{"id":64752,"date":"2014-03-28T20:43:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=64752"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:32","slug":"muffler-mounting-bolt-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20140328\/everyday-events\/muffler-mounting-bolt-removal","title":{"rendered":"Muffler mounting bolt removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_2092.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64751\" alt=\"DSC_2092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_2092.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/DSC_2092.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/DSC_2092-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/DSC_2092-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>The other day we had the motorcycle inspection and oil-cooled maintenance, and the exhaust pipes at two spots wouldn&#8217;t loosen, so we&#8217;re removing them. The sharp stainless steel drill bit arrived, so we&#8217;re making quick progress.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI really don&#8217;t like SUS 304 stainless steel\u2026<br \/>\nIf we drill center-punch holes in the two bolts beforehand, even if they break it feels easier mentally, and maybe we can get a little oil in from the back side?<br \/>\nOf course I made a chuck for center-punching. Eyeballing it and going for it doesn&#8217;t cut it\u2014reliability drops. What matters is being able to do the same thing a hundred times and succeed all hundred times.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s hollow now, it&#8217;s definitely weaker. As expected it broke, so there are still three nuts on it. When I have time I&#8217;ll weld it, and if that doesn&#8217;t work I&#8217;ll try to dig it out.<br \/>\nEvery day I wonder if it would be faster to just pull the head off.<\/p>\n<p>Well then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we had the motorcycle inspection and oil-cooled maintenance, and the exhaust pipes at two spots wouldn&#8217;t loosen, so we&#8217;re removing them. The sharp stainless steel drill bit arrived, so we&#8217;re making quick progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}