{"id":834,"date":"2011-11-07T19:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=834"},"modified":"2011-11-07T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:08:55","slug":"exhausting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2011\/11\/07\/exhausting\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhausting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the culprit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2011\/11\/07\/exhausting\/img_1659\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-835\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_1659.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1659\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_1659.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_1659.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_1659.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the donut in between the pipe and the flange; it&#8217;s the gasket in between the heat riser valve and the flange. I pulled the outer bolt off and let it hang loose by itself; the bolt and nut are bent and rusted, and there&#8217;s no trace of a gasket left there. So I ordered two copper-jacketed bolts and a new gasket from Super Scout, as well as a set of newly reprinted manuals. Finally. Everything should be here by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of the end of the week: I may be heading back to Chestertown to finish assembling the bumper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s the culprit. It&#8217;s not the donut in between the pipe and the flange; it&#8217;s the gasket in between the heat riser valve and the flange. I pulled the outer bolt off and let it hang loose by itself; the bolt and nut are bent and rusted, and there&#8217;s no trace of a gasket [&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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purchasing"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}