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Ep. 30 I Sweated My Ass Off Installing This Gauge! XJ Cherokee · Jeep Talk Show

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  Yeah, love it when we open up a window
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  Anyway, this is episode 30.
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  That's 0-3-0.
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  Because we're hopeful in having a, you
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  My name's Tony and it's
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  And we'll talk more about
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  when you're not off-road.
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  they seem to like it, so.
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  I'm not getting any complaints, so I
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  guess that's always a good sign.
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  So anyway, last episode I was telling you
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  about a potential blown
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  head gasket on the new,
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  or new to us, 99 Jeep Cherokee.
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  And I don't know.
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  I have a tendency to think that it
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  probably is, but I really
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  haven't had any problems with it.
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  Overheating, it runs a little hot.
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  It doesn't run overly hot.
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  It kind of acts like the 98's acting,
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  which I think I mentioned on last show.
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  Let's see, Wayne's
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  checked in, CAD tab 27.
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  Greetings, Wayne.
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  Greetings from the
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  United States of America.
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  The land where, well, at least most of
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  the land that doesn't shake.
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  Wayne is in New Zealand.
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  He's been an interviewee on XJTalk a few
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  times, and also a
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  moderator on XJTalk.com.
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  And if you're curious at all about what's
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  going on in New Zealand,
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  and all those rattles and shakes they've
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  been having, you can get on XJTalk.com,
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  and Wayne will tell you all about the
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  sad, sordid details of it.
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  And he'll also add
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  it's not easy being green.
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  And he's not talking about being
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  eco-friendly when he says that.
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  He has a green Jeep.
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  And right now he says paint them green.
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  You can't paint them green.
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  Some of them have to have color.
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  Some of them have to have pizzazz.
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  Like red.
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  You know, blue is even pizzazzi.
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  Or it can be.
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  So anyway, if you've seen any of the
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  posts on XJTalk.com about the potential
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  head gasket leak on the 99,
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  there's a video that I shot with my handy
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  dandy cell phone showing bubbles coming
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  out of the radiator.
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  You know, I don't know to me.
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  I've never really seen a
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  head gasket problem on a Jeep.
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  So to me, it's from what
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  I've read and what I've heard.
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  That's kind of a classic, classic sign.
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  So I'll probably tear
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  it down and get into it.
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  But for right now,
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  it's able to be driven.
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  I'll probably drive it to work here in
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  the next week or so just to
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  see if it's good for, you know,
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  a good 20, 40, 20 mile one way trip, 40
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  mile round trip during the day.
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  And here in summertime when it's hot.
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  I recently installed the B&M transmission
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  temperature gauge on my 98 Jeep Cherokee
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  and AW4 transmission line.
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  And I had a decision to make whether I
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  was going to put it on the output that
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  takes the fluid that
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  leaves the transmission,
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  which would be hot or hotter than
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  hopefully, when it returns.
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  So I've got the battery coming into the radiator.
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  And since I have the towing package on
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  the 98, it goes into a factory
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  transmission cooler.
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  And then comes back to the transmission,
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  hopefully cooler than when it left.
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  So there's a bit of a discussion about
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  whether the line of the sensor for the
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  temperature gauge
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  should be on the output,
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  the hotter side of the transmission fluid
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  or the input or the return,
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  which would be the cooler side.
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  And it seemed to be that most people and
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  from what I read online, most people like
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  to put it on the output, the hotter side.
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  Because if there's a problem with the
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  transmission getting too hot, they'd like
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  to see it before the cooling system masks
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  the temperature rather than later.
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  So that's what I did. And I was a little
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  afraid that it was just going to take
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  hours and hours and
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  hours to put that thing on.
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  And it was, but it wasn't for hooking up
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  the sensor. The sensor was very
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  straightforward and simple.
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  In fact, I even sped the process along a
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  little bit by using a Dremel tool and a
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  cutoff wheel on the Dremel tool and
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  sliced right through that transmission
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  fluid line very easily and quite quickly,
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  like under a minute, I'm sure.
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  And put the pressure fittings and the
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  Teflon tape and a very nice
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  kit. Went together just fine.
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  The next five hours, because it probably
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  took me 30 minutes to put the sensor on
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  the line, the next five hours that I
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  spent was sweating my
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  ass off for one thing.
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  I mean, literally, I had soaked two
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  t-shirts. I'm just not used to being out
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  in the heat. I work with computers. I'm
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  in a cubicle all day.
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  So I sweat bad before, but I'm definitely
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  not used to the heat. So anyway, that
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  takes a lot out of you
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  when you sweat that much too.
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  But for the next five hours, I was
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  finding a place to wire up the gauge.
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  It's electrical. It needs power.
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  So I had to run the wire coming up from
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  the sensor and run it into the dash,
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  which that was pretty easy
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  and pretty straightforward.
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  But I had to remove the dash. And since I
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  had removed the dash, earlier in the
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  week, I had gone to visit
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  my sick aunt in the hospital.
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  And during the drive over there, I was
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  adjusting the tilt steering. And the
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  little lever just kind of went limp. And
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  I couldn't move the steering wheel.
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  So fortunately, I had a spare steering
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  column that Matt had given me off of a
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  2001 XJ. And I was able to
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  see how that was hooked up.
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  And it's just a little cable with a
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  couple of little cylinder-like ends
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  crimped onto either end of it. And it
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  goes into the two mechanisms.
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  One mechanism releases the tilt so it can
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  be moved up and down. And the other
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  mechanism is the little lever that you
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  pull to release the lock on the tilt.
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  So I was actually able to not only see
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  how it went together, but use that cable
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  off the 2001 steering column to replace
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  it, the broken one on the 98.
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  It took a little bit of getting that
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  thing out of there. Fortunately, again, I
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  had the steering column that wasn't in
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  the vehicle that I could actually see how
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  to get that cable out and get it back in.
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  So I probably spent 30 minutes on that at
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  least. Maybe a little longer. But at
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  least 30 minutes in the 98 in the awkward
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  position of trying to get up underneath
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  the dash to replace that little cable.
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  And then I went ahead and not wanting to
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  lose the cable that was broken because
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  really all that happened was that the
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  cable slid out of that little cylinder
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  that it was crimped on on the end.
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  So I didn't really want to lose that and
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  I thought maybe I could re-crimp it. So I
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  ran a little, I think it was a 1 16th
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  inch drill bit through that little
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  cylinder to clear out any
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  crimp that was already there.
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  And slid the cable back in. The cable
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  didn't even break. It was as long as it
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  was before. But I slid the cable back in
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  and then with the vice that I had on my
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  bench I crimped it and I
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  put it so I wouldn't lose it.
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  I put it back in the
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  2001 tilt steering wheel.
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  So now I've got a spare. I didn't really
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  want to use that one because if it came
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  apart once it might come apart again. But
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  at least in a pinch I could redo that.
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  Swap that other one in
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  there that I repaired.
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  Anyway, so while I was there I found it
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  was pretty easy to find the 12 volts that
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  I needed to run the meter. And I was not
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  planning on hooking up the little light
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  that's in the meter.
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  I thought, man, I'm going to do this
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  later. I'm just too sweaty and I'm
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  getting too tired messing with this. And
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  then I got to thinking about it and I
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  thought, well this is stupid.
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  I've got this whole thing apart. I've got
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  the whole dash underneath the steering
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  column off there and all the screws
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  underneath are out. There's plates off.
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  The metal plate that's behind the plastic
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  that basically snaps onto the metal.
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  That's out of the way. It's all right
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  there. Take the time to find the 12 volts
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  that goes on and off
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  with the light switch.
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  I was a little lucky because I have an
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  aftermarket alarm system that I installed
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  from one of our past advertisers. Very
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  nice alarm system. Command, commando?
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  Yeah, commando. It's not a name brand
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  thing but it's really neat. It has a
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  remote start and microwave motion
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  detector and all kinds of goodies.
