{"id":2652,"date":"2013-08-17T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T08:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2013-08-17T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T08:04:38","slug":"the-end-of-a-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=2652","title":{"rendered":"The End of a Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2651\" alt=\"IMG_0536\" src=\"https:\/\/lovine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0536-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lovine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0536-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lovine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0536-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lovine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0536.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bit the bullet and paid a pricey sum for a new GoWesty gear reduction high-torque starter.  We are kinda hoping that the days of having to crawl under the passenger rear wheel to whack the solenoid with a mallet to turn the bus would be behind us.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, we've been (temporarily) stranded in many interesting places because of this no-start issue.  At freezing campgrounds beside foul amounts of horse shit.  In the cold mornings of Utah, Quebec,  Montreal.  Perhaps the most iconic was when <a href=\" https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=2283 \" target=\"_blank\">the border agent had to help us push Vanessa back into the USA from Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did the swap earlier today, and everything came together nicely, which is always a definite cause of worry as Murphy tends to remind us.  Upon test fire, Kat and I looked at each other as it buzzed into life in a much higher tone than what we are used to.  It kinda sounds like a spaceship taking off, and will take some getting used to.  In the meantime, I will go write a song about The End of a Starter is the Start of Another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit the bullet and paid a pricey sum for a new GoWesty gear reduction high-torque starter. We are kinda hoping that the days of having to crawl under the passenger rear wheel to whack the solenoid with a mallet to turn the bus would be behind us. Looking back, we've been (temporarily) stranded in many [&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-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volkswagen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","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=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}