 Lay hold of it. You lay hold of it. And when that thing tells you to quit, you look at it in his eye and say, I ain't going nowhere. I will break you before you break me. You will not defeat me. You will not destroy me. Some of you are so ignorant. You've been through so much hell. You gonna quit now? You should have quit 10 years ago when you got raped. You should have quit 10 years ago when he walked out on you. You should have been quit. You don't quit now, it's the 10th round. You got two more to go. And when you get to success, it's not about skill. When you get to a certain level, it's about stamina. It's about stamina. It's about you won't break me. You can't take me. It's too late. You should have broke me a long time ago. I'm not breakable now. My legacy, I'm at legacy point, y'all. I'm just having a blessed day out there. So today's video is all about Mr. Hankey, the turd. This is the Dakota that we pulled out of the woods and the weeds a few months back, literally. As you've seen, we dragged it out of the woods with a skid steer, loaded up on the trailer. And the plan for this truck was, we were going to do a hemi swap with a Tomahawk cam from Flying Ryan, which we already have that motor put together. We got the cam put in it and everything. But we've been waiting on long tube headers for the swap from Holley. They've been on back order literally for over a year and we are still waiting on them right now. So we decided, long story short, we started tearing into the truck. We got with Flying Ryan currently in the truck that was supercharged. We was gonna try to get it running, resurrect it, see if we could make this truck move, drive, do anything, and possibly take it to Moe Party. As the plan was to take the truck to Moe Party with the hemi swap, I'm gonna give Ryan a huge thanks for getting this truck running. This truck has been nothing but, I guess, a nightmare in the past for the last 10 years from previous owners that's owned it. They work on it. And I don't know. I guess the truck just never really worked. I have no idea, but we ended up with a truck. Ryan wanted to try to tune this thing, so I hit him up and we got the tuning on it after we got the truck running. To get the truck running, obviously, we had to get all the fuel out of this thing. We had a tremendous wiring nightmare, like I've never seen before. The wiring job on this thing was absolutely a wreck. It was insane. Whoever was working on this truck, built this truck, there was literal, there was wires going to the computer that literally had three or four different kind of connections to the same wire. Like a butt connector, a half-ass soldering with a crimp, and then wires literally twisted together. It was the biggest mess of joke I've ever seen in my entire life. But long story short, we found some wires that was just obviously not getting a connection. We rewired everything quickly, and we was able to actually start the truck and run it. Now, the truck ran like complete dog doo-doo because the current tune that was in the truck was just not getting it done. It looked like there were some injectors being swapped out in it. Who knows if the injectors were updated in the tuning, or what kind of tuning was even done with this thing, period, have no idea. So after we got this truck at least started and running, I sent Ryan a message that, hey, the truck's running. This 47 may actually make it to Moe party. I don't know, depending on how it works out. It's not idling very good. It's not responding to throttle very good, but it is running. And he calls me right up on the phone and said, hey, you wanna tune this Dakota? I was like, hell yeah. So I ran in the house. We got the laptop, went out to the truck, and literally started doing some logging, loading in tunes. We did two or three tunes that night and got the truck to where it idled very well. You could actually hit the gas pedal and it would rev up pretty good. So next day we go out, drive the truck out on the street and it's driving very well. We're going through the gears. We're actually ripping on it pretty good. My brother-in-law and our worst nightmare literally happened in the middle of a pull. And I think it was like third gear. We just lost basically all drivability. It just, it was completely neutraled out. Wouldn't move at all. We're in the middle of the road dead. We have a running engine, but no moving whatsoever. Every time we was trying to put in any gear, it was grinding, didn't know what happened. We thought maybe, I don't know, maybe we blew the transmission. Maybe we broke the clutch, throw out bearing fork, slave cylinder or something. It was dead in the water, sitting on the side of the road. Pushed the truck off the side of the road, went