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Daim: I find I get quite good at identifying bolts. If a bolt has X.8 making on the head, it's metric. 3 or 5 radial hash marks and it's imperial.
I can generally tell just by looking at nuts, but I start with an imperial socket/wrench and the switch to metric when I need to. It's the close ones, like 3/8 and 10mm when I run into trouble telling them at a glance.
That will not even touch it. There are Whitworth, metric normal, metric fine, BSPP, UNF, UNC, BA, and for all I know more. The engine internal fixings would be a major task too...
I look upon the mix as part of the charm of a car from that era, and from England. In fact, being English I love the eccentricity and oddness of the mix
That will not even touch it. There are Whitworth, metric normal, metric fine, BSPP, UNF, UNC, BA, and for all I know more. The engine internal fixings would be a major task too...
I look upon the mix as part of the charm of a car from that era, and from England. In fact, being English I love the eccentricity and oddness of the mix
persuading my wife that buying a classic car was a great idea.
3 years and counting
beat that!!!!!!!!!!
what I thought that would take me about 8 months to a year to do wound up being 3 years. went through all the wiring from bulkhead forward, then got into cleaning the grim and gunk off the motor along with cleaning, repairing, and replacing components, had it running this year (for a short time) now no spark. Dreaded shielded wire needed replacing, but still nothing, believing that the amp may have given up the ghost because of a short in the shielded wire. So now sitting in the garage again, but at least I had some time to drive it.
For me, just to get my exhaust quiet, was changing the exhaust manifold gaskets on my 89. I bet I put 40 hours total. May have been easier to remove the engine. Some of the bolts were turned a 1/16 round at a time. On and off. What a job...
My worst job and the longest by far was cleaning 30 years of gunk and grease and grit out of the V inside and outside, and the front and back of the engine, and all the underneath and sides. A toothbrush, loads of white spirit, and two weeks of horrible grimy work, as I could only bear doing the job for about 40 mins max at a time.
One before and a couple of after photos attached. Clean, but does not hold a candle to Daim's great work!
This is why I'm buying a commercial steam cleaner. I want one anyway but for engine cleaning F##k toothbrushing that thing. Hot steam and the heavy-duty Purple degreaser with some custom shaped spray wands should do it.
Longest job in history here. I was planning the shed way before our wedding. Maybe 1985 I started..I was planning to have my 47" Fleetmaster, 78" 351 coupe and add a 57" Belair(4 Door). At some point I went British, but now have the shed, a 4 door and a coupe,Jaguars of course.
I would probably still swap my firstborn to have the Coupe back though.
Clarke - there it is again... that shed. Showed my wife and said.. where is mine? My dream... love that shed, wife said - LOOK how clean it is... now look in yours! OK.. but this is a NEW shed, lets see what it looks like in a few years!
My floor looks, well average, dirty... thanks to a couple of burnouts on the bikes and oil leaks. Oh and its soooo small. Real men have big sheds...LOL
The Coupe ... yep worth some serious cash, mate had one in NZ and stupidly sold it for FA.
I own 4 XJSs. By far, the single worst job I ever did was to replace the exhaust manifold gaskets in car. I bet I put at least 40 hours into it.
Reminds me of the joke about the gynocologist that got fed up with all of the government red tape. He decided to follow his passion of working on Jags. He put a few resumes out, and found out he needed to be certified. So, he signed up at his local community college. He really excelled. The instructor admired his mechanical skills. When the time came for the final exam, the instructor stated that each student would tear down and reassemble a known running engine. 50% of the grade would be disassembly, and 50% would be reassembly and restarting the engine. The gynocologist/mechanic sailed through the exam. When he went to get his test results, he had received a 150 score!. So he goes to the instructor and says "why was it 50 points for disassembly, and 50 points for reassembly, and yet I got a score of 150?". The instructor congradulated the gynocologist turned mechanic. He stated that he had seen many fine mechanics in his day, but he felt he had to award an additional 50 points as he had never seen a mechanic rebuild an engine through the muffler.
Clarke - there it is again... that shed. Showed my wife and said.. where is mine? My dream... love that shed, wife said - LOOK how clean it is... now look in yours! OK.. but this is a NEW shed, lets see what it looks like in a few years!
My floor looks, well average, dirty... thanks to a couple of burnouts on the bikes and oil leaks. Oh and its soooo small. Real men have big sheds...LOL
The Coupe ... yep worth some serious cash, mate had one in NZ and stupidly sold it for FA.
Dukejag. Believe me, the shed will still be spotless in 20 years. The garage I just vacated in the city has a floor you could eat off (if you chose to) after 22 years..
Degreaser and a bucket of water follow me around when I'm working. At the end of every day in there tools were wiped clean and put back in their place and floor degreased before lights out.
Her Indoors calls it ****. I call it three years of a tough apprenticeship at the "Bay of Plenty Times" in Tauranga. And a foreman with a size 10 boot he would have used if the floor was not clean every day.
What job has taken me the longest so far? Buying another one....it's been a while since 2010ish +/- many years. Ha Ha, thanks for not kicking me off the board.
09-11-2017 | 01:59 AM
