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Hello and welcome to KartTalk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tpper Brothers broadcasting this week from America's M Wed division here at Kart Talk Plaza. What is that all about? Well, this came from Nice we reversed roles there. We did? Yes. Wow. You usually say that. I do. Yeah. And then I don't know that I have to come up with something interesting or funny. Now it's your turn to do the work The most wanted division here' an article in the Washington Post. Oh down in DC train stations lands young snackers in handcuffs. Oh The mother of a twelve year old girl who was handcuffed, booked, and fingerprinted for eating French fries in a subway station says police went too far believe there isn't a better way to teach kids a lesson, said Tracy Hedgepeth, whose daughter Ache was arrested. The police treated her like a criminal. Metro pololice chief Barry McDivittt is unapologetic about An she's arrest last month and others like it We really do believe in zero tolerance, he said. Yeahes. computer complaints about unlawful eating in metro cars and insentions led McDivitt to mount an undercover crackdown. Oh violators Dozen plain clothes officers cited of cightited or arrested thirty five people of them juveniles Only one adult was arrested And he escaped You all know the story of that you don't Our esteemed producer. Douglas Bungo boy Bermin was almost arrested Yeah, S time ago Yeah in the metro in Whington, D.C. for eating a bagel and drinking a coffee is that where you a muffin Oh, just just a coffee now. ye, he toned it down. Yeah before it was It was a club sandwich. It was turkey club. with extra mayo and a caaesar salad. Dpping onto the platform And of course, a deft move allowed him to escape Well, I think the police chief is right there. A zero tolerance policy is correct Well, here's what I propose. I mean, every evidently they have this young gal, this twelve year old Ache in custody. I propose we swap Sure Berm You want to spring her. We'll turn in Bermbin. We'll meet them at the Brandenburg gate Exactly at midnight tonight, midnight tonight. And we'll have Berman Blindfold hand them over to the authorities Yeah. And those East Germans in Washington, DC can do whatever they want with them. As long as we get this young lady out of their custody. Let's do it. Okay, if you're interested, what's his name? What's they's name? The Chief of pololice there? Wh love you Barry McDevittt. All right, Barry, we'll meet you there tonight. What time Make it early, I got to get to bed. All right, ten o'clock. Well, if you think that Dougie should turn himself in, all we should turn him in so he can get his rightful punishment or if you think working for us is punishment enough, or if you have an actual question about your car Give us a call at eight eight eight Car Talk. That's eight eight two two seven eight two five five. Hello, you're on C Talk Hi, my name is Tom from Kansas City, Missouri. Hi, Tom from Kansas. How are you? Howdy I have a ninety one Jeep Cherokee When I have my car in first gear Even with the clutch pedal depressed, my car still wants to drag forward. So I have to really jam down on the clutch pedal all the way to the floor and the brake. otherwise it continues to pull me forward. Really? And the only way to get it out of gear and to get it back into neutral is to let the clutch pedal out, let it jerk forward Yeah Push the clust pedal back in and then I can get it back into neutral Aw, man. Did you do your Christmas shopping already Well, I'm afraid you're going to tell me I need a new clutch. I think you need a new clutch, ye. Yeah. Well, if you're really lucky, Yeah, it's the Cutch master cylinder. This thing has a hydraulic clutch. I mean, why did you jump right to he needs a new clutch? Because what usually leaks on these is the slave cylinder. and if I'm not mistaken The slave cylinder on this vehicle is part of the release bearing. So you have to take the transmission out. Isn't that a clever design Brilliant. Oh, man, that's really b. Oh Sab does the same thing too. Have you checked?' the fluid that's in in the the reservoir for the clutch No. You didn't even know you had any. I don't know. Well If we look under the hood, you will find a little bottle that looks like the brake master cylinder reservoir It's a little plastic thing. It's right on the firewall. Okay And that I' bet you the thing's going to be empty of fluid. Right. It might be empty, but you may not know why. unless you look under the dashboard because the mechanism for that clutch Master cylinder comes through the firewall and attaches the rod attaches to your clutch pedal And if that clutch master cylinder is leaking then you may see evidence of fluid out of it or on your shoe. You should be you should be so lucky That's the thing to pray for. Wait, it's a lot easier to replace the slaveylinder. M. Well, the master cylinder is very easy to replace. The slave cylinder requires that you take out the entire transmission and transfer case and move the Empire State Building over three inches On the other hand, if it's leaking very, very slowly and you're thinking of selling this vehicle, you could just inststall a fifty five gallon drum on the roof with a little hose down to that reservoir and just keep filling the thing up. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you couldn't sell it like this. That would be dishonorable. No, no, no. he he would tell people what's wrong Oh and why you had the fifty five gallon drum people. So what is that fifty five gallon drum up there? You say what? fifty five gall drum? No, but if you find that it's empty, try filling it up and see how long it takes for the symptom to recur That'll give you some clue as to how much it's leaking. And if you don't see anything inside passenger compartment, it's the slave cylinder and you're done for. Okay, great. Yeah, and it's been nice knowing you. Yeah. You guys wouldn't want a jep, would you? No, no. Unless you put the drum on the roof. See y you, Tom. Thanks a lot. Good luck. Be. One eight eighty eight car talkal that's eight eight eight two two seven eight two five five. Hello, you're on car talkalk Hello, this is Joan Hi Joan. Hi. Where amm from? I am calling from Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Why does it sound like you're in your bathtub? Uh oh Does it really sound that bad? Yeah, you want some kind of cheap telephone I'm on an office telephone. Oh, you're call from work. Oh you're in the closet.. I being in the closet. What's up, Joan Well, I'm calling because I have a nineteen ninety two camry. And I recently had a timing chain go out on it. It's got about one hundred and seventy something miles on it. I put a lot of miles on in the last four years that I've owned it. U because I'm a salesperson But I had a toed to Manno and Jack Any moan jem. Any mo jem Well A actually, you don't have a timing change. You have a timing belt. Oh, okay, timing beltts And they fixed it and they did a great job and it ran and it was wonderful. And then all of a sudden my brakes started squeaking a lot So I took off and went to Mann, Mo and Jack. Mo, Larry and Curly. Larry and Cly this time Yeah. So then after I had the brakes done I left, thinking everything's fine. and the first rainy day I went up from I was leaving the gym where I worked out and I was leaving the gym and all of a sudden I applied my brakes And it sounded like I was a truck about to hit another semi I mean, the sound from these brakes was so loud, it was incredible. People's heads were turning What kind of like a screeching sound? Yeah, it was like a I mean, it was the hugest noise that you could possibly hear out of a car. You got the Bansheee option on the pads. Well when I took it back, they said, Well, the reason your brakes are squeaking is because We cannot use asbestos in brakes anymore And that means that there is more metal and that means that they will squeak more. And I said, you haven't heard this sound And he think and he's making trying to make you believe that in the last eight years Yeah All the other pads that you've had put on this car, which I' been probably many. Yeah hadad as best as in him. Exactly Ball feathers. Well, that's what I thought Yeah I mean, everybody isn't driving around in and you know, squealing as they come to a stop. Well, I am when I'm driving with my brother ' he scares the hell out of me I. It's very good that you and your brother are still so close. Yeah Well, we actually broadcast a show from different states Where were we? Where were we? Oh was Jo? Oh the brakes, the brakes, asbestos. How much did they charge you this wasn't Manny Mo and Jack. This was Chico Hopo and Zeppo. No, this was Manny Mo and Jack. They did the brakes. Okay ye. And when they did the brakes on this car, how much did they charge you? How many hundreds T something T something. hundredundred. Yeahah. Okay So I'm going to guess h that they may be placed or machined the front discs. But what does that have to do with sound I'm hearing. Well, sometimes if the discs are machined and these pads are installed, which are in fact known asbestos They are they and they do have metal in them. they have brass and bronze and steel wool and God knows what else Gld animal crackers, gold, silver platinum. And when those two surfaces are in the process of mating, if the machine work on the diss was not perfectly done. It takes a long time for those two surfaces to mate And you can get some horrendous noises. We've also discovered maybe if there were a little perfume or something that made a little little. And is this particularly when there are wet conditions on the road or it could be. It could be they they're more grabby when the things are wet. Uh And it could also be that they they use a pad that's just Noisy And some pads are we found on cameras and other a lot of other cars for that matter, that we have to use the factory pads to ensure that there's no noise after a brake job. What did they do to to appease you when you complain. Did