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  Anyway, I knew where several of the
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  things were but that alarm system doesn't
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  need to know or doesn't need to control
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  the lights on the cluster.
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  That's what I needed to come on. That's
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  the light that I needed to come on the
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  meter. I needed to come on
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  when the cluster comes on.
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  I got my little digital volt meter and
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  started poking the wires. There's a point
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  on the probe and I was actually able to
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  penetrate the little plastic covering,
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  the insulation on each wire.
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  Then once I'd find a wire that had 12
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  volts, I could turn the cluster lights
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  off to see if that was the one. That took
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  a little while. That's a little
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  irritating having to go through wires and
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  try to find the right ones. Especially
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  when you have to take your hand off the
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  probe, put the probe down, turn the light
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  switch off, put the probe back up in the
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  same place and wonder, "Am I still
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  getting a good
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  reading through this cable?"
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  Then put it down, turn the light back on,
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  put it back. It would have been a little
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  handier. I'm sure they sell something
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  that you can actually put on the wire and
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  it will hold it on there so that you can
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  just check it faster that way and verify
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  that the voltage is going
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  on and off as you switch it.
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  Anyway, I finally did find the proper
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  wire. Actually, I don't know if it's the
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  proper wire or not, but it's a wire that
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  does have the 12 volts on and off with
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  the switch. I did find later, I didn't
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  even think about it until after I'd
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  hooked it up, I wonder if it will dim.
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  The light on the B&M transmission
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  temperature gauge will dim and it does.
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  I think I did get the right cable, the
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  right wire, the right line. That's hooked
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  up. There really is no good place, no
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  good vision-wise place to put this 2-inch
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  gauge in the Jeep. At least not in my 98
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  and at least not in my estimation.
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  I thought one of the really cool places
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  was right in front of the plastic that
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  you're right in front of the handle for
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  the 4-wheel drive. As I suspected, the
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  lever will actually cover part of that
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  gauge. I don't like that. It doesn't look
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  like a very professional installation to
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  me. It doesn't look like
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  it's very well thought out.
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  Another person that I'd read about doing
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  this installation had mounted on the
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  passenger side of the console. That was
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  very visible to the driver. You would
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  have to look down to the side, but it's
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  transmission temperature. You shouldn't
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  be going 100 miles an hour and needing to
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  look over there to see what the
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  transmission temperature is.
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  That's acceptable. The only thing is that
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  I know from experience with my older
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  little Gooseneck cell phone holder there
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  that even that thing that's been out of
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  the way still gets hit by people's knees.
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  I couldn't help but think that gauge
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  mounted to the side of the center console
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  up there in front of the passenger seat
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  in a little ways is going to be in the
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  way of a passenger. I
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  didn't want to put it there.
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  I had pretty much already ruled out
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  putting in the 3-gauge A-pillar mount
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  that I had bought because I didn't think
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  it had a proper angle on it. I thought
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  the gauges might be... It seemed to me
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  that it was really something that you
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  would put on a vehicle that had a
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  windshield that had more of a slope to it
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  so that the gauges would be more facing
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  towards you. I was concerned that they
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  would be facing up too high.
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  I tried the A-pillar gauge. Oh, it's a
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  pod. That's right. That's what it's
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  called. I tried the pod in there just to
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  see how it would look. It looked
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  acceptable. There's a little bit of an
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  angle to it, but not so much that you
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  can't read the gauges and not so much
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  where it looks goofy.
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  So I went ahead and went that route. Now
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  the only problem that I have with it is
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  I've got one gauge and two empty holes.
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  So I went ahead and ordered a vacuum
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  gauge. This was actually a post that I
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  put up several months ago about what 3
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  gauges would you select?
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  What 3 gauges would you select if you had
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  an A-pillar 3 gauge pod? I knew I was
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  going to have a transmission temperature
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  gauge in there, but what are the others?
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  Some people said oil temperature, which I
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  guess is okay. If I know what the coolant
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  temperature is, then I have a pretty good
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  idea what the oil temperature is, I feel.
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  I may be wrong on that. I've never
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  measured the oil temperature, and I don't
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  understand how critical or why that would
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  be critical. Of course, there's some
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  people that would say there's no reason
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  to measure the
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  transmission temperature either.
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  I mean, if you take an IR temperature
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  sensor and put it on there, you can have
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  a pretty good idea. Well, I'm thinking
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  about taking the transmission lines off
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  of the radiator to help my highway heat
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  creep problem, and I wanted to know what
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  the temperature was of the transmission
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  because I don't want to tear up my
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  transmission in the process.
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  Even though I've been told by several
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  people that an additional aftermarket
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  transmission cooler is more than enough
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  to keep the transmission cool. Now I will
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  know with the
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  transmission fluid temperature gauge.
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  So anyway, I ordered two more gauges
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  today. I ordered the VIA air pressure
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  gauge, and I ordered a vacuum gauge
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  because the engine vacuum will tell me
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  it's a real good thing to
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  know as far as fuel economy.
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  It also gives you a good idea about the
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  performance of the engine and how things
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  are going with it, you know, because you
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  get used to seeing what the engine vacuum
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  is as you drive it day to day or on the
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  highway and so on and so forth.
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  You have a good idea, a good feel for the
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  vacuum of the engine. And also too, as
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  long as you keep the vacuum high, that
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  means that the throttle body isn't wide
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  open and letting the air pressure go low.
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  If the throttle body is not wide open,
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  that means you're not dumping a lot of
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  fuel into the intake. So it's an economy
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  thing. You can drive more economic by
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  watching the vacuum, the engine vacuum.
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  So now the air pressure gauge is kind of
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  going to just be a filler for now because
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  what I'm planning on doing with it, I
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  figured this would be a really neat idea
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  since I don't want to go and spend money
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  for an air compressor right now.
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  I can go ahead and get one of those VIA
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  air 2.5 gallon tanks and mount it towards
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  the rear of the jeep on driver's side
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  past the transfer case. There's a spot
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  right there that that particular tank
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  will fit underneath, or I'm sorry, the
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  unibody will stick down below that tank
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  so it'll kind of protect it.
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  And it fits behind the transfer case.
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  There's just space there. So I've seen
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  another installation like that. So I'm
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  fairly confident they'll fit well there.
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  And then what I'll do is I'll just use
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  that tank. I'll just fill it up with my
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  air compressor at the house.
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  Or if I can find an odd gas station that
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  still has a real air compressor, I can
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  fill it up there. And with the gauge in
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  the A-pillar pod, I'll be able to see how
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  much air is left in the tank. And then,
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  you know, know at a glance
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  if I need to fill it up again.
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  And then later I'll get a probably a VIA
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  air compressor and mount that and hook it
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  up. And then I'll have a switch with the
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  overhead switches that I have where I can
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  kick that on and fill up the
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  tank, fill up the air tank.
• 21:03
  But the neat thing is, is that with the
• 21:06
  air tank, that means I'll have onboard
• 21:08
  air. It'll be limited, of course. But the
• 21:11
  really nice thing will be I'll have a
• 21:15
  compressed air system. What am I trying
• 21:19
  to say? A compressed air
• 21:21
  reservoir for my air horn.
• 21:23
  I had two situations today where it would
• 21:26
  have just been very advantageous, if not
• 21:31
  satisfying, to use an air horn. You know,
• 21:35
  those people that they feel that if they
• 21:37
  signal it's okay to pull within, you
• 21:40
  know, three feet of your front bumper,
• 21:42
  you know, because they're in a hurry.
• 21:45
  That's fine. They can be in a hurry. I
• 21:47
  just wrote his ass. But it would have
• 21:48
  been a lot more fun to hit that 110, 130
• 21:54
  decibel air horn whenever he did it. So,
• 21:59
  yep, yep, looking forward to the air
• 22:00
  horn. And with that source of air, I
• 22:04
  should be able to use it,
• 22:06
  at least in short bursts.
