The Ratback Bed Is Finally Coming Together

that's not bad I like it that's not bad at all doesn't hit the fuel tanks it snowed last night kind of melded off already but it's cold again I'm sick of this weather we're working on the ratp back today so we got to get the bed and get it in the shop again and cut all the parts off of it we don't need get it shortened up see if we can make it fit on the truck so that's our business we'll get going [Music] all right we got this thing over here let me give tape Maas real quick how wide was this thing 35 42 that was way off 47 all right so basically what we've got to do is flip this thing over and cut these Runners off they don't need to be on there they're not doing anything for us we don't need them then we'll set the bed on and bow it down that easy just going to take us 2 days to do it all B's had some Carnage in its life we have to pound those straight again to try to fix them a little bit p a bunch of them are wore out we'll have to weld we got some welding to do we'll have to figure out how long it is this and leave this at the back just a lot of cutting well let's pick her back up we go in shop it's not snowing on us [Music] yeah I'm freezing dude shering man yeah I forgot my hoodie I need freaking the hood all right get in by the fire hunter Qui down now there you go all right it's in here now we get to go to work we want a 13 1/2 ft bed it's right here somewhere so the end of this gets cut clear off let's leave that middle piece if we can if it doesn't hit anything it might right 56 and2 what I say it was 100 or 56 167 in 56 and then I got to come back a foot and a half a foot and a half so where does that put it right there it's going to hit it's going to sit right on top of it going to your luck that's how it is so we'll have to cut that off too we'll save it because one day when I have time and ambition I may take and put rollers on the side of this and make it a roll back still we're not going to make it so we can't right now I just need this truck done and running currently this is how it's going to be and we may love it like this and not even worry about it ever it's going to work yep what's that going to give us for tire clearance that's 7 in so we'll have 10 in of Tire clearance and we can't get 10 in of travel anyway we can only get six won't your duy stick out farther than the overhang no nope really that'll be sweet according to my calculations no all right we haven't even told everybody that we're putting du on it yet come with me up here the dly wheels finally got here we're putting these on the back so it's going to take some some stuff cuz this is a non Dy rear end so it's going to take some spacers and some stuff to make it work plus we still want stick with the same size of tire so that's going to be a little more complicated you got to space the DU apart so they don't rub but it's always going to have it always was going to have du on it we just didn't know how they were going to fit and we're to that point we're going to get du on it uh we left Sean and Hunter at the shop cutting the bed apart me and Michelle we loaded up the tanks and the trailer we're headed to St George to get some supplies we need more argon to weld aluminum them we need some CO2 to weld some metal just some parts of them nuts bolts those kinds of things that sounds really boring yeah today was the perfect day for that and uh turns out we need a lawn mower now too so we're going to get that weird you guys will figure out shortly why I need a new lawn mower it's it's coming okay the beds pretty much quit dripping the shop warmed back up we got a lot of cutting right here so we're just going to go down both sides and Buzz the welds these pieces will be kind of hard cuz they're up under insides it'll take a minute to get this front cut off but we're hoping hoping to get both of these off and then we'll skill saw the front once these Runners are out of the way I wish we had two plas I know if we had two it go quick cuz we're going to be here a minute so I guess we'll just go for it see how long it takes yeah an hour both of them I bet it takes a minute it takes a while I bet so it grows aluminum a lot farther it's nasty too it cuts it it cuts good but it's we're going to have some clean up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right so we finally got it all grinded up that took forever went through every single battery so now we got to take it see look at that watch that is nasty we're going to go pressure wash it it's disgusting by then hopefully Paul will be back and we'll know if we need to cut it here and then take that off and cut there and take that off and then weld this back to there or if we can just cut that to that out and get rid of of all that but he didn't answer our phone call so we will do other things till he gets here well in other news we Never filmed the entire day we were in St George we're terrible at our job yeah but we got some stuff done and we got us a lawn mower yeah we had to get a lawn mower and now we're on our way home so hopefully those guys got a bunch done on the on the bed [Applause] [Music] well this isn't very ideal but we'll pressure wash what we can we may have to roll it the other way get both top sides but we'll get it cleaner than it is [Music] now that's pretty clean we're uh we're going to let it drip dry for a minute then we'll pack it in the shop and tomorrow we'll uh decide which sections we're cutting out and cut it half and shorten it probably get it on the truck [Music] okay that's the middle we got 42 in exactly what's half of 42 going to be 21 21 right okay that's where the frame sets should be on the out outside of that that we need the 2x4 it's going to be right there somewhere so we got to make sure all of those are flat that's the most right in the