{"id":8306,"date":"2024-10-19T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2024-10-19T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T13:43:54","slug":"we-broke-a-leaf-spring-on-the-cougar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=8306","title":{"rendered":"We broke a leaf spring on the Cougar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we left Cascade ID heading towards Yellowstone, we stopped at a rest area for lunch.  Jeff noticed that a leaf spring on the Cougar had broken!  Oh NO!!  That&#8217;s definitely not good, and it&#8217;s a good thing that every time we stop Jeff walks around the whole rig checking that everything is good.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we made a few calls into Boise, which was the nearest city to the rest area, and found a place that specialized in alignment repairs on big rigs etc.  They agreed to work on it that same afternoon so we headed to them, slowly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They had it repaired in just a couple of hours and we were back on the road.  Here&#8217;s a pic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Leaf-Spring-broke-on-the-road-we-noticed-it-when-we-stopped-at-a-rest-area.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Leaf-Spring-broke-on-the-road-we-noticed-it-when-we-stopped-at-a-rest-area.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Leaf-Spring-broke-on-the-road-we-noticed-it-when-we-stopped-at-a-rest-area.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Leaf-Spring-broke-on-the-road-we-noticed-it-when-we-stopped-at-a-rest-area-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we left Cascade ID heading towards Yellowstone, we stopped at a rest area for lunch. Jeff noticed that a leaf spring on the Cougar had broken! Oh NO!! That&#8217;s definitely not good, and it&#8217;s a good thing that every time we stop Jeff walks around the whole rig checking that everything is good. So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=8306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We broke a leaf spring on the Cougar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}