• 22:08
  So let's see. Looking over here at the
• 22:11
  chat room, for those of you that are not
• 22:14
  aware, we have a live show every
• 22:16
  Wednesday, 8 p.m. Central Time. And it's
• 22:19
  on Ustream. Ustream.tv if you're not
• 22:22
  familiar with it. And you can actually
• 22:24
  watch the show live and interact with me
• 22:27
  and the other members that are watching
• 22:29
  the show or listening to it.
• 22:31
  And you can just go to the xjtalk.com,
• 22:34
  the very front page. There's a little
• 22:36
  window there. And when we're on, that
• 22:39
  little window will be active. And you'll
• 22:41
  be able to hear the show
• 22:43
  and see the show at times.
• 22:44
  The thrust of the podcast was really just
• 22:47
  to have a weekly show and interview
• 22:49
  people and talk about things like what
• 22:51
  I'm talking about tonight. And just have
• 22:54
  the recording up so you could listen to
• 22:55
  it whenever you wanted to or download it.
• 22:57
  And just listening to it from the site.
• 23:01
  And then I thought, well, I'm going to
• 23:02
  put it live on Ustream at the same time.
• 23:04
  So the Ustream is kind of an
• 23:05
  afterthought. But you're more than
• 23:07
  welcome to get in, get
• 23:08
  into our chat room and chat.
• 23:10
  Anyway, going back, looking at the chat
• 23:12
  room here that you people listening to
• 23:14
  the podcast may not be aware of. But
• 23:19
  anyway, VW Fool Y has
• 23:22
  joined us along with Wayne.
• 23:24
  And just sitting here seeing what, just
• 23:26
  kind of catching up with what VW Fool Y
• 23:29
  is saying. Without, let's see. The air
• 23:34
  psi gauge is a good one for watching
• 23:36
  cooling system. If pressurize while on
• 23:43
  turtle, then you have a leak.
• 23:45
  Hmm. I don't know. It's a closed system.
• 23:50
  So I would only be watching the air tank.
• 23:53
  So I guess, no. Pressure would only go
• 23:58
  down if I had a leak. So I don't guess.
• 24:00
  So I'm just talking about an onboard air
• 24:02
  system without an air compressor.
• 24:05
  Okay. No, I don't, I don't know. Maybe he
• 24:07
  and Wayne are talking about something. I
• 24:09
  didn't read all the, all the comments
• 24:11
  there. I didn't want a lot of dare dare.
• 24:13
  Anyway, welcome to the, welcome to the
• 24:15
  live show VW Fool Y.
• 24:18
  Thank you for showing up.
• 24:19
  So, so anyway, that's what I've got
• 24:21
  planned. I've got a couple of gauges
• 24:23
  coming in. I bought both of those, both
• 24:25
  those gauges and the tubing to hook up
• 24:30
  the, the vacuum gauge through amazon.com.
• 24:33
  And at X-ray talk, we've got a little
• 24:35
  thing going on that I actually picked up
• 24:37
  on from listening to another podcast
• 24:40
  where there's an affiliate
• 24:41
  program that amazon.com has.
• 24:44
  And if, if, if your website has a link
• 24:48
  set up, like we have for X-ray talk.com
• 24:52
  you can actually get a little percentage
• 24:53
  off of each sale, each sale that somebody
• 24:58
  makes at amazon.com. And it's really cool
• 25:00
  because it's not like they're charging,
• 25:02
  Amazon's charging you
• 25:03
  any, anything extra.
• 25:05
  You pay the same low price, get the same
• 25:08
  customer service, the same fast shipping
• 25:10
  that you would normally get from
• 25:12
  amazon.com. But if you go to, to the link
• 25:16
  that we have set up on the homepage of
• 25:18
  X-ray talk.com, if you click on that link
• 25:20
  first, it'll take you to X-ray to
• 25:23
  amazon.com. And then you
• 25:25
  can make your purchase.
• 25:26
  And when you do that, X-ray talk.com will
• 25:29
  get a few percent of that sale. And
• 25:31
  again, it doesn't cost you anything
• 25:33
  different. There's no money added to that
• 25:38
  for that, for us to have that privilege
• 25:41
  of getting a few cents for each of those,
• 25:45
  each of those purchases that you make.
• 25:47
  So it's a, it's a really cool deal and
• 25:50
  I'm pretty excited about it. Somebody
• 25:52
  made a purchase today and they told me
• 25:54
  about it and it's not showing up yet. It
• 25:57
  looks like it will not show up until it's
• 26:00
  actually shipped. Which kind of makes
• 26:02
  sense because, you know, somebody could
• 26:04
  always cancel the order and then there's
• 26:05
  no reason to, you
• 26:07
  know, get your hopes up.
• 26:08
  So like I've put in the post on Xray
• 26:11
  talk.com, help out the site and, you
• 26:14
  know, get the product that you were going
• 26:16
  to get anyway and pay the same amount you
• 26:18
  were going to pay for it anyway. And it's
• 26:20
  a win-win. So at least
• 26:22
  that's the way I look at it.
• 26:24
  Unfortunately, I can't, it doesn't seem
• 26:28
  to work very well for me if I'm buying
• 26:32
  something since it's the same login. I
• 26:35
  tried that because I've made a couple of
• 26:37
  purchases. And let's see, Wayne, are you
• 26:39
  trying to call? Let's see. Yeah, maybe
• 26:42
  so. Let me see. Let's try, I think maybe
• 26:45
  I missed a call from Wayne. That's
• 26:46
  strange. It didn't pop
• 26:48
  up. Let's try calling Wayne.
• 26:51
  So anyway, order from my amazon.com. Just
• 26:54
  go to Xray talk.com and click on the
• 26:57
  link. And then, you know, if you want to
• 26:59
  buy a house or something like that, that
• 27:01
  would work out really well percentage
• 27:03
  wise for us. Hey Wayne, how's it going?
• 27:05
  I'm good about yourself.
• 27:06
  Oh, just fine. Did I miss your call?
• 27:09
  Yeah, I thought I'd call in while I'm
• 27:10
  pretty early off work today.
• 27:11
  Excellent. Thank you. No, I didn't see it
• 27:13
  pop up. I just saw a little notification,
• 27:16
  like whenever somebody adds you to their
• 27:18
  contacts or something. And I went over
• 27:20
  there to look at it while I was talking
• 27:22
  and it looked like I
• 27:22
  had missed your call.
• 27:24
  Hey, how's things going? Is
• 27:25
  it still shaky over there?
• 27:27
  Yeah, it's crazy times again.
• 27:29
  Man, I just, I was really hopeful. You
• 27:31
  know, like you, I'm sorry, for the, the
• 27:34
  audience is not aware. Like I was saying
• 27:36
  earlier, Wayne is in New Zealand,
• 27:38
  Christchurch, New Zealand. And of course
• 27:40
  they've, they've had several quite
• 27:42
  devastating earthquakes there.
• 27:44
  And fortunately, Wayne hasn't had any, I
• 27:50
  don't want to, I don't want to understate
• 27:51
  this Wayne. You have not experienced any
• 27:54
  loss of life. You still have a home, but
• 27:57
  you have this constant, almost constant
• 27:59
  shaking going on and, and your home has
• 28:01
  suffered, suffered damage.
• 28:03
  Fortunately, your Jeep is still, still
• 28:05
  doing, doing well. However, your, your
• 28:07
  big screen TV lost its, its battle a
• 28:11
  couple of weeks ago, I believe.
• 28:13
  So Wayne is there in Christchurch. He's a
• 28:15
  moderator on our site. And if you go back
• 28:19
  and listen to some past shows, we've,
• 28:20
  we've interviewed, had interviews with
• 28:22
  Wayne. I think it was only a week after
• 28:24
  the, the seven point, whatever it was
• 28:28
  that they had there in Christchurch.
