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Hello. I've obtained a small number of Honda Accord Station wagons.  I've sold the green one so now it's just three. Wanna meet them? This is Schwaggs, my OG wagon and daily driver. Born in 1993 as an LX model it's been driving longer than I have, but we've been together a long time now. How long? No-one knows cause the ODO quit years ago, but the motor has blown up twice now and twice I've slapped it back together in the most careless manner possible. It runs on hate, and some gasoline. Despite its good looks, everything is wrong with it.   This is shitwagon (now known as HEEP), another 1993 LX. I bought it for nothing more than the rear glass, an NLA part. But then I found a piece of glass before swapping the liftgates, so I made shitwagon roadworthy and now it's a  This is my son, we were going to fix up the shitwagon together and it would be his, but I found something in Fresno that changed our minds. The plan for shitwagon was to fix the cosmetics with junkyard parts, swap an H22 in, lower it, yadda yadda yadda.  But then we found this. It's a 1991 EX automatic with an H22 and M2Y4 manual transmission swapped in. Also it has s2000 front seats, a Mugen front lip, 3-inch exhaust with (sorry, older image)    I'm be funny now  So why this thread? I'm taking shitwagon to the Ozark-region Gambler 500. Inspiration:  Honda Rescue Group makes lift kits for the CB and CD-series Accords https://www.hondarescue.com/shop-4 But first I've got to swap a clutch into shitwagon, cause it's hosed. So now I'm going outside to start that. Updates later... trouser chili fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Feb 9, 2020 |
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Status: It's loving hot out, and then it started raining. I ripped the bumper off, got a bunch of good clips to fix the bumper on Schwags, which requires a daily kicking to get back in place.  You might see where this is going already. The bumper support is made of plastic, and while it's got a lot of fibers in it, it's not really that strong for what's about to happen. So I made this plate to help give the mount some strength on the backside. Yeah it's not great.  And the finished product.  Ok so it's probably monumentally stupid to expect the winch to not be capable of ripping the bumper support off, but this is Gambling, not winning. We'll just be careful. trouser chili fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jul 5, 2019 |
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Jul 5, 2019 23:26
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Should I? https://www.ebay.com/itm/153420189193
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Jul 5, 2019 23:42
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Not much done this weekend. We had parties to attend yesterday, and today I fought the yard once more. We have a lot of honeysuckle. Rather than zip-tie the turn signals to the bumper support, I reinstalled the bumper cover. It’s so hard to throw poo poo away here, especially car parts. It took minor cutting to fit it. First trim attempt.  Little more needed  Done 
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Jul 8, 2019 02:27
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Wheels bought, lift kit bought. Getting 2.5 inch suspension and 1 inch body.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:50
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Live posting clutch job here. Got the Jesus nut first. Make sure to wear your safety sandals.  Then separate/take off the rest of the other stuff.  That’s lower ball joint, tie rod end, halfshaft, radius rod, and drain the transmission. Ok now to do the other side. The sun has just about moved off.
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Jul 11, 2019 21:38
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gently caress the other side. Kinda the same, remove axle nut, separate lower ball joint, tie-rod end. Then pull these fuckers.  From here.  Pull the mount bolts too, they’re different sizes. Make sure to remember the order. 1,2,3,4,5, same combo as my luggage.  Never buy Cardone steering racks. This is number two for this car. It’s been driven three miles and it’s now pissing fluid right through the seal on the side here. Failed while moving the car to the garage to jack it up today.  I can’t say enough bad about Cardone at this point, number 1 made it roughly the same distance before pissing fluid into the tie-rod boots. I’ve flushed the poo poo out of the system and use new fluid every time. gently caress you Cardone. Good news though is a wild package appeared!  Holy gently caress what’s inside!? The mail lady said it’s heavy...
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Jul 11, 2019 23:08
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Unf, hardware. Bunch of loving bolts.  And spacers!  2.5 inch spring lift and 1 inch body.
