{"id":2839,"date":"2021-08-17T18:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:15:30","slug":"nationals-recap-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2021\/08\/17\/nationals-recap-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Recap, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My records say I put 925 miles on the Scout, which means i<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2018\/08\/30\/quick-statistics\/\">t&#8217;s actually around 1187 if I do the math<\/a>, but Google figures it&#8217;s about 1050. I used roughly 77.6 gallons of gas this time, which puts my mileage somewhere around 13.5 mpg\u2014which seems a little odd. I got about 12 on the last trip, and our route was almost exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p>Some various reflections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My front brakes are scraping. I sourced a new local mechanic who can handle brake work quickly through another Scout guy in Ellicott City, and ordered rotors and pads today. I&#8217;m going to take the Scout camping in a week and a half, so I want them working right, and I don&#8217;t have time to futz with it myself.<\/li>\n<li>This was the most rain I&#8217;ve ever driven my Scout in. We were wet for 3\/4 of the trip home, but everything worked as it should have. My wipers crapped out on the second half of the way back, so I&#8217;ll have to pull the cowl and replace the motor with a known good unit. While I&#8217;m in there I have to adjust the linkage to align correctly on the window.<\/li>\n<li>The gas tank is still a pain in my ass. I was dribbling gas after every fill up. This will require several fixes: I have to buy some gas-rated hose and rig up an overflow vent with a filter at the end to vent the extra air. Jim, one of the mechanics at Super Scouts, showed me how to do this on his pretty red Travelall. Then I&#8217;ll have to drop the tank and properly seal up the sender so that it doesn&#8217;t escape out the top. I said I was going to do this two years ago.<\/li>\n<li>In the fall when the soft top comes off I need to find a sail repair service in Annapolis and see if they can sew my zippers back on. The right one gave way on Saturday night when I was closing up the truck, so now both of them are shot.<\/li>\n<li>Brian helped me think of a way to install snap barrels on the aluminum sheet overlaying the tailgate so that I can snap down the soft top; this might actually work&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My records say I put 925 miles on the Scout, which means it&#8217;s actually around 1187 if I do the math, but Google figures it&#8217;s about 1050. I used roughly 77.6 gallons of gas this time, which puts my mileage somewhere around 13.5 mpg\u2014which seems a little odd. I got about 12 on the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[27,22],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repairs","category-trip-logs","tag-ih-nationals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-JN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}