Alternator replacement on a 1980s Dodge Daytona 2.2 turbo car
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Feb 4, 2025
Our shadetree mechanics “CudaPete” and Tom “TurboPacifica” replace an alternator, the way ordinary people do it—with the odd dropped socket and mistake, a universal replacement part that isn’t quite like the original, and such. Avoid common mistakes as Pete and Tom swap alternators with you—the way real people do it, so you can follow along and not feel quite so foolish when the new part doesn’t line up perfectly. #mopar #dodge #dodgedaytona #fixityourself #carrepair
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hello welcome to another edition of
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motals today we're going to replace an
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alternator on the 88 Dodge Daytona
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Pacifica there you go all right 2.2 L
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automatic so first we want to remove the
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negative ground on the battery cable
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okay you are the engineer
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remove the air conditioning compressor
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to gain access to the alternator below
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15 15 is
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good swp up the ratchet that
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one 15
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you got a shorter
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extension got it okay
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you got a dish for your nuts yeah you
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always need a dish for your
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nuts the cool thing about the maget dish
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is that if you're working underneath the
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car you can put them up instead it down
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oh I never even thought of that I saw it
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on a video one time I was like wow
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that's really cool I use these a lot
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with computers it's getting harder to do
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as you get older they tend to fall out
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and
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I had no idea we had to pull the AC
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out one day I hope to make the AC
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work yeah this I got 460 yeah windows
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open 60 M hour I almost said you don't
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have four windows but you actually do
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you do the bottom yeah
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yeah haven't seen that in a
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while lift it out and put it to the side
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and there's your alternator down below
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woo get the we need a open-end wrench
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Thomas what size I think it looks like
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13 that
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big it's a Black Bolt big black washer
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there and a little
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rubber yeah this Bolt
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no it's be it's going to be
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15
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15
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15 all tools are on here is
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okay got that loose we got that loose we
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need
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to loosen that loosen the lock on the
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adjustment
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take that loose and then this is the
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adjuster here for adjusting tension on
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the belt so we can loosen
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that the belt's not that
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old as you can see the belt is now
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coming
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loose round two round two
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and the belt is
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off expecting the belt not that old not
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that old no cracks little wear yeah
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there you go where the belt all right
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now we got to disconnect some of the
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electrical
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here so we got our supply from the
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alternator here
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and then we have our Fields there so
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let's get that one is that 10
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mm it is 10 mm 10 mm you got a small we
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you need a quarter inch yeah quarter
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inch extension or no extension no I
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don't need an extension for here you go
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add that to our nut
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collection and then the warrior is free
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there and then we
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have what size is that guy one of them's
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missing on there but it's still on
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there some little
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guys looks like it is
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seven sorry no music no
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music and we got a little retention
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strap here with an 8 mm
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nut that mean ground it's just holding
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this cable to
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the see the nice new aluminum radiator
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that is a beautiful aluminum radiator
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yeah guess who put that
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in when the old one failed that one was
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the most cost
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efficient probably a bit more effective
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yes looks
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good oh
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hypo okay let's see if this is ready
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to this here no that's just the
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tightening for
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the okay we have your choices were the
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Bosch 90 and the Chrysler 120 this car
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happened to come with the Bosch 90 which
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we went
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with hard to believe that an alternator
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that small flat or common common
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flat 90 or 120 that's pretty good
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choice oh that's the how B you want a
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pry let's see if this will
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it should just come off the
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face so the older ones were bigger and
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made less it's spinning on this side so
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I got to get something on
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there okay
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before it drops on the
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ground what happened was I was driving
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home what dropped the bolt no I got the
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bolt oh where's our washer on
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there can find that
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nothing on the
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ground something
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dropped coming home from the parade
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Memorial Day I have the digital dash
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that you can change you know it's U
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voltage
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temperature something else and it
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automatically goes to where the problem
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is it started Ed flashing uh voltage and
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instead of charging at 12 volts 12 to 13
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it was at
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8 so okay luckily I made it
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home but the car wouldn't start
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today yeah we got one more here that's
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what it is can you hold that
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and something dropped down there to find
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I'm sure it's a washer that was on the
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end of here yeah but it didn't hit the
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ground is what I'm telling you I
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remember my father's car driving around
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with the 9/16
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socket just bought the
