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- Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: £95k to spend on a car? Forget E types-this is the one for you.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3890
Re: £95k to spend on a car? Forget E types-this is the one for you.
Well, it hasn't got any crossover pipes, or windshield nozzles, and it's probably quite easy to bleed the brakes (it does have brakes, doesn't it?). If you decided to do a full restoration you'd have very little to have rechromed, you wouldn't need Koolmat or such, and you'd probably get away with a...
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 7:27 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Remagnetising Tacho generator. Job done
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4836
Re: Remagnetising Tacho generator
I've read a bit about remagnetising the magnets inside the Smith's mechanical tacho. From what I could see it is a pretty hit and miss affair. I've never done a tach generator, but I have fiddled with magnets on a couple of mechanisms like the speedo. Fiddly, hit and miss, and time consuming would ...
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:08 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Frustrated by poor quality product
- Replies: 42
- Views: 13141
Re: Frustrated by poor quality product
There you go, I'm Canadian, and I thought Bob meant Pork Tourtier, which is fantastic, especially with HP sauce! (I emigrated before the Poutine craze.)chrisfell wrote:... and I have a friend called Simon, who like me absolutely hates Poutine. Thankfully, cheese curds are not readily available in Blighty.
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Welcome to our new Moderator
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6937
Re: Welcome to our new Moderator
Good on you Steve. Thanks for investing the time.
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:14 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Different Diffs
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7321
Re: Different Diffs
Yes but it's a trade off, as are so many other things in engineering; the more teeth, the bigger the crownwheel, and the heavier the whole assembly becomes, which in turn would add to the unpsrung weight on a car with conventional suspension. I might be quite wrong about the numbers being bigger th...
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 8:59 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Dismantling a bonnet
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4719
Re: Dismantling a bonnet
Carsten, Use paint stripper on the head of the Pozis and use a small wire brush ( have toothbrush sized ones) to get the drive clean. They're as crap as Philips if there is any paint or dirt in them. Take a 1/2" cold chisel and set it on the side of the head and give that a sharp rap with a SMALL ha...
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 7:49 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Rubber jack pads
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2289
Re: Rubber jack pads
If you cut 3 pucks in half and screw them on a board at the spacing of the valves you've got a great board for fitting valve springs.
- Mon Aug 14, 2017 7:28 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Different Diffs
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7321
Re: Different Diffs
The Diff unit itself can be swapped into the E pumpkin - this means your inner fulcrums, output shafts, and caliper mounts all stay the same. If you want to fit the brake calipers from the SIII XJ to the '60s diff casing you need to grind some meat off the calipers to get past a web (do this before ...
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:23 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: S1 4.2 hard to start
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5452
Re: S1 4.2 hard to start
I'm still having trouble to start my engine. ... Currently, I can start it using a rattle can (Startpilot), which sprays an ether into the trumpets. Leave foot of gas pedal, set choke to max, spray into three trumpets, push button, and she's instantly alive. Pistons in carbs elevate to about 1\2 in...
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 4:44 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 16912
Re: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
Maybe tomorrow I'll play mix and match with the spring retainers and collets to see if that makes any differ nice but I can't see that it would. Sounds like either trying a new valve,finding a slimmer shim, or grinding the valve stem are the other options to solve the clearance issue. :scratchheady...
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 6:03 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 16912
Re: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
Sodium filled valves are quite common. Most turbos and high perf engines use them, Audi, Alfa, Mazda. I asked a long time Alfa mech about that just last week.Hugo wrote: Sodium filled valves huh? The last engine I saw those on was a Wolseley 6/80 OHC...
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 3:10 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 16912
Re: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
I don't think it 'knocked back' - I think it fell out & then got hammered back in, sort of. That's just a guess, of course, but better than yours I reckon :wink: Bet on it? I only bet if I feel the need to take your money. Besides... there is a land which the seat is pressed home against. The chanc...
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 2:46 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 16912
Re: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
You reckon? I have trouble imagining that a "brand new head" would have the seats so poorly fitted that they would knock back 1mm after a decent run in period. I would expect a poorly fitted seat to make itself known audibly pretty early on (after a few heat cycles). I've seen lots of pictures of d...
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:06 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
- Replies: 58
- Views: 16912
Re: Top end clatter - diagnosis help please!
... Anyway, all the ideas so far point to having to remove the head to do further investigations, so I think this will have to be the next step. I'll let you know what is found (with suitably gruesome pictures of Hugo's optimism proves correct!). It might be a broken spring a bit of which has worke...
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 3:46 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Plastic sleeving on tabs for harness/fuel pipes?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4283
Re: Plastic sleeving on tabs for harness/fuel pipes?
I use a small butane torch with piezo ignition and an adjustable flame for close work like that. I got my torch in the cooking section of a local store, they're used for making creme Brulee. (I give mine a quick wipe before I bring it into the kitchen.) At the lowest setting the flame is highly loca...
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 12:44 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Sun visors
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3484
Re: Sun visors
Is the post you were thinking of this one?
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 3:37 pm
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Plastic sleeving on tabs for harness/fuel pipes?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4283
Re: Plastic sleeving on tabs for harness/fuel pipes?
+1 on heatshrink.
- Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:34 am
- Forum: Technical
- Topic: Crankshaft rear oil seal
- Replies: 97
- Views: 31373
Re: Crankshaft rear oil seal
Hi Well as has been pointed out we won the war and within a very short space of time the wonderful XK engine was born, so why some 22 years after its arrival were the British motor industry Leyland to be precise building a wonderful car called the e type that was designed so it would rot from withi...
- Mon Jul 17, 2017 4:01 pm
- Forum: Series 2
- Topic: debris in oil sump huks!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5343
Re: debris in oil sump huks!
Rinse the debris. Run a magnet over it, whatever the magnet picks up is ferrous (or has a good bit embedded in it). Put the debris on a clean brass plate and heat it gently with a torch. What melts or gives off smoke is plastic. The rest is Copper, Brass, Bronze, or Al/white (very little stainless i...
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:32 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Attempted Theft
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4031
Re: Attempted Theft
Wouldn't any recovery charges be covered by your Insurance?