{"id":35018,"date":"2026-08-31T08:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35018"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:54:33","slug":"the-car-is-done-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35018","title":{"rendered":"The car is done&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;it worked out well when the rain started just as I was pulling up to the garage after the first ride today&#8230;so I jumped right into changing the gear oil in the transmission and it took about an hour with my transfer pump falling apart and spilling a bunch of oil on the floor&#8230;but I still had plenty and now it&#8217;s done&#8230;the oil that came out was regular dino oil and not synthetic since it smelled like every gear lube I&#8217;ve every used&#8230;the fill plug came out easily but I needed my impact wrench to get the drain plug loose&#8230;one little zap by the wrench and it was out so that was cool&#8230;and I checked the magnet on the drain plug and there were no metal shavings on it so that means no wear for me to worry about&#8230;if I do this again, I think I&#8217;m going to buy a little electric transfer pump since I can get one for about 20 bucks and that would be a lot easier&#8230;but I&#8217;ll never need it on this car so maybe not&#8230;damn, it feels good to have this done&#8230;and now I can sit here and have more coffee and read some news&#8230;I think it took more time to clean up my tools than to actually change the oil&#8230;but they are clean now and drying downstairs&#8230;yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;it worked out well when the rain started just as I was pulling up to the garage after the first ride today&#8230;so I jumped right into changing the gear oil in the transmission and it took about an hour with my transfer pump falling apart and spilling a bunch of oil on the floor&#8230;but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=35018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The car is done&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-35018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35019,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35018\/revisions\/35019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}