they just say, Well, that's the way it is. and seeee you later, Joan. Don't come back. You've got it. That's exactly what they said. And you've been driving it since and has the noise returned? The noise has been there and it is come and goes. I mean, it's not always there. Yeah Wear earplugs for a couple of weeks and it'll go away. You think so? No Not a couple of weeks more I wouldn't be too worried. I'm sure the brakes are safe. The noise will undoubtedly go away at some point, but next time ask them to use factory pads. Okay. And it's not affecting the braking power. I mean, the car will stop. It's just affecting your sanity. Well, yeah, because I mean everybody I know, I'm leaving my customers and they hear me brake and it's like kids turn and I' so embarrassed by this noise Okay, good luck, Joan. Thank you. Yout go out of the closet now I'll go back to work. See you later. Bye bye. Byee. All right, look, it's time to dig deep into that strange contraption that you call a brain contraption. Do you remember anything about last wee's puzer Did it have to do with like a seemingly endless journey an inability to communicate, lots of time in the frozen tundra? Well, no, that was your first marriage. Actually, you're close. I was about our old mechanic Krusty and his plane trip over the pole. Yeah, tundra, Ple Hi, we're back. you're listening to Car Talk with us Click and Clack the Tapppard Brothers and we're here to talk about cars, car repair and the answer to this last week'suzzler This was one from the Krusty Files and of course, it had nothing to do with cars. A lot of them donon't remember it. Anyway, everyone Well ms. Krusty was involved. Yes, indeed. Yes, you rememember prominent role. Yeah. off course everyone remembers our loyal old mechanic Krusty some years ago we decided that he deserved a vacation. So he gave him four days off and booked a flight for him and the misses Hence forth referred to as Signora Kusty to Ceslovenia. The first leg of their journey lands them in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan where they have to change planes for the flight over the pole to Coloslovenia. You're with me so far, I'm beginning to remember it. That has to do with speaking Coloslovenian. So Coloslaw Air wheellds out its latest plane DC three Krusty recognizes it from that first Indiana Jones movie He says to his wife, Oh my God, this is unbelievable. This plan must be twenty five years old. His wife says, Oh no, it's like sixty Anyway, they enter the plane and he's very nervous as is his wife and they both look into the cockpit to make sure there's really a pilot and a co pilot in there. And there are and they look at each other and exchange smiles and nods They finally take their seats, the plane takes off without incident and they're on their way to their marvelous vacation in Clovenia While they're in flight, they realize that none of the passengers speaks English. And of course, they speak no Colosloavvenian. They walk up and down the aisles, you using the bathroom as a pretense and try to engage people in conversation. They say, hi, how are you? I'm American. Nobody responds. So there resign are just sitting there and waiting for the flight to end very long flight. When you still with me? I am. When the plane finally touches down in Coslovenia, they're relieved that they made it. and they're waiting for their welcoming parties to take them on their little tour which we arrange with our contacts in Ceeslovenia, a guy named Or O or Anyway they go through a lengthy custom search and when they finally emerge into the parking lot, they realize that it's late at night and neither Nor anyone else has shown up The one cab driver actually doesn't understand them and they resign themselves to sleeping at the airport. Finally Mrs. Krusty sees a woman walking toward them that she recognizes from the plane. She says, Thank God, we'll be able to get to our hotel tonight. Of course, she's right How does she know that this woman speaks English? Yeah She knows she speaks English because the woman that she recognizes from the plane was not one of the passengers instead She was the pilot All pilots who fly international flights must speak English Very Very Good. So who's our winner this week? The winner is Richard Barnett from Charlotte, North Carolina and for having his answers selected at random from the piles of correct answers that we got three. Richard is Richard is going to get a twenty five dollars gift certificate to the store at the cart Tks section of cars dot com And with that twenty five dollars gift certificate by book. you can get the hardottest item of the season by book accccording to the elves at the Samess Comerce Division at least, It is the don't blame me T shirt It's our campaign shirt two zero and zero zero. and on the back it says, donon't blame me. I voted for clicking clacks. I mean, those things have been flying out the door. the windows st. Now, people would only pay for them. We'd be rich, man And by the way, if your name is not Richard