The 'E' Type Forum

350 MkIII 1976, built from new by Mick Waker to look like a Desmo ............ betrayed by its decompressor. Stainless bits made pre-BNFL on the lathe at CERN in Geneva - student placement. Rickman, well spotted Pete. More teasers from The Pointless Covid Spit - who knows, someone else may be bored ...

Was on a tiny screen for the last post, hard to search.

Here's the link.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15113&hilit=wipers

PS - I found long cable-ties zipped around each of the three bosses made excellent fake-wipers, as they are easy to align and ajust.

If you search for wipers, and rfs1957 as author, you’ll find the dithyrambic I wrote a couple of months ago about S1 wipers. I never filmed it, as the really trick bit is the clever flip of the eccentric to effectively change the length of the operating arm when the motor reverses to PARK the wiper,...

https://www.dynatexpro.co.uk/product/suction-spray-gun-strainers-paint-filters-lobster-pot-cotton-reel-fmt2020/ https://i.postimg.cc/xTLHzXxb/Pot-Filters.jpg A paint spray gun filter was considered when I had the tank etc out many moons ago. They are available in a variety of sizes, white 'nylon' an...

I spent hours and hours tweaking the fronts with spacers, angled wedges etc (cont page 94) but the rears have always looked good and I can't move the bolts anyway. Think I might just leave them .............. they don't get in the way of body preparation and finishing, which - in that area at least ...

Thanks everyone. Good advice there, didn't even know there was a donut, Angus. Once the sump extension was bead-blasted, it then pissed petrol out ! Are they all made with a brass collar at the top (for the thread) and a brass bottom, brazed together on either end of a bit of steel-pipe, so it can t...

I'm hoping that removing the tank (new in 1990) ought to be the final déprime in the apparently endless spiral of seeing my car going backwards, as there's now just an almost empty shell. As usual, you never stop learning things about your car, more specifically about the horrors and short-cuts exec...

“... all I can imagine is that the new (slightly longer) seal track is forcing the oil slinger onto the timing chain.” Doesn’t make sense, sorry. The slinger sits against the sprocket no matter what length of spacer you use. So the noise cannot have been a change in distance between chain and a sli...

You've stolen Pete Crespins' cue, Barrie. This won't go down well.

This is getting out of hand, now it's been side-tracked with BIKES. So be it. The donor-trailer in my series of teasers, as I prepare Borat-2, is seen here 40 years ago when I made it, at the expense of BNFL, on the graduate training scheme. https://i.postimg.cc/pLCjGxFY/IMG-5748.jpg We were meant t...

I have been inspired by Borat, in fact - see around 1m15.

Fiero heater mod already done .......... unfortunately ? See my comment on Simon's Suzuki post : The "Fiero" I bought draws a whopping 16 amps ............ and beyond the relay nonsense this generates, stepping it down to a reasonable speed with a resistance is going to create a pointless under-dash...

Stop stealing my thunder with heater-boxes, this is about the Covid War Effort. Hint : Any comments about rotating Louise into a better position will get you banned. (Ed - but better ask what's wrong with yours before you paint it) OK, what's wrong here, before I paint it ? Are the spindle and lever...

Someone was asking for Covid-activity news. Remember, we've been on shut-down for longer than the UK ............ :hammerdrill: https://i.postimg.cc/WbyT5H8H/IMG-20200324-161211-resized-20200324-052356895.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/4NDj7kBs/IMG-20200324-161449-resized-20200324-052355030.jpg https://i....

If anyone wants a free Aldon Igniter, send me a PM. Sorry, Positive Earth only - I've moved to Negative and it's now surplus to requirements. It's 15 years old and still works perfectly, but I have had the distributor Doctored back to "points" by Dr Distributor (painful at £300-odd including a new s...

S1 Seats, Pedal-Positions, Leg-Room, Comfort - an alternative approach ? http://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6023&p=42610&hilit=pedals#p42610 In this post (I am currently re-instating the photo-links) I addressed the issue of getting bigger/taller frames into the E-Type, and specifically ho...

I wasn't able to restore every single picture shown in these posts, but the essential gist is there.

If you want to know more about the respective behaviours of the front and rear master-cylinders, this thread tried to work out what goes on in there. http://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4120&p=27776&hilit=SMOKE#p27776 It's worth reading just to explode some of the cod-science that has grown...

I knew that calling Louise in from the pool, to lie in the footwell legs akimbo "to hold spanners on the Eiffel Tower frame-nuts", would give me an opportunity to get more views on the Forum.

Suckers to a man.

Couple of details that might help someone. The three blips on the eccentric, that rumble along underneath the crinkly swash-plate, are necessary to creat the drag required to get the eccentric to flip one way or the other according to the direction of motor rotation. https://i.postimg.cc/gkb3VT7j/IM...