so I think tomorrow's more about knowing where we're going

and coming on in and just getting it done.

- [Narrator] With only two build days left

it's pin this build

or get pinned by Jesse James.

Monster Garage Factoid:

on April 29th, 1995



gathered in Pyongyang, North Korea,

making it the largest wrestling event in history.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- Day five.

Clock's ticking.

- [Narrator] As the day begins in the Monster Garage,

a builder decided he didn't need to wait

for the cameras to start his work.

- I'm ready to take a nap when you want to go to work.

- [Crew Member] What do you think

of the hours that we keep though?

- You got country club you're working for.

- [Narrator] He hates Monster Garage,

but refuses to back off the build.

We like this builder.

With two days left,

the team still needs to build skin

and hinge the truck's walls, build a folding ring floor

and make it all mechanically move with hydraulics.

This team is drastically behind schedule.

- My goal is to have the floor set in place.

I don't know where the hydraulics are.

That's gonna be another issue for tomorrow, I think.

And that's about it.

- [Narrator] Waiting to mount and test hydraulics

on the final build day could be catastrophic.

But the team focuses on skinning the side walls

with 300 square feet

of T6 5052 grade aluminum sheeting.

[thrumming]

[driving rock music]

Each team member is on their own task.

[buzzing]

The hydraulics expert needs to build

an extra hydraulic fluid reservoir

to service the four huge cylinders.

- This overflow container is too small

and it would just sh**t out the top of that spout.

So what we're doing is, we're having a second

overflow chamber, or reservoir.

And made it outta the scrap.

Since we cut this off, I got this here.

Put the end caps on.

[clanking]

- [Narrator] As the ring closes,

each hydraulic arm will push fluid back towards the pump.

The extra reservoir gives the gallons of fluid

a place to go.

These hydraulics will make or break this build.

And Ron's handmade tank is on center stage.

- We're gonna put soapy water on the outside

of it along the seams.

Then we're gonna put pressure, inside air pressure.

And if there's a hole, you'll see a little bubble start

and then you'll see me get all upset and, ugh.

[hissing]

- That's it right there.

- We got two here. - Yeah.

- One down on that corner.

- Got quite a few.

I had a lot of fill in there.

- [Narrator] And what does Mike

think of Ron's reservoir?

- Leaks like a sieve.

- [Ron] Yeah, it does.

I mean, there's quite a few little pinholes.

- [Narrator] When the quiet veteran builder

makes fun of you,

you're in the U-Haul doghouse.

Ron fills the half dozen leaks in his homemade tank

and goes back for a second test.

[hissing]

- Uh, just one, okay.

[hissing]

- Hey Marty,

you wanna weld this up for him?

- Okay, - That's it.

- [Narrator] He may have passed his exams at Stanford,

but he's failing miserably in the Monster Garage.

Angel, the fabricator that doesn't speak too much,

but gets the job done, builds the back door in record time.

[rock music]

- Beautiful.

- Drop it down?

- Okay, let's stand it up against the wall.

- [Narrator] Ron finished triple welding his reservoir

and Marty burns it to the cab's floor.

[buzzing]

- [Marty] Oh.

- [Ron] Look at that one.

- [Narrator] Mike takes on the back door

and makes it look stock.

[banging]

Jesse checks out how far this team's come on his ring.

- Fits right in.

[rumbling]

- How's that dude?

- Sweet, you're a genius.

- Thank you. - That's awesome.

- Thank you.

- I wanna see him wrestle on the freeway.

[laughing]

- Extra wide load.

We got the sign,

the flashing lights on both sides.

- Yeah, like 70.

Wrestle while I do donuts.

[mimicking tires burning]

[Mark laughing]

Are we gonna be able to do hot oil wrestling in this?

- [Marty] I have no idea.

- [Crew Member] Wanna light it up?

- Yeah.

And shaving cream wrestling.

Coleslaw wrestling. - Yeah.

