{"id":6038,"date":"2026-09-12T16:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T00:53:49","slug":"butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2026\/09\/12\/butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the long-standing tasks on my priority list has been to pull out and replace the wing windows on the Travelall. The windows I inherited were both delaminated and cloudy around the edges, which was looking pretty trashy as I cleaned up the rest of the truck. Over the course of the last couple years I sourced several sets of replacements, but the big issue was breaking down each door to swap them in. This last week I decided I was going to tackle the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4580.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6040\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4580.jpeg?resize=1000%2C563\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4580.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4580.jpeg?resize=500%2C282&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4580.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started with the passenger side, pulling the knobs, door cards and hardware off, then disconnecting the scissor mechanism from the window and pulling that out. As I got to this point I was cursing myself for not having done this when I was installing the new felts. The process goes something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pull the knobs and door cards off.<\/li>\n<li>Detach the window from the scissors, and roll the scissors up.<\/li>\n<li>Unscrew one screw from the top of the rear rail (directly below the window frame).<\/li>\n<li>Detach the rear rail from the bottom of the door, and pull it down and out of the door.<\/li>\n<li>Move the felt backwards out of the way.<\/li>\n<li>Push the window down and out of the way.<\/li>\n<li>Carefully pry the window rubber out of the channel at the top and bottom rear of the window, and along the A pillar about 2&#8243; from the top and bottom, until you can see the four screws holding it into the door frame.<\/li>\n<li>Unscrew those bolts.<\/li>\n<li>You should now be able to pull the wing window frame backwards until it clears the top channel, at which time you can pull it out of the door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The passenger side went in with little difficulty, and I realized I didn&#8217;t need to pull the main window out to complete the process. When that was done, I used some glass cleaner to ease the rubber back into the channel, and the new window looked a million times better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4574.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6039\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4574.jpeg?resize=1000%2C563\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4574.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4574.jpeg?resize=500%2C282&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4574.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4587.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6042\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4587.jpeg?resize=1000%2C563\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4587.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4587.jpeg?resize=500%2C282&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4587.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon I tackled the driver&#8217;s side, and understanding exactly what needed to be done, the job was shorter. Both sides look fantastic now, and the wing window on the driver&#8217;s side will stay open in the breeze (it was very loose before and no amount of adjustment would fix this).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4593.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6043\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4593.jpeg?resize=1000%2C563\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4593.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4593.jpeg?resize=500%2C282&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_4593.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday I crawled under the truck and did two quick jobs: I installed heat matting on the underside of the floor around the muffler, which was making the rear floor exceptionally hot. I didn&#8217;t have to do much prep\u2014the undercoating was about as clean as it could possibly be, and after scraping some grease left over from the U-joint and wiping it with brake cleaner, I covered the floorpan from front to back.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I did while I was down there was to tighten the emergency brake cable, which was loose but functional; now it&#8217;s tighter and has less give. All of these things make me feel much better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the long-standing tasks on my priority list has been to pull out and replace the wing windows on the Travelall. The windows I inherited were both delaminated and cloudy around the edges, which was looking pretty trashy as I cleaned up the rest of the truck. Over the course of the last couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress","category-travelall"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-1zo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","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=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}