- What is going on?
- Look at this, this is like, I didn't get the memo.
It's hot out here in California, huh?
- This is normal for me, bro.
It's actually, it's cooler here today
than it is at back home for us.
- Nice. - Yeah.
- Well, welcome.
- Yeah, we were super excited, man.
It's been a intense 48 hours getting here.
'Cause we worked all day yesterday,
and then flew in late last night,
but we're excited to be here.
- Heck yeah, dude.
Well, welcome, I mean,
we brought a couple of trucks out here,
we got something more going on.
- I see that.
- It looks even better in person!
(guys laughing)
- It's, yeah, there's something about cat eyes.
Like, they're just such a clean,
Chevy's best front end by far.
- Yeah, undoubtedly.
- Tell me about that thing a little bit,
'cause like, I followed a little bit of the build,
but I know that you've got a ton of time into it,
and a ton of work into it.
- So, honestly, with this truck,
I really wanted it just to be super clean.
My first truck was a Cadillac Chevy, it was a 1500 HD.
- Okay. - In '05,
so it had the six-oh gasket in it, and I was always jealous,
and it's like little details to me,
that the diesel's got the split grill.
- Yeah.
- So, I was like dying to own one of these one day
at some point in my life.
I came across this one and it was in really good shape.
I mean, the interior on this truck is almost brand new,
especially for the age.
And I knew I had to buy it.
There is, you know, the standard '05, '06 Chevy paint job,
where everything gets kinda pelted on the front
with rocks. - Yup.
- The white paint back then was not good.
- Yup.
- So, this thing needed some touch up,
and I said, you know what?
If we're gonna touch the front up,
I'm just gonna do full paint. - Do the whole thing.
- So the entire truck got painted.
Obviously, we switched over here,
we ran up the Boost Auto mirrors,
leveled out, people, please,
level your mirrors if you're gonna-
- For God's sake, it's three washers!
- Please level your mirrors. - Just do it.
- And while we're on the topic, Boost,
I love you guys, you guys are awesome.
Can we say like change the mold a little bit,
so they're level?
Like, I don't think that's too much to ask,
that they should come out of the box level.
I know for this year they weren't, and it was weird,
but yeah, I mean, it's like, I didn't do much.
I didn't wanna do much.
So the truck's level.
Obviously we're running the Arkon wheels in,
oh, and you're seeing it in person, pick a red.
- That, that is red. - All right.
- And it is a.
- So, I don't know if you can see this,
but the metallic in this is insane.
- We went a little wild, took a little cue
from my friend, Lacey, out there.
- Uh-huh?
- We decided we were gonna sparkle it up,
which is why it looks a little pink in certain lights, but-
- It looks fantastic.
- I think it was a cool little trick,
and what I like about the Arkon wheels,
especially for being a cast wheel,
it's kinda hard to have like accent details on a cast wheel,
but having the removable ring that they have on here,
it just makes it so much easier to give you that custom look
at like the cost difference between these,
and forged wheels is insane.
- Yeah, absolutely.
- But the fit finish of every Arkon wheel I've ever seen
is almost, I mean, you can't tell the difference
between a cast and a forged wheel when it comes to Arkons.
So, 2012?
- 2012. - Yup.
- Yup. - Sweet.
- Fun to turn on a level truck.
(guys laughing)
Cat eyes have my heart, they always will.
- This thing slaps! (guy laughing)
A little different in person, again, right, I mean?
- It is fantastic, dude!
- I feel like every one of my trucks,
this is hard for pictures and videos,
I mean, you guys deal with it all the time.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Even on a professional level.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It's just, it's not easy to convey color,
size, whatever it may be.
I mean, that's kinda why I like going to shows.
- This is a great reference, right here, look at this.
- There you go.
- I'm 5'7" and I think I'm pretty
well level with this option trucks.
- All right, so obviously, this one,
this is the most detail I've ever put into a truck ever.
And there's headaches that come along with that,
but (guys laughing)
it definitely came together.
I honestly don't even know where,
so I haven't done like a walk around of this truck
in a while, but let's just start at the front end.
