{"id":2395,"date":"2017-02-16T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2017-02-16T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:00:22","slug":"be-careful-with-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/be-careful-with-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful With Curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty new Accord came into the shop, owner said they hit a curb.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2399\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_02_16_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_02_16_01\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The right rear wheel was pointing obviously in not quite the right direction. It shouldn&#8217;t be quite at the angles you can see here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2400\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_02_16_02.jpg\" alt=\"2017_02_16_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a view of the left rear suspension, which was fine. You can see that all the arms are straight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2401\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2017_02_16_03.jpg\" alt=\"2017_02_16_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is how the right rear looked. One arm got bent pretty badly. The wheel was also bend a bit, and chances are the bearing and knuckle are messed up as well. It must&#8217;ve been a pretty hard hit.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty new Accord came into the shop, owner said they hit a curb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,58,70],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-suspension","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}