{"id":201,"date":"2013-05-29T23:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=201"},"modified":"2013-07-31T00:25:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:25:51","slug":"truck-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Truck Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m devoting a couple of months for truck maintenance.  I had a broken coolant hose connector and heater hose replaced in Idaho, now I&#8217;m doing the rest of them.  Well, <em>the<\/em> hose. GM managed to blend three hoses into a single unit, which I call the Franken-hose.  I got that replaced today, at surprising cost for a hose.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go in for brakes pretty soon.  The factory brakes have lasted 145,000 miles, quite impressive.  But I found out why: the factory pads cost $400 each.  I&#8217;m going to put cheaper pads on, good for 50K miles I think, but easy to replace.  <\/p>\n<p>Also to do is a front-end alignment.  I asked about replacing the wheel bearings and found out that means replacing the front hubs; $800 for each wheel.  Hopefully I can ignore that until they fail.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to cost me a lot money, but this is all stuff that wears out or deteriorates with time and mileage.  But parts are expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m devoting a couple of months for truck maintenance. I had a broken coolant hose connector and heater hose replaced in Idaho, now I&#8217;m doing the rest of them. Well, the hose. GM managed to blend three hoses into a single unit, which I call the Franken-hose. I got that replaced today, at surprising cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","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\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}