home, got my big truck. We dragged it back with a strap. Keep in mind guys, this is two days now. This is two days until we have to leave the Mo Party to go all the way to Kentucky from Georgia to Mo Party. Two days. So we're like, and it's about nine o'clock right now at night. It's dark and we're like, well, I guess we're dead. This truck's not gonna make it to Mo Party. So we were just about to give up. And we said, you know what? Let's pull it up on car ramps. So we pulled it into my little garage outside, put on car ramps, got all the lights out. Within about 10 or 15 minutes, we were pretty sure that we lost a clutch fork or throw out bearing. The slave cylinder was working perfectly. The transmission was shifting into the gears, but we were not disengaging somehow from the engine when we tried to push in the clutch, it just wasn't happening. We were like, all right, transmission's going to have to come down, all yours to it. So let's make it or break it. We either try to drop the transmission, see if it's something fixable, or we're dead in the water and the truck's just gonna stay here and it's not gonna make it to Mo Party. So that night, within about three to four hours, I think me and my brother-in-law ripped the transmission out on the ground, on our backs, on car ramps, cold concrete in the dark, it sucked. And not even, you're not gonna believe this, but it makes sense the truck had sat in the woods for God knows how long. And when we pulled the transmission down, the first thing we noticed is there was a huge rat nest inside the bell housing of the transmission. Well, where did that rat nest go after we started driving this thing on the road for a little bit? It went into our clutch. There was rat nest and just crap, all entangled into the clutch, all wrapped up in the disc, all wrapped up in the baron. It was a freaking nightmare. Long story short though, the clutch was done. The clutch was wasted. There was pieces of it broke off because of all that material that got in there. So we felt kind of good at least, it was just gonna need a clutch, but there was no way we were gonna get a heavy duty clutch in time to be able to make it a mo party. So the next morning we went to AutoZone and we bought the only clutch they had in stock and we put it in the next day and literally put the transmission back together and the truck ran, drove, shifted and we loaded on the trailer. And the next morning we hightailed it up to mo party and the truck did actually very, very well considering it has a lot more issues. Like it's smoking. We're pretty sure the valve sills are cooked or something's not right with those as it starts to get warm. It's smoking and it is burning a little oil. You can smell it, but it runs and drives and it did pretty dang good guys. It made it through test and tune on Friday and all day Saturday. We probably put six or seven, maybe eight passes on Mr. Hankey and it held together and the next day on Sunday when the racing was actually going down on one of the practice runs, the AutoZone clutch we put in decided it was not gonna hang on anymore and it actually granated. The clutch granated into pieces. There was parts of it falling out of the bottom of the bell housing. So our clutch did not hold together the entire trip, but it did make it there. We did get to enjoy the truck for a couple of days. Again, it's my brother-in-law's truck and he hasn't been drag racing in probably a decade, let alone in a stick shift vehicle. So it was a complete learning curve for him to one, even be on the track and two, trying to shift gears. So it was interesting. He had fun though. And Mr. Hankey the third, it made it to Mo Party. We got some passes done. So again, we got to thank Flyin' Ryan tremendously for even getting this thing somewhat tuned to be usable. Again, thank you, thank you. That was awesome. So there's definitely gonna be more videos coming on Mr. Hankey. But since this clutch granated and a stick shift honestly is just kind of a no-go for drag racing in my eyes. So we're not gonna try to leave this five-speed transmission in the truck. One is not gonna hold to a bunch of power anyway. It's basically a stock transmission. I mean, a 727 is just gonna be, I think, smarter for what the truck's gonna be for later on down the road. So that's the plan, the transmission, we're gonna take it out, we're gonna 727 swap it. Especially whenever we get our long tubes to be able to put the hemi in it that we have. Definitely gonna be 727 swap. No more five-speed, no more clutches, none of that garbage. So stay tuned. Whenever we get some more parts to come in and we can work on the truck, that is gonna be going down. Anyways, guys, that's it. Enjoy some of the video clips of Mr. Hankey.