The 'E' Type Forum

The bolts I removed had a round flat head the same diameter as the rubber, and perhaps 3mm thick.

I did this last weekend. Mine had originally been fitted with the C24792 bobbin but over time the rubber had perished leaving the bolt in the overrider and inaccessible. I just took off the whole bumper leaving the overrider intact. The bobbin bolt was badly rusted in and needed drilling and removin...

and to answer my own question...YES!

So do I just rotate the paxolin plate 180 degrees?
Can it be that simple?

Many, many thanks Simon.
Lots of good reading material for me here.

My apologies if this has been covered before but I have not been able to ascertain the answer from the archives. I have a Series 1.5 LHD FHC that i have converted to RHD. What I want to do is reverse the direction of the wipers so that they park pointing to the right of the car as seen from behind (...

To misquote Orwell "6 cylinders good, 12 cylinders bad". I'm in Adelaide. A good XK 6 cylinder rebuild can be had for $6k. A V12 can cost upward of $20k and the guys I deal with, who only do E types and seem pretty knowledgeable, see the V12 as the work of the devil. There's a good reason why series...

That sounds very dodgy to me. Personally I would not deal with them at all. Find someone else.

Something's bent, the wrong size or misassembled. For one thing you have a lot less clearance between the upper wishbone and the shock than I do. It looks to me like the whole upper shock mount is sitting too far back. I know that would mean that the engine frames were suspect and that that's pretty...

Adelaide. Lots of churches

Hello all. I'm the recent buyer of a LHD Federal spec XKE.

See http://www.projectetype.com.

Andrew