{"id":316,"date":"2009-08-24T06:15:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=316"},"modified":"2009-08-31T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T19:48:46","slug":"weekend-report-8-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2009\/08\/24\/weekend-report-8-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Report 8.23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday A. and B.H. met me up in Finksburg to finish hauling off an engine and a top from the seller we&#8217;d visited last weekend, and within about an hour&#8217;s time we had a 345\/727 combo loaded onto a trailer, with three spare tire\/rims and a Traveller top secured over everything. After a brief detour to pick up another 727, we headed down to A&#8217;s shop to begin disassembly of the roller Scout in earnest. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/3862851366\/\" title=\"Parts Haul 2 by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2591\/3862851366_1345febf30.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Parts Haul 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In about four hours&#8217; time, we got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The engine stripped down (it&#8217;s waterlogged and stuck, so the distributor is stuck)<\/li>\n<li>The hood, inner fender, heater box and grille off <\/li>\n<li>The windshield off (it&#8217;s in great shape minus a little rust around the edges)<\/li>\n<li>The top unsecured (it&#8217;s also in great shape, even though it doesn&#8217;t have any gasketry)<\/li>\n<li>The dash completely broken down\u00e2\u20ac\u201clots of good spares there<\/li>\n<li>The emergency brake assembly out<\/li>\n<li>The rear driveshaft mostly disconnected (the U-bolts are gunked up)<\/li>\n<li>The tailgate off and stripped (the license plate assembly came off with a chisel and the latch mechanism popped out easy as pie)<\/li>\n<li>The doors removed (they are in decent shape, although there&#8217;s some rust around the inside bottom metal)<\/li>\n<li>The door hinges off<\/li>\n<li>Some of the evap\/emissions gear off<\/li>\n<li>The fuel filler neck off-B.H. will use it to replace a wonky fiberglas filler neck in his rig, which is awesome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, A. had already started unloading the parts that were inside the rig, and it was amazing how much stuff kept coming out. Under the spare fenders we&#8217;d piled in back, there were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four chrome bumpers (plus the two on the rig)<\/li>\n<li>Two hood mount bars<\/li>\n<li>Four fenders, two right and two left-including one exceptionally clean passenger side that was an unknown bonus (it was under the Traveler top, and B. and I never saw it until the day we hauled it away)<\/li>\n<li>The other inner fender from the roller<\/li>\n<li>A complete interior AC unit, including uncut hoses<\/li>\n<li>Assorted side trim<\/li>\n<li>Another heater box<\/li>\n<li>Assorted door glass<\/li>\n<li>Assorted electrical gear-two looms, one from a late-model rig with large fusebox<\/li>\n<li>A 4-bolt clutch fan<\/li>\n<li>A set of engine plastics in good shape<\/li>\n<li>Spare gas tank evap gear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t include the five crates of other parts we got, plus other gear that was in the front of the rig. I know there&#8217;s a bunch of other stuff I&#8217;m forgetting, but that&#8217;s off the top of my head. I left my camera down at A&#8217;s shop, otherwise I&#8217;d post some pictures here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday A. and B.H. met me up in Finksburg to finish hauling off an engine and a top from the seller we&#8217;d visited last weekend, and within about an hour&#8217;s time we had a 345\/727 combo loaded onto a trailer, with three spare tire\/rims and a Traveller top secured over everything. 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