Six Cylinders Motoring Notes - a Workshop Day Today

[320touring]

E is obviously faster!

[richardmorris]

Well the E excitingly works and D doesn't do so.

[Six-cylinder]

I collected my MGB GT from my favourite garage today with a fresh MOT, without any issues. This is the same garage who are doing my MG Metro and as the two were parked together I snapped them. I then took the B to storage and collected my MG ZR so snapped those two together all well.

 

One day I will be able to line up all 3!

[richardmorris]

Do you ever forget you have a particular car?

 

I'm currently working out how to juggle three cars around the country this summer, with one working perfectly, one needing paint and one needing a service and mot.

[Six-cylinder]

Do you ever forget you have a particular car?

 

I'm currently working out how to juggle three cars around the country this summer, with one working perfectly, one needing paint and one needing a service and mot.

For cars stored off site I have to draw up a plan of where they are stored because sometimes I can't remember!

 

It would be a good game for Shitefest, you could sit me in a black Mastermind chair and ask the question, name all the cars you have! Then run off to the pub and leave me there.

[demag]

I found different letters following dizzy part numbers usually mean different advance curves so if it pinks under load you might have to swap the Bob weights and springs.

 

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[Six-cylinder]

I found different letters following dizzy part numbers usually mean different advance curves so if it pinks under load you might have to swap the Bob weights and springs.

 

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I have now bought a 521007E because that is all I could find so we see how it goes.

[Six-cylinder]

Mrs 6C and I have been the Jaguar spares day at the National Agriculture Centre today and she thinks I went a step too far!

 

I was looking for an XJ6 Series 2 Hazard switch and all the major suppliers say they are currently unobtainable. My sign worked when a lady chased me to say they probably had one at base and gave me her business card. As it turned out, I found a secondhand one - still on the steering column - with a trader who said he had no tools to take it off. He solved the problem by selling me the whole lot for £20!

 

Mrs 6C was looking for parts for her MK10, bonnet, front wing and any other bits for the body when we start to restore it. She was overjoyed to find a good useable grille

[HMC]

Great! OBV online auction sites are very convenient but not quite as satisfying as finding a barg at an auto jumble. Where in the queue is the mk10?

[Six-cylinder]

Great! OBV online auction sites are very convenient but not quite as satisfying as finding a barg at an auto jumble. Where in the queue is the mk10?

Just gathering parts at the moment so a while away yet.

[richardmorris]

Glad you found a cheap switch- hope it works too! I was going to beaulieu in may and it's always good to have a part to search for , even for someone else.

[hairnet]

iWhere are the pics of the fkin mk10?

hurry up will ya

[The_Equalizer]

I do love S1/S2 XJ6s - more updates please! Massively underated in my opinion having owned a MK2 and Daimler Sovereign (420 Jag version). Coincidentally, I had a quick look at my 1970 S1 4.2 manual that's stored in the mother-in-law's garage this weekend. Here's a photo of it when I first got it five years' ago.

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The Series 1 XJ was Jaguar's finest moment really - far, far better than the Mark 2 ever was.

[beko1987]

Your sandwich board is fantastic!

[Six-cylinder]

I do love S1/S2 XJ6s - more updates please! Massively underated in my opinion having owned a MK2 and Daimler Sovereign (420 Jag version). Coincidentally, I had a quick look at my 1970 S1 4.2 manual that's stored in the mother-in-law's garage this weekend. Here's a photo of it when I first got it five years' ago.

 

That looks fantastic, what does it need to put it back on the road?

[Six-cylinder]

From 1973 my parents had first a 1960 MK2 3.4 Auto and then a 1965 S Type 3.8 Auto when I was growing up. The S-Type lasted long enough for me to be lent it when I was a student if my car was broken and my dad wanted his Citroen GS, so I got to take it to collage occasionally.

 

The picture is "THE" S-Type but the only picture I have is really of my Herald with the S-Type behind it.

[Six-cylinder]

An unusual pairing on the drive today.

[richardmorris]

Oltcit v Maserati. Both quirky and rustprone!

[hairnet]

hnnng fap hhhnnnng fap and i dont mean the maser

 

 

please sir can i please

[Six-cylinder]

Oltcit v Maserati. Both quirky and rustprone!

They are both broken!

 

The Oltcit won't charge and the Bi-Turbo has gremlins in the windows/central locking!

[Six-cylinder]

hnnng fap hhhnnnng fap and i dont mean the maser

 

 

please sir can i please

When it is fixed.

[purplebargeken]

I still haz 156 headlight for you Sir!

[Six-cylinder]

I still haz 156 headlight for you Sir!

Thanks, yes I still need it.

[richardmorris]

hnnng fap hhhnnnng fap and i dont mean the maser

 

 

please sir can i please

 

Pervert!

[richardmorris]

They are both broken!The Oltcit won't charge and the Bi-Turbo has gremlins in the windows/central locking!

Both keeping your local friendly/grumpy auto electrician in full time employment!

[hairnet]

Pervert!

yes - can you help

[Six-cylinder]

A job that went to plan yesterday, I know remarkable!

 

Internet wisdom said the reason my MG ZR only had interior fan speeds 3 & 4 and not 1 & 2 was the resistor pack was duff. I bought a replacement and more internet wisdom said if I carefully squeezed the glovebox stop lugs I could drop it down without any unscrewing. I like it when a plan comes together, I now have all speeds.

[Six-cylinder]

Another go on the LNA Yesterday

 

Fuel tank refitted and clean fuel now passing though filter.

 

New second had cooling fan fitted and works!

 

New second-hand tailgate strut fitted, but tailgate end has a crack in its monkey metal bracket. Also the end of the pivot bolt on the car has broken off so it only has a single turn on the thread and is welded in so not easy to replace.

 

The front bumper is bent and won’t fit on, so I bought it home to straighten but it needs a bit of heat now my Oxyturbo pack has run out of oxygen, another two day delay while I wait for a replacement.

 

I also need a couple of trim clips for behind the side window.

[Six-cylinder]

Progress on the Series 1 Sovereign is slow but is moving forward with lots of complaints about poor replacement panel quality and this how it is now.