{"id":1545,"date":"2024-02-04T18:49:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2024-02-04T18:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T18:49:45","slug":"less-grimey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"Less Grimey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On to the gearbox, less grime, but other foibles.<\/p>\n<p>Think I&#8217;ve mentioned it previously, but it&#8217;s not a &#8220;normal&#8221; Elan gearbox, instead the car is running a ZF 5sp unit.<\/p>\n<p>The S5-18\/3 to give it its geek name, is from a family of ZF boxes that found their way in to everything from Bedford vans to droopsnoot Firenzas. Thankfully, our version being the latter, it was also a popular upgrade found in race and rally Escorts in period as it was a strong 5sp box with relatively close ratios.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8844.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1538\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8844.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8844-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8844-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8846.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1539\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8846.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8846-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_8846-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having separated the bell housing, I had the remaining gearbox to remove the grime from and the peeling paint work.<\/p>\n<p>Careful &amp; gentle use of some degreaser, I&#8217;m not convinced she&#8217;s water &amp; solvent tight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9174.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1542\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9174.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9174-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9174-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9186.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9186.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9186-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9186-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9204.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1540\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9204.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9204-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9204-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9203.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1544\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9203.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9203-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_9203-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve found some issues along the way so, just ordered a workshop manual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On to the gearbox, less grime, but other foibles. Think I&#8217;ve mentioned it previously, but it&#8217;s not a &#8220;normal&#8221; Elan gearbox, instead the car is running a ZF 5sp unit. The S5-18\/3 to give it its geek name, is from a family of ZF boxes that found their way in to everything from Bedford vans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[26,25,27,44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}