{"id":573,"date":"2011-01-07T17:57:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2011-01-07T17:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T00:57:16","slug":"some-early-weekend-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/some-early-weekend-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Some early weekend progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, I had some time this Friday to get a little work on the Jeep in. After removing the hood, I got to work on the items attached to the fenders. I was very surprised at how clean and nice the inside of the voltage regulator was. The outside was certainly deceiving. The horn was also removed and the bubba bracket I made for holding the glass fuel filter.<\/p>\n<p>The driver side fender came off fairly easily. However, when I went to work on removing the passenger side fender, I realized I was parked far too close to the other stuff in the garage to get to the required bolts. Rather than call it a day, I decided that was a great time to put Ike up on his vehicle dollies. I got them so I can move Ike around the garage without having to back it down the garage and push it back up the driveway, a task that I can&#8217;t do myself. However, on the vehicle dollies, I can move it around the garage without needing someone to help me push it back up the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Once it was up on the dollies and I could get it moved over, I got to work trying to remove the passenger fender. Unfortunately, the bolts are fairly rusted on that side. After shearing off one bolt, and probably cross-threading another, I decided to call it a day and let it sit for a while. I would imagine that giving it some sitting time and coming back in a day or so would be a good idea at that point.<\/p>\n<p>After deciding to stop work on the fender, I took off a few small bits. The VIN plate and the shift data plate came off, as well as my recently restored side view mirror. Before too long I&#8217;ll have to get what&#8217;s left of the gas removed from the tank so I can finish emptying the body in preparation for it&#8217;s removal. Before I get to that point, I need to figure out how to remove the windshield glass from the frame to make it a little lighter and more portable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_05511.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[573]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-574\" title=\"IMG_0551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_05511-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_05511-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_05511-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, I had some time this Friday to get a little work on the Jeep in. After removing the hood, I got to work on the items attached to the fenders. I was very surprised at how clean and nice the inside of the voltage regulator was. The outside was certainly deceiving. The horn was also removed and the bubba bracket I made for holding the glass fuel filter. The driver side fender came off fairly easily. However, when I went to work on removing the passenger side fender, I realized I was parked far too close to the other&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/some-early-weekend-progress\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some early weekend progress<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[3,5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cj-3a","category-jeep","category-restoration","category-willys","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pE9Qq-9f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtisfranklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}