PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously onTough As Nails...
You're going to be pulling 40 trees.
-Go on. Come on! -Fill out that work order as fast as you can.
On Savage Crew,
-led by crew boss Larron... -You gotta get 'em on!
-...weathered the storm... -They're good to go.
KEOGHAN: ...and planted their
second team victory,
making the score two-one.
[groans]
In the individual challenge...
JORGE: Don't stop, you got it!
...competitors had to think outside the box
-to get the job done. -BETH: Go!
KEOGHAN: But teammates Mister and Renée
were left to face off in overtime.
MISTER: I didn't come here to punch out today.
JORGE: Keep moving!
KEOGHAN: Racing plant for plant,
Mister took the win... -[screaming]
KEOGHAN: ...leaving Renée to punch out
of the individual competition.
Tonight, can Savage Crew keep their foot on the gas...
-Whoa... -KEOGHAN: ...and win a third
-Badge of Honor? -Whoa! Stop!
KEOGHAN: Or will Dirty Hands...
-There you go, there you go. -...even up the team score?
And in the individual challenge...
There's going to be a lot of noise in here today!
KEOGHAN: ...who has the torque to start a V8
and who will stall out?
[engine stalling]
Don't start. Please don't start.
This is Tough As Nails.
♪ ♪
♪ I'm tough as nails.♪
♪ ♪
BETH: Sergio, how you feeling from the other day?
I'm not gonna lie, I'm still... I'm a little worried, you know?
Last individual challenge,
something in my back, I felt something pop.
KEOGHAN: Sergio's struggling.
Oof.
He's in pain.
SERGIO: But today, you know, I remembered the fire
that's in my heart for my brother,
and, uh, it was like he picked me up, you know?
-[quietly]: Come on... -KEOGHAN: Sergio,
not giving up! He is back in the game!
We want to even up the score.
Savage Crew is two, and we had one,
and I want to be there for my team.
There's nothing that's going to stop me.
We know, as a team, that you're hurting,
so we're going to take care
of all the heavy lifting.
You're on, like, a ten-pound-only pick-up.
[laughter]
Well, shoot, man, that's my head.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
RENEÉE: I hope you guys aren't disappointed in me,
but I definitely... I'm here for the team,
like, 110%.
To be tough, I feel like it's like you can't
change what happened yesterday, but you have to keep moving.
-You know I love you, girl! -[Renée laughs]
RENEÉE: Bam.
LAURA: We got faith in you too, Renée,
that hasn't changed.
We know you're a go-getter, and we know that
you're going to give it your all today.
We got your back.
We're going to give it our all, too.
You know, make sure
to send you home with some money.
LAURA: Everybody wants that.
♪ ♪
-SERGIO [chuckling]: Oh, boy, oh, boy. -JORGE: It's a garage.
Looks like we're about to get greasy.
Here we go.
LARRON [chuckling]: There's Phil.
Oh, don't you guys look nice in your uniforms?
-Oh yeah. -Yeah, man.
-Real nice. -Got all the
names and everything.
-KEOGHAN: Have you seen where you are? -ALL: Yeah.
Inglewood Tires dates back to 1939.
A lot of big stars come here and service their cars,
going all the way back to Frank Sinatra.
-Choo... -KEOGHAN: Any idea
what you might be doing today?
BJ on one of the vehicles, maybe?
You are going to be-- What-- what did you say?
-A brake job. -[laughter]
Oh, my lord...
You got me, Sergio, you got me. Okay.
[all laughing]
Larron, proud mechanic?
LARRON: Yes, sir, very much so.
-Run in the family? -No, sir.
I'm the first one in, uh, in our family to do
-any sort of blue collar work. -That's awesome.
KEOGHAN: Well, Tough As Nailswas
inspired by my grandfather, who was a mechanic,
but perhaps the most famous
mechanic on Tough As Nails is who?
Quincey.
All right, Quincey, come on out!
[cheers and applause]
SYNETHIA: Let's go, baby!
Seeing Quincey has me so excited.
Quincey is a hard worker. He never gave up.
And the fact that Quincey is part of the Dirty Hands legacy
is going to make us work even harder to impress him,
to show him that we're still keeping up the momentum.
You got a great group of mechanics, man, they look great.
[chuckling]: We can't lose in front of Quincey.
Man, it's an honor to be back,
seeing all these beautiful people,
and I can't wait to see them get to work.
KEOGHAN: You've got a big fan over here in Larron.
Oh, yeah.
KEOGHAN: What was it about Quincey
that really appealed to you?
We share the same kind of jobs.
We're both very similar in what we've gone through before.
You know, the fact that he's willing to give everything
on every competition,
give it all he's got.
You know, I'm the exact same way.
Both of us played high school football,
both of us got college offers,
both of us lost those offers
as a result to injury.
We're both huge family people.
Everything about him, I love him.
I got great motivation today.
Thank you, man. Thank you.
KEOGHAN: So who is going to
break the news to Quincey
about what the team score is right now?
SYNETHIA: They had two. We got one.
Dirty Hands, one and Savage Crew, two? Oh...
But we got two
-'cause we coming for today's. -QUINCEY: All right.
That's what I like to hear. That's what I like to hear.
KEOGHAN: Well, we got some work to do here today.
When that work whistle blows,
each team needs to service four vehicles.
The car numbers on the four work orders and the keys
correspond to the team colored numbers
on the cars you need to service.
Jobs include rotating tires,
changing oil,
replacing brake pads, shocks,
batteries, wipers, installing nerf bars,
even putting in a new fuse for the horn.
