04x06 - Dodge 44 Magnum

[bunniefuu]

- [Narrator] Okay, monster steam heads,

there's a car pulling into the garage that wants

to be a train, Jesse's training to be a conductor,

and there's a kid who's trying to be Jesse.

- Oh, monster head rock.

- [Narrator] All aboard, the Monster Garage Express

is leaving the station.

- Join us now as Jesse [intense rock music]

and his g*ng of Maverick Mechanics rip, grind, and burn,

transforming ordinary street vehicles into monster machines

in the Monster Garage.

[thunder rolls]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

[solder hisses] ♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

♪ Monster Garage

- [Host] This week's challenge, take the coolest Dodge

to hold a Hemi, a 2005 340 horsepower Magnum RT

[train honks] and make it a super sleek

super train. [engine revs]

The rules, [upbeat rock music]

the car must appear to be stock.

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

[train horn blares]

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 hit the rails.

[train horn blows]

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

of Mac tools, and the clock starts now.

[tires squeal] [metal clatters]

[upbeat jazz music]

For this week's design, Jesse called on train expert,

Joe Nemmer, who knows more than just steam engines,

Tony Settelmeyer, a hydraulics guru

that can make anything move, and Kenny Youngblood,

one of the hottest automotive artists in the world.

- So we've been wanting to do something

with trains for a while.

You know, I'm like a total train guy.

I just dig trains.

I dig the whole mechanical metal aspect of it.

There's a lot of trucks like pickup trucks

that have like the little outriggers that could go on tracks

and stuff like that, but I wanna make a cool car

that could go on a train track against a locomotive.

[harp strums] [chimes ring]

- [Host] Since the early days of car racing,

a big race against these mechanical monstrosities

has been a dream, and Jesse's no exception.

- Well, when The forties and fifties,

they had some luxury cars that were set up to ride

on the rails to get the railroad officials out there,

and those were pretty classy operations.

- [Jesse] Really?

- Yeah, nothing's gonna beat this one.

[upbeat rock music]

What do I do?

I'm a state employee at the Rail Town State Park,

which to be a state employee

and play with trains is unbelievable.

My specific job there is track foreman.

We have 105-year-old steam railroad

that's been basically continuous operations since 1897.

Everybody needs to find their place in life.

I enjoy it a lot.

- [Host] With an expert like Joe Nemmer,

the design has endless possibilities.

- I mean, I'd kind of like to do the train wheels coming

out kind of slick so everything's pretty concealed.

- The width of the wheel is what's gonna determine

if you can hide it.

- What's the width of the standard set of rails?

- Well, four foot eight and a half inch side.

- Let me go measure it right now,

'cause that kind of will be a sticking point.

[intense rock music]

- [Host] Since America's railroad tracks

are an exact four foot eight and a half inches wide,

Jesse checks to see how the Magnum's highway wheels

will line up.

- It's way too wide.

I can already see right now, maybe.

Ooh, my dial caliper eyes are wrong.

We're good.

- [Host] The Magnum's tires are the perfect width

to drive directly on the tracks, and behind them,

there's plenty of space to hide mini train wheels

that will guide the car on the rails.

Now how to make the hidden wheels move?

- You wanna lift those wheels all the way

off the track, right?

- Yeah, hydraulic or like a actuator.

- No, hydraulic.

- Yeah, I'd rather be hydraulic than it's more power,

you know? - Those actuators are weak.

- The hardest thing about this build

is getting the rail wheels concealed.

- How about putting a cow catcher on?

- You could do and bring it around where it would cover

up your wheels.

- Let's just keep it all dark and black and train-looking.

- [Host] This design is ready to pull out of the station.

All aboard!

[Jesse imitates train horn]

[marker squeaks] [upbeat country music]

[train horn blows] - The magnum will stay

completely stock except for a monstered-out cow catcher.

Underneath will be hidden axles

with small size train wheels,

and when lowered by hydraulic rams,

will act as a guide for the Magnum.

Finally, it'll go from cherry to charcoal

and even Jesse's g*n-coating wild west ancestor

won't be able to keep up.

[train chugs]

Day two, let's meet the train technicians.

[dramatic rock music] [track bell rings]

Returning for the build is Tony Settelmeyer,

hydraulics expert from Corona, California,

[tools ratchet] [Ryan slaps his butt]

Ryan Doty, Dodge engine performance specialist

from Montclair, California,

[tools ratchet]

from Houston, Texas comes Welder Fabricator,

Alton E. Burkhalter.

