My impression based on personal experience is the two were tied at the hip and when one went the other lost his purpose. Just my take.
No what happened is OHM had a heart pump in his chest and said good by to the members here. He almost died. A guy named millercarbon and a few others at AG, Best, and his friends encouraged him to have an operation, stents and then 4 stents put in his abdomen. This was AFTER he broke his neck.. He was in rough shape for a while..
The Crazy is in Finland now.. His boots will be on when he falls off the perch.. God bless the big ol Guy.. Who isn’t so big any more.. He is VERY smart.. He just plays it down. He sure has helped me a few times in the middle of the night with broken equipment I couldn’t fix.. He use to build turbans for racing.. Indy I believe.. 60-70s They outlawed his design from what I remember.. He worked with Keith Black too, he built blowers on the weekend.. Good farmer too. :-)
He hated driving though. 60k a year in a service truck, who wouldn't. I do 40K and hate every mile of it.