{"id":526,"date":"2008-09-03T07:41:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T07:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-09-03T07:41:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T07:41:34","slug":"the-radiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/09\/03\/the-radiator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jeep is still not fixed.&nbsp; The garage is still a mess.&nbsp; Eric has my car again today.&nbsp; The radiator seemed like such a simple fix&#8230;but apparently not!<\/p>\n<p>Last night after work, Eric took the hose\/connection he needed to match to a Napa Auto Parts store (recommended by another Napa from Monday).&nbsp; He got back about 5:00 pm&#8230;no luck.&nbsp; They took one look at it and said they couldn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>So about 5:30, we drove down to Jeg&#8217;s Performance on Broad Street&#8230;he sympathized, even brainstormed possible places we could go (up on Sawmill or Home Depot), but no luck.&nbsp; The connection was non-standard, and therefore, hard to match. <\/p>\n<p>Next, we tried Home Depot (it was right down the road). We looked in their fittings section.&nbsp; A sales guy tried very graciously to help.&nbsp; No luck.&nbsp; Turns out the Chinese-made radiator came with metric fittings.&nbsp; No one carries those.&nbsp; His suggestion: go to a plumbing supply place out by the airport.&nbsp; His question: What kind of car <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> this?!?&nbsp; (um&#8230;a Jeep).&nbsp; He was expecting some old foreign thing, I guess. <\/p>\n<p>Before we left last night, Eric had boxed up the radiator and brought it along.&nbsp; We stopped at Advance Auto Parts.&nbsp; Eric explained what he needed.&nbsp; They had one radiator in stock.&nbsp; They guy let him look at it before purchase.&nbsp; It had lots of fittings for a variety of needs.&nbsp; Perfect.&nbsp; We bought it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Then we drove across the street to AutoZone and returned the other one.&nbsp; The guy seemed confused that it wouldn&#8217;t work (so were we!), but he did take it back.&nbsp; We drove home.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Where we stand now:&nbsp; The new radiator will work.&nbsp; The new fittings will work.&nbsp; But Eric needs more hose before he can finish the project.&nbsp; He will be stopping on his way home today to pick some up.&nbsp; The Jeep should be fixed by tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>Sheesh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jeep is still not fixed.&nbsp; The garage is still a mess.&nbsp; Eric has my car again today.&nbsp; The radiator seemed like such a simple fix&#8230;but apparently not! Last night after work, Eric took the hose\/connection he needed to match &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2008\/09\/03\/the-radiator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}