Cossy sold and Jag bought - the hard work begins next week

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Alan Whitaker said:

New paint job as well. I put some 6mm steel at the back where the bottom rails are welded to the trailing arm tube in orange

Do you have a photo of yours? Does it interfere with removing / replacing the prop?

There aren't many places to brace between the two main chassis legs

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Engine mounts mocked up and sitting on the original S bobbins.

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busy couple of days: gearbox mount made. Engine mounts tidied up. Propshaft taken to be lengthened and modified for the Jag 'box. Diff (lsd) removed ready for a ratio change (cheers Alan Whitaker), Manifold gaskets taken to be used ad templates for the exhaust manifold plate. Electric water pump and controller ordered. Oh and Eurotunnel booked for the TVR S Euro tour in July. Still on target

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Chassis scalloped to raise the exhaust. Paint removal continues to check for rust - none found.



Then checked the powder coated trailing arms and found a layer of light rust under the coating.

Edited by magpies on Saturday 23 March 23:08

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Alan Whitaker said:

All extra work, you going to get them re blasted and then paint or powder coated

A few layers of paint. I'm unhappy with the powder coating and there were only a couple of tiny rust like blemishes, I had been in two minds as to whether to investigate or not. Obviously glad I did.

Judging by the abuse I gave some of the chassis tubes when jacking the car and that did not produce any rust, I'll stick with paint.

Oh and I'm welding 'jacking' strips to protect the tubing.

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Both engine mounts, gearbox mount and alternator upper and lower month completed and painted. Good day

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Looks thinner than the 6mm steel it is. There will be room the weld in an angle iron if need be.

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New propshaft has arrived



New home for the antiroll bar

And drawing of new fuel tank to be made next week to include in tank pump.

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Alan Whitaker said:

What's the pump from Mick

from the original Jaguar tank

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Exhausting work today. Temporary mounted the diff, propshaft and exhaust box to see how to route the twin 2" pipes from the box to the rear end. Needed to remove the chassis cross member in front of the tank and loose the ends of the unused diff mounting. The crossmember will be replaced 2"higher and a pair of vertical struts to reinforce that area. Means the exhaust will be above the lower edge of the chassis with the only exemption being the silencer which hangs about 5mm lower even after using a press to flatten it a little .
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Bit of therapeutic painting today


Also Mike has started on the exhaust manifolds

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Trailing arms off to be blasted and powder coated again. Last done about 10 years ago before I purchased the car. Don't think that they were prepared correctly as now have rust under the coating.

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Alan Whitaker said:

I can only turn my head so far Mick

I don't understand it as the photo's are the correct way up on my phone

someone else may be along to sort them out - hope they say how to do it too.

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phillpot said:

go on then Mike - how?

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Rear end partly rebuilt

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Bilstein Dampers now painted and threads cleaned and lubed. Handbrake cables next.

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Also redesigned the dashboard

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Shortened the Jaguar external gear linkage by 10 inches. Checked operation and all good. Will remove and dress the welds and paint before refitting.
can't upload images for some reason - says failed.

Edited by magpies on Thursday 2nd May 22:56

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Started to weld on the chassis engine mounts after removing the antiroll bar brackets. Relocated the antiroll bar brackets to infront of the radiator once the rad mounts were moved to make room.



there is near 15mm clearance between the rad and roll bar brackets

Edited by magpies on Wednesday 8th May 19:36