{"id":5091,"date":"2025-03-04T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:33:05","slug":"inspiration-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/03\/04\/inspiration-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found a new ASMR mechanic fix-it YouTube channel that does away with a lot of the stuff that annoys me about most of the other channels out there. Like podcasts, the channels I follow are graded by the content, the presentation, and narration. The last one can be a make or break for me: if the narrator is annoying or has a terrible voice, I&#8217;m usually out. There&#8217;s a ton of content out there that fit into my areas of interest but which I can&#8217;t stand due to failures in the categories above.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_c0axKtH2bA?si=oLZ826o2mflcDqkK\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Simon Fordman hosts a channel where all he does is fix cars. There&#8217;s no audio narration, which demands close attention because he puts it in the closed captioning\u2014so if you want to follow along you&#8217;ve got to keep a close eye on things. Watching his latest video, he fixes a formerly abandoned AMC Javelin with starting, idling and brake issues, and just by watching I realized there are three things I need to investigate on Darth Haul: the choppy idle could be a fuel issue or it could be that the points are corroded. He does a simple test at idle to figure out which plugs aren&#8217;t firing, checks the gap on the points, and adjusts the timing at the distributor to smooth the engine out.<\/p>\n<p>The car cover I&#8217;ve been using tends to trap moisture inside when it&#8217;s on the truck. I&#8217;ve noticed dampness in the engine bay immediately after removing it, and I&#8217;ll bet that&#8217;s had some effect on the electronics under the hood. So I&#8217;ve got a game plan for my next workday:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Replace the fuel filter and see if that solves the delivery issue.<\/li>\n<li>Pull the plugs one by one to see which cylinders aren&#8217;t firing.<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the gap in the points to (hopefully) solve that issue. If not, try another compression test.<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the timing again to smooth out the idle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found a new ASMR mechanic fix-it YouTube channel that does away with a lot of the stuff that annoys me about most of the other channels out there. Like podcasts, the channels I follow are graded by the content, the presentation, and narration. The last one can be a make or break for me: [&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":[88,42,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpful-info","category-inspiration","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1k7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","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=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}