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♪

matt: So my son inherited my old truck,

and in one bad week, he got pulled over for speeding

and he got into a little accident.

But I don't want to fix this truck with stock parts.

I want to upgrade it. So today we're gonna show you

how you can fix up a fender bender incident problem

by yourself without involving insurance.

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hey, welcome to "truck u."

in the shop today resembles once

what was matt steele's trusty ride.

I mean, this thing was pristine when he used to roll in it.

I did keep it a little bit cleaner.

And now it looks like a teenager's got it.

Well, you know, funny you mention that.

It does belong to my son colton, 16 years old.

So I bought this brand new in 2011, which is what it was.

And I gave it to him around his 16th birthday.

He needed a truck. He's my only kid, right?

So I wanted to have him wrapped up in a lot of metal

just in case something happens, and something happened.

But you know what? And this is best-case scenario,

because when you get a phone call saying,

"oh, there's a problem," that's not gonna be a good feeling.

So if you're watching this and you're a dad or a mom,

if you've got a kid, you know exactly what I'm about to say.

It's about 6:45. I get the phone call,

and the first thing out of it, one,

I'm like, my kid never calls me at 6:45 in the morning

on the way to school. Two, to he's like,

"dad, we're on the side of the road and we're all okay."

it's like, boom, everything you're doing stops, dude.

You can't think -- you're like, "what do you mean --

okay, that's good that you're okay.

Now tell me what the world happened."

right. Right.

And then that relief turns to anger

and you cuss a lot. I mean, that's what we do.

And like I said, this is best- case scenario in that scenario.

You know what I mean? Parts can be fixed and we can fix this.

So what is the game plan for this truck?

I don't even want to touch it.

The game plan was to keep insurance out of the mix

and do a couple of upgrades to the truck

that we wanted to do anyway, right?

So this is a great time to do it.

So hood, grille, bumper. Yeah, pretty much.

Everything front -- a facelift, if you will.

I mean, if it was my kid's truck, I put a big blower

out the hood, but I'm sure this is gonna be fine for him.

Dad of the year. Let's get to work.

♪

you ready? Yep.

So the first thing that we did

was we sourced a local hood, right,

and we put that on there, made a couple of adjustments.

And this was what, the third --

the third that we found? Yeah. Yeah.

You would've thought we'd be able to find a black one.

I know. Match it up, but --

well, we did, but remember, they were in almost

worse condition than the other one was.

They were more accordion-esque than we wanted them to be.

And this one's not perfect, but it's pretty close.

And we got our lines looking really good.

We do have that smashed-up grille,

but, you know, we'll worry about that later.

You know, there's just one little tweak

we'll have to make here.

You see the line is nice, we got to fitted right,

but on this side here, it's got a little bit of a rolled edge.

We can get it off. We can tweak that out in a few minutes.

Then we'll scuff this thing down, throw it in a paint booth,

and colton will never know the difference,

never know that this wasn't a brand new hood.

Exactly.

Just tell him not to smash in anything with it.

Well, I'll let you tell him that.

He might listen to you better than me.

That's how it is with my kids.

Matt: Now, let's talk about the prep work, right.

So you go in and you put a little body filler in

in some spots and you sand that down.

Then you go over that with like a high-build primer.

You sand all that down, then the sealer.

Then you sand all that down.

And now she's ready for a base coat.

It's gonna be the best looking thing on the truck.

So what he's saying is basically it took

more than two or three minutes to get this thing paint ready.

So rather than painting it out in the open air like this,

where you're gonna get a bunch of dust and debris in the paint

and ruin all that time and effort you put into it,

we decided we're gonna pop up

our mobile environmental solutions mobile paint booth.

Now, this is the little guy.

This is the 12x12 that we use all the time

for little projects like this.

You plug it in, in a couple minutes, it's up and ready.

And it's got a positive cross-flow design

that allows for great air change.

You're gonna get a clean-air environment to paint in

no matter where you're at, like out here in the driveway.

And when you're done, you simply unplug it.

It goes back in a box and doesn't take up

any floor space, man.

It is awesome. It'll spoil you, I'll tell you.

Yeah, it is nice. It's very handy to have.

Like you said, for little projects like this,

it's absolutely perfect. And they got big ones.

You could actually put a helicopter in them.