Barnett and you'd like a don't blame me t shirt, don't call us and wine. stop by the store at the Cart Tks section of cars dot com or call eight eighty eight car junk if that wasn't a shameless. seelf promoting plug, I don't know what was. Do you know what time it is? Time to take the leftover turkey out of the drunk? No. It's time to play stop the chum. I mean, this is the part of the show where we tracked down a previous call to see if the advice we gave was sensible. comprehensible or legally indefensible. So who's our lucky player this week? It's Ellen from New Jersey No, I don't remember her. Okay. Well Ellen called us last summer about a nineteen ninety Honda acccord bought for her teenage son. it occasionally wouldn't start. Of course it always started for the mechanics that she took her to. Hiss Ellen circumstances, which was really good. to the next hot day that it was left out. I I just offght to ask you if it was a hot day was a hot day All fits together, yeep What does it fit together with? There it fit withith all the different theories that youre, the Yeah, o, it fits together, Alen. Don't worry. Don't worry I'm pulling all the strings together now. Yeah. Good. And you know it's not happening as frequently as it did before. No, because it's been raining every day for the past month and a half. Yeah. you've been in the area. been a great summer, isn't it? Yeah it has been a very. Get you started. Let' get my brother started his two weeks of vacation at the shore, so to speak Twelve out of fourteen days of rain Only my brother could get seasonal affective disorder in the summer So how did I pull all these strings together? What did we give her for an answer? Well, the summer heat was the clue. You diagnosed it as a faulty fuel pump relay and I agreree completely. I remember that. Let's find out how we did Ellen. Are you there Yes, I'm here. Look, before we find out whether you had a defective relay or not or a defective idea calling us in the we need to verify that the anwer you're about to give Aaron Stump the Chumps has not been influenced by our staff the staff of National public Radio or your son who would really rather be driving Aleexus. Okay. What was it?ell us tellell us things Was it the fuel Really? It does appear that way. it really it really does pay to pay these contestants off. You know You did get our check. No, I haven't received. You haven't. Oh, it's in the mail. I mean, rest assured. So you went ahead and had someone put a new fuel pump rel. did And they very skeptically they went in there and they did so. And actually, I had a hard time getting an appointment because they were busy reepplacing firestone tires at the time finally got an appointment and then I had to wait quite a while for the first hot day, but it started like a champ. But you had to convince them to put in the relay because they didn't believe you. Yeah, yeah. I had to tell them all about you. And they said, o, I have a vague memory that my father in law once told me to listen to these guys Yeah Well, they'll be listening from now on, won't they E? No, I think so. So it was very helpful. So thank you Thanks for playing Stumped Chumps.. You're welcome. By byye bye. By the way, if anyone else hears of someone on the show that you'd like us to bring back for Stumped Chumps. email us your suggestion from the Cart talkalks section Cars. com you can call right now and stump us without waiting even The numberers eight eight car talk. that's eight Eight eight two, seven eight two, five five. Hello, you're on cart talkalk Yes, this is Nick from Fort Stewart, Georgia. How you doing? Nick? I'm doing good. How about you guys? We're doing We're doing great. Good, good. Where is Fort Stewart, Georgia? It's near Savannah Really? Oh Is that Stuart STEW or ST UA? It's STEW as in the Revolutionary War genereneral not the Civil War general Oh General Stewart. I remember him Never, never. Was he your CEO when you were foot dicks Ah yeah, that's it Jim Stewart. Yeah. Anyway, Nick, what's going on? Well, I'm a company commander in the in the third Infantry division here at Fort Stuart. Oh no wonder you know about this guy? Yes And u I'm having a problem with some of the humveys in my fleet in my company. Yes The problem is that in the hot summer months, which we have quite a few here in Georgia Got it. the engine will not start turnover on some of these HomeVs that I have unless you pour Cld water on the fuel injector pump So this kind of, you know causes for some interesting scenarios because I'm a brigade headquarters company. So you can imagine the brigade commander, a full berg colonel standing on the side of a tank trail somewhere while his driver's got his canteen out dumping it on his fuel injector pump And so how old are these humvees U probably about seven years. uh, some up to seven years old. And do they get a lot of use? Do they have many, many miles, but hours on them? Sure. Yes So they're hard starting whether the engine's been running or not. if this thing's been parked in the sun