DIY Repairs: Peace of Mind Tips - Part 2

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Part 2 of my conversation with Ozzy dives into how to avoid common DIY repair mistakes, with a focus on doing your oil changes safely—and some practical tips for staying organized while you work.

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SPEAKER_01 2:28

So a few things about that. For one, that's another very important bolt that you want to be torquing down. A lot of uh oil pans are aluminum, so they have very soft threads, so it's very easy. You know, typically your drain plugs aren't really torque that high. Probably 30 foot 30 foot pounds, probably the most you typically see.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

But that's a good point, is that they all come with some torque specs. Yeah, yeah. It's not just tight until you feel like you can't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Oh, absolutely. Almost every bolt in the car, no, every bolt in the car has a torque spec. Like there is they're not just tightened down for no reason, right? Like they're they they're you know, you tie them down to the proper spec, you know, for a reason. They all serve a purpose. So, yes, there's definitely a torque spec for your drain bolt, and that's another thing that's um available online. So for sure, for sure, torque down your drain bolt. You do not want to strip those threads or damage them by any means, because then you have to get a full or uh you know oil pan job done, and that is uh pretty pricey to be honest, because sometimes they're not super accessible, so they get pretty expensive in terms of labor hours. That's mainly where it comes from labor. And it makes it easier for you or for the next person to do the oil change on the car, right? You don't have to struggle and worry about you know doing too much force under there, but yes, and then um another thing too are crush washers a lot. I think all drain plugs have crush washers. You always want to replace that after every oil change. Um, so you know, again, you can buy them anywhere. Either you go if you buy OEM parts from the dealer, you can get it from there for sure. Or um they typically come paired with the oil filter um when you buy it from auto parts stores.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

And they come uh metal or plastic now these days. Yeah, there's different ones.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

I just copper. I know Mercedes uses like copper plugs, uh, a lot of them they are uh washers, I mean a lot of them use aluminum ones, or there's even some like nylon type of like metal nylon ones, I think. For Toyota. Uh-huh. They're they're gonna be different, but yeah, you'll see. It's just uh a little crush washers.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

The plastic's okay, yeah. That's what it comes with.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

I mean, yeah, replace it with whatever it had on there previously, right? Um, but yes, always after every oil change for sure, make sure you replace that. That's definitely a common mistake. I see even in mechanics. You know, some people overlook it a lot. Definitely don't can you accidentally put two?

SPEAKER_00 4:36

I know we'll talk about double gaskets on the filter, but can you accidentally put two washers or yes, you can.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Sometimes again, this comes to reusing them. Reuse them enough, they start molding to the actual train plug. So if you're again, this goes back to the patience thing. If you're in a rush, it's very easy to forget that either you didn't take it off or anything, because it just, you know, it looks like it's part of the bolt, right? Yeah. And then if you put double, it will cause your oil to leak. And it's a very slow leak and annoying one because then you have to go back there, take it out, and then drain all the oil and put it back. So it's just unnecessary trouble. Yeah, and then if you don't pay attention to it fast enough, it can damage your engine too, you know. So, yeah, definitely want to make sure you always take it off. An easy way you could do that, you can get some uh cutters, some pliers, and just kind of pinch around it so it can expand and it'll come out easy. Just be very careful because it can get sharp very fast. Yeah, you know, but yes, always make sure you remove it or you get a flathead screwdriver again, just be wary not to poke yourself with it by any means, and you can just separate it if it's not if it's replaced when it's supposed to be. Usually they're pretty easy to come off. Sometimes they even come off on their own, or make sure that they don't get stuck to the oil pan. Sometimes I've seen it to where if it's you know tight end enough, um, it'll get stuck on the oil pan and it's not on the bolt. So just take a glance, clean the surface, and you know, yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

So that made me think of two things. One is reinforcing the idea of taking your time.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yes, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Um, on each step. And then two, please wear safety glasses.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