- This is cool though, yeah?

I'll do the bleachers.

- [Narrator] Jesse grabs a new toy in the garage.

A spool action aluminum wire feed welder.

[b*llet ricochets]

- 2003 welder of the year, American Welding Society.

[camera shutter clicking]

[buzzing]

- Before we go home, I wanna see this floor in place.

Okay?

- I like that dude.

He's barking out orders at everyone.

We need him on every build.

I've had like 12 people say they hate him,

so I know he's good.

He's just working and trying to get the job done.

- [Narrator] Having built dozens of professional rings,

Mark knows that wrestlers slamming against ropes

can actually bend the four-inch steel corner posts.

To prevent this, he wants to build a diagonal brace

from the post to the truss.

- You think it's really gonna flex that much?

- I've had these pipes bend with a plate inside

almost four to five inches from from here to the top.

- Wow.

- That's how much pressure they put on 'em.

'Cause what we got is,

I don't want this thing to start doing this.

- If it's all straight and perfect,

it won't look like it's made at Monster Garage.

[chuckling]

- That's not the way I work though, dude.

- Okay. - Okay?

- [Narrator] Just as the team's showing real progress

the bartender/welder questions the need

for Mark's corner pole supports.

- I don't think it's gonna give enough

to make it matter.

- Are you put anything down here?

- She doesn't wanna do it and she's cuter,

so maybe we should see if it works without it.

- Nobody tips the scales at me when I'm here to do a job

that I know what I'm doing.

I've seen them bend,

I've replaced the poles,

I've changed them many a times.

I must have made a hundred sets.

Don't tell me, my product, how it's gonna work or not.

- [Narrator] Mark's been challenged enough

and he's finished playing Mr. Nice Guy.

He calls the World Wrestling Entertainment's headquarters

to prove his design.

- Talk to him.

- Okay.

All right, cool.

We'll put 'em in then.

Bye.

Hey Marty, I just talked to Ellis, who runs WWE.

They need 'em.

- [Marty] Okay, that's fine.

- If Big Show's 500 pounds flying against the ropes...

It's just a personality conflict

where she just doesn't like the way she's asked to do stuff

and automatically, no!

You know, which I can totally,

I totally associate with that.

You know, people think I'm an a*s all the time,

but I manage to get the job done.

- [Narrator] Marty's defiance is the straw

that broke the ring builder's back.

- Ain't nobody [glass shattering] fools me.

[buzzing]

- [Narrator] After four tension-filled days in the garage,

Mark's finally lost his cool.

But he has a vision.

And the strong-willed veteran tries to make peace.

- And I don't wanna leave it alone.

I want you guys to get the toolbox.

I want you to see it.

'Cause if it doesn't come out for me,

I'll build it for someone else.

I know a lot of people, and this is a great start.

It's just-

- Mark, I had no idea we were doing your job

and only your job.

I thought this was all of our jobs

and I thought we were a team.

- This design-

- [Marty] And I didn't realize,

yeah, and I didn't realize you were the only one-

- [Mark] All right, you do what you gotta do, Marty.

'Cause I tell you what, if I don't stay here-

- Okay, whatever.

I don't, I'm not even, this is not-

- She keeps contradicting me.

It's not her [tool clattering] design, it's mine.

Don't tell me what the [cracking] to do.

Just [glass shattering] do the job

and get it [glass shattering] done.

I've been a gentleman.

I've kept my mouth shut.

It's, I haven't said a word.

Ron, Ron, stay out of it, Ron, stay out of it.

Doesn't concern you.

It's a team, but don't contradict my design.

Or you can do it yourself.

- Contradict your design?

- [Mark] Right, this, Ron.

- [Ron] Well, Monday was, you came up with this-

- Okay, okay, okay.

Then finish it up.

I'm not a quitter.

I need to cool down.

I'll get back into it in a little while.

