{"id":2997,"date":"2012-11-05T22:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T06:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/more-old-car-work\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:27","slug":"more-old-car-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/more-old-car-work\/","title":{"rendered":"More old car work!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>I had to do some work on the Electric Bug lately.<\/p>\n<p>I replaced the right rear wheel bearing (I did the left a while ago). It was starting to get sloppy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8805-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_8805.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My steering box was leaking oil, and it had vertical slop where the arm attached to the box. I think this can somewhat be adjusted out\u2026but the leaking would have been hard to fix. Turning in corners was starting to shake quite a bit, so I needed to do something. So, I bought a new EMPI one (unfortunately, the quality is kind of crap, it seems to have more play than the old one). Replacing it was a pain\u2026it took me a while to get it all adjusted right, and figure out some other things that were causing the front end to shake. It turned out to be all of the following: the old steering box, the steering arm adjustment being loose, the attachment of the arm to the steering being loose (despite using the required torque spec). The car now has a lot less shake at high speeds and when cornering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8884-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_8884.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;ve got over 19k electric miles now! (this picture is a few weeks old):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8877.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8877-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_8877.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I need to replace the rear tires soon; after only 19k miles, they are pretty darn worn out. I should have rotated them a while ago! I tried rotating them recently, but it made the front end shake even worse due to them probably being unbalanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to do some work on the Electric Bug lately. I replaced the right rear wheel bearing (I did the left a while ago). It was starting to get sloppy. My steering box was&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/more-old-car-work\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-bug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_8805.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}