{"id":1630,"date":"2016-06-15T05:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2016-06-15T05:53:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:53:06","slug":"throttled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2016\/06\/15\/throttled\/","title":{"rendered":"Throttled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving back from a yard sale on Saturday morning, the accelerator pedal dropped to the floor, <em>again<\/em>. Since I&#8217;ve owned Peer Pressure, I&#8217;ve had intermittent problems with the throttle cable, which was originally jury-rigged to the engine block with an automatic cable bracket. My friend Alan swapped me that for a manual bracket, but the cable itself was held to the bracket with a rubber-grommeted clip. When the engine heats up, the grommet gets slippery and the cable slips out of it. Usually this is a 5-minute fix, but on Saturday the grommet disintegrated in my hand as I was refastening it. With Finn waiting in the back seat, I jury-rigged the cable with some zip ties and we made it home under our own power.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGhTabMtK09\/\" target=\"_blank\">A photo posted by @idiotking<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-11T16:09:11+00:00\">Jun 11, 2016 at 9:09am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On the phone with Super Scout Specialists, I learned that I have the wrong cable completely. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superscoutspecialists.com\/store\/p-248-accelerator-cables-scout-ii.aspx\">The one I&#8217;m supposed to have<\/a> is manufactured with a loop that goes around the bracket and held in place by the clip, so I ordered the correct part last night after investigating. I&#8217;ll have to carve out time to install it, based on when it gets here.<\/p>\n<p>And I was thrilled last week when <a href=\"http:\/\/caswellmotorsport.com\/\">Bill Caswell<\/a> started following me on Instagram!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving back from a yard sale on Saturday morning, the accelerator pedal dropped to the floor, again. Since I&#8217;ve owned Peer Pressure, I&#8217;ve had intermittent problems with the throttle cable, which was originally jury-rigged to the engine block with an automatic cable bracket. My friend Alan swapped me that for a manual bracket, but the [&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":[12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purchasing","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-qi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}