Oh yes. Um uh what do they call it? Um PPE, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:09

Uh oh yeah, personal protection protection equipment.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Yeah, so you for sure wanna always wear I I I personally like to wear gloves. I don't like to deal with having to clean myself up all the time. You know, you have enough to deal with with your arms getting dirty. So I just it makes it easier at the end of the day, right? So for sure always try to have gloves. I mean, certain people like where you want them, certain people don't. For sure, safety glasses. Safety glasses is a big thing. There is a lot of debris that built up at the bottom of your uh vehicle. So even if it's not like a bolt or anything sharp falling, sometimes it's like a little pebble or a little piece of branch or something that could, you know, fall in your eyes. Not fun. Especially when you're under a car, right? You may freak out or have a reflex or something when something's in your eye, and it's it can get very dangerous very fast. So for sure, wear safety glasses, um, you know, and you also don't want anything hot spraying in your face, meaning oil.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

A lot of the times if you position an oil uh catcher wrong, it could um when the oil comes out of the oil pan, it comes out very fast and it can spray everywhere. You don't want that in your eyes, especially now when it's hot, and just in general, right? You don't want vehicle or engine oil in your even on your hands or on your hands.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

So um, one, it does come out hot if you just have been driving your car, it is hot.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

And two, do you have any tips on on how to position it or how to remove the drain bolt in a way that you you're getting the best shot of it going straight into the pan?

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Yeah, to be quite honest, it's more of an experience thing, not like a mechanical experience. Well, it is, right? But like time. As many times once you do your oil change enough, you kind of understand how long your bolt is. So you bring it out enough to where you almost take it completely out. Once you see it dripping, you know, you just make sure your hands clear the way and you can like just snap your fingers, snap it loose, and then get away from the stream of oil.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Because it will come out on an angle, yes. Or depending on the yeah, on a stream.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

It comes out on a pretty on a pretty strong stream. So you want to position the oil catcher, not directly under, because it's not gonna come out directly, like it's not gonna come streaming to the bottom. It'll stream out pretty far out. So you want to position it. How can I put this into words? Um a little far away from the oil pan from the drain where the drain plug is actually at. So that way you give it enough space to where the oil comes out pretty quickly, it'll go into the oil catcher, and then once you see the stream kind of calming down, you can be there ready to move it backwards until it gets to the point where it is dripping straight down. So yeah, you want to position it just slightly further away from the drain plug just so that way it doesn't splash everywhere on the floor. Yeah. Um, another thing, oil disposal and oil cleanup. If you can, there's kitty litter, which is an amazing absorbent that you can use to pick up coolant and oil, right? So you definitely don't want for one, you don't want oil on your ground on the ground in the first place because it's kind of annoying to deal with in terms of cleanup. It makes the stain that are you know, it's pretty hard to remove oil stains from driveways. So if you're someone who doesn't like that, then for sure have either towels under kitty litter or some sort of tarp to catch it. And when you go to dispose of it, um actually, I know I'm not sure if AutoZone does this, but I know I have gone to plenty of O'Reilly's that'll actually take it, uh take your used oil and they recycle it and you know dispose of it properly. So you can always do that. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure, yeah. Like I said, I think autozone does it as well. I just don't quote me on it, but yeah, you can take your oil to those places um and they'll dispose of it properly. And you, for one, avoid harming the environment and you know, potentially a pretty big fine because you know, toxic waste gets expensive. Yeah, it's illegal, and the fire marshal can come down and definitely give you a bad bad day. You know, it's it gets it gets expensive to be quite honest, you know, disposing of oil improperly.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

So okay. So now that the oil is out, now the oil filter.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

Oil filter, yes. So once um you typically want to let your oil drain out until it's dripping. Once it drips, um, you can just plug it back in and again make sure your wash is on there, make sure it's not doesn't have double washers and torque it down.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Ooh, would that be a tip to put the the drain plug back in right away so you don't forget that when you later fill the oil in?

