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Watch Me Work On My Right Front Spring | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  All right, a day in the shop with the herminator.
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  What are you doing over there, Brody?
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  I have. Checked in spark.
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  I just swapped engines on my cart and just want to make sure
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  all the electrical. 'S working right?
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  OK, so show us how what you're doing there so.
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  Hold the spark plug out of the head.
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  Hooked it up. Grounded onto a bolt.
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  And then let's see it's in. Gear.
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  Oh, I see it. Yeah, We got a we got a spark in
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  there. So that means your ignition's
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  working. You have fire.
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  Yeah. Good stuff.
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  OK, so we're going to do a nice little show for you today.
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  Brody is my son-in-law. Brody is married to my youngest
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  daughter, Brittany. And this is Brody's company,
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  Fusion Carts. These carts are extremely
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  famous, especially on the West Coast.
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  The people that made them famous really was Kyle Larson, Rico
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  Abrew. But yeah, so Brody races the
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  hell out of these, and he builds them.
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  So if you want an outlaw cart, go to Fusion Carts.
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  He does them all right here. And John Werner, John's over
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  here. John, what are you doing today?
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  B Nuts and tires. Those are nice Van K wheels.
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  Yeah, Brody helped design those. You guys are getting ready to go
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  racing it looks like Oklahoma. Oklahoma.
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  All right, so we share the shop. I love Brody, love John.
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  We work well together and before I show you what I'm doing, let's
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  go over to Brody's jig shop where he literally bends the
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  tubing, welds them. I mean, Brody does everything.
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  So over here now, one thing I love about my new lights, the
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  LED lights, they are motion sensor.
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  So if you watch this over here, it's dark here, but watch
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  they're little motion sensor out there.
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  We're cheap asses. So you know, I'd show up.
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  We call this the fabrication area, which you've all watched
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  these videos before, but you haven't seen this.
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  And so if you look close, you can see that a a go Kart.
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  Here's the out outline of a go Kart and that's Brody.
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  Come on over here. This is the man of the hour.
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  So you've got 2 go Kart jigs here.
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  Explain what's going on. Talk to the camera.
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  So on this side I'm like 3/4 of the way done but so our open
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  intermediate frames are built and then on this side is our box
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  stock frames. As you can see I'm I'm rolling
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  on the open stuff right now but I I pre bend all my tubing and
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  it doesn't look like it's sorted but I know what everything is
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  and then I just jig it up and notch it and Weld it together.
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  Yeah, so being crafty with your space, so actually this is where
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  the right rear tire would go. The driver sits here and then
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  over here. You turned it around, right?
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  This is a box stock. This is for a younger children.
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  These are for the young kids. Yeah.
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  And this is the front up here, right Rd.
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  Yeah, that way if one day I have somebody helping me, 'cause I do
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  everything right now, but we don't get in each others way
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  because there's a process. I start at one end and work my
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  way to the other. And if two of us are working in
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  the future, we won't be running each other over.
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  Brody's a badass. He has saved my life.
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  He's helping me in the shop. I Just a shout out to Mittler
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  Brothers, Mike Mittler. We lost Mike, but he designed a
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  lot of stuff. Brody, tell me about this tubing
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  Notcher up. I talked to Mittler Brothers
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  today. Yeah.
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  So it cut my time like I I can't even measure how much faster it
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  is to notch tubing. Before I was putting it in a
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  drill press and then finishing it with a barrel Sander and I
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  can notch a tube in like no time at all.
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  So this is the vice. I just put it in there.
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  I'm not going to do it cuz I don't know all my angles right.
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  But it's adjustable this way. It's adjustable height wise.
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  You lock it down, turn it on, feed it in.
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  Ends up and it ends up kind of like that.
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  But shout out to our buddies out here in Wright City, out towards
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  Saint Charles. I know this is going all over
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  the world, but Wright City, MO, this is a this thing is very
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  famous and all the NASCAR teams have them.
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  But thank you, Brody. Yeah.
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  OK. Let's see what the Hermitators
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  up to today. Charlie caught me at the right
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  time, said he's coming over around 2:00.
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  So I've been doing all the maintenance on the car and we're
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  coming down to the very end. I packed the rear wheel
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  bearings, but Charlie walked in. I said oh good timing.
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  What I'm going to show you I'm doing today.
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  I'm checking the right front pressure on my spring.
