{"id":5324,"date":"2025-06-19T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:48:48","slug":"scout-to-do-list-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/06\/19\/scout-to-do-list-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Scout To-Do List, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from Nationals, I started making a list of things I need to address on the Scout, stuff I&#8217;ve been kind of ignoring while I fixated on the Travelall. Here&#8217;s the list, in rough order of importance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fix the gas tank<\/strong>\u2014it&#8217;s time to drop the tank, troubleshoot the overfilling problem, and fix the broken gauge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buy and install new seat belt stalks<\/strong>\u2014Finley hulked out and broke the plastic, so the male section doesn&#8217;t go in straight.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fix the turn signal indicator<\/strong>\u2014It&#8217;s not locking in or canceling on the right-side indicator. I think it just needs to be re-centered, which involves pulling the steering wheel again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Re-adjust the snaps around the doorframes on the soft top<\/strong>. They should go all the way around the metal doorframes and back into the canvas, instead of snapping into the frames.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add snaps to the vertical flaps<\/strong>\u2014I&#8217;ve just never done this, and they need it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buy and install a rubber grommet for the emergency brake<\/strong>\u2014I can see down through to the ground.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add a round mirror reflector to the side mirror<\/strong>\u2014My blind spot is pretty big.<\/li>\n<li><strong><del datetime=\"2025-11-06T20:37:40+00:00\">Buy and install new weatherstripping for the doors<\/del><\/strong>\u2014<em>Done. For what it&#8217;s worth.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><del datetime=\"2025-11-06T20:37:40+00:00\">Buy and replace the front rotors.<\/del><\/strong> They&#8217;re very tight, very wobbly, and pull hard to the right. They&#8217;re continually rubbing on the pads and heating up the axle bearings. <em>Done Nov 1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/11\/02\/brakes-check\/\">Replacing them was a challenge<\/a>, but I&#8217;m happy to have it done.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><del datetime=\"2025-11-06T20:37:40+00:00\">Fix the exhaust leak<\/del><\/strong>\u2014it&#8217;s on the same side it was last time. This is frustrating. <em>Done 8.25. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/08\/03\/weekend-wandering-2\/\">I had to buy and install a split exhaust flange<\/a>, which was stronger than the one on the truck.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><del datetime=\"2025-06-26T01:25:52+00:00\">Fix the passenger door window crank<\/del><\/strong>\u2014it&#8217;s binding up when I try to raise the window; I think this is because the assembly is only attached with three of four bolts. One of the bolts was stripped and the assembly is twisting under the torque. <em>Turns out nothing was wrong; I just had to lube up the tracks.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><del datetime=\"2025-06-26T01:25:52+00:00\">Check the rear brake pads<\/del><\/strong>\u2014I left the emergency brake on and drove 20 miles that way; the pads may be smoked. <em>The pads look fine.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><del datetime=\"2025-06-26T01:25:52+00:00\">Find a clip for the wiper arm<\/del><\/strong>\u2014the wiper works about 45% of the way. It needs a clip to work properly. <em>There was a built-in clip on the wiper arm; I am an idiot.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from Nationals, I started making a list of things I need to address on the Scout, stuff I&#8217;ve been kind of ignoring while I fixated on the Travelall. Here&#8217;s the list, in rough order of importance: Fix the gas tank\u2014it&#8217;s time to drop the tank, troubleshoot the overfilling problem, and fix the broken [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-do-list"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1nS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5537,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}