{"id":977,"date":"2024-04-27T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=977"},"modified":"2024-03-22T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:43:09","slug":"a-few-small-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"A Few Small Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Running out of time before the Challenge, I&#8217;m trying to tie up all the last few things.  I can&#8217;t check any of the actually important stuff because the carb hat is off, the brake lines haven&#8217;t come in yet, and I don&#8217;t have the tires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First off, there was a coolant line that had some sort of plug in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/17\/20240317141947-a08180dd.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, not a plug.  It was a fitting that had broken off in the radiator.  The rest unthreaded easily and came right out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/17\/20240317141941-01b5dbc5.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t easily find an M10x1.0-to-hose barb fitting, so I threaded what was left into the radiator and put a little JB Weld on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/21\/20240321110230-ceadb9e0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To clean up the carb hat a bit I took the throttle and choke links off and threw them into the ultrasonic cleaner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/17\/20240317141945-6a821cd4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I grabbed a can of this and went to paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/19\/20240319185835-0e9a8917.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Three coats went on, with some heat gun action in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/19\/20240319185832-5ac5f320.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It needs a little more cleaning up once the paint dries the rest of the way, but it&#8217;s coming out pretty nice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/19\/20240319185831-16232438.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I sanded and painted the spare coolant hard line and installed it.  I also threw the coolant bottle in the ultrasonic cleaner and then mounted it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point, one of the terminals for the brake light switch broke off so I soldered on a new terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/piwigo.putrescence.org\/upload\/2024\/03\/19\/20240319185831-4d8dbe67.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the prettiest, but it should work for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last thing I got wrapped up was installing the hood latch components and running the cables through the firewall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running out of time before the Challenge, I&#8217;m trying to tie up all the last few things. I can&#8217;t check any of the actually important stuff because the carb hat is off, the brake lines haven&#8217;t come in yet, and&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=977\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-185"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}