{"id":5796,"date":"2026-04-06T06:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:58:18","slug":"quick-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2026\/04\/06\/quick-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots to write about, but not much time this morning:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Travelall brakes are still broke. I believe it&#8217;s the master cylinder at this point, so I&#8217;ve ordered a new one from Rock Auto, which should be here Wednesday. I replaced the entire hardline setup last week as well as the softline on the passenger side (which I&#8217;d overlooked two years ago).<\/li>\n<li>The 800 is not starting. I tested it from the key forward, and the coil is getting power but is hot to the touch, which tells me it&#8217;s toast. So I&#8217;ve got a new coil coming this week as well.<\/li>\n<li>Peer Pressure, as usual, is running like a top. There&#8217;s a whine from the power steering pump, which is leaking slowly, and the exhaust on the passenger side needs to be tightened again, but she made it over and back from Chestertown with zero issues. She is my rock.<\/li>\n<li>Project Slowflake is making progress! I spent two days with Brian mounting the power unit to the transmission (the custom aluminum adapter plates are SEXXXXXXY), welding supports up to the front battery tray, and re-configuring the PMU location for the thirteenth time\u2014but we got it sorted. Stay tuned for updates there as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This video is two weeks behind, but should begin to catch up on the progress:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Z0CLpD0JMLE?si=gOf9z0VW-lQ9bFjT\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots to write about, but not much time this morning: The Travelall brakes are still broke. I believe it&#8217;s the master cylinder at this point, so I&#8217;ve ordered a new one from Rock Auto, which should be here Wednesday. I replaced the entire hardline setup last week as well as the softline on the passenger [&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":[83,82,21,84,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brakes","category-ev-swap","category-friends","category-scout-800","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1vu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","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=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5797,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions\/5797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}