We've got DB Customs grill, it's all backlit LEDs,
so the whole Work For It logo is backlit.
Obviously, you can see it's two layers together there,
so we have the, basically the transparent copper
accent color that I went with.
I wanted it just subtly, and we went big on this suspension,
and all that, but I wanted just little subtle
accents to carry it from the suspension up.
I don't like when you do too much color
above like the wheel base, keep everything below the wheel,
with your crazy colors. - Sure, sure.
- Obviously, bumpers.
There's only one in my heart.
That is the best looking bumpers,
that would cause me to pull a perfectly good looking
stock bumper off and put something on there.
And that's obviously our friends over at Flog Bumpers.
So then we did a custom meshed grill down below here
to match the DB Customs grill.
And same thing, got the double layer
with the accent colors going on there.
Running C4 off-road, pause in the front,
as well as, I think we got 32 rock
lights underneath this thing.
(guys laughing) So.
- Holy cow. - I always feel like I gotta,
the next one's gotta be better.
And the next one's gotta be better,
so you can only put so many at some point,
but we haven't hit the limit yet.
Coming down here, so this is where it gets really cool.
This is a, at the time, was the only 12-inch, we'll call it,
it's really at 14 now, bulletproof coilover conversion.
So if you guys are running IFS trucks,
anything in the 2,500 category and up,
there are torsion lifts or torsion bar suspension setups.
I don't like that, they ride like crap
It's just, it's an antiquated technology.
- Especially when they get big, yeah, exactly.
- Right, so, on this truck, we converted it
over to coilovers, and this truck, like,
I'm not making this up, and I will let you drive it
for this video, and you will see,
this thing rides like a dream.
I mean, coilover the world at this point, is what I'd say.
Like, the coilover setup on this thing is awesome.
I know they've done, don't quote me on this,
two to three more since they built this one.
It's not an option on their website, and it needs to be,
because this is their premium suspension setup right here.
Let's work our way back here.
This is where I went a little bit crazy.
There's a few different air ride setups you can go with,
but this is, it's from Ultimate Air Ride.
It's their, don't quote me on this, nine-to-14 inch lift.
So, the truck will drop down to what
I'd consider about a six-inch lift.
And it'll raise up to where we kinda factor in like 18.
It's pretty massive, but again, like,
it's a true four-link setup on airbags,
and the ride quality is just, it's awesome.
I happen to love this setup.
Coming back.
Now, this truck does get used, so you, we talked about rust,
we do got some rust on the ball here.
- No, geez.
- This is actually my dedicated tow pick
for towing my excavator and stuff to work,
'cause it's the only truck I trust
that has the power and the braking abilities.
So, I actually tow my excavator to work with this thing.
But obviously, we got the Gen Y hitch because you know,
a lot of weight, currently is beefiest hitch out there.
Now, up underneath, you guys would kinda see
we're running dual ExtremeAire compressors.
Fi-Air was cool for a while.
Check out ExtremeAire, their stuff is rad.
They're quieter, they run better,
and I have not had one of these go out on me,
whereas Fi-Airs, I kinda consider them disposable
for a couple of years.
Running dual air tanks.
Zach, which if you guys watch the channel, you know Zach.
We'll probably show him in a minute.
- Yep.
- Basically custom built the whole plate
to mount everything up underneath here.
Super clean setup.
Running the Banks diff cover.
You guys probably all at this point know.
We were actually the first one was to debut the all black,
tried to get them to call it D-Max Rhino Edition,
they went with the Black Ops,
but we do, that was my design right there.
I wasn't supposed to do that.
- Really?
- I was supposed to powder coat it,
and then like sand off all the fins,
and make it look like how they were gonna sell it.
And I kinda didn't read that part of the memo.
(guys laugh) - Just left it black?
- So I left it all black, 'cause I think it looks better,
and it doesn't look like all the diff covers.
- I want you to know that I am very, very happy for that,
because I just put one of those on mine.
- Did you?
- The all black ones, yeah, yeah,
'cause I didn't want the machine diff fins.
