{"id":2259,"date":"2009-04-14T00:12:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T10:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2009-04-14T00:12:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T10:12:35","slug":"midnight-leak-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/14\/midnight-leak-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Leak Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished taking a second shower and popping open a St. Pauli Girl.\u00c2\u00a0 After finishing my form 1040, it was around 22:30 and I wasn&#8217;t feeling sleepy, so\u00c2\u00a0I went outside and fixed the leaky heater hoses on the FJ80.\u00c2\u00a0 Essentially, the ends of hte hoses that go to the thermostat neck and water pump were deformed from age and reaction to various fluids and had started to leak.\u00c2\u00a0 The OEM Toyota wire-style hose clamps were\u00c2\u00a0deeply\u00c2\u00a0cut into the rubber and not providing\u00c2\u00a0enough squeeze.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0undid the clamps, pried the ends of the hoses off\u00c2\u00a0the barb fittings with a flat screwdriver, cut a couple of centimeters off the ends with EMT shears, cleaned the fittings with a kitchen scouring pad, and reassembled the hose ends.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully, there was enough excess play in the hoses to allow for this.\u00c2\u00a0 After tightening everything up and refilling the radiator and reservoir,\u00c2\u00a0I ran it up to operating temperature\u00c2\u00a0and everything seemed to be holding.\u00c2\u00a0 Damn, I&#8217;m tired now&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Difficulty: easy\/moderate<\/p>\n<p>Tools needed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10mm 1\/4&#8243; drive socket wrench or ratcheting box wrench<\/li>\n<li>flat screwdriver<\/li>\n<li>EMT shears<\/li>\n<li>scouring pad<\/li>\n<li>LED head lamp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supplies needed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coolant<\/li>\n<li>distilled water<\/li>\n<li>waterless hand cleaner<\/li>\n<li>paper towels or rags<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Time: about 45-minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished taking a second shower and popping open a St. Pauli Girl.\u00c2\u00a0 After finishing my form 1040, it was around 22:30 and I wasn&#8217;t feeling sleepy, so\u00c2\u00a0I went outside and fixed the leaky heater hoses on the FJ80.\u00c2\u00a0 Essentially, the ends of hte hoses that go to the thermostat neck and water pump were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-Ar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}