Mk2 3.4 MOD Jaguar restoration

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After spending a day getting the alternator off, it is trapped under the PAS pump, removed the engine mount bracket from the engine, and from the chassis, then got it tested, all OK, then spent a day refitting it, and then 10 mins sorting out the wiring muck up from when I converted it from positive earth dynamo to negative earth alternator we have charging...... and now a fresh MOT, lots of jobs still to do, and still waiting for a screen but I have been driving it around! with a full tank of petrol and two people inside it sits a little too low so I will be adding some spacers to the front springs and removing some spacers from the front of the rear springs.

 

[harveyp6]

Mmmmmmm........Coombs arches...

 

[Matchless]

Mmmmmmm........Coombs arches...

And series one E type steering wheel.... powerlock diff, PAS rack (BMW E30), vented front discs (Mitsubishi GTO rear discs, four piston front calipers (NOS Zeus intended for disc brake conversion to drum brake London taxis) Rear anti roll bar (Opel Manta B front roll bar) E type wheels (wider than std. Mk2) 2" su carbs

 

[harveyp6]

And series one E type steering wheel.... powerlock diff, PAS rack (BMW E30), vented front discs (Mitsubishi GTO rear discs, four piston front calipers (NOS Zeus intended for disc brake conversion to drum brake London taxis) Rear anti roll bar (Opel Manta B front roll bar) E type wheels (wider than std. Mk2) 2" su carbs

Nicely warmed over!

It just had to be a BMW rack.

When I get time I'm going to go through this thread right from the start.

 

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Nicely warmed over!

It just had to be a BMW rack.

When I get time I'm going to go through this thread right from the start.

It does when you have a shed full of BMW parts!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think I have restored a vehicle without at least one BMW part installed!

 

[harveyp6]

It does when you have a shed full of BMW parts!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think I have restored a vehicle without at least one BMW part installed!

Knowing your history I wouldn't expect anything else. That would be just wrong.

 

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What a fun week, clutch master, a NoS item I bought failed last Tuesday, got home OK but scratched the left side getting it through my alley and into my workshop without a working clutch decided to just buy a new (repro) master, looked at the price, £260.00, decided to replace the rubbers with a new kit I already had, hard to get to but did it this Monday, found a quite bad oil leak from the rear o/s of the head, turned out to be from the rev counter generator, what a bugger to get to, especially with two artificial shoulders and a left thumb with little feeling in it!!!!!!!! refitted it with spacer tubes and longer cap heads! took me 2 days............ also found out why it was dropping coolant when I parked it, the radiator cap was too deep, felt good but it was opening the return valve, shorter cap installed and all good, also spent a day or two attempting to sort the overdrive issue, but still no good.................................

 

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My Jaguar should be "on display" in the classic car show at the spring Beaulieu autojumble next Sunday, they put on a car show where mugs like me pay £20.00 per person to park inside the grounds! but if I happen to buy a load of junk it is not far to drag it to the car, my new green tint windscreen is being fitted on Friday after a saga! my personal number should finally be allocated to it this week after first needing an MOT and then needing to do a postal application, then the DVLA lost my V5c, retention certificate, MOT, covering letter and supporting papers........... until they found them after I told them I had proof of delivery with a date, time and signature! As for the windscreen, Autoglass could not find a screen so they kept re-booking me every two weeks and then cancelling the day before, after a month or two I asked for written proof that they had a screen waiting and ready for the next appointment, that is when they refused to fit a screen in a car of that age as they had no trained fitters to do it! I then went to National Windscreens and told them where I had located several new Triplex screens in the UK, they ordered one but forgot to pay for it so that was cancelled and then they picked one up and lost it, then they ordered another and had it delivered straight to their Chelmsford depot.............

 

[jsf55]

i priced one for the pop from pilkingtons, flat glass simple curves, £500 and £100 to deliver, i think the £80 unmarked one will do for now !

 

[Morris]

i priced one for the pop from pilkingtons, flat glass simple curves, £500 and £100 to deliver, i think the £80 unmarked one will do for now !

Defender screen £60 then cut down by a local glass company for £50, ec marks left nicely in the lower NS corner.

 

[minimutly]

My Jaguar should be "on display" in the classic car show at the spring Beaulieu autojumble next Sunday, they put on a car show where mugs like me pay £20.00 per person to park inside the grounds! but if I happen to buy a load of junk it is not far to drag it to the car, my new green tint windscreen is being fitted on Friday after a saga! my personal number should finally be allocated to it this week after first needing an MOT and then needing to do a postal application, then the DVLA lost my V5c, retention certificate, MOT, covering letter and supporting papers........... until they found them after I told them I had proof of delivery with a date, time and signature! As for the windscreen, Autoglass could not find a screen so they kept re-booking me every two weeks and then cancelling the day before, after a month or two I asked for written proof that they had a screen waiting and ready for the next appointment, that is when they refused to fit a screen in a car of that age as they had no trained fitters to do it! I then went to National Windscreens and told them where I had located several new Triplex screens in the UK, they ordered one but forgot to pay for it so that was cancelled and then they picked one up and lost it, then they ordered another and had it delivered straight to their Chelmsford depot.............

A litany of poor management and operations, this country is truly boogard, why can't people just do their jobs instead of working behind screens? I guess I know the answer - call centres...

 

[jsf55]

Defender screen £60 then cut down by a local glass company for £50, ec marks left nicely in the lower NS corner.

It's on the cards over the winter, in too deep with other stuff at mo !

 

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Made it to Beaulieu, 240 miles, 70mph, no issues except the gear lever went all sloppy 2 miles from home, I suspect a nut has come very loose at the base of the lever, ho hum,