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1. Contact Name Here: (Contacts / Sample Data-Contact); Contact Name Here, Position, Information about or by the contact. ...; Created on
2. Another tardy update: (Updates); ... Suspension: The IRS is just about finished and the front suspension is rebuilt and ready to be installed. I have rebuilt the steering rack. Brakes: Everything is rebuilt and awaiting reinstallation ...; Created on 30 August 2017
3. Goodbye 1E34749!: (Updates); ... 1 coupe and my MGA. I have about 700 miles on the engine in the silver car and it is fantastic. It has taken a lot of fiddling to get this car mechanically good but it's there now. Plant your right foot ...; Created on 09 October 2016
4. An update on various projects: (Updates); ... after a hard night out. The crank about to be installed. The bores were taken out to 30 thou oversize, and done properly this time. Here's the completed short motor awaiting the ...; Created on 26 June 2016
5. Shipwright's disease again: (Updates); ... rebuild the box and replace the clutch. Rob, who I bought the car from had had it fully restored about 10 years ago, and since then it has covered about 12000miles. The other thing that had annoyed ...; Created on 07 May 2016
6. MGA??!!: (Updates); Before his death in 2014 Marty Hawes decided his MGA needed pepping up. So in true style he decided to transplant a 1600 twin cam MX5 engine and gearbox into it. He got about 75% of the way through but ...; Created on 05 July 2015
7. Why having a car professionally restored costs so much.: (Updates); ... hour. The battery hold down kit came from another supplier. The top frame measures 260mm; about 15mm too long to fit. So I had to cut the frame, remove 15mm per side, MIG it back together, grind and ...; Created on 25 May 2015
8. Buy cheap parts and save!: (Updates); Bought some cheap points from SimonBBS on Ebay and put them in my car about 500 miles ago. Car dies. In the bus lane on the freeway. In the cold. Towed home. Long and complicated saga getting ...; Created on 23 May 2015
9. Exhaust studs: (Updates); ... about a helicoil repair but this still leaves you with the delicate UNF thread. I obtained some studs that have the standard UNF thread at one end but have a 7/16" UNC thread on the other. These are ...; Created on 24 April 2015
10. Torsion bars: (Updates); One side of the silver 4.2 sits lower than the other so time to reset the torsion bars. As usual about 10 min each side to correctly calibrate the bars. Pity it took about an hour a side to get the bloody ...; Created on 12 April 2015
11. Notes on brake bleeding: (Updates); ... on my S1 4.2 yesterday, and went from scratch to hard pedal in about 10 mins. I used just under 500ml of fluid, 240ml for flushing, the rest for refilling the reservoir bottles, although it would be wise ...; Created on 14 September 2014
12. January's efforts: (Updates); ... downpipes about an inch on this one. Still easy to fit. ...; Created on 02 February 2014
13. Engine and JT5 gearbox installation: (Updates); ... there was not much spare space; with the waterpump pulley a few mm clear of the picture frame the back of the gearbox was only about 10mm clear of the tunnel. Despite this we were able to get the engine ...; Created on 23 November 2013
14. Engine delivery: (Updates); Don't worry about those dirty old cam covers; the newly polished ones are just waiting until the engine is safely installed. ...; Created on 16 November 2013
15. Contact Me: (General); Hi, if you would like to get in touch, provide some feedback and just have a chat about all things Jag, please fill in the form provided and I will try and get back to you as quickly as I can. ...; Created on 30 October 2013
16. Shimming the tappets: (Updates); Setting the valve clearances on the XK head is a time consuming process that requires patience. I have finished mine. It took me about 4 hours, never having done this before. Each side had to be pulled ...; Created on 26 October 2013
17. Motif Bar for the coupe: (Updates); ... By now I'd used up about an hour. I decided to tap the holes for 8x32tpi cheese headed setscrews. Also an excellent idea in theory, but of course in practise it was largely impossible because there was ...; Created on 11 August 2013
