The 'E' Type Forum

Rory, to me the lining in non-original, all the rest is.
Cheers,

Yes...but this seems way too low today for what looks to be a very decent car

been there with same issue on the 3 carbs but all stuck in the upper position, hence could not pull the choke cable enough. Removed pistons, sprayed carb cleaner and let soak, then couple of gentle taps with a brass rod and all back to normal operation.

Would anyone have a new one of either of the seal types to hand, the all-rubber or the cork/rubber, and could measure the thickness ? I have 2 new in my gasket pile: one Jaguar original, and one in a Payen set. The Jaguar original is made of softer more flexible rubber and looks a bit greyish compa...

Rory, I too would love having one of these, if still available.

Hi Bill, I glued the vinyl to the car over the lip and just few mm over the tack strip.

Bill, Serge, here are some pics I have digged out for you. As indicated in my earlier post, I have used a large fan belt. Hope to have been of service, cheers, https://i.postimg.cc/52fR2Cyn/February-2017-34.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/3J1Z9bJh/February-2017-31.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gjkx049r/April-20...

I fitted the Coolcat one, quite easy install, and it works perfect with low noise too.
No more anxiety in slow summer traffic.

Update: I swapped the suspect left shock absorber with one of the right ones, the knocking is gone like magic and did not start on the right side... yet.
Will give it some time to see whether the knocking comes back, before replacing all 4.
Thanks for the response!

DWW wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 09, 2025 2:35 pm

Since I replaced my side and rear lights with LEDs and added the brake light conversion to the reverse lights, I always drive with sides on which are bright enough to identify as DLRs

I do the same, with buzzer fitted to door light switch.

40GT wrote: ↑

Mon May 19, 2025 5:49 pm

Can you not just remove the leaking shock completely and test

this would be quite risky in my view.

rfs1957 wrote: ↑

Mon May 19, 2025 5:38 pm

Doesn’t sound like a shock absorber noise to me ……..

No other visible suspect.

Thanks to both Steve's. The dampers are not new and I frankly have no idea of mileage, they were on the car when I got it in pieces 10 years back. But the ride has been so good so far, and much better than the koni classics I have on the other S2, that is why I am hesitating. I can only be sure that...

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Last summer a knocking noise had started on the rear left, irregular and often when tight cornering right. The knock was clearly on the outboard, just behind my left ear (LHD). My first suspect was the wheel-hub, changed the wheel and regreased the hub with no success. Successively then tightened th...

Stumbled across this nice video, worth sharing, enjoy:


Cheers,

Rory, IIRC you have the EDIS+Megajolt set-up?
Positively then with your laptop hooked you can read the exact RPM and compare with your rev counter reading...

Hi Bill, you must be right, frankly I don't recall full details, but what I now remember is that I had 3 diff simultaneously opened on the bench: the original 3.54 from my car, a 2.88 and a 3.07 from MK2. The 3.07 pinion and crown had been a straight swap into the 3.54 casing, but not the 2.88 I had...

angelw wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 06, 2025 3:17 am

Doug is correct, there is only an issue when trying to fit a 2.88 gear set into a housing than contained lower ratio gear sets.

Regards,
Bill

I had a different experience : the pinion of the 3.07 had a smaller OD, coming from a saloon without LSD, so I had to swap internals.

Philippe, you cannot simply fit a crown and pinion from a 3.07 into a 3.54 casing. You do need a 3.07 casing which could be coming from a saloon hence without LSD, into which you will fit the LSD out from your 3.54 with the crown and pinion of the 3.07. Hope this is illustrative and I am sure others...