The 'E' Type Forum

Thanks for that Guys. A contact at SNG B. tells me that they have an appropriate shaft splined at each end! He says he will send me the part number. Apparently normal column UJs with nut and bolt clamp will clear on the rack pinion end. My experiences years ago with the clamp bolt on the lower UJ, r...

Thanks for that Steve, a neat bit of work with your bonnet. I have owned my car for 40 odd years and have removed bonnet more than once. I would like to see anyone try to wiggle the column out, (I have tried). It is so unnecessary if only the ser1 column had splines at both ends, as the ser2 seems t...

The Ser1 lower steering column (on my 1965 OTS) has the yoke of the lower universal Joint forged onto the end of the long shaft. This forged yoke prevents the column being withdrawn through the bulkhead and out into the cockpit. Therefore it is recommended that the shaft should be removed by taking ...

Many thanks for your quick responses, providing leads for new CWP sets. It has also only just dawned on me that a crown wheel is not a wheel but a ring gear bolted to an open or to a P.Lok diff assembly and hence interchangeable. Hopefully, I now have a clear way forward. Cheers Rick.

Please help - my 1965 ser 1 4.2 (chassis 1184) power-lok differential has failed. The surfaces of the pinion teeth are breaking up. The ratio is 3.07 (43 X 14). It would seem that new replacement crown wheel pinion sets are not available. I have been offered a 3.07 non power-lok Crown wheel and pini...

My 65 OTS has a larger pipe brazed to the boot floor just behind the rear wheel to take the drain from the bootlid gutter. Brazed onto the side of this pipe is a smaller one to take the filler cap drain. NB these rubber hoses need to be carefully routed as they can prevent the tank from fitting up c...

I am replacing the cracked and damaged vinyl/foam dashtop (1965 S1 OTS) with a remade vinyl/foam part from SNG Barratt. Having stripped the foam from the steel dashtop panel, I find that the 5 plastic demister ducts seem to have been moulded in place! The ducts must have been inserted into their slo...

My 65 OTS has a relatively unmolested original bonnet.
Yes - it still has that hump each side.
So the concours judges should indeed consider adding those humps to their checklists!

Thanks for help. The thread fixing the lens to Fr & Rr lamps does indeed seem to be 2 BA. Having been lent a screw which fixes the lamps onto the car body, I find that it is 0.190" in Dia with 32 tpi - This would seem to be 10.32 unf thread. I am told (by SNG Barratt) that the reproduction screws us...

Thanks for prompt response. However I did not spot any references to the thread form of the screws used to mount the side and tail lamps to the vehicle body, or to those used to mount the Headlamp bezels to the bonnet. I need to to retap the threads in the fittings that the screws screw into. In adi...

Could someone kindly provide me with the details of the screws used to fix the Fr & Rr lights and the chrome H.light bezels onto the body of a 65 S1?
Cheers