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1. A quick catchup for the last year.: (Updates); So this is probably where we started from.. Ross threw a lot in the bin. Just some of the trimmings. And what we had which looked OK..well it was crap too. But Ross soldiered on. ...; Created on 10 September 2018
2. Britney update: (Updates); ... complete, but there was a lot of rust on most of the components. The body shell has had some "repairs" done and has been sprayed with some sort of undercoat. The quality of the metalwork on the repairs ...; Created on 09 March 2017
3. 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
4. Why having a car professionally restored costs so much.: (Updates); ... there but no tap I own fitted the thread; I suspect it was metric. I don't do metric. As I actually had some 3/16" UNC grub screws I just retapped the holes, but mucking about took me an extra half hour. ...; Created on 25 May 2015
5. No spark: (Updates); ... ignition switch. NB starter button will not affect spark. Check points are opening and distributor is turning. You can do this visually. Remove dizzy cap and get someone to crank the engine. You should ...; Created on 24 May 2015
6. 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
7. 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
8. Torsion bars: (Updates); ... ball joints apart! Last weekend I replaced the front anti sway bar bushes with some "NOS" ones. Hmmm. They seem to have evaporated during this morning's 60 mile drive... I guess they were "nasty old s#*t" ...; Created on 12 April 2015
9. Test pilot: (Updates); ... Recheck timing. 1141.00001hrs. Diagnosis #2 DOH. Some idiot has set timing to TDC. 1142hrs. Set timing to 10*BTDC. Car runs perfectly. 1145hrs. Have cups of tea and biscuits. 1205hrs. ...; Created on 30 January 2015
10. I'm still here!: (Updates); ... series 1.5. Below some pictures of the lady sans jewelery and makeup. Then..... off to Ross for a makeover! The boot interior will need schutz and paint too so it's a good time to work out ...; Created on 24 November 2014
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. Notes on brake bleeding: (Updates); ... apparently reversed on some early 4.2s but won't affect bleeding as long as you know which reservoir serves front and rear. You can tell by tracing the metal pipes coming from the booster. If you are unsure ...; Created on 14 September 2014
13. 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
14. 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
15. Engine delivery: (Updates); ... There's always something else to buy... ...; Created on 16 November 2013
16. 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
17. First step: (Updates); With some trepidation I installed the very first part onto the body; the fuel line. I then moved on to the front mounting bracket for the fuel tank. Needless to say both had to be removed and reinstalled ...; Created on 31 August 2013
18. 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
19. More little bits and pieces.: (Updates); For some time now I have been unable to find the 8 pin plug that supplies power to the bonnet. It finally turned up today; it appeared to have been sat on by an elephant. Not to be fazed by this I shooed ...; Created on 07 July 2013
20. More paint photos: (Updates); As Ross paints something, he takes photos and sends them to me. Here's this week's lot. ...; Created on 04 July 2013
21. Kelsey Hayes: (Updates); I finally built up enough courage to tackle the Kelsey Hayes brake booster today. It stripped down very easily and was in good condition apart from some scoring on the central shaft. Fortunately this ...; Created on 15 June 2013
22. Sunday run to Goolwa: (Updates); ... be pulled apart prior to painting. My body shell is in primer and being blocked back prior to putting some colour on the underside. ...; Created on 09 June 2013
23. Coopercraft: (Updates); One of the front hubs on my coupe has worn splines which make an annoying clunk on braking or acceleration. So I bought a new set of hubs a while back. I had also bought myself some upgraded front calipers ...; Created on 18 May 2013
24. Coupe update: (Updates); ... from its bush; the washer I had used was too small. Easy mistake, but easy fix and no damage done. Other things I've fixed are some rattles from the bash plates under the engine frames, ...; Created on 12 May 2013
25. Apologies and an update: (Updates); ... down 2 weeks ago. It looked to have been recently rebuilt; bores look good, +20 pistons that looked pretty new and pristine looking -10 crank journals. The head though does look to have some internal corrosion ...; Created on 12 May 2013
26. Here we go again...: (Updates); ... more shims between the calipers and the diff than I had expected. I assumed that this was because someone had in error fitted the later discs. I ordered a set of new, early discs. Lovely though they are, ...; Created on 27 January 2013
27. First steps: (Updates); With pretty much everything stripped down, its time for some plating and powder coating. Will be good if I can get this lot back before Christmas. ...; Created on 10 December 2012
28. Back together...but..: (Updates); ... in another distributor; started straight away. Somehow I've managed to fry the brand new Pertronics Ignitor. I've never even driven the car with this one in.. Now, of course, despite the timing ...; Created on 14 October 2012