[Alton kicks wall] [tools ratchet]

Robert W. Morris III from Santa Rosa, California

is a mechanical engineer and total train expert,

[tools ratchet]

and Joe Nemmer is returning for the build

as train expert numero uno.

- So basically we're gonna make this thing going

on train tracks.

Who's the Dodge guy?

- Right here. - You?

- You gotta be careful with the wiring.

They got some new stuff on there.

It's just out of hand.

If we start disconnecting stuff with the battery connected,

it's going throw up check engine lights.

- We're gonna do a cow catcher in front

that'll come out wider for the track

with its four foot eight inches on inside-to-inside

of the train rails.

Let's get after it and see what happens.

- [Host] Before the tear out begins,

Jesse wants to get a look under the hood

of the coolest Dodge to hold the legendary Hemi engine.

- [Jesse] Take that off.

I wanna see it.

- [Ryan] Other areas to get you home by adding fuel.

[chime rings]

- [Host] Jesse leads the team

on a delicate monster tear out.

- If I only had a brain.

We're gonna move it forward,

'cause all this is gonna be wheel stuff

to come down on the train tracks.

- [Host] And Train Expert Joe has got secretary duty

to track down smaller sized train wheels,

not something you can just buy off the shelf.

- I'm looking for a set of four cast wheels, 10 inch,



High rail wheels, probably 10 or 12 inch.

I'm trying to get some, you know, a little heads up.

We're doing some measurements.

[tool whirs]

- [Tony] As far as tear outs go that I've seen,

this is delicate. [laughs]

- Very dainty, lots of plastic.

- Yeah, baby, yeah. [throws car part]

The plastic parts are just not satisfying

to throw 'em across the shop.

They don't land with a nice clunk.

- Well, this one's gonna leak.

- It actually has metal on it.

That's weird.

What is this material that a new car's made out of us?

Wow.

- Now the car's a bit lighter, [inquisitive rock music]

but how does the team start fabricating

when they ain't got no wheels?

- No good news yet.

A lot of the yards close, already, for the day.

I think the largest wheel we're gonna come up

with is 14 inch in diameter.

The bigger the wheel, the more likely you're gonna stay

on that track.

- Yeah, if we can just find out what size they are,

we can do the mockup in cardboard.

- Do we know what size the axle's going to be?

- Without specific dimensions, [clunky electronic music]

it's difficult to accurately move forward.

- We got somewhere where we can get those wheels from

or should we make 'em or? [intimidating rock music]

- Machine 'em out, man, make 'em out of solid.

- I got a CNC lathe.

- [Robert] Huh.

- It's a thought.

- Yeah, I mean, turning wheels out of blanks

is not a real big deal.

It's just, that is a good eight hours to 10 hours worth

of hardcore machining.

- [Host] Machining wheels from scratch could take days.

So the two train experts continue their quest for wheels

while work on the hydraulics begins on paper.

- I'm putting a hydraulic circuit on paper.

I don't want to be the one everybody's pointing at

at the last minute.

It's like, well, all this other stuff works.

What happened to the hydraulic guy?

[mysterious hip hop music] I'm a hydraulic guy.

The boat industry's kind of where I'm trying to focus.

The America's Cup experience, well,

I was thinking it's a sailboat.

What the hell kind of hydraulics they have on there?

But it's a pretty elaborate system they have on there.

So what we did is we put a package together,

and we actually won the America's Cup.

I don't refer to myself as an expert.

I think that's a label for someone who's, I don't know.

That's not me.

I'm a hydraulic guy.

The only thing that's really up in the air is we have

to work out our wheel size so we can know

how far the cylinder has to travel.

- While others plan, [intense rock music]

one builder is ready to see sparks in the monster garage.

- We're getting antsy.

We're standing at idle right now,

and we need to get something done.

[tools bang]

- [Host] To keep moving, Ryan cuts out the front bumper

to make room for Tony's hydraulic ram.

- We won't throw this, 'cause it might go back on the car.

- [Host] And train tracker, Joe, has an update after hours

of searching for wheels.

- I did locate four wheels in St. Louis,

and the guy's willing to get 'em to the airport first thing

in the morning, but that means we won't get 'em

till the following morning.

He gave me absolute dimensions of the thing,

and so we could start working.

We know what's coming the next morning.

Day two, first thing in the morning,

we should have the dimensions, and we can start fabing up.

[upbeat rock music] - After one day,

the team has not yet built up any steam,

but they have managed to reduce the value

of this cherried out ride.

The world's fastest conventional train is in France,

cruising at 325 miles an hour.