- He seems to think that I'm his little

[bell chiming] grind this, grind that,

grind this, grind that.

[bell chiming] You grind it.

I haven't seen him hardly do any amount of work

except pointing fingers at everybody.

- Hey Ron?

Ron.

- I'm not talking to you.

- Okay. - I've got integrity.

- Jerk.

- [Narrator] At 6:00 PM on build day four,

this team has officially hit rock bottom.

- I'm a, I'm just a little ticked right now.

You know, you got a guy that just got a God complex,

you know, and people that lack integrity and character.

It's hard to work with.

I wouldn't want to be in a foxhole with a person like that.

- [Narrator] As Mark takes a tantrum time out,

the one builder that keeps working

is the guy who didn't even want to be here

in the first place.

Mike's creating an ingenious way to boost the ring's floor

before the hydraulics pull it closed.

- It would be driving those two little bags right up there.

You see right above you?

They'll go in the back end to pop the floor.

- [Narrator] Mike found two U-Haul airbags

that will feed into the truck's air tank.

With the flip of a switch, the bags will inflate

and raise the floor past its breaking point

so the hydraulics can pull it in.

[bluesy guitar]

Despite their differences

and 14 hours in the garage together,

the team manages to keep working.

- Oh yeah, I like that.

- [Narrator] They attach hinges for the folding ring.

And Mark lays out two by four steel tubing

that will be the floorboards.

- We're getting it, we're getting it.

Come on.

- [Narrator] After 16 straight hours in the garage,

they managed to nearly complete the floor.

[bluesy guitar]

[clanking]

After placing in the back door

they call it a night.

[buzzing]

- I'm happy with it.

- [Narrator] But mounting and tweaking hydraulics

to move a 2000 pound floor will not be easy.

It's quite possible that this truck will end up

just as trampled as the team.

- [Schwag] Jesse thinks these builders

may be down for the count.

- If you guys weren't screwing around so much

you would've had this thing done already.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- What do you know?

Day six.

If it ain't finished by now, I'm gonna kick their a*s.

- [Narrator] The final build day is here,

and Goldberg is looking to kick the unfinished team's butt.

To open and close the ring floor

Ron gets a delivery he's been preparing for all week.

Four separate 42-inch stroke hydraulic cylinders

have arrived for the build.

In order to set in the hydraulics,

the team ratchets up the floor

so Ron can weld them into place.

[driving rock music]

[thumping]

Ron and Marty start mounting their hydraulic cylinders

to the rams.

[hissing] - [Ron] Okay.

- [Narrator] And Mike makes dozens of lines

to run hydraulic fluid back and forth

from the pump to the cylinders.

Jesse's there to check on the build.

- This is good. - Thank you.

- [tool clattering] Wicked.

- [Narrator] Since he refuses

to see this build get demolished,

he lowers the stakes.

- Well to be done, realistically,

I just want it to open and close and that's it.

And then we can-

- [Ron] It'll be able to open and close.

- The finished stuff, as far as the sides.

- We have instructions,

Jesse told me, as long as we give him the hydraulics,

the airbags, and hang the sides, we got our boxes.

So let's get it done and we'll get outta here early.

- [Narrator] But guess which two builders

don't like being handed a victory?

- It doesn't make me feel good

to think that the challenge is any less

than what I thought.

- I'd like to at least work up to midnight

if we have to and get more than what they say is okay.

- We're gonna do it.

We are gonna do it.

- As soon as this thing opens and closes, we're done.

[funky guitar]

- [Jesse] Do you have anything for me to do?

- Yeah, you can come up here and weld

and let's see your skill.

- [Crew Member] Oh.

- [Marty] Come on up here.

Show me what you got.

- A sizzling duel.

- [Marty] Come on, show me what you got.

Show me how pretty your welds are

and just how much penetration you got.

[crew laughing and groaning]

- [Narrator] With the end in sight,

Jesse welds the cylinders in place.

[driving rock music]

[sizzling]

- It's good.