• 28:29
  So, been wanting to get back with Wayne
• 28:32
  just to find out how things were going.
• 28:34
  Frankly, when I had spoken with, with
• 28:37
  Wayne on xjtalk.com, it was the hopes of
• 28:40
  having a, yeah, things are starting to
• 28:42
  calm down. We're getting back to work.
• 28:44
  We're getting the house fixed. And then
• 28:46
  they had another big one here, not too
• 28:47
  long ago. Fortunately, not as big as the,
• 28:49
  the, the last one they
• 28:51
  had, but still substantial.
• 28:53
  So Wayne, I think everybody's up to, up
• 28:55
  to speed. I think I stated all that stuff
• 28:57
  correctly. Feel free to
• 28:58
  correct me if I was wrong.
• 29:00
  No, it sounds right. We had another big
• 29:03
  one last Monday night. Monday night we
• 29:06
  had a 5.4 that upgraded it. And then we
• 29:09
  had about 20 afterwards. So we had no
• 29:12
  sleep that night. It
• 29:13
  was 10.34 thereabouts PM.
• 29:17
  It really, really shocked the house. It
• 29:19
  was really, they're all really shallow.
• 29:20
  They're about five, six, seven K deep.
• 29:22
  There's more damage in the city again.
• 29:26
  The city just
• 29:27
  wouldn't mess at the moment.
• 29:28
  But the governments today about now
• 29:32
  announcing some plans for people's houses
• 29:35
  who had it and they can't rebuild on the
• 29:37
  land. They got to buy the houses, most of
• 29:40
  the people, give the people payment, pay
• 29:42
  out the valuation of the house plus land.
• 29:45
  Those people can then move on. Then the
• 29:46
  government, they got to deal with the
• 29:49
  insurers and whatnot private insurers. I
• 29:51
  think that was a pretty good move by
• 29:52
  them. It's taken them nine, 10 months.
• 29:54
  This has been gone that long.
• 29:56
  That's getting announced as we speak. I
• 29:59
  think there's six suburbs and could be up
• 30:02
  to 5,000 houses involved. They've got
• 30:04
  nine months to make up
• 30:05
  their mind to people.
• 30:08
  We had kind of a somewhat similar
• 30:10
  situation near where I lived in
• 30:14
  Lynchburg. It's just a little community
• 30:16
  called Lynchburg. It was actually more
• 30:18
  Baytown than anything else.
• 30:20
  But there was a subdivision called
• 30:22
  Brownwood and it was right next door to
• 30:25
  another subdivision called Lakewood. But
• 30:27
  Brownwood actually had subsided. The land
• 30:31
  had subsided. It was on Burnett Bay.
• 30:35
  And because of all the oil companies and
• 30:38
  the drilling here in the area, or at
• 30:40
  least in the area of Baytown, that's
• 30:42
  where the Big Ex-On refinery is.
• 30:43
  And a bunch of chemical plants, oil
• 30:46
  plants, DuPont, etc., etc. I guess it's
• 30:48
  pretty amazing to look at. I'm just used
• 30:50
  to it because I've been here all my life.
• 30:52
  But at any rate, there was a lot of
• 30:54
  subsidence specifically in that area. And
• 30:58
  every time there was a big tropical wave
• 31:01
  or something that would come through,
• 31:03
  there would be a lot of water that would
• 31:07
  come into Brownwood and flood homes.
• 31:11
  And it wasn't until Alicia came through,
• 31:13
  which was, gosh, I guess like 84 or so.
• 31:20
  Yeah, I think it was 84. When Alicia came
• 31:22
  in, it really flooded that area and the
• 31:25
  government bought out all those houses.
• 31:27
  So it sounds a lot similar to what you're
• 31:29
  talking about. But the thing I don't
• 31:30
  understand is, why can't they build on
• 31:32
  the land? Is it like sinkholes or
• 31:34
  liquefaction? Or why wouldn't they be
• 31:36
  able to rebuild on that land?
• 31:38
  Some of that liquefaction, a lot of it's
• 31:41
  around the river. Some hilltop houses
• 31:44
  where the hills disappear, fall down. And
• 31:47
  a lot of it, it's a swamp. At the end of
• 31:49
  the day, they've built on a swamp
• 31:50
  crossage when it was settled.
• 31:52
  First settled, it was a swamp. There's a
• 31:54
  lot of old river beds under the city, so
• 31:56
  they're finding out now. And it's, the
• 31:58
  land's just disappearing and sinking.
• 31:59
  Have you ever seen that liquefaction?
• 32:01
  The cutlery pictures I put up and
• 32:03
  whatnot, the little bit says sub-moves
• 32:05
  and sub-moves of that just covered in
• 32:06
  that. And it's, and people's houses under
• 32:08
  their floors made as deep in some areas.
• 32:11
  That's like whenever a solid, but it
• 32:13
  starts to act like a liquid because of
• 32:15
  the shaking. So things that would be
• 32:18
  sitting on something that was solid
• 32:20
  looking, like the ground, it would
• 32:22
  actually sink into it. I remember you
• 32:24
  posted some pictures of things that were
• 32:25
  sunk into it that, in my mind, looked
• 32:28
  like what happens
• 32:30
  whenever there's a lot of sand.
• 32:31
  Like if you parked a vehicle on a beach
• 32:33
  and the water washed in around the
• 32:35
  wheels, the sand would build up. I don't
• 32:39
  know if the vehicle goes down or the sand
• 32:41
  just builds up around it, but you get
• 32:43
  this thing where the sand goes up the
• 32:45
  side of the tire a little bit. That's
• 32:47
  kind of what those pictures reminded me
• 32:49
  of. So I guess what's happening is when
• 32:51
  the ground shakes, the
• 32:52
  solids act like a liquid.
• 32:54
  Yeah. And it's coming out of the ground,
• 32:56
  it's leaving holes under it. A lot of the
• 32:57
  banks have fallen down. So there's
• 32:58
  flooding, a lot of flooding
• 32:59
  now too on the tidal rivers.
• 33:02
  Just up the road here, there's floods
• 33:04
  twice a day with the tides. It's because
• 33:07
  of the earthquake caused the banks and
• 33:10
  the land to drop a meter or so.
• 33:12
  So there's people there from, well it's
• 33:15
  still on 10 months now from that first
• 33:17
  one, they've been living with power going
• 33:18
  off and on. And they saw, as in they've
• 33:20
  been having to use those port-a-loos on
• 33:23
  it. You call them that? Those
• 33:24
  port-a-potties, port-a-loos.
• 33:25
  So they're walking out whenever they've
• 33:27
  got to do their business, be it one in
• 33:29
  the morning or one in the afternoon. It's
• 33:30
  winter here now, no lights, torches. I
• 33:32
  don't know how the people
• 33:33
  have been living like that.
• 33:34
  So how's your house? I know you had said,
• 33:36
  I think that was a picture that you had
• 33:37
  posted where the wall was leaning out. So
• 33:41
  you had quite a large crack there. Again,
• 33:45
  I don't know if that
• 33:45
  was your house or not.
• 33:46
  Yeah, one of the main walls has got a big
• 33:50
  bow on it. The roof's concave to almost,
• 33:53
  I can see daylight. I'm in my bedroom now
• 33:55
  and I'm looking at my
• 33:56
  wall. I can see daylight.
• 33:57
  It's got worse and it keeps moving. These
• 34:01
  good shakes, I think it's still
• 34:03
  structurally sound. It might wake up and
• 34:05
  it might have been a bit closer to the
• 34:07
  neighbours. It's better.
• 34:08
  But yeah, it's just getting worse. But
• 34:10
  they were about to go with a go ahead to
• 34:12
  start fixing it. Because we've had the
• 34:15
  big shakes now, we haven't heard from
• 34:16
  them. So I don't know if the goers...
