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Well, Dean, it very much depends. It could have done detrimental damage to the motor. If you felt the lack of losing of power, there's a... I mean, the best way to check would be to, you know, find a way to seal the pan up enough where you can get some oil to run through the motor. Run it and see if you've got a bunch of metal shavings in the motor. If you do, then yes. I mean, your bearings are shot, you've got things that are seasoned up, and you've done detrimental damage to it. And you're basically going to be doing a full rebuild or a new motor. I mean, it's one of those things that's really hard to tell. But, you know, once you lose all oil pressure, there's nothing lubricating all those metal-on-metal parts. So the likelihood of, you know, major damage is probably pretty high. So, yeah, that's definitely a tough decision to determine, you know, replacing the oil pan and doing, you know, some repair work might be worth it in the end, especially on an older vehicle, and I understand the cost-to-benefit ratio there. That's one of the things where I'm a very big believer in some of the oil additives that I run. They're like a honey in thickness, so they make sure and help, you know, when those low oil pressure or the dry start setups happen to kind of prolong that potential damage to the motor. So it's a very unfortunate thing to have that happen. I'm sorry that happened. That absolutely sucks. Yeah, I mean, you can talk to your mechanic, get his opinion on it. I have a feeling he's going to kind of echo kind of what I had said at the same time, where, you know, the first step is going to be to get oil in there and see what it sounds like, see if it's running okay, and see what kind of metal is in the motor. Depending on the damage you did to the oil pan, if it's, you know, massive damage or if it's just a small hole and how fast that oil was, if it was in a, you know, dumped all the oil out instantly and ran dry almost spontaneously, then there's going to be a lot of damage in there. And I'm trying to remember exactly what motor that car has in it, or has in it. But it's, I mean, yeah, that likelihood of extreme damage is probably pretty high. But, you know, if you were able to get it pulled over soon enough to where any major damages happened, you might be okay. So that's, you know, that's definitely going to be an interesting response. I'm definitely going to look forward to hearing more about it and hope that you share the outcome of this situation with everyone. It's kind of that public service announcement for sure. So hopefully everything works out well and it's nothing major and a simple oil change and oil pan will take care of it. I do hope that for you, my friend. So next up on the list we've got Justin, KK7QES. How are you doing this Sunday evening? I'm not used to doing it that Sunday evening. And I can't believe I'm still functioning at 941 at the end. This is KJ7JXM Robert and I'm handing it over to KK7QES. Justin, how are you?