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matt: I found us a new gladiator customer,

and he wants bruno and I to install a lot of parts

on his jt. Now, bruno's seen the jeep,

but he hasn't seen all the parts that I ordered.

I can't wait to see his face when he sees all this stuff.

♪

hey welcome to "truck u." today matt and I

are going to be taking a look at this, a 2020 jeep gladiator.

The color, I love, it's called stingray.

It is one of the hottest vehicles

on the market right now, and for good reasons, man.

It's combining, really, the best of two very popular worlds --

trucks and jeeps.

Last year we showed you guys a little glimpse of one,

one of my neighbors had it,

but honestly at that point, they were so new.

They didn't have a whole lot in the aftermarket to support it.

Well, things have changed in a very short period of time.

Come over here, we'll show you. Matt did a little shopping.

I said, "matt, pick a few things up we can do to this jeep,"

and boom. You got everything.

You gave me the credit card, and no boundaries.

So this is what I got. I wanted you to have options,

because I know you like to accessorize,

I know you like different things,

and I try to keep you happy. Right?

So I want you to have options as far as the wheels.

We got floor mats, we got snorkels,

we got tonneau covers, we got everything under the sun,

but we did it with our buddies over at truck hero,

because you mentioned the whole combination

of the trucks and the jeeps?

Well, they were all over the truck world,

and they were all over the jeep world.

So when the gladiator came about, it was perfect for them,

and they just kind of melded all the stuff together

and they're like, "hey. We got stuff for that as well."

you know we don't have all the time in the world

to put all this stuff on, right?

Because it'll take us a day just to open the boxes.

Well, yeah, that's okay.

I mean it's a good problem to have.

I'm not kidding. But...

Yeah. That's first world problems, b.

So you're thinking duallies with the eight wheels?

I want the duallies both front and back.

I like it.

Hopefully we ordered the adapters, but --

we definitely got to get this thing up in the air, right?

Yeah. We do need to do that so we can start...

I'll start opening, you get the truck up, let's do that.

Sounds good, buddy.

Matt: So the first thing we wanted to do

was get the gladiator up on the lift,

and we could start the work on that four inch lift

that we got from superlift,

so that with everything being new and clean,

this all comes out nice and easy.

Bruno: So while matt keeps working on the front of that gladiator

to get all the factory stuff out of the way,

because we've got to make way for this.

This is the new lift kit from superlift.

It's the biggest one that they offer,

and it's going to give us four inches of lift.

Now what's nice about this kit

is it gives you everything you need,

including the fox shocks for this thing.

As you can see, we've got dual right springs,

coils for the back.

You've got -- everything's powder coated,

all the mounting hardware, all the brackets,

we just need a little space up front

to start putting this stuff on. Can't wait to do it man,

this thing's going to look great with a little lift to it.

All right, you ready? It's ready to move.

Lot of hernias between the two of us.

Pull it, baby. Pull it.

Oh, I thought you were going to help.

There you go. You got that?

You trying to milk this job for overtime?

I'm getting paid by the hour, b.

♪

matt: Next order of business for us will be the lower control arms,

so we'll just do them one at a time.

So we'll come over here, get this one out,

get the new one in,

and then shoot over to the other side and do the same.

♪

bruno: So what we've done is kept the lower control arms loose

and hanging out of the way so we can get this front axle

down far enough and rolled a little bit

to get these really tall new springs into place.

Yup, and just to be on the safe side,

we put another jack stand underneath the pinion too,

just in case there's any surprise roll...

Oop, little bit this way, bud. There you go.

Good? Yeah.

Am I in there? It's right on that...

Yeah, now it's right on that little piece.

That's how I like it, perfection, bro.

That's the end.

I'll get the other side.

All right, now we have to start running this back up

and put these arms in, right? Can you just roll it some?

Roll it. Bottom out towards you.

♪

there you go. That's good right there.

Yeah it is. All right.

All right. Nice job there, muscles.

All right, this is where it gets good.

