{"id":1065,"date":"2012-08-27T04:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T12:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2012-09-01T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:54:55","slug":"small-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2012\/08\/27\/small-progress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Finn&#8217;s help, I was able to pull the new bumper off and replace it with the original on Saturday. I also mixed up a little bondo and filled some of the larger holes and valleys on the swingarm, as well as the exploratory divot I made in the bondo skim on the driver&#8217;s door. <\/p>\n<p>The mirror came in on Friday, and it looks great; I shot the mounting bracket with primer and let it sit to dry. I need a #107\/5mm steel bit to drill mounting holes, and then I can tap them for the included screws. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/7871926888\/\" title=\"Mirror mount by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8307\/7871926888_7126277fd4.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Mirror mount\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was out there I also took the soft top bows apart; they&#8217;re looking rusty and beat up. The lever bracket is the worst, so I hit it with the flap sander. All of the mounting bolts are stripped, rusty, and worn, so I picked up stainless steel replacements at the store. When I wire wheel the bumper I&#8217;ll hit the ends of the bows themselves and then POR-15 everything that&#8217;s bare metal; then I&#8217;ll shoot it all with the same semi-gloss black I&#8217;m using for the bumper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/7871926218\/\" title=\"Soft top bow by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8442\/7871926218_2c09e46579.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Soft top bow\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about Jen driving the Scout got me to thinking; the RPM band is a lot lower in Peer Pressure than it is in our Honda, and it would be great to have some indication for shifting (instead of by feel). <a href='http:\/\/www.tinytach.com\/gasoline.php'>Tiny-Tach<\/a> makes a tachometer that installs simply by wrapping a wire lead around one of the spark plugs and grounding the other; it&#8217;s a little ugly but the price is good. Plus, there isn&#8217;t as much guesswork with installation as with a mechanical tach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Finn&#8217;s help, I was able to pull the new bumper off and replace it with the original on Saturday. I also mixed up a little bondo and filled some of the larger holes and valleys on the swingarm, as well as the exploratory divot I made in the bondo skim on the driver&#8217;s door. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumper","category-future-plans","category-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-hb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}