To run the entire globe, this speed train would have

to roll nonstop for 91 straight days.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

[dramatic western music] Day three begins.

[train crashes]

Joe puts in the order for rail wheels

and tries to get their precise dimensions.

- [Tony] No wheels, no train.

- No wheels, no train.

We need that right now.

- Is it possible to get some measurements off of those?

- Trying to fabricate 'em from solid pieces,

that would really tax our schedule and our time.

- He's guaranteed tomorrow morning on those wheels.

[door bell rings]

- [Host] The wheels are on route,

but the train expert has hydraulic concerns.

[upbeat rock music]

Commercial freightliner wheels have a protruding lip

or a flange to keep them inside the rails.

Also, their massive weight stabilizes the system

against the track, but for this lightweight build,

Tony's hydraulic downward force will have

to hold the rail wheels to the track

and the system will have to flex in case the car rocks back

and forth, and Joe's skeptical.

- I can't tell you how imperative it is

to keep those flanges down.

- The whole system is attached to the car by three points.

Three points cause a system to pivot and move.

It will flex.

It will. - Flex?

- It will flex.

- [Tony] All in favor.

- [Ryan] Go ahead and do it.

- I'm not gonna cry and go home,

but I need to state my opinion.

- I understand.

- Okay. [baby cries]

Seems to be working well together.

I'm probably the most abrasive one here.

[intense rock music] - With dimensions

for the incoming wheels in hand,

the team starts building the pivoting arms

that will mount from the car's frame to the axle.

- We're trying to get a rubber-mounted bushing

to give it a little flex, and right now,

I'm having a hard time finding that.

Lemme see what I can come up with real quick.

[dramatic rock music]

- [Host] When improvising on a build,

there's no better place to start than the monster junkyard.

- I think we're gonna use this portion here

of this pipe and we just gotta take 'em off.

- [Host] While Ryan and Joe pillage,

the welder Texan beefs up the bumper

to mount the front hydraulic cylinder.

[solder hisses]

- This will be the cutout for the cylinder.

There'll be a cylinder that's gonna run right in here in

between the bumper and the radiator.

[pipe clatters]

- [Host] Ryan's done stealing parts from the junky yard

- Freebies, zip, zero, nada.

- [Host] and quickly hacks out the salvaged bushings.

- With the parts we took off the other car,

I used the bushings in the center,

and I made a new bushing for it,

and this is gonna be our mount for the front wheels will be

out here on an axle, and this will be able to rotate up.

[intense rock music] [solder hisses]

[tool hitch]

Something like that.

I'm a Viper tech for Dodge.

I've been working for the same dealership for 10 years now.

I've been a Viper tech for nine of those years.

Horsepower to rate ratio in that Viper is just incredible.

[car engine revs]

Faster is better.

Everything I have is yellow.

Yellow's my favorite color.

I have a yellow boat, a yellow dune buggy.

My toolbox is yellow.

I'm lucky enough to have some toys.

[kart engine revs]

It'll never work.

[solder hisses]

- [Host] Jesse rolls into the garage.

After inspecting the team's progress, he's impressed.

- I think we've got enough knowledge just

by the brief time I've talked to him

that I think we can make it work.

We can definitely do this.

It's doable.

- [Host] Then he gets a delivery sure to wake the neighbors.

[train horn blares] [dramatic rock music]

- [Ryan Voice Over] Freebie, zip, zero, nada.

- The hydraulics are here.

Ah, these are the hydraulic cylinders

that are gonna lift and lower the axles.

This is the one for the back,

and this is the one for the front.

This is what our directional valves

and our control circuit's gonna mount on that.

Good directional valve, crossover relief valves,

little teeny power unit.

Look at that, 1900 bucks, and that's with my discounts.

[Tony chuckles] [intense rock music]

- [Host] Hydraulics that will force

out nearly a thousand pounds of pressure can't be mounted

without brackets, strong brackets.

- We need a bracket to mount the cylinder in the front.

All we have here is half inch material,

which wasn't heavy enough for that portion of the bracket

or to hold that much force.

So that I haven't finished cleaning it up yet,

but it's all welded together, and when it's cleaned up,

it'll be a solid piece of more than one inch material.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Host] Alton impresses everyone in the shop with some

of the strongest welds ever done on a time crunch build.

- That's a vertical up-weld.

When I'm going up, I have complete control on my heat.

It's not going anywhere.

Put a little monster weld on there.

[upbeat hip hop music] Welding fabrication,

that's my specialty.