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Jul 11, 2019 23:29
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Greasy pig is removed.  Throwout doesn’t look roached.  Got stuck on the pressure plate/clutch removal. Needed an 10mm 12-point socket.  Old pressure plate says “competition clutch”. Can’t wait to see what it looks like. trouser chili fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jul 14, 2019 |
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Jul 13, 2019 15:05
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The old clutch was grabbing all the way at the top of the pedal travel, and operated mostly as an on/off switch. Now I know why. Other than the hot air intake, this car didn’t show much sign of the typical Honda mod bullshit, so the six-puck clutch caught me by surprise. I’m pretty sure it’s just worn out. I picked up this Duralast clutch kit at the local Autozoo. Couldn’t believe they had one in stock, they never have poo poo anymore.  Didn’t include a flywheel. I’m just gonna run this fucker. Shows some wear but I couldn’t hardly feel any ridge so I think it’ll work OK.  On to the next problem. I was so excited to find Autozone had the clutch kit because I thought it would mean I could finish the project this weekend. But I got stuck on the body lift. To do the body lift you need to use drop spacers on the transmission mount to accommodate the subframes sitting lower. Here they are on the transmission mount studs.  One of the studs is way too short. No problem, HRG sent replacement studs!  Except that the manual transmission doesn’t use M12 studs. It uses M10 with a 1.25 pitch. HRG didn’t know that. The auto trans uses two M12 studs, the manual uses three M10. It appears I’m the first to lift a manual CB9 with their kit. They’re sending me one extra spacer as well as three M10x100 studs with a 1.25 pitch. In the meantime I tried to reinstall the transmission, but failed. I just can’t balance the transmission on my jack and operate the jack with my legs and guide the transmission up at the same time.  After the third time dropping it on my face I quit and left to go drink beer in the river. It was nice.
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Jul 14, 2019 04:31
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I won.  It took two jacks and a friend to wrangle the drat thing back in. It’s just too awkwardly shaped and weighted to make this an easy job. As soon as it was together and two bolts were run in we made for the indoors. Brutal hot out today and the sun on black asphalt was no help.
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Jul 15, 2019 04:14
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Unnfffff...
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Jul 17, 2019 22:03
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Hoping to blow some greatness on to the project. Today so far I’ve got a lot of fiddly poo poo done. Transmission fully bolted in, motor mounts are mounting, electrical all electrifying, shifters are shifting, clutch bled, radius rod installed. Center shaft was missing a bolt and it’s getting stupid hot out again, so I quit for now to find a bolt and fluids. Still waiting on the spacer and extended mount bolts so I’m just buttoning up and making drivable for now. Schwaggs needs upper ball joints, so I want the shitwagon drivable before I start that job. My new neighborhood is superfancy, and I do also have an HOA, I really don’t want to rile the neighbors with multiple cars up on stands.
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Jul 20, 2019 16:41
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Swapped the steering rack for the third time. gently caress Cardone. Tested clutch in the driveway. Think it’s gonna work great. Test fit the wheels and found I’m gonna need a spacer for the front wheels at least. The steering ain’t hooked up cause the body lift will change things here. So basically I’m starting the body lift now. I love the wheels but feel I shoulda gone for more meat in the tires. 
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Jul 22, 2019 03:06
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I haven't been riding to work for three weeks now. Broke the bike twice and then it got stupidhot. With lack of daily exercise I've gone and done what I feared might happen when working on the car. I've injured myself. Right shoulder is all sorts of pissed off right now. I hate getting old. Good news is today I can ride again, and I don't care how much my shoulder complains we're doing it. When I stop moving is when I start breaking. Fermented Tinal posted:That's better. I was looking at these before I bought the wheels.  The wheels came with Blizzacks and I thought they'll work just fine, but they also look so smol. trouser chili fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jul 23, 2019 |
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Jul 23, 2019 15:19
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Front’s lifted.
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Jul 28, 2019 00:38
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Rear is lifted.  Gotta run through the work one more time and make sure everything is tight and pinned. Also gotta hook up the steering and flush the rack. Hopefully this one will hold together.
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Jul 29, 2019 00:52
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So far the rack is holding. Got the motor mounts done and the steering hooked up. This was probably a bad idea, but I like the look when the bumper is body colored. I found this lovely old paint in the garage, close enough.  Juxtaposition shot.  After cannibalizing the rub rails for the clips that are NLA and needed for Schwags, I figured I’d just paint the ones that are left along with the bumper.  Finally took an extended test drive. It didn’t go great. The steering wheel wires managed to get pulled and I lost the airbag and horn. I also must have forgotten to tighten the lug nuts cause they came loose. I caught it in time and pulled over, only to find there was no lug wrench in the car. So a mile walk home, got my bicycle and came back with a socket and torque wrench. At least it hasn’t pissed power steering fluid everywhere. gently caress Cardone. Also the front suspension isn’t working great. I’m pretty sure one of the struts is partially frozen. I seem to have no compression on the front passenger side.
