The 'E' Type Forum

Very unlikely that there is any asbestos there. As far as I know, the filler used on fibreglass mouldings etc is a resin substance, possibly also with an inert powder added, and mixed with a chemical hardener . When cured, if it is sanded it produces white powder

I really would not worry about the views of Mr SR Jenkins , Jaguar Engine Development. Almost 30 years have passed since he wrote that, and no-one so far as I know has ever paid any attention to his advice, and yet the engines including quite a number of 60 to 70 year old ones are still running perf...

And note that France now has a universal 80 kph limit on all single carriageway roads

Sticking valve is not the first thing I would think of, because it usually produces symptoms of banging in the exhaust etc, or backfiring through the carbs . A burnt valve is a more likely candidate, which a compression test will reveal . If you suspect gumming, then redex in the petrol, and trickli...

I have never seen marks like that before , and particularly in the third photo down they look both deep and wide . I doubt very much that they can be polished out even with a cerium oxide powder, and if you attempted that the likelihood is that the visual quality would be impaired. A visit to Autogl...

Only a lap/diagonal , either fixed or inertia reel type, is suitable . The FHC is already equipped with mounting points , a lower one on the B post , with the reel being mounted with a special bracket to the rear point which is just behind the opening quarter window I would try and add a picture, bu...

IMHO Not really ok, no. The oil itself probably won't have deteriorated in lubricating quality , but its detergent properties / function will have been lost, and what you risk is that the engine may become gummy with that brown gum that can develop

No, the "ignition warning light " switch is a separate switch - rather like the brake light switch to look at, but with a single terminal rather than two, and it is usually to be found a few cms in front of the oil filter, just to the rear of the right hand front engine mounting I am trying to post ...

Pierre : the black and brown lead goes to a single blade, oil pressure activated, switch which is screwed into the oil gallery which runs along the right hand side of the block at the level of the oil filter housing. It is an oddity of the "ignition warning light" on early 4.2 litre E types that it ...

I've returned rather late to this , but I think the 6500 tacho is possibly from an early 2.8 litre XJ6 which certainly had chrome bezels. I cannot think of any other candidate - the 2.5 Daimler 0 - 6500 was of course 8 cylinders

Ah ! if yours is a 1968 USA spec car, then the likely axle is 3.54 which will have the 46/13 tag on it . The probable original speedo for this is SN 6322/37 and at a guess the turns per mile would be 1312 or something very close to that

David : this tacho is over-reading not under-reading so poor magnetic flux is unlikely to be the problem. I suspect that with this being a 1968 car it may have the electronic ignition driven tacho . These are notorious for a. misreading where electronic ignition has been fitted as her, and b. having...

I would hazard a guess that this relates to an F type , where this problem is becoming well recognised

Pre-loading the hub bearings is directly contrary to Jaguar's specification and is bound to increase the heat produced in the bearing . I don't wish to be rude but what is this fascination for knowing better than the manufacturers ? It crops up time and again in this forum Incidentally, rocking the ...

Just to add to this, ODX was issued by Ipswich as already mentioned, between September 1961 and April 1962, and thus is consistent with the age of the car

It sounds to me as though either the trip odometer or the main odometer has been changed for one from a different speedometer. Each odometer has an independent gear set, and ones for mph and kph use different ratios, as do various speedos for different axle ratios. I very much doubt that your car ha...

Andrew , I really urge you not to do this, at least unless you run the scheme past a consulting engineer. I am really concerned as to what would happen if a sudden jam on the milling machine created substantial out of balance forces . My fear would be that such an event could cause the whole thing, ...

Crikey !! In 60 years of playing with engines I have never seen anything like that . There has to be a reason, but at present I have nothing to suggest except possibly gross over-revving leading to valve bounce. What do the relevant pistons look like ?

The obituary is not very accurate, making no mention of his time as an aeronautical inspector, nor of the start of his testing career which was with Lea-Francis for about 4 years . For one of the very best books on Jaguar as a whole, I recommend Paul Skilleter's authorised biography of ND, containin...

With all due respect, lovely though it is , that does not look anything like strong enough for a milling machine, which both for safety and accuracy require a really immobile fixing