{"id":5219,"date":"2025-04-23T19:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2025-04-23T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:04:18","slug":"halfway-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/04\/23\/halfway-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway There"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5220\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring.jpg?resize=1170%2C668\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring.jpg?resize=500%2C285&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring.jpg?resize=1024%2C585&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring.jpg?resize=768%2C438&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super-sketchy temporary wiring proof of concept<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new 30amp relay came via Amazon this afternoon, and I did a quick and dirty wiring job to get it connected to constant power, a ground, the ignition circuit, and the carburetor. It wasn&#8217;t pretty but the truck turned over, and more importantly, the Sniper unit stayed on. The engine didn&#8217;t catch, however, which is getting really fucking frustrating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5221\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5221\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring2.jpg?resize=1170%2C769\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring2.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring2.jpg?resize=456%2C300&amp;ssl=1 456w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring2.jpg?resize=1024%2C673&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wiring2.jpg?resize=768%2C505&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where the new relay is going to live.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So next up, I&#8217;m going to pull the mounting plate I used to organize the auxiliary fuse panel, add the second relay alongside the first, and use that as my mounting point. Then I can run clean wiring from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new 30amp relay came via Amazon this afternoon, and I did a quick and dirty wiring job to get it connected to constant power, a ground, the ignition circuit, and the carburetor. It wasn&#8217;t pretty but the truck turned over, and more importantly, the Sniper unit stayed on. The engine didn&#8217;t catch, however, which [&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":[70,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrical","category-fuel-injection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1mb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","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=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}