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I really appreciate the simplicity and honesty of this post, it helps a lot

You taught me to be gentle with a virgin wreck. It reminds me of a girl I knew in high school. Her name was Virginia. Virgin for short, but not for long! Beautiful work!

Beautiful work! (Is there a reason you don’t set up a camera above and give us a few minutes of working time? Or even time lapse? That would be super cool)

Hi Chuck, Gary from England again, I ve commented a couple of times, when I was going through college I worked in a Panel shop for Saturday job and a couple of afternoons in the week. I got pretty good at bodywork and even did some jobs on customers cars privately. I was told to shrink panel by using a slapper type device made from a large metal course file, to make this file slapper you have heat the file and then bend it to a shape like your slapper in the video, then you can use it to glance blows on the metal with a flick of the wrist around the damaged area trying to shrink the metal. not an up and down action on to the panel, have you heard or seen this method I descripe using the modified file ??, I'm talking arounf 1977 when I working the the panelshop. Any thoughts, Cheers Gary

Stay Cool Baby leave leave let it tick over it will Burn off smoke will go I love it old exotic cars man cannot beat them it’s a Time Machine 😂😂😂 I am a car trader I deal with new cars every day. They are shit mate, absolutely crap rubbish don’t do nothing for you just get you Work and Home These cars are special. Etype and Aston DB4-5-6 etc AC Cobs Lamborghini Muira old classic Ferraris, you get the Jift just can’t beat this stuff

Only smoking boys because on where it’s been sitting all those years, I own petrol and stuff mixing. It will eventually burn off my dad‘s favourite words. Don’t worry about it son it’s burning Off love you dad 😘

Ahh wish my dad was still alive. He would beam with laughter he would love this. I love this American guy laugh makes me so happy when I see videos like this and I think of my dad and Mum my father had exactly the same car. Series1 4.2 Roadster they look the bollocks proper Pussy Catcher

I wish you had an full uncut video of the process which could be visible by patreon /subscription etc

Hi sir, im referring to the dent at 25.20, did you put dolly at the centre of the dent then started( off dolly)slapping around the edges of dent or carried out this job on dolly. Cheers

Britain had an amazing auto industry but lacked competent management and Union cooperation, they had a quantity mentality rather than quality mentality, who else produced a car like the MGB, nobody and when I heard they were dissolving MG, I thought the Brits have lost the plot and have, look at Britain today, they make nothing compared to their mighty industrial past, I was young enough when these E Types came out along with the XJ6, they were revolutionary as far as styling and technology goes, Britain should have today a mighty car industry equal to Japan and Germany if they as a nation had a capable management class and responsible Unions.

What a great series with great explanations! Why didnt you use the same solvent that worked so well for the fuel tank?

To find an FHC in the same state and to have the money to pay for it would be my dream. Just great!

Tape is a genius idea, I can’t imagine putting those back together without a trick like that.

A friend of mine who does exhaust makes his own penetration oil using brake fluid, tranny fluid and oil. Use a syringe to apply. Works 100% better than spray oil!

I used Evaporust on my 65 gas tank. Filled it up with 15 gallons. Let it sit 3 days and flushed out with water and immediately filled with gas to avoid flash rust. Also sucked up the Evaporust through the fuel pump u to the bowl. Amazing how clean it got without having to remove the tank. Also rebuilt the fuel pump and used the Evaporust. Worked well!

Did Mactool discontinue the Curved Cross Chisel Hammer, Wood Handle or did they redesign it? It would be great if you listed where to buy your recommended tools with a link and this could possibly bring you revenue. Just an idea. Cheers Dr. Ginge

Did Mactool discontinue the Curved Cross Chisel Hammer, Wood Handle or did they redesign it?

This idiot loves the sound of his own voice ..

Are you going to sell it ?

Hi Chuck, I have the thing to do with my 1970 2+2 E Type, hasn't been started for 28 years, so I'll be following in your footsteps, Great to see you got her started and hope you sort out the rattle on the chains Cheers Gary, England

Hi Chuck…love the videos……as an owner of a 1969 series 2 4.2 I have found your videos both entertaining and informative…have learned a lot…cheers…..ps what do you think the new woke Jag advert will do to the brand?

good video

Awesome thanks your for time. Great advice.

Chuck I hope we can talk some more.

What is a Jag WAR???

I was looking for this type of vidoe for 4 months and finnaly today after i stopped looking it litteraly magically found me randomly

Very helpful thankyou 😀.

Chuck . How on earth did l miss this first round ? Your enthusiasm but above all your knowledge is humbling . Thankyou

Any amount of work and effort to get your hands on a true classic will always be worth it.

Wow this video is hard to watch so slow

I'm surprised you didn't clean the outside of the engine first, before removing the sump.

Such a great video, thanks! Love the attention to detail such as the exact tools to buy and so much great information without any extraneous mish mash. Subscribed and will be watching your other videos so i can once and for all fix all my damaged cars!