Right. It's hard to start. Right Did they use these in desert storm U I hope not. Probably not. Probably not this fleet Yeah, or but they use humveys and Yeah They didn't get even started actually. They look it all tes up. Just looking at them you get scared. Now in the the Amy maintenance system pretty much if you've got a bad part, you replace the entire part And so we've done that with a lot of these HVes And for a while we were getting the same problem. So we thought it was a bad batch of fuel injector pumps somewhere along the line. And the way we approached it, well, if we keep ordering enough and replacing enough fuel injector pumps willll eventually get a good lot number from them. So I'm hoping that we've worked through this bad lot number of fuel injector pumps. So that the problem won't exist, but my big question was why was this happening? And when you got the new ones, you said they did the same thing, but also when you poured cold water on them, they worked. Right. Where is that? I mean, I'm sure my brother has worked on a lot of these humvees. Where is this fuel pump U It's pretty much in the open up the hood and it's, uh, centered of the engine. Oh, it's under the hood. It's under the hood, rightight? Well, the real question is, will we be able to buy any of these packed in cosmoline in a few years? twentywenty years from now I really don't know what they do with the. Yeah, I know when we were kids, there were all these stories about people buying You know Army surplus Jeeps in the twenty five bucks. twenty I think fifty by the time I was a age And they were packed in causmoine, except, of course for the tires which were wrapped in papyrus No, I think it was a wax pappe, wax p. Craft paper. Yeah Yeah. She's up Cold water, huh? Yeahes. Cold water man. Now the only thought that I could think of is that somewhere in there there's some kind of electrical connection that runs the fuel injector pump there By pouring the water on it, you're cooling it down and it shrinks. Yeah, boy, that sounds good to me, Nick. Okay. Yeah, that's I like that So this pump must have some kind of an electric pre pump in it that sucks the fuel from the tank. and delivers it to the injector pump. It might O are there or are there two pumps Do you know? I couldn't even begin tell. Isn't it great to talk to experts? Wait, wait, what color are these vehicles go in? Oh, I should have known that Man I like his theory better than anything we could come up with because we haven't come with anything. We don't have all That's I'm saying Okay, man Well, when you shut the thing off How does how do these shut off? There's there's a fuel cut offff And the fuel cutoff is going to be right in The the injector pump And that's what's happened. That fuel cutoff is not M Turning on. It's not releasing until you pour coool water on them. H. That's my That's my guess and it indeed is Okaykay. a guess. But try a CO two extinguisher next time. It'll be faster. Faster than cold water. Yeah. Okay. Good luck, Nick. I'm glad we can help you, Nick. Right. Take care. Thank Hey, stick around for more calls and the new puzzler coming right up. We're back. You're listening to car talkalk with us, Click and Cack the Tamard Bothers. and we're here to discuss cars, car repair and the new puzzer from the wonderful world of aviation. Aviation. That's a transportation. Remember we were considering making this a show called Transportation talkalk becausecause we had, I mean, we went from cars to trucks, humve, Hve. Trains, trains. and now and now DC threerees Almost. we're gonna to work our way up So The other things, what are they? jets Back in the early days of aviation, aircraft mechanics were often confused by the fact that Enges seem to backfire through the carbtors with some kind of regularity causing in some cases, damage to the carburetors, but at the very least requiring more maintenance and cleaning of said carbrene. N to mention saring the pants off the pilot. Indeed. Well they began investigating figuring there was there was something wrong And after thorough investigations and recalibrating and resetting things They discovered becauseuse of the backfiring. was the pilot And in fact, the pilot doing it urose question is Why would the pilot plan. want the engine to fire through the carburetor thus scaring the pants off himselfself right? That could make for a chilly flight. when it seemed to have In the estimation of the mechanics, no useful purpose whatsoever, but in fact, there was a purpose to it. If you think you know the answer, Write it on a post. I decided in the interest of brevity I mean, after we were going to make this into a two hour dissertation Is that it? Well, of course, I was going to discuss those movies with Jimmy Kany. you know, I had to fly the Crade st comunion and all that. You know, I was going to go into a little historical little thing about, you know, my days in the Crimea. But you didn't think we would take it. and somebody would come in here and kill you. I saw the gun. So in the interest of