{"id":2984,"date":"2017-03-20T21:09:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T04:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:20:44","slug":"engine-refresh-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/engine-refresh-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine refresh &#8211; day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still have my hands under the valve covers today, this time at the front edge of the driver&#8217;s side replacing the timing chain gasket. The timing chain cover made this a real pain to get to (that and I couldn&#8217;t get enough slack in the timing chain).<\/p>\n<p>What should have be at most a 30 minute task took 90 minutes and a couple sets of hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2987 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once we were able to get the gasket clear of the guide pins I pulled the half-moon seal, scraped the surfaces and put in a new seal and gasket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30 minute gasket job took 90 minutes and a couple sets of hands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2987,"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":[27],"tags":[50,54],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idlecars","tag-audi","tag-idlecars"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20170320_190845-Copy-e1490329090644-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}