-[clicks] -[horn honks]
All the tools you need
are laid out on the benches over there.
There's even a service manual showing you
exactly how to complete each job.
Once you're finished servicing a car,
make sure that you get the service manager
to sign off on those work orders.
First team to service all four cars
is going to win $12,000...
-[cheers and applause] -...and today's Badge of Honor.
Remember, the first team to collect five Badges of Honor
is going to get a cash bonus prize of $60,000.
-Yeah. -ALY: Let's go. -KEOGHAN: Are you guys ready
to get to work?
All right. Take a moment to strategize,
figure out who's going to be the crew boss,
and we'll get the job done.
LARRON: I'm telling y'all this is in my wheelhouse,
I'm comfortable with it if y'all are backing me up.
-100%. -Yup. 100%.
LAURA: We decide we're going to have Larron be our crew boss.
He did a great job in the previous team challenge.
He has the most experience, so we're going to
let him run with it again today.
SERGIO: Well, who's crew boss today?
I can do it.
-All right, you want to do it? -I'll do it.
JORGE: I felt it was my time to step up.
I deal with a lot of the same tools.
I've also, you know, worked on my own cars at home.
I had to teach myself at a young age how to do it.
BETH: The brakes is going to be the biggest one.
I've done 'em.
Coming off a team loss,
we know that we have to come back and tie this up.
Jorge is very mature for his age
and handles us as a group well.
All right, line up. Let's get the job done.
One, two, three!
Savage Crew!
Dirty Hands!
KEOGHAN: $12,000 on the line
and a Badge of Honor.
♪ ♪
On the work whistle.
Time to go to work.
[work whistle blows]
JAKE: Go, go, go.
♪ ♪
RENEÉE: Hey, what do we got?
Where's the Ford keys? Where's the Ford keys?
14. 14. 14.
ILIMA: Right there. Ford F-150.
-Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. -LARRON: The two vehicles
that we wanted to bring in first were the ones that
have a whole list of things to do,
which is going to be the compact car and then the F-150.
JORGE: Uh... Brakes. Brakes.
♪ ♪
BETH: We want to do the SUV
and the F-150 first because it was going to be
the most difficult based on the work orders.
JORGE: Beth, watch yourself.
That is great leadership on Jorge's part
because then we can work on our simpler tasks
on the next two vehicles.
KEOGHAN: Both teams working on
two vehicles at the same time.
On the SUV, they need to change out the brake pads,
rotate the tires,
and then also do the shock absorbers.
BETH: Where's the book?
SERGIO: Right there.
The key to getting these jobs done and getting the done quick
is to multitask.
ALY: Jorge, what do you need?
Uh, we need to get the tires off.
And then we... we can start doing the oil change, too.
ALY: I got it. All right.
I set it up for
Sergio, Beth, and Ellery
to work on the SUV.
They can tackle the big tasks first.
They can handle it without any help.
At the same time, for the F-150,
it was Synethia,
Aly, and me-- I have a little bit of experience.
I'm looking for the oil plug.
Aly has her truck she works on at home.
So I knew with the two of us we can take charge
and really know what's going on.
-[drill whirring] -Do it in the star.
KEOGHAN: Four things that need to be completed on the hybrid:
replace the battery, rotate the tires, oil change,
and then also get the horn going.
MISTER: Watch your ears.
KEOGHAN: On the F-150, got to change out the oil.
Install nerf bars.
These are the bars that go along the side of the vehicle.
And then they've also got to change out the tires.
We're going to be splitting off into the same
two teams that we had for the previous team challenge,
with the nursery.
It'll be me,
Ilima, and Laura.
And then it's going to be Jake, Mister, and Renée.
ILIMA: You guys got this, Savage Crew.
Just keep your head strong.
LAURA: Here we go. Here we go.
JORGE: See if you can get that pan under.
I just need to lift it up just enough.
-A little more? -That's fine.
-Just make it work. -Oh, make it work.
[impact wrenches whirring]
-All good. -[bell dings]
Hey, y'all almost got that battery out?
JAKE: I'm already, I'm putting it back in right now.
-All good. -Okay.
ILIMA: This flathead goes on the middle one
to connect the nerf bar to the top.
LAURA: Got it.
-Ah, crap. -Whoa!
LARRON: I'm going to need the other freaking drain pan.
This is a huge mistake.
Instead of grabbing the tall drain,
which wouldn't fit under the truck
because we didn't have it up high enough,
I grabbed the lower one.
I didn't realize that the oil was going to shoot out.
It frickin' went everywhere.
Here it comes again.
QUINCEY: You want to get that, that oil catcher
close enough to the oil tank
so when you pull plug out it don't go spraying everywhere.
That's a safety hazard.
They definitely want to
get that up before they get back under that car.
LARRON: We had to use extra time
to clean up the mess
-that I had made. -LAURA: You do what you're
most useful at. I can take care of that.
-LARRON: Thank you, Laura. -LAURA: I got you.
-RENEÉE: Thank you, Laura. -LAURA: Teamwork.
[impact wrench whirring]
MISTER: You got all those tight?
Yeah. Whoo!
[impact wrench whirring]
ALY: That's good. Tires are good.
-JORGE: You're done with the tires? -ALY and SYNETHIA: Yeah.
Dirty Hands have all their new tires on their F-150.
Savage Crew ahead with three jobs complete
on their first two cars.
Dirty Hands have one.
How are you doing, Beth?
BETH: I'm just struggling
to get this backside in every time.
SERGIO: You're okay. You ain't struggling. You got this, Beth.
