The 'E' Type Forum

Other threads on the Forum have used this word DUTY, and with some indignation. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was only signed on 24 December 2020 so it's a bit early to condem the current issues as being definitive. The TCA introduced a prohibition on the imposition of tariffs on the sup...

Could we all stop using this emotive term « Duty » when talking about the EU and Brexit ? It gets trotted out all the time, generally in indignation, when it is almost NEVER « Duty «, but almost always VAT. Inter EU transactions for individuals were and are subject to the exporting country’s VAT, an...

This topic sprang a leak and has reappeared here http://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?p=140814#p140814 so let's re-centre it. I'm curious about references to aluminium washers being used under the banjo-bolt heads ? We are of course referring to the petrol feed banjos, and I had always assumed the...

Hi Jim, There is another Topic covering these, I’ll try and find it for you, unless someone else beats me to it, as these washers are surprisingly difficult to get to seal, and have to be made to very tight tolerances if they are to have any chance of working. The Dowty type, as I understand them, w...

Dan219 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:44 pm

So much knowledge in here, makes your head spin!
I feel like I am drinking from the firehose,

« Drinking from the firehose »

I think this is one of the best literary gems we have had for a while on the Forum.

Please keep it up.

Amongst the nonsense, and not letting the facts of the original post get in the way of a good story, how about a reality check. Robeys sent two parcels to the wrong customers, switched. That is their problem and they should pick up the cost. Nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit, and the shipping bet...

This brings us nicely in a loop, as Andrew's post brings us back to the present, and this string has just been quoted in this one, where I gave details of getting the cut-off sleeve to work more efficiently. http://forum.etypeuk.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17043 Did you try and see how the new thermosta...

I'm aware that there are reams of exchanges concerning the 3.8 thermostat, but I couldn't find one that dealt uniquely with the subject, so rather reluctantly am starting this one. https://i.postimg.cc/qqkBVV8v/XXKFjSR.jpg If a moderator wants to tack it on somewhere else, please intervene. Any stud...

I can report (Ed - confirm the obvious) that filling a rebuilt engine, together with its painstakingly cleaned-out innards, with highly lime-rich calcarious South-Of-France water is not a good idea. Quite how bad. Now, I had only intended for this to be for a couple of weeks with the engine on the t...

Tests now completed - it's ready for your white-van-man to collect, Angus. I took these pictures before I dismantled it all, hoping they may help others make a similar thing, and avoid some of the pitfalls. My main motivation was to see whether my MegaJolt installation (which is very different) work...

Angus Moss now has my design and remaining stocks.

Moss Jaguar. +44 (0)1462 686682 enquiries@mossjaguar.com

https://www.mossjaguar.com/index.html

NOT to be confused with Moss-Europe or Moss Motors.

Yes, I just tried to plot a credible curve that lay within the vacuum spec boundaries. I'm still not happy with the point at which I'm exposing the advance to the vacuum effect though. Originally (just been testing with a vacuum gauge) the ported -vacuum only starts to read at all at around 1700 rpm...

With help from the irrepressible and helpful Rob at BritishVacuumUnit.com https://www.britishvacuumunit.com/ (they also do distributor rebuilds) I now have this extract from a Lucas book that confirms the same figures, reassuringly, that Jaguar specified in period. https://i.postimg.cc/mgkDXJNk/Luca...

Here's an updated file with the suck parameters in both "Hg and KPa.

https://i.postimg.cc/VLG9BcCD/vztut4.jpg More here: https://www.liberiders.tv/2018/11/21/ducati-mike-hailwood-by-simpson-mecanique/ I wasn't being bashful, just missed this at the time, someone pointed it out to me just recently. I guess that the post about the 916, just above this, is another nail...

Yes, I had an interesting exchange with BritishVacuumUnit in the US. Usual friendly, enthusiastic, and reactive, US approach. According to them both 54410415 and 54412348 had indeed exactly the same behaviour, being 7" - 14" - 8°, and were just different shapes and had different fittings. 0 advance ...

I'm not sure quite where to post this. It stems from my wanting to make a map for the MegaJolt that is as true a representation of the original 3.8 ignition as possible, reflecting the effects of both the centrifugal and the vacuum vacuum advance, as I haven't found anything that comes remotely clos...

Update from Julian, January 2021.

Selling well, new batch in production, look out for promo and adverts.

Cut the crap Crespin, talking down the value of my cams. I'll pay the shipping, just get them out of my sight. PS - but Mike Hailwood's 1978 TT-winning bike has the sweetest, most civilised, engine on the road of any bevel twin I have ever ridden ; it's a much nicer road bike than any - er - road bi...

Yes, there's nothing wrong with the manufacture : mine timed up to within 2° on every lobe. They're just sold by idiots, to idiots ; I bought them through Chesman (who were massacring my various engine parts at the time) on their advice, through Guy Broad. Perfectly civilised road cam, with more top...