{"id":1291,"date":"2013-11-29T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2014-10-26T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T01:55:35","slug":"meetup-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2013\/11\/29\/meetup-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetup Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/10503848325\" title=\"A pickup, a Wagonmaster, and a couple of Scouts walk into a bar... by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5475\/10503848325_97c7a8f8b7_b.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" alt=\"A pickup, a Wagonmaster, and a couple of Scouts walk into a bar...\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a workday north of Baltimore the last week in October, and I was lucky enough to have about five sets of hands helping diagnose my fuel sender issue. What we were able to sort out is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>My wiring loom up to the bulkhead is not original, but contains original green wiring.<\/li>\n<li>The ground spade on the sender wasn&#8217;t connected (it must have come off at some point after we installed it) but it is now.<\/li>\n<li>The sender is working properly. We tested it for resistance and it works when we slosh fuel around in the tank.<\/li>\n<li>The PO put in a grounding wire directly to the frame, which I cleaned up with some sandpaper.<\/li>\n<li>The wire going up to the bulkhead connector works.<\/li>\n<li>The bulkhead connector is a mess, and has been screwed with quite a bit.<\/li>\n<li>Everything behind the dash is a mystery.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The service manual says we&#8217;re looking for wire 36-16, which checks out behind the dash but the wire going from the sender through the loom looks like 11. Additionally, the 11 loop (the one which appears to ground on a stud welded to the backside of the dashboard) was loose, so I reconnected that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/10503742446\" title=\"Thermoquads by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3737\/10503742446_825e55d367_b.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"Thermoquads\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was there, I bought a Thermoquad from Jason H. for tinkering (it&#8217;s the one on the left; the one on the right will get rebuilt as my spare).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a workday north of Baltimore the last week in October, and I was lucky enough to have about five sets of hands helping diagnose my fuel sender issue. What we were able to sort out is as follows: My wiring loom up to the bulkhead is not original, but contains original green wiring. [&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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-kP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","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=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}