The 'E' Type Forum

I have noticed - since the beginning - that our friend barks out orders in this manner, presumably using his telephone keypad for brevity, with no heed to manners nor subtlety, so I am assuming there must be some Paid Subscription version of the Forum where one is Entitled to obtain answers from the...

Thanks Geoff, answer - yes I think so.

All I want is a pair of hard-top mounting cheeks, and the guy won’t take less than 200€ for the whole lot.

Anyone want any of the other bits to get the deal over the line ?

Could someone hold my hand in identifying these parts please ? https://i.postimg.cc/kM08mS4Z/HARD-TOP-1.png https://i.postimg.cc/CKxnNHPL/HARD-TOP-2.png Aside from the grab-handle anchorages (?), the hard-top securing plates, the bonnet pig-tail, door-striker mechanism (which Series please ? not min...

Thanks for adding all that Andrew. Your remarks about the difference between the cars at the different ends of the E Type « Spectrum » - when on the surface they might appear similar - rang very true to me. There can’t be that many vehicles where the inherent complexities and foibles enable an owner...

B-Post Seals : Nothing remotely "machine-shop" and 0.01mm-precise about this, but it might inspire somebody. Finding the door-seals too "fat" is a very common complaint - I've even tried to get COH Baines to consider making a more slender version, but they're too busy Virtue Signalling to actually ...

Sad to come across references to dear Christopher Storey. However, his rapier brain would have required that we test some of his hypotheses, and I’m going to query the wisdom of his #6 post, above, where he refers to oval journals being used to combat resonant frequencies. Having some clue how hydro...

Have a couple on the boil now, thanks to everyone.

And to Serge, great, j'ai tout compris.

Yes Geoff, that would be ideal but perhaps improbable 🤨 - tho’ I would pay more than wine juice.

My idea was to buy one and then sell it afterwards. Unless I get a taste for it maybe.

Prices asked for them seem to vary wildly, there is one on Ebay - looks great but could it really be worth 10.500€ ?

I may need to find a Hard-Top for an event that I am considering taking part in. I have never looked at one of these close up and have no idea how they fit, or what you do with the hood etc - pretty basic questions I know. Could somebody confirm that you just leave the hood in place, presumably unde...

Yeah Yeah Yeah there's too much been written about door alignment / panel gaps already, why write another thread ? Well, I've never seen anyone admitting to bending their doors, especially once they have been painted. And I've never seen anyone mention the striker-assembly pins, the dowel on the doo...

To me, the sealing compound is the last of your worries. Any kind of « helicoil » will do the job, personally I would stick with that « wire » type rather than go even bigger in order to fit the solid-wall Timesert approach - the latter are much stronger, but this is an essentially no-load area. The...

Getting spoke tensions checked and wheels tweaked to run as true as possible, French wheel-builder does other cars but had no mandrel for Jaguars. The wheels still look brand new after 35 years (MWS - India) but believe there may be room for improvement. Have also now got Jaguar-specific wheel-balan...

Bought axle/hub/nut/washer/usable bearings from Ken Jenkins, £130 inc VAT and shipping. https://i.postimg.cc/66nvnmrb/IMG-3075.jpg 35mm steel tubing with a bore that's a perfect match to the axle, and forms the back lip for the inner bearing, a slug welded where the upright-nut would be, and two loc...

Had confirmation from SNGB, no improvement : the clutch bottle will still only work with their specific cap, complete with its no-air-bleed.

I didn't have the gall to ask if you still needed to make your own seal ...........

I enjoyed the 747 Announcing Departure. But do wonder if our friend doesn’t have a point …… If Jag Lovers is set up to have it’s pictures free-to-air, for example, how do they fund it ? Wouldn’t it make more sense for « us » to do the same, and render our Forum autonomous ? I accept that this is pro...

I have had Gil’s BetterCarLighting stuff all over my E Type for a year now, and it is a massive improvement. The actual flashing unit for the brake-light (incorporated within the reversing light) is great idea but didn’t work, and he didn’t know how it should be wired up anyway, which surprised me, ...

For checking thermostats and senders, I use a cooking / jam thermometer, a decent one, with the classic glass column, in a pan on the stove. Or sometimes a kettle balanced on the cylinder head, if I want the real-life voltage feeds as generated by the car. In my experience with infra red ones, you h...

Before you throw complexity, modernity, and money, at a car where there may - perhaps, in the context you describe - be lots of other sub-optimal issues .......... bear in mind what follows. Whilst my car runs brilliantly on Megajolt, when I reverted (road-side, as a break-down resilience test, take...

Nine years on, and have things improved, please ? https://i.postimg.cc/qBZXZn4h/IMG-2969.jpg Since 2016 I have been using the rather nasty SNGB plain-cap on the clutch reservoir I had from them, which has 1. no air-bleed, and 2. which required me to make my own seal as the one supplied was too thin,...

I wouldn't believe a single word of anything that SC Parts said to me.

Especially "made to order in 6 weeks".

Made to order, but with drain plug in the wrong position, and rear-seal machining that is not like a 3.8 ?