brevity, I paired it down to a mirror seventeen or eighteen sentences Anyway, if you think you know the answer, write on a postcard Or take a picture of it with a Nikon Coolpix eight hundred eighty digital camera. The Zoom lens three point three four Megap pixel CCD and multi area autofus and ship the whole shebang. Yeah.ll'll we'll make it work. Next day air. Puzzler Twower, Kart Talk Plaza Box three thousand five hundred, Harvard Square Cambridge. Our fity Matt zero two two, three eight or you can email your answer from the C Talks section of cars. com If you'd like to talk to us. numbers one, eight eight, eight car talkal. that's eight, eight, eight Double two, seven, eight, two, five, five, a lawyer in cart talk Hi, this is Lavinia from Scottsboro, Alabama Lavvenia As in Lavvenia Yes And where are you from? or, Alabama. Alabama. Yes. Okay, I've got it all srared away now. What's up? Okay, I have this nineteen ninety one Dodge caravan with one hundred ninety seven thousand miles on it, that's making a terrible, terrible sound. When I go over a bump. Just one sound Well, it sounds like an explosion. A.. It makes this explosion sound every time I go over a road that that where there's new construction, the there's uneven pavement. Yeah And there's quite a lot around here. And also potholes. So when you hit when you hit something like a pothole You hear one loud crashing sound like Yes, likeike a heavy a fudding sound like bom Oh no, louder like an ex sounds like an explosion almost. like a Sounds as if it's coming from the front passenger side wheel. Well, tell me this, if you hit something with the left wheel Will the sound come from the right wheel also or you have to have the hit be on the right side? Well, you know, that's a very good question. I is mostly if I hit something on the right side Yeah. And I've even I've even slowed down to almost a crawl when I'm when they were doing construction around here And if there's any speed at all, if I'm going maybe twenty miles an hour or more, it's just a loud crashing sound. And if you're going faster is the loud crashing sound louder? Louder It horrible. It sounds yeah. And yet you drive this every day Am I right now Well, probablyably commute seventy five miles each way to work. No, no, only I'm only about ten miles one way to work, but still, it's mostly if'm if I'm going to another town, maybe a thirty or forty miles away. Do you have any kids Two Bys Yeah. either one of them play football? Well, they did when they were in high school, but now they're in college, yeah. Yeah. Can you borrow a helmet from one of them? just en ching in case. I mean, it sounds it sounds as though there's got to be something loose that's crashing against something Could you believe it was piece of metal slapping against another big piece of metal. Would that qualify as an explosion? Yes, that that sure does that's a very good description. I like it then. I like it too Yeah, but the question is which piece of metal I like I'm working on. The manifold manifold Yeah, okay. ody I'm working have a theory. Go ahead. No one's mentioned that because what? It's stupid. think I think what's wrong is you have either a broken frame Okay. Or the engine cradle has come loose or is cracked Broken frame or engine, cradle. There's a cradle which bolts to the frame of this vehicle. Wh which holds the engine and transmission Okay, and that could either be loose such that when you do have an impact, you get that slamming effect. but but why? Well why would you get a slamming effect Because you're causing motion that's not ordinarily part of the dynamic of it. vehicle is supposed to be going straight ahead. and when it is going straight ahead, that slamm is not you go over a little bumps, you got a bl, bumom, bl, bom When you go over big bumps, you get b, bom, bump, because of it doesn't bum,, She gets one big explosion. Big bump becausecause you're hitt hitting one bump at a time. If you were go if you hit two bumps in a row, you'd get bu boom B boom if they were space far enough. B but a bing, but a bang I think you have I think you have a broken engine cradle or a loose engine cradle Okay. I'm glad he thinks so. Yeah. Well have a qu just could just a regular shop check into there?. Anyone would know what that was. If they didn't know what it was, then you wouldn't stay there. It asked them to look for cracks. Cacks. Yeah. We're looking for cracks now in my brother's head and we've found four so far. But's my here's my theory on the manifold I'm going on the basis that what she is hearing is indeed an explosion Oh really? And When she hits a bump You've got part of it right. that there's an engine mount that's bad And it's distorting in the exhaust manifold. And one of the explosions. Okay one eight, eight, eight car truck that's eight eight eight. I w to talk to her in a month. Linia, we may have to have you un stump the chumks. Okay, well I'll check into this and thank you so much. All right. Okay. Bye bye. 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