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- Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:09 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
Got a really good MPG readout in the Jag today! https://i.ibb.co/93GWqQ0/IMG-20200418-142921.jpg Yeeeaaah...the poor computer is a bit confused. Some idiot (yes, that would be me) managed to leave the interior lights on yesterday and flattened the battery. The resulting voltage dip when I went to tr...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:50 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
I've had something of a critical patience failure with the Invacar sitting immobile in the garage. It's getting sorted. Not in six months time, now. Realistically I'm not much closer to a replacement hub than I was in September. A few leads but nothing has yet materialised. It's been a while, so her...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:53 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
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Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
The Jaguar XJ-S is officially absolutely the most aggressively awkward car to work on I have ever owned. Yes, even compared to the Activa. Today I decided to tackle the rather ragged looking belts. I was fully expecting this to be exceedingly awkward simply because of how deeply buried down the fron...
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:30 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
- Views: 490189
Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
Having discovered quite such plentiful quantities of mould in the boot of the Jag I decided to go in there armed with a bleach solution before going any further. Hopefully I've now eliminated as much of it as possible. There's never really been any sign of damp in the boot since I got the car anyway...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:20 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
- Views: 490189
Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
The delivery of dog food today never materialised...so my heading out to get more suddenly became non-optional. It was meant to arrive on Friday, and I had enough to last until yesterday evening. Figured given I haven't even started it since early-ish February, was about time I gave this a run. http...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:54 am
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
- Views: 490189
Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
Decided it was time to stop putting it off and start getting some of the jobs on the Jag done. I'm waiting on bits for the injection system so can't move forward there but I do have a full set of coolant hoses so can start on those. I don't have enough antifreeze in stock to refill the system if dra...
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:33 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
- Views: 490189
Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
Most of the bits I've been waiting for the Jag have now arrived with the exception of course of the injection stuff because the store is closed and I've not yet summoned the energy to pick up everything individually. Oh, and bolts for the cam covers because I still been to dig out what size is the b...
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:58 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
- Views: 490189
Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
Found that Mr. Injector do a nice kit which contains all the necessary bits to overhaul the engine bay fuel lines. Link here. Not a bad price either given there's 12 (or more or less) of everything and that that hose isn't cheap even on its own. Then discovered their web shop is currently closed due...
- Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:00 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
- Views: 490189
Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
The XJ-S is a 50/50 blend of aerospace levels of over-engineering and Tom & Jerry jury rigged nonsense. If they had just used an off the shelf expansion bottle with a properly integrated overflow that was actually watertight I wouldn't have a hole in my sill to fix. Instead no, they used one with a ...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:28 pm
- Forum: Members Cars & Projects
- Topic: Zel's Fleet Blog...Rover, Renault, Peugeot, Trabant, Invacar & Sinclair C5
- Replies: 1536
- Views: 490189
Re: Zel's Fleet Blog...Jag, Citroen, Mercedes, Sinclair & AC Model 70
The bottle was left soaking overnight before getting thrown in the dishwasher on an intensive wash this morning. Hasn't cleaned up badly actually given there was about an inch of solid mud in the bottom of it originally. https://i.ibb.co/Fmq5C8n/IMG-20200327-175106.jpg Looks perfectly serviceable to...