{"id":3478,"date":"2023-01-23T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2024-01-17T04:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T12:10:58","slug":"2023-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2023\/01\/23\/2023-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 To-Do List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3261\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adventurehazel.jpg?resize=1024%2C575\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adventurehazel.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adventurehazel.jpg?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adventurehazel.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adventurehazel.jpg?resize=1536%2C862&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/adventurehazel.jpg?w=1712&amp;ssl=1 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2022 didn&#8217;t go quite as we planned, but I got a remarkable number of things on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2022\/01\/02\/2022-to-do-list\/\">the list<\/a> accomplished. The replacement windshield is installed and makes a world of difference. the turn signal is fixed. The spare heater core is finished. And the heater valve is working! With that in mind, here&#8217;s the list of goals for 2023, in order of importance and realistic accomplishment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fix the goddamn wipers.<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2018\/09\/09\/2019-to-do-list\/\">2019<\/a>)\u00a0<del datetime=\"2023-02-21T21:15:13+00:00\">I still don&#8217;t know what the deal is with the wipers or why the motor works but the switch doesn&#8217;t, but I&#8217;ve now got a third switch to swap in and see if I can get things to work behind the dashboard. If it&#8217;s not that, there has to be a melted wire somewhere that I&#8217;ll have to chase down in the rat&#8217;s nest back there. I can&#8217;t spend another year dealing with this dumb situation.<\/del> <em>Fixed?<\/em> They work again. I put the wiper arms back on the stubs and I&#8217;m leaving it alone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Move the rearview mirror up the A pillar.<\/strong> I keep knocking into it when I open the door. it needs to move up and out of the way. This is just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2012\/09\/01\/mirrored\/\">drilling and tapping new holes<\/a>, and sealing up the old ones.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rotate the tires.<\/strong>\u00a0(2022) This is pretty self-explanatory, and should be easy once I get a decent floor jack.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fix the battery tray.<\/strong> (2021)\u00a0<del datetime=\"2023-09-19T15:17:08+00:00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.superscoutspecialists.com\/battery-tray-scout-ii-gas-engines\">Super Scout Specialists has new trays in stock<\/a>, and I&#8217;d like to get rid of the ghetto bungee cord I&#8217;ve been using for 11 years.<\/del> <em>Done 9.15!<\/em> Happy to have the bungee cords gone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Replace the wing window seals and spring hinge.<\/strong> My wing windows are leaky and loose. The gaskets are dry and brittle, and the spring hinges inside the door are both broken. I need to replace the rubber and re-weld the springs so that the windows will stabilize.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Swap the gas tanks.<\/strong> I have the original steel tank Peer Pressure came with, and I&#8217;ve heard from several places that poly tanks will never seal at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superscoutspecialists.com\/fuel-tank-gauge-sender-scout-ii-scout-terra-or-traveler\">the sender<\/a> properly. I&#8217;m inclined to believe this after eight years of suffering through gas fumes and leaks. Having looked at the inside of the tank and cleaned up the outside, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2022\/06\/13\/saturday-tinkering\/\">there&#8217;s a new sender mounted and ready to go<\/a>. The next step is grounding the tank and checking the wiring before it goes onto the truck, and then actually swapping it out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Get the spare engine on a proper engine stand.<\/strong> The problem isn&#8217;t the stand, but how I can lift the engine up onto it. My garage is in no shape to support a chain hoist or any kind of overhead block and tackle, so I&#8217;ll have to borrow an engine hoist from somewhere for a 15-minute operation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buy a Scout Shed.<\/strong>\u00a0(2022) I spent a bunch of time this fall emptying out my garage attic and moving big bulky parts up there; a lot of my space issues have since been solved. So this might actually move to the completed list&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 didn&#8217;t go quite as we planned, but I got a remarkable number of things on the list accomplished. The replacement windshield is installed and makes a world of difference. the turn signal is fixed. The spare heater core is finished. And the heater valve is working! With that in mind, here&#8217;s the list of [&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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-do-list"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-U6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","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=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}