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I'm Replacing The Radiator In My Race Car! · Kenny Wallace Media

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Well today we're in the shop and I am going to put a new newer
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radiator in our new dirt car. So when we put the car together,
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my radiator company had been bought out and there was a lull,
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meaning they weren't building radiators for a little bit.
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Well, I needed my radiator because my radiator fit better
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in my car. So we have the new radiators in
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now, and we're going to change the radiator and I'm going to
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have you all follow along with me, you know, How do you change
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your radiator? You know, not everybody knows
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how to do it. We're going to take it out.
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We're going to put a new one in. We're going to save the
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antifreeze. We're going to show you how to
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properly fill it up and and and bleed the air up out so you
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don't get any air pockets. So before we do this, you're
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saying to yourself, Kenny Wallace, the guy on TV, 30
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seconds of history. So a lot of you know me by TV,
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right? Or NASCAR race car.
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As you see here, we we won nine NASCAR Xfinity races.
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Obviously there's only 6 pictures there.
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Then you see me on Fox TV and and FOX TV found me.
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OK, so we did that for 14 years. Now when you come down here, my
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history, my history, I am really a fabricator mechanic.
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This is 1984. This is me.
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I'm the crew chief on the Levi Garrett car that was a smokeless
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tobacco. This is the Daytona 500.
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So that's me and I'm changing the right front tire.
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However, I'm a fabricator mechanic first.
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I didn't start driving a race car till I was 22 years old.
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Wow, late bloomer. I'm like, damn it, let me drive.
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So we are going to go over here and we're going to put a new
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radiator in this car and I thought I'd show you a little
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history and how we got here. So now you know a little bit
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more about me and follow along. Well, the first thing we're
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going to do is we are going to drain the radiator, get all the
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antifreeze out. Now listen, a lot of people say
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why do you run antifreeze? Well, it's winter.
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And then also the other big deal is that we know that antifreeze
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is a coolant, right? So antifreeze does two things.
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It keeps your motor from freezing up during the winter,
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which is most popular. But antifreeze also is a
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coolant. It cools your motor down during
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the summer and it also keeps the block from rusting up.
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So this is a metal block, so you always want to run some type of
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coolant, some type of synthetic, you know, cool it through the
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through the block to keep it from rusting up.
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So this is a this is a pretty messy job and I got the radiator
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hoses exactly where I want them. All right, so here we go.
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And this is no fun, but I got a really big, really big barrel
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down there, so I am OK, here we go.
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Now I don't go nuts all at once. Follow along here.
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I barely no watch. So what I do is I I keep my hand
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on the hose because if you pull it off and it come flying out
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the side of the car. So I like to take my radiator
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hose loose at the radiator pump. What I just did was I took the
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radiator cap off. I forgot to take the radiator
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cap off. Take the radiator cap off when
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you're draining. That way it will breathe and it
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will come out quicker. I made sure everything was clean
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because I'm going to reuse. I'm going to reuse this new, new
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antifreeze. Sometimes everything in life is
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not perfect. And so, yeah, all right, looking
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good here. Now we're getting getting the
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water out of the radiator itself.
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I'm turning the hose. All right, Looking good.
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So I've got some of the, we've got some of that off of there.
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We're going to go ahead and take this hose all the way off
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because it's got to come off anyway.
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All right. I really like this hose.
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It's bent. A lot of people don't see these
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type of hoses. We get these from parts
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companies. So, yeah.
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So you're saying herm, why you changing your radiator?
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Well, #1 things, just, you know, the packaging things are a
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little tight there. And when you look over here, you
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know, just tight on my steering shaft, I don't like that.
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So yeah, all right, well, we're going to take the radiator out
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and you can follow along. Watch me do that now.
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So it's got the radiator cap, get the radiator hose off.
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We've got a lot of the water drain now.
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Mind you, I'm not out of the woods yet because this is a
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messy job. So I got an adjustable an wrench
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that I really like and going to loosen this radiator hose up.
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Just taking a loose there. Don't need to.
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I just. I'm going to.
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We're not in a hurry. So you know, Earnhardt's my man.
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He's not yours. Oh man, I sure do Miss
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Earnhardt. The fans, they loved him so
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much. They'd get all having a good
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time and they'd say Earnhardt's my man and I'd tease with him
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back. I said he's no, he's not.
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He's mine. So Earnhardt could do all this.
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Dale Senior was a fabricator mechanic.
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I. Whoa, there we go.
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Just as I said. Oh, my God, Herman, what a
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disaster. Oh, remember, you got
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antifreeze. You got water in there.
