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RotarySMP:
So you are doing all this with the rustbucket chassis up on a hoist. Does that mean you are having to do half of the welds overhead? I bet a rotisserie starts looking really tempting about now.

Thanks for taking lots of photos and sharing them. I think you have a lot of followers on this project.

Mark

AdeV:
Hi Mick - yeah, I probably should have started from a less rusty base point... the problem is, try to find a cheap XJS that isn't rusty! There's bugger all for less than £1,000, and anything under around £5,000 usually has signs of grot. Looking at the wheel arches, I think I'm going to need repair panels for those, they are very badly rotted & full of filler.

--- Quote from: RotarySMP on June 02, 2015, 05:20:43 AM ---So you are doing all this with the rustbucket chassis up on a hoist. Does that mean you are having to do half of the welds overhead? I bet a rotisserie starts looking really tempting about now.

Thanks for taking lots of photos and sharing them. I think you have a lot of followers on this project.

Mark

--- End quote ---

Mark - yeah, and the ramp is getting right in the way doing these sills. I don't actually mind overhead welding so much, except when it sets what little hair I've got on fire...

The real irony is, I actually bought a rotisserie (or spit) for another car.... just the other day I was thinking about assembling it for this one.

vtsteam:
I was confused about the "rotisserie!" All is clear now.

The only kind I'd heard of was used to cook meat, so I was kinda wondering why Ade would, in any way, be tempted by a rotisserie after welding overhead! :lol:

kayzed1:
Ade, the lad ( tim ) of Tim and Tony Re: the gt40.... has a brand new old stock gearbox for one of them there Jags of yours he says if you intend to stay Auto give him a call ( or Tony if you do not have his number ) re a price...also if you have an FI car he has all the factory manuals for the injection and wiring to said stuff.
Lyn.

PS: he says a firm in America do a conversion kit to make the gearbox torq drive from start, and manual on the move...
PPS: he also has a brand new motor that gearbox was stuck to... :thumbup:

AdeV:
A little more progress made on the shell this weekend just gone... I finally bit the bullet and cut out the rotten passenger floor:

Rather than make a replacement, as was my original plan, expediency and a few shekels were the order of the day, and a replacement panel was procured, and - following some fettling with a large hammer - fitted:

It's only really tacked in for now, I'll weld it in more firmly at a later date.

Now I just need to re-make the strengthening/seat mounting box which goes across the car. I'd marked out & folded one up, but I accidentally made it an inch too tall... so this weekend's job is to reduce it to the proper height, make the appropriate shapes in it, then weld it in. Stay tuned!

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