{"id":835,"date":"2022-04-03T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=835"},"modified":"2022-04-03T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T00:11:15","slug":"made-me-a-fuel-sump-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/made-me-a-fuel-sump-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"Made me a Fuel Sump Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just built a bracket to mount the Edelbrock EFI fuel sump to the firewall. There&#8217;s a pinch-weld seam right where I wanted to mount it under the battery tray, so rather than destroy that, I made a &#8216;spacer&#8217; mount for the sump unit. Turned out OK, it&#8217;ll look better once I paint it and mount it all up, and I can&#8217;t help thinking about how much nicer it might&#8217;ve turned out if I only had a real shop with some actual metal working tools to use (like a brake, big bench vise, etc.). Oh well &#8211; it&#8217;ll work. Also got the new hatch struts installed. No pics, but if you&#8217;ve ever seen a Jeep hatchback open and not falling down, you&#8217;ve seen &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183129310.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183129310.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183129310.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183129310.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><figcaption>Here&#8217;s another piece of the same sheet of perforated sheet metal I used on my rack-mount server fan bulkhead last year. Just 3.75 sheets of the stuff left. LOL!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_182952121.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_182952121.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_182952121.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_182952121.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><figcaption>Fits like a glove. Works like a champ. (Insert victorious old adage here).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183018935_HDR.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183018935_HDR.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183018935_HDR.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220403_183018935_HDR.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><figcaption>It&#8217;s not really bent that badly &#8211; cell phone camera pic. It&#8217;ll look better when it&#8217;s painted and mounted up for real.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just built a bracket to mount the Edelbrock EFI fuel sump to the firewall. There&#8217;s a pinch-weld seam right where I wanted to mount it under the battery tray, so rather than destroy that, I made a &#8216;spacer&#8217; mount for the sump unit. Turned out OK, it&#8217;ll look better once I paint it and mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-jeep"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}