The 'E' Type Forum

Garry, from Clausager's Factory Original E Type: From OTS 1S1741; 1S22046; 2+2 1S51657; 1S74662 in Feb '73 Exhaust with four tailpipes replaced by exhaust with two tailpipes. There are a few other words as to which dates are correct but the book is a good guide to what happened in the development of...

cactusman wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:37 am

Whisky....crappy tablet spell checker!

Julian, I guessed as much but couldn't resist a bit of fun. That's one element of the forum to bring a smile to our faces, we can have fun WITH others, not at others' expense

Geoff

cactusman wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:38 pm

One of the great whiskeys

Whiskey? From Scotland?

Welcome to the best source of friendly help and advice for all things E Type, tell us more about the car and ask any questions you have, however silly they may seem we’ve all been there and learned from each other. Please add your name and model to your signature area as it helps people know which c...

I thought that was used to find the Southern Pole Star

Keith, welcome to the forum, the best place for help and friendly advice for all things E Type.
I hope all goes well with the import and registration.

Geoff (in Hampshire, so a little too far to be a local contact )

It is very frustrating that the Jag version of the 123 with its 16 curves only has one that is close to the standard dizzy and even that needs retarding at idle by a few degrees or it’ll be too advanced at high revs All other curves are far more aggressive.

Geoff

Neal, one observation is that a plastic bottle allows you to see the fluid level and not just rely on the dash display. Even taking the cap off we should see some sort of level marker (a tab?) inside, without needing a torch to shine into it. Also, would they use the standard caps? If the price is c...

and screaming girlfriend holding the iPad (for the dashboard app) did not allow me to go much further! I will clarify she is at TDC exactly as soon as I can Time for a new girlfriend :bigrin: For finding tdc (of the engine not your girlfriend!) you may find this helpful: http://forum.etypeuk.com/vi...

1 5/16 socket. Well done Grant, pleased to see you are succeeding.

Geoff

And a new set of UM needles?

Geoff

And if you plan to work on your engine get one of these:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11938&hilit=Balance ... 20#p119357

Geoff

Thank you, Julian. A very humble man well deserved to be reunited with an old friend.

Geoff

The latest JEC magazine has arrived in the eco-friendly paper envelope on which is an advert from CMC for a 1965 Jaguar E Type 4.2 Series 1 FHC Roadster. Is this the ultimate convertible? A metal hood that folds down into the boot? In the photo it looks like a proper FHC with a sunroof. A video of t...

Ken Jenkins of the JEC has commented about poor flow through the spin on filters and his advice was not to use the standard EBC9658 (?) filter. Barratts should be able to help you, though some may say there’s nothing wrong with their standard filter :roll: I’ve used the Fram one Andrew Bowie lists a...

Knowledge section; paint codes might have it
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=13409

Geoff

Tim, for what it’s worth on my S2 OTS project there was a small piece of foam on the propshaft tunnel next to that bracket. As though to stop the handbrake cable knocking against the tunnel. Whether original or not

Geoff

Littlejay, that’s a good registration to have, reminiscent of a particularly famous E Type. Give Angus Moss a call (1954etype on this forum, a moderator) https://www.mossjaguar.com/index.html, a very honest fellow with vast experience. He can assess the car and either agree to sell it for you or adv...

Tom, that lever is the same as on my cars

Peter, a far nicer solution is to get a pair of MX5 seats, chat to Angus he does a good set with much better runners than the E Type ones.

Geoff

Andrew, it was the same wiring mistake where the coil pos and neg had been the wrong way round. I put the rvc tacho pick up back on the positive side, but it should have been the negative terminal. The Spiyda website gave the correction pick up info.

Geoff