18. Roadster body nearly ready: (Updates); Ross reckons I can have it in about 2 weeks. 400 hours have gone into this. ...; Created on 01 August 2013
19. More little bits and pieces.: (Updates); ... the elephant away and restored the plug. Took about an hour and a bit of Araldite. ...; Created on 07 July 2013
20. Sunday run to Goolwa: (Updates); We go for regular E Type runs on a Sunday morning, weather permitting. Today we ended up at Goolwa. On the way back we dropped in to see Ross. Bonnet is reassembled and about to ...; Created on 09 June 2013
21. Coopercraft: (Updates); ... lovely with the new discs, shiny zinc and Greenstuff pads. All I need is a new set of bottom ball joints and I can drop the old ones off and bolt the new ones straight on. That's about an hour's work ...; Created on 18 May 2013
22. Apologies and an update: (Updates); ... I drove out to see Ross two days ago. There are 14 individual panels that make up the bonnet, held together by about 100 1/4" bolts and a lot of setscrews. It's been disassembled, paint stripped and grit ...; Created on 12 May 2013
23. There's always one little tiny problem...: (Updates); ... have cut the air with a knife. But happily all went well. In the end all 3 took about 15 mins including pressing the locking pins in. Flushed with success I moved on to the IRS. ...; Created on 02 February 2013
24. Here we go again...: (Updates); It's fun when finally the time comes to begin turning piles of parts back into a car. Yesterday I put the carbies back together. As it is with these things, the first one took me about an hour, the second ...; Created on 27 January 2013
25. Pinging begone!: (Updates); I never have been one to do things by halves, and after a lot of thought about the timing issue I bought one of Ray Livingstone's EDIS conversions for the E type. I can't help myself really; I just love ...; Created on 12 December 2012
26. and the engine...just starts!: (Updates); ... Ya Bastard. Mostly because he likes ether. After preflight checks I turned the key and after about 5 seconds it just started. Anticlimax. ...; Created on 11 October 2012
27. Pop the carbs back on, Sir?: (Updates); ... weren't going to peel off easily either. Eventually it took me about an hour with scrapers, razor blades and a soft wire brush to get the manifold clean, but in the process a lot of crap had found its ...; Created on 07 October 2012
28. Engine nearly finished: (Updates); Chris has just about finished the engine. Very exciting. ...; Created on 08 September 2012
29. Hibernation and reflections on plating.: (Updates); ... and zinc plating and the powder coating. Sadly it seems the quote I was given was for the chrome alone, making it the total about 30% more than expected. The final nail in the coffin though was when ...; Created on 13 August 2012
30. Washing dishes: (Updates); This morning I headed up to Stately Jag Manor on a mission. In the back of the car about 60kg of filthy front suspension and running gear to be cleaned and sandblasted prior to plating. It was freezing, ...; Created on 28 May 2012
31. Post mortem findings: (Updates); ... main cap came off easily and revealed...tragedy. +10 bearing shells and a pretty badly scored crank. Any fantasies I had about poping in a set of rings and bearings and ...; Created on 19 May 2012
32. Engine's out: (Updates); It took a few hours but removing the engine was pretty straightforward. The job I was most worried about was getting the torsion bars out. Fortunately the last person to remove them must have put ...; Created on 14 May 2012
33. "All the leaves are brown..": (Updates); ... to reason, bad language and a 1/2" spanner. The exhaust manifolds, which were the ones I was actually worried about, literally fell off in about 5 minutes. I had to call a friend to work ...; Created on 17 March 2012
34. Phoenix reborn: (Updates); After Lord only knows how long off the road, I finally got to take my car on her maiden drive today. We did about 120km without any major incident. At first every press on the throttle had me expecting ...; Created on 11 March 2012
35. Mea culpa: (Updates); Today I took the car to the Dept of Transport to be inspected for road worthiness. I had heard many horror stories about the DoT inspectors and inspections and consequently I was not confident and a ...; Created on 08 March 2012
