The 'E' Type Forum

I suspect I’m using the wrong term. ‘Polished’?

Hi Everyone I have a very low-mileage (approx. 5,000 miles) 1966 series 1, as it has an unusual story of being sealed in a Californian garage for decades, untouched, without a trace of rust anywhere. I have good reason to believe the mileage is accurate, given photographs and service records. It's b...

Many thanks, Steve. Reassuring.

Hi All I just had to service my tach generator and in doing so found the lock plate missing (C15918) and a small gap, as pictured, between the intake manifold housing/cylinder head and the tach generator. Given the fact that the lock plate is missing, I worry that something else might not be quite r...

The distributor manual says; “ Locate the vacuum hose that was previously attached to the vacuum advance canister. This hose should originate at a ported vacuum source. Some applications have vacuum advance hoses attached to a manifold vacuum source, due to the performance advance curve, we recommen...

Can’t be sure. I know that’s not very helpful, but it’s been a long time. It’s not been driven much in the past decade-plus.

Here’s the problem. Starts fine. Carbs seem really well-tuned. I recently stripped and serviced them. Shiny! But when driving, all is well until I try to accelerate firmly, at which point, upon climbing much over 1,500, the car lurches, judders and bunny hops. Now this may be really obvious to many,...

Actually, scratch that. Did more ‘general E-Type kind of fiddling*’, and now it works! I guess the ‘general E-Type kind of fiddling’ got me the 2mm or so I needed and now it sucks in nice and tight. *stand looking at it, baffled and muttering. Think hard about the special kind of tool needed. Go and...

Did as suggested and it seems the sliding plate inside the car body to which the strike plate is attached is as far inboard as whatever it slides up to against will allow. So do I embark upon the quest to get inside the car and adjust how far inwards the sliding plate moves, or is there another, sim...

Many thanks guys. Will try this today.

Hi Can someone please explain how to get a door to close ‘tighter’? My driver door doesn’t align with the body panel at the trailing edge but the hinges are correctly positioned. I’ve read around it and advice seems to be to loosen the big screws holding the strike plate and move it inwards but I do...

Many thanks for the helpful replies. Saved me lots of time and effort. And some cash.

Apologies if this has been amply discussed before - tricky topic to search on. Watching some videos and noticed the guys at the Classic Engine Workshop in Worcester highly recommend adding tappet guide tie-downs (or ‘hold downs at Moss) to avoid potential catastrophe in the event of a guide working ...

If you are using premix, good to go. If using "full strength" and want to cut it to 50/50 then use the good water... Sorry - what I mean is, when flushing and cleaning, do I need to use distilled for that, or just a hose pipe and tap water. I totally get that the 50:50 mix that ends up in the syste...

Right; all set for a flush, clean, flush and refill.

Last question (promise); when cleaning, do I need to use distilled water, or is that only necessary for mixing with coolant prior to filling?

So research suggests I should very much move away from green (silicate) stuff to orange, but that the system needs a really good flush beforehand. Any specific tips or tricks I should be aware of?

Thanks again.

Many thanks, guys!

I would imagine this may have been asked before, but I searched and couldn't find it.

Can anyone please recommend a good coolant? I'm not going waterless...

Thanks,

Dom

I'd very much also like to buy one or two of these, please! Forums are awesome! Many thanks, Rich! Steve, you reminded me that I was working on 3D printing this part a little while ago - I like to copy appropriate plastic components on my car, when I get the opportunity. I can finish working on this...

Andrew - *many* thanks for taking the time to provide such a helpful and informative answer. It’s a relief to know I don’t need to replace the whole unit.