{"id":5739,"date":"2022-06-07T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T08:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:43:56","slug":"mx5-cam-belt-gasket-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5739","title":{"rendered":"CARS: MX5 Cam-belt &amp; Gasket, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7316-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5737\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7316-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7316-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7316-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7316-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7316-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How I looked\/felt at day\u2019s end, last night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night, after emailing Greg Peters at \u2018carpassionchannel\u2019 (thanks, bro\u2019!), and much &#8211; mostly fruitless &#8211; googling and watching of YouTube, I finally found out what the thing circled in the image below is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7314.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7314.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/img_7314-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Turns out this is a power steering pressure sensor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having established what it is, I was able to find a YouTuber removing it, and thereby learn how to do so myself. I did that late last night, sporting a head-band style torch, as it turned dark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the YouTuber\u2019s video, as so often, it looked super easy. In real life, for me, it was very, very, <em>very<\/em> tricky. I used needle-nosed pliers to simultaneously grab the whole thing whilst depressing a tiny little lever, all the while also pulling upwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After lots of worrying (about breaking it whilst manhandling it so roughly!) and a fair bit of swearing, the ficker funally came orff\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pic at the top of this post is how I looked and felt at day\u2019s end. Note the new mechanic\u2019s style overalls! \u00a320 from the local Boyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday it was raining in the morning. And it remained damp, drizzly, and cloudy all day. But the afternoon was workable. Today the sun is out, the sky is blue. It\u2019s beautiful, and so \u2026 wahoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, after emailing Greg Peters at \u2018carpassionchannel\u2019 (thanks, bro\u2019!), and much &#8211; mostly fruitless &#8211; googling and watching of YouTube, I finally found out what the thing circled in the image below is. Having established what it is, I was able to find a YouTuber removing it, and thereby learn how to do so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=5739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CARS: MX5 Cam-belt &amp; Gasket, Day 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[87,85,89,16,67,22,88,86,69],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1uz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11535,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}