{"id":2716,"date":"2021-03-27T21:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T05:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2021-03-28T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:38:52","slug":"delayed-gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2021\/03\/27\/delayed-gratification\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Gratification"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief update: I’ve got new bolts in hand for both the bumper and foglight brackets from Fastenal: 1\/2″-13 x 5-1\/2″ Grade 8 hex bolts for the bumper and 3\/8″-16 x 3\/4″ 18-8 stainless carriage bolts for the brackets. I also got a\u00c2\u00a01′ length of 2″x2″ .250 wall box steel delivered\u00c2\u00a0to be cut down into a pair of C-shaped brackets. Unfortunately, the metal cutting blade I bought could not make it through the steel, and truth be told, it’s way too thick anyway. So, I’m going to order some .125 wall and use that instead.\u00c2\u00a0I’ve found a local welder who can put them on for me, which should only take a half an hour. I’m also going to have him weld the lock hasp on the bottom of the ammo can<\/a> and put that job to bed as well, because it’s springtime and the top is coming off soon.<\/p>\n

Another thing I stumbled upon was a “fuel sender test kit” from one of the parts vendors, which is basically just two lengths of wire and some instructions, something I should be able to build and use myself in a half an hour. The key are the directions<\/a>, which look like they could be even more helpful\u2014the only issue is getting a wire to the top of the tank itself, but as I’d like to rework the hoses anyway, I might spend a day dropping the tank and working on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief update: I’ve got new bolts in hand for both the bumper and foglight brackets from Fastenal: 1\/2″-13 x 5-1\/2″ Grade 8 hex bolts for the bumper and 3\/8″-16 x 3\/4″ 18-8 stainless carriage bolts for the brackets. I also got a\u00c2\u00a01′ length of 2″x2″ .250 wall box steel delivered\u00c2\u00a0to be cut down into […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-HO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}