{"id":281,"date":"2009-07-06T06:40:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-07-06T06:41:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T14:41:07","slug":"two-steps-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2009\/07\/06\/two-steps-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Steps Forward&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, to recap, I had some alarming issues come up with the throttle last weekend on my return from a  dump run. Specifically, I lost about 40% of my available power on the way home, out of the blue, with no advance warning. As it turned out, the issue was not with the carb or the engine, which I feared, but with the throttle cable itself. There&#8217;s a trio of clamps which theoretically hold the cable into place, but up until last weekend, the vendor&#8217;s sticker was the only thing keeping it from moving as the throttle advanced. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/3693542539\/\" title=\"throttle cable by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2662\/3693542539_1b76baa291.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"throttle cable\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday I got a little time while Finn was asleep to poke around under the hood, and I made a fix to the third clamp in order to keep it from advancing: about four winds of electrical tape under the clamp now hold it in place without binding the cable. I took it out for a test spin and everything seems to be fine again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, to recap, I had some alarming issues come up with the throttle last weekend on my return from a dump run. Specifically, I lost about 40% of my available power on the way home, out of the blue, with no advance warning. As it turned out, the issue was not with the carb or [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-4x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}