{"id":4588,"date":"2024-05-12T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T23:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T02:27:54","slug":"weekly-roundup-5-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2024\/05\/12\/weekly-roundup-5-12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Roundup, 5.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aM0WRhEqMMc?si=PqD2Ryq40mdTZQqe\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><br \/><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video containing most of the updates from last weekend, when the green truck was towed away, to yesterday afternoon, when I swapped out the hardtop for the soft top on the Scout.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4590\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/softtop.jpg?resize=1170%2C784\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/softtop.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/softtop.jpg?resize=448%2C300&amp;ssl=1 448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/softtop.jpg?resize=1024%2C686&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/softtop.jpg?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I put the nutmeg snap top on the truck for now; it&#8217;s in the best shape of the three and will definitely seal up better than the others. Everything went on smoothly and I think I had the whole thing wrapped up in about two hours. When that was done I made some adjustments to the rearview mirror on the driver&#8217;s windshield frame. because of where it&#8217;s positioned, when I open the door beyond a certain distance it moves the mirror outwards, messing up the alignment. I was thinking I was going to move it upwards on the frame, but there isn&#8217;t enough room to go much higher than it already is. So I adjusted the bar further outwards and bent the mirror mount inwards, and that pushed the arm further outside the door&#8217;s arc.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing I did was replace the gasket on the door of the IH fridge, which was sweating out the sides last summer. I sourced a new gasket from a freezer parts company and paid more for shipping than I did for the gasket. It went on pretty easily, and it seems to seal tightly, so I&#8217;m counting that as an easy win.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I did a bunch of finish sanding on the driver&#8217;s fender to the red truck, getting the curve of the fender lip to feather out into the flat section much better than I had before. I sanded it first with 320 and then with 600 grit before shooting it with some IH implement red out of a rattle can. I have to clean up some of the edges on the front before I go to wet sanding everything, but it&#8217;s getting closer to being done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video containing most of the updates from last weekend, when the green truck was towed away, to yesterday afternoon, when I swapped out the hardtop for the soft top on the Scout. I put the nutmeg snap top on the truck for now; it&#8217;s in the best shape of the three and will [&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":[27,68,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-repairs","category-travelall","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1c0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","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=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}