{"id":6762,"date":"2018-07-07T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2018-07-07T17:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T15:31:39","slug":"ashtray-refurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2018\/07\/ashtray-refurb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashtray Refurb"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to keep my CJ as authentic as possible and part of that was cleaning up the ashtray and trying to get it to stop squealing every time I open it.\u00a0 Mine was pretty rusty and the paint was scratched so I took it off and treated the mounting bracket with some rust removal stuff, lubed up the bearings, and repainted the front of the ashtray with some flat black spray paint. I used white lithium grease on the bearings because white lithium is my go to grease since the can of moly grease I “acquired” in the army was finally emptied last year.<\/p>\n

The rust remover stuff I got from my local hardware store and it works much better than I thought it would although I did have to treat it twice. The rat’s nest of wires behind the ashtray is leftover from something the PO did and that will get fixed next spring when I plan on rewiring the entire jeep with a new wiring harness.<\/p>\n

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Before<\/p><\/div>\n

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With the rust removal stuff on it<\/p><\/div>\n

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After<\/p><\/div>\n

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After again<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to keep my CJ as authentic as possible and part of that was cleaning up the ashtray and trying to get it to stop squealing every time I open it.\u00a0 Mine was pretty rusty and the paint was… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226],"tags":[1185],"class_list":["post-6762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-historical-asides","tag-81-cj7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6765,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}