So we're going up in here.

♪

♪

so the next thing for us is to get the new track bar in.

What's nice about this thing, it's fully adjustable,

so what we're going to do is we'll get the one bolt in,

and mount it up here in the top.

Then we're going to leave the bottom loose,

and the idea is we want to get this thing down on the ground.

Make sure the axle itself is centered on the vehicle,

then we can make the adjustments we want,

and go ahead and tighten it down.

But for us, there's a bunch more work we want to do once we get

the suspension wrapped up on the whole front of this truck.

So while it's in the air, we're going to keep

clicking away. We got a lot of parts and pieces

we have to put on thanks to matt.

All right, now it's time to continue on

with the truck hero gladiator build.

Now what we did is bring the vehicle down to working height,

because we're going to change some of the aesthetics on it,

give it a little bit of a customization.

And the way we're going to do that is by installing

these new flat style fender flares from bushwacker.

Man, we've used these on a bunch of different vehicles

over the years, and I think this is going to give it

just enough of a look to make it look custom,

and really dial it up a little bit.

It's cool working with bushwacker

for as long as we have,

because you've seen how these things have evolved.

And right now, that flat fender style's really popular.

It's aggressive looking, it looks mean,

it looks great on these jeeps,

and with the bigger tire that we're going to run

it's going to open up that wheel well too.

So, the whole look's going to change on the front of this,

and we've got these cowl guards too, so, right?

Take a look at that. Boom.

So we're going to have the flat style fender flare,

it's just going to roll up into that --

yeah, those'll play off and nicely kind of break up

the paint up a little bit, you know what I mean?

The black with that cement gray, as you like to call it.

Yeah. Yeah, that's the t-undra.

But anyway, look, I even have instructions over there, b,

because we have some installation to get started.

How you like that, b? Look at you, man, like a man,

you're just handling your business.

There you go.

So matt's getting that fender flare off,

and I've already got this one done.

Now, the whole idea is you've got to separate

the inner fender flare from the outer,

because you're going to reuse the inner

with the new style that one's going to put into place.

What you've got to do is modify it

for that flat style bushwacker fender flare.

Really not that big a deal, but you want to make sure

you take the time to mark it correctly.

Obviously, you're leaving it too heavy,

it's not going to fit the fender flare.

If you make it too short, well, it won't stay behind the flare.

So, I don't know about you guys, but I always like to,

you know they say measure twice, cut once?

Well, I'm about marking once, or twice,

or three or four times. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

So what you want to do is trace out

with a grease pen over here,

the sheet metal line of the body,

use that as your guide,

because that's where you want this thing to sit.

Now, I'll trace it out,

and actually when I start to cut this thing off,

I'll actually cut it and leave it extra heavy.

I'll leave it another half inch or inch, and then put it place,

and go back and forth a bunch of times

to make sure that I don't cut it too short,

because you can't glue it back into place.

You'll have to start all over again and get a new piece.

I'd rather take the time a little bit here

and get it done right.

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one of the great things about working with the guys

at bushwacker for their fender flares,

it's always a no drill installation,

and that's huge, especially when you're talking about a brand new

2020 vehicle like this. The last thing you want to do

is start drilling holes in the body.

First of all, it gives you an opportunity to screw up.

Second of all, even if you put them in the right place,

you're introducing places where rust can form,

and once you get the process going,

well, it can get out of hand.

So, rather than doing that, they utilize the existing

mounting holes for the other fender flare.

What they do, though, is give you nutserts to attach to.

And if you eve used one before,

it's really nothing to worry about.

If you've got the appropriate tool like we do right here,

what it's like almost using a pop rivet gun.

So you put the nutserts in to place, no drilling,

and what'll happen then is once you tighten them down

is you'll have an opportunity to replace

the new fender flares too, and it's just that easy.

Now don't worry, you don't have to have your own gun.

They supply a tool to put them in,

it's just as easy.