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set okay and there it is look at that
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halfway
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there that goes back to get new brushes
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put into it and that goes in
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that's okay so we there there's a core
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charge of
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$30 okay so we have to get this
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piece the spacer in between
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yeah uh oh
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let's use the right tool since we're on
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the camera you got a little Mallet I
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have the big we don't need the big we
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need I have all kinds of
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hammers throw this little
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spacer as you can see there that we just
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need to uh really want come out
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persuasion there it is it's out
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all
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right so do we locate the missing uh
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washer washer that down yes but did not
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hit the ground oh there it is you win I
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win so the
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spacer I was wondering at the last show
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how I was going to clean up the aler it
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look nice and pretty this was not my
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plan you got to a bench or something we
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because we're going to have to tap this
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yeah I got a vice right
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here this has got to get tapped down a
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little
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bit you got to drift or something what's
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a drift so we can hit this without
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damaging
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it it's got to go down a little bit if
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this doesn't clear it so it's got to go
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down a little bit I mean like
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that Improv
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where's your where was your you have a
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long
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extension uh three
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three that's the hammer
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dry see if this gets us
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down a little bit more
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here we go ready in I think we
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can here's P here we should really see
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if pulley are the same size where'd you
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put the old
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one over
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there it's a little different width
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catching the grooves or
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not that's the question will it the
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replacement model has a universal pulley
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which takes multiple belts so I'm quit
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my well let's see if that one will come
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off easy enough we'll see sometimes
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they're pressed on I don't have my
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puller with me so so Pete's going to try
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to use the old pulley we'll find out
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it's not needed it's just going to spin
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when you try to uh yeah I mean we can
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try this to happen to house with a power
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steering
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pump cuz I don't have my puller with me
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here I said we try this one first you
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want to try
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it it has one too many grooves put the
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belt where you want it yeah all right
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we'll see all right let's see how it
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fits so Dave can get lots of comments
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about this
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okay just a different number of grooves
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on now it's very easy to make this
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mistake of trying to attach the
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alternator first to the mounting point
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on the engine itself and then hook it up
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to the Belt adjuster the actual order
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that you have to use is attaching it to
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the Belt adjuster and then putting it
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onto that big aluminum Mount that
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attaches directly to the engine block if
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you do it the wrong way then you get
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this problem so don't do it this way no
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it's the same wi even the tab you should
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have taken a picture that's weird CU
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look look at this see this this has is
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wider than that one that one's narrower
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this one's wide is it yeah but that's
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not what we're putting
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in putting here here and here it's the
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same so this one's the bottom one over
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here yeah I'm just trying to see
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where it should go upside
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down maybe it goes like
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this this has to go on the inside out
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you took a video from the beginning
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let's look at the video from the
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beginning how it
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goes hey stop pushing I got no leverage
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hang
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on all right here that's it that's
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it still seems like something is
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missing we had to miss a spacer
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somewhere you probably pause
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there's one one bolt missing like this
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and then because to go on
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these and then there's got to be a
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spacer missing
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somewhere there's nothing like on that
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Rail and there's nothing on the
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ground this time Pete is attaching the
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alternator first to to the belt
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adjustment
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mechanism right hold that guy up there
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again down forward a little
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bit get this
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guy okay
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there we go with
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that big
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washer so this time you attach it in
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front first that U yep we put it on to
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the
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adjuster and then we uh
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sorry if I'm not narrating oh
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yeah okay SM that up
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later that off
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there so that's here that's tight yep
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you see if your belt how your belt's
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going to fit on this thing
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that is the
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question will be in the pudding as they
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said who else has colorcoded manual
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oh that's very oh I'll show you one even
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better check this out oh now that's
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clever colorcoded just for your car just
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for my blue Daytona blue Daytona blue
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Daytona
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Daytona when Zach was driving down the
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road in my car a Blue Pacific a van
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drove the other way he's like what are