BETH: My neighbor taught me
how to change out the brakes.
I was struggling to get a brake pad in.
I knew how to do it.
I was trying to work too fast,
and Sergio made sure to, you know, calm me down.
I don't know what it is, but it's killing me.
SERGIO: You got this, Beth. I know you do.
RENEÉE: We haven't even drained the oil yet, right?
MISTER: Yeah, that's what I'm getting ready to do.
LARRON: The horn don't work right now.
[piece clicks]
JAKE: Hey, try the horn now. Try the horn now.
MISTER: Nothing.
-This is the horn. -Oh, you got it?
RENEÉE: Yeah, that's the horn.
JAKE: See if it works.
[horn honks]
-Yes! -You got it.
I got the horn! I got the horn!
-[Renée cheering] -Nice job. Nice job.
All right, jack it up for yourself.
MISTER: Already got the oil going.
-There you go. There you go! -Yeah, baby!
SERGIO: There we go. We're on.
BETH: I got it. I got the brakes done.
How are you guys doing on those shocks?
SERGIO: The shocks are done.
BETH: Once I referenced the other side,
got it all lubed up,
that brake pad slid right in there.
SERGIO: Dang, you are killing it!
KEOGHAN: Just like that, Dirty Hands closed the gap
with three jobs complete.
Savage Crew still ahead, though, with four.
Get ready to drive.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew about to drive their hybrid out of the garage.
-JAKE: Whoa, stop! -But the service manager
-hasn't signed their work order. -[engine starts]
Finally, we can get our first car going out.
I looked over, and we were ahead of Dirty Hands.
Now we have to get another one in there.
JAKE: Oh, stop! Stop!
-KEOGHAN: Oh, man... -LAURA: No!
-We're leaking oil all over. -What?
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew with a costly mistake.
They thought they had this car complete
and that's opened the door
for Dirty Hands to catch up.
Quincey, look, they got oil everywhere.
JAKE: You got to get the car jacked up.
-MISTER: Back out. -Get the car jacked up.
-MISTER: Yeah! -RENEÉE: Come on, you guys!
-JAKE: Whoa, stop! -RENEÉE: Stop, stop, stop!
JAKE: We're leaking oil all over.
-We got to get the car jacked up. -MISTER: What?
-KEOGHAN: Oh, man... -Jack up the car.
You didn't put the oil filter on right.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew with a costly mistake.
They thought they had this car complete
and that's opened the door for Dirty Hands to catch up.
-RENEÉE: Come on, you guys. -KEOGHAN: There is oil spilled
-everywhere. -JAKE: Come on, get the pan!
Get the pan!
Okay, pop the hood.
Get the oil for the car ready.
JAKE: We had a little bit of issues
with oil spills.
There's a lot of lost time there.
Part of my job as a pipe liner.
The ditch is full of water, mud, it don't matter.
You got to get in there
and you got to get it done.
This is Tough As Nails. It ain't a beauty pageant.
Get ready. Give me three and a half quarts.
Have to do it over.
5W-30...
Dirty Hands, a well-oiled machine.
Savage Crew just well-oiled.
[laughing]
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ELLERY: Good job. Good job.
Good job on that brakes.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands two jobs away
from servicing their first two cars.
Savage Crew slightly behind Dirty Hands.
They want this win bad.
There's $12,000 on the line.
[whoops]
Come on, man, let's go!
You know, I learned some of these skills
from my dad and my brother.
I was fortunate enough to learn how to change brakes,
shocks. You know, some things that
we could do at home to save some money.
Beth, Ellery, we were together
and working with them
was like swimming in calm waters.
Hey, coming down.
-Good? -Yes.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands get their first car
-out of the service area. -[bell chimes]
Quincey, you got to be proud of Dirty Hands today.
I'm proud of 'em, man. They've got their
-first vehicle out of the shop. -Got some mechanics.
BETH: Work order and keys done.
♪ ♪
Come on, Savage Crew!
LARRON: I hear Phil say that Dirty Hands
has their first car out,
but we have two cars that are nearly done.
And so I wasn't panicking
because I knew we were going to roll two right out.
Savage Crew coming out
-with their first vehicle! -[bell chimes]
Don't forget that the hybrid had four jobs
that needed to be complete.
LARRON: Go grab me another one!
[impact wrench whirring]
-ALY: Yeah, that's done. -You're done?
ALY: Yeah. Sign off. Sign off.
-[bell dings] -SERGIO: Hey, let's get that car
out of here, huh, Jorgie?
This will be the second vehicle
for Dirty Hands and they will take the lead.
Good? Start it up.
LARRON: We need to get the sign off.
-ILIMA: Okay. -LARRON: Thank you. Appreciate it.
Looks like we have two vehicles coming out.
[bell chimes]
Savage Crew are back in the game.
They've tied it up.
We have an even race.
JORGE: And... good.
Jorge keeping his cool as a crew boss today.
-Two cars complete. -Right there.
QUINCEY: Larron is a smooth cat, man.
BETH: We got to drop it
and do the windshield wipers.
Everybody grab one once we get up there.
SERGIO: Love you, Beth.
BETH: Yeah, I love you, bud.
We're halfway through the competition,
and we're neck and neck.
We cannot take our foot off the pedal right now.
We need to work hard
and cohesively as a team and bring home the win.
Hey, I'll do the back windshield while you guys
are doing the oil.
[impact wrench whirring]
You can clear it.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew frantically trying to get
the brake pads and rotate the tires,
put on new shock absorbers on their SUV.
Can Dirty Hands get off to a lead?