Currently, I'm not employed.

I did work as a QA supervisor.

They eliminated my position.

[motorcycle engine starts] [groovy western music]

Well, I like to build bikes.

That's kind of where I've gone now.

I built it from the ground up.

This actually took nine months to build it.

[bike engine revs]

Most people have looked at my bike,

and they like it because it's clean.

It's a clean-looking bike.

Yeah, I wish I could do stuff like this for a living.

[Alton laughs]

- Run another bead on that or you think that's good?

- [Alton] Well, I think I'll leave it. [laughs]

[cheery rock music] [metal clangs]

- This is how every build should go.

I never think you have to k*ll yourself, you know,



to work steady every day and think about stuff instead

of relentlessly cutting it.

Well, good job today, guys.

- All right, man. - Let's get outta here.

- Yeah, man.

[intense rock music] - At the end of day three,

the builders leave hoping for an early morning delivery

of rail wheels.

[train horn blares]

Day number four finds these men relaxed

and full of confidence.

- I think today should be pretty productive.

We've got wheels coming

- Hopefully. - in hopefully about 10:30.

- Definitely want to spend a lot of time on the cowcatcher,

'cause that's gonna be like one of the feature changes.

Other than that, the car's pretty much gonna look stock,

which is a cool look anyway.

- [Host] The cow catcher may be this build's beauty,

but Tony's hydraulic system is the brawn.

[groovy rock music] [bobcat roars]

- Kind of scoping out where I want

to put these accumulators.

An accumulator's a method of storing hydraulic energy

where it also works as a shock absorber

or a dampening system for a hydraulic system.

If the car moves up, then there's hydraulic pressure

just keep forcing the axle down.

- [Host] The morning is bearing down the tracks,

but where are the wheels?

- I'm not gonna be a hundred percent confident

until I actually see FedEx pull up and drop off wheels.

It's 11 o'clock. [dramatic western music]

- Yeah.

- [Host] There's no sign of the wheels.

So Joe gets back on the horn.

- So nobody knows where it's at.

It's at LAX but nobody knows what box it's in.

Can I go to the airport and get it?

I heard that on the recording, yeah.

I mean, if somebody will shove 'em out under a door,

I'll go get 'em.

So our stuff got put in a container to be shipped,

but nobody actually moved it along for delivery.

[track bell rings] [dramatic rock music]

Anybody coming with me?

- [Host] Joe heads out to the shipping facility

to help speed up the search,

and fabrication on the hydraulic system continues.

[upbeat rock music]

[solder hisses]

- Joe, where's our wheels?

- [Host] These master mechanics move forward.

Alton finishes installation on the hydraulic ram brackets

- Yeah.

- [Host] and then runs hydraulic hoses to the front

of the car without cutting, drilling,

or welding one single thing.

- With all the support in here and the strength

of the hydraulic system, I'm pretty sure we're gonna able

to pick the car up and change the tires if we want.

[steam hisses] - The build is picking

up steam, and now Robert has taken on the artistic challenge

of mocking up the cow catcher. [cow moos]

[inquisitive rock music] - I don't know, Alton.

What do you think?

- If we get through with it, it will be a show piece.

- It's too bad that we don't have Jesse,

'cause I'd like to have his opinion.

- [Host] Wait a minute.

Where's Jesse James?

He hasn't been in the garage all day,

but one builder has returned empty handed.

- What are you guys waiting for?

They can't find it.

It's not lost.

They just can't find it.

When I got there at four, they weren't even looking for it,

and we thought they were looking for it since noon.

- Hmm, well.

- We ain't gonna see those wheels till Monday, guaranteed.

- Yeah, you know how many containers are at LAX?

A lot.

- There's not enough time to fab them from scratch now.

That's way too much machining time.

- [Host] As the team tries to avoid a monster derailment,

Jeff Conroy, supervising producer of Monster Garage,

delivers more ill-fated news.

- This morning, I talked to Jesse on the way in,

and he was actually on the way to the doctor

when I spoke to him.

I know you guys have been working,

and I've been trying to get word from him.

I just got word back.

His appendix broke, - Oh no.

- and he is having emergency surgery.

So I know that probably means he's not coming back.

[thunder rolls]

- The last time Jesse was [ intense rock music]

in an ambulance, he was doing 100 miles an hour

on two wheels.

Now he finds himself in the vulnerable position

of the guy in the back. [man screams]

- Well, we'll finish the car for him.

That's what we'll do,

- I guess, you know,

- [Ryan] We're gonna have to grab the reigns.