• 34:18
  At the end of the day, what they're going
• 34:19
  to do is come in here, we're going to
• 34:21
  move out for, say, I think it's going to
• 34:23
  be about near on T-Muntz.
• 34:25
  Lift the house right up, and I think
• 34:27
  they'll move it. And then do their
• 34:28
  foundations again, put the house back
• 34:30
  down, then straighten all the beams in
• 34:32
  the roof with new floor, new beams, new
• 34:34
  wall, paint it, drywall, you call it
• 34:36
  drywall, turbo wall, whatever else they
• 34:38
  find. So it's quite a major one.
• 34:41
  That's amazing. That's a lot of work.
• 34:45
  Yeah, Warren on here, the other key we
• 34:48
  see, J-A-N-Z, Warren, his wife, she can't
• 34:53
  handle it anymore. He's put his house up
• 34:54
  for auction and he's just...
• 34:56
  This is last night he told... I saw him
• 34:58
  posted actually on XJTalk and he's
• 35:00
  brought a block in at least, which is
• 35:01
  about 20 minutes away. You feel the
• 35:04
  really big earthquakes. You're not waking
• 35:07
  up with the floors when they roll
• 35:08
  through. You don't feel them out there,
• 35:09
  you only feel the real big ones.
• 35:11
  So he's had enough, he's gone. There's
• 35:14
  thousands like that. And even more today,
• 35:16
  when the government announces packages,
• 35:17
  people will just be... They'll move you
• 35:19
  out of Christchurch.
• 35:20
  Yeah, completely understandable.
• 35:22
  Especially if you have a family.
• 35:25
  Especially if you...
• 35:26
  That's on Kitchathir as well though.
• 35:28
  Oh yeah, I guess so. I guess relatives.
• 35:30
  Yeah, I got Ali, my daddy, he's
• 35:33
  70-something now, Bridget's mum, she's...
• 35:35
  Well, we know about Bridget's mum, don't
• 35:37
  we? We don't talk about that in law.
• 35:40
  She's Ali and frail and you got your
• 35:42
  friends, I got brothers and sisters here,
• 35:45
  cousins. I'd rather be in Christchurch if
• 35:49
  something goes snap again than a couple
• 35:51
  hundred miles away where it's going to
• 35:52
  take me hours to get here or say it be in
• 35:54
  Australia or something like that where
• 35:55
  it'll take me so many
• 35:56
  hours to get back here.
• 35:57
  If you can fly back in kind of thing, I'd
• 35:58
  rather be able to even have a hard walk
• 36:00
  to go and check on my father or family
• 36:02
  and whatnot. I'd rather just be here.
• 36:03
  Yeah, that makes a lot of sense and
• 36:05
  something I didn't consider. It's a very
• 36:07
  foreign location for me so all my family
• 36:10
  is here close by and I didn't even think
• 36:12
  about your family being close by which
• 36:14
  makes perfect sense.
• 36:16
  And like you say, if you were in
• 36:17
  Australia, they had floods, they had some
• 36:20
  recent earthquakes, they have all kinds
• 36:22
  of issues there so,
• 36:23
  you know, what do you do?
• 36:25
  I mean, it would be like me in California
• 36:31
  along the San Andreas Fault and then
• 36:34
  moving to another place in California on
• 36:37
  the fault line. So, you know, in Texas, I
• 36:40
  don't care too much about it.
• 36:41
  We can't go anywhere because you can't
• 36:43
  sell your house and you can't walk away
• 36:45
  from your house because it's worth X
• 36:46
  amount of dollars. You can't because
• 36:49
  they're damaged. So you're kind of stuck
• 36:51
  here anyway. You're kind of screwed even
• 36:53
  if you wanted to go. At least you walk
• 36:54
  away, cut your losses and start again.
• 36:56
  That's a lot of money to waste kind of
• 36:58
  thing if you know what I mean.
• 36:59
  Well, yeah, but I mean, but it's
• 37:00
  perfectly understandable the people that
• 37:02
  do, you know, just because of the sanity.
• 37:07
  It's more, it's broken a lot of people
• 37:09
  these last few big shakes. You can really
• 37:12
  see it now but people just say sick of it
• 37:14
  and sleep, sleep deprived. You know, if
• 37:16
  you can catch sleep, it's good sleep but
• 37:18
  you get a big quake like we did the other
• 37:19
  night and you get about so many during
• 37:21
  the night, you don't get a lot of sleep
• 37:23
  for the next three, four days.
• 37:25
  And then when you do, it's always at the
• 37:26
  back of your mind. If you bet you're in
• 37:28
  the shower or bet you're about the days
• 37:30
  off, you always, what if, you know, you
• 37:32
  wait or if you hear a noise, you know,
• 37:33
  your eyes open or you brace yourself or
• 37:35
  you got to run or whatever. That's crazy.
• 37:37
  I would imagine that you don't even want
• 37:39
  to eat the food that gives you any gas
• 37:42
  because you can scare a small family.
• 37:47
  The Indian restaurants won't be doing a
• 37:48
  very good trade. It's crazy times but,
• 37:53
  you know, there's a lot of, a lot of, a
• 37:56
  lot of, a lot of scutter stuff eventually
• 37:57
  and then we'll have a better city out of
• 37:59
  it and we'll have a bright good future.
• 38:01
  But at the moment, 10
• 38:02
  months of it, she's wearing thin.
• 38:04
  Yeah, how long has it been total?
• 38:06
  Yeah, September the 4th.
• 38:07
  Last year, so it was 10 months.
• 38:09
  Oh goodness. Maybe, maybe that's what you
• 38:12
  said. I thought you said two months and
• 38:15
  10 months. Okay. Yeah, I was thinking it
• 38:17
  was over a year because I know it's been
• 38:18
  going on a long time, a lot longer.
• 38:22
  We had the February one, killed people in
• 38:25
  February. Then we, the 13th we had the
• 38:28
  big, another big six and another big five
• 38:30
  and that was, that's what broke a lot of
• 38:33
  people because the streets, okay, they
• 38:35
  were patched up but there was some sort
• 38:37
  of, you know, you could go
• 38:38
  about some normal activities.
• 38:40
  Now, now it's a battle to get to one side
• 38:42
  of town again and like I said, people are
• 38:44
  shuffling that liquid faction for the
• 38:45
  third time and yeah, power's gone, water
• 38:48
  was gone. I think we're only allowed to
• 38:49
  start drinking the water again.
• 38:51
  Yeah, you still should probably boil it
• 38:53
  and people still, Monday night when that
• 38:55
  one went through, they lost their power
• 38:56
  again and water and stuff.
• 38:58
  Yeah, and there's a lot of, a lot more
• 39:00
  broken houses around now. You actually
• 39:01
  see them with wolves disappearing and
• 39:03
  disappeared and it's crazy. I think
• 39:05
  they've more or less, the CBD, the
• 39:07
  central part of town.
• 39:08
  I think they've just left it at the
• 39:09
  moment because every time they go in
• 39:11
  there to start doing stuff, we get a big
• 39:12
  shake, masonry or stuff, fools and we
• 39:15
  don't want to lose more people.
• 39:16
  Yeah, I was going to say that's going to
• 39:17
  be hugely frustrating for the people that
• 39:19
  are putting things back together and I'm
• 39:21
  sure even for you, are
• 39:22
  you back at work now?
• 39:24
  Yeah, we're doing work. We're working
• 39:27
  just out of 30 minutes down a crosshairs
• 39:30
  the last couple of days but we're working
• 39:31
  on the other side of town last week in
• 39:34
  the hills where they've been rumbling.
• 39:35
  And it was funny, I was going to be over
• 39:37
  there the day, it's called Governor's
• 39:39
  Bay, the last big six we had and I was
• 39:41
  right there and I was going to be in
• 39:42
  there cutting one of our concrete jobs up
• 39:44
  but we got delayed and I'm kind of glad
• 39:46
  we did because it would
• 39:46
  have been a long walk home.
