{"id":45,"date":"2010-03-27T20:08:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T04:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-06-02T06:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:52:15","slug":"its-so-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s SO UNFAIR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 1986 Jaguar XJ-S. I dragged it out of a hedge in Seattle in late 2008, where it had sat for a good few years. Someone had attempted to &#8220;upgrade&#8221; the headlights (to modern H4 lights) and had burnt out most of the front electrics&#8230; and inevitably lost interest in the poor car.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"XJS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bayleytweed.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=5769&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only got 65k miles on it.. and drivetrain-wise, it&#8217;s all original.. which means a 5.3 v12 mated to a GM TH400 transmission.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take too much to get it running &#8211; a new ignition amplifier, new rotor arm, and a good fuel system flush. It did, however, take *months* to track down a persistent misfire (note: a v11 doesn&#8217;t sound anywhere near as good as a v12), and a good bit longer to get the electrics working well enough that the headlamps work.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, after all this work, it turns out that the transmission&#8217;s toast &#8211; it reverses just fine, but slips horribly in any forward gear now. I managed to put about 500 miles on it before this manifested itself, so I&#8217;m guessing one of the clutch packs has just had enough. This is a colossal shame, and is hugely unfair.. but I guess I can&#8217;t really complain&#8230; or can I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a 1986 Jaguar XJ-S. I dragged it out of a hedge in Seattle in late 2008, where it had sat for a good few years. Someone had attempted to &#8220;upgrade&#8221; the headlights (to modern H4 lights) and had burnt out most of the front electrics&#8230; and inevitably lost [&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":[44,41,24,63,26,62,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}