Dude, you got to get one of them.

Helicopter? Yeah, for sure.

I mean, nice knowing you, but...

Bruno, thanks for the hand with the bodywork, dude.

I think the hood's going to look good.

We got that prepped, painted. It's drying.

Now we're ready for the next step.

We come in here. We look at the bumpers.

They need some help. That's where these come in.

These are the n-fab front and rear bumpers

that we got from truck hero.

I think they're gonna look awesome.

Well, stock was not good enough for my nephew.

That was clear. I knew that going in.

So these, I think, have a whole different aggressive look.

I mean, it's got that pre-runner styling to it.

Something that you say, "hey, I'm colton steele.

I'm coming at you," you know what I mean?

I mean, he wants to play chicken with his friends,

he's definitely going to win.

He's probably gonna do very well.

Not that I would advise it, but I mean,

you know, it's got that powder-coated finish.

It's got that the brush aluminum on the front and back.

You've got an ability to mount

some led light bars on the front.

I just think overall, I like the appearance

and I like the fact you kind of add onto it,

you know what I mean? It's a one-piece design,

and there's no cutting or drilling,

it simply bolts in to the existing bumper mounts.

So all we really need to do

is get the old one out of the way

and hope it's not too smashed up.

This is definitely gonna be a huge upgrade.

He's gonna love it.

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[ drill whirring ]

♪

got that? Yep.

All right...

I had to do a little -- I got it.

He wants to save this, right? Save that, yeah,

for the -- you see the artwork?

I got to put a little b-man on that for him.

Yeah, you got to sign that. Ooh, look at this.

Now we can really see the -- the bumper.

All right. So that bracket got pushed in a little bit.

-Sure did, sure enough. -But you know what?

All this is where it was. So that's a good sign.

That is an insurance claim, you know.

Wow, all right, ready? [ drill whirs ]

♪

let's see.

Try. I am.

There we go. Cool.

Did you want this, too? Hey, you want to --

[ laughs ] I might. Who knows?

All right. Ready?

Yeah. It may be a little tight. We'll see.

It should be, because you don't want it to be slapping around.

♪

cool. All right. So that's mounted up.

You want to see how this is going to come together?

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we need to make

a couple last-minute adjustments.

This will bolt in like that.

But that'll be nice, and that'll keep stuff

from kicking up in there.

That'll be good. Keep a little debris out.

Yep. And then take a look at this.

So let me just -- I'm just going to just lay this in, right?

Yeah, that's cool.

So I mean, we've got to clip it in and do all that, but.

Yeah, so that looks better. Totally.

Like it. I like that look.

It's coming together. Looks good, yeah. Nice.

And we'll trim up some stuff around here.

Clean it, paint it black

to where it's not so visible, because the truck,

obviously it's dirty, some parts are a little older.

So once we get everything trimmed up, just painted,

I think it will be a little bit more unified.

Yeah, nice. Yeah. Look good. Cool.

All right.

♪

♪

welcome back to "truck u."

so we got the whole front end pretty much handled.

Now you can see we're going to continue that look down the side

with these n-fab step bars going back to the rear bumper.

It should look real good and kind of have that flow

when we're all said and done.

But before we do this and that,

we're going to shift gears over to here.

Now this is the bakflip mx4 tonneau cover,

and this is gonna be another nice addition.

Bruno: You know, it really is,

because it's going to allow him

to utilize his bed and have everything safe

and secure underneath -- you know, prying eyes,

especially in the school parking lot.

You never know what you got back there.

You got to keep people away from it.

And you know what's great about this is, too, with a hardtop,

you can actually flip this thing up

and actually stand it straight up against

that back window. Yep. Yep.

So he'll have full access to his bed when he wants to,

and cover it up when he needs to.

Yeah, you can flip it up. You can still run

the four-wheeler up into the bed of the truck

and you can head out to the woods.

I want my nephew to have options, dude.

Absolutely, dude. He's a happy kid.

You know? He should be.

Look at that, b. Boom. I like it.

It comes with the little clips there

so you can clip it down and roll like this if you want.

But other than that, you just boom, boom, boom.

Take it all way down, baby.

Nice. Oh, man. Ah.

You ready?

Dude, look at this. It actually came out nice.

I think it looks great, man. I like it.