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So let me go get a towel already.
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I didn't load higher. I don't like any messes, so we
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will take any type of mess here. We'll definitely clean it up and
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we'll we'll also take a mop bucket and we'll mop anything up
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that we have to. OK Need a pair of tin snips?
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Got that radiator hose right there.
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Little little overflow hose. All right.
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So we get that little little hose off.
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See if we can get that baby. Woo.
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That bitch is on there. I'm on.
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Herman. You can't cuss.
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I didn't get off. Little screwdriver.
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Maybe right in here. When things are new, boy, they
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they hold on for dear life. Come on, Herman.
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Jesus. All right, we getting there.
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Simmer bound. Simmer bound.
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With no hurry. There's nobody in.
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The grandstand's watching us. There's no competition.
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Take it easy, Herman. Well, that baby had a nice
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little little dealy there, so. All right.
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And now you're going to be amazed how it's almost ready to
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come out. So I use an impact sometimes to
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take everything off. OK, so this car is built by Nick
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Hoffman. I love his packaging.
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It's very easy. This is a Joe's racing.
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Joe's Racing radiator holder. I know you got one.
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Just like it. Calm down.
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I do that too. I get it.
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All right, now we're going to you know what?
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Sometimes I don't like to use a impact, just feel like I'm
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beating the hell out of everything.
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Sometimes I like to loosen it up with the wrench because the
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wrench, you really get it on with the wrench and you can feel
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it. Sometimes you use impact, you'll
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strip things out. I know how to work an impact.
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I know. OK, tell you a quick story.
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Had a buddy of mine, said Herman.
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I I got control of my impact. Went down to use the impact on a
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bead lock. Went to run it down.
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He goes, I got control of my impact.
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I know. Boom.
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Broke the bolt right off. I just looked at him.
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I'm like dummy people. Ego.
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Ego gets the best of us. I don't have an ego.
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I have a little one. So this is the the shield and
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the reason we have one of these. I'm going to show you because
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you see, that's the radiator fan blade, right?
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So there's the fan blade. So that shield keeps everything
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safe, right? You know, they just, you have
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that that nice thick little piece of aluminum.
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It keeps everything from, you know, flying up in air at you.
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All right, So now we are going to literally lift the radiator
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up and out. OK, here we go.
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Ready. Herman, I take a radiator out.
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Why am I watching this? Well, because we just we're
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doing it. Some people don't know.
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I like having fun with the racers.
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All right, got that? Damn antifreeze.
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Here, let me show you what you got going on underneath.
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Here. Let me show you.
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OK. So when you look underneath
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here, it's like what do you got going on there, Herman?
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Let me show. Y'all.
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All right. See that?
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I got one of those buckets that is that is the bottom of a 55
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gallon drum and it's really clean.
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OK. So Billy Smith did that for me.
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So that is the Bock that is the bottom of a 55 gallon plastic
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drum. Look here.
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So you see it. But I made sure it was really
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clean. And boy, that that really helps
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me. So get yourself one of those.
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All right. Got the trailer in the shop.
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There's the radiator. There's the new one.
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I like it better. I'll show you why later on.
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All right. Herman, the herminator in the
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house. He is not a mouse.
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All right, make sure we have everything right set up here.
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Watch old herminator take the radiator out.
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Oh, looky here. We doing a we doing a show on.
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Taking the radiator out. Replacing the radiator.
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OK I. Got you.
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What you doing come? And see you.
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I'm on. I heard you talking.
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You heard me talking. Yep.
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OK, so all right, let's get this radiator out.
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We got the antifreeze out the best we could.
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This is always a disaster. We did our best.
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I'm going to go ahead and put this in the bottom hole and
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should come right out easily. We'll see.
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Oh, I feel the water in it. OK and looky there Brody.
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Go ahead and work the tripod while you're here.
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Just move it along. You don't got to do nothing.
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So we're going to we're going to show you something.
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So I I've never, I've never done this in my life.
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The the good mechanics they save their antifreeze.
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I'm like, but since all I did was start the car up right now,
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what we're going to do because we're going to oh, it's already
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still There we go. We're going to use the
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antifreeze over. We're going to save a little
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money here. We're going to save a little
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money. Race fans, brand new radiator.
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Whoever wants to buy this radiator from me, just call Kim
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Seven O 4506. No, that's my number.
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Jesus. Call Kim 704-361-7116.
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It's brand new radiator, so we don't have to sell it.
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We just thought we might. All right, so we got that baby
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now, Brody. Let's show them.
