{"id":702,"date":"2018-04-18T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/?p=702"},"modified":"2024-08-05T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T14:51:11","slug":"transmission-service-bw65-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/transmission-service-bw65-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission Service, BW65\/66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Borg-Warner model 65\/66 transmission was fitted to the 1980-1987 XJ6. In the U.S, this transmission has developed a reputation for unreliability and short life. Interestingly, in the U.K. this transmission has developed a reputation for dependability and long life.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.K., car owners are trained (practically from birth) to regularly service their cars, including transmission fluid &#038; filter changes. In the U.S., with 100,000 mile service intervals on the new cars, regular maintenance has received less emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmmmmm&#8230;&#8230; There&#8217;s a pattern here. What we can learn from this is that when regularly serviced, including a fluid flush and filter change every 30,000 miles (just like it says in the owner&#8217;s handbook) these transmissions can give a long and dependable service life.<\/p>\n<p>Running the transmission with too much fluid or too little fluid can also cause erratic behavior, so check your transmission fluid level regularly.<\/p>\n<p>These maintenance precautions will extend the service life of every transmission, not just the Model 65\/66.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/\">Jaguar Parts Store Catalog<\/a>\u00a0to order parts.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Borg-Warner model 65\/66 transmission was fitted to the 1980-1987 XJ6. In the U.S, this transmission has developed a reputation for unreliability and short life. Interestingly, in the U.K. this transmission has developed a reputation for dependability and long life. In the U.K., car owners are trained (practically from birth) to regularly service their cars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Transmission Service Borg-Warner model 65\/66 for XJ6 Jaguars","_seopress_titles_desc":"Maintenance for the transmission of BW65\/66 XJ6 Jaguars, technical Information by Jagbits.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jaguar-bits","category-xj6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jagbits.com\/techbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}