Assembly -- real time was like five minutes.

Yeah. Not too bad. Tonneau covers.

Next, we have to get to this rear bumper now, right?

Yeah, because that's going to complement

the look of the front one.

So this should come along pretty good.

Whole package, baby. Yeah. Let's see what happens.

We're gonna get to that rear bumper in a second,

but first, I want address something that's kind of been

bugging me since we pulled the front one off.

You learn really quickly that the apple

doesn't fall far from the tree.

Colton likes to go off-roading. And you know what?

I applaud that. That is great. No matter how much his dad

tells him not to, like any other 16-year-old kid,

he's going to do what he wants to do

and have fun along the way, and that is awesome.

But we don't want to damage the bottom of the truck,

the underside in the process and have it rust out.

So when we get it up in the air, what we're gonna do is treat it

with nhou's oil undercoating.

Now, what makes this undercoating

stand out from the rest

is it actually penetrates through rust

down to the good surface of the metal.

At that point, it blocks off moisture

and oxygen from occurring.

Well, when those two of those, you get rid of them,

you can't have rust -- it simply can't occur.

The other thing we're gonna do is also treat the underside

with the salt-brine eliminator.

So no matter what colton rolls on there,

it's not going to stick to the bottom of this truck,

especially those hard-to-reach areas

where all those weld seams come into place

underneath the door sills.

That's where rust usually occurs,

those hard-to-reach spots.

With it protected, he can go and have some fun,

not have to worry about it.

Dad doesn't have to worry about it, I should say.

So now we're gonna get dad underneath,

start undercoating the underside of this truck.

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ah! Yeah.

Man, it looks good, man. It does, actually.

Nice job, buddy. Hey, thanks, man.

You know what's cool about this?

So I'm reading the instructions from nhou.

You read instructions? Yes, dude, I did.

And I can't believe they put this in there,

but they're like -- don't quote me on this --

it says something like,

don't even worry about cleaning the vehicle.

Just spray it on there.

I got to tell you, if there was ever a product

made from my beloved son, that would be it.

Bruno: Now only if you could just do his bedroom,

it'd be perfect, right? Oh, man, yeah.

Just clean the whole thing up by spraying and hosing it down.

Matt: Nhou, do you have products for children?

[ laughs ]

apparently they do. Yeah, like this. Hey.

Bruno: And the thing is, dude, it looks good too, actually.

Gives it a little bit of a shine

underneath the underside of this thing.

Yeah. A lot of the parts actually look cleaner now,

so that's good, that's good. Nice. Cool.

All right, so, hey, listen, we need to take a break

and take a break from this truck for a little bit.

And I wanna introduce you to the '72

we were supposed to start the show with.

Ah, yes, that one. All right?

Yeah, I got a little sidetracked.

Got a little carried away. We'll get back to this in a bit,

but from one chevy to the next when we get back.

I like it. I like it.

♪

welcome back to "blasting with bruno."

in this installment, we're gonna take a look

at this bed that we sourced

for our comanche project vehicle.

Remember last season, we were dustless blasting away

at the one that came with that truck,

and we found that, well, it wasn't usable.

The dustless blasting system got away all the dirt and grime

and all the rust, and realized that it was too much rust

and too many holes in it for us to move forward.

So we've got this one sourced.

It's got some dings and dongs along the way.

But we think that it is gonna be a good, solid piece to work with

once we get all the paint removed.

So once again, we'll hit this one

with the db500 mobile s from dustless blasting.

We'll find out just how good it is.

We want to focus our attention

on the exterior sections of the bed

because the inside of the bed is going to get a bed liner.

So we really don't need to blast that.

This machine holds up to 20 gallons of water,

which should be enough for a full day,

and 200 pounds of abrasive material

allowed me to work longer without stopping.

Whether you're blasting away rust on individual parts

or cleaning something like this bed for paint,

this method can save you hours of work.

Well, the dustless blaster made short work of this bed.

It knocked it out in a hurry.

And what it revealed to us is what we were hoping to see,

that it looks better now than it did with paint.

We'll get this thing an epoxy primer.

It'll look as good as new,

and it'll be ready for that comanche.

♪

hey, welcome back to "truck u." so on this side of the shop,

we've got ourselves this nice- looking little show truck.

Our buddy roger, he's in a local club here.

