{"id":842,"date":"2011-11-12T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T19:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=842"},"modified":"2011-11-12T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T19:23:03","slug":"gasketed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2011\/11\/12\/gasketed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gasketed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to some 11th-hour help from Mr. Scout, I got the second bolt off the exhaust manifold and a new gasket installed, along with two shiny copper bolts of the correct length and diameter. It was tricky work by myself trying to hold a wrench on the top nut while torquing the bottom bolt enough to make things turn; as it worked out, I snapped the bolt in half. Whatever works.<\/p>\n<p>Peer Pressure is quiet again. There&#8217;s no backfire coming off a heavy foot in the gas, and exhaust fumes in the cabin are all but gone. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/6338018038\/\" title=\"New gasket by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6222\/6338018038_56aa5c0446.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"New gasket\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to some 11th-hour help from Mr. Scout, I got the second bolt off the exhaust manifold and a new gasket installed, along with two shiny copper bolts of the correct length and diameter. It was tricky work by myself trying to hold a wrench on the top nut while torquing the bottom bolt enough [&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":[21,10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-progress","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s58Ac2-gasketed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}