36. Finally....: (Updates); ... park on the right. Much has been written about this mystical process but fortunately the US LHD Series 1.5 has the DL3A wiper motor. All you need to do is remove 3 screws, rotate the top plate 180 ...; Created on 29 January 2012
37. Clock repair: (Updates); About 3 weeks ago I sent the clock from my 1967 series 1.5 to Mike Eck of www.jaguarclock.com to have it overhauled. The clock was in very poor condition, didn't work and the plastic lens at the front ...; Created on 16 January 2012
38. Tanked: (Updates); ... on the most inaccessable mounting bolt hadn't been broken off in the past. In the end I had to drill the top off it which took about an hour. Tank removal otherwise took around 15 mins. I have fashioned ...; Created on 14 January 2012
39. What's that noise?: (Updates); ... about 10 minutes, not including gasket making time. And the noise was still there. Bugger. It's the alternator. Now I have always regarded electronics with a great deal of suspicion, and alternators are ...; Created on 12 January 2012
40. Rear vision: (Updates); There's something quite empowering about taking a drill and making holes in your car door. New wing mirrors installed. Look a bit odd but they'll do. Now if I could only find an interior mirror ...; Created on 20 December 2011
41. Exhausted: (Updates); ... last about a million years. It is absolutely laughable that I can buy a name brand exhaust system from the UK, and have it delivered by air freight for about $700, more than $1000 less than I can buy ...; Created on 18 December 2011
42. An epiphany; BSH: (Updates); ... still protected by the National Secrets Act) I have been able to infer the following about the BSH: 1. It is considerably narrower and flatter than my hand, and can be inserted easily and painlessly ...; Created on 11 December 2011
43. All coming together: (Updates); Marty came over yesterday, and in about 5 hours removed and replaced the dash and engine bay wiring looms. I estimate that this would have taken me a week to do. As usual, there were problems. What ...; Created on 10 December 2011
44. Musings on "RTFM": (Updates); ... feeling that special dread that only one deliberately countermanding a direct order can know, I removed the actuating arm rod. About 10 minutes later, with much more room to move, I had the slave cylinder ...; Created on 07 December 2011
45. A Visitation: (Updates); ... to but once its done I'll never have to touch it again. He's got the tools to get the bearings out of the hub carriers and knows stuff about shims. Hopefully I can do the disassembly and help put ...; Created on 10 November 2011
46. Waiting waiting: (Updates); ... a vis the electrics. Marty is rebuilding my windscreen wiper motor and knows about stuff. I'll keep you all posted. ...; Created on 08 November 2011
47. Buried treasure: (Updates); About 20 years ago I sent my disassembled MGBGT to a friend who planned to reassemble it. Along with it I sent 4 boxes of precious 1960's UNC and UNF nuts and bolts that i had scavenged from car wrecks ...; Created on 07 October 2011
48. Electroplating: (Updates); ... of the original, for which they charged me about $100. Needless to say I won't ever buy anything from them again. ...; Created on 29 September 2011
49. New tyres and the kitchen sink: (Updates); I don't see a problem here; do you (well apart from the remaining rust stains on the washer reservoir. I have thought long and hard about tyres. I used to have ...; Created on 20 September 2011
50. Heating up: (Updates); ... clutch pedal offset needs to be increased by about 1cm, and that the offset on the brake pedal reduced so it is more or less straight. My major concern was that I wasn't sure what sort of material the ...; Created on 20 September 2011
51. No more steering wheel.: (Updates); I only had about an hour free this afternoon but I have put it to good use with a bit of judicious disassembly. The radiator overflow tank, winscreen washer, LHD accelerator pedal and it's linkages and ...; Created on 11 September 2011
52. Ohloh Tracking of Joomla!: (Search - Weblinks / Other Resources); Objective reports from Ohloh about Joomla's development activity. Joomla! has some star developers with serious kudos. ...; Created on 01 January 2011

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