• 39:48
  There's rocks and stuff down all over
• 39:49
  because it's through the hills and stuff.
• 39:51
  There's rocks all over the stuff down the
• 39:52
  road so I don't even know if that house
• 39:54
  will still be there actually.
• 39:56
  It must be very frustrating for the
• 39:58
  people that are trying to get things
• 39:59
  working again. I guess this is one of
• 40:01
  those things where you just have to keep
• 40:02
  going because for the water and the
• 40:06
  electricity people have to have it. It
• 40:07
  makes a huge difference in
• 40:09
  the quality of life I'm sure.
• 40:11
  Doesn't help. We're in the smack bang in
• 40:12
  the middle of winter toast, that's pretty
• 40:13
  cool over here at the moment.
• 40:15
  Well that's good, yeah that's right
• 40:16
  because it's summertime here.
• 40:19
  It's cold or it's cold. It must be so
• 40:23
  horrible for the people who haven't got
• 40:24
  proper heating and stuff.
• 40:25
  How else they'll rely on electricity for
• 40:27
  their heating and lose the power.
• 40:28
  It doesn't get really cold over there
• 40:30
  does it? I mean you
• 40:31
  don't get snow do you?
• 40:33
  Every couple of three years we'll get
• 40:34
  snow. We freeze quite often, it's below
• 40:38
  two in the mornings when you
• 40:39
  wake up. Big frost and stuff.
• 40:43
  Protecting southerlies for next week
• 40:46
  comes up from Antarctica and that's
• 40:48
  really really cold stuff. We've got good
• 40:49
  skiing about 45 minutes away from here.
• 40:51
  There's no snow there at the moment but
• 40:53
  we're not for our skiing.
• 40:55
  Mifton which is not far from here.
• 40:57
  We do get rough winters. It's been really
• 40:59
  wild so far so I don't know what's to
• 41:01
  come. I'd say we've got some nasty stuff
• 41:03
  coming. This is what
• 41:04
  we need really enough.
• 41:06
  When it rains it pours if you go with
• 41:10
  that thought process. I would like to see
• 41:12
  you guys have a little quiet time.
• 41:16
  Although I guess it was getting a lot
• 41:18
  better before it started acting up again.
• 41:22
  You get the big shakes and you f***
• 41:25
  yourself and when it goes quiet, I think
• 41:27
  I was chanting to you on time on tap.
• 41:30
  We haven't had one for a while and we had
• 41:31
  a big bang so we stopped
• 41:32
  talking about it myself.
• 41:34
  You don't know whether there's a big
• 41:36
  shake and you're all on edge again but
• 41:38
  when it goes quiet you're not at that
• 41:41
  stage where you think they must be over
• 41:42
  you thinking when does the next big one
• 41:44
  come in kind of thing.
• 41:45
  Sure at this point with all the shaking
• 41:47
  you've had you can't
• 41:49
  just think it's over.
• 41:50
  After every big shake they say you can
• 41:53
  expect aftershocks for
• 41:54
  another year kind of thing.
• 41:55
  We're back two weeks ago we had the six.
• 41:58
  There's a 30% chance we can have a 6.9 to
• 42:02
  a 7 now within next month and then it
• 42:04
  goes down slowly for the next year.
• 42:06
  They still reckon
• 42:07
  there's a big one out there.
• 42:09
  This is probably old news but something
• 42:13
  that's not so sad, at least
• 42:15
  I don't think it's this sad.
• 42:16
  You were recently trying to get your Jeep
• 42:18
  inspected and you were having some
• 42:20
  problems. What was the problem and how
• 42:22
  did you get around it?
• 42:24
  I had no light for my, this is like no
• 42:28
  dash light for my year back but it's a
• 42:32
  mechanical year back the Jeep don't have
• 42:34
  them and I had to
• 42:34
  explain that to my mechanicals.
• 42:37
  And then I just got peeved with him and I
• 42:39
  went to talk it down to my mate who owns
• 42:42
  4WD accessories who's lost his shop but
• 42:44
  he says no that's cool leave it with me
• 42:46
  and I'll take it where he's allowed to go
• 42:47
  because you've got to be
• 42:48
  at a proper mechanic shop.
• 42:49
  He talked it round to another 4WD shop
• 42:51
  threw it through for Warren. I think I
• 42:53
  put a new track bar or
• 42:54
  something Connor got his gold.
• 42:56
  It's all legal now I've got problems with
• 42:57
  the clicking noise but it's the universal
• 43:02
  the drive shaft which I think I've got
• 43:05
  I've just ordered one which I just got my
• 43:07
  next project to fix that but at the
• 43:08
  moment it's still running and I really
• 43:09
  want to pull it apart.
• 43:10
  Yeah and with and you never
• 43:12
  know when you might need it too.
• 43:14
  Well that's I didn't want to it actually
• 43:17
  rained here in southeast Texas today
• 43:19
  quite a bit and I like putting my my Jeep
• 43:23
  in 4WD since I have the
• 43:25
  full time option on it.
• 43:26
  I like putting it in 4WD especially on
• 43:29
  one road that I travel on it's very very
• 43:31
  slippery but I didn't want to do it
• 43:33
  because I've got a a u-joint in my front
• 43:37
  drive shaft that's
• 43:38
  starting to talk to me.
• 43:39
  So I'm going to try to change one day the
• 43:42
  front one to the big one from if I
• 43:44
  remember I think Steve Steve 4.3 LXJ said
• 43:48
  that they're all the same.
• 43:49
  There's three there's three on the front
• 43:52
  drive shaft because of the cardigan but
• 43:55
  but there's just a ball be the same and
• 43:56
  I've got two Spicer u-joints and I know
• 44:01
  that one of the u-joints on the on the
• 44:05
  front drive front drive shaft were
• 44:06
  changed a couple of years ago.
• 44:08
  And I know they didn't change actually I
• 44:10
  think two were changed they didn't change
• 44:12
  the one that is on the drive shaft that
• 44:15
  connects to the cardigan.
• 44:17
  I think I'm saying that correctly the
• 44:19
  cardigan joint because they
• 44:20
  said they couldn't get to it.
• 44:24
  So I just kind of left I just kind of
• 44:26
  left it alone but so I know all the all
• 44:29
  the u-joints have been changed including
• 44:32
  the ones on the axles because I changed
• 44:33
  those myself with the exception of one on
• 44:36
  the front front drive shaft and I'm sure
• 44:38
  that's the one that's
• 44:39
  that's acting up on me.
• 44:40
  Well I say I sure I'm going to look and
• 44:42
  see but that's probably the one because
• 44:44
  that's the one that has the hundred and
• 44:45
  seventy thousand miles on it.
• 44:47
  Well I just clicked up two hundred and
• 44:50
  mine kilometers two hundred thousand K's
• 44:53
  but my mind is kilometers over here so I
• 44:54
  don't know why that works out at miles so
• 44:56
  I've just run my jeep.
• 44:58
  Well it's probably pretty close to what
• 45:00
  I've got on mine. You may have a little
• 45:02
  more actually but yeah so I'm going to
• 45:05
  try to try to get motivated and boy I
• 45:08
  just sweat my ass off
• 45:10
  just putting that gauge in.
• 45:12
  And I hate to go out there and do it
• 45:13
  again but I sure do like being able to
• 45:15
  put that thing in four wheel drive and I
• 45:17
  don't want to drop a front drive shaft
• 45:19
  because I want to be it's going to be an
• 45:24
  inconvenience hopefully and not an
• 45:27
  emergency situation.
• 45:29
  I'll swap mine out this weekend but yeah
• 45:32
  I'll do mine this weekend.
• 45:34
  That's what my plan is
• 45:36
  to do it this weekend.
