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Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:45 pm
by pandemonium001
g/box brackets blasted and painted with metalic black enamel:
washers changed for stainless items
cleaned and fresh grease on linkage
more camber plates, if required for when the diff is installed.
Should be a few deliveries this week, but the big tidy up is going well, finding things i forgot I had.
I may convert the LSD to cooler with electric pump rather than the condenser unit.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:47 pm
by pandemonium001
still waiting on the seal kit for the gearbox, so not quite ready yet, then drain & final fill with fuchs sintofluid sae 75w-90.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:27 pm
by nas80
Nice work there mate.. You can still get seals from the dealer
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:57 pm
by arshad76
Lovely work. Really like the brembo brake setup too.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 5:04 pm
by uwbuurman
Looks great!
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:00 pm
by pandemonium001
nas80 wrote:Nice work there mate.. You can still get seals from the dealer
Keep forgetting about that. But got a kit from Germany for opel's that use the same gearbox. £30 to my door so won't be much in it.
Hopefully have the Diff this week and give it a look over.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:47 pm
by nas80
cool. I think they used the same box in the old mantas didn't they
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:38 pm
by pandemonium001
And e-type jag I think. Unless that was a conversion I saw
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:41 pm
by pandemonium001
Xjs v12 and xj40 e-type is a conversion.
Explains the bullet proof reputation then.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:28 pm
by pandemonium001
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:17 am
by Reck
Awesome. Great attention to detail... 'tidy up' is an understatement!
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 1:10 am
by Jeroen
Indeed! Makes me reconsider just screwing a used horn back in... but I'm lazy
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:43 pm
by pandemonium001
Thanks for the comments
Thats the weird situation im in, I can spare 1/2 hr or so here and there, so can do all the small jobs that make a difference, but just cant get the time to do the big ones.
Resorted to phoning 3 body shops to get full respray quotes to keep this thing moving, only 1 bothered to turn up to give me a price.
£1400 for full rubdown, 2k HB in white, rubdown, base clear whole car except engine bay.
How hard can it be to find small bodyshops who actually want your money.
May have a few more updates drive train wise this weekend.
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:21 pm
by nas80
1400 doesn't seem so bad really
Re: E12 tidy up.
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:15 pm
by pandemonium001
Jeroen wrote:Indeed! Makes me reconsider just screwing a used horn back in... but I'm lazy
Not really lazy, Jeroen, considering the effort you put into the website.