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Here we got. I cleaned this so it's it's
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clean. OK.
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Oh, that was close. Not a bad mess underneath here.
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So all right we're just going to.
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I got a little I'm a little anal.
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So I'm going to, I'm going to grab a wrench.
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Let me tell you what happened here.
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We had the radiator in and then we realized we our spacing was
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off. So I put the fan blade on with
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the radiator in because we changed our spacing.
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So I'm just checking. I'm checking my bolts because
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I'm anal like that meaning that I always thinking, so they're
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very nice, very tight. Where is the spacer, Brody, if
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you just want to show them the spacer, this is our Can they see
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that? Here's the fan blade spacer.
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All right now for the fun. Now for the fun.
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We're going to put the the new one in.
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I'm still I'm still wiping up, man.
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This is like anti seize. It's like that little thing.
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And Auntie sees goes everywhere. So same thing with this.
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All right, bro, let's turn this around.
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You can stay right there. Thank you.
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See you, Brody didn't come. I didn't have to work at all.
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All right, so we got this radiator here.
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You stay right there, Brody. Oh, trouble.
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All right, let's go right here. Go right here.
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All right, so it comes packed. Very nice.
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All right, so I saved my boxes. All right, here's the radiator.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to mark something, follow
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along. So this radiator is actually, I
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mean, let's go look at it. Come on.
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So Brody, show them the difference and everything.
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Let's go. Let's go.
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Everything. Look, look at this.
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OK, so see. See.
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Look at the. Look at the difference.
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See how big this tank is. See how much smaller this tank
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is? It's a big OS tank, this smaller
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tank, this, yeah, this radiator is just smaller, you know, you
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know, just in every way and and and this is the radiator that
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I've always run. So what we're going to do is we
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do a little safeties. See this.
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That's in case you can get over here Brody.
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Look, let's let's let's go on over this way.
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So we're going to make sure it's not a big deal, but we're going
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to make sure that we protect the radiator.
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So, OK, see my 8 frame bolt right here, Brody.
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See my 8 frame bolt here, right here.
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So we're just going to mark this and that's what we're going to
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do. We're going to protect that area
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right there. So we know what we're going to
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do is we're going to steal the rubber off of that other one.
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So you know, you go, you know, if the radiator would ever slide
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over a little bit, we don't want that bolt puncturing at it.
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So we're going to steal, we're going to steal something.
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You just always follow me, Brody.
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So go steal this Let me go get some tire wraps.
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What you been up to, Brody? Getting ready for Thanksgiving.
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Setting tables up, putting tablecloths on, changing baby's
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butt. They're holding Thanksgiving for
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us and the other side of the shop.
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So what we do. This is basically a radiator
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hose cut in half. And what we're going to do is we
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are going to use this right here, like that.
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Pretty cool, huh? And what I do is I go through, I
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don't know if you want to get close up, bro.
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You see, you can go, as you can tell, the tie rack, you can go
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through the fins right here. And yeah, it's pretty nice.
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So then I just go ahead, I'm going to.
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I already marked it that way. I know where it's at.
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OK, I'm going to put it right underneath that Weld.
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OK? I like everything to be straight
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because I'm anal like that. All right, So that's tight.
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Do another one. One more.
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You want the Fast forward, ain't you?
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You guys going to try to Fast forward through my video?
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You might miss something. Come on just a little bit right
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there. Sliding it down just a little
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bit. That way I grab everything,
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right? All right.
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See. I'm happy with that.
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Looks good. OK.
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All right. Get that.
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OK. Very tight.
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OK, I like that. OK, now we don't like getting
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our hands cut. OK, that's flush.
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All right, let's take everything off here.
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Come on, Herman. Get it out.
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All right. Come on, Herman.
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I'll never believe it. Take him.
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I could already have that done. That's my I create characters.
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So I got some friends down South and instead of saying not, they
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said not so like, you know, not. They go.
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I'm not believe. All right.
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All right, Brody, you can stay on the passenger side there.
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They're going to watch us put this baby in.
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All right, We are ready to go in.
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So right there we're going in. Very nice.
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OK, Sitting on here. OK, Right there.
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Feels good right there. So we are going to put this on.
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Turn it around, Herman. It's right in there.
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Real nice. We are going to put it.
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Does it look good, Brody? Is the camera lined up real
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nice? Can you all see what I'm doing?
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Just putting everything back. I know.
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I get it. You're better than me.
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And it's harder to put a passenger car radiator in.
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I get all that. I'm just doing this for fun.
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We already know you're better than me.
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So you got to ask yourself, why are you watching this?