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  The the verbiage we use Ford in racing is load.
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  It is a load means the pressure on a spring.
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  So a lot of people will go what kind of loads you're running?
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  Well, the load means the pressure on the right front
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  spring, the left front spring, the right rear spring, you know
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  the pressure on the spring. So we've got a great company
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  right here, Weirs out of out of Wisconsin, Chad Weirs.
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  This is a really good piece of equipment and the sensor is
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  right here, right behind the Wheeler.
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  This this measures the pressure. OK, that's called a sensor.
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  And and and then this controls this is an actuator and that
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  tells me how many inches I'm smashing it.
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  So I'm going to get you to the 50 yard line, but I'm not giving
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  you a home run. But this is a really crafty
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  piece of equipment. Back in the day, we'd put our
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  car on scales and and a lot still do a lot of super late
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  model guys love their scales. I don't have time for scales,
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  but it doesn't work for me anymore.
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  So we do this. So let's go Charlie, here's what
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  we could do. So let's back this off.
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  This number here is important. We're going to start out at the
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  20 inch number. So you want to you see what I'm
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  doing here, but come down here to this piece.
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  So I want this number 20 inch. So I'm screwing in on the Jack
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  bolt and I want 20 inches. So right, right there.
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  OK, Now, Charlie, that's all we're going to give them.
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  OK, that's all. That's all we're going to give
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  you. But what I'm going to show you
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  is painstaking and probably Charlie's going to Fast forward
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  this part. But so I got the 20 inch number
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  and I'm going to go 2019181716. Now these are all inches.
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  OK, So I'm going to write a I'm going to write a number down
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  here and it's it's this number. So I'm going to go 2019181716.
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  OK. And I'm going to, I'm going to
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  measure it now. The real number is like the
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  18/17/16. The the top number doesn't mean
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  much. We got two things we're checking
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  here, the rate of my Ibach right front spring.
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  So you see your Ibach, this is the brand spring I run in the
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  right front. So so I run a certain rate
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  spring and then so we know what the 20 inch number is.
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  And now this is pretty cool. So this actuator now we're going
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  to go to the 19 inch number and we don't want you to see this.
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  Charlie almost made a mistake and kissed a snake 19 right
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  there. OK, so I'm smashing it down.
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  This is this is giving me the inches.
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  This is the actuator and this is the sensor.
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  So I hope you guys enjoyed that. I think that's a pretty good
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  piece of information right there.
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  When I'm done with this, come on back and we are going to take
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  this right front the hub off and we're going to pack the wheel
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  bearing. We're going to put we're going
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  to grease the wheel bearing. But in a little bit we're going
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  to show you how I packed the wheel bearing.
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  And we've been doing service on the car for the last few days
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  put all new front suspension pieces on because we ran a
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  really rough racetrack last time.
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  So yeah, we we did, we did a lot.
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  Come on over here, Charlie. Yeah, we a lot of Rd. raft
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  quarter panel report, quarter panel report.
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  So a lot of people when I'm when I'm I'm one of the cleanest
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  drivers are yes, I am. But when the terminators racing
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  you, they like to turn, they like to turn left on me because
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  I'm an old NASCAR dude. They like to wear me out.
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  So this right here, just show the quarter panel if you don't
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  mind yet. So you know we got all these
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  stainless steel. This is something really neat to
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  see here. So let's say weirs also makes
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  these this is like a stainless. It's all stuff flexible.
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  So in dirt racing, you're always getting into each other whether
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  you want to or not. If you don't get into somebody
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  or you don't get into the wall, you're lucky.
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  So once again, these are also Chad weirs and this is what we
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  use for body brackets. So sometimes I'll put 2
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  together. So you know, this is, this is
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  nice, but I'll put 2 together and then makes it stronger.
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  And there's some areas of the car where I got 3 together.
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  But during one winter I had too much time on my hand and I made
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  this. But I'm really happy I didn't
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  make it 'cause you should see some of my friends, it's a
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  disaster. Some of my friends got all these
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  things in a box and it's, it's complete chaos.
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  And then these are bolt nuts that keep our body together.
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  I got washers, I got nuts, bolts, sorry.
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  And then the nuts. So it's it's constant, it's
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  constant maintenance. Everybody said, Herman, since
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  you retired, what do you do? I'm like just work on the dirt
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  car 24/7. So, OK, when you come back,
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  we'll be packing the wheel bearings.