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Yeah, so for one, you want to make sure that you do things immediately and don't get yourself in the habit of saying, Oh, okay, I'm just slightly put this in and then worry about it later. Right? Is I've seen a lot of mistakes and a lot of people make this mistake where they say, hmm, I'm gonna just slightly plug it up, not torque it down yet, so that way the oil stops dripping. And then you get done with the oil change, and by the time you remember, the drain plug is only you know halfway put in, and you get yourself in a lot of trouble. But for sure, once it's done draining, put the drain plug on there and torque it down. And I go as far as marking it, either if you have some sort of paint marker or some sort of um they call it torque seal, at least I call it torque seal. It's like a little wax that kind of goes on there that hardens out, so it's like liquid form, and then once you apply it on there, it'll harden up and just so it's like a you know reminder that hey, okay, I torque this down, it's not gonna come loose, and you know, you can move on with your day. Um, so you want to do that after you it's done draining for sure, just to avoid any issues and makes your life a lot easier, right? You don't have to go back down there and at a future date and torque it down or whatever, right? Um, so once you're done with that, then you move on to the oil filter. Um, you want to bring your oil catcher with you because the oil filter does contain oil in it, even though everything is drained, there's still a good amount of oil in the actual filter. So you want to put your oil catcher there. Typically, if you whoever did the oil change previously um tidens it down properly, you can always just loosen it by hand. Um, but then the force, if not, you can buy yourself some oil filter pliers, which again are pretty inexpensive. Um, and they're a big help to be quite honest. Sometimes they're you know, oil filters are on there pretty tight, and just getting it loose with your hand, it's a it's a big trouble. Um, so for sure.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

Also, some have little like encasings around them, sort of, and you have to slip it like your fingers can't even fit into it.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, and I know certain oil filters are cartridge filters, so you can just get yourself, I mean, it all depending on the card, you can get yourself like an actual socket that fits it so that you can remove it. It's like a six-point socket, you know, sometimes a 27 or 24 millimeter socket will work. Um, if it's plastic cartridge, yeah, for sure you want to use a proper tool to get it off. But if it's just a normal oil filter metal one, you can use oil filter pliers and you'll you'll be fine with that. Um so when you remove it, you want to just remove it enough to where the oil drains um it starts draining from there. You want to let the oil you know drain out, and then once you see it's done dripping intensely, then you can go on there, um, completely remove it, and always clean the surface. You don't want any like debris there, and you also want to make sure that the oil gas oil filter gasket is not on the surface, uh, it's not left there.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Not left sticking.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Like it's sticking on the actual car um where the oil filter is mounted because that could happen, right? And if you don't clean the surface or pay attention or aware that it's there, then you can double gasket the filter and that causes oil leaks. So you don't want it's the same idea with the crush washer, right? You want to make sure that the surface is clean, there's no debris, make sure that the gasket didn't get stay stuck on there. Um, so once you do all that, to be quite honest, in terms of I know some people pre-fill their filters, it's more preference-based, and also how your filter is positioned. So if you have a filter that's positioned up and down, pre-filling it might be helpful. And I mean, again, it's a personal preference thing, but it's good, right? But if your filter is sideways, then you have to worry about doing it quickly and threading it on there fast before the oil drains out. So when you go to search up for your capacity, a lot of the times you'll see that there's two capacities for your car. Um, one that is slightly bigger, it it'll be it'll tell you, it'll specify, hey, this is the capacity of the engine with oil filter pre-filled or with oil filter empty, right? So you can get both. So that way, if you don't pre-fill your oil filters, you just put it on there, you put that slightly extra fluid that it needs, so that way whatever stays in the filter, and then your engine oil will be will be at the proper level. So that's another another tip right there. You don't have to pre-fill your oil filter if you don't want to. I personally don't. I think it's a little bit of trouble having to you know worry about it dripping out or whatever the case might be. It's a little cleaner that way. Yeah. Um, so yes, so I always get the oil capacity spec that is with the filter empty. Okay. Um, yes, again, it's just a cleanliness and safety thing, and you don't want double gaskets. So you want to clean everything. You want to get um before you install it, you want to get a little bit of oil of new oil on your finger and just kind of um, you know, put some oil around the oil filter gasket. Sometimes I seen it with uh Toyota oil filters, they come with grease already, so you don't need to put um oil on there. That's just so that way when you remove it, the gasket doesn't stay stuck on there and it comes everything comes off smoothly and the actual oil filter doesn't stay stuck to the surface. Okay. Because if you put a dry gasket in there, sometimes it'll just mold there and it'll be a pain to take it out.