Both teams struggled to get their first two cars done,
but they are flying now.
BETH: Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. Check.
-Check! -Go. Go.
-Blue SUV is leaving. -[engine starts]
That's their third vehicle.
-They are down to one. -[bell dings]
This will give Dirty Hands the lead.
Savage Crew playing catch-up.
[impact wrench whirring]
LAURA: There you go.
ILIMA: Get the tire off.
I hear Dirty Hands getting very excited.
We are absolutely still working.
We're still in the running.
It's just, let's focus on
exactly what's in front of us.
Let's put our heads down and just grind.
-One, two, three. -One, two, three.
JORGE: It needs the horn relay, it needs a battery.
Dirty Hands all on deck,
working on their last vehicle.
-Tell me what you need. -It's a horn.
I got you, girl.
JORGE: Yeah, double-check the book.
-I need the horn book! -Beth!
-Where's the book? -Beth!
Tell me which relay.
LAURA: Let's go, let's go, let's go.
ILIMA: Is this the correct oil filter?
-Go. -[horn honking]
-Hey! -Yeah!
Whoo!
MISTER: Hey, tire going on.
-You got the brakes on? -Hell yeah.
I told you I know what I'm doing.
-[laughter, whooping] -[bell dings]
KEOGHAN: Remember, the first team to get all four cars
serviced and parked back in the lot,
put their keys up on the work order...
BETH: Where's the work order? Give me the work order.
...and make sure they have all the work orders,
will win today's team competition.
-$12,000 on the line. -[bell dings]
-Close it. Close it. -Get a check. Get a check.
SERGIO: Come on, get this thing out of here. Let's go.
Find me a socket.
I need a new filter!
It's going on, but it goes crooked.
JORGE: There you go.
And Dirty Hands rolling out their last vehicle!
-Come on! Let's go, baby! -Whoo!
-Bring it around! Come on! -Yes!
I don't know how the hell they pulled that off.
-Whoo! Come on! -Yeah!
-Let's go! -Bring it up!
Got to go onto the board!
ALY: Yeah!
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands with the win!
[cheering]
I feel like we worked really good as a team.
We had a lot of good communication,
and everybody kind of chipped in, and it felt good to win.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, come on in.
LARRON: All right. Come on, guys.
I'm feeling a little disappointed.
I feel I didn't do my best today,
but there are days that
you're not going to be 100%.
I-I'm sorry to say that it was today.
The team score now is two apiece.
[cheering and applause]
Quincey, you got to hand it to Dirty Hands today.
They came out, they knew they were down.
Absolutely. They came out like a ball of fire, man.
They got the job done.
Jorge, he was, he was phenomenal
with giving directions.
He stayed calm under pressure.
Just great leadership coming from you, man.
-Yes. -Yeah, Jorge!
[cheering and applause]
Jorge, congratulations to you as a crew boss today.
I am pleased to tell you
that you have helped your team earn...
[cheering and applause]
$12,000.
Congratulations.
And it is a Badge of Honor.
[cheering and applause]
That is your second.
Remember, first team to get
five Badges of Honor
gets $60,000 cash bonus.
As we transition now from the team competition,
we will be going to the individual competition.
When an engine is purring away,
-what do you say? -Purring like a kitten, man.
Nothing sweeter than a well-oiled machine.
-[laughter] -KEOGHAN: Get some rest.
I'll see you tomorrow.
♪ ♪
[horn honks]
LAURA: How are you guys feeling today?
Overnight, I let the loss sink in
a little bit more, and that's... it's more disheartening,
especially knowing the simple mistakes.
But individually I just don't want to punch out, you know?
The only thing I walked away with during
yesterday's team competition was,
am I really one of the best of the best?
Also, I've got my family counting on me.
Then, you know, to cap it all off, I got Quincey
that's watching me, and I'm looking forward to
a shot of redemption today.
I am pumped.
-You're pumped? -Oh, yes.
-Yeah. -Yeah!
I think a lot of us are feeling real confident.
Yes. Yesterday gave me, like,
a little bit more confidence than I've had.
Until today, my goal has been stay in the middle,
but I'm riding a wave and I feel like I can win this.
I'm going to bring the heat today for myself and my family.
Use the momentum, guys.
-From yesterday. -Yes.
ILIMA: I'm so excited.
Good luck today, everybody.
LAURA: This is when we need an entrance song.
ILIMA: Right?
[rock music playing]
[laughter]
♪ ♪
Whoa...
-Good morning, everyone. -Quincey's back.
-Yeah, buddy. -What's up?
KEOGHAN: Synethia, you'll be sitting
over here along with Renée since you've punched out.
Everybody else, line up in front of me.
LAURA: Still a little nervous,
but I'm going to lean into my strength, problem solving,
and to support my weaknesses,
which is not having the experience.
We got some work to do today.
Quincey's back in the house.
LAURA: I just want to show myself,
you can change careers, you can pivot,
and as long as you put your mind to it,
it's not necessarily about always having the experience.
It's about, you know,
that mental toughness and really grinding through.
KEOGHAN: As you can see, there are
ten workstations.
Each one of them has a V8 engine.
The V8 engine
goes back to 1904.
It was originally developed for planes.
How much horsepower in one of these engines here?
They come about 300, 350.
Wow.
The sound of a V8 engine,
is there anything sweeter?
Nothing sweeter, Phil.
Gets my blood warm, gets it pumping.
And when those horses are running,
it is going to be loud in here like you wouldn't believe.