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the chances
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Pacific oh oh well that's interesting
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okay we'll get back
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there
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obvious where does the strap go the
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strap goes uh onto the attaches to the
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alternator and then that supplies your
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field currents here and then the main
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one is your juice to the
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battery appears that these studs on the
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new
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alternator
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bigger different from the old
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alternator we take this nut off and use
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this that's that's for the
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casing where did that go now
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yeah these are these are
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bigger but is the hole in the wire can
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we take that nut off
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no it's um the wire itself won't fit
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over the pole no we have to open up the
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holes a little bit but um if you can
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find that one nut I don't know where
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it I guess I didn't hit the
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ground you got a rat
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to m
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or something open up this hole a little
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bit then you're going to need nuts I
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don't know if you got metric
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uh nuts drills I got rot Tails I
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don't yep what we need to open up the
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holes on the wiring harness mount it
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these are this
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small good um we just need to drill out
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these holes here because the new studs
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are bigger than the old
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studs you know the electricians not
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you don't got a
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cordless not charged
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yeah you got a
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truck now you want to everything
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I thought it would be
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there
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help it should really have safety
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glasses or goggles yeah
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okay one of these we get that held in
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place okay
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I use that socket set all the time I
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mean I have cron also but I use that a
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lot don't tell me this is
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to
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okay that I see
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I move those please let me just get this
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wire hooked in and we're making some
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good progress here
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now this on there when I was in
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California I had a all Craftsman tool
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kit I was love Craftsman it couldn't AF
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I couldn't afford to send it back it was
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the Craftsman tools weren't aren't worth
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the value of shipping Craftsman tools
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are
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heavy so yeah it was cheaper to sell off
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the tools to Half Price and then come
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home and buy new Tools H 7 mimer where's
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a
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seven this husky set I use more than
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anything
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else it's metric and
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regular my cars flip back and forth
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they're marked which is nice so we'll
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put a little tension on the Belt now no
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nice oh yeah I can actually read these
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markings too which is nicer than the
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Craftsman ready to stamp it in and you
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have to angle it at the light and you're
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like what's that yep which also for me
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usually means I have to change the
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spes the ratchet is no good but all the
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sockets are good and the adapter are
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good it's nice that they're all
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interchangeable I mean doesn't matter
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brand
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yeah I am tightening up the belt here um
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somebody took over Craftsman's
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warranty this needs to be warranty this
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is slipping see that's that's the one
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that you got to be careful with why
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because it'll flip the loose instead of
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tighten but these These are Craftman
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these are good ones that's this is not
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the authentic blanket this is a
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insulation from my house the
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blanket in case of fire these will melt
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and the blanket supposed to suffocate
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the
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fire and the one that was on his car was
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just too
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destroyed
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okay all right so that's
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that the Jumper's charging hopefully
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it'll start
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neighbor's home oh the wing no
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oh rebuilt the house around
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it this is the original color of the car
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oh you made it you made a nicer
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Choice can't go wrong with B5
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blue y switch
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phes and the moral of the story is keep
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your nuts in the
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dish they were you just put it on the
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wrong bolt you just put it on the wrong
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bolt no no no open and wrench open
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end I don't need the half
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inch and it does
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nope
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dead no power at all no windows no
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lights no
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nothing this was not connected the
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battery was so worn down when the car
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was parked that it needed to be charged
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separately and the smart starter and the
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smart charger wouldn't work while the
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car was hooked to it because it was just
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slightly too little voltage and it
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assumed that the battery was permanently
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burned down out the solution was taking
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the battery disconnecting it entirely
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from the car charging it for about 15
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minutes and then trying
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again now I got green that means it's
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charging on the dash
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bomb what it say it's not reading good
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thing the V
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wow that's good that's what it should be
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I can't see I can't Devol my secrets off
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camera on
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camera yeah it
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works yeah it works
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