unknown 15:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

So yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

And um, if you do, if someone were to accidentally double gasket, you'd you'd see it right away, right? With oil dripping. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

It'll it'll yeah, it'll drip very quickly. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you double gasket, you'll know pretty fast. I've actually seen it personally happen before to somebody and it's not a fun cleanup.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

So that I think leads me to the post-oil change things I was thinking about, which is well, one is a check underneath the car right after, would you say?

SPEAKER_01 16:03

Yes, so after you're done for sure, give yourself Yeah. So um once you're done filling it, you want to still have your car up in the air, just so you can take a quick uh a quick glance under and make sure that you know nothing's loose and there's no oil draining out initially, and then you wanna start your car and let it run for 30 seconds to like a minute just to make sure everything's good. There's no leaks, there's no issues, there's no weird noises that you're hearing. Um, so yeah, and you can just take a little gambler under the car and make sure everything's good.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

And one other thing that has happened to me when I a long time ago got an oil change at a small shop and no shade on them. I think it could happen anywhere, but the guy forgot to put the oil cap back on.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

So I would say um it's a good final step to make sure you your oil cap's secure on and the dipstick too, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Yeah. So one good practice that I learned at the dealer when I was there is always put your oil cap on the on the hood hinge. So say you don't happen to remember to put it back on, when you close your hood, it'll stop your hood from closing. So when you open it, you're like, oh wait, my oil cap was there, right? So it's kind of like a a safety net.

unknown 17:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

So that way you don't leave your car capitalist. Because for one, it makes a huge mess. If you don't put your oil, your oil cap on, and the engine starts, it'll spray oil everywhere, and it's a huge pain to clean up. I have seen it personally happen to somebody, and it is not fun.

SPEAKER_00 17:28

Well, that's how I figured it out because I drove like half a block away and I could smell it from inside.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

Yeah, and it gets pretty intense, it's very dramatic when it happens because it's a lot of smoke coming up, so you're like, oh, you know, what's going on? So yeah, it's a pretty dramatic scene. And then you open up your engine bay, and everything's like shiny and wet, and yeah, so you definitely, you know, again, a good practice, a good good practice is leaving the oil cap on your um hood hinge. So just leave it on top of there, and so that way you can't close your hood without you know remembering that it's there if you happen to not put it on initially. And then in terms of the dipstick, just stick it out, put in the same place. You know, dipstick's very obvious, pretty long for the most part, so you know you'll see it.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

That my my thought was more of like just make sure it's pressed all the way in.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Oh, yeah. When you go it, it it'll have like a little rubber kind of o-ring at the end of it, so you just feel like a little pop and you want to make sure it's all the way like flush.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

Because that that sounds like a little tiny thing, but that can be adding air into your car.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

Yeah, like we're spraying oil out of it as well. Yes, yeah. So, you know, again, that's just another kind of cleanup thing you don't want to deal with. Yeah, and again, it can also get very dramatic. A lot of dipsticks are placed right next to exhaust manifolds, so it gets pretty hot, and it's also a fire risk, you know. If oil sprays on there and it's hot enough and there's enough oil, it'll catch fire. So be very careful. Very careful. A lot of small things, like you said, that people may overlook maybe a common mistake.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