- we'll have to keep going

with what we can gone, - Just keep on going.

We're gonna have to.

We have no choice.

This build will not fail.

We're gonna have a lot of work to do tomorrow.

I think we should take a look at the front.

- [Tony] Great mock up.

- But anyways, that's the, I don't know,

I think it's pretty close to the drawing.

- [Tony] Yeah, I think that looks great.

- [Robert] Yeah, what do you think, Joe?

- I think it looks like [glass breaks].

[dramatic piano music]

It looks like a snowplow.

- [Host] It appears that five hours of sitting

in a shipping facility has turned Joe mean and nasty.

[tiger growls]

- A pilot's got a triangular shape, normally, to it.

- [Tony] We're not making a train.

We're making a car - This ain't a train.

- that has train-like features,

and we're trying to stay close to that drawing.

- I like it.

Four against one.

We like it, we're building it.

We're gonna build it.

[upbeat rock music] - Lost wheels, bad attitude,

and a missing Jesse James won't make finishing

this build easy.

Monster Garage factoid,

Los Angeles International Airport package carriers sort

through over 11 million pounds of cargo every day.

[liquid bubbles] ♪ Monster, Monster Garage

[intense rock music] - On their fifth day,

the team steams into the monster station

without Team Leader Jesse James,

but after Joe's harsh words the night before,

- I think it looks [glass breaks].

- [Host] the team seems ready to point a finger at him.

- Still no wheels.

- [Ryan] Still no wheels.

- Surprise.

- What about those wheels, Joe?

- Anybody who's laying this on me

is [vacuum tube thumps] up.

[dramatic hip hop music] I'm doing my best.

- [Host] Backed into a corner,

Joe takes an unexpected wild swing at one of his teammates.

- On my application sheet to Monster Garage,

you all filled the thing out, it says,

"What do you hate most in a teammate?"

One of my answers was self-employed premadonna

[train honks], and we've got one on this team.

- What are you saying, Joe?

I'm saying everybody wants to play at a team

except for one person so.

- Okay, that'd be me?

- [Jesse] That would be you.

- How am I not playing as a team, Joe?

- Well, you took the hydraulic thing in hand,

and you are the hydraulic expert,

- Exactly. - but when did you get

outta high school?

I was doing hydraulics while you were still in high school.

I'm decorated in the Navy for hydraulic work.

- Name one thing you did for the hydraulics from the get go

to even get it even underway.

Look it, it's done.

It's done too. - It looks great.

- It's done. - It looks great

and I said it looks great.

- You're outta line.

We got wheel to worry about. - No, I'm not saying

it's not good.

- Well, what you even going for?

- I'm saying it's great. - You're out of line.

We need wheel.

- Your statements are at two ends of this spectrum, Joe.

Both those statements don't go together.

- [Ryan] That's true, though.

[dramatic rock music]

- [Host] Like a true professional, Tony takes a breather

and just keeps working.

- It seems to me that someone's trying to focus attention

in some other area of the build

other than there's no [tools clatter] train wheels.

- I think Joe was outta line.

I mean, that was pretty much [cow moos].

We need wheels.

We don't need somebody to just start crying

about everything else.

- Tony, We're all, I mean, and I'll speak for myself,

frustrated over these wheels and Fedex--

- So you got nothing to say I want to hear.

Thanks anyway. [glass breaks]

[cat screams]

[ominous rock music] - I'll make some phone calls.

That's all I can do.

Kind of under pressure here, [chuckles]

and I won't call you unless I'm way lonely,

and it's getting that way.

No, no updates.

[upbeat rock music] - Before Joe's wheels

come completely off, teammate Robert provides him

with a ray of hope.

- One of the crew guys, his brother works for a fellow

that's about 10 minutes away who lowers boats into the water

on railroad tracks,

- Cool. - and maybe like a quick run

to the junkyard to see if he's got,

- His scrapyard? - to his working yard.

- Let's go, let's go.

[intense rock music] - Joe is out the door

and on the scavenger hunt, and while this Dodge Magnum

may never be fitted with rail wheels,

fabrication on the cow catcher commences.

[groovy rock music] [tools grind]

[solder hisses]

- [Tony] I gotta tell you, I really like that.

- [Robert] Do you guys like that?

- [Alton] Yeah, it looks good.

[dramatic orchestra music]

- [Host] Joe has arrived at the boat yard,

and in a stroke of luck,

has hit upon this build's holy grail.

These 40 pound chunks of rusted steel could be the way out

of the garage and onto the rails.

