{"id":5224,"date":"2025-04-25T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:23:10","slug":"sunday-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/04\/25\/sunday-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a line on a manual steering column, which is excellent news, and the price is right. But excellent news is usually accompanied by a catch, and this is no different. The catch here is that the parts truck in question is outside of Pittsburgh, which is about a 4-hour drive away from here. It looks like it&#8217;s perfect for my requirements; the truck is in the open, in a clean yard, and the hood is already gone so there&#8217;s nothing in the way. I&#8217;d be pulling the entire column from the wheel all the way down to the box; I&#8217;ll just unbolt the box and maybe cut the pitman arm, or bring a fork and pound out the link. Then it&#8217;s just removing 4 bolts under the dashboard, disconnecting some wiring, and out it should come.<em> Easy, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pitt_donor.jpg?resize=800%2C536\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pitt_donor.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pitt_donor.jpg?resize=448%2C300&amp;ssl=1 448w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pitt_donor.jpg?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As usual though, I&#8217;m going to bring the entire recovery kit, and this time I might even bring my generator and a corded cutoff wheel, just in case. It&#8217;s going to be a long day and I don&#8217;t want to be out there forever.<\/p>\n<p>Making this trip a little sweeter is a pile of leftover parts another semi-local Travelall guy offered me after restomodding his truck. He&#8217;s outside of Frederick, which is right on the way, and he has a full set of gauges, seatbelts, and a couple of master cylinders. The seatbelts are an excellent find, as the mounting brackets on some of mine are pretty roached, and the gauges may come in handy, although I&#8217;ve got three full sets already. But I can always bring stuff to Nats and sell it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a line on a manual steering column, which is excellent news, and the price is right. But excellent news is usually accompanied by a catch, and this is no different. The catch here is that the parts truck in question is outside of Pittsburgh, which is about a 4-hour drive away from here. [&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":[64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junkyards","category-purchasing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","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=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}