So for yeah, so just some peace of mind pointers that I was thinking about. We talked about wearing safety goggles and and gloves too, because stuff gets hot or you don't want to get burnt or dirtier than you need to get. Definitely use a torque wrench.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

Find out your it's a really good idea to find out the steps of what you're doing and the specs. Don't rush.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Yes, don't rush. Definitely don't rush. Um, with time you'll get better at the jobs you're doing, and naturally you'll get faster. So if speed is an issue, just give yourself some time, give yourself some experience, and the more you do it, the better you'll get.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

So what about um it doesn't necessarily maybe even more complicated jobs than the ones we're talking about, but what about um ways to stay organized, like using Ziploc or metal now the magnetized bowls, or what what do you do to stay organized?

SPEAKER_01 19:37

So a few things there. Um organization is a big thing. So kind of goes uh back to the know your steps and your specs, right? So a big thing that can help you is knowing the tools that you need for said job. Say you're doing a break job, you get the ratchets that you need. If you need any wrenches, you get those. Only get what you need and lay it out nice and neat so that way you're not scrambling through a pile of tools and you're again it makes your life easier. And if speed is a concern, then that also helps you kind of speed things up, you know, knowing the tools that you need, and just grab those tools and make your life a lot easier. Another thing for labeling bolts. There's a few ways you can go about it, right? You can either get a zip log bag, label it, hey, these are brake caliper bolts, or these are you know the caliper bracket bolts, and you can just put them in the zip log, makes your life a lot easier. Um, or you can just take pictures, you know, of where everything was. When you take out a bolt, kind of hold it next to whatever it went to, and take a picture there, so that way you know you go back to it, and in case if you forget, or you know, you forgot how something went, makes it a lot easier for you to go back to the picture, look at it, okay, cool.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

And then you, you know, yeah, that's good. That's that's even better than just taking a picture to start with, like taking pictures of that Mercedes bolt next to the component it came out of. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Yeah, well, that's one thing that helped me a lot. I used to absolutely, yeah. At Mercedes, we had a big recall job for a fuel pump, and it required to just to remove a lot of little things. So one thing I did was take pictures of everything and put everything in a boat organizer. So that way when I went back, put everything back together, it was a lot easier, you know, and I didn't have to struggle with thinking about where something went or how it went or how it was mounted or whatever the case might be. So not only is it good for organization and speed, but also convenience, right? Like you sub yours you save yourself a lot of time instead of having to go and search something or maybe even just call a mechanic to come and finish the job. Sometimes you know you can make it disheartened or kind of just frustrated. So yeah, it it helps a lot being organized, to be quite honest. And that's honestly, I am uh victim of that. I used to be very unorganized, and I quickly learned that organization is key. For for your own peace of mind, yeah, for your own peace of mind, and again, just for the quality of the job, you know what I mean? It's just quality, safety, convenience, peace of mind, a lot of it. Yeah, yeah. You know, so there are a lot that ties into organization.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

Okay, well, this I think this was awesome. I we definitely We'll do a part two. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

Yes, absolutely. I don't mind at all doing that.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Awesome. So we have a lot of other common DIY jobs that people like to do, and just want to give some good tips on the best way to stay safe.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think the biggest takeaway from this episode should be safety. And safety, and just again, kind of doing things right the first time. So for multitude of reasons, right?

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Either saving yourself money, being safe, and and if you have a successful time doing it, it'll encourage you to continue working.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Yes, definitely, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

Rather than saying the helmet this.