[engine revving loudly]
[cheering and applause]
When the work whistle blows,
you need to reassemble those engines
and get them up and running as fast as you possibly can.
The very first thing you are going to do
is you are going to
revisit your nightmare
of taking out the plug and draining out the oil.
Put the plug back in,
replace the oil filter,
and pour some new oil into your engine.
Put in these gaskets where the intake manifold is.
The thermostat housing, valve covers,
exhaust manifolds, and spark plugs, four on each side.
That's right, a total of eight.
The water pump, the starter,
and the thing that could
really trip you up today,
might as well call it a disruptor.
It's the distributor-- if you don't get that right,
you will literally hear about it.
You're gonna have a spluttering engine instead
of the beautiful sound of a smooth-running V8.
All the materials you need to get the job
done are laid out on your table.
Really pay attention to the manual.
Once you get your engine assembled,
you're going to roll it across this yellow line.
Quincey then will check whether your engine is ready to go,
along with one of the other mechanics here,
and you will know it's up and running
because you're going to hear that beautiful sound
of a V8 engine.
The winner today will win $4,000.
Whoo!
KEOGHAN: And the last two of you to finish
will be going into overtime.
By the end of the day, before the sun sets,
one more of you will be punching out.
JAKE: I have to work
60, 80 hours a week.
The money definitely would make my life
a lot easier, so I want to make sure
that I'll leave no regrets, nothing on the table.
Is everybody ready to get to work?
-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.
KEOGHAN: All right,
let's get those horses running.
There's going to be some noise in the house
-today, Quincey. -That's right, that's right.
ELLERY: As a person who has been in overtime,
you always have that in the back of your head.
That sets a goal: make sure that you do not
go back there again because you know what it feels like.
Today, I have no intention
of punching out.
ALY: I just think about my family,
you know, that's why I'm here at the end of the day.
I want to make them proud.
I want to go far.
KEOGHAN: $4,000 on the line
for a chance to stay in contention
for the Tough As Nailstitle.
[work whistle blows]
SYNETHIA: Let's go! Stay focused.
KEOGHAN: Ten V8 engines.
-SYNETHIA: Go, Mister! -KEOGHAN: Mister the first
to get to his plug.
Got to get that oil out of the motor.
Is there nothing in it?
I take out the oil plug,
and I'm wondering why the oil isn't coming out.
I don't know what the oil plug is.
QUINCEY: You want to take out
the lowest plug you can see on an engine.
-Yeah. -That's where the oil is at.
Oh, come on.
Let's go, Laura!
This bolt.
KEOGHAN: First person to get this V8 assembled
and start it up is going to get that $4,000.
Is there nothing in it?
I take out the oil plug,
and I'm wondering why the oil isn't coming out.
I don't know what the oil plug is.
Let's go, Laura!
-Come on, girl. -Oh, it's that one.
I did not remove the right bolt,
and whatever it was,
I had to put back into the engine
before moving on to pull out the oil plug.
RENEÉE: There we go.
KEOGHAN: Larron is putting a sealant around
the intake manifold for his gaskets.
Jorge getting his manifold to go over the top.
JORGE: The challenge is really simple.
All it is just nuts and bolts.
But the trick is to not make any crucial mistakes
and do it fast.
Gonna be my best friend today
if you start up.
I've never worked on a motor before,
but I can easily adapt.
Winning is important to me.
I have two little babies at home and a dog.
I could really use that money.
So far, everybody has drained the old oil out
of their V8 engines, replaced the oil filter, put new oil in,
put the gaskets in for the intake manifold,
drop the manifolds on top.
Now they're tightening everything up.
30 foot-pounds of torque going onto these bolts
on the intake manifold.
-Whoo! -KEOGHAN: Sergio is the first
to get his valve covers on.
SERGIO: Today, regardless of whatever takes place,
if my back starts acting up,
I just have to bite down on my mouthpiece,
just keep punching-- I'm gonna fight.
KEOGHAN: And Larron's got a valve cover on,
going with the second.
SYNETHIA: You got this, Mister!
So he's doing the other stuff.
MISTER: I chose to do the hard part first.
I want to get the exhaust manifolds on before
the valve covers because valve covers are so easy.
It's just four bolts for each side.
I ain't going to OT today.
KEOGHAN: Ellery's got his plans out,
he's checking to make sure everything is on properly.
The ability to follow instructions
came from my military training.
Though with that pressure,
I put the valve covers on incorrectly.
But I have no intention of punching out.
I have something to prove.
I belong here,
and I have what it takes to win this.
I want to hear that engine roar.
SYNETHIA: Let's go, Ellery!
KEOGHAN: But you can never count out Jake,
Beth, Jorge, Ilima,
-Laura... -Well, these don't look identical.
...and Aly down on the end.
Let's go, Aly!
KEOGHAN: Remember, Aly finished second
in the last individual competition.
ALY: My strategy was kind of
just stick to the order
that was in the book.
I didn't want to get too ahead of myself.
So far, this challenge
is tougher than I thought it was going to be.
But the hardest part for sure
is going to be the distributor.
KEOGHAN: Sergio and Larron,
side by side and neck and neck.
But look at Mister starting to work on his distributor.
Wow.
We have a race on our hands!
Holy cow, where did that come from?
Sergio and I
are neck and neck installing our starters,
and Mister is already installing his distributor.
We're like, crap.
He's just flown by,
and we had no idea.
SYNETHIA: Let's go, Mister!
KEOGHAN: Mister trying to get that distributor fitted just right.
It has a shaft with a rotor, a connection
that spins in a clockwise direction,
triggering the spark plugs
to fire in each cylinder in a specific order:
one, eight, four, three, six, five, seven, two.
