The 'E' Type Forum

Hi Mike, I have done this many times during my restoration. I would suggest that if you want to move the top out, you leave the bottom outside bolt tight and loosen the others, if it’s the bottom you want to move out then keep the top outside bolt tight. This is far easier to do with the door card o...

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your additional information.

Paul

Hi Steve, The small spring I am talking about is in the nose of the reaction valve cover. https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_159648324131813&key=e4fd14f5d7f2bb6d80b8f8da1354718c&libId=kdewqfue0102cns8000DA1ucott4z&subId=8882b87fb40d5cb4b93e934a6cfe93e7&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.etypeuk...

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your suggestion.

The only problem with that theory is that the large spring is pushing in the opposite direction, away from the master cylinder, i.e. helping the small piston to push outwards, where as the small spring is pushing it back the other way.

Paul

I had my master cylinder reconditioned some time ago by a reputable company, who re-sleeved and rebuilt it. I have not driven the car since as I was still restoring it and had not filled the system with brake fluid. I noticed that the reaction valve was VERY close to the engine frame and while inves...

Hi Harvey,

The mud guards are semi gloss black.

Paul

The bonnet on mine needed extensive reshaping. A few years ago I was discussing this on Jag lovers and I received these photos. They are from an unmolested 1.5, which is prior to the larger mouths of the Series Two, so I would think that this shape would be correct for a 3.8 as well. I think the wid...

Hi Rory,

Have you considered making up a blanking plate and mounting it in the same place as the distributor?

Paul

The CMC restoration manual shows the cap and the door card fitted with special clips for the chromes screwed on with 4 x 3/4 pan head self tapers in the joint between the two. That’s on the earlier car they were restoring. It goes on to say that "it is normally accepted that the upper chrome is held...

Mine weren’t original ether.

My parts manual for the 4.2 states they are DAJ504/8C self tapers, which I believe is a black finished flat head slotted #4 1/2". Not sure if this would be the same for the 3.8.

I found a countersunk screw better as it didn’t interfere with the door card as much.

Paul

I think they were held on with small self tapping screws.

Paul

I used Dinitrol on mine as I did on my 340 many years ago and it is still holding up.

https://www.dinitroldirect.com/product/ ... gIUWvD_BwE

Paul

The L shaped bracket just fits under the heal of the hinge by a small amount and no more; just enough to stop the backrest from laying all the way back. I think that my second picture shows how much by. However, on my seats they had been cut off and I had to re-make the brackets using detailed plans...

Hi David,

See my pictures in this thread, which should show you how the seat catch functions.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15911

The L shaped blocks swivel to simply change the angle of the backrest.

Paul

I bought a new crank from SNG a few years ago that was army old stock. I think it was tuftried; were all the E-type cranks tuftried? https://i.postimg.cc/0jgzZ1Wr/Picture-6070.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/hv9f5Z6s/Picture-6072.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/dVQL5BBR/Picture-6076.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/ZqGYz...

Ther is a lot not right about the body on the red one.

Lots of body filler, by the look of it and not so good panel repairs.

Paul

I'm doing my seats at the moment and have come across several problems on the way. The coverings and the seat frames in places had been modified, so I had a similar voyage of discovery. A couple of points to mention: if you are replace the rubber diaphragm, you may find as I did that the spring clip...

Hi Darren,

It was Jonathan (265bhp)

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8415&start=120

Paul

I thought it might have been a pimps car



Paul

I would have thought that excessive end float would be vertical and not rotary??

You might even be able to check this on the distributor drive to some degree with a magnet.

Paul