{"id":2036,"date":"2018-12-27T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T04:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:45:06","slug":"restrained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2018\/12\/27\/restrained\/","title":{"rendered":"Restrained"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having problems with my seat belt for a couple of months now. It won’t release enough for me to get it around my waist. If I’m on a slight incline it won’t release at all. No amount of gentle tugging, violent pulling, or whispered pleading would help. I decided I’d take advantage of 50\u00cb\u0161 weather today to pull the ratchet mechanism apart to see what was wrong.<\/p>\n

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My seatbelt is based around a simple mechanism involving a single ball bearing in a cup. When the ball is stationary in the cup, the seatbelt has give and will release properly. When the ball is moved out of the cup by a strong force\u00e2\u20ac\u201csay, a collision\u00e2\u20ac\u201cit contacts a pawl which closes a ratcheting mechanism and stops the belt from releasing.\u00c2\u00a0Most of the online sources I found said the mechanism was probably filled with dust and the ball was stuck. I pulled it apart and shook out about a pound of dirt, straw, leaves, and dust, but the mechanism was still jammed. After blowing dust out of the cup with a can of compressed air, the mechanism started working and all was well again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having problems with my seat belt for a couple of months now. It won’t release enough for me to get it around my waist. If I’m on a slight incline it won’t release at all. No amount of gentle tugging, violent pulling, or whispered pleading would help. I decided I’d take advantage of […]<\/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":[27,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repairs","category-seat-belts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-wQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}