29. and some more..: (Updates); All of that lovely plated front suspension is back on. Fitted the new rear braided brake hose, and some new Greenstuff pads for the rear. Brakes and clutch bled. ...; Created on 05 October 2012
30. The home stretch.: (Updates); ... few teething problems, but with some sound advice it all eventually went smoothly. The two good bits of advice I got were to put the bars in from the front, sliding them back to insert them, and to loosen ...; Created on 05 October 2012
31. Hibernation and reflections on plating.: (Updates); Well as with all unicorns, Carl turned out to be mostly a mythical creature. The quality of the zinc plating was substandard but was as expensive as the good platers. And, some of the more difficult ...; Created on 13 August 2012
32. More prep: (Updates); The more I look at the paint on the frames, the worse it looks. Some clown has blown acrylic over the tops of the frames and the firewall without preparing the paint below. Result? Areas of loose ...; Created on 24 June 2012
33. Paint it black: (Updates); In preparation for blowing some colour over the frames I've put some new sound deadener in the tunnel and on the underside of the guards. In the past I've used the bitumen based schutz, but this time ...; Created on 17 June 2012
34. A worsening of Shipwright's Disease: (Updates); I finally bit the bullet today and started to clean up the engine frames. I am determined not to remove them from the car, but I will put some effort into getting as much grime as possible off them and ...; Created on 10 June 2012
35. The Unicorn: (Updates); ... Ron got some motorbike bits polished and said that they were reasonably priced and look good. So the back of my car is full of buckets of bolts, freshly sandblasted objects for powder coating and my ...; Created on 29 May 2012
36. More bits off: (Updates); ... should tidy up the paint on the frames and the firewall while the engine's out, so it's time to source some paint. I hate doing fiddly cleaning and sanding jobs. I'm much better at bolting things together. ...; Created on 26 May 2012
37. Post mortem findings 2: (Updates); Yesterday I pulled the whole engine apart. Basically it looks OK although tired and worn. It's obviously been "rebuilt" to some degree before but IMO not to a good standard. The big end bolts had 12 ...; Created on 21 May 2012
38. Post mortem findings: (Updates); ... slack, and the torque on the nuts was all over the place; some were barely finger tight and some were almost impossible to undo. The next step was to get the sump off and ...; Created on 19 May 2012
39. ..until somebody loses an eye.: (Updates); I went for a lovely drive on Sunday. Over 2 hours and probably 150km. Until the car started to run horribly roughly and eventually died. At least the tow truck was a good colour. Inspection ...; Created on 08 May 2012
40. A Lucas moment: (Updates); ... further investigation the plastic surrounding the fuse clip for fuse #7 had almost completely melted and the fuse and clip were too hot to touch. Presumably there's a short somewhere; I did notice that ...; Created on 24 April 2012
41. "All the leaves are brown..": (Updates); ... shows that there may be some slight wear contributing to its noisy operation... Now if the new one would only arrive from Blighty. The Barratts carrier vultures must be out to lunch.. ...; Created on 17 March 2012
42. Please, Sir...: (Updates); ... the "Application to Modify a Motor Vehicle" form to the DOT. At some point hopefully they'll reply. When I have that form back, I can book the car in for a registration check, where they inspect the car ...; Created on 07 February 2012
43. Tanked: (Updates); ... to be leaking out anywhere so I wondered whether the problem was with the fuel pump. I had already bought a replacement, so I put that in. While doing this I noticed that someone had put two in line filters ...; Created on 14 January 2012
44. 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
45. End of electrics: (Updates); ... Assuming that I'd somehow damaged the gasket I took the pump off, cleaned facing surfaces and reinstalled it with a new gasket. And it still poured coolant. By this time I was worried that I had somehow ...; Created on 06 January 2012
46. 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
47. Exhausted: (Updates); The bits of pipe that join the mufflers to the hotdogs were in poor condition so I got some new ones made up to replace them. Sadly when I tried to remove the old bits of pipe from the hotdogs it ...; Created on 18 December 2011
48. Glove Box: (Updates); ... place. And repair bits that were in place, but which broke. Getting the pressed cardboard glove box liner to stay put has been hard work, and has required some ingenuity. It's finally done though, apart ...; Created on 17 December 2011
49. Glove Box: (General); ... place. And repairing bits that were in place, but which broke. Getting the pressed cardboard glove box liner to stay put has been hard work, and has required some ingenuity. It's finally done though, ...; Created on 17 December 2011
50. Clutch: (Updates); ... inside by rust and (b) missing some internal parts! New one required. Another $50 to Mr Barratt. Ho hum. Given that every piece of hydraulics I have looked at so far has been completely ...; Created on 09 November 2011
51. 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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