We're going to take a break. When we come back,

we're going to finish up these fender flares,

and then we'll tackle that snorkel.

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♪

welcome back to "truck u." as you can see,

things are moving along nicely

on the truck hero gladiator, but bruno,

we are at a point where we need to stop everything.

Stop right now, because we have to make a decision, right?

We had two sets of wheels, two sets of jesse spade edition

rugged ridge wheels in here. You got to make the decision

on which one we're going to go with, dude.

Is it going to be the bronze, or is it going to be the black?

I mean, both look good.

If this was a white truck or a black, I'd go with these.

But the black is a no brainer, man.

It goes with all the accents we've got on this thing,

that nice, deep cement color that you like.

But yeah, you're right, the 37s with the black

is going to look awesome on this thing.

Like it.

Cool.

So we're about ready to put the fender on.

We've got the marker light on,

as well as our little rubber stripping here

so it doesn't want to scratch up the paint,

and now we've got to slip it over here,

over this little mounting bracket

we've got mounted in place.

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so that is what it's going to look like.

Now we just need to secure it with some screws.

So we'll take the fender flare and mount it to that strip

that we've screwed onto the body.

No drilling, no cutting, boom. We're going to have ourselves

a nice look to the front of this jeep.

The next order of business for us is the amfib snorkel kit

that we got from rugged ridge.

Now, when you start installing this

there's a couple things you got to get out of the way,

namely the grille. That takes a couple minutes.

Then we disconnected the air inlet hose,

and now we can come over here and get at this air box.

Let me get this out of the way real quick.

That's overkill but it works, right?

So, there we go.

And there we go. All right, box is out.

Because pretty much everything with this kit

is going to go on right around this area, right?

All through here, cowl covers coming off,

and then your snorkel's going to be right here.

So, just got to get some things out of the way.

We're looking pretty good.

A lot of times when you're doing a snorkel kit you've got to

to do some cutting in the body, and that's tough to do

sometimes on a brand new vehicle like this.

But with this kit, it's nice and easy.

It's less invasive. It's like a small surgery.

There's no cutting in the body. The only cut that we had to make

was on this plastic piece right here,

it just came down at an angle.

So we just had to cut that down and straight across

just to make room for this piece to slide in.

So that was it. I mean, that was nothing.

And I mean everything should just click, boom.

Look at that. Perfect.

And that's where that's going to live.

At this point, we have redirected our airflow.

Now obviously with the snorkel,

you're going to have the airflow coming in from over here

that travels around into the intake

as opposed to coming in from up here.

Now for those of you that are not aware of

why anybody would have that,

well what that allows you to do, if you're so inclined,

is to drive into deeper water conditions.

So, I don't know if this guy will ever do that,

but if he wants to, he certainly can.

All right, we can tighten that up,

tighten these clamps down, get this back in place,

and we're good. Boom.

And just like that, this job is done,

all except for the final accessories.

Now if you know bruno like I know bruno,

he likes to have a choice in outfits,

so I'm going to let him know that he's got this, right?

This is a little more conservative.

All right? Like you're going to the office,

you're not trying to make any waves,

you just have this and your air's coming in here.

But, you want to go out for the weekend,

you want to have a little bit of fun.

You never know what's going to happen, right?

Especially with him.

You could get in some deep water.

Now, you've got this piece

that's going to mount to the side,

and that mounts right on top. Now, look at that. Boom.

Now, you can go deep, you can have fun. I like it.

They got all the seals and gaskets and everything

to make sure that everything is good and watertight,

and when you've got a kit like this,

the options are all up to you.

So the last thing you want across the hood

of your brand new jeep gladiator

is a bunch of chips and scratches from road debris.

So what we're going to do is protect this one

with the aeroskin light shield hood protector

from auto ventshade.

Now, not only is it going to protect it,

but it's also going to give a little bit of flair,

because we've got some marker lights

we're going to put across the front.

It's really easy to install, and you know what?

It's even a little bit of a customization as well.