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yeah, yeah. So it'll it'll build up confidence for sure. Um, and again, like I said, the first time that I was on the podcast, if you guys have any questions or have any concerns or any other things that you might want to know in terms of like tips and tricks of safety or any DIY jobs, feel free to ask either me or Jen, you know, and I'm sure she'll if you guys have any questions for me specifically, she'll let me know and I'll have a good answer.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

Yeah, that could be part of our part two is answering some some questions that people may have.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Yes, yes, or or me specifically, you know, whatever the case is. But yeah, I'm always open to helping out to the best of my ability and to ensure people are safe and don't hurt themselves doing doing mechanic work. Because again, like I said at the very beginning, it's uh overlooked, but it's it's it's honestly a pretty unsafe environment. So just make sure you're you're taking all this precautions. Yeah, potentially, of course. If you don't take the right steps, it can be very unsafe. So definitely safety is a huge thing.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Awesome. Thank you so much. Of course, of course. All right. That's good. Okay, thank you again so much to Ozzy for sharing all these great tips and all this great information. Thank you guys for listening. I hope you enjoyed it. I always enjoy sitting down with Ozzy. I kind of did it mid-episode, but here is a quick recap of some peace of mind pointers from this episode and last episode. First, of course, about safety. Always use jack stands. Don't just rely on the jack itself. The car could fall. Be sure to find out the the specifications, know the steps and the specs, and within that the torque specifications for whatever bolts you're removing. It's not just a good practice, it's it really comes down to safety too, because you're you're tightening things with the right force that it'll keep it tightened properly. And as far as jacking up the car, be sure to learn, hopefully before you're in an emergency situation, where your lift points are, where to lift the car from. Because not all points under the car are equal. You might end up bending your door or or crushing something if it if you're lifting at a point that's not reinforced and not meant to be lifted. Of course, please always wear safety glasses. Gloves. Gloves get to be much more important when we we'll we'll do another episode talking about brakes. Brake fluid is corrosive, but it's always good to protect yourself no matter what you're working on. So talking about the oil changes, when you get the drain plug out, check for your crush washer, make sure you have accounted for it. Once the oil is drained, plug it back up and torque it right away. Just so you don't risk forgetting about it and pouring oil back in the car, just for it to flow right out. A nice piece of mind thing to own is uh Ozzy was mentioning the torque seal. And I looked it up. You can find it uh if you look up warranty torque or tamper seal. It's a little like um paste and around 10, 12 bucks. And then you can have the peace of mind of no, if you you don't have to worry later if you forgot, and you can see, you can see you it's done and intact. If you get an old change somewhere else, you can look and see if the place used that, use that kind of seal that might give you peace of mind that you know they really did take the care to put that warranty seal on it. For filters, make sure you get the gasket off so you don't risk double gasketing between the surface it came off of and put that little fingertip amount of oil, just coat it around the filter when you put it back on if it's not already pre-lubricated. Figure out a way to make sure you put your oil cap back on uh before you start the car. Check under the car once the car's on, make sure everything looks good after the job and tires. Back to the last episode too. Just a reminder, always make sure you put the lug nuts back on in star pattern. Uh and if you're at a shop, make sure they do it too. If you happen to stay and watch, I like to know that where I'm, you know, if I'm bringing my car in, they're they're doing it right too. And again, it's so important not to over-tighten or under-tighten, of course, your lug nuts. I think it's a real nice peace of mind item. I had mentioned, you know, it's nice to know your lug nut specifications. In case you're ever somewhere and you have an emergency situation, you have to change a tire and you're somewhere where you don't have, you can't get reception. I think it's a nice idea to have all this information, like, you know, pick a video, pick a pick an instructional video or just an instructional sheet and keep it on your phone, saved directly to your phone, not on the cloud. So you don't even need Wi-Fi to retrieve that document or video. So that's it. Please take Ozzy up on his offer to answer questions. It would be great to hear from you. Good karma podcast. It's karma with the c at gmail.com. And we'll be doing more of these. So definitely suggest some topics or share some experiences you've had. And I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks again for listening. Definitely please check out vivi son.com for the amazing jewelry on her website and read more about her. Take advantage of the good karma coupon code for listeners, and you know by now to please keep up with your oil changes. And I look forward to seeing you down the road.