- Yeah, we can use these.

We'll use these if we can.

Now if we gotta find somebody here,

I don't wanna get shot taking material.

Is anybody home?

Little cabin in a corner with a lock on the door.

[Joe knocks on door]

Employees only.

- [Host] But today, nothing's easy.

No one is home.

- I don't see anything.

- [Host] While Joe searches for a junkyard manager,

it's time for Tony to put his hydraulics to the test.

- Okay, now the switch all the way on the right,

push it down and hit the pup again.

[pump whirs]

Okay, bump the pump down, stop.

Take it back up.

Hydraulics. [upbeat rock music]

- [Host] Hydraulics, check.

- [Tony] That is so cool.

- [Host] Train wheels, well, desperate times call

for desperate measures.

- I wouldn't do anything ill*gal.

[dramatic rock music] - What you doing, Joe?

So are you trying to steal these?

- Absolutely not.

- [Producer] What is it you're doing then, Joe?

You can't take 'em, Dude.

- I can't hear you.

My mic's turned off, man.

Get in the truck.

[sirens chirp] - In the garage,

Ryan has quietly prepared What will be the noisiest part

of the car.

- Will you hit the horn switch for me?

[train horn blares]

- [Alton] Oh no, we gotta lose that muffler.

- [Tony] We gotta lose that muffler, man.

- Let's do that now.

[upbeat rock music]

[tool whirs]

- We're cutting the exhaust out,

because it was just a little too quiet,

and we got loud horns.

We figured we gotta have a loud exhaust too.

We're gonna just go make a band and go straight out

to the side and a long cut there.

There's our pipe piece right there.

Up to there, I think we're okay.

- This is progress, right? [laughs]

- [Host] Before Long Beach's Finest has caught up with him,

Joe gets a timely call from, guess who?

The shipping company.

- I'll be right there.

Actually, I have to go make a a drop off first.

We'll put these wheels back, and then head up to LAX.

Our wheels will be waiting on the counter.

[groovy rock music] [tires squeal]

- [Host] As Joe hotputs it back to the junky yard,

this build's conductor strikes up his latest orchestra.

- I got the exhaust done.

You guys wanna hear this thing fire up?

[car engine starts]

Sweet.

[upbeat rock music] - What else could happen

on build day number four?

Harsh accusations for breakfast,

breaking a commandment for lunch, and for dinner,

country punk performed by The Snake Handlers.

- What's up? [upbeat country music]

Snake Handlers live up in the Monster Garage.

Let's do a little train music.

Come on, boys!

One, two, one, two, come on.

♪ I've been working

♪ I've been working on the railroad ♪

♪ All the live long day

♪ I've been working

♪ I've been working on the railroad ♪

♪ Just to pass the time away

♪ Can't you hear the whistle blow ♪

♪ Rise up so early in the morn' ♪

♪ Can't you hear the mountain shine ♪

♪ Dina, won't you blow your horn ♪

♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dina, Dina ♪

♪ Someone's in the kitchen I know ♪

♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dina, Dina ♪

♪ Someone's in the kitchen I know ♪

♪ Someone's in the kitchen with Dina ♪

♪ Playing on the old banjo

[track bell rings] [bluesy rock music]

- [Host] Joe's back with three

bought-and-paid-for rail wheels.

- Fourth one's somewhere between Memphis and here.

- [Host] Nevertheless, three cool wheels are better

than four hot ones.

- I got three of the wheels.

- Well, I'll be damned. - So I guess you guys

weren't updated.

- No. - Is that other wheel

gonna show up tomorrow?

Well, I hope so.

- I hope so too.

[upbeat rock music] - Wheels in hand,

Joe gets his bearings delivered by way of the Tojunga Pass.

[train horn honks]- - Special delivery.

Far out.

- [Host] And now it's time to see if these newly-acquired

wheels fit on this monster.

- [Ryan] Oh my god, talk about a tight--

- [Alton] I think we're gonna need

to machine some off of here.

How close are you over there?

- I'm touching.

- [Host] The team appears to have hit a bit of a snag.

The wheels are too wide, and the team is faced

with a choice, machine off the front of the wheel

or rebuild the cow catcher.

Joe votes to leave the cow catcher intact.

- It's too cool. - That's done. [laughs]

- It's too cool.

- [Tony] You mean it doesn't look

like [tool clatters] tonight?

- No, it doesn't.

It looks great.

- Ah, good answer.

[intense rock music] - There's one day left

and one wheel missing.

Could this finally-constructed build end up

in a colossal train wreck.

