{"id":542,"date":"2012-10-06T21:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T11:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=542"},"modified":"2012-10-06T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T11:21:17","slug":"spring-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Spring Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone should invite a car club to their garage at least once a year for a Garage Crawl, apart from the obvious opportunity to show off the real reason is that you at last will see a reason to clean up the junk you&#8217;ve been tripping over for the last year and maybe some serious rearranging that never seemed to happen otherwise. As I never got around to painting the floor I will abstain from eating off it but it&#8217;s not bad all the same, tomorrow they arrive.<br \/>\nAs this is the first entry for some time you would be right thinking that I have been slacking off, the Bugatti is now running well, the Douglas survived a 3 day rally without mishap but the Sizaire is still waiting for some attention. So instead of methodically working through this problem I have removed the cylinder and am currently trying to remove the inlet valve cage so the hopefully burnt exhaust valve will be exposed. I really have no evidence to support this theory it&#8217;s just the way my brain seems to be working at the moment so have decided to enjoy the challenge of disassembling something that has not yet been pulled apart.<br \/>\nHere is a picture of how not to remove the valve cage with a slide hammer. Currently cylinder is resting on bench waiting for another random attack from yours truly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slide-hammer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-543\" title=\"slide hammer\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slide-hammer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slide-hammer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slide-hammer.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone should invite a car club to their garage at least once a year for a Garage Crawl, apart from the obvious opportunity to show off the real reason is that you at last will see a reason to clean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-type-37","category-douglas","category-sizaire-naudin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}