LSXcalade Rocky Mountain Race Week Prep! (Change Of Plans?)

Time to get ready for race week. I 'll start by putting new tires on this side. I know I'm changing two tires on this side, but I'll put the new ones back. So you don't have to say, "Oh, you have to put them differently because that would be wrong." I know that myself. These two are simply the worst. So I'm taking them off and then putting two new ones on the rear axle. I'll also quickly polish the rims, because they look terrible now after sitting in the rain on the trailer. I have a special bullet attachment, the necessary paste and everything for this, which I have n't done before, but I tried it on new discs—it looks cool. I think it will turn out well. The battery was dead here , I charged it. At least I think I charged it. I'll try to run it now. We'll see if it works out. We still need to install new valves. The ones on bolts are safer. Hooray. Sometimes he gets cranky when he's cold. So, I pulled out the old valves. It's easier to polish around them that way, and they still had to be replaced with new ones. I also cleaned the discs of basic dirt, on both sides. Now you can carry them there and shine them . Polishing is going pretty well. These little ball nozzles make the job very easy. You see, I spent almost no time or effort on this. Just took a quick walk. And here's what another disk looks like, which I haven't touched yet. He is just dull and unremarkable. Black anodizing doesn't look the best. I don't know if it can be polished or sanded to make it better. But when the wheel is on the Escalade , it's almost invisible because there's no direct light. So I'm not too worried. I cleaned the wheels sufficiently and lubricated the tires with soapy water. This time I'm going to try something new: just smear detergent on the inside of the tire. They say it helps hold air better. I've never done this before , but I'm going to try it and report back on the results, as these tires usually don't hold air well, as my Escalade spends a lot of time outside, either parked or towed. If it's on a trailer, even when I'm driving, it's in the sun all day. Obviously it's on an open trailer, and over time those tires just start to leak air. So, I heard that you can rub dishwashing liquid on the inside , and for some reason it seems to seal the pores of the rubber, because it's a bias tire. Apparently there isn't much material there to hold air. So I'll try to do it on these new ones. I mean, they're new, so by their nature they'll still hold air better than the other two. But I soaked the sidewalls of those two with WD40 because they seem to absorb it . And it's really amazing how it works. The sidewalls were noticeably dry. I applied several coats of WD40 to them and spread it over the surface. I come back 20 minutes later and they are dry again. It's like they absorbed everything. I did this several times. I went back the next day and they didn't lose as much air as usual because I think the rubber absorbs the product, expands a little and holds a lot more air because of it. Of course, you can't completely restore a dry tire, but it definitely helps. And I'm going to do it more often. It's just prevention to keep the sidewalls from drying out, to keep them moisturized, like, you know, putting cream on your skin. Even with these, they are new now, but eventually they too will dry out. So I'm tired of buying tires every year just because they stop holding air, even though the tread has n't even worn out yet. It's a little annoying, but I guess that's just their nature . So I'm going to install these beadlock rings and then we're going to change the grease and. After that, I'll probably take those other two tires off because I want to change the grease now to get it over with, and then I'll tackle the other wheels and tires since I might take them to a tire shop anyway to get them better greased with soap, because. I'm not sure I can put soap in there while they're still attached to the wheel from the back , and it'll be harder to polish them that way . So I'm not sure. This will be a task for tomorrow. And today I'll just put them back in place and we'll change the grease. Now I do this: I bait them all in turn. Sometimes they go tight because the ring is pressing on them or there is some dirt in the threads. This is natural for wheel parts. But I first bait them all by hand in a circle. Then I take this and pull them up. Not to the point of madness, without fanaticism. Just enough for them to just sit down. And then I take a torque wrench. I'm giving it a little effort, you know, gradually. I don't give the full moment at once, you need to do it one at a time so that everything is correct. I don't know. Do you understand what I mean? You do this in stages so you don't get all 22 foot-pounds at once. First, go through everything in a circle by 10, and then add. This way you don't over-clamp or deform the tire. It's such a smooth process. Now I'm doing this . Just finished with this side. Inflated the tire to 30 PSI. The village is just wonderful. I think the soap inside helped. Everything went, you know, smoothly, without any problems. I'll finish this side, and then move on to that. I'm wearing headphones, working a little bit . I've just been listening to Mark Barton's podcast for the past two years because he releases them in chronological order. At least now he's doing them in chronological order of his career , kind of documenting it. It's quite interesting to listen to, you can learn some lessons for yourself, etc. This is pretty much what I do at work. Um, I'm doing two things at once. I almost always work with headphones on