The 'E' Type Forum

Thanks for that Steve.

Every time seals come up Baines are mentioned as having the best seals. Unfortunately they do not have an e type seal kit. How did you ascertain which of their seals are the correct ones? Is there a list somewhere online or is there some other method of determining?

When I first bought my ots many years ago I purchased a lot of repair parts from a place called Phoenix Engineering located in Goole? I believe. This was back when trans Atlantic shipping did not cost you your first born. I am wondering what ever became of that company as I believe they were very we...

Jason Len of xk's unlimited had a swb roadster converted to a v12. It involved changes to the bulkhead plus the frames from a series3 if I remember right. The car is now in Jay Leno's collection and he has produced a video about it. Definitely a deep pocket exercise.

So, how did you achieve this? All new gaskets with modern materials?

Thank you Julian.

So that is one no so far. As steve says perhaps including if you followed the break in procedure to the letter would be instructive.

There is a recent thread on the Jag Lovers forum where it is claimed by two people who have used them that the SNG enamelled manifolds stand up in the long term (up to 5 years and counting). They have had no crazing or chipping under normal driver usage, not show car usage. Has anyone had similar ex...

If you don't have pumpkins then what do children carve for Halloween ? My heart bleeds for those poor British children carving turnips and in a pinch parsnips or large radishes.

3.8 seats are also available at SNG in both roadster and coupe style and are not terribly expensive.

Nigel, from your original post I understand that your main complaint is that you bottom out easily and believe that your ride hight at the rear is 1 1/2 inches low at the rear. Assuming that your components are working fine otherwise your easiest and cheapest fix is to install a spacer. The gain in ...

Sounds great. Thank you.

David, i s there also a preferred wiper arm available. I find that the ones I have do not really provide much downward pressure on the screen.

Cannot help you as both my cars have been extensively molested over the years but I would love to see that list and pics in the factory fit section. Thank you for compiling it.

I second the stabilizer rod. When I bought my fhc the whole rod mechanism was ubdone. It sounded like The engine was falling out.

Perfect. Thank you for that Jonathan.

The gaskets look good from what can be seen but I am not sure exactly how you fabricated them. Do you have any pictures and an explanation of what exactly you did?

You are asking a senior citizen to remember something he did 20 years ago so the answer has about a 50:50 chance of being accurate! I believe I unbolted the column from the dash and just let it down onto the seat to pull it back. Some wiring may have needed to be disconnected but I really do not rec...

FWIW I had this problem with loose splines between the shaft and the steering rack on my 3.8. I tried multiple times to tighten the joint with bolts, grade 8 capscrews etc with no results. Finally I just used blue loctite and tightened it up with a normal torque. I have not had to touch it in the la...