They're doing a good job.

They're all pretty dysfunctional,

but they're getting it done.

[driving rock music]

[sizzling]

If you guys weren't screwing around so much,

you would've had this thing done already.

[buzzing]

- [Narrator] The first step in hydraulics

is to slowly add hydraulic fluid

in order to bleed the air from the lines

and the cylinders.

At five o'clock on their last day

the entire build

depends on these hydraulics working flawlessly.

- I mean, I've used this motor before

for other little projects

and we've been successful with it,

so hopefully it's just another successful run.

[buzzing whine]

Okay, you ready?

It's ready.

Okay, here we go.

[whirring]

I have fluid in here, but-

- Tell him to hold off.

I'm gonna put some more in-

- [Ron] But I may need to crank this-

- Top it off.

I got nothing, I got nothing.

- Mark?

- [Mark] I got nothing.

- [Ron] I'm really surprised

how much these lines are taking.

I think this is my fourth one here.

- [Crew Member] Fill it up.

I think you got 'em.

- [Mark] I'm hooking up.

[whining]

- [Narrator] Just as the hydraulics begin to work,

Ron's expertise, along with hydraulic fluid,

is dripping to the ground.

- [Crew Member] Whoa.

- Hang on, I got an overflow here.

Why do I have an overflow?

- Ron, Ron, this is your job.

This is your, this is your thing.

- So all of a sudden you have no opinion.

- [Crew Member] Well get in there-

- No, I don't know Ron.

I don don't know what the calculation

of the cylinder size.

I didn't run all those numbers.

- I ran the numbers.

It was six down for the cylinders plus hoses.

And I didn't calculate the hoses 'cause I-

- Okay, well then you should be all set

if you know what you, I didn't run the numbers,

so I can't help you right now.

I can't, I'm not doing anything

until the hydraulics are working.

- What's happening is, is those rods are going back in

and as those rods go in, that volume that

that rod takes up is coming out here.

Once that's all the way done

and there's no air in the lines,

we've got the proper amount.

[multiple sound effects]

Kool-Aid, Mom.

Down.

[banging]

- Floor is better.

- Yeah, thanks.

- [Narrator] The floor is down

and the extra fluid purged from the system.

Now Mike has a chance

to see if his airbags can pop up the floor.

- Go ahead and hold it down.

- [Crew Member] Keep going.

[clanking]

- [Mark] There you go, that's it.

Okay, cool, we're good.

That's it, that does it.

- [Mike] We're about 80 pounds.

- [Mark] Okay.

[banging]

- That's good.

A little, no, don't tighten it all away.

[whirring]

Hey, don't tighten them all the way down.

Gotta have that [slapping].

[buzzing]

- I think it looks pretty cool.

- [Narrator] Before retesting the hydraulics,

the team attaches their first sidewall,

cuts a wheel well

and Jesse hinges it into place.

- Ready?

[groaning]

- Oh yeah. - Yeah.

- Woo! - Ow!

- Matches right up. - Yeah.

- [Narrator] Five hours have passed

since Jesse gave them an easy finishing point.

But it's late and he wants this team outta the garage.

- Let's get outta here!

- Let's take those clamps off and then we'll push it.

See if it pushes open with the hydraulics.

- [Narrator] With only one side wall up

Jesse wants to test the hydraulics,

slam a wall down

and call this long and confrontational week over.

[whirring]

[clattering]

[banging]

- Yeah [laughing].

[crew cheering]

That was smooth [laughing].

Wrestling [laughing].

[clattering]

[banging]

[crew cheering]

That thing squeaks louder than a herd of mice.

[laughing]

- [Narrator] Now the ring is fully operational.

Jesse calls the build a success.

- Good job guys.

- Put chairs in these places.

- You need a chair?

Rocking chair?

- Yeah.

- Lazy Boy.

- Mac Tools, Monster Garage CDs.

