Building up the Hubs!
With the great help of Stuart from M3 Motors we made progress building the front and rear hubs. I had forgotten to take the inner and outer grease seal rings […]
Ride Height?
How do I set the ride height? I have chosen the fully adjustable from and rear suspension. This may be an extravegance and does introduce some additions worries – such […]
Steering rack fitted
I have made good progress over the holidays and even managed to fit the steering rack in place, and started to build the front suspension. I am awaiting parts to […]
Attachment to the chassis
I have not rebuilt the rear hubs as yet, hopefully get that done next weekend. Even so I decided to bolt the diff into place in the chassis without them. […]
Attaching the wishbones to the Differential
This needs two sets of hands as you need to align the wishbones pretty well on both sides as the tolerance is tight. You need to ensure that the thrust […]
Replacing the bearings on the lower rear wishbones
I bought new bearings for the wishbones as the ones I removed were in a poor state. This is a easy job even after getting the wishbones powder coated. I […]
Rear brakes installed
I spent a few hours on boxing day fitting the rebuilt callipers to the diff. I used the same alignment spacers as came off the XJS which worked fine. It […]
Rear Brakes rebuilt
I spent a couple of hours this weekend rebuilding the rear callipers, all new cylinders and seals. As I had taken the hand brake actuators apart for powder coating I […]
Body separation
It has been a busy time with travel at work so I have not progressed as hoped with the Cobra. We did finally manage to separate the body from the […]
Brake disaster
I received the rear callipers back from the zinc coaters, but the coating has not taken on all the metal, it looks very poor. I have had no option but […]
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