{"id":4294,"date":"2024-01-13T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2024-01-13T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:46:25","slug":"manual-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2024\/01\/13\/manual-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled upon an original 1963 Operator’s Manual for the Travelall on eBay before Christmas but passed on it because I thought the price was too high; eBay contacted me after New Year’s and told me the seller had dropped the price dramatically so I jumped on it. It stinks of cigarettes and old man but it’s in fantastic shape otherwise, and as a time capsule it’s a lot of fun. <\/p>\n

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In the meantime I went out to warm up the Scout and see if I could get the Travelall running as well. After some initial tests I filled the carb bowl and shot it with starting fluid, and it coughed to life briefly. I noticed that nothing was reaching the fuel filter above the fuel pump, so I threw some gas in the tank and tried it again. This time it ran choppily for about a minute before it starved out again, so I dumped the rest of my gas in the tank and tried one more time with the battery power I had left. Clearly the gas in the tank has evaporated out\u2014I’ve only got the cap to a spray can covering the inlet tube\u2014so I’ll go get some more gas and fill it up before I try it again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stumbled upon an original 1963 Operator’s Manual for the Travelall on eBay before Christmas but passed on it because I thought the price was too high; eBay contacted me after New Year’s and told me the seller had dropped the price dramatically so I jumped on it. It stinks of cigarettes and old man […]<\/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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-17g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}