{"id":37349,"date":"2019-08-09T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/?p=37349"},"modified":"2019-08-09T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:46:03","slug":"avoid-this-mistake-weak-clutch-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/avoid-this-mistake-weak-clutch-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid This Mistake: Weak Clutch Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"subtitle\">Clutch Need A Crutch?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"main-content\" data-omnituremodule=\"{&quot;name&quot;: &quot;Mod: Article&quot;, &quot;id&quot;: &quot;Mod062&quot;}\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"authors grid\">\n<div><span class=\"editor-name\">Jim Smart<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"more-info\">\n<div>January 19, 2016<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been driving a classic Mustang with a manual transmission for a while you probably understand this one. The original factory clutch Z-bar systems were terrible at best because they were never strong enough nor were they properly engineered for the task. We\u2019ve often made the mistake of dialing in too much clutch for the task, or needing a stiff clutch to handle the power we built into the engine, which has only added insult to injury.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mustangandfords.com\/how-to\/drivetrain\/1601-avoid-this-mistake-weak-clutch-linkage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More Here&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clutch Need A Crutch? Jim Smart January 19, 2016 If you\u2019ve been driving a classic Mustang with a manual transmission for a while you probably understand this one. The original factory clutch Z-bar systems were terrible at best because they were never strong enough nor were they properly engineered for the task. We\u2019ve often made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":37350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-articles","category-tech-info"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}