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Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. I actually drilled a hole down through a bolt. I have a tool that I built, drilled a hole down through a bolt for the pilot. If it's broken off inside the head, then you have a way of putting that piece against the head and run your drill in against it until you've got your pilot hole and then you go to the very absolute next drill. You don't want to go any higher than that because otherwise you're easy out. You won't grab and bring it out. I've done that too. Yeah, a lot of travel in there. My father-in-law taught his boys to brake with mechanics. He taught me to get off the road type of mechanics. My brain works a little different than most mechanics. Anyway, yeah, definitely downward travel like that is not nothing to play with if you don't know what you're doing. You have a good day. I've got to finish my breakfast here. I've got one more egg to suck down. You have a good day and good to hear everybody else. This is Alpha Echo 7, Mike Romeo, and I will be clear of the Michigan Conference on Darryl's last transmission, E7 MR. Yeah, QSL Terry. Like you said, I'd like to have a man with your skills up here at my disposal because I know you know what you're talking about when it comes to this kind of stuff. And yeah, like you say, I can't even get down close enough to it to find out if there's enough bolts sticking out of the head that could potentially be grabbed or have a nut welded to it to make it be able to be backed off. If that was the case, it would be a lot easier of a job and it would be a bit cheaper than what they quoted me because then they wouldn't have to go take the head off the motor and then not need to replace the head. And the gaskets and stuff like that, it would only be the header pipe and the couple of studs to go into the motor and the exhaust gasket kit. That's all it would be. So it wouldn't be too, too bad. You know, still several hundred, but not in the five or six hundred they quoted me. So, yeah. Pain in the butt, man. Pain in the butt. Especially yesterday, it was beautiful here and it is again today. But I was told if I ride it the way it is, it's perfectly rideable. I mean, the engine is great. It starts up first pull and way to go. But I was told it would burn up the valves, the valve lashings, valve springs, all that kind of stuff would burn up if I ride it without an exhaust. So plus it's loud as a bomb when you're trying to ride it. But, you know, that's not really a big deal. I mean, I ride in the deep forest, but I was specifically warned by a couple of people do not ride it in the shape that it's in now. So I won't because I don't want to cause any more damage. I had a bunch of work done to it a few years back. So, I mean, all the suspension and tie rods and tie rod ends and ball joints and bearings and all that stuff, brakes, electrical, the voltage regulator, the starter motor. I had all kinds of stuff when I first got the bike like four years ago or three and a half years ago. I had a bunch of work done to it. So everything else is just like immaculate on the bike. So it's definitely worth fixing. It's just the bloody costs that are associated with it. I mean, I understand. Let me reset. I mean, I understand, you know, mechanics want to charge you a good dollar. I mean, they're professionals in their field, right? You know, if someone was going to hire me to do computer work or home theater or security system work, you know, those services are worth money. And I can understand. But I was really surprised that one of the boys in the States said mechanics down there are like 150 bucks an hour. Up here, it's like about half that. So I guess we're doing good in that respect. Anyway, Jerry, you have yourselves a good day, man. All the best. And we'll chat with you later. We'll deal with you, Jizzy.