{"id":3850,"date":"2018-10-02T22:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T18:05:54","slug":"first-run-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/2018\/10\/02\/first-run-in-20-years","title":{"rendered":"First run in 20 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bought a used battery and decided to crank <a href=\"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/2018\/08\/22\/bicycle-pulling-a-car\">this old Peugeot 504<\/a> to see if the engine was seized or other problems lurked.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been sitting there since 1998 but the diesel in the tank did not smell funny so I used the little pump on the filter until it became hard. On the last strokes I heard a subtle noise and there was a tiny leak on the line.<\/p>\n<p>When connecting the battery there was a small spark and the position lights turned on. I let the glow plugs do their job and tried to crank.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing, just a small click of a relay inside the dash. After a couple of times it turned with some effort but refused to start.<\/p>\n<p>I let the battery rest for a moment and tried again. This time it roared as I pressed the accelerator, puffed some smoke and then idled calmly. I can hardly believe it awoke from a two decade slumber just like that.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to fix the water circuit (the hoses are dry and crumbling) and the clutch so I can move it around with a bit of ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I bought a used battery and decided to crank this old Peugeot 504 to see if the engine was seized or other problems lurked. It&#8217;s been sitting there since 1998 but the diesel in the tank did not smell funny so I used the little pump on the filter until it became hard. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,24,90],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiguedades","category-hacks","category-la-plata","tag-grandpas-504"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmnbC-106","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}