 Good morning. Well, hang on. Got some dog slobber on there. Good morning from Ehrenberg. I met up with a badge. There's badge. Wow, you're getting suited up, man. I need to get, I need to get an outfit like that just so when I like change the oil. Anyways, today we're gonna work on the bus. We're gonna replace this today. We got this heater actuator thing and basically when I'm driving and I put it on cold, it still blows out warm and this thing goes out often. And apparently you got to find it somewhere inside the dash like way in there. So I'm gonna have badges help with that. I got a couple front shocks here. Oh no way I got an outfit. Amazing. We're gonna replace these shocks. I'm open for a better ride and also I ordered a couple for the rear so then I don't have a saggy bottom. Alright, how do I look? It look like a mechanic. Yo, am I hired? Yeah, not bad, huh? Alright, we're gonna get to work here. I'm not sure. So you're spraying WD on 40. What are you doing? What's that? What are you doing down there with that WD-40? The shocks. Oh. You said we do the easy stuff first. Yeah. That's what you said. Alright, so why do we... So you're doing WD-40 to penetrate the rusty bolts? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Alright, so just so you guys know, this is a tight squeeze over here. We got the pro. We got a pro and we got an amateur. What do you got to do for people don't know to get a shock off? The Chevy you're all right because the Chevy didn't come down with a socket on an extension to break it off. Yeah. But this Ford's got the wheel well there, so you can't do it. So you have to take this one off. But what we're doing is basically putting the ratchet on there and we'll rinse because it's got a nut here, right? Yeah. It's like a bolt, so it makes it pretty easy really. Badge is ratcheting the top of the shock off and he said that old shocks, it's impossible to get them off. This part breaks, so it did indeed break off. That would break off? Yeah. So heads up if you got an old rusty bus from the East Coast, your nuts will break. And you can cheat by taking a little four or five inch grinder and going here with a cut off wheel and right between the rubber just cut that right off. Yeah. There's no garbage anyway, right? Yeah. I know you're saving them. Yep. But if it spins on us and strips, then that's what we'll do. All right, so Badge has got the big guns out here. He's gonna just grind that shock off and basically right where the wrenches just just saw it right off. Warming up the bottom bolt here to try to get it off easier. And when I say we, I mean Badge. So the reason to do this is because metal expands or shrinks with heat. I forget which one, but as you can see, we got it right off. And again, when I say we, I mean Badge. Good work, Badge. All right, this is the final life of the shock. It's coming off. We got the vice grips. All right. Way to go. And so 20 minutes later, we got this shock off. You have to compress the shock because you can't get it in there. All right, so what we did was we wrapped the top, yeah with the mechanics wire, the top and the bottom, which you can't see with this wire to keep it compressed so we could get this in the hole. And all you got to do is just clip it. You just cut the wire and then up the shock goes and you just remove all the wire. It's a nice tip. We got a little little jerry rig here, so. That's not a jerry rig, it's fixed. What we did was we cut the stud off, the weld, and the stud come off. That's welded on from the factory. So instead of getting panicky and go through withdrawal symptoms, you just drill it out and it takes a 5-eights bolt. Which you take out of my trailer hitch and put in there. Exactly. So we're using them. Put the shock up there. Yeah. Because this side you don't have to fight like the other side because we already got the thing off, right? Yeah. Washers on, we'll space it up with some washers, and we put a self locking nut on it. Like so. There you go. That's it. Done like supper. Okay, so this is where your shock rides, right? Yep. You see that, you'll see the spot where it rides. Where the boot rides, so you put it down there. And the complaint was that when you went over a bump, see how much it moves? Yep. It moves so fast, right? Where when you go past that, it doesn't move. Oh, interesting. See, so it gets to that one spot and it wears out, right? It bypasses or whatever. These are supposed to be goshawks that extend by themselves, and you see they don't even do that. So. Oh, yeah, it's totally stuck in that position. Yeah. Wow, look at that. It doesn't go anywhere guys. No. It's completely stuck. And remember how we had to fight to get the new ones in? Yes. So that's why. Awesome. And these are what these new Mac Daddy hoeing, hoeing, hauling and towing shocks look like. These are actually a little bit cheaper than the other ones, which are for RVs. But these also for RVs, but it's specifically said heavy loads, hauling, towing, whatever. So me and the dude that decided these would probably be a little bit better. So we've both been working on the rear shocks. I think you can see it here. We used, well, we, see, I helped out. I did this one. Fuck. You have to admit that you're right. Bad just doing that one. You have to admit you're right. What was I right about? 15. Yeah, I watched the video, that's why. I watched a little YouTube tutorial on how to replace the shocks or whatever and the nut sizes or whatever. Anyways, it's pretty much self-explanatory. There's only two spots where you take the thing off. There's a bolt that goes through on the bottom, which you can access. Then you got to reach way up top and just hit the top part. Well, same thing we did at the front. Hang on to this one. Unscrew that one. It's painted, but I'll see when we're done. Just like magic, we got new shocks. Here we go. We are doing a little test drive on a bumpy road with the Monroe RV shocks, towing and hauling. All you got to say, wow, what a difference, complete night and day. Also, we got the crew. We're going out for pizza. Waitin' for low, everyone. Pizza on me, my treat. But, my god. It's, like I said earlier, it was like grandma...