The 'E' Type Forum

Hi looking at the gaskets pictured on the SNGB website, they have the appearance of being made of 'rubber cork' i.e. a bonded composite of nitrile (NBR) and cork granules. A pure cork would not have the black speckling (the nitrile) in it. So the nitrile rubber would provide resistance to ethanol (i...

Doh that was 350-400 miles per pint, not litres. In 2500 miles, I topped up with just over 4 litres or 7 pints.

Hi, as SESH says, there's many different opinions on oils. I once took my used oil and filter to a manufacturers labs for analysis and they told me as an aside, to use an oil with 1000pm-1500ppm ZDDP in it to combat long-term metal-to-metal contact. Oils to 'modern' spec may be of superb quality, bu...

Well from what I'm given to understand, an additive to oil is essential to provide some anti-wear protection for when the oil film can't - e.g. cam lobes where the oil is both pressured and wiped out of the contact area. ZDDP builds up a chemical surface layer as a back-up. About 30 years ago ZDDP w...

Avgas 100LL, 100 octane low lead, is available at my local airfield @ £1.56 per litre, currently. I sometimes fill up a jerry can if I'm there anyway. It's dyed pale blue. You probably wouldn't be allowed to drive a car anywhere near the pumps, which will be 'airside'. More pertinently, your insuran...

Sorry, meant Daylighter 1 can be fitted either way round in its mount, affecting the result, Not the 2.

FWIW just my own experience, I'd lose in any technical debate. I have a pair of LED bulbs in my S2, also one each in 7 motorbikes. They're all Daylighter 1 or 2's for the common 3-prong fitment, sometimes known as P43t, supplied by Paul Goff, norbsa.com. The bulbs are particularly useful in some of ...

+ his joining date 9th June.

on Hagerty as well. Excellent to deal with, no hassle on agreed value vs one or two other brokers, competitive and I got 90 days European cover (8 week trip to southern Spain). Laid up cover no problem.

Alun

Carsten As a part time resident of Italy, I am able to say with certain knowledge that it is possible to obtain a VPN account with someone like Nord that allows subscribers to spoof the BBC iPlayer and other media players’ security into believing that the subscriber is within the UK, similarly for ...

I've not been able to look at a guaranteed original car in this respect, but the retrim kit I got from Aldridge Trimming included a shaped Hardura piece to lie in the cubby box section behind the 'upstand'. BAS International also show it as Hardura on their website, item 19 in the S2 FHC section @ £...

I agree which is why there's a thriving market to convert a LR50 battery driven clock to one with a quartz mechanism behind the original face. I believe the change from LR50 driven clock to +12 volt driven clock was around October 1969. From Porter's "Original Jaguar E-Type": Oct 1969 battery-opera...

BTW Jeff I did realise you were comparing your mods to the standard S2, not S2 vs S1, but that is the general theme on this topic. You've put a lot of work in there, beyond my capabilities, but I'm chilled about the S2, all I've done is change the lenses a la Elan with reversing lights incorporated,...

Oh well Jeff, a few of us (just determined to be awkward of course) actually prefer not having the gorgeous upper flanks of the car scarred by those pimple-like excrescences thrown on the Series 1, that are like lights, but dimmer.

Hi Steve it could well be then that my cantrail trims, using that BD28310, are wrong. But they're the same as what came off, possibly a tiny bit shallower; bizarrely one side was 2" short, when I phoned around to replace at least that one side, I had no joy except for SNGB suggesting this as the bes...

Try SNGB for part no. BD28310, sold at 5p/cm. They might send you a sample, but then again, half a metre or so will be pretty cheap anyway. They advised me that their trim is suitable to replace that on the cantrails as well as the hinge covers. My search was the other way round to you, I had the hi...

Oops just realised you said dash panels....doh, but probably MCT, Aldridge Trimming would still spring to mind if I was in need of getting mine done and again, others on here may come up with their recommendations. I've been lucky in only needing to glue back down some edges above the glove box whil...

My experience is limited, I have re-covered my own dash top, using the moulding supplied by BAS International. Really helpful people, they did caution that it is a tricky job to get right and I can fully understand your query being aimed at having it done professionally. I'm reasonably pleased with ...

Hi all and Merry Xmas etc I thought it was about time I joined! I own a RHD UK S2 coupe, 2 seater manual in Jaguar Dark Blue, with red interior. Engine/box/body numbers match to the Heritage Cert, just over 90k on the clock. I'm fnding the Forum a treasure trove of helpful and friendly help as I dig...