The 'E' Type Forum

Lucky you found out before you bolted the whole lot in, as I have before!

Replace the release bearing with a carbon face that sits higher or cheaper still, bend the fork as Steve suggests (with heat a ruler and a hammer).

I think I have just figured out why I have been so happy with my 2.88 setup and other owners havent. We both have all synchro boxes and 2.88 rear ends. I didn't realise that first gear on the S1 gearbox is taller that the S2 gearbox. This means I am having to slip the clutch far less than and S1 dri...

The problem is they dont prepare engines anymore. They packed up.

Apart from that no problem.

I am certainly not seeing any "price corrections" on e-types, 911's, commercial property or anything else for that matter.

I was not really expecting one either.

The only "price correction" I have come across is that petrol is cheap!

Harv,

Marek is the man.

https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php ... ts#p117504

It looks very nice and clean to me, I must say.

I had a really really stuck on wheel to deal with a while ago. I reckon the spinner had been left off when the car was abandoned outside for 20 years or so. That is how the car arrived. Nothing would move it. I smacked it from behind with a large lead mallet and it failed to budge. I was welded on t...

Yes, nothing rusts when it breathes!

Yes. I will try. I dont seem to be able to upload images at the same resolution modern cameras take them. I hit the max file size limit pretty quickly unless I host the image on a 3rd party website. That puts me into a world of pain, where the uploading/ resizing process takes longer than the repair...

I got some. It looks like a tub of make up. Not that I buy much of that. It might be graphite paste, I am not sure. 20200516_095712.jpg It took 10 minutes to apply and then I baked it on. I reckon that little tub would coat about 7 or 8 pairs of manifolds. In all seems like a good product, much bett...

I had exactly the same problem on a car that hadn't been used for many years and was full of dust. The problem turned out to be the internal mechanism of the door handle lock was not clean enough. I disassembled it, meticulously cleaned it, getting into all the little corners and reassembled it with...

Sounds like your clutch is not disengaging and also you have a revere selector problem. If the car has been standing a while, the clutch plate might be stuck, so just go out and drive it. That ,might fix everything. If not, it will probably mean inspecting the clutch slave/rod area from underneath t...

You need a decent pry bar set for many type of jobs like this.

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Looks very nice indeed. I am going to get some.

Ahh, I think mine might be assembled back to front. Thanks very much.

Lifting on the silencer box? No, its on wood, on the chassis rails. It aint goin no where!

Thanks Nick and Simon. I am now clear on the two brackets that attach to thee chassis legs. Its the rear bracket that gets me. The shield is supplied with a captive 5/16 UNF thread at the rear in the location of the silencers, What is it that screws into it? I cant seem to find reference to it anywh...

The offending Heat shield below

A few more pics. I am finding posting pics painful again.

I dont go in for cleaning cars much, but cleaned the underside of OEW this afternoon.

The virus has obviously sent me mad.

How does the heat shield attach in-front of the center boxes?

Bracket off the gearbox?

A huge mystery.

Any picture please.

Yes, Definitely remove the water pump and have a look.

I once removed one to find no impeller whatsoever.

Once removed is is much easier to physically remove buckets of crud if need be,