The 'E' Type Forum

Hi... my cylinder head has been skimmed twice to my knowledge ,am I going to have problems getting sufficient pressure when tightened down due to Studs bottoming out on dome nuts? To get round this problem would it be safe to have thicker head washers machined or would this affect the compression r...

That was when booking a stall worked out at about a fiver each for a group effort, all of whom then got in free as stall staff and had somewhere to leave their stuff and sell their resto leftovers - happy days! In fairness, vented rear discs are not designed to improve stopping power but prevent fad...

jamesmustain wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 22, 2021 10:57 am

Anybody had the same problem and found a fix?
Thanks!

Equal parts crushed sildenafil tablets and valve grinding paste ought to do it.

Early means those made before the late ones Geoff.

No engine change number known means no date known either.

Clear as mud but nobody will die.

Both respondents before me had 2+2s and although Steve was probably being his usual helpful self the other poster expressed interest and listed only a 2+2.

The notch under the bulkhead end of the fibreglass plenum to clear the RHD stuff is pretty small - maybe 1/2” deep and and inch or two wide. It wouldn’t be hard to modify the LHD Strangleberg plenum and it would be invisible. You could - with some trouble - make up two spacers to replace the seconda...

If all four are the same they cant be for 2+2.

If the weld needs machining to fit a liner be careful. First race bike I built needed cast iron barrel weld. It was below the bore area swept by the rings at BDC but the subsequent boring operation went the full length of the cylinder, of course. The guy who bored it was p*ssed off because the weldi...

“I enquired about these and found the same pictures advertised on several web sites with differing email addresses. Could all be genuine of course” I lost a packet on that scam via Jag-Lovers Classifieds, which is why they started putting warnings all over that section. I left a full 3.8 set at my s...

It should be thin non-stretch vinyl but if it's carpeted nicely and you like it, who cares? If you're worried about values, change it to original the day before you sell it so it's pristine...

I’ve checked XEData.com for car 878079 but no joy. I know there’s a UK register somewhere (JDC?) but no idea how current it is. If anyone knows the whereabouts of the car I have the engine. Cloners need not apply!

When I lived in Buxton I occasionally saw big trucks in the East Midlands with Alex George painted on the side. Was that his firm. I only remembered him as a Norton rider. Not that different to driving a truck..

I can well believe it Malcolm and the chances are it works well because it is fairly mild and not great deal different from stock. The difference may not be huge but it’s all positive. Rory doubtless went straight past JAG2 and JAG3 and fixated on MORE POWA that the telesales clerk promised JAG4 wou...

I’d think twice about calling a bloke fat if he was bigger, stronger and faster than me. A bent nose doesn’t look that pretty...

If you think about it, car makers - especially minnows like Jaguar up against GM and Ford et al - want to please as many people as possible, as often as possible. When you think that after the first 5/16 th engines, they stuck with their 3/8 th lift cams for forty years straight, you have to accept ...

I would stop the cheque to the tune-up shop or ask for your money back. This perhaps has nothing to do with carbs but your symptoms sound like some mixed up HT leads. Maybe they messed with plugs or distributor and replaced some leads wrongly? When removing the US emissions stuff people sometimes fi...

I have always slipped a plastic wrap or slit tube over any copper capillary tube to prevent electrical shorts behind the folded panel. I’d do the same for braided. Unlike a closed brake system, where maximum sustainable pad pressure would be temporarily compromised before bursting, a ballooned nylon...

They should match. where present, although cylinder heads stopped being painted and numbered in the later sixties.

... as an owner of a RR Phantom III... You’d love in America. Over here they stop traffic to give you right of way. You see lots of country roads with signs and barriers for RR Crossing, or ‘RR Xing’. Rumour has it if you don’t genuflect and doff your cap as the local robber baron drives over your ...

Yes and it’s flat.