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Let's see how dumb I am. Because you're better than me.
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That's a comedy we do because I get teased a lot because I was a
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NASCAR driver. Hey, Wallace, why you run dirt
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cars when you was a NASCAR driver?
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You trying to fit in with us? No.
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I'm racing your ass. So all right.
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So now that we go together I like, remember, I know.
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Oh, I know how to control my impact.
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Yeah, sure you do While you break your bolts off.
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I've already seen that. So we're pushing down on the
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Joe's radiator mount. We're pushing down.
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We're holding down. Make sure we've got AI like
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using a little 7 sixteenths ratchet.
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A ratchet ring. So yeah, so make sure I'm doing,
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you think Brittany's wondering where the hell you're at, You
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came over here, I'm going to go say hi to Herman.
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And then all of a sudden, that's her going.
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Where are you at? Yeah, I just got a text message.
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Where are you at? What are you doing?
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Come back over here. Help me with the baby.
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Where are you, say, helping your dad finish the video?
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Be back over here in just a minute.
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I don't like you going over there with him because you never
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come back tight. Pushing down on the mount as I
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do it. Tight.
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OK. Very nice.
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OK. Very nice.
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Wow. So, so much nicer.
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So much more room. Yeah.
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Oh yeah. Everything looks so much better.
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So, Oh my God, so much, so much more room.
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It's unreal. Just it's it's insane.
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Not much more room. So we're going to hook our hose
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up. There we go.
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Let me grab another tie wrap. So, all right, we're putting the
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tie wrap on just because I'm over here, all right?
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So when I put a tie wrap on, I do like to grab it and even pull
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it more. So I pull it more, rotate it
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down. We like to hide those, so don't
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cut our hands on, but ours are clean.
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We like to cut them flush. Now, what we're going to do now
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is we're going to tighten these, tighten this.
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Come on, Herman. You know what it'll go like
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this. Oh, that's 1/2 inch.
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OK, just a little bit. Now we're going to tighten it.
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So for you real racers that are making fun of me right now, this
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is not for you, but you're watching.
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OK, so very nice. OK, so Brody, come on over here.
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Let's show them where the rubber is lined up at.
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Just kind of go around in there and show them what I did with
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the rubber. So you see right here.
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That's just in case. Hey, as old Uncle Rusty says,
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better safe than sorry. OK, now we are going to put the
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lower radiator hose on. Now I'm really anal about my
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hose clamps. Wallace is bleeding here.
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This will be a thumbnail. Do you all do this?
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It was grease. Oh, my.
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Oh, now I got antifreeze in my mouth.
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No, I don't. OK, all right, so we are going
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to make sure we got the radiator hoses right.
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OK, so here we go. All right, we are putting this
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on. We're twisting it properly.
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We're getting it, right? OK, OK, here we go.
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All right, now one thing I like to do is come here on this right
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here. See these?
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See this nipple right here? See that nipple right there?
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It's a nipple. All right, so everybody does it.
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I'm just showing the people that don't know.
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I want to make sure that when I put this first hose clamp on
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down here, that it is I'm feeling.
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I want to make sure. All right, I feel good about
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this. So now I got the radiator hose
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right on the other side of that nipple, so it seals up good.
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These are little idiosyncrasies that mechanics use that they
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don't talk about. All right, so I'm tightening the
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hell out of it. Get yourself good hose clamps.
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Go to a real parts store. Real hose clamps, not junky
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ones. There's good hose clamps and
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there's bad hose clamps. So, all right, very nice.
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Very nice. So putting 2 down here, because
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I put 2 down here because I'm a freak, I just feel like down
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here on the aluminium, the smooth aluminum.
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I like to put two on the smooth aluminum.
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All right, Brody, let's show them that.
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Got a good look at that. I feel good about them.
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They're tight. Now, here we go to this one.
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So for this one, you know, this is kind of roughed up.
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You know, it's going to grip. So I'm going to, you can see it.
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OK. Now what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to really zone in on that. I'm going to feel it.
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So I feel it. It's right there.
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I can feel that nipple. OK.
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Really. Making sure that is on the side
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of that nipple that I like. OK, there we go.
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Get that baby tight. Oh, see that?
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See how it's popping up there? That tells you that you you've
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done a good job. OK, Looking good.
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Tight. All right.
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Tight. Tight.
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I feel good about it. OK, so everything's tight.
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I'd say this to myself. Remember my, my quick change
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videos When you know, tight, tight.
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Oh, got a little more out of that one.