Let's get the hell outta here.

- You got it.

[growling]

- [Narrator] After the builders have left

U-Haul's own fabricators get to grappling.

They cloak the wall with some decals.

[driving rock music]

Inside, they suplex it with a few ropes

and slap it with a custom canvas

for a Monster finishing move.

Now let's see what Big Schwag's

got to say about Jesse's latest Monster.

Build cost tally:

Hard cash [cash register bell].

Freebie value [cash register bell]

Vehicle cost [cash register bell]

Grand total [rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Schwag] Alright everybody, it's challenge time.

Pulling into the driveway is a brand new Monster

called The Wrestling Truck.

And I guarantee you it's gonna pin you to your seats.

[barking]

Here come the dudes who are going

to put it through its paces.

[driving rock music]

Nice car, Homes.

Wait a minute, where's Jesse?

♪ Dum-De-Dum-Dum

- We're gonna have this big meeting right now.

I think Long Beach is gonna try to run us out of town.

- The City of Long Beach is calling Jesse out

on the carpet over the way he and the g*ng

at Monster Garage do business.

Exhibit A.

[hard rock]

[crowd yelling]

[hard rock]

- That's, that's pretty fun.

- [Schwag] While Vanilla Gorilla pleads his case

the boys are ready to unveil the latest Monster.

I hate bureaucrats.

- Me too, Schwag.

What's a bureaucrat?

- Hey, hey, excuse me, excuse me.

What is this?

- This is the newest Monster

from Monster Garage, man.

- Yeah, you guys have seen the t.v. show Monster Garage?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Yeah, we've seen it. - Right.

And it's a bunch of troublemakers if you ask me.

- You got a permit for this thing?

- Permits dude, what's your problem, man?

[all yelling]

- Hey man, no, we don't have no permit.

- You know what?

As a matter of fact,

we got some papers right now at City Hall.

Maybe you should give 'em a call.

- Well, you know what?

We're gonna shut you down anyway.

- You're gonna shut us down?

- That's right.

- Gonna shut us down?

- That's right.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey.

- You're not gonna shut nobody down.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Is that your final answer?

- [Together] That's that's our final answer.

- Well, if you're gonna shut us down,

I'm gonna open it up, okay?

[clanging]

- Man, you see that, man?

Did you see that?

- Check that out, man.

- We got your permit right there.

[clattering]

- How'd you like us now my friend?

- Check that out, man.

Now what you got to say?

[clattering]

- This is totally uncalled for.

- Wait until El Jefe releases his pit bulls.

You're gonna see nothing but blood.

It's not going to be very pretty.

It's gonna be kinda ugly.

- Damn wrestlers.

They're dirty wrestlers.

[clattering]

[thumping]

[cheering]

- What is this?

[cheering]

- This has to stop.

This has to stop.

We're gonna shut you down.

[all yelling]

[driving rock music]

[crowd cheering]

[driving rock music]

[crowd yelling]

[driving rock music]

[crowd yelling]

[driving rock music]

[crowd yelling]

[driving rock music]

[metal clanging]

[crowd booing]

[driving rock music]

[crowd yelling]

[crowd cheering]

- Get him!

[cracking]

- Who's the king of this town, boy?

Who's the king of this town?

- Jesse James.

- Who's the king of this town?

- Jesse James.

- Say it louder. - Jesse James.

- Say it louder. - Jesse James.

- You know it, boy.

- Jesse James.

[crowd cheering]

- That's how it's done.

That's how we do it in Long Beach,

Monster Garage style.

- You see, Jesse James has no time for fat cats,

bureaucrats, or people who treat us

like second class citizens.

[crunching]

He's got metal to burn, sparks to fly.

The next Monster Garage Challenge

just might be in another county.

You gotta be kidding me.

[chanting] Monster, Monster Garage!

Monster, Monster Garage!

Monster, Monster Garage!

[driving rock music]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

[musical stingers]