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Arrival and Future Repairs

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Rocky Mountain Race Week Day 5: The Reality of "Drive Days" With NO Interstates (Denver to Kearney)

What happens here

The driver successfully completes the long drive to Kearney, Nebraska. He expresses relief but also weariness from the challenging day, including the various car issues and the discomfort from the broken AC in 103-degree heat. He reiterates the plan to address the vehicle's problems: replacing the spark plugs (which may be fouled from rich running at altitude) and replacing the AC compressor clutch unit. He mentions they will visit O'Reilly Auto Parts to try and find the necessary components. He concludes by looking forward to the next day's events, which include blueprinting with fellow YouTubers Vise Grip Derek, Doug, and Cleetus, emphasizing the 'realness' of the journey and the challenges of race week.

Goal: Successfully arrive in Kearney and plan for necessary vehicle repairs

Tools and materials

  • AC Compressor Clutch Unit — Replacement for the broken AC clutch
  • BR7EF Spark Plugs NGK — Replacement for potentially fouled spark plugs
  • O'Reilly Auto Parts O'Reilly Auto Parts — Retailer for car parts
  • Red GMC Yukon XL GMC — The vehicle that completed the drive

What they say

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but it's not i-80 so we drive on this one because race week avoids interstates at all costs that's kind of the spirit of the event um yeah ac compressor clutch is exploded and it's 103 degrees outside we're sweaty it's not terrible i'm kind of used to this with the escalators i have ac in there for the longest time it sucks but the wind's blowing it's all right it's only i think 20 humidity right now last time we checked so it's not miserable it's just not ideal are you surviving could you handle this for an entire week in a car with no ac that would be fine i might be pissed off but i would be fine fair enough turn around just to check out this place here there's a couple awesome places i wonder what year these pumps stopped pumping oh there's a thing here i don't want to crack it 2004 i think was inspected on 1004. man and it's all still here too i want to see if there's a year on that thing wow whoever owns this place must live right by or it would be all cruddy looking now there's an old seven-up thing in there i'm gonna take some pictures just nebraska things he's just in there bobbing along on his air seat he don't give a heck how about that that cenax in the middle of nowhere has e85 but those other stations didn't even have 91. but we don't need that because we can make it the rest of the way to kearny on this tank fill up there and then we will have a higher percentage which is better oh i made it to carney wow that was the most boring drive ever like paired with no ac we don't have the radio the aux cord anymore and it was the longest drive of the day with the most uninteresting route once we got out of the cool part of colorado i am just glad to be here and here is o'reilly auto parts um i'm really hoping they have some br7 ef spark plugs just in case uh mine are probably fouled out from how much how rich it was driving around up in colorado and maybe they'll have an ac compressor clutch too fingers crossed current agenda now is go at this video see if i can track down an ac clutch compressor clutch unit if you can't find one no big deal the drive from uh great or from here to great bend is not nearly as brutal or as far as uh blowing weight has made today so if we don't have ac it's not a big deal but uh tomorrow we are going to blueprint again because they're here in kearney too we should be going with vice grip derrick doug and cletus uh i think that's it pretty much just the youtube people not sure exactly what we're going to do there but i…

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