{"id":306,"date":"2014-04-20T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/wordpress\/?p=306"},"modified":"2014-04-20T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:46:00","slug":"fixing-the-cooling-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the cooling fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #373737;\">I think I may have gotten the overheating problem fixed tonight. I took the sides of the fairing off so I could get to the cooling fan and when I jumped it with a battery, it spun just like it should. The next thing to look at was the thermostatic switch and when I got in there, this is what I saw:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #373737;\">\n<div class=\"picwrap\"><a style=\"color: #9e0b0f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.putrescence.org\/media\/displayimage.php?pid=5462\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.putrescence.org\/media\/albums\/userpics\/10002\/normal_IMG_4370.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #373737;\">The wires had come apart right at the connector. Fortunately, I&#8217;ve got an extra wiring harness, so I went ahead and snipped off the connector. As it turns out, this was one of those thing that seems doomed to fail &#8212; the way it was crammed into the other bike, the wires were starting to abrade as well, so I used some tape and heat shrink tubing to shore that up. I get it all reconnected like so:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #373737;\">\n<div class=\"picwrap\"><a style=\"color: #9e0b0f;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.putrescence.org\/media\/displayimage.php?pid=5464\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.putrescence.org\/media\/albums\/userpics\/10002\/normal_IMG_4372.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #373737;\">Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll take it out and get it good and hot and see if the fan comes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I may have gotten the overheating problem fixed tonight. I took the sides of the fairing off so I could get to the cooling fan and when I jumped it with a battery, it spun just like it&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=306\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}