{"id":209,"date":"2013-05-21T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=209"},"modified":"2013-05-21T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:54:10","slug":"just-a-big-blog-of-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Just a big blob of rust&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The P6 has always sounded a bit exhaust-y. I initially put that down to a small hole in the ancient rear silencer, but further complaining and investigation led to the conclusion that there was also a leak near the manifold. Normally, this means a holed gasket.. or a broken stud in some join somewhere.. either way, not the worst job in the world but certainly one of the more annoying.<\/p>\n<p>However, after an afternoon of removing 16 of the finest rusted-up 1\/2&#8243; British bolts, I found this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7779.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7779.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_7779\" width=\"439\" height=\"659\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7779.jpg 439w, https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_7779-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s supposed to be an exhaust manifold. It has the consistency of Swiss cheese, and there are four or five good bulges in it. I didn&#8217;t realise cast iron could do that, but apparently &#8211; if made in Birmingham &#8211; it can. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The P6 has always sounded a bit exhaust-y. I initially put that down to a small hole in the ancient rear silencer, but further complaining and investigation led to the conclusion that there was also a leak near the manifold. Normally, this means a holed gasket.. or a broken stud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,6,97,98,80,3,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}