- [Narrator] Coming up, will Jesse toot his own horn

[train horn blows]

or did he train in vain?

- Is that cool?

Yeah. [laughs]

- [Narrator] Stick around, monster rail riders.

- I love Jesse James.

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

[track bell rings] - It's the final build day,

[intense rock music] and without a fourth wheel,

this could be the only train rolling out of the station,

but the trained experts come up with a plan B,

machining the fourth wheel out of a solid piece of steel.

- Today's the day that we have access

to a machine shop, our last day.

So between a small lathe, the big lathe, and a mill,

we can get this done.

Okay, you got it?

One, two, three.

- [Robert] Okay, thanks.

[upbeat electronic music] - What do you guys think?

It look like a wheel to you?

- [Tony] Well, it's got the whole round thing going for it.

- There goes our budget again.

- [Host] This 150 pound chunk of steel will go

through a monster transformation from raw stock

[harp strums]

to perfectly calibrated train wheel,

a task that will take nearly all day to complete.

- Today, we are going to go to West Coast Choppers

and use a lathe.

[intense rock music] - Jesse's got a CNC Lathe

where Robert will slowly scrape away metal millimeters

at a time to match the exact shape

of the three purchased rail wheels.

- We're gonna machine the back face

and put the hole through the center,

and we'll flip it around and do the rest of the stuff.

[upbeat rock music]

My daily job is a mechanical production engineer

for Agilent Technologies.

My interest in trains starts from a very, very early age.

This miniature live steam locomotive right here is one

that my dad built in the early seventies,

and it still runs to this day.

The locomotive I'm building weighs in at around 750 pounds,

it has a steel boiler, and will be fired off

of atomized diesel fuel, and it will probably pull around 20

to 30 adults.

The engineering and the planning and just the fitting

of pieces together, I like the challenge.

It's the real thing, just shrunk down.

[steam engine thrums]

[solder hisses]

Not having that fourth wheel is a very big deal.

[sultry rock music] - Having taken on the roll

of sidekick, Joe machines the protruding ring

that was scraping against the cow catcher.

[intense rock music]

In the garage, the cow catcher is being assembled

by these monster craftsmen.

- 233 on day five with, so that means we have nine

and a half hours left to go.

- [Host] Back at West Coast Choppers,

the machining duo makes slow, steady progress.

- Same poop, different scoop.

Still waiting on them damn wheels.

- Need the damn wheels.

- [Host] There's nothing we hate to see more

than builders moping around the garage.

To improve their spirits,

we decided to give them some wheels,

- Sweet.

- black-coated Jesse James Rims.



- [Ryan Voice Over] Freebie, zip, zero, nada.

[dramatic rock music]

- [Host] At nearly five o'clock,

Joe's done machining down the front rail wheels,

but with hours of machining left,

Robert's effort to finish this wheel

and save the build has just been derailed.

- I'm gonna get thrown out by the boss at five o'clock.

This wheel won't be finished.

[ominous rock music]

- [Host] West Coast Choppers has closed down for the night

and show no mercy for a team trying

to scratch together parts.

- [Alton] We got some wheels.

- There's two.

- [Alton] All right, then machine them down.

- We got kicked outta West Coast Choppers.

- We got another machine shop?

- Yep, got another machine shop with good tooling

and good lathe.

So that's the next stop to try and finish that wheel.

- Not allowing West Coast Choppers to stop their build,

Robert heads out to another machine shop.

- There's quite a bit of work to be done by me,

and that is finishing this last wheels.

[groovy rock music] [grinder buzzes]

- [Ryan] Is that bad or what?

- [Host] As the sun sets on the very last day,

Big Shwag's paying the team a visit.

- Jesse's a little hurt.

He had a little body modification,

a little fabrication done on his body.

I'm here.

I'm a team player.

Five and a half hours left to go.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Big Shwag live here

from Monster Garage.

It's coming down to the wire.

[train horn blares]

You know what?

You kept this looking real stock too,

which is good. - Oh yeah.

If you don't want 'em to know what you got,

just pull your trim back

- Oh, come on, man. - and get the door shut.

- It must appear stock.

[ominous orchestra music] - Appearing stock won't matter

if this man of steel doesn't finish this wheel,

and time is running out.

[upbeat Bollywood music]

One axle is ready for installation,

and who better to make it permanent than this man.

[sultry rock music]

[intense rock music]

♪ It's all I want to be

[dramatic rock music]

- I like reinforcement.

Mmhmm, yeah. [chuckles]

- Final installations.