To get the timing right, you've got to make sure
that that rotor is lined up with cylinder number one.
Who's going to be the first to get
their V8 started?
JAKE: Oh, my gosh, what is going on right now?
In the beginning of the challenge,
I was confident because I knew, like, the oil filter,
draining that stuff, and now I'm having a lot of issues.
Trouble getting the bolts in,
my hands were covered in oil, so all these things
are just weighing on me
more and more and making me stress out.
MISTER: One, three, five...
KEOGHAN: Mister making sure
that his ignition wires are connected properly.
They're numbered on the distributor cap,
and if you don't get those wires in the correct order,
the timing's going to be off,
and then the engine won't start properly.
The last two of you
to finish the job will be going into overtime.
We know Mister doesn't want to do that again.
MISTER: No, I do not.
I'm focused now.
I'm here for my family.
I do want to make my dad proud.
I just want to make sure
what he instilled in me,
just hard work and dedication,
can continue and pass it down to my kids.
[straining]
KEOGHAN: Whoa, hold on!
Mister with the first check.
You feeling confident about what you've done today?
Yeah, I've done this a time or two.
KEOGHAN: Larron has crossed the line.
If Mister's engine doesn't start,
we'll be going down to Larron.
Coming up to the moment of truth.
"Come on, please," I'm over there praying.
I need that $4,000.
SYNETHIA: Here we go, Mister!
[engine spluttering]
KEOGHAN: Oh, it's trying, it's trying!
Looks like the timing's off.
Dang!
Oh, my money, I see my money
flying out the window.
I better get this sucker across that line
so I can fix that distributor just right.
RENEÉE: Larron!
Let's go, Larron!
LARRON: My heart is pounding.
I've got my family counting on me.
I got a lot on the line.
-[engine roars] -KEOGHAN: There we go!
-Larron gets the win! -[cheers]
Let's go, Larron!
QUINCEY: Larron...
KEOGHAN: Larron with the win and $4,000,
-Larron, going to you! -[cheering]
The thing that I'm excited about is,
this is one step closer to Tennessee.
-You did it! -Yeah, baby!
LARRON: The picture of life that I have
that I want to make a reality
is to be married, is to have children.
-Awesome, man. -LARRON: To drive
to my family property where my mom and dad are staying,
do things with my children, hunting, baking,
whatever it is.
Enjoy our time together as a family.
-There we go. -KEOGHAN: Okay.
Sergio looking for a start.
-[engine roars] -Whoo!
Whoo!
KEOGHAN: And Ilima will be next for a check.
-Yes! -Yeah, baby!
[engine rumbling]
[engine backfires]
Whoa, we got a backfire.
Check is not good.
-[engine backfires] -ILIMA: The hardest part
is getting my distributor on, but I'm not putting
my head down yet. It's not over till it's over.
-SYNETHIA: Let's go, Mister! -MISTER: Going over the line.
KEOGHAN: Mister looking for a second start.
Can he get it this time?
-[engine roars] -There it is!
Whoo!
KEOGHAN: Jorge rolling his engine across the line.
[engine roars]
[cheering]
And Beth crosses the line.
SYNETHIA: Let's go, Beth!
[engine starts]
[cheering]
Whoo!
KEOGHAN: And Laura's got
-the next check. -Hey, there you go, Laura!
SYNETHIA: You got this, Laura!
[engine starts]
[cheering]
And it starts!
Woohoo!
It was a sigh of relief.
I leaned into my strengths,
which is problem solving.
It worked for me.
And I heard the vroom, vroom. [chuckles]
KEOGHAN: And Ellery crosses the line.
-[cheering] -Now we only have Jake,
Ilima,
and Aly working on their motors.
-Come on. -Here we go.
[engine roars]
[cheering]
[laughs]
All right. It's like he won!
[cheering]
We have three motor mechanics
left on the floor.
Who will be going into overtime?
Aly has gone across the line.
BETH: Yeah, Aly!
KEOGHAN: Jake crosses the line, he's waiting for a check.
If Aly's motor starts,
it is lights out
for Ilima and Jake!
Priming the motor.
Don't start, don't start...
My heart's beating.
Everybody in the room, I'm sure,
could feel my heart beating
because you don't want to be
in this overtime position.
I don't want that stress over my head.
Don't start, don't start, don't start...
I never hoped for somebody to fail so much in my life.
KEOGHAN: Aly needs this to start
to stay out of overtime.
-[engine pops] -Yeah, oh!
-Oh, it wants to go so bad! -Come on.
SERGIO: That's the timing, baby, it's gonna start!
It's gonna start!
Don't start, don't start, please don't start...
[engine rumbling]
KEOGHAN: If Aly's motor starts, it is lights out
for Ilima and Jake.
-Oh, oh! -[engine spluttering]
It wants to go
-so bad. -Come on.
-A little spark. -Come on.
Don't start, don't start, please don't start.
[engine trying to turn over]
-[engine backfires] -ALY: Dude!
KEOGHAN: Distributor is not correct.
Bring that motor back, Aly, and get it to work.
-Here we go, Aly, here we go. -Come on, Aly.
What really worried me was
the firing order, I knew how important it was,
so I need to figure it out.
KEOGHAN: And Ilima pushes her motor across the line.
Jake, it's all on you now.
This motor starts,
you stay out of overtime.
If it doesn't start, you got to fix it.
And Ilima has her motor across the line,
and Aly's got to work on hers.
We are down to just three.