- That's awesome.
Yeah, the machine fins to me was antiquated.
I know everybody says it's for cooling,
but trust me, Banks tests everything.
They tested it like that after I did it,
and I think you lose like maybe a degree or two,
by not having those cooling fins fully exposed.
But yeah, I was kinda proud of that.
(guys laughing)
Obviously, the rear bumpers Flog again,
the custom work for it.
I don't know, if you guys don't know, your channels,
I'm used to like not being on other people's channels,
so I don't know, so obviously Work For It Apparel,
my clothing line, kinda like our whole thing
was to promote pride in blue collar work,
and to restore pride in blue collar work,
'cause if you ever been to schools,
they don't want you to be proud to be a blue collar worker.
They don't want you to work blue collar at all.
But ask the teacher how much they make,
and you can go ask the farmer how much he makes.
- Exactly, exactly.
- Fuel wheels, Fuel forged, they are the FF19s.
And then we obviously went with the transparent copper,
which is the color of all suspension,
with the black barrels.
Again, I didn't wanna go too, too crazy
with the colors and just using it sparingly here and there.
So I forgot to mention, on this truck,
obviously, all the lighting was done on here.
I still have the third break letter,
I probably should've put that on for this video.
Supreme Retros out of Arizona. - Okay.
- And I've these Recon taillights he custom painted for me.
And he's actually doing the lights for the 450
that we're gonna be doing pretty soon here,
which thank you to you guys for sourcing-
- I'm very excited for you guys coming together.
- American Force wheels in the middle of the pandemic,
when they were like almost impossible to get,
this man right here found me the wheels.
So, I'm very grateful for that.
- We waited forever, but we got them.
- Yeah. (guys laughing)
That was awesome.
Interior-wise, now, I like to snack,
and my trucks reflect that.
So there's- - That's fine.
- Probably a bunch of snacks in this thing,
but Roadwire custom interior did all the seats,
and then nothing too crazy, like,
I'm not a big sound system guy.
I'm, you know, I listen to talk radio when I drive.
(guys laugh) - Really?
- Yeah.
- I didn't peg you as a talk radio guy.
- It passes the time a lot quicker
than the same four songs on the radio.
- Yeah, that's very true.
- So, yeah, I'm a big talk radio guy.
So I don't need the big booming sound system.
But it's- - Right on.
- It's clean, you know?
Obviously the amp steps. - Yep.
- Yep, it's just, this one was my baby.
Now, this one got like a four-minute bath
right before you guys showed up.
- Did you just like wipe it down quick, or what?
- Pretty much. (guys laugh)
So obviously, this is by far my favorite truck
just because it's such out of the norm custom.
It's not, I mean, some of the stuff's bolt-on,
and some of it's not, but to take something to this far,
it's not something I've ever done,
'cause it's a lot of work, and it's a lot of time,
and it's a lot of money.
So obviously, we started with the '97 F-250 or F-350.
It two-wheel drive, I know everybody freaks out about that,
but- - You're in California, dog.
- Well, fine, this thing has never gotten stuck.
(guys laugh)
And try to find, like, what you want.
You kinda gotta buy them as you see them.
- Exactly.
- So this started off as my work truck,
like, I bought this because it was a cheap, old work truck,
and I was gonna beat it up, and I beat it up. (laughs)
There were dents in the roof, there was, you know,
throwing lumper up on it.
And then, one day I got a wild hair
that I should repaint it, because every time you
washed the white paint,
there was more paint on the rag than on the truck.
- Sure.
- And so, I was gonna end up just doing
a white paint job on it.
And I figured, you know what?
At this point, if I'm gonna do it, let's do it all the way.
And then once our friends over at OBS Solutions,
which I'd get all my stuff through CP Attic,
came out with these adapter plates to be able
to use the new GM tow mirrors,
I was sold on the full paint job.
'Cause obviously, you can't do this,
I mean, you could paint a door,
but you have to weld in this plate.
It kinda covers the wing window,
the wing window still works.