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Tight. tight. OK, going to go grab a lot of
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ante sees. Oh boy.
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Just because you know aluminum on aluminum can get a little
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junky. So if I just put a little hunk
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of Ante Sees right there, it'll last two years.
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So there goes Brody, I'm going to go to the ante sees
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department. This is our fabrication area, RR
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that would be compound grease where you're going to grab,
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We're going to grab that stuff, right?
32:38
Yeah, yeah. Right there.
32:40
That's the lubrication area. Let me see, Brody.
32:44
All right, watch out. This stuff will go cut your
32:49
mouth just a little ante sees. What this stuff does is it keeps
32:54
when you're going aluminum on aluminum, aluminum on aluminum
32:57
will galled up. So you just take a little bit of
33:00
this stuff. Come on.
33:08
By the way, a shout out to Brody.
33:09
He's building go karts now. This is one of the very first Go
33:13
karts. He's really good at it.
33:15
He's so good that he's using the the wooden jigs because he's
33:21
performing. He's making wings.
33:23
So shout out to Brody behind the camera.
33:26
He's better than me. Not quite.
33:30
I always say that to calm people.
33:32
Now everybody's always in a damn egotistic war.
33:35
All right here. This is kind of nasty here.
33:37
So. All right, look.
33:40
So it's always kind of junky. It's like this with everybody.
33:45
It ain't like you use a lot of NE CS.
33:47
OK, maybe. You know, big truck mechanics do
33:52
not. Not us racers.
33:53
We use a little bit. So come here.
33:56
So what we're going to do is you're going to just do the
33:57
little pop right here. See that?
34:00
Just a little pop there. Just a little pop here.
34:04
All right. That's all you need because the
34:08
stuff will go gangster on you. All right.
34:11
So we're going to go ahead and it's still coming out.
34:17
Look at that. My God.
34:21
All right. So I had to spread.
34:28
I wanted to spread the antecedes out a little bit, so now it's on
34:31
my hands. Lick your finger.
34:33
We're not. Yeah, we're not editing nothing,
34:36
because this is real mechanicism.
34:38
You know when you go on YouTube and they show you go, how do I
34:41
put a shower head on? They edit stuff up.
34:44
They don't show you dropping the hell out of everything.
34:47
Terminator. Don't do that here.
34:48
I'm man of the people. Come on, kick it back.
34:55
All right, so here we go, putting this baby on eight days
35:08
a week. All right?
35:12
Is bro Is Brittany mad at you? No, I'm over there with your
35:17
dad. He's making me do this.
35:18
Yeah, getting paid by the hour. Yeah, getting paid by the hour.
35:22
I'll pay. We pay minimum wage.
35:25
What is minimum wage now, $100.00 an hour?
35:28
Yeah. 20 hour work week. Well, my God, I only want to
35:32
work four days. Hey, I'll put in 410 hours.
35:36
Calm down. We're having fun.
35:38
I know somebody out there pissed.
35:40
All right, So. Oh, yeah, look at that.
35:44
Very nice, Very nice. All right, so we're going to.
35:48
We got that right there. Tightness.
35:51
OK, so we're going to tighten this.
35:57
Oh, that baby turns. I didn't really notice that.
36:03
OK, OK, so now remember earlier when we started this video?
36:12
Come look how much more room there is.
36:13
Now look at this. Remember that?
36:18
That was touching that before. These cars are made for this
36:22
radiator. All right, now the trick to all
36:27
this. All right, hang with me for a
36:32
while. This is going to be a disaster.
36:37
Stay right there, bro. Hey, days a week.
36:51
All right, So what we're going to do is we are going to pour
36:57
that antifreeze into these so we can pour it in there.
37:02
I just got plain water in these eight days a week.
37:13
I like my wash station. Got a kick ass wash station
37:16
right here and I keep it clean. It ain't like those other shops
37:19
where and never clean up. I figure if you're washing your
37:22
hands, you might as well wash your station.
37:25
Hey, I can make my shop messy if I want like my hairs.
37:31
Hello. Hey, hey, Louie.
37:41
Hey, you know what, buddy? Come here for a minute.
37:50
I got an idea. Let's just clean this up.
37:53
Let's just clean this up. We'll put all the antifreeze in
37:56
this one and we'll go right in the funnel.
37:59
So I like safety clean, Safety clean.
38:05
Got good stuff. Safety clean.
38:08
All right. So what we're going to do, we
38:12
got a little bit of residue of oil in my oil one.
38:26
We might have Charlie edit some of this stuff up, but I don't
38:29
know, it's all pretty good. All right.
