Search - Project '67 E Type Jag Restoration

1. Goodbye 1E34749!: (Updates); After 5 years of ownership I have sold 1E34749. She looked fantastic for sale, is mechanically excellent and I'm confident that she will more than live up to her new owner's expectations. But don't despair; ...; Created on 09 October 2016
2. 5 year anniversary: (Updates); It's 5 years since I bought my first E Type. Here she is in her previous owner's shed. And here she is yesterday after the detailler has finished with her, prior to sale. ...; Created on 30 July 2016
3. An update on various projects: (Updates); ... of the crack shown after the block has been remachined to fit a top hat liner. Bizzarely, four of the six bores had been fitted with top hats already, although one was in bore number one with a normal ...; Created on 26 June 2016
4. Shipwright's disease again: (Updates); ... and gearbox off to their doom... Cross hatching still visible on the bores. I suppose that if you change the oil every 1000 miles you'd hope it's still be good after 12000 miles. ...; Created on 07 May 2016
5. All over again.: (Updates); Ross has finished repainting the body shell. Yesterday, after a year, she returns to the fold! Lots of work to do.... ...; Created on 25 March 2016
6. Painting progress: (Updates); After 12 months the body is nearly finished. Ross expects to have it back to me soon. ...; Created on 04 February 2016
7. MGA??!!: (Updates); ... sadly never finished it. Moving on 18 months the car was still in his shed in pieces. After some discussion the boys decided it would be a good thing to rebuild it, so it has been purchased and moved ...; Created on 05 July 2015
8. Why having a car professionally restored costs so much.: (Updates); ... into the servo. I assumed that the piston was stuck, but no amount of tapping or pressurising it would get it to move. So I removed the new aftermarket servo and went to disassemble it. This is what I ...; Created on 25 May 2015
9. Are URO branded C15474 senders any good?: (Updates); ... another aftermarket sender. Once the sender reached pressure there was no fluctuation over a period of one minute. Discussion. The point of measuring oil pressure in an E Type engine is to be made ...; Created on 14 March 2015
10. Test pilot: (Updates); Classified: Secret Jaaaaaaag Test Base, 0855 hrs CST 0855 hrs. Excited to have a day permit to actually drive the 3.8. It is after all nice to know that the brakes work BEFORE the Road Worthy test. ...; Created on 30 January 2015
11. Introducing...my new car!: (Updates); ... interior. An older restoration, Rob's owned her for 10 years. After taking delivery of her last week I spent a couple of hours doing a full lube and oil change. I then spent some time tuning as there ...; Created on 14 September 2014
12. Easter Sunday drive: (Updates); It's not all rebuilding you know..sometimes we drive them. Plug chop after the run; front, middle and rear carbies. ...; Created on 20 April 2014
13. Engine and JT5 gearbox installation: (Updates); ... is an interesting question. After some discussion we decided to remove the IRS to give us enough room to manipulate the driveshaft into place. Even having done this it was still very difficult ...; Created on 23 November 2013
14. Motif Bar for the coupe: (Updates); ... to. After a bit of thought I elected to use stainless self tapping screws to hold the spring in. Excellent idea up until one snapped off in the hole. Dremel and drill cleared out the hole, albiet bigger. ...; Created on 11 August 2013
15. New brakes for the 4.2: (Updates); After some thought the folly of swapping over the whole hub assembly became aparent to me. So instead I did the sensible thing and swapped the calipers over for the Coopers. Easy. ...; Created on 07 July 2013
16. Apologies and an update: (Updates); ... and the flywheel is quite scored and will need a serious face. After a bit of thought I have put aside the temptation of just putting it back together and I'm sending the block off to be resleeved to ...; Created on 12 May 2013
17. There's always one little tiny problem...: (Updates); ... job. I specified that they only do the bushes as I was confident that I could refit the throtle stops etc. How hard could it be after all? However the PO had had this done too, and had used oversized shafts. ...; Created on 02 February 2013
18. EDIS installed: (Updates); After one set of plugs/points/leads/cap/rotor, 2 distributors, 3 electronic ignition modules, 4 coils...5 goooooold rings!!! Oops. The combination of ignition problems and the festive season got to ...; Created on 17 December 2012
19. 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
20. Back together...but..: (Updates); Having reinstalled the seats yesterday only putting the speedo in and the bonnet back on remained for today. After an initial successful start of the engine I put the speedo back in. Took a little while ...; Created on 14 October 2012
21. 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
22. Pop the carbs back on, Sir?: (Updates); ... way into the airways. Realising that I had to get it all out it became obvious that I'd have to separate the manifold from the carbs and blow it out with compressed air. Which I did. After all there's ...; Created on 07 October 2012
23. Back together we go...again...: (Updates); First day of spring. Nice sunny day. Afternoon spent putting bits back into the engine bay. Very satisfying and really looks good. ...; Created on 01 September 2012
24. Paint it black: (Updates); ... I'm trying a water-based schutz. It was really easy to spray, and best of all, cleans up in water! I put on a good thick coat. The weather is against me however; it's cold and drizzly so after spraying ...; Created on 17 June 2012
