Oh man! that looks good, When you have finished can you get your crew to do mine?

 

Hi Guys! Thanks for your support.

Here cleaning parts with wire wheel. I had been researching about the original plating. It looks like some of the models have more gold parts than others...

I'm selecting parts by: black oxide, zinc, gold and blue gun.

Any help is welcome.
Debbie

 

Wow, Debbie. Great work !. A rebel gal, huh. Your folks want independence from Spain.
Lottsa kinsmen/women around there.


Too bad, you and LnrB are so far apart in geographical terms. You'd probably be great pals.


As a rebel, heck, pick your own finishes. Cad, chrome or even powder coat.


Some years ago, my son restified a mid sixties Chris Craft 25' cabin cruiser. Replating in brass of the hardware was out of budget. but, he did swap work with a neighboring powder coat place. Not quite shiny bras, but great looking. Not to mention, much less maintenance.


Carl

 

I'm with Carl on that one - make it look the way YOU want. If the way you actually want it is factory correct, the only thing I can suggest would be to find some period correct photos and try to match them. When you do, there is a company that sells home plating kits that replicate cadmium (goldy-brassy colour) zinc, chrome and nickel. The company is called Caswell in New York State. I am considering getting a kit for myself to do the hardware on my Olds and eventually my XJ.
These kits have none of the toxic chemicals that are typically used in the big shops. The kits are fairly inexpensive depending on the size of the parts to be plated. The only other thing you'd need is a rectifyer which supplies a low voltage current for the plating. They can recommend a size ( in Amps) for you depending on the surface area to be plated. These can get expensive fast so I'd try and source one out used....

A quick pic of my personalized 4.2...

 

Yup! I'm not in politics but I would love the total independence for my little country! Things are going to change for better

 

Hi Guys,

Lots of work on the wire wheel this week. I have 5 buckets full of hardware ready to plate. Almost all in gold.

The radiator shop did an excellent work. They've changed the complete core. Not cheap though. I've just painted with high heat black. (just flat, not shiny).

Coming week I should adjust and gap the body panels before paint preparation. The lower engine bay is already 'UPOL' under-coated. I did the beams and the transmission tunnel in black.
Debbie

 

C'mon now Napoleon, every time I see that engine of yours it makes mine seem like the dirty 41 year old it is.

 

It looks like I'm not the only one having fun! :-)

 

Not so pretty right now - cracked block means I'll be going Debbie's route starting this summer - to a slightly lesser extent...
By the way is that a factory original beer can?

 

Clarke doesn't fool around with his beer.

I'm sorry to read you have a cracked block, Napoleon! Bummer!
(';')

 

It must have been an after market beer, it was ice cold. Not warm and flat like the OEM beer.

 

Three important subjects:


1. Freedom of choice is beyond mere politics. Lest we forget. Two wars here, American revolution and our civil war.


2. Beer. Oh, so many choices. I've partaken of and enjoyed so many choices. I was at market and Budweiser was on sale. I've been away from the domestics for a while, craft beers so interesting. But, an ice cold can really hit the spot after Jaguar wire issues were sorta conquered!! It is driveable. 3/4 fixed.


3. Cracked blocks. Not necessarily the end of the engine's life. Dependant on where the crack/s is, it might be fixed by a time tested stitch process or a sleeve.


I've been there with other critters.


Happy Holidays !!!


Carl

 

First off - sorry Debbie for unintentionally hijacking this thread!
Carl, the plan is to top hat sleeve and do a full rebuild after I finish my other money pit - my 1964 Cutlass.

Ron

 

Yeah, I am good at that. I just think like I am with a group of guys/gals talking. Sorry.


Can't say I'll not do it again as I almost certainly will. The rebel in me!!


Oh, the wire wheel, I remember it well. In about 97, I embarked on a project to build a "Hot rod of the forties". I started with a discarded chassis and running gear from another guy's #0 "A" coupe. Rusty, and well worn. But, not the cancerous rust seen in some our Jaguars. Some criticize Jag rust proofing or lack thereof. Olds Fords had nothing but cheap chassis black. Amazingly, it seemed to have worked.


So, I had a bead blast cabinet for some stuff. A project in itself. I sent the frame out to a pro blast guy. Figured he can't hurt Vanadium steel. Great job. Whoever governed environment would've flipped. I shot it in etching primer as soon as it came home in on my son's car carrier trailer.


In a garage sale, I found the power head of a Craftsman radial saw. Stuck rails, but motor healthy. I clamped it to my bash bench and attached a really tough wire wheel in lieu of the blade. Lots of stuff got wheeled there for prime and paint. It is still under the bash table. I get it out from time to time. The top of the table I built from garage sale pickings includes a section of big "I" beam for surface to bash and weld on. And, a chunk or RR track cut in the shape of an anvil.


Another thread hack??


Carl

 

Hi Guys!

No problem, you are cool. Everybody is welcome and we all are having fun. I didn't post anything for a month... basically because I had been working 24/7 in the Jag and plus I broke the transmission of my everyday car. So I had two big projects. Now the transmission is done and I can (at least) breathe.

Here is a picture of my engine. Now I'm checking the valve clearance. and here are the results (no bad, I was thinking in the worse scenario...). Next step, pull out the cams.

 

Hi Guys,

The valve covers are done too. I'm waiting for the new Jag decals.

Debbie

 

Yesterday I've opened the cats. I already showed you a borescope picture but this one is even better. OMG!
I'm thinking to weld them before to rebuild them. I mean, I would like to start the engine and running it for a while. I've sent the injectors out to rebuild as well but the gas mixture could be very rich till I tuning the whole thing and I don't want to burn out my new rebuild cats. So, I'm going to empty the old ones, weld it and run the engine without cats for a while.

Debbie

 

Hi guys,

This is the hardware that I have ready to send to plating, 'Round 1'. If you did this kind of job, you know what I'm talking about.... lots of time consuming.

Debbie.

 

Today 5am we are ready to paint some small parts. First a seal coat and then Black them out.

 

I wonder how many would sell body parts for a paint booth like that!!
(';')