Hello, I'm Joe from Portland. My son acquired a 1961 MK2 3.8 Sedan which has been in the family since the 70s and had it delivered to me 2 days ago while he works on his masters at Yale for 2 years. I recently restored my 40 Packard Packard Motor Car Information - The Duchess Project: 1940 Super 8 Convertible Sedan [Packard Forums - Project Blogs]

packardsinfo.com is an outstanding resource and I'm hoping to find the same here for the Jag, since I'm pretty clueless.

I downloaded the MK2 manual/parts books. Jag manuals are the best, much better than Packard's. Packard didn't have an empire to ship cars around to and therefore did not expect clueless owners in the middle of nowhere to be repairing their cars.

Looking for a place to upload a photo with this.

Questions?

Joe

 

Replying to myself with a question. This car appears to be positive ground, like the Packard. Is that correct? I better quit trying to charge the battery the other way round.

 

Gads, I can't edit, so have to post again. Besides uploading a picture (which I haven't figured out yet), shouldn't there be a way to get this thread to ping me by email if someone actually does welcome me to the forum?

 

Welcome to the forum Joe,

Good to have you with us.
I guess you have found your way to the MKII section already, it's a long time since I had a MKII but it was positive earth.
Some forum features may not work until you pass the intro period, but check in the user CP. Look here for picture info https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/j...pictures-2418/ .

Enjoy the forum.

If you haven't done so already you should add your car details to your signature to help others to help you.

 

WoooHooo! Sounds like a great winter project!

Welcome to the forums, and lets hope you or your son gets to show off the cat at some of our PNW events real soon!

Vince

 

Clueless? no mechanical aptitude? that's english understatement, I've just had a quick look at the job you did on the Duchess, good work, the MKII should pose no problems, but is it solid? (crow's feet in good shape?)

Yep, pos ground.

Welcome to the fold Joe!

 

Thanks, Norri. I found my way to the manuals by accident. A Google search for MK2 Manuals (not transmissions, search engines) got me what i needed. But now I can't find it.
I didn't charge the battery backwards.

 

Thanks, Sean.
The condition of the car is at Index of /jaguarstrategy
There's a little movie in there. Compared to what the Packard looked like, it doesn't seem that bad. I started its restoration with a pair of pliers. I'm better equipped now. It seems like only my metric wrenches (removing battery) are right. I thought these cars would use the English system.

 

Welcome to the forum Joe,

Great Intro and links - I should have started reading it long before midnight!

Looking forward to following the story of the MKII coming back to life.

Enjoy the forum.

Graham

 

Sorry about that Joe, I should have given you the link.

The car does use the British system, but it is the older one before metric reared it's head.

 

Hi Joe & welcome aboard, good to have you here with us

Nice intro thanks for sharing, sounds like a nice ride too so get some pics posted on up when you can. Looking forward to the restoration project too.

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Joe looks like that was quite a project. You'll find a wealth of knowledge here. Good luck with your future project.

 

OK, on to some video.
EDIT: Attempted that, but being a MacHappy individual, I use Quicktime not Microsoft Windows Media Player, so my video output is .mov. The cursory inspection video is at
http://www.mktx.com/jaguarstrategy/M...esearch_CD.mov

If you had problems finding my Packard blog, Google The Duchess Project 1940 Packard

 

Welcome to the forum Joe, looks like an awesome project!

 

Hi Joe and welcome. That's quite a project! Please keep us updated with your progress.

It might be that the car was built to British Standard Whitworth hex sizes- I've still got a set of spanners around somewhere from a long gone early 70s Norton motorcycle.

 

+1 on the whitworth spanners. When I see this it takes me back to my first Jag 1959 3.4 MK1 in Cornwall Grey. It was the same colour and following chassis number as the one the great Mike Hawthorn got killed in.

I must get another one to play with.

 

So what hearing is that the thread and bolt sizes are in inches, like 1/4 in- 24 rather than M6-1.00, but the outside of the nuts and bolts are Whitworth sized, and maybe match up better to metric. Is that right? Whitworth, that's news to me. I just want to sure before I rethread any old bolts or tap any nuts that I'm using the correct system. Thanks.

 

It won't be Whitworth the threads will be as you describe imperial sized but the heads will be AF "across the flats" so you should be able to source 'merican spanners to fit.
Of course with an old car you may find anything.

 

If its BSwhitworth or BSfine it will be the diameter of the thread, if it's AF it will be the size across the flats. 1/4 bsw, 3/16 bsf & 7/16 af all use exactly the same spanner.
So if you find a bolt on the car that will undo with a 7/16 af then measure the thread and eliminate whichever. Some bolts used to be stamped with the info on the head. In the "olden days of much confusion" lol!

This exact spanner size is only for the above numbers, and will start to vary above or below those sizes. Usually metric spanners are a decent fit for the earlier BS nuts & bolts.