It's his '72 c10,

and he's done a lot of work to this thing,

mainly beautiful paint job about a year ago

with some nice pinstriping.

Yeah, I don't even think this paint job's a year old.

He picked the truck up, what, two or three years ago?

Had a bunch of work done onto it.

He's done a couple more things, and he brought it to us

because on the inside there's, what, some bezels,

a couple trim pieces, maybe a seat cover,

but I don't know why he'd want to cover that.

I think it looks great, man. And then under the hood,

we got a new radiator and some cooling fans.

So a couple of small things. In keeping with that theme,

I think there's an upgrade we can do on this thing

that'll kind of fit both bill's aesthetics

as well as performance.

Matt: Well, he mentioned wanting a new radiator.

So you kind of take a look at that,

and this kind of does not belong.

Right, we're not just going to replace this

because we can do better than all this.

You know, by integrating something like this

we got from proform, where it's basically

you've got a tight little package for the radiator

and a fan all combined into one aesthetically.

It looks awesome. It does.

And second of all,

it's going to give you an increased performance

because you're turning off of the front of the engine

in terms of a fan or an alternator

it's actually taking power away

because you've got to take power to spin it.

With an electric fan,

well, that's an increase in horsepower.

And this is four inches thick, and it's the only one

on the market that's got the radiator

and the motor and the fan, everything,

inside of four inches, versus here under the hood

from the front of the radiator to the back of the shroud.

That's probably seven inches or so.

So this is gonna fit in there.

And I think you mentioned it earlier.

When you open up the when you see this,

there's just a cool factor on this, man.

It looks clean and nice.

Pretty cool, man, because you know how I love cutaways.

And this is just basically one that they cut the corner off of.

So you can see how the whole system works right here.

Kind of neat. This was a very good idea. I like it.

Now, let's get the old one out, we'll get this new one in.

Yeah, this will fit in there nicely.

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♪

matt: Not only does proform have the universal mounts

like we have here this afternoon,

but they've also got direct replacement ones,

and they've got the conversion radiators, too,

which is cool if you're doing like an engine swap, right?

Dude, look at all the room.

Like, you couldn't do this before.

Yeah, right? Right? So that's cool.

So now all we have to do is wire this thing up,

just a couple of wires and plumb it,

and then probably put some coolant in there, right?

-Yeah, buddy. -Be a good idea, right?

And then we can --

got the screws in my pocket, man.

All right, that's cool. You're always ready like that.

Then we can finish this up and get into the cab, right?

-Sounds good, man. -All right, dude.

I like it.

[ drill whirs ]

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This 1972 c10 is more of

a collector truck than a daily driver.

So we want to make sure the engine and fuel system

are protected when the truck is put away

and not driven very much before the next show.

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♪

hey, welcome back. So we got with roger

and we had him put together a small list of things

that he would like to improve inside the cab of this truck.

First of all was this gauge bezel.

It's just old. It looks faded out and a little bit beat up.

So a new one will really spice things up.

Secondly was the steering wheel. This thing is totally plain

and there's nothing else plain about this truck.

So a new steering wheel

could really make it look a lot better.

Next up was the seat cover.

Interestingly enough, when I first saw this,

I was like, man, why does he want to replace that?

It actually looks good. Upon closer inspections,

he's got a bunch of holes across the whole top.

And once you know those holes are there,

that's all you look at.

So I understand now why he wants to change it out.

Now, the cool thing on the inside

is over here on the glove box.

He's got a whole collection of these challenge coins,

which I'm assuming come from his time

when he served in the united states air force.

Out of respect for that, I'm going to leave that alone.

I don't wanna do anything wrong to screw that up,

so I'm just gonna concentrate on the stuff

that he wants to change and improve.

Speaking of all that, we got it all right here.

It all comes from classic parts of america.

There's the gauge bezel. Take a look at that.

That thing looks brand new.

That is going to pop inside of that truck.

I wanted a steering wheel that looked a lot better.

Boom. Right there. He's gonna have that, too.

That's going to look fantastic.

Picture that with the rest of the truck.

Going to look awesome. And here's the new seat cover.

Got the houndstooth in there.

The same original classic design.

This looks better than that.

Like I said, that one didn't look bad,

but this is nicer, it's newer.

It's brand new and clean, and no holes across the top.

