Hey kitties, I'm from northwest Iowa about 3 miles south of the Minnesota border and a bit west of beautiful Lake Okoboji, IA. I've been in love with Jags since I was a young'un.
After I quit circle track dirt racing in '05 my gorgeous wife found me an 82 XJ6 in Oklahoma that was advertised on this site. It didn't run, but only had 32,200 original miles for $1500. Trailered it back 730 miles to Iowa and got to work.
Guy said the mechanic told him not to drive it due to a gas (petro) leak. ? how long it sat not being driven. By the looks of the black gas it had to be over 5 years. I still haven't finished cleaning out the passenger side tank, but the drivers side is ok after repetetive draining, acetone, scraping, etc (oh yeah, a chevy 350 distributor gasket is a perfect temp fit for the drain plug). New fuel filter, clear pre-filter and a new fuel pump and she came to life! The gas leak...just had to tighten up the hose clamps!! Body is solid minimal rust little pocket on one fender, small bubble on the rear window, but the guy must have stored boxes on her, so the paint has a lot of scratches through the clear.
Have only driven her 500 miles since, but I'm definitely in love. I would drive her more, but I hate driving it 5 mph for about 1 kilo on the gravel road that I live on.
Have found some of my questions answered on here already-like the shock bushing being worn out making a "thumping" noise, brake lights not working, and the headliner sagging. You guys know your stuff, looking forward to joining in the purring.


Paul

 

Hi Moron ( sorry we like to abbreviate names here and I couldn't resist )
Great to have you with us, good intro btw
Hopefully once you figure things out you'll post up some pics of your baby.....maybe one of you in the mug shot thread in the off topic section too?
Any probs visit the Jagaur help n suggestion centre for how to's or just ask

All the best

 

Thanks for the welcome Jim-if it bothered me to be called moron I wouldn't have used the name...no apologies required!
I had troubles making the photobucket pic link work...haven't had any troubles on the other two vBulletin forums that I am a member of? ...edit...fixed it by changing from fancy text to standard.

Anyway, this is from my photoalbum on this site. I can get the link to add the water effect to your pics if interested. That's my oldest boy Simon (3 now) ejecting through the roof the second summer I owned her (2006). We moved out of town shortly after, so newer pics will have a better countryside background.

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Paul

 

Welcome to the forums

 

Hey MTT...glad you got the links sorted and showing your pics...lovin the water ripple effect ( If you can, please pm me the link, much appreciated )
Hope you enjoy the forum and stick around for a while

 

Howdy MTT

Welcome to the forum!

 

Nice car, nice pics as well. Cool effect. I love the older cats as well. I am even entertaining getting rid of the 'ol Dodge and looking into an early XJS.