38:33
I like that. Very clean, Very clean.
38:39
All right. Thank you, Brody.
38:43
Hear the dogs barking next door. I spend the next, next day
38:49
cleaning up. I'm OK.
38:53
All right. Any of you change your radiator,
38:55
not spill a drop of water? You you going to spill some
38:59
water? See me?
39:03
See, I like everything perfectly clean.
39:05
But what we're going to do, we're going to go over and make
39:08
sure we're going to turn the hot water on, and we're going to
39:11
make sure we get all this out just because.
39:15
All right. Thank you.
39:15
Brody. How do you save antifreeze?
39:20
Hey, admitted. How many of you are out doing
39:24
this on the gravel driveway, right.
39:28
All right, so we're going to turn the hot water on, because
39:34
the hot water really will get safe.
39:38
We'll get the what do we call that stuff?
39:41
I forgot. Solvent.
39:43
Solvent. I knew that I had brain pain.
39:46
Mark Martin told me that word. I feel like a little coffee
39:51
right now. Brody's on his phone, so when he
39:55
gets off there, he'll all right, let's go drink a sip of coffee
39:59
while the water gets hot. We got we got little projects
40:07
going on around here. Got my shots being sent back to
40:11
Algar. Come here, Brody.
40:13
Show them that once Thanksgiving gets over.
40:18
So. I got my shocks.
40:20
What happens with shocks? You you put new oil in them, new
40:23
seals. Get them ready for the new year.
40:25
Because, you know, I only ran 35 races last year, but still, 35
40:31
races. Might as well start the year out
40:33
new. All right, Let me just want to
40:35
show that coffee, OK. Hey, Wallace.
40:39
What What kind of coffee you got there?
40:40
I get that's number one question.
40:42
So it's what is it? Country.
40:44
I don't know. Hazelnut Creamer?
40:46
Yeah, still lukewarm. Got my notes.
40:58
See if there's anything on here I don't want you to see.
41:01
Yeah, So what I do is I make notes.
41:04
New radiator, pull bar, shock glue for strap valve cover,
41:09
windshield just a little. It's a little visor like so.
41:14
And I mark all this off. It's fun.
41:17
Schrader taught me that. He's he's a freak with markdown
41:21
stuff. You know, Schrader writes
41:22
everything down. He taught me that.
41:26
All right, we got hot water. Hot water really gets rid of
41:32
everything, like, you know, like your dishwasher.
41:36
So we're doing this that way. We don't got no solvent residue,
41:55
remember? We're putting a lot of work in
41:56
this because we're we're saving money on antifreeze.
42:01
Jesus, I've never done this in my life.
42:03
I know you have. I get it.
42:05
You're better than me. All right, So look at that.
42:09
That baby is nice. All right, so I am going to pour
42:16
the antifreeze in there. Keep the camera rolling in case
42:22
I mess up. Look at that fresh antifreeze.
42:33
How much are these gallon jugs of antifreeze?
42:35
Brody I. Don't know you bought them.
42:37
How much money you think I saved here?
42:39
I don't know what, like 20 bucks maybe.
42:43
Shoot, I don't know, $20. I might be able to go to lunch
42:46
on that. You can get a coffee, all right.
42:49
Where is my? Where's the funnel at?
42:58
The blue funnel. Yeah, right side.
43:01
You took it with you down there. Where'd I go?
43:03
Toolbox. Right side.
43:04
Oh, yeah. You took it with us.
43:06
So I have I have two of these in in
43:21
in the rare it's ugly head here pretty soon.
43:22
All right buddy. Let's get settled in now.
43:26
So this is what I really this whole deal come around here,
43:31
Brody. Right here.
43:32
So look here. All right.
43:35
We are going to fill the water up.
43:40
We want the water like a tub. We want it to fill up.
43:44
It's constantly pushing air out. And then the air, the air is
43:48
going to come out of this. And when we see that there that
43:51
we know that we have purged, it blew all the air out.
43:56
Now we're good. So let's let's see, let's see
44:00
how ugly this gets. Drum roll, please. 8 days of the
44:09
week. Feels nice and warm.
44:13
All right, Brody, if you want to go anywhere you want to go,
44:16
let's show it going in and everything.
44:18
OK, Well, I am comfortable. I got my hand rested this.
44:26
So this radiator is not going to take as much water because it's
44:30
a little smaller. But this radiator still cools
44:33
really good because this is the this is the radiator I've been
44:36
running for the last three years.
44:39
So you know, I mean, I'm just putting the same type of
44:41
radiator back in. It's sufficient.