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Aug 11, 2019 21:26
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Hopefully my poo poo’s not locked up.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:01
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Ok sweet, I can post. Here’s a taste.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:06
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More poo poo      
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My old thread about the ITR is archived and can’t be posted in. So the update is here One thing I know about projects is the death of them is taking something apart without the financial means to see it put back together. To that end I’ve waited to touch the ITR. This last week though I got back started with it. Here’s the head.  It’s not terrible! Several valves got a kiss though. The darkened crescent on the upper rightmost valve in this picture of cylinder 4 is indicative of that.  I initially thought I got away completely clean on this, but the machinist that now has the head showed me the signs I missed. Glad to be using a professional here. He’s going to rebuild the head and replace valves as needed. Pulling the head is turning out to be a great exercise as it allowed me to find I also had other problems with the engine, such as this broken exhaust stud at cylinder 4. It had been leaking for some time, although I never noticed, you can see the carbon all over the side of the head here.  Also discovered is that cylinder 1 has been running poorly. I think it’s likely it’s been running rich from a bad injector, as it never misfired, the exhaust valves show a black color the others don’t and it just looks overall greasier in comparison.  I’m debating having the injector tested vs just replacing it, and I’m wondering just how long that injector has been bad, if so. The car has always taken to sooting up the bumper.
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Dec 14, 2019 20:46
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Sno problem. Wish it were deeper.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:28
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Mine are fourth-gens (except the green one which I no-longer have), and no fourth-gens had V6 engines. The fifth gen was essentially an updated body on the fourth-gen chassis, and they did have a V6 option and had a wagon body available, but never the two were mated. All fifth-gen wagons were four-bangers. The fifth-gen v6 cars had different front subframes and an elongated front clip, meaning the fenders and hoods won't readily swap either. I'm sure someone could smash all the parts together though.
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Dec 26, 2019 21:34
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Swapped the ITR wheels to my son’s car. They looked pretty good on the HEEP, but drat if they don’t look just right on my son’s lowered car. I think they’re a lot better than the 17’ Racing Hart wheels it came on as well. Then got hosed on the steering rack swap on the same car. Turns out one of the subframe mounting holes for the steering rack is stripped. Or rather the nut welded on the backside busted its weld.  I’m not sure what to do. I’m planning to part out HEEP so I could use the subframe from it, but drat that’s a big fuckin job and I really can’t have multiple cars up in the air in my neighborhood.
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Feb 9, 2020 02:17
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I used one of these: Rivnuts would have been great and a buddy of mine had the tool and a few nuts I could have, but it woulda been two hours of driving and the anchor was only 10 minutes away. I had a problem with the shank spinning with the nut, but two more nuts jammed on the end and locked together allowed me to keep the shank still and tighten the nut properly. Then it started raining, probably because I now have a 1/2’ SAE bolt and nut on a Honda, angering the gods.
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Feb 10, 2020 01:28
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Car is legal, passed inspection, insured and everything. Tomorrow my son turns sixteen.  The final part-out of the Heep begins. 
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Feb 19, 2020 07:14
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Whoa, I forgot I was maintaining this thread. Let's shove some pictures in here. Oh....This is why: Shortly after my last update, my friend Matt (pictured on left) was killed in a car crash.  No stranger to trauma, Matt had his legs forcibly removed via car crash in the late 90's, it's a story I'm sure I've posted here in some form or another over the years, but what I didn't know at the time of those postings is that the event also represents the first time Matt's and my life crossed paths. I was freshly dropped out from high school and picked up a fairly well-paying job driving a tow-truck so that I could avoid getting kicked out the house and pay my ticket into community college. It was a bright sunny day when I first saw Matt driving his black Ford Probe. Seconds later the car was tumbling. I was running the highway Southbound in the hammer lane, running fast to my next call - a tire change. He was in the Northbound hammer lane running the ton at minimum, and not looking very stable. I'm not sure if he clipped the center divider or what, but just as we passed by all pretense of control was lost and the Probe shot across four lanes of Interstate and into the awaiting guardrail behind the breakdown lane. My view of the crash itself was through the barn-door sized side-view mirrors on the wrecker and I could see the rear end of the Ford lift to the sky as the nose submarined under the guardrail. The car was splitting at the firewall, with the bulk of the body flipping over the front clip. The car was still crashing when I lit up my radios. Cell phones were still rare at the time, but I had a nearly direct-line to local and state police via the radio, and they were getting info from me regarding the crash before the dust had begun to settle. My shop gave instruction to continue to my tire change and stand by. I did the tire change and shortly after was called to assist the recovery. My supervisor and I recovered the car, which was split about 80/20. Then we recovered one of Matt's legs, which was also split about 80/20, and then the other one, which was worse. The meatwagon guys hadn't found Matt's legs, not surprisingly as they were in the tall weeds down the embankment. Deciding the top-half of Matt was the most important part they absconded long ago, so the cops took the legs to the hospital. We recovered the car in two pieces and aside the latest round of psychological trauma endemic to the job, the day was done. Later the EMTs told me it's likely I saved that man's life. They told me they replaced all his