-Here we go, Jake. -KEOGHAN: Feeling nervous?
I got... I was so flustered.
[engine starts]
[cheers]
♪ ♪
[applause]
Good job!
Thank you, God, thank you!
Yeah, I might need to check my shorts when I get home.
I can't believe it. This old pipeliner
lives to fight another day.
[laughs]
I did say that the distributor was going to be the disruptor,
and it did disrupt things today.
-Should we get to it? -Absolutely.
KEOGHAN: Let's go to overtime.
[applause]
♪ ♪
ILIMA: Heading into overtime is definitely nerve-racking.
But at the end of the day,
I'm here for one reason and one reason only,
to give my kids a better future.
I mean, I love Aly to death, but,
you know, it's game time.
-Yeah! -[cheering and applause]
I'm not always the best at bouncing back,
but I don't really have any quit in me,
so it's going to be a battle for sure.
KEOGHAN: Ilima and Aly,
you are now faced with overtime,
a chance for you to fight
your way back into the individual competition.
You're gonna be going head-to-head,
working with these two beautiful trucks.
Aly, I know you love Ford trucks.
Oh, yeah.
I understand you have a 2003 Ford truck.
Oh, yeah, it was my granddad's.
My grandpa would be my biggest cheerleader.
He was when I was playing sports.
He never missed a game,
um, until the day he went to hospice.
He came to my basketball game on the way.
So he would be incredibly proud of me.
KEOGHAN: Now, these two trucks both
ended up with flat tires on the front.
How do you fix that?
Either one of you ever worked with a plug before?
-Yeah. -I have.
You got to get these tires off,
and you are going to fix them.
Can you hear it leaking?
Use this rasping device.
Want to make sure that that hole
is nice and even
and rasped out.
Take one of these plugs.
You see that? See how it's about
half an inch sticking out there, right there?
-Yup. -Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Okay, you got two tires to repair.
First of you to get
both tires repaired,
get inside your truck and start the engine,
will stay in contention for the Tough As Nailstitle.
If you are last,
you will be punching out.
All right, get to the back of your trucks.
On the work whistle!
[work whistle blows]
-You got it, Aly. -Let's go!
KEOGHAN: Ah, interesting, two different techniques.
ILIMA: The work whistle blows,
I'm thinking, get my jack in place
so that when I crack my lug nuts,
I can pump that truck up as fast as I can.
SYNETHIA: Go, Aly, you got this!
KEOGHAN: Aly is loosening up the lug nuts straightaway.
I'm thinking, get the lugs loose,
'cause you don't want to jack the truck up
until that happens, or else you'll have a rough time.
BETH: Come on, Aly.
-Aly's like a powerhouse. -Come on, Aly. You got it.
Ilima has all her lugs off her right front tire.
Ilima, the first to take off a tire.
Looking for that nail.
She sees it.
She's trying to get a good grip on it.
It's really wedged in there.
[Ilima grunts]
There you go, Ilima, nice job.
KEOGHAN: Aly has all the lugs off her first tire.
-Good job, good job! -You got this!
-Come on, come on. -There you go, Aly.
KEOGHAN: Now that Aly has her nail out,
they're both moving on to repairing the hole.
And they're going to be using the rasper tool.
Now, the reason for the rasper is making sure
that there's no debris in there.
'Cause you want to get a really good adhesive bond.
when you put that plug in.
JAKE: Some of them holes, when you go to ream them out,
it's not that easy.
It doesn't always go in there the way you want it.
It's very demanding on your wrists and your arms.
There you go, ream it. There you go!
I was bouncing up and down to try to get that thing in,
focused on figuring out a good rhythm,
then repeating that on the other side.
Damn.
KEOGHAN: Remember, that adhesive is your friend.
It helps move it into the hole easier.
ALY: Oh, that's enough.
-That'll do. -[chuckles]
BETH: There you go.
Now I got to insert a plug
before I fill the air back up
and reinstall the tire.
KEOGHAN: Got the adhesive on.
ILIMA: I put that glue all over
that plug, and I just tried to work that plug in.
KEOGHAN: Got to get some good leverage
from the top of the tire.
-Put your body into it. -SYNETHIA: Let's go, Aly!
KEOGHAN: Both Ilima and Aly are trying to force that plug in.
I know I got to stay focused and I got to stay calm.
That split second that you look up
to see what somebody else is doing,
you could completely fall behind.
KEOGHAN: Ooh!
-Aly getting the first plug. -[cheering]
There you go, Aly.
JAKE: Hammer down, Ilima.
Give it everything you got.
-There you go. -KEOGHAN: She's got her plug done.
Real good, Ilima, there you go.
KEOGHAN: Aly realizes she's got to jack up her truck a little more.
-Got to give yourself some room. -Got to give yourself some room.
They get taller as you put air in them.
KEOGHAN: Looking for 40 PSI.
[air hissing]
JAKE: Check for 40, check for 40.
Good, good, good, come on, Ilima!
KEOGHAN: It's an even race.
Ilima has her right
front tire on, she's got three lugs.
Let's go, Aly, get those lugs on.
[whooping]
Ilima using that tool beautifully.
Eye-hand coordination--
both of you looking pro.
There's a lot of back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Man, I'm back there sweating, too,
like, if I'm in there working.
-Yeah! -KEOGHAN: One of you staying
in contention for the Tough As Nailstitle.
-One of you punching out! - Let's go, let's go, let's go!
One of you staying in contention for the Tough As Nailstitle,
one of you punching out.
It ain't over!
Whoa, Ilima got her six lug nuts done now.
She's getting a torque wrench on there.