44:45
Plus I don't got all that weight up on the nose.
44:48
That's that's a big deal. I don't, I don't like a big ass
44:51
radiator up here. You know when the car is already
44:55
running cool with a little radiator.
44:58
Why have all that weight up here when you don't need it?
45:01
We run A6 blade fan, so A6 blade fan, but this radiator seems to
45:09
work real good. Now I got my eye on bro, do you
45:12
want to point that out on the water neck?
45:14
I got my eye on there. I'm looking, I'm watching, so
45:23
I'm watching. So there, There's a lot of water
45:26
in the motor because we didn't drain the water out of there.
45:29
So we know there's it's not going to take as much water
45:37
eight days a week. I I get these ticks.
45:43
I just sing. I like to sing.
45:46
Keeps me, I entertain myself. I'm just going to look better
45:55
safe than sorry. Oh, there it is.
45:58
Whoa. Did we get lucky?
45:59
Brody, take the camera. Like, I mean go right in that
46:02
neck just do your very best. Do you see see that water?
46:08
OK. There you go.
46:09
So so that that's how you bleed a system just that simple your
46:14
your your water you're going all the way up.
46:16
So I mean yeah, it's there I I just got lucky.
46:25
OK. So we're going to keep this
46:28
because we are going to start the motor up and.
46:33
OK, so we're going to grab our wrench.
46:39
Grab our wrench, OK, So right here we're going to put the neck
46:50
on. So a lot of people are going to
46:59
say, hey Wallace, you got all that NASCAR money.
47:02
Why are you running this, these really nice radiator hoses and I
47:07
think it's a Peace of Mind right?
47:08
So I watched Steve Arpin down at Volusia just barely have the
47:14
upper radiator hose on wrong. You know the the normal ones and
47:18
boom and and burnt him scalding him up.
47:21
So I called, I called Bobby Labonte and a shout out to
47:25
Bobby. Bobby really paid it forward and
47:29
you know Bobby ended up starting Longhorn.
47:32
But anyway, crazy story, right? So Bobby Labonte put Steve Arpit
47:37
on his jet. Bobby Labonte had a jet.
47:40
Steve Arpin is scalded. Daytona is saying we've done all
47:45
we can do. Now you need to go up to
47:46
Rochester, MN, maybe the Mayo Burn Clinic.
47:50
Bobby Labonte put Steve Arpin on his jet, flies him up there,
47:55
right and and Steve's good to go now.
47:58
But isn't it funny that Bobby Labonte started Longhorn?
48:03
And now guess who owns Longhorn? That's right, Steve Arpin.
48:07
What a story, huh? Didn't even think I was going to
48:09
say that story. But Bobby's a a good person.
48:13
And we're buddies. We talk a lot.
48:16
All right, let's finish this up, Herman.
48:19
OK. All right.
48:20
So I'm talking to myself. Tight, Tight.
48:27
Tight. Tight.
48:32
Tight. OK, Tight, tight.
48:42
All right. So I decided let's keep the
48:48
video rolling. We will start it up.
48:50
We'll just go all in and we'll do it.
48:54
So Brody's going to go get the fuel.
49:01
I'm going to warn you, this can be ugly because my fuel system
49:07
drains out. It works on the vacuum, so we're
49:08
going to have to prime it up. It might fart and pop a little
49:13
bit. It's right here for my let me
49:22
get that half inch. So another funny thing, you know
49:30
how a lot of people put a little a little keyway right here?
49:34
You know how a lot of people taking put like a, you know, a
49:38
little what do you call those things?
49:41
Yeah, some people put a little Cotter pin there.
49:43
I saw Mike Harrison do this. So I thought, I'm going to copy
49:46
that. I like that.
49:47
You know why? Because it's not like you take
49:51
the air cleaner off every time you come in.
49:54
Nine times out of 10, if you're a local racer, you're going to
49:56
show up at the race track with that baby on.
49:58
You're going to take it off, start the motor and that's it.
50:01
So I am copying. I am copying Mike there because
50:05
I do like the half lock nut. So it's a half size, half
50:11
elastic nut. OK, so that's the reason I did
50:15
that. I see Mike do it.
50:16
And I thought, you know, I like that damn Darrell Hoffman.
50:21
Man's got, man's got. Jesus.
50:26
OK, let's get a little talented thinking.
50:32
Grab. Get the best of you.
50:35
All right, There we go. So I am nervous.
50:42
We're all nervous. Nobody likes starting the motor.
50:45
Nobody likes starting the motor. Be honest.
