{"id":5477,"date":"2025-09-28T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:03:36","slug":"sunday-afternoon-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2025\/09\/28\/sunday-afternoon-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

I crossed a couple of things off the list on the Travelall while I had good weather and a clear schedule:<\/p>\n

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  1. I wired the electric fuel pump into the switched power circuit, so that I stop forgetting to turn it off when I get out of the truck<\/li>\n
  2. I moved the vacuum advance hose to the manifold port and plugged up the port on the carburetor where it had been. I had them mixed up. The port I was using is above the throttle blades<\/a>, which means it only sees vacuum at throttle and doesn’t advance the timing at idle.<\/li>\n
  3. I pulled the small metal bracket off the dash and hooked the speedometer\/odometer cable back up<\/li>\n
  4. With that done, I took her for a ride around the neighborhood, and she ran really well! There were some stumbles at first but when she’d warmed up it smoothed out.<\/li>\n
  5. After I got back, I dug through my bins and reinstalled the choke cable. Firing the truck back up, I noticed that she ran worse with the choke open all the way, which makes sense; I’d set the timing with the choke open 1\/3 of the way, and that had an effect on the air\/fuel mixture.<\/li>\n
  6. Then I moved her in the driveway and pulled the door cards off to expose the mounting bolts. After some fussing with the driver’s door, I got it to line up and close well for the first time ever.<\/li>\n
  7. I messed with the passenger door for a while until I realized that the top hinge pin is broken\u2014I think jacking the door up and wrenching it back and forth must have snapped the pin. I dug the spare hinge out from the green truck, and cleaned it up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So next up on the list:<\/p>\n

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    1. Install the used temperature sender from the green truck’s manifold and see if that works<\/li>\n
    2. Pull the passenger fender off, remove the broken hinge, and replace it with the green one (which is now wire-wheeled, etch primed, and painted red)<\/li>\n
    3. Put the timing light on it and text\/reset the timing again with a warmed up engine and vacuum advance unplugged.<\/li>\n
    4. Clean up the insides of the two front doors (rust converter in the channel, vacuum the bottoms out, and spray in some Rust-Stop)<\/li>\n
    5. There’s still one dash light missing, which I need to chase down<\/li>\n
    6. Grind out any rust on the outer edge\/underside of the drip rail, treat it, and paint it<\/li>\n
    7. Continue putting bolts in the rear bed floor<\/li>\n
    8. Put the metal surround back on the shift boot<\/li>\n
    9. Figure out how to wire in a dome light<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If I can keep ironing out the problems, my goal is to drive it 12 miles to Brian’s house this weekend for a workday. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I crossed a couple of things off the list on the Travelall while I had good weather and a clear schedule: I wired the electric fuel pump into the switched power circuit, so that I stop forgetting to turn it off when I get out of the truck I moved the vacuum advance hose to […]<\/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":[56,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-do-list","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1ql","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","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=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}