{"id":1130,"date":"2010-02-22T22:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:07:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T06:07:58","slug":"up-in-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Up in Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to disassembling the exhaust system of the bus, with the intention of boiling out and refurbishing the heat exchangers.  It took me two beers and a few hours of squirming underneath the bus to get the (really) tight bolts out of the way and I got the muffler and exhaust system out eventually, sans three bolts.  I dropped off the pipes at this place called L&M Stripping, which will strip out the rust, gunk, and the burnt oil residue that coats the inner walls of the heater boxes that my lucky passengers are inhaling if I choose to operate the heater.  Hopefully it goes well.  The next stop is getting them hi-temp ceramic coated.  I'm scurred of putting everything back together, especially from what I read about exhaust leaks.  I don't really know my way around cars - with the Bentley guide as my bible, I just hacked at it with my socket wrench and put my faith in <em>bahala na si<\/em> Batman.  Hopefully it goes well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to disassembling the exhaust system of the bus, with the intention of boiling out and refurbishing the heat exchangers. It took me two beers and a few hours of squirming underneath the bus to get the (really) tight bolts out of the way and I got the muffler and exhaust system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}