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12JAN22 - Just came in from hobby shop. The spacer slid off the snout of the crankshaft as if I had installed it yesterday – I credit PB Blaster. I tried the chisel trick on the sprocket – didn’t budge. I tried a pry bars and various sizes of screwdrivers trying to walk the sprocket forward. No...

Somehow I managed to miss a major wrestling match I went through in Jan/Feb (I thought my postings above were a little light right after the New Year). Here is my log of effort directly after New Year's: 11JAN22: The Repair Operation’s Manual is extremely helpful in many respects and provides...

03APR22 - this was posted by a retired US Army aviator: I’ve never tried to install a replacement on to an existing harness. If I were to do so it MAY be accomplished using a tool I found in my Military days - for Oxygen Masks. Again, I’ve never attempted to install one. The tool is called an...

This next bit is probably unnecessary detail, but I was stymied for weeks getting comments and recommendations for the Jaguar Forum how to get this grommet onto the wiring harness. Lots o' detail follows: One recommendation was to work the grommet onto the harness by starting at the opposite...

One of the major issues I'm struggling with (small in the grand scheme of things but it's holding up installing more wiring harnesses) is getting a special grommet over the main bulkhead harness to protect it where it passes through the firewall: The following 5 photos describe my issue. About...

09MAR22: Speaking of moving forward and then backward. The small step forward was reassembling the emergency handbrake handle with newly chromed tube and release button. FORWARD: after fumbling around for half an hour and squinting at the useless photos I took months ago, I figured out how...

01MAR22: I did turn a “corner” in that I put the first thing back on my Jag today. One tip for (Series III owners only?? ) those removing/re-installing the wiper mechanism is NOT to try to wrestle them out either the left or right opening in the dash (the curve of the dash at the ends gets in...

A few days later: Got my dizzies back after being rebuilt and converted to vacuum advance. I sent my original and a spare picked up years ago. Spare Dizzy1920×1920 242 KB Each dizzy had a 3x5 card showing the advance: RPM ----------ORIGINAL----------SPARE...

NOTE - I missed 5-6 weeks of work/updates. Jump to post #342 if you want to keep reading in chronological order. Then come back here. Or -- just keep reading. The sequence of events isn't really on that necessary. February 2022: Joe Curto, an expert in SU and Stromberg side draft carbs...

. . . and hang in there to see the rebuilt carbs, and dizzy, and the rechromed bits, and ....

GGB -- you ain't seen nothing yet. Give me a few days to post my progress from Jan to today. Spoiler Alert - the major issue with my engine was a $1,000 bill at my machinist to rectify

Thanx for taking the time to comment. Very much appreciated. Ghost THANX to Bolar who "liked" about a 1/4 to 1/3 of the blizzard of updates - I didn't know who it was initially, but I was hit with flurry of notices from the board.

OK Folks -- that marathon of postings brings this thread up to Dec 21. I'll take a breather and continue a bit later with my efforts since the turn of the New Year Thanks for following along Craig

On Saturday 11DEC21 at 1:30PM the painter backed into the drive to my Hobby Shop and delivered my RED Series III OTS. To me – each photo looks new and fresh and different. I suspect that these photos will all look alike to most (kinda like watching (suffering through) your neighbor’s vacation...

The painter applied 3 color coats and 4 clear coats. At this point, he was wet sanding with 1500 grit paper: 1 - Wet sanding with 1500 grit1920×1920 293 KB 2 - Left Front 3-4 View1920×1920 292 KB 3 - Right Front 3-4 View1920×1920 310 KB He said he’s going to wet sand with 2000 and then...

On 22NOV21, I helped the painter attach the bonnet as shown above and provided him with the bonnet latching hardware. On 02DEC21 (9 business days later and one of those was Thanksgiving) I received a text message from him. All it said was “Your Jag is Red” and he included a single photo – I’m...

Some miscellaneous get-caught-up photos As I have stated, my intent is to cadmium plate a bunch of items (I have since decided to nickel plate the suspension pieces and found a plater 3 hours from my house). In the case of the suspension, my painter needed them to move the car around but...

Now comes the finnicky bits: straight/smooth body panels, panel gaps and doors and boot lid fitting. On the body, there are three areas needing hammer/dolly attention: When the initial body work was done in Phoenix in 1992, the car needed to be stored for quite a while. When moving it to long...

After all this BAD NEWS I deserved some GOOD NEWS I was contacted by my paint guy - he needed some extra hands to re-attach the bonnet to the body and asked I return the cleaned up front suspension (I intend to cad plate the suspension but I didn’t have the time – used SOS Pads and steel...

These are the stud fragment that came out by hand (no tools). 20211116_1108511920×1920 279 KB The one stud fragment that is unbent was from a different row of studs and wasn’t nearly as deep in the head as the others. Actually I cut the wrong stud – got lost in the forest of trees, I was...