worst part that's our luck could be outside so my luck continues I mowed my lawn last night with the new lawn mower and the fuel pickup fell off inside the tank so I got to go up there and siphon the gas out of it and put the fuel pickup back on it other than that it's a good mower we're going to get welder going today we're going to weld all of these little cuts that are in this from everything being wore out we're going to straighten all of those weld them back together and then we're going to cut this thing down and set it on top of that that's the plan so we'll see how that goes we picked up some brunt stuff we're going to show you guys what we got if you're not familiar with what brunt workware is well those boots right there those are Bruns I don't think these oh look at that these pants they're brunt I've been wearing them for a year now maybe a little longer than a year and oh those are the pants those are extra little guy size must be Hunters yeah brunt leather conditioner one thing about bront pants they have thicker pants and they have lightweight pants too so these they got these are the lightweight I got some thicker ones to give a try we'll see how those work out all right we're going to throw those down there slipons that's got Shan all over that that's what I'm after right there some 85s those are mine they make women boots guys it says right on it they make chick shoes right there put those on I plan on wearing these when we put those on off-roading and stuff you guys this may come as a shock to you guys but I didn't quite come prepared in the shoe department to Oregon I want to I've never seen you wear like work boots these guys are going to be new boots goofing here shortly oh new boot goofing how fast is that camera those are just cute cuz once I strap these boots on I don't know if you can keep up with me around the shop you guys are going to have to have a race I'm going to show you how many miles I've walked check out the how much tread I've wore off those bad boys pretty good not a stitch how comfortable are they I love them they're super comfortable if you look there's not a stitch that's popped on them anywhere yet they're pretty dang good so they make a whole bunch of different varieties of boots if you look at Michelle's she bought the lined version because she's always cold me on the other hand I like the unlined version oh yeah you need a chair do I look like it I'm not that old oh my one leg feels so much faster right now than the other one I can't even believe it oh look at that those are pretty durable my brother painted them black they're tough enough to be painted so these guys are rubbing their new boots down with a leather conditioner getting them all uh it'll help break them in a little bit there's a little bit of Break In but not a lot on these boots they're awesome you can try them for 30 days if you don't like the boots you can send them back get your money back if you guys want $10 off your order put in code Fab Bratz 10 plus it's free shipping for boots so we love brunt who got my bell bottoms on with my boots what's the Lany Wilson pants yeah I got my Lany will hers are more frilly than jeans all right I think we need to go race these bad boys now see how fast we are who's filming no one I'll film oh no this is a terrible idea let's do it run I do too my boots wouldn't start I'm fast I'm fast now we just got to clean it holy jeez all right I know a guy it do I do it doesn't seem to have to be as clean as like Pig Welling B us see one [Music] pass I think we're winning here Miller sent us the parts for this welder to fix it cuz we we burned it up we burned the drive motor up in it we put it all back together and decided we were going all aluminum with it so we bought a push pull gun we've got to weld all these little gaps then we got to straighten those and weld them back up let we cut this bed off sounds easy [Music] right Wells pretty good for that kind of stuff now let's see if you can fry on that oh yeah almost straight up for me perfect that's pretty good if we can do that that's good enough if we can turn that into semi straight that's perfect you're asking for a lot but'll go it'll go we'll weld on it get it hot bend it weld on get it hot bend it it'll go yeah it'll go [Music] hul's just about done welding uh we decided to just plasma the front of this off so we're just going to follow this flat Edge we cut this off and we're just going to have to cut the worst sections out we can't bend them they're just breaking so we're going to cut them out straighten them and then we'll just weld them back in once they're straight so should I cut these from the outside or the inside does it matter matter what it's only welded on the inside doesn't matter but it looks better got it got it I'll grind on it now for a while I can grind it up if you want to plasma cut those out I'm grind that up we'll have this thing setting on there tonight what's the overall length 136 Hunter let's go do some measuring real quick all right so we're com coming out to the the hot rod stash we're going to do some major taping and see what cars are actually going to fit on this roll back and which ones won't we know the FJ will let's just do a book measure 62 in from front to back tire let's see if the Packard fits Packard will fit but barely let's see if the if the 55 fits oh with room to spare on this one this one's shorter this one will fit easy we know we can haul those what do you think about the wheelies 12T in or 12T we're 13 and 1/2 ft on our bed what about the free truck we got to try the free truck just in case a modern vehicle or okay woo free truck's going to be tight right there's the end of the bed Tire will fit Tire will fit on it oh dang free truck will fit I think it's going to haul whatever we need let's go see the to tr