{"id":2400,"date":"2020-06-28T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T02:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T02:26:35","slug":"sparky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2020\/06\/28\/sparky\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After practicing my mechanical skills last weekend, swapping out plugs on Saturday was fast and relatively easy. The only issue I had was getting the #6 plug started; for some reason it didn&#8217;t want to thread in to the hole. Once I got that, the rest were easy. I left the #1 plug for last, as the position of the power steering pump makes it difficult to get a ratchet on the end of the socket. (Pro tip: a 3\/4 box end wrench on the socket does the job nicely). The Autolite 303&#8217;s came out oily and fouled, and that was only after 75 miles or so.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><a title=\"Spark Plugs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/50054686703\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/31337\/50054686703_efe6467224_b.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Spark Plugs\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>I did a quick test run after the engine bay was buttoned up, and she runs better than ever. Lesson learned: the 303&#8217;s are in the trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After practicing my mechanical skills last weekend, swapping out plugs on Saturday was fast and relatively easy. The only issue I had was getting the #6 plug started; for some reason it didn&#8217;t want to thread in to the hole. Once I got that, the rest were easy. I left the #1 plug for last, [&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-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58Ac2-sparky","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}