But you weld in that plate, mold all the body work to it,
and then you get the beautiful GM tow mirrors leveled,
leveled again.
But yeah, so we kinda took it to that step,
and I wanted a more modern style paint job on the truck,
being that we're using modern mirrors.
So we, the base is kinda like a 2008 Charger.
They had like this gray, cement gray base color,
but I didn't want it to look flat.
So, we ended up doing a pearl flake over top of it,
and in the right lighting, you'll see that
there's pearl flake on all the edges.
- Uh-huh?
- And then, that way, you'd get up to the truck,
and you'd see that there's more dimension to it.
And that's what we really wanted.
If he was taking the time to paint the truck,
let's throw that, you know, it's not that much more money
to throw a little flake on top, and think it'll look good.
But yeah, I mean, this truck is super, super basic.
It's on a six-inch Skyjacker lift kit,
which on the diesel, kinda sits at like four-and-a-half,
five maybe. - Yeah, because it just
compresses everything down-
- Right, right.
We're running, I wanted to go a little bit old school.
So, we're running the Mickey Thompson wheels on here,
which kinda like this old school bullet hole style wheels.
And then, of course, my favorite, the Toil MTs.
But there's a lot of little details that we did.
I mean, all the trim on the truck was blacked out,
so you can see all like, anything that was chrome,
blacked out- - All the badges and all-
- All the badging was blacked out.
The grills were blacked out, even just the emblems,
I just had them lightly dusted,
with a little black over top of it,
just to kinda give it that little bit of sinister look,
and just keep everything being a little custom.
It's got a six-four bumper on it,
it's off of the 2008, 2010 Super Duties.
- Yup.
- They just kinda brought it up to that next level.
We still need to make some meshes and some drills for it,
but we'll get that, I've got a few projects in line
before that happens. (guys laugh)
- Plus the other projects that are still going on.
- There's a lot of projects in there.
Zach's like, chomping at the bit right now.
He's got a truck he's supposed to be working on right now.
And I'm like, you're not working on the shop,
it's clean right now. (guys laugh)
Wait till these guys are gone.
- For sure, for sure.
- But nothing too crazy.
Me find a clean side of the truck to open,
so I can show you guys the center console.
The truck's absolutely filthy.
But my buddies over at Ronnie's Electronics
built the custom center console for me.
It's got one Downfire, VD audio, eight-inch sub,
all the speakers have been redone in the truck.
And I, again, I was trying to bring things up
to a little bit more modern and comfortable.
I daily drive this truck every single day,
so I wanted to have the Bluetooth.
I still have the plastic on the center thing,
or on the head unit there.
I know somebody's gonna mention it, but you know,
it's got USB ports, it's got the sub built in,
it's got cup holders, which is honestly all I cared about,
'cause these trucks' cup holders suck
in the little flip-down center console.
So, I got my four big cup holders,
and I got a big, deep bay to shove all my snacks in,
and I'm like happy guy at that point.
(guys laughing)
But really, nothing on the interior is crazy.
It's gonna get full carpet,
'cause you can see this carpet has been thrashed.
This was my work truck.
The interior was brand new when I bought it,
but it's gonna get full leather, full diamond stage.
I'm probably gonna end up matching the Denali at some point.
- Sure.
- And full carpet and all that, but for now,
until she's no longer my ranch truck,
which, I mean. (guys laugh)
Don't look in the back,
there's like literally piles of hay in here,
like, this is the ranch truck.
I try not to use my trucks, and I end up using
the crap out of all of my trucks,
but yeah, she's just, I mean,
I wanted something clean, and I wanted a really clean.
I should baby this more than I do.
Like, this thing needs to be preserved.
And once I get the big shop out of the ranch,
this thing's gonna get preserved.
But this is my pride and joy.
I'm so in love with this truck.
- Yeah.
- Never seen somebody not drive that and smile.
So I want you to smile.
- All right, let's do it, is it gonna, like,
is it gonna start?
You're gonna jump it again?
- It's like, it's good.
- All right, perfect.
- You nervous?
- No, I'm just excited, because again,
this is one of those opportunities
where you see it all the time, right?