it'll fit really it'll load I don't know weightwise if it'll load we'll probably try it but we'll see all right so Sean's taking care of a mess up here he's cutting all those broke pieces out we're going to harvest some good parts from what we're cutting off to weld back into it so by the end of today well in a in an hour it'll be shorter it'll be way shorter we're losing almost 4 ft of this bed [Music] so you're doing a f job here thanks [Music] [Music] excited for this just going for it just going for it it's time to be [Music] shorter he slow guys jump on it on there C that's off set her down all it's shorter whole bunch of cleaning grinding and Welding left to do shorter shorter [Music] [Music] back from track practice these guys got it all finished up that looks way better than what it did earlier today so I guess we just put the front back on this thing and see if we can get it good then we'll flip it over set it on the truck and see if it actually fits I hope do those new tape measures don't work if they don't man I am giving them all that sending them to whoever sent them like you keep this tape measure lie to me yep I don't know I think it's going to be dang close right smart person uh got all the welder and stuff ready no we were just we were just testing this one's pretty close how's yours close I'm filling this part right in here you can go up just barely right there is about pretty close but it's not flat on here yeah mine's not either they're down to the bottom of that that's pretty close on the bottom of here though I it's really close [Applause] we'll probably stay there sweet he yeah just that's cool for curiosity sake gravit tapate measure and let's see if we calculated what's this supposed to be 136 oh give me the dumb or smart end I got the dumb end I can handle that we didn't calculate that that's 13t 9 in to the end of that that may get cut off if we just have the around the L in front I don't know yet we'll look at it and see how it fits up against the headache R and everything we may lose those cut that off and and then just build a thing around the winch I'm happy with it it's close enough to what we need that's the theme of this build close enough [Music] [Music] all right go ahead test my welds let's see if they hold wooo it didn't break right off yep set her down we'll take these off I'll back this truck out here all right let's see what this really looks like watch these pel TS I want you're good you still got two feet keep on coming set her down that's good get that one Hunter that's not bad I like it that's not bad at all doesn't hit the fuel tanks no it doesn't thought it was going to it definitely needs the dual wheels put on it which we can do I'm thinking may have to cut that I want that bed I want this oh clear up to the front see that sets the winch perfect right there though it does but I'm not against cutting that out I'm digging it this is looks good it does look good it's so much better down so if we would have went with the original plan you imagine this bed 15 in taller that's where it would have set it was terrible wasn't going to do what we needed it to you can open the boxes with it down yep oh yeah we should have B on that we should have been I I would have lost money on the fuel tanks yeah this thing's going to look freaking sweet it's way good what that's six more inches forward that it gain us probably four or five let's grab a tape and see what it is from headache to end overall welding the front back on was a good call it looks way better like that do you paint it or do you leave it that color what the bed oh we're going to polish it you're going to make it I don't know about mirror a little shinier we'll buff all the rough edges off of it tra side you take the you take the smart one that gives you a 14 basically 14t bed right there what was that car do you remember I don't the tow truck was the longest they were close let's go measure 166 the tire will be on 166 is right there so it fits so it would barely fit yeah the free truck would barely fit I think I want to cut it off and make it weld a piece of that 2x4 right into here put it across we're not going to gain we're not going to lose any bed it would look cleaner cuz that looks pretty M I agree we're just doing some testing here theories I think it's going to work where's the ref Flash just almost like we thought yep sweet could drive up on that I don't know why that's not going to just [Music] work holy put her in the dirt I don't know that you can drive up that you could jump it really far if you hit it [Music] I like it we still got some stuff to figure out we're waiting for our aluminum to attach this with but man this thing's going to be I can't wait to go use it it's going to be [Music] good you got it we're getting ites it look good yeah yeah ites I think it looks pretty cool we got to get the dual wheels put on it we still got tons of welding left but I think it's good all right next time you guys see this thing we'll have it all welded up and we'll be ready to uh actually attach this bed permanently and we'll load something on it and we'll go uh drive around and see how sketchy it is see if we can haul stuff on it so I know we've done a bunch of stuff wrong I've read the comments but I think it's right enough so thanks for watching

Channel: Fab Rats

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Keywords: offroad, fabrication, welding, hotrods, ratrods, diy, fabrats, metalworking, engines, building, horsepower, burnouts, offroading, recovery, rescue, fab rats, vicegripgarage, roll back build, custom roll back, DIY rollback, tow truck build, roll back truck, roll back conversion, rollback restoration, rollback rebuild, custom truck

Id: WOL4_1r6Lag

Length: 29min 56sec (1796 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 21 2024