{"id":766,"date":"2011-07-06T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T04:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/?p=766"},"modified":"2011-07-06T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T04:37:57","slug":"hinged-t-skirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2011\/07\/06\/hinged-t-skirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinged T-skirts"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I was done installing the quad-bag rear suspension it was time to reinstall the T-skirts – always a real pain in the ‘neck’. I had read about someone else who had the idea to hinge the T-skirts at the top and make some kind of an easy-to-release connection at the bottom. I bought a length of stainless steel piano hinge and used some 1\/8″ aluminum bar as backing for the fiberglass. I didn’t use every hole in the hinge – not necessary – and I threaded the aluminum bar to accept the screws. It was a little tough to get installed but it always was hard to install the T-skirts anyway. The original steel\/rubber straps at the bottom had to be modified to fit through the quad-bag bracket and it wasn’t quite long enough so I just attached some large washers to the end with tie-wraps and used the original bolts. Now I can just remove the bolts and the skirt hinges up out of the way and can be held in place with a bungee cord attached to the rain gutter.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \t\n \"T-skirt\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n \u00a0 The photo on the left shows the finished product.\u00a0 The hinge does show but is hardly noticeable.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \t\n \"view\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n \u00a0 On the right is the hinge with the T-skirt in the open or up position.\u00a0 You can see that not every hole was used – very few actually.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \t\n \"aluminum\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n \u00a0 Back on the left you can see the inside of the T-skirt with the aluminum backing plate and threaded holes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \t\n \"easy\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n \u00a0 Using a bungee cord connected to the rain gutter is a handy way to keep the T-skirt out of the way while you work.\u00a0 This will be handy for the disc brake and reaction arm upgrade which I will be doing soon (July 2011).<\/p>\n

\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \t\n \"attachment\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n \u00a0 The last photo shows how I modified the original steel and rubber strap at the bottom of the skirt so that it would fit inside the quad-bag frame.\u00a0 It almost reaches the original bolt but the addition of a large washer and a tie-wrap make it just right.<\/p>\n

\"Share<\/a>Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I was done installing the quad-bag rear suspension it was time to reinstall the T-skirts – always a real pain in the ‘neck’. I had read about someone else who had the idea to hinge the T-skirts at the top and make some kind of an easy-to-release connection at the bottom. I bought a […]<\/p>\n

\"Share<\/a>Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"armand","author_link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/author\/armand\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}