But you never actually anticipate it, so.
- Let's do it.
Are we ready?
- We're ready to go.
- One more. - All right.
- I left my video in shot with all my personal trucks,
and I'm like, bro, you've gotta drive my-
- You've gotta drive my floor shaver, bro!
- Absolutely, and like, key on.
So it's forward reverse with that same pedal right there.
- Okay, but just locks likes a-
- Yup.
- Like, below the track?
Where am I supposed to take this thing?
- Bro, you just cruise. - Remember?
- Just absolutely cruise this thing.
- This thing is fantastic!
- Right?
(men murmuring indistinctly)
- I'm a little disappointed that this stuff
was in the lineup, I think that is like in here.
Denali's in, that's cool and all, but.
(warm electronic music)
Listen, if you think for a second
that I'm not gonna finish scrubbing the rest of your floor,
because I've already started this process,
come here, bro.
(warm electronic music)
- That's wild. (laughs)
(guys murmuring indistinctly)
- Pretty patchy there.
- Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, I see that.
- Look how.
(machine whirring)
(warm electronic music)
I'm trying so hard not to hit his truck, because I'm-
Do you know what this is?
- I think.
- Hell yeah. (guy laughs)
Let's do it. - Let's do it.
- So, how big is this thing?
Remind me again.
Lift kid-wise.
- It's a 12-inch, and then we had some turning issues,
so we cranked it up to 14. (guy laughs)
So, quite honestly, we should have a foot longer coilovers.
- Okay.
- Instead of just like cranking on the springs.
So, the ride, believe it or not,
is a little bit rougher than it was when it was first done.
And you're gonna see like these coilovers are game changers.
- So, for the record, for those of us that are,
for those of you guys that are watching on our channel,
this is effectively four inches at a minimum bigger
than what our Super Duty is.
Like, this is big.
This is, I think, the biggest truck I've ever driven.
- Nice.
- And like-
- You can go left.
- It's really not that bad, like, yes, it's big,
don't get me wrong.
But it's definitely not, I don't know.
It's not that scary.
- You get used to it.
One of the things that I always tell people
when you're lifting your truck is if you think like,
I'm between six and eight inches, go bigger,
'cause you're gonna drive that six-inch lift,
or even that eight-inch lift, and in like a month,
that's gonna be normal to you.
- Oh, and you can always like, you know,
you can always drop a lift back down too,
so I had a buddy that was on a six-inch Pro Comp
on his LB-7, and then he wanted to go
with a smaller tire setup.
So he dropped down to a, you know,
he just pulled the rear lift block out,
and he dropped the front down,
and now he's at a four and a half.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
All right, sir.
We've mobbed a street sweeper.
We've driven a Sema truck,
we've shredded drift trikes,
and spun entirely to many times.
(guy laughing)
I think that's it.
- Hold on, we gotta know, what was your favorite?
- Oh God, I don't know.
All of it was so much fun, man.
Like, getting to come out here, hang out in California,
this being my first time here-
- Oh, hold on, what's your California experience?
'Cause everybody says California's horrible.
- Dude, it's lit here, Cali's awesome.
This is super cool, the weather's like 73 degrees,
partly cloudy, the people are actually really nice here.
Like, for the most part, people are awesome.
This is great, I love it here.
- Awesome.
- I'll have to come back again.
- Hey, we might have some big plans already.
- That's true, actually.
We're talking about a couple, two, three things
that might be pretty fun.
- There you go.
- Well, if you were gonna say, like,
the floor scrubber was your favorite,
I was gonna be upset.
- Well, you know, it's kinda my favorite too.
- Look, the floor scrubber, it's awesome, dude.
I love it!
- Ryan, behind the camera, you know,
we gotta get you on there before you leave.
I'm gonna need one of those.
(guys laughing)
All right, man, but seriously, I appreciate it.
- Appreciate you guys coming out,
It's great to meet you guys.
- It's been a blast, to many more.
We'll see you guys in teamwork.
- We'll see you in a couple months.
- Call tell them though.
(warm electronic music)