25. Spring cleaning: (Updates); Well it's actually Winter here, but after 4 hours with degreaser and a scrubbing brush, I have the cleanest engine frames in Christendom. Next stop, Paint Supplies. ...; Created on 11 June 2012
26. Jockeying for position: (Updates); With no front wheels and a need to get the car outside to degrease and clean the front frames the need to make it movable became paramount. After canvassing many helpful suggestions I settled on the idea ...; Created on 03 June 2012
27. A Lucas moment: (Updates); I've been driving the car a bit while gradually fixing little things. Yesterday after a bit of a drive to attempt to calibrate the speedometer (a whole other story for the future), I noticed that ...; Created on 24 April 2012
28. Fine Tuning: (Updates); ... After discussion I took John my old Lucas distributor. He checked and calibrated it and deemed it satisfactory. Needless to say, the car runs beautifully. The SUs do seem to provide more ...; Created on 04 April 2012
29. On with the SUs!: (Updates); ... the Bell stainless downpipes. All in all a fairly easy afternoon's work, and amazingly the car started straight away on the first turn of the key! My attempts at tuning however were laughably poor so ...; Created on 18 March 2012
30. 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
31. Mea culpa: (Updates); ... a list of defects to be rectified. But there were none apart from a comment that the RH front wheel bearing was a bit loose, but "nothing that was excessive". 4 hours after I left home, I had a set of ...; Created on 08 March 2012
32. Whole again: (Updates); The bonnet is back on. I'm ringing the windscreen blokes this afternoon. ...; Created on 23 January 2012
33. We have petrol: (Updates); After a bit of reading and consideration I decided to clean the fuel tank myself. I soaked it for 12 hours with 12:1 hydrochloric acid and then rinsed it with bicarb, then lots of water. It ...; Created on 17 January 2012
34. What's that noise?: (Updates); ... at the top of the list. After all your auto electricial always "sends them off" to be overhauled, usually by someone called Keith, or Werner. The conversation usually goes something like this: Auto electrician ...; Created on 12 January 2012
35. End of electrics: (Updates); ... 15 hours. At around 3pm yesterday, after final checks were complete, we connected the battery and turned the key..and she started! There was initial trouble because she wouldn't run properly which perplexed ...; Created on 06 January 2012
36. Glove Box: (Updates); ... from fitting the actual glove box door, which I still have failed to source. After all this, I better get some gloves to put in there. ...; Created on 17 December 2011
37. Glove Box: (General); ... apart from fitting the actual glove box door, which I still have failed to source. After all this, I better get some gloves to put in there. ...; Created on 17 December 2011
38. Musings on "RTFM": (Updates); ... cylinder. The last person before me had obviously found it a challenge too; he had only replaced one of the two studs that hold the cylinder body to the bell housing. After much thought and effort, and ...; Created on 07 December 2011
39. I'm back!: (Updates); After being away on holidays for a couple of weeks I'm back, full of enthusiasm. The new RHD dashes have been trimmed, the wiring looms are here and tomorrow I'll call and find out how far the boys have ...; Created on 04 December 2011
40. A Visitation: (Updates); ... Alan nodded knowingly. After talking to Chris I'm going to bite the bullet and take off the IRS. I'll take it up to him and get him to fully recondition it and put in a 3.07 diff. I wasn't going ...; Created on 10 November 2011
41. I knew I had children for a reason: (Updates); All those years of paying to feed, clothe and educate my 3 children paid off today. After nearly poking my eye out with the heater control cable while trying to remove the brake servo I had pushed ...; Created on 30 October 2011
42. Front suspension: (Updates); Craig and Jarrod came over this afternoon, and fired with enthusiasm and beer in equal parts we replaced the front upper and lower ball joints. Getting the top joint circlip in did require a little thought ...; Created on 08 October 2011
43. Electroplating: (Updates); ... So after a quick clean with the wire wheel on the grinder I popped some into the plating solution; 5 mins hey presto! They looked so good I replated the pedal blanking plate too. So far I ...; Created on 29 September 2011
44. Up up and away: (Updates); After a lot of thought and discussion I have decided to put the hoist pads under the front and rear of the chassis rails to lift the car. It feels very solid; the only movement on rocking the car is ...; Created on 23 September 2011
45. New tyres and the kitchen sink: (Updates); ... they did wear out after around 10000 miles. I have eventually settled for a far more pedestrian Dunlop Monza 200 tyre in 205 65 15. The tyres have a sensible and therefore quiet tread pattern, ...; Created on 20 September 2011
46. 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
47. Masterly inactivity: (Updates); ... the hoist which is far more likely to end in tears. Problem is I have visitors coming on Saturday afternoon and after a few beers the job might start to look easier... ...; Created on 31 August 2011
48. Cooling System v1.0000: (Updates); Not much time to play today, but managed to drain the cooling system with a view to taking the radiator off for a checkup. After comparing the radiator with pictures in the Barratt catalogue I suddenly ...; Created on 22 August 2011

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