{"id":1608,"date":"2016-04-22T00:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2016-04-22T00:18:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T00:18:37","slug":"truck-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"Truck work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I replaced a pair of tires (because I do every summer), which didn&#8217;t fix a bouncing or hopping sensation, especially when braking.  I&#8217;ll work on that one tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had my regular shop try to find a slow coolant leak that I&#8217;ve had for months now.  I probably could just add water now and then and live with it, but small leaks can turn into a complete breakdown real fast.  The shop found a heater hose seeping at high pressures (no biggie), and found a radiator leak.  That&#8217;ll be expensive, but I was fearing head gaskets.  The engine was analyzed on a quick drive and everything looked perfect, which is good news at 207K.  They&#8217;ll do the work next week.<\/p>\n<p>Then I gotta get that bouncing problem fixed, which is probably a rear brake.  After that it&#8217;s a complete detail job at a great new shop in town to get the desert dust out of the truck that&#8217;s almost literally piling up after nigh on 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I replaced a pair of tires (because I do every summer), which didn&#8217;t fix a bouncing or hopping sensation, especially when braking. I&#8217;ll work on that one tomorrow. Today I had my regular shop try to find a slow coolant leak that I&#8217;ve had for months now. I probably could just add water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}