The 'E' Type Forum

Hi I am just trying to fit the three under dashboard hardura and cannot work out how they fit . the long piece seems to be for the glovebox side ,but i can't get to fit. i assume it rests on the small brackets on the bulkhead. S1 4.2 RHD

Yes they are a bit of a tease to fit especially the nuts at the rear underneath . Plenty of scratched hands usually. I do not think there is an easy way.

Change metal floats for new plastic ones as the brass ones tend to leak.

I am building a 4.2 MK1 for someone who had his engine rebuilt about 10 years ago and when we first ran the engine we found low compression on 3 cylinders. He had not turned it over or introduced oil into the cylinders for all of that time. I had to have 3 liners replaced and new rings. It was cheap...

Hi should the joining piece fixed to the car that the first board buts up to behind the seats Painted or covered in material .

Hi should the rubber shroud on the plug slide over the fitting on the hood itself . It dose not seem to go on very far and lock on very well at the moment and i am loath to leave it as it is

Hi we have just fired both seats but the passenger side seat is not square. The car has had a lot of welding with new panels. They all look correct. The only way we can see to fix it is making new mounting holes which I do not likely want to do. Obviously the two that go through the chasosis will ha...

Yes finally finished the bonnet fitting. Locks down and gaps near perfect but what a job . taking spacers out or replacing with different sizes.
Just a question at the front there is a thick spacer ( about 5mm) in the position to lift the bonnet on both sides ,is this normal ?

No tried all that. We can get it to lock down but we have to lean on the bonnet above the latch.
It is a brand new bonnet and all new front frame.

We have got the gaps correct on the bonnet but the latches wont lock unless you push it down at the back Altering the shims at the spring mechanism at the front . Will this help ?

Thanks I'm glad I'm not the only one.

We have just got round to adjusting the bonnet alignment.S1 4.2 RHD This is a new bonnet and all new frames. To get a good gap to the back we have removed all the shims ( 1x 1mm 3 thinner) on the offside but even when we have removed all spacers on the nearside the bonnet is still not coming back fa...

Well finally fitted seats. For some reason they would only fit a certain side. Also when the runners were fitted you could see that they were not parallel with each other and we had to fit washers to level the up on both.

Hi thanks Danny . Can you tell me the gap between bonnet .
No rush.

I just don't seem to be able to get it high enough not to foul the heater box. Also how were they attached at factory . S1 4.2 rhd

S1 FHC RHD . We have fitted the paseinger seat fine but when we try to fit the drivers side it just will not line up with the holes in the floor. I must add it has had complete new floor pan fitted .Is there any difference in drivers ads passenger seats ?

Thanks guys

S1 4.2 . On which side should the levers be . I didn't take notice when I stripped the seats down .

Fitted , I had to climb onto scuttle where wipers should be . It wasn't easy as I am 73 and not as fit as i was.
But thanks anyway.