• 45:37
  That's my plan yeah this weekend. It'll
• 45:39
  take long shouldn't it?
• 45:40
  No and I've got my door locks aren't
• 45:44
  locking so every every time I get to
• 45:47
  where I'm going I have to manually lock
• 45:49
  four doors and then I've got to go lock
• 45:51
  the tailgate and it's
• 45:53
  just a pain in the butt.
• 45:54
  So I tried getting on the the alarm and
• 45:58
  trying to program it so that it doesn't
• 46:00
  automatically unlock the doors whenever
• 46:02
  you disable the alarm
• 46:04
  but I couldn't find it.
• 46:06
  I've had my driver's side window has
• 46:09
  never wound down for about two years now.
• 46:11
  It's a real pain in
• 46:13
  the ass driver's side.
• 46:14
  I've traced wires I've locked it out and
• 46:17
  I've pulled it apart and put another
• 46:19
  piece in there and nah still just won't
• 46:21
  work so I live with it at the moment.
• 46:24
  Yeah that's a that's like your locking
• 46:25
  thing that's a pain in the butt driver's
• 46:28
  side window doesn't go down. It's a real
• 46:29
  pain in the butt. That's
• 46:30
  why passengers won't for you.
• 46:32
  Well my dad told me a long time ago he
• 46:34
  goes don't get it don't get don't get a
• 46:36
  vehicle with all that power stuff on it.
• 46:37
  That's something else to go wrong.
• 46:40
  It sure is nice when it works though
• 46:42
  especially especially if you want to roll
• 46:44
  down all the windows and have that almost
• 46:47
  open air feeling that you would get like
• 46:50
  with a Wrangler or something.
• 46:51
  I like driving with all the windows down
• 46:53
  in the Jeep and it's just real simple to
• 46:55
  make that decision to roll them all down
• 46:57
  and you know if it's too cold
• 46:59
  or too hot roll them back up.
• 47:01
  It's not enough to reach
• 47:02
  over there and do it manually.
• 47:05
  I'll get those doors off while those
• 47:06
  reed-neck twins stand your way.
• 47:09
  You know I was when I took the 99 over to
• 47:12
  Matt's shop weekend
• 47:14
  before last he was there.
• 47:16
  Reenie was there and I asked him I said
• 47:19
  did you do you ever get hit by rocks or
• 47:22
  anything whenever you're driving with the
• 47:24
  doors off and he says no but he's learned
• 47:27
  to keep his legs inside because you know
• 47:30
  as he gets hit by he's been hit I think
• 47:32
  with sand and some dirt and
• 47:33
  that that hurts pretty bad.
• 47:35
  So which I can well imagine it is pretty
• 47:37
  cool though it does look pretty neat and
• 47:40
  of course it is nice air conditioning.
• 47:42
  I guess I guess it's even cooler whenever
• 47:44
  you're sitting in a light because there's
• 47:46
  more of a breeze to come through.
• 47:47
  I think that would be a legal way.
• 47:49
  I don't know how to do that.
• 47:51
  Oh really.
• 47:54
  But I don't know.
• 47:55
  It'd be legal here at least like you can
• 47:58
  because the boys are all
• 47:58
  remaking he's got cutler angles.
• 48:00
  He takes on the tops and doors off
• 48:02
  summertime but unless they're made for
• 48:05
  I'll look into that
• 48:06
  actually I'll find out about that.
• 48:07
  I'm pretty sure it'd be illegal because
• 48:08
  they're beginning to bang down on us
• 48:10
  anyway so I wouldn't want to bring
• 48:12
  attention to myself anyway.
• 48:13
  Yeah doors would be interesting.
• 48:16
  Well I don't know.
• 48:18
  Just it amazes me how how much how many
• 48:20
  things we can do here in Texas.
• 48:22
  I'm used to California being pretty about
• 48:25
  things when I just I was really surprised
• 48:27
  of Australia doing the gun ban.
• 48:30
  Because I've always felt
• 48:31
  Australia is a lot like Texas.
• 48:36
  For rednecks you know.
• 48:39
  You should get to talk to James or those
• 48:42
  couple of those Ozzy boys we've got now
• 48:43
  because even though I think some of them
• 48:46
  were born in New Zealand.
• 48:47
  They have got some really
• 48:49
  different roles to what we've got.
• 48:51
  As in modifying their keeps or
• 48:54
  four wheel drives or vehicles.
• 48:56
  They're really they're always in us.
• 48:59
  I just I just don't understand that.
• 49:01
  I don't understand the mindset.
• 49:04
  You know to be interesting because I'd be
• 49:06
  quite curious to find out myself.
• 49:08
  It'd be quite interesting to see if you
• 49:10
  could Skype one of those boys at some
• 49:11
  stage and have a bit of a chat to them.
• 49:13
  Oh yeah that's a good idea.
• 49:16
  James James is up for it.
• 49:18
  That's right.
• 49:18
  I remember you you actually set that up
• 49:20
  and I had forgotten about it.
• 49:22
  You know it may just be my misconception
• 49:25
  of Australia but I'm sure that you know
• 49:27
  in the big the big city there in
• 49:29
  Australia it would make sense.
• 49:31
  But there's so much of
• 49:32
  Australia that isn't a big city.
• 49:34
  I just can't imagine why they would
• 49:36
  restrict you for for modifying a vehicle.
• 49:39
  I mean to me Australia is a wonderful
• 49:42
  place where you would need a highly or
• 49:44
  you could make use of a
• 49:45
  highly modified four wheel drive.
• 49:47
  And keeping the height restrictions and
• 49:51
  tire size and yeah it just it just seems
• 49:53
  very counterintuitive.
• 49:55
  And I'm quite happy that we don't have
• 49:58
  those restrictions here in Texas.
• 50:00
  We were struck but if you do everything
• 50:01
  right you know they
• 50:02
  worry about lines of legal.
• 50:03
  It's all suited by volume suit because
• 50:05
  it's lifted and whatnot.
• 50:06
  But it's all legal.
• 50:07
  So therefore if I had someone that can't
• 50:09
  come back with me with
• 50:10
  insurance or vice versa.
• 50:11
  So that's one reason I did it.
• 50:13
  Safety was another one as well.
• 50:15
  Yeah well I don't want to be all fallen
• 50:17
  off or suspension collecting you know.
• 50:19
  I'm going around with
• 50:20
  family and a kind of thing.
• 50:21
  Yeah well I think it all goes back to
• 50:23
  who's making the determination of safety.
• 50:25
  Is the government deciding for you or are
• 50:28
  you deciding for yourself?
• 50:30
  And here recently I've got Governor Rick
• 50:33
  Perry the governor here in Texas vetoed a
• 50:36
  bill about not being able to I think it
• 50:40
  was either talk on the cell phone or text
• 50:43
  on the on your cell phone.
• 50:44
  While driving because he basically said
• 50:47
  that you know the people ought to be able
• 50:49
  to decide that for themselves.
• 50:51
  Government shouldn't be deciding it.
• 50:52
  And besides it's very difficult to catch
• 50:55
  somebody doing that.
• 50:56
  And I think it's idiotic.
• 50:59
  People should not be texting on the cell
• 51:01
  phone while they're driving.
• 51:02
  I see it almost every day.
• 51:04
  But yeah it should be the individual's
• 51:07
  responsibility to make that determination
• 51:10
  about whether or not they should.
• 51:11
  I mean I don't want to
• 51:12
  get killed because of it.
• 51:13
  I don't want to kill somebody because
• 51:14
  they weren't paying attention and they
• 51:16
  run a red light or run a stop sign and
• 51:18
  I'll plow into them.
• 51:19
  But you know at some point the government
• 51:22
  has to allow its people and really the
• 51:25
  government is only
• 51:26
  there because of the people.
• 51:27
  It's not the other way around.
