{"id":687,"date":"2011-03-29T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=687"},"modified":"2011-03-30T07:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:05:44","slug":"plug-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2011\/03\/29\/plug-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug Update."},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a dumb thing the other day. I ordered a box of plastic vacuum plugs from Amazon before going downstairs and doing a little more investigating on my gas tank. I got fixated on covering the preinstalled brass fittings without considering the obvious: remove them (they’re all threaded, of course) and find threaded brass plugs to replace them. $10 at the Home Depot and I’ve got five 1\/4″ square-head plugs that will cap off all the unneeded ports with no fear of disintegration. <\/p>\n

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It appears, though, that I’ll most likely have to buy a new set of J-hooks for the tank straps I’ve got; the advice I’m reading on the Binder Planet says the OEM nuts will most likely snap off the ends of the bolts. <\/p>\n

Now, I just need a warm, free weekend day to pull her out of the garage and drop the tank. <\/p>\n

Update:<\/em> Here’s one of the plugs installed.<\/p>\n

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I did a dumb thing the other day. I ordered a box of plastic vacuum plugs from Amazon before going downstairs and doing a little more investigating on my gas tank. I got fixated on covering the preinstalled brass fittings without considering the obvious: remove them (they’re all threaded, of course) and find threaded brass […]<\/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":[10,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress","category-purchasing","category-repairs"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-b5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}