The 'E' Type Forum

Second in as many weeks....wonder if they are linked?...

I always took the view that Jaguar decided....why bother with an 'E type' badge....anyone in 1961 who did not know it was an e type had either lived on Mars or had zero interest in cars...every paper of the time plastered the car all over their front page and as it looked completely unlike anything ...

Either the new sender is knackered, the wire from the gauge to the sender is grounded somewhere or possibly the instrument voltage regulator has died. However I am not sure if the V12 has the oil gauge powered from the regulator... Check your wiring diagram....and if it is ife expect the fuel gauge ...

Well said Barry.....from my experience SNGB )and all others i have dealt with) are very keen to address any issues and most of the bits i have bought...and there have been a lot ....have been just fine....without the SNGB's and Dave Manners etc running an e type would be very much harder....

Robbie. As you say the chambers will be offset. As far as I know the 3.8 heads were put on the early 4.2 engines anyway in the day. The bores were moved for the 4.2 but the heads remained essentially unaltered....and the offset was found to make no odds at the time.....but I might be wrong. David (h...

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Ahh....different times.....safety hay bales....no seat belts.....fabulous old film....and in colour too...

Forgot that David....and there are differences inside....

3.8 cars ONLY have the word Jaguar on the boot lid. Don't be tempted to drill holes for anything else...let's face it anyone following will know it's an e type :bigrin: :bigrin: I With the 4.2 they added the word E type and 4.2....really these details are the only external differences between the 3....

As said, e type manifolds are angled. So ones from e.g a mk10 won't fit....although the seller may have you believe the will....price can be a guide as genuine e type ones fetch lots of £££. Burlen fuel systems will sell you a reproduction one I believe...and the carbs too for lots of beer tokens. 3...

Measuring the bulb side of the fuse to ground with an ohm meter won't really help much as you are measuring the resistance of the bulbs to ground...in this case the side and rear lights ...red wires...and the instrument lights too if switched on. The resistance of filament bulbs is very low when off...

Think the relay you have found for the rear screen switches a resistance into the feed to the warning lamp....hence when you switch the side lights on it dims the warning light for the heated rear screen :bigrin: As others have said, the headlamps did not have relays from the factory. If a fuse has ...

Seems it was stolen from a Toby carvery in Birmingham....

Exactly Mark....really they only spin for a few seconds while starting....the rest of the time they are chauffeured about doing nothing so really wear within them should be low...unlike the dynamo which spins furiously all the time the engine runs....I did 're bearing and 're brush the dynamo a year...

The recent thread on high torque motors here http://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13106 prompted me to relay the following thoughts and observations. Firstly I have nothing against high torque motors....if your starter has really died they provide an excellent solution...although it seems fr...

An MOT check revealed the tax was due Oct 2011.....no MOT results obtained.....so it was around in Oct 2010......Most likely it is lurking in a barn or garage and awaiting rejuvenation. Other possibility it it went abroad of course.

Welcome Julian....from another Julian.....good to have you....and your improved brake switch is going fine after almost 18. Months.

Their website says the same. It is indeed a shame for the employees and other businesses owed money. As said, let's hope the good guys shine through and it is taken on as a going concern. I guess it depends on exactly what irregularities are present. Equally though it does appear that they were invo...

If you sell cars as a business then your profits are taxable so I'd imagine the government got their slice when JD sold cars. If you sell your old banger in the small ads you don't need to pay tax should you be lucky enough to sell for more then you bought. The gov't assume that cars are a depreciat...

Exactly Chris....could not agree more. I had heard JD had problems but did not know they were at risk of collapse....hopefully sanity will return to the market and people can get back to buying cars because they like them rather than because they think they can make a fast tax free buck....