JAKE: Smart move there.
KEOGHAN: Smart move.
Ilima drops the jack
so she can get some real torque
onto those lug nuts.
You hear that torque wrench clicking?
[tire iron clanging]
GROUP: Ooh...
That was a little aggressive, wasn't it?
JAKE: There you go. Yeah, come on!
-Come on, Ilima. -Doing good, girl, keep it up. Good.
ILIMA: In the individual competition,
I realized that I was running back for every single socket.
KEOGHAN: Ilima is moving her cart to the other side.
ILIMA: The smartest thing for me to do was
bring everything that I need to where I need it.
KEOGHAN: Let's hear that torque wrench crack, Aly.
There it is.
[clanging]
Now Aly going over to the other side.
Now it's rinse and repeat.
Come on, y'all.
KEOGHAN: Who wants this more?
RENEÉE: Aly is probably two seconds behind,
but she already loosened her bolts
on the other side,
so it's very close.
JAKE: Come on, girls!
Almost there!
KEOGHAN: Remember what you learned the first time around.
This is when you got to give it everything.
BETH: You got it, Aly, here we go.
KEOGHAN: Oh, the sweat
pouring off Ilima! She wants this bad.
Aly wants this bad.
Now she's got her second tire plugged up.
-ILIMA: Come on. -Everything you've got, Ilima!
[air hissing]
She's putting air in it.
ILIMA: I'm having to pump air into it
to get some resistance so that I can get that
tool through that rubber.
QUINCEY: Oh, easy peasy.
KEOGHAN: Wow, whoo!
That went in crystal.
[cheering and applause]
[air hissing]
Looking for 40 PSI.
JAKE: You got it, Ilima, come on.
-Keep it up! -ELLERY: Come on, Aly!
-SYNETHIA: Let's go, Ilima! -Let's go, come on!
KEOGHAN: Come on.
SERGIO: Breathe, Aly.
QUINCEY: Oh, they're neck and neck.
KEOGHAN: Both great competitors.
First one to get both tires on,
get in the truck, and start it up stays in it.
-Here we go, here we go! -Come on, come on, come on...
KEOGHAN: Ilima's already on to the torque wrench.
Oh, my heart's pumping.
I got to start the truck up.
Here we go, Aly! Here we go!
KEOGHAN: One more to go.
We hear that torque wrench click.
Bringing her tools back to the start.
JAKE: Get in that truck and start it!
KEOGHAN: And Ilima running to the other side of the truck!
[cheering]
All we got to do is start that engine!
[engine starts]
-[cheering and applause] -Ilima with the win!
[exhales]
[cheering and applause]
-I'm so proud of you. -I'm proud of you, too.
ILIMA: Cranking up that vintage motor,
it was the best feeling in the world-- I, I made it.
You know, I-I,
I didn't apply for the show, my family applied me.
I feel like I can't let them down,
so I'm not going to give up.
And I want everybody on that truck to know that
I'm a threat,
that that money's not going to come easy.
They're gonna have to get past me.
Can you tell me what was going
through your mind, Ilima?
My kids
and my family.
They filled out an application for me
because they saw something in me
that I didn't see in myself.
Aly, you were up against some tough competition.
Oh, yeah, I wouldn't want to lose to anybody else.
-Is that right? -Yeah.
I mean, just getting here
and to meet these people
who I now call family
and I will call family
the rest of my life, I'm, I'm forever grateful.
-Got you, Aly. -We got you. -ALY: Oh, I know.
-You're tough. -Right.
SERGIO: You're a tough girl.
-Love you, bro. -Shoot...
BETH: Shoot, shoot...
Aly and I talk a lot.
I see a lot of my younger self
in her.
She told me, "I want to be like you when I get older."
And, you know, I'm here to tell Aly that
she has all the skills.
She's an incredible person.
And at this point, with her being eliminated
from the individual challenge, I want to win this, you know,
for her because
I want to make her proud.
KEOGHAN: I do need to
ask you to punch out of the individual competition.
-[sighs] -Love you, dude.
-Congrats. -Good job, buddy.
[sighs]
The individual competition has
made me realize I'm a lot stronger
than, um... [voice breaks]
[exhales]
It's taught me that I cry,
which I don't do back home.
So that's going to be fun for my family to see.
Uh... [chuckles]
Phil, I may not have won your truck,
but I got one waiting for me back home.
But I know they have my back back home.
They're going to be proud of me no matter what.
Just coming here
and being here, way out of my comfort zone.
But I actually have a family here, and I don't feel alone.
I love Dirty Hands, and I'm just excited
that I still get to experience this with them.
I still get to learn, I still get to grow,
and hopefully leave here a better person.
[cheering and applause]
Quincey, it's been an honor to have you back
here on Tough As Nails.
It's an honor, man, it's an absolute pleasure.
KEOGHAN: All right, get some rest.
Tomorrow we hit it again in the team competition.
ALY: Cheeseburgers for everybody!
[laughter]
I'm proud of you. I sincerely am proud of you.
Thank you so much.
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KEOGHAN: Next time onTough As Nails...
Today you are going to be working on two squid boats.
These nets weigh 16,000 pounds.
-JAKE: I can't roll it that quick! -SERGIO: Oh, my God.
-SYNETHIA: Oh, my God. -ALY: I'm here for a purpose.
KEOGHAN: Here we go.
Do not be left in the cold today.
Look at the power coming through that sledgehammer!
Ice flying everywhere!
SYNETHIA: You got this!
KEOGHAN: Oh, this is gonna be close!
[gasps]