and almost always listen to some kind of podcast. Whether it's Andy Frisella or, in fact, Jordan Belfort, the very "Wolf of Wall Street," he has a very interesting podcast with practical advice on thinking, business, or something like that, in general, about success. Like Mark Martin: he doesn't talk about business, he talks about his success in racing, and he does n't even try to lecture anyone. But when I hear this story, I can absorb it and learn the lessons I need, simply because I know exactly what I'm supposed to take away from these guys' words. So, if you're wondering, this is roughly what I do. That's why I always wear headphones. And I'm not going to film them, because right now I'm going to press " stop" on this GoPro, press "play" here, and just go back to my work. I change the oil, fill the filter, and let it do its thing. I won't show you what's underneath because it looks terrible. It's... a little wet there. I do n't like it. I hate this. I try not to think about it , because the thought that it might be dirty there literally drives me crazy. When I assembled this car, everything was perfectly clean. It was flawless, I spent so much time on it, and now it's all in the dirt because I drive it everywhere like a regular car. But that's part of the point. So, I'm installing this. The grease has drained. Now let's fill in a new one. I put new tires on the rear, as promised. Boom. And I soak the sidewalls in WD40 to restore them a little, well, on those old tires that I didn't replace. Looking back, I should have taken all four, but I didn't because I'm stingy. But you see what I'm talking about, how they let air in. And it was the tire that held the air the best. And it's still the same story. You see, I'm spraying on her. And you can already see how it has absorbed the liquid along this side. I've done this several times already. So I'll keep spraying until it starts to shine . And it will be the same. You will see. The grease has been replaced. Ready to work. Let's get this thing going. I'll do something now. What are you doing there? This is Skippy. He works at a cool cardboard desk in the office. And apparently he has a big old flag now. These suction cups are pretty cool. I've never seen anything like this before. Aha. About 150 dollars. How many? Like 150 dollars. This man is completely devoted to patriotism. Logan arrived at the workshop around 11:45 last night to rescue this guy with the Charger. It seems he had some kind of trouble on the side of the road. And they returned with a tow truck at one in the morning. Logan made the call to help this guy. And also gave him a job. Let's go see what they're doing there. I need to pick up two more wheels. I'm going to take them to a tire shop to quickly bend the edge of the bead, because that will make it easier for me to polish them, and then soak the inside, because I'm more worried about these two wheels leaking than the new ones. That's what I was talking about about absorbing WD40. It's dry now, and I don't know, you can't feel it. I can feel it, it has become soft. This was not the case before. $145 million. I'm just doing some calculations. Yes. $145 million . Yes. Is that how much money it takes to finish your car? Yes. In principle. How much do I get paid? You should pay for early morning departures. Yes, I know. Nobody does that. We need to take care of our customers. I'll show you another tire. The one I was showing a few minutes ago. She absorbed everything. It didn't absorb at the edges, because that's where the thicker part is, where it probably wasn't so dry. Here. She absorbed everything, or almost everything. And thanks to this, it is much softer to the touch . So I'll load this one and that one into my truck and go get them taken apart. As for the rest of the preparation of this car, I just need to throw all the junk out of it. There are a lot of all sorts of things lying around here. I took my air mattress because I'm actually going to sleep in my car again, like I did at Drag Week the very first time. So it will be interesting. And also, Cooper wrote to me yesterday that there is too much work in the workshop right now. We will be away for 5 days, so he won't be able to go. So it looks like I'm on my own again , which sucks a little . I was so looking forward to us doing this. But you know, anything happens. I understand. I used to stay home too, because sometimes you just have to get things done. Bam. Bam. How are you doing? This is your casting couch. This is my couch from Taco Bell. What? Yes, there are beans here, John. Okay. By the way, this is not his table. Here is his table, over there. I do n't know where my table went. I don't know either. Why? Where is your computer? We had clients today, so we had to look presentable . You threw away his computer. Yes. Oh man, I worked hard on this . The children are here. They play with him. They are like this: a rocket. Well, for the sake of editing, uploading, and publishing this video while I still have time to do everything I need to. I'll end it here. There's really not much left to do there, other than the same two things I've already done with the other tires I showed you. So I'll take on this. Uh, make sure you subscribe if you haven't already , and hit that bell to get notified when I post a video, because my plan is to make a video every day of race week, and I'll be sitting in the Escalade, editing, and uploading via my phone's hotspot if I have to. I will do my best to upload a video every day from start to finish. That's my plan. Unless something catastrophic happens that prevents me from doing so, that's exactly what I'll do. So do n't miss it.