{"id":1379,"date":"2014-09-08T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2014-10-26T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T01:29:20","slug":"camping-and-tinkering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2014\/09\/08\/camping-and-tinkering\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping and Tinkering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"bundled up for a rainstorm by idiot king, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/14975139728\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5582\/14975139728_f2d6d21009.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bundled up for a rainstorm\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a little time to fool around with the Scout this weekend after taking her camping; I tackled a few smaller issues that I knew I could wrap up quickly (with a bored daughter rolling around in the back seat). First up was the passenger door handle, which has been loose since I got the truck. I pulled the inner panel off, took the handle off, and fitted a couple of lockwashers to the mounting screws, then tightened it up snug to the body. Next I took the shitty pot-metal rearview mirror mount off the passenger door (the mirror was gone when I got the truck).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0524.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1377 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0524.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"IMG_0524\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0524.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0524.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0524.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I fitted a replacement glove box door to the dashboard. See the clip held in with two screws in the photo above? That&#8217;s an early-style clip, from what I can gather. Later clips were actually a hoop of metal the latch hooks onto. My dash is old so the metal lip the hoop mounts to is smaller. I&#8217;ve got to figure out some kind of temporary fix for this so I can actually use my glove box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0521-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0521-1.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"IMG_0521 (1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0521-1.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0521-1.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_0521-1.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also have to get up under the dashboard and POR-15 the seam at the firewall; I noticed some water leaking down inside when the truck was sitting at the campsite. I may actually use some Eastwood rust inhibitor this time to see how well it works, and I can get it at the Advance when I pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.advanceautoparts.com\/p\/dorman-conduct-tite-electrical-switches-specialty-door-jamb-switch-self-grounding-85932\/22149599-P?searchTerm=jamb+switch&amp;zoneAssigned=1\">some new door jamb switches<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a little time to fool around with the Scout this weekend after taking her camping; I tackled a few smaller issues that I knew I could wrap up quickly (with a bored daughter rolling around in the back seat). First up was the passenger door handle, which has been loose since I got [&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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}