One of the nice things about this

is the fact that no drilling,

no cutting, just like we had with the fender flares.

It simply applies,

or fastens on with automotive grade 3m adhesive.

Once we get it stuck on and in place,

run the wires back and it's just that simple.

So I got those marker lights wired in

on the front of the jeep.

They look awesome, but there is a bunch more stuff

we want to do to this truck.

Stick with us. When we come back,

we got more work to do on this jt.

♪

♪

matt: Welcome back to "truck u." so today the work

continues on our truck hero gladiator.

Bruno, we've done so much to this thing,

from the lift, to the tires,

to the snorkel kit, to the flat fenders.

You really went above and beyond and put that light up kind of

deflector thing on the front. That looks awesome.

But now, it brings us to the bed of the truck,

and here we are, just chilling out back here. Nothing to see.

Nothing to see here. Nah.

Just yet, because we're about to pop

on the armis hard folding tonneau cover

with line-x, which is really cool.

I'm big, big, big, big on having your bed protected.

I don't like prying eyes, you know that.

I know that, yeah.

And you're given a little security as well.

I mean, this tonneau cover is really nice in the fact

that also it's lined with line-x,

so it's going to be hard protection against scratches

and all that kind of stuff and keep it really secure.

It's a nice little finishing touch on the back of this truck,

and quite honestly, I think it needs it.

Cool. And this side rail is in, all we have to do is this one,

and then we can start the assembly.

Hey, you notice a theme here today?

What? No drilling, no cutting,

same thing goes for the tonneau cover.

I like that.

Once you have the rails in place,

it's as simple as putting the top on

and just tightening it down.

So there's two clamps right up there by the top of the bed,

takes about 30 seconds and this baby's locked in.

B-man, let's undo this thing, fold it back.

You ready? Yep.

So our little prop rods, get those out of the way.

Just like that.

...And put them home. There you go. Now look.

Click, right?

It locks in at every stop. I know you like that.

Whole security. Look at that. Wow doesn't that look awesome.

And then there's a rod on either side of it,

or the cable to unlatch it.

And the other thing too that's nice about it too,

it's got a dual action seal

that allows you to close the tailgate whether the top is down

or it's up so you don't have to...

Some of them you got to lift it up

to close the tailgate, there's none of that stuff.

And once this thing is down and you lock the tailgate,

nothing is going to get inside of this.

Then you're fully secure,

and look at the line-x coating on it as well.

So it's not going to get scratched up

and you won't show badly.

It'll look this good for a long period of time.

It does.

And it comes with a five year limited warranty.

It looks great. Here, open that back up again?

You touched on this dude, but I love this.

So you can do this from either side, right?

Right. So it's just nice and easy.

You don't have to have two people to do this

as I am proving right now, as I just did that by myself.

And here you've got full access to your bed.

Yeah. Boom.

Prop rod out, and boom.

Look at that.

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♪

time now for a little more blasting with bruno fun

with the dustless blasting db500 mobile s.

As we look at our comanche project,

you can see that we've got a lot of work done,

but a lot of work left to do.

Our focus today is now on the interior.

Now one of the things we've never explained

to you guys about dustless blasting is that dry blasting

is great when you're outside and it's below freezing,

because you can't have water running through the lines.

The dustless blasting trailer has a built in air dryer

and moisture separator

that allows for dry blasting and soda blasting.

Besides getting rid of the heat shield on the floor,

we also knew some of the floor panels needed to be replaced,

so we knocked off all the seam sealer.

That way, we can see where the spot welds are going to be

when we cut out the metal.

We're going to have to change the psi a little

while we're blasting inside the cab,

and the dustless blaster allows you to adjust

psi from 30 to 150 pounds.

Now the entire cab had a lot of glue down

from the old heat shield,

and that can be a headache to remove by hand.

But the dustless blaster has no issues cutting through

that padding and glue and exposing a clean floor.

With the inside cab corners, we use our slv nozzle

and we're able to adjust our spray pattern

by standing closer in.

