{"id":565,"date":"2007-03-25T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=565"},"modified":"2013-03-31T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T20:35:14","slug":"cleanup-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Cleanup items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the end ribs in place, I worked on some of the cleanup items that needed doing before the tanks are sealed. One of those items is a Van&#8217;s service bulletin that calls for safety-wiring fuel pickup attachments. Fortunately, the pre-made flop tube I bought from Van&#8217;s already had a safety wire hole drilled in the flare nut, so all I had to do was attach the flop tube to the bulkhead fitting &#8211; using the proper torque, of course &#8211; then safety-wire the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_flop_safetied.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-566 aligncenter\" title=\"tank_flop_safetied\" alt=\"Flop tube pickup with safety wire\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_flop_safetied.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_flop_safetied.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tank_flop_safetied-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was definitely out of practice with the safety wire pilers &#8211; took me a couple of tries to get a nice, tight twist on the wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the end ribs in place, I worked on some of the cleanup items that needed doing before the tanks are sealed. One of those items is a Van&#8217;s service bulletin that calls for safety-wiring fuel pickup attachments. Fortunately, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=565\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}