blood twice before handing him over to the trauma ward. Fifteen years or so passed and I never forgot that day. In fact it played in regular late night syndication on channel "my brain needs to go to sleep". An old childhood friend moved back from NYC. He eventually started rooming with this guy named Matt, who rolled on a chair and had no legs. We started hanging out at Matt's frequently enough, and he moved from someone within my social circle to a good friend. But I never asked him about the legs and he never volunteered me the story. My thought process was I didn't want to make a point of the fact that he had no legs, he already had to live it every moment of every day. So if he wanted to tell the story he could, but I would not make him. Eventually I overheard him tell the story to someone that did ask, rather pointedly and nearly immediately after meeting him, what the deal was. Gregarious as he was, Matt began telling the story, and I immediately began filling in the details. It all clicked. Matt now had just 16 months left to live, and now that I've typed that I just realized the person that asked him the story (also named Matt), had just over 24 months left to live as he died in a motorcycle crash November this year. This picture was taken the last time we hung out, early October 2019. We always spent the first weekend of that month camping. The picture is altered slightly to help the composition, but the effect is real and was created by a laser shooting through the smoke of the fire.  Here's the two Matts letting everyone know what they think of us now that they're both dead. This picture was taken within minutes of the first time I heard him tell the crash story and the revelation regarding our previous connection. They hang on each other like brothers, but only first met a couple hours prior. That's how he rolled.  I guess now that that's written I can maybe write about cars again. Maybe not, the story keeps playing in my head. Something in my brain demands reason beyond happenstance. The soul of that man outsized the body that remained, and his affable personality poured out and infected everyone nearby. I don't know if it was the crash that made him that way, but I do know that job jaded me and turned me cynical. Meeting Matt and understanding how his story continued unabetted by the trauma he experienced and I witnessed has healed me of much of that, and continues to heal me. I never told him. Matt didn't own a car, but he loved to stickerbomb things just the same. I created these stickers and gave thousands of them away to people all across the country, as Matt had many friends. If you ever see one I'd love to know where you found it. 
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Krakkles posted:Dang, dude. What a story. Thanks. I really haven't even begun to process "second" Matt's death, whom I've actually known much longer. Married to his high-school sweetheart, a girl I've known since gradeschool, his persona and appearance belied his intelligence. I'm not even sure he knew just how sharp he really was. Maybe that sounds stupid, but I know several people that appear the same...maybe it's a Missouri thing. This year does indeed suck, and I missed the October camping trip this year due to my own illness. Next year's October camping is gonna be rough. Throughout the decades I had to pair down my personal activities to focus on my family and career. October camping was my release, a brief weekend in a place with no data services, no way to be reached, and nothing to worry about except the rain. I'm just not sure I want to go there and face what's now missing.
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Better happier content: Who likes water crossings? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRItk-EMXc0
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While setting up the trailer to leave the Gambler my son practices some car control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hRq1p-iM_k The above was pretty much the last run for the car. I drove it to work just once after during a snow. The water pipe on the backside of the engine let go and it puked all its coolant on the drive home. This is it, the last time the car parked itself under its own power.  The teardown began. I ripped the lift kit from it, and the wheels obviously. Anything I thought could be useful was taken. The lawnmower got a seating upgrade.   My son dropped the engine and transmission.    Schwags acted like an rear end in a top hat, as usual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGWNJt3Cc64 HEEP went to go live on a farm where it could run and frolic with the other Hondas. This is a magical place with an endless supply 10mm sockets!  Just kidding, it’s on the slow boat from China by now after being reconstituted as harbor freight jackstands. ITR stuff to come later... trouser chili fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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That's father, son, and mother there. Looks like white wheels were the dominant gene, but the boy has no hope for torque.
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Don't listen to children. The ITR is 130lb-feet, the H22A should be 158lb-feet. It would probably feel like more without the big rear end.
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sharkytm posted:
The way I caught him and the girlfriend the other day I think they may be trying.
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You just wait till we get your mother in here. @Little Bit, you out there? Wait...Ben, you have drugs? trouser chili fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 26, 2021 |
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benro posted:Getting called my name by somebody named “Krakkles” is loving weird. Krakkles and I have hung out in SoCal once or twice in a fever dream, also Riverside. I remember a fairly drunken taco bell run from before you existed.
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Krakkles posted:Also, dude, that was a loooooong time ago. I hope at some point it can happen again, somehow! Come to STL sometime. We live in the non-shooty part it's pretty nice, but the shooty part is more fun we can go there too.
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Ben, let's go raid mom's drugs. The bottles say one thing but there's usually four or six different pills in there! It's roulette any way you go about it.
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Try living with these people.
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These people I live with, it's weird I think due the normality of it all. Probably shouldn't be; but I continue to fail upward. Ladued Bigasski over here, have you seen my new rug? Really ties the room together, can't get that yellowish stain out the center of it though. poo poo's weird, man.
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