• 51:29
  So that's coming about
• 51:32
  a year ago over here.
• 51:32
  No cell phone use while you're driving.
• 51:34
  Do you use a lot of
• 51:36
  smoking bars over there?
• 51:37
  Or restaurants or
• 51:38
  bars or pubs or taverns?
• 51:40
  I think it depends on
• 51:42
  where in the country you are.
• 51:43
  California is real bad about that or real
• 51:45
  good about that depending on whether or
• 51:46
  not you're a smoker.
• 51:47
  I'm a non-smoker and I
• 51:48
  do not like smelling it.
• 51:50
  Yeah that's well we're not allowed to in
• 51:53
  public places over here.
• 51:54
  Yeah that's a good call.
• 51:55
  And that's coming from a smoker but I
• 51:56
  think that's a really good call.
• 51:57
  Yeah and that's the way
• 51:59
  it is here in Houston.
• 52:00
  All the restaurants in Houston and I
• 52:02
  believe in Katie now
• 52:03
  too are all non-smoking.
• 52:06
  And you know on my Mokoroi.com blog I
• 52:11
  actually posted a thing about the smoking
• 52:13
  stuff and I made it really clear.
• 52:15
  I don't care if you want to
• 52:17
  kill yourself with smoking.
• 52:18
  Go right ahead.
• 52:19
  If you're my friend I may not want you to
• 52:21
  die sooner because I enjoy your company
• 52:25
  and I might say
• 52:25
  something to you about that.
• 52:26
  But as far as you're
• 52:27
  right the smoke that's fine.
• 52:29
  But the problem I have and have always
• 52:31
  had about it is the smoke
• 52:32
  doesn't know to stay with you.
• 52:35
  Passive smoking.
• 52:36
  And I'm not concerned about getting
• 52:38
  cancer from the passive smoke.
• 52:40
  I just don't like smelling the
• 52:42
  ****.
• 52:43
  I don't. I'm a
• 52:44
  non-smoker. I don't like it.
• 52:47
  And if you, any of you non-smokers, if
• 52:51
  you remember back when you weren't a
• 52:53
  smoker or weren't around smoke all the
• 52:54
  time, it's very very telling.
• 52:58
  I mean you can smell it very easily.
• 53:00
  And of course when you're a smoker, yeah
• 53:02
  when you're a smoker you don't smell it.
• 53:03
  You know you'll get used to it.
• 53:04
  Just one quick question
• 53:06
  about your senators and stuff.
• 53:08
  Sure.
• 53:09
  That fellow was sending
• 53:11
  photos, that wiener fellow.
• 53:14
  Is he related to Jim?
• 53:15
  Is he related to who?
• 53:16
  Jim.
• 53:18
  You know I don't think so.
• 53:22
  He was a crack up man. That was on the
• 53:23
  news over here mate.
• 53:24
  I nearly fell off my
• 53:25
  chair when I heard about that.
• 53:26
  I just can't imagine, number one I can't
• 53:29
  imagine a congressman doing that openly
• 53:33
  in a very very public, worldwide public
• 53:36
  forum and doing it with
• 53:38
  the nice name of wiener.
• 53:40
  That's what threw me
• 53:41
  mate. That was so funny.
• 53:44
  Unbelievable.
• 53:46
  And you know I haven't seen, I heard some
• 53:49
  little bit, little inkling that some
• 53:52
  people were saying, isn't it interesting
• 53:54
  that all this came out when Obama's
• 53:56
  popularity, his poll numbers were way
• 53:59
  down and the economy numbers had come out
• 54:01
  that were really bad.
• 54:03
  Basically unemployment is going back up
• 54:05
  and so on and so forth and boom all of a
• 54:08
  sudden here's a democrat wiener with this
• 54:12
  scandal that takes up all the news.
• 54:14
  Which is what he did was it's interesting
• 54:17
  and hilarious but in the big importance
• 54:19
  of things it isn't important. It's not as
• 54:22
  important as the US economy.
• 54:24
  Yeah so you know I don't know I don't
• 54:27
  think anybody would ruin their career
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  just simply to help out President Obama
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  but you know I don't know.
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  Not as though it was funny
• 54:33
  because his name is wiener.
• 54:34
  Oh it's hilarious.
• 54:35
  I made several jokes and one of the
• 54:37
  things that I had indicated that I may
• 54:40
  have even posted in the chat on
• 54:42
  xjtalk.com I said you know it's
• 54:44
  interesting his name,
• 54:45
  last name is wiener.
• 54:47
  But I think that you know a few centuries
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  ago people didn't have last names and
• 54:51
  they only had names, they were given last
• 54:54
  names based on things about them.
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  And they were given their profession
• 54:58
  usually like a blacksmith would be black
• 55:00
  or smith and I figured wiener, wiener's
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  ancestors must have gotten that name
• 55:07
  because of similar activities years ago.
• 55:10
  How about hogs in the house?
• 55:12
  Well I think that it would be more of a
• 55:15
  flashing type thing.
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  Hey look at me.
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  Yeah it is related to Jim Bison maybe.
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  I don't know you may know
• 55:23
  more about Jim than I do.
• 55:26
  I'll ask him.
• 55:28
  I've got to sign off now mate.
• 55:30
  We're doing something
• 55:33
  we're talking to me.
• 55:34
  Yeah I just thought we're up date.
• 55:36
  Nothing much has changed we're just still
• 55:37
  shaking and I'll keep my posts updated on
• 55:40
  what's happening here and I'll put a link
• 55:41
  through to that government.
• 55:43
  Same what they put through today.
• 55:44
  Well please do.
• 55:47
  We definitely care about what's going on
• 55:49
  over there and you and your family and
• 55:52
  I'm just glad you're
• 55:52
  still able to get online.
• 55:53
  That's been the best thing out of all of
• 55:55
  it for us is being able to get the news
• 55:57
  and hear that things are still going
• 55:59
  along and you're still doing okay.
• 56:01
  But thanks a lot for calling in tonight.
• 56:03
  I've been wanting to get you on here for
• 56:04
  a while and didn't get
• 56:06
  anything set up with you.
• 56:08
  Guys to shag say we don't
• 56:10
  want really talk any much time.
• 56:12
  Yeah I understand.
• 56:14
  I'm just hoping for better news much
• 56:19
  sooner than what we've been having.
• 56:22
  I'd like to thank all the members for the
• 56:23
  well watched this for my
• 56:24
  family and them as well.
• 56:25
  They quite far too so it's really good.
• 56:28
  Well perfect timing because we're here at
• 56:31
  the end of the show.
• 56:32
  Thank you again for calling in and I'll
• 56:34
  catch you on the site.
• 56:35
  Okay Tony cheers mate.
• 56:36
  Cheers.
• 56:37
  Take it easy.
• 56:39
  And like I said that was great timing to
• 56:41
  have Wayne calling in.
• 56:42
  I've been wanting to get him back on the
• 56:45
  show and like I was saying I was hoping
• 56:47
  that we would get things are improving,
• 56:50
  things are getting back to normal and
• 56:52
  then they started having
• 56:53
  some large quakes again.
• 56:56
  And I sure hope his house makes it.
• 56:58
  So many over there have lost their homes.
• 57:01
  But you know the bright side is nobody
• 57:05
  has lost their life in his family.
• 57:07
  There was loss of life but
• 57:11
  that did not extend to him.
• 57:13
  So very grateful for that.
• 57:16
  So guys that ends
• 57:17
  another show for us this week.
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  Don't forget to tune in next week.
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  8pm every Wednesday night Central Time.
• 57:26
  And of course you can catch us on iTunes
• 57:28
  and on podcast.xjtalk.com to listen to
• 57:33
  any show that you may have missed.
• 57:35
  So everybody had a very good night and
• 57:39
  you know a happy Jeep week.
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  By the way this is Big M350.
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  Bye.