This may throw some light on it Daim

Yellow Zinc Plating - "Gold Cad" style replating and chromating for auto part finish restoration

 

Cheers OB! Cadmium plated... Can't get that here legally... Still happy with the plan to have them zinc plated...

 

Odd, zinc OK, but cadmium not??? Weird. Nanny state stuff exists everywhere.


Carl

 

Yep. Weird but that is ecofriendly Germany...

 

Your work has not gone unrecognized, did you know you have a Chocolate Bar named after you!
https://www.amazon.com/Daim-Chocolat...003SGHSCG?th=1

 

That's where my nickname came from OB! As I was a little lad, I had a habbit of eating Daim, instead of armadillos (hint to the old advert in the 90ies). My friends picked me up on that and called me Daim. Has stuck since...

 

Been a little busy bumble bee today... As soon as the parcel company had been, I was in the garage working on my engine again But the last few days saw me preparing a few little bits. The bypass pipe received a respray, in order to keep it looking nice - not rotten And I checked my fan blade... 3 large cracks, millions of tiny cracks. I will not be fitting this one again! Instead a new black one... Should look better like that anyhow

Oh, and as I tightend up the worm drive clamps, I got a little "carried away" with making them sit perfectly... Sorry... They all have the same angle and the ones left and right towards the thermostat housings, even have the same pitch... I think I have a problem

 

No issue here. Working with clean and painted parts much better than with the other stuff.


As to the worm drive clamps. Aligned is great. That pride in workmanship thing. And, I prefer to use a 3/8" socket rather than a mere screw driver on them. Just a better feel of control. And, an opportunity to use my better tools.


And, back in my past, I came upon double worm drive clamps in high pressure areas.
Look "cool" as well. But, the worm drives have a "soft" spot. Not an issue in normal operation. Best in high stress, align the drive heads 180 apart.


Are there better clamps than the usual worm drives. Yes, so I hear.


My compliments, Sir. More than nice work.


Carl

 

Nice Daim, I like your attention to detail. Your car will very nice when finished.

 

Cheers Warren. I hope it is... I say myself, that I am my biggest critic... So if I don't like it, I won't have it

 

We share the same philosophy. When I painted my car it took me 18 months and I painted it 3 times because I was not satisfied.

Keep up the good work and you will have a cracker of an XJS.

 

Cheers Warren!

I think it would take me the same time to do the job... I hate it when something isn't done right.

As I had my C30, my driver's door was caught by the wind and hit a Ford Focus. Insurance job... Focus needed a new door. My Volvo had a slightly creased door edge. My insurance paid for it to be repaired. The new paintjob of the door was dreadful. A professional sprayshop could neither match the e properly nor was it able to get rid of the orange peel effect. My C30 had immaculate paint. Not kidding, you would never have noticed that is already had 200.000 km on the clock.

I ended up buffing this job as mich as I could. Orange peel was removed but the colour was still wrong. I used fine sandpaper by hand and removed the top coat of coloured paint, bought some properly matched spray paint and did the job myself. The result: perfect! You would never have noticed the difference. The insurace was charged something like €1100 just to remove the little kink in the edge and the paint job... I could have done the job for a lot less. My paint costed me around €40. About a day's work, at say €70/h with 8 hours... €560...

Next time, the insurance can pay me and I'll do it myself!

 

Got a letter yesterday (amazing that some comapnies still use the post methode rather than email to contact people) with an invoice stating my parts are all freshly galvanized... Picking them up tomorrow Wonder how they'll look.

Otherwise I've been less busy... Took the fan pulley thingey apart to see what bearing it has from factory to compare. That is about it. More parts are ordered, more things to buy...

 

As per the "how would you treat these parts?" thread, I've had the throttle linkage galvanized... Just to look tidier

 

Sometimes I think it is hilarious how "over-engineered" some parts on these engines are. Overly complicated and totally unnecessary from their construction method... One of those is the throttle pedastal. It seems "simple" but could have been easier but on the other hand, these engines were high-tech...

...in the 60ies




A few parts to buy, a few parts to refurbish. Nothing special...

 

I often wonder how Jaguar made any money at all, considering the needlessly complex nature of some components and the labor needed to assemble them. Never use 3 parts when 12 parts will do the job perfectly well. Heh heh.

But, hey, it's all part of that Jaguar "je ne sais quoi", right?

Cheers
DD

 

Doug, The sad truth is that since their merger with British Leyland in the early 1970s they never did. There were about 3 years in the 1980s when the P&L account was somehow made to look halfway decent leading up to the Ford purchase, largely through luck with the dollar/pound exchange rate, and squeezing the last drops from utterly worn out fixed assets - using which an astonishingly talented assembly-workforce somehow managed to make wonderful cars that had been designed by geniuses. The Ford purchase must be the best example of overpayment for a business ever seen; both for payment and timing. It came right at the cusp of the late 1980s stock market and consumer spending crash and was predicated on the decline in consumer appeal of "standard" brands like Ford, GM and Chrysler. Just shows how completely wrong "experts" can often be - a characteristic not confined to business predictions!
Greg

 

The Jaguar employees basically managed to polish turds if you want to put it bluntly... But again, some öarts are just over complicated.

 

Whilst working on the front of my engine, I replaced the crank case ventilation housing with new parts, as the old one looked nasty and was nearly clogged up (the "filter" cartridge was blocked). Costed less to replace than it would have to clean up...










So, after that I attacked the front crankshaft seal (thanks Warren for the link!)... The puller - in case you wonder - is for the AJ26/AJ27 balancer and works well on the V12... Oddly it is nearly spaced the same... Enough to work with. Then I got stuck due to the woodruff key in the crankshaft. My Pa managed to get it out but I haven't done anymore...

 

Right, in with the new oil seal and woodruff keys. On with the cone. On with the pulley. Done-did. Then I decided to fit the new last-one-on-planet (according to my searches) original block plug. A smear of grease helped to get it into the block. No the lower half of my engine is oilproof. Just got to do a couple of little things and the engine is finally fully sealed - again