So it's safe to say that this comanche has been fully blasted

from the cab, to the underside, to the interior.

We have revealed all kinds of wear and tear,

and a little extra work for us to get to,

but better now than later down the road.

This way it'll be done and done right.

The focus now shifts to sourcing a bed

for the back of this comanche.

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♪

bruno, this is going to complete that aggressive look

up here in the front. Now this is the new stubby

bumper that we got from rampage products.

It's lightweight, aircraft quality aluminum-

wow that is light. Yeah, it is.

Nice and light, dude. Mounts up nice and easy,

I can kind of do that by myself. I like it though,

it really completes the look of what we're doing with this.

Now, envision that with the big front wheel tires on this thing,

the 37s, it's going to really tie the whole thing together,

because you've got to have a cool bumper

to go with the wheels.

It's got to complete that aggressive look,

and the first thing you see is this thing coming at you.

Yeah. Talk about completing the look,

is that rugged ridge winch right there.

Now you can put a little one on it.

Sure you could.

But let's go with the big mack daddy.

That's the 10,000 pound one, man.

That'll pull this and a jeep tied behind it with it.

[ chuckles ] that's true.

Why not overkill it?

I love overkill. And you know what, too?

Another nice bonus about this bumper too?

The lights are cut out right here,

so you can take the fog lights out of the original bumper,

mount them up here, whew. Winning.

Let's look at the steps next.

All right. You need steps to climb into this thing.

You do. You know what it is? You buy one,

I'm going to send you the other one absolutely free.

There is a processing fee though, right?

Absolutely. Okay.

Bruno, I think one of the last things

that we have time to do this afternoon

is to install these step bars that we got from n-fab.

Now these are going to look good, but think about it.

When you're doing this particular kind of product,

we've got a lot of different options, right?

But with this vehicle,

I think it's very important that we pick the right one.

What we saw today with truck hero,

you've got options for everything,

and step bars are the same type of deal.

The thing is, you got to go with a theme,

and you got to be continuous from front to back.

We've got this angular,

really modern look going on in the front bumper

and we're continuing that here on these side steps, man,

so they look good. They're going to match the front

and keep that theme all the way through.

Functionality as well as aesthetics play a big role.

You could put a big tubular bar,

or you could have the big step rail,

but it just wouldn't look right for this jeep,

for what we've got going right now.

So right now, this is the perfect addition

to this whole look we're going for.

No, I like it. One big piece with the steps

cut out like that.

Take a look at this, I know you have.

I've been sweating that,

looking over your shoulder all of the day,

I think your ambition got the best of you,

because there is so much stuff

we haven't even got to look at yet.

We have been working all day.

We've done a lot of stuff, don't get me wrong,

but bruno, you, much like myself,

you are a man of vision.

You are a man who sees the future.

I want you to look to the future,

when all this work is done

and perhaps describe this truck, and everything you see

from the front to the back, it's exciting.

It's all about the stance, right?

It is.

You talk about an offroad vehicle,

a jeep like this, you want to see it up in the air

on those 37s with that four-inch lift kit.

That really sets the tone for what you're trying to do.

Aggressive bumper in the front with a 10,000 pound winch,

and that thing you put across the hood with the light,

I like that, that shield, that looks good.

Now you've got the fender flares,

and you've got the sidebars,

and you've got the tonneau cover on the back,

really kind of wraps it from front to back.

It's aggressive, it's modern, it is what's happening today,

and that's what this thing is all about, the gladiator.

Don't forget the doors.

The doors that you can put on as well.

You can even take the top off if you are so inclined.

Bruno, today it was all about me giving you options,

and give you options I did.

I do like choices, I do like options.

You gave us a lot to work with and think about today.

But you know what? The truck hero gladiator looks awesome,

and that is what it's all about, man.

Lots of different options we've got with them,

and I think we've got them all on this truck.

That's all the time today we've got for "truck u."

we'll see you guys next time.

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