The 'E' Type Forum

Funnily enough, I went to the recycling skip yesterday. Having spent tens of hours re-jigging my speakers, about 7 years ago, modifying the hidden bits of the centre console, fitting a hidden BlueTooth amp etc, adding hidden tweeters, I very quickly decided that I had wasted every minute. And it all...

I think you’ll find its to gain access to the boot lock mechanism for when the cable snaps …….

Ha, the video makes it look like “the show must go on”, despite those poor sods being upside down in la foret !

Of course, these are all Black number cars, meaning they’re racing flat out against the clock.

I would only be doing it as a Red number, which is régularité.

Ha ! Eight years older, and Deeper in Debt ; St Peter don’t call me cause I can’t…….. I never did this TdF thing, but it’s still itching. My question remains, has anyone actually done it, or know someone who has ? The videos have a slight aura of posh twits with too much money and trophy wives (Ed -...

Yes Geoff, this replaces the otter-switch and copes with my Spal fan (not a Kenlowe, then) without the use of a relay.

The screw and rubber washer shown on the rim of the wheel are to act as a sort of brake, so the setting you've retained doesn't get accidentally nudged.

Just to report that this model of thermostat has worked just fine now on both the Mini and the E-Type for over seven years. I recently had great difficulty identifying a supplier of the red grooved-seal that Kenlowe used to supply to help seal the capilliary going into a radiator hose, as all the pe...

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For some bizarre reason, you can actually buy these for less from the States, including shipping and taxes .............. Yes, I don't care for Amazon either ............ watch this space.

Timken's web site shows a steep decline in bearing life when a pre load is applied cold - end float needs to take account of operating temperature to avoid pre-load Could you substantiate this statement with an example, as it appears to be the complete opposite of Bill Angel's experience, and his r...

Only stock available is "Carbon Fibre" for an extra 20 quid, feeling too tight today to waste money on something I'll just bead-blast off as soon as it's out of the box, so it can be a project to go on the back-burner ............

That is truly dreadful news. His posts were excellent, and he was indeed generous with his time in private. I was often struck by his improbable mixture of engineering and letters, and admired the way he did not suffer fools gladly, and was prepared to say so. We have lost a great brain. I hope Davi...

Thanks, will investigate further.

Steve, can I float this one to the surface again ? The link to the NRG product you used, Funky something or other, doesn’t hook up any more, and I expect the products have changed over the years. Would you be able to identify the NRG hub that you used, or would use if you were doing it again, please...

Might be delicate electrolytic pairing, the brass and the aluminium, although the manifold temperature sensor and the thermostat seem to survive ......... and as the steel original tends to weld itself to the aluminium anyway, the brass might be no worse a choice

Yes, Tim, that's definitely the way to go ; having the step-down in diameters at the manifold rather than at the bulkhead pipe will make zero difference to the flow through there.

Can you put the Ebay-link up, and a picture of it installed perhaps ?

Could anyone throw any light on this ? There was a promising thread here : https://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14638 but the pictures seem to be dead. My car always had the heater-flap control cable coming out into the engine bay through the "sister" hole just above the water-valve cable. ...

Well, I never go to The Pub but have obviously been missing something. You bloody Influencers, you've just cost me the price of ordering Hooker's book, and the time spent watching two episodes of the Merlin assembly. My only interrogation would concern his use of a nylon-faced mallet to seat the bol...

It’s not wholly clear in my mind under what conditions our friend is measuring his “voltage at the pump”. Obviously the reading taken with a voltmeter on a disconnected feed-wire to the pump is of no value at all, as it is the sustained voltage under the pump’s load which we’re interested in. Anothe...

Check indeed carefully what SNGB are selling, as the last one I got from them was hopeless, uniform diameter along the whole length and unusable. Another part for the Doesn’t-Fit-But-Trop-Fatigué-To-Complain Pile that accompanies us all. Fosseway spec theirs as 182mm long with inside diameters taper...

Interesting.

I wasn’t ready to believe these were made in Oz until I saw the Crocs

Details are on Post #425 of the Megajolt thread.