{"id":112,"date":"2011-11-24T22:52:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T03:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/wordpress\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-11-24T22:52:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T03:52:02","slug":"i-think-i-know-why-stinky-is-stinky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"I Think I Know Why Stinky is Stinky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deconstruction of Stinky continues.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got the entire dash and dash supports out, the shifter and pedal assemblies are removed, the console is out, and the heater core is gone.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also already sold the rear deck carpet and the gauge cluster.\u00a0 I got the headlight and turn signal assemblies installed on Dirty, and I&#8217;ve been planning out what I&#8217;m going to do for the interior.<\/p>\n<p>I found that something had been living in the heater core, so I took it apart to remove all the stuff that was jammed down into the blower motor.\u00a0 I took out the A\/C evaporator, since the car won&#8217;t have A\/C, and figured I might as well open up the other side of the core to make sure there was nothing nasty over there.\u00a0 Good thing, too, because I discovered that the heater core has a burst copper pipe.\u00a0 It looks very much like the pipe froze, bubbled, and burst, and judging by the icky coolant in the car, there probably wasn&#8217;t much, if any, antifreeze.\u00a0 My guess is that the car got so nasty-smelling because the carpet was getting a steady diet of nasty water, leading to plenty of mildew in the passenger foot well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deconstruction of Stinky continues.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got the entire dash and dash supports out, the shifter and pedal assemblies are removed, the console is out, and the heater core is gone.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also already sold the rear deck carpet and&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=112\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}