50:48
If you're a motor man, you just got like Darrell, Darrell
50:51
Hoffman saying, come on, let's just get it.
50:52
Let's let's get it. You like you get attacked.
50:54
The motor. Me.
50:56
I'm scared of this damn thing 24/7.
50:59
OK, So what we're going to do is we are going to so that the
51:07
fuel, the fuel is gone. It went back in there.
51:10
So what we got to do is we got to prime it.
51:12
This is fuel. We're going to put them in the
51:14
the Venturi's all right. So we're filling this baby up.
51:22
It hasn't been started. When was the last time we
51:24
started this one time? Yeah, down there.
51:27
Down there. Which, what, a week ago.
51:29
Yeah. So it's empty.
51:33
OK, I'm just going to make sure this baby's filled up, so I'm
51:42
going to pump it. Watch this.
51:45
OK, now what I do is I spin it over a little bit and there's
51:48
the reason for me. If any fuel runs down the
51:52
runners in the heads and the fuel gets on top of the Pistons,
51:56
it could ignite. So I like to spin it over, can
52:01
get any excess fuel out. So I'm going to do that.
52:17
OK, now we're going to let it sit for a little bit, but I can
52:20
see, I can see that I need just a little bit of walk, a little
52:25
bit of antifreeze in here in the radiator itself.
52:43
OK, now it's cold outside, but it needs a little more.
52:53
It's cold outside. But we have Brody and Brittany's
52:57
baby. This is called a Schaus.
52:59
This is this is 60 by 130 by 60 is a very nice home.
53:05
And then there's a neutral area and then the shop.
53:09
So the shop is 50 by 60. I turn the fans on.
53:13
I open the doors because I don't want any carbon monoxide
53:17
disrupting our baby Lyla, four months old, 544.
53:22
She likes race cars. She likes race cars.
53:23
She's a Lila race car. OK, here we go.
53:39
OK, I feel good about it. All right, All right, here we
53:47
go. Let's see.
53:52
We are going to start this baby up.
53:54
See what happens. OK.
53:56
Here. You ready?
53:58
Are you all ready? Damn it.
54:00
OK, let's go. I turn the Iowa,
57:44
OK, people say I'm insane. I am that close to being ready
57:52
to race in April. My race car is ready to race in
57:56
April. I want to enjoy my winter with
58:00
my family, so that's the reason I work the way I work.
58:05
Make a list, Make a list. Challenge yourself to get that
58:10
list done. My car is is going to be ready
58:14
to go four months early because I don't like to take anything to
58:20
an end. So we're going to thrill.
58:24
You got to have a coffee. So we're going to go ahead, shut
58:27
the motor off. Oh, hey, Kaye Camber.
58:30
Fine. We're going to finish it up real
58:31
quick. Look at Clay.
58:39
Fine, let's shut this motor off. I feel good about it,
59:22
All right? So I hope you all enjoyed that.
59:28
I sure did. It was painful to do that and,
59:32
you know, make a Kenny Wallace show out of it.
59:36
So we feel like we're good now for the winter.
59:38
We keep the heat on here at about 60°.
59:41
We protect all our equipment during the winter, our tires,
59:45
things like that. We don't let everything get down
59:47
in the 30s. Cold weather can ruin new tires,
59:52
is what Mike Algar taught me from Hoosiers.
59:55
So we like to keep our tires warm during the winter.
1:00:01
So we'll do that, you know? We'll we'll keep everything warm
1:00:07
during the winter. And all right, Next up is the
1:00:10
Dome in Saint Louis. You already know I'm running
1:00:12
dining jumper's car, driving Nick Coughlin's car at Volusia.
1:00:16
And then this is my car. We'll get it wrapped.
1:00:18
It's going to look nice. We've got that nice new jigs,
1:00:24
jigs, jigs, jigs. I don't know who starred that,
1:00:33
but it's damn funny. All right, everybody, We're
1:00:36
going to end like this nice new clean air cleaner.
1:00:41
We are going to, we will go to the back and we will take the
1:00:47
black ground cable off the battery.
1:00:50
We'll put a little towel around it and that's it.
1:00:54
We're putting the motor to bed for the winter.
1:00:57
All right, y'all have a great Thanksgiving.
1:01:01
You have a great New Year's, Have a great Christmas.
1:01:05
We'll see you at the Dome, we'll see you at Volusia and we'll
1:01:07
definitely see you at the pit gate starting the 1st of April
1:01:12
in Peebly Missouri Federated Auto Parts Raceway.
1:01:15
Goodbye everybody. 01 more thing.
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