This is gonna be a definite improvement

on the inside of that truck.

I'm gonna start with the steering wheel.

And here we go. All right.

So before -- or actually right after

we got the steering wheel out of the way,

I had to reach up back in there and undo that speedometer cable.

So that just pops right off.

Get some of these switches out of the way.

Undo one plug, and then this pulls right out.

So we'll plug this new bezel in.

And one of the things that we encountered

was that this particular vehicle has a choke

right over here, right?

So this bezel didn't have the hole for the choke.

So we just had to put that hole in there.

Takes about a minute. No big deal.

And then once we are sliding that in,

that goes right over the choke.

And...Yeah.

There we go. Ah.

Now, look at that.

That looks great. A lot better, for sure.

They did a nice job on this one.

They did, but rather than take the back off from the bottom,

are going to use the bottom as a stand, so to speak,

to kind of make it easier to maneuver

because to get the new cover on, it's got to be a tight fit.

It's got to be something you kind of

got to wrestle with a little bit,

so it's like having an extra set of hands,

keeping it attached to the base

for the time being.

[ drill whirs ]

matt, you may be asking yourself,

why are we standing out here on such a beautiful day

in front of a truck with a foam kit?

Yes, I was asking myself that, actually.

Well, the owner called us up earlier today,

I didn't tell you, and he asked if we'd do him a solid.

Clean the truck up for him, because he wants to go right

to a car show from there.

So, you know, he pays well. He does.

I'm figuring, you know, we do him a solid.

He brings us some more business. So the easiest way to do it

is to use the mtm hydro kit 1 from veloci.

So some people will take a pressure washer

to their vehicle, right?

And other people are like, "no way would I ever

take a pressure washer to my vehicle."

but you want to still get it clean.

Now this kit actually goes from the pressure washer back,

including the hose, the spray gun, everything.

Everything you need is right there in the kit.

And it's a great way to use your pressure washer,

but control the pressure and get your vehicle beautiful.

Well, these guys have thought it all way through.

I like that they give you everything inside.

But all the little details, man --

like this foam cannon itself, it's got a patented nozzle on it

that allows you to do all kinds of adjustability.

So you can adjust how much air gets drawn in or not.

And that adjusts how much foam or how thick the foam comes out.

You know, we can restrict the amount of water you use

so you're not using a ton of water to wash

the vehicle and to foam it up.

It's got a head on the front of it

where you can adjust the size of the opening

as well as the angle -- if it's diagonal, horizontal.

I like it. And do you notice a smell?

Yeah, I -- do you get that?

I think the smell is --

I put a little dab right here. Smell it.

Well, if you did, you smell great,

because this could be honestly --

and I'm not just saying this --

this could be the best smelling car soap

I'll ever smelled in my life.

I like to lather up with it when I get home just for fun.

Dude, how could you not? How -- mm.

Anyway. I get sidetracked. It is cotton candy to a t.

It really is. That's better than cotton candy.

All right, I'll do the spray.

How much you fire up the... I'm on it.

...Power washer, okay? I'm on it.

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bruno: So we got a lot of work done today

on two different trucks.

I mean, colton's, the way it rolled in,

I think it's going to roll out much better,

and he's gonna be much happier

for getting in that little fender bender

because, dude, it paid off in spades for him.

Yeah, it did. It looks great. Like you said,

we need to work on his braking a little bit.

Yeah. Social distancing in your truck, colton.

Keep that in mind.

When we talk about other trucks,

this little show truck right here, man --

kind of a little show stopper.

You know, it's a little bit of a sleeper underneath the hood.

And this little radiator, I think, is gonna,

you know, pay off in both in terms of

aesthetics as well as overall performance.

I think the radiator looks good, but then we move back into

the cab, and you've got the new seat.

You've got the steering wheel, the gauge bezel.

A couple little things, right. Nothing too major.

Makes the inside look a lot better.

But I will tell you this.

If this dude has a show coming up

and it's strictly for like a 1972 c10

with a new radiator, homeboy's got it in the bag.

He is bringing home the gold ribbon.

All right. That is all the time

we've got for today for "truck u."

we'll see you guys next time.

You know, if I'm being honest, I mean, colton gets

his lack of direction from his father.

I could see that.

[ drill whirs ]

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