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- I'm Keith Gornjak.
I'm the operations manager for T.A.A.G,
The All American Garage.
(whispers) My truck is fucking badass.
It's right there.
Like seriously, (laughs) it's just killing me.
It's right there looking at me.
It looks awesome now.
And wait 'till it gets done
With all this stuff, it's gonna be insane.
- So this is gonna be a rough install
so we can scratch stuff and grind on it
and cut it up.
And then we'll take it all out
and make it pretty and put it all back in.
So, I basically have to build this truck twice
and it's gonna be super fun.
Let's get into this.
Everything is caked.
They dipped the whole truck in plastic dip.
We knew we were doing this.
He wanted it done so it wouldn't get
all over the lift kit, which makes sense.
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Did you just complain about a tire being too heavy?
- (laughs) Little bit your rubbers a little too heavy.
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- Yeah. Like they've been moving in here.
I can see where it's worn.
- Oh, wow.
(laugh) That is not good.
- I mean, I'll be honest.
I was a little concerned about these not coming apart.
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Got mad!
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The undercoating was holding the washer on,
which was stuck on the bolt.
I love Wisconsin!
Undercoating is a great thing.
(singing) In another's eyes.
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Like pound the socket on.
Get the bolt off.
Wiggle the bolt out of the socket.
Clean the socket out so I can try
and jam it on the next one.
Just over, and over and over.
So, we've run into our first issue.
This is one of those things when you,
you have a truck that already has a lift kit,
you're putting a different lift kit in
that mounts differently, that you might run into.
So, looking at these diff drop mounts,
and this is the McGaughys diff drop for the driver's side,
which bolts to the factory diff drop that has been cut off
because rough country makes it cut off the factory line.
There's no fix for that.
Aside from buying a new front differential.
There, there is no,
No other option.
That's definitely something that we need to
address immediately.
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Oh, that won't work anyway.
The torsion bars are in the way,
'cause they're fucking stuck.
So, I can't touch with that yet.
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What?
- You've got to move the ABS pump to be able
to get to that hole.
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- Whew! Trace, you missed the hard part.
You don't want that anyway.
We don't wanna show people what a miserable time it was
getting that out.
Lot of handling, some cutting.
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This is why we test fit.
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You know, I'm taking a lot of liberties here.
I probably should have read the instructions.
- What are you supposed to do?
- Install using factory hardware.
Fuck it.
It's coming out.
Just to make sure I don't have to
modify the shit out of it.
And then it's all coming out and it's getting powder-coated.
But I don't want to do the test fitting
with it powder-coated in a very, very expensive finish.
(sighs)
- You're just talking from like experience.
So you might as well get fancy dancy lowers and uppers.
- They don't make them.
- So know what?
I'm just the only OCD one.
- Yeah. There's not enough of a market for people like you.
(whispers) I hate this truck.
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Look how far we are 'cause we didn't have
to put the diff back.
Yeah. About getting this thing done.
He's like "How many guys you have over there?"
I was like, "What?
It's just me."
He's like "What?"
It's like.
"Yeah. Like it's always just been me."
He's like, "No."
Yeah.
He's like, "How do you do all of it by yourself?"
I was like, (mumbles) "Great question."
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- Oh, look at this guy!
- Holy shit.
He's popped a hell of a lot today.
- You know, loosen day, I don't come in.
I'm only eight hours late.
- So, we need a couple of things.
The biggest one being the front differential.
- Okay.
- The one that's in here, they cut all the mounts off
for the Rough Country kit and all of mounts that they cut
off are the ones that are needed for the McGaughys kit.
- Course they are.
- 'Cause you can get these things that
like a cousin owns for like 300 bucks
Or new ones are like $1,500.
- Jesus!
- So yeah, the good news is, I mean
we don't need it for at least a week if not two.
- Oh, what the hell.
It's like I'm a shitty truck owner now all of a sudden.
(laughs)
I guess, I mean, there's always surprises.
God knows this build has been nothing but surprises.
- Yeah, exactly.
I mean I've got the whole front end out
and the kit back in already, so.
- Are you,
What? Really?
- Yeah.
And then I'll get the, the rear end in and together tomorrow
and then it'll all go off to powder-coat this weekend, so.
- That front diff thing doesn't bother me.
Actually that's, we're still,
We're still there.
It's not like, "Hey you need the whole axle!"
- (laughs) Yeah, exactly.
- Hey banker, what are you doing up there?
Nope. Bye.
- Cutting. (laughs) Grinding, drilling all the shit.
Now I gotta pull it all back out,
send it off to powder-coat
and then everything would be brass.
- That's wild.
He had to install, uninstall, install and tighten.
If you wanna powder-coat it.
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- I gotta try and get this side to line up.
Is the problem.
They stole all my shit and never brought it back.
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Yeah. That's. She's seized.
We're buying new ones, John.
- Uh-oh.
- It's okay. I should probably have new ones anyway.
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Don't worry about that.
I can start in the back.
Update on this state is, I really don't like doing this
with all this undercoating on.
It's super not fun, but we're gonna do the
the rear this, this afternoon.
Make sure all of that fits and then we'll go from there.
This is not an enjoyable experience.
Super not enjoyable.
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