Progress pics - Slowy's rebuild

[stephen low]

Just about ready to hand the car back to Marty G to finish it off and thought I'd post the rebirth pics,

I had the chassis and major suspension parts sand blasted and painted these with Por15.

The rebuild was always a planned event given the age and general poor state of the chassis but the state of the suspension was to be believed. The first owners clearly just sourced jag suspension parts and didn't refurbish at all.

So new ball joints and rubbers, a front set of discs care of Shannons and new rears, and a thorough renewal of the diff has cost some $$$ but I am now confident of what is in this car.

The TKO gearbox should have actually landed and once mated to the 5L, the major mechanicals are almost done I guess.

Have attached a few pics.

This one shows Marty's fully enclosed radiator frame and off to the right the rejuvinated motor with its new ali heads.




I revisited the brake lines and used prefabricated trailer lines as these come in straight sections and bent to suit my needs. Had the old lines to help somewhat and have hidden lines where I could or mounted cleanly this time to improve the look.




Found out my diff is from a Mark 10 Jag ie early 1940's vintage with minor wear but had started to spin a main bearing. Sourcing two new original Timken bearings, the only ones worth using according to my bloke but $200 a pop , I now have a reliable diff. He had first blued the crown and pinion and found the teeth had only average wear and reasonable contact.

He has also put me onto a true fully synthetic oil and after the initial break in on mineral oil has said just fill with synthetic and don't touch the diff for ten years. Interesting advice but given his jaguar background that's what I plan to do. Mind you the oil is $25 a litre I believe so I wont spill a drop.

As I don't want to have to be trying to drop the diff out later, it's all money well spent in my book.

I also corrected the standard RMC / G Force diff mounting issue and squared up the diff on the chassis as I was reassembling too.




And finally this is Marty's Christmas tree. The centre post is standard G Force with the old seat belt mounting holes obvious. The tree arrangement now allows me to mount my retractor in the boot as the test belt shows.

Immediately above the belt on the croass arm is a large hole to permit a bolt to be screwed into the underside of the roll bar hoop. I'm running double hoops and a 3rd leg with its mount visible on the rear frame in the picture above. This was Marty's solution and overcame space availability and gave me what I am after.




I've had all this on a rottiserie from day one, for which I have to thank Martin profusely. I'd recommend them to any new builder as they save a huge amount of hassle accessing any part of the chassis and reduce the contortionist tricks we sometime have to employ.

Anyway looking forward to allowing Marty to get stuck into the remainder and hopefully getting a finished car on the road. But I better not guess when yet!!

Enjoy