1969 Jaguar E-Type

Rodney and I found this one!!

This steering rack was nasty (see page 1), but worked great. I just cleaned it up and painted it and added new gaiters & tie rod ends.

More refurbished, repainted parts, and of course, one of many fire extinguishers.  :-)

Rear axel units…  cleaned and painted

Just got some of the Cad Plating back from the plating place.

March 2007

I’m starting to get excited now..  All the parts are starting to look good, The big hurdle at this point is going to be preparing it for painting and doing the interior (the stuff I don’t know how to do).  The mechanic stuff is easy.

October 2007

The wiring is next, I have the new harness and it looks great, I just have to put it in..  But that’ll be a while yet.

The inside is nearly totally stripped now. Virtually NO rust.

The passenger door shows evidence of some damage and bondo repair.  I’m going to have to do some serious work on it to get the window frame to fit the door opening properly.  It never has since I’ve owned it.

I have stripped the bulkhead and rubbed it with phosphoric.  It needs a little blasting with a small blaster to finish it up.

These aren’t perfect, but they are a LOT better than they were before.  I might polish a little more, but that’ll be later.

I gotta tell ya, getting these cam covrs to look like anything takes a LOT of elbow grease.  The “AFTER” pic is before the final polishing but after the most of the blemishes were out.

I just got the head back on, did the cam timing, for those of you that know, that’s not an easy job  I think I understand why someone broke the ears off of the bracket that’s in front of the cam sprockets (see bottom of Page 2) but it’s done and it’s spot on. I pulled out the freeze plugs, of course they looked fine, but they are getting replaced nonetheless. Things are moving right along.

More to come…..  soon

Feb. 7, 2008

Well, the engine is mostly back together now.  I need to polish the intake manifold and clean up the carbs and make them look good.  Like triple carbs hanging off the side of a gorgeous DOHC engine ever looked bad.  :-)

Feb. 13, 2008

Oops…  Bad news.  I just got the sub-frames back from media blasting and there some problems.