The very first thing we needed was the wheels,

and it's ironic that they're the very last thing

that we're getting is the wheels.

[upbeat rock music]

- [Host] To check the fitting of the front rail wheels,

the team sets in the cow catcher.

- Fit right in there.

- Three hours to go.

We're just waiting on a couple things.

- Wheels. - Wheels.

[intense rock music]

- [Host] Robert's spinning the final wheel

while the rest of the build team spins their own.

- Where's our wheels?

- I'm not worried about it.

Look, the kid's got an hour and five minutes.

He'll come through.

- Well, we've been waiting on all day.

[triumphant orchestra music]

- [Robert] Little bit.

- [Ryan] All right, you're the man.

Nice job.

- Thanks. - Nice.

- Let's hope it all fits up and.

[upbeat rock music]

- She's bottomed. - Okay.

[tools bang]

[solder hisses]

- [Host] With only minutes to spare,

the team is ready to see if the Magnum will ride the rails.

- [Ryan] Open up that door.

Let's put this on the tracks.

- [Host] The team gathers in the junkyard

to test their monster on a set of mini-tracks,

saving the speed for challenge day.

- [Tony] Okay, axle down.

- [Big Shwag] There it is.

- [Tony] Good, come on up.

Perfect.

[train horn blows]

[Ryan cheers] [Robert laughs]

- [Robert] Right on, man.

- [Producer] Hey, what time is it?

- You're 30. - I don't think

it's not even 12 o'clock yet.

- It's 11:56 on my watch.

- 11:56. - 11:56.

- [Host] With their Magnum train tested,

the team heads into the monster garage

for a delivery from Big Shwag Stepping in for Jesse James.

- Guys, when you make it on Monster Garage,

you get your Mac tools,

you get your second edition Monster Garage cd,

and because I want you guys to look good walking

down the streets because you're winners now,

we got some new Monster Garage hats,

and look at that baby, huh?

Huh? - Nice.

- Nice, guys, congratulations.

Come get your stuff.

[upbeat rock music]

Another fairytale answered in the Monster Garage.

You gotta be kidding me.

[tool ratchet]

♪ Monster, Monster Garage

- [Narrator] Wake up, monsters.

[rooster crows] [dramatic western music]

That's right.

It's training day.

[train horn blows]

We're up in Jamestown, California, but today,

it's Jesse Jamestown.

- Jesse James is the biggest thing

that's ever happened in this town.

- [Narrator] This is gold country, and Jesse struck it rich

with his new monster, a 2005 Dodge Magnum turned

into a Hemi-powered rail rider.

- Nice, Jesse.

- [Narrator] This old-fashioned frontier town

has never seen anything like it.

[engine revs]

[train horn blows]

Nice horn.

Jesse wants to let it out on the road

before he puts it on the tracks.

Smoke it, Jesse, smoke it, [upbeat rock music]

but we're not up here just to ride around

and scare the livestock.

[train horn blows]

We gotta train to race.

Oh yeah, check out this hundred ton monster.

This baby's big, mean, and full of steam.

[steam hisses]

In 1922, the year the steam engine was built,

it was the baddest thing on rails.

Now Jesse wants to see how Old 44 matches up

with this oil burning beast.

It's time to go off road and onto some rolled steel.

Oh yeah, we're talking hydraulically powered train wheels.

Nice mod, Jesse.

[Jesse imitates train]

The scenic part of this train ride is over.

That's right, Jesse lines it up and gets ready to drag,

and here comes his opponent, Joe Nemmer from the build team.

[bell rings]

Joe hits a lever and drops some sand for better traction.

[engine revs] Jesse fires back

and burns some train car rubber.

Oh yeah, it's the monster stare down.

First one in the station wins,

and they're off.

You've gotta be kidding me, Joe's 200,000 pound steam engine

is quick off the line. [train horn blows]

Jesse's dropped the hammer!

It looks like he's gonna take it!

but wait, oh no, he's gone off the track,

but he's not stopping!

Jesse trying to bring it home sideways!

[metal scrapes]

That train car grinds to a halt just four feet from victory,

and here comes Joe.

The steam engine wins by a cow catcher.

[train horn blows]

Jesse's lost, but he's still smiling.

- Car's never gonna be the train.

[upbeat rock music] I don't care what you do.

- [Narrator] Watch it.

Jesse's got no time for cows that can't catch,

jackasses that can't see, and kids who can't stand

to see him lose! [cries]

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

The next Monster Garage challenge is just around the bend!

[intense rock music]