Very nice and interesting video, thank you Chuck. As for securing the chrome crown, you can use self tapping screws directly into the wing and bonnet panels. I elected to use captive nuts BD86333, slipped between those and your flanges. They are tighten to the bonnet sheet by the screws. This requires to dig bigger holes into the flanges to clear the threads of the captive nuts, but it allows for some play in the holes alignment. The goal is to be able to dismount and mount the headlights several times without wearing the threads.

Hello, say these videos are the best I have seen on youtube. What I mean is, reconditioning of a Jag, A car is only original one time. Many cars on this site are all pretty and very clean. They live in a garaged ,forever. Driven only to go to shows. I love British cars,Jags,Mg ,tr6 and my car a Rovertc2000 1969.Back in school (UCLA1976) , many of my friends drove Jag,austin Healy,TR'6 etc. We had a blast in those cars. While other guys where driving chevys,ford etc. Your videos make laugh to watch your excitement ,I also enjoy it when I fixed something, and it works I get very excitement. I glad I found your videos, and will watch them over and over. However, I changed from Britsh cars, to VW,s .And enjoy working on them. So keep up your enthusiasm and get those cars back on the road, to drive !

I just finished installing this conversion kit to my 1968 Series 1.5. Here's a few thing I noted/did differently. 1. Instead of revetting or gluing the flanges, I used #6 x 3/4" stainless machine screws with nyloc-nuts so I can unbolt the if needed. This method made it a lot easier to install the scopes in the bonnet BEFORE attaching the flanges. To ensure the screw heads are covered over the rubber gasket/chrome trim, make sure that any holes you drill (the holes that need to be drilled where the S2 chrome trim eye brows where that had not holes) are as close to the flange as possible. 2. I painted the flanges the red body color, but after I installed the first headlight, I realized that I could see some red under the covered headlight. So I painted the other flanges on the other side black to match the rubber gasket (I need to go back and paint the other side black when I get a chance). 3. My original diaphragms had a groove a the top to clear the flange on the wing and flange on the center of the bonnet. The new diaphragms didn't have a groove in them. I used a cut-off wheel to make the same groove to provide the clearance (no big deal). I also need to "hog out" some of the holes on the diaphragm with a Dremel tool as they didn't line up with the mounting holes on the bonnet (probably production variations on the hole placement of my bonnet). None of it was a big deal. 4. I used Chuck's plastic lenses and they flex right into shape, just like Chuck said and they look great. I attached the rubber seal and chrome trim with #6 X 3/4" Stainless Sheet Metal Screws with a Pan Head Phillips pattern 5. I removed the scissor/spring assembly to get room to remove the diaphragm panel. If you do one side a time, you only need to removed one scissor/spring assembly at any given time, so it allow some resistance when you close the bonnet (be careful not to pinch your fingers as the bonnet is noticable heavier without one side of the help springs). 6. When installing the headlight buckets with the flat back, you also need to use a Series 1 inner mounting bucket, which is different from the Series 1.5 or Series 2. If you use the Series 1.5 inner mounting bucket, the head lights will be rotated about 30 degrees off (may not be a big deal except when you hit the high beams!). So just plan on buying not only the flat back bucket for a Series 1 but also the inner mounting bucket. The best price I found was a SNG Barret. 7. The hardest part (None of this has anything to do with the conversion kit) was scraping off all the undercoating to get to the screws and bolts. I found that if I used a very small screw driver, I could scrape all the undercoating between the screw head and the diaphragm/oval washer. I would then spray WD-40 and scrape more and spray more WD-40 (3 times). The method would get almost all the undercoating off but a screw driver still had a hard time to break the screws free. To avoid stripping the head, I used a Vise-Grip on the screw head and twisted them free (often with a Crescent wrench on the Vise-Grip - e.g. Vise-Grip was vertical to the screw head and I put a Crescent Wrench to the Vise-Grip Handle) This work on all but the one screw on a corner where the Vise-Grip jaw did not have the clearance - So I had to use a Posi-Drive screw driver and Crescent wrench on the handle (very carefully not to strip the screw head). In a sense I am lucky that my car is rust-free and none of the screws/bolts were rusted on or the sheet metal was rusted. 8. Overall, I am very happy with the conversion kit and it was well worth the effort!

A little like an infomericial. i would have liked to have seen some technique , (but, maybe that gives away the "secret sauce")

Strewth... No annoying back ground music has made this fantastic to watch. For what's usualy fiddly kinda work, You've made it look more fun to do aswell.. Thank you so much.

Thank you. That was very helpful!

How fast can this thing go? I watched it race yesterday and was blown away by its speed on the straight away

Very interesting! Watched the whole thing even though I'll never be doing this conversion, nor be owning another XK-E. You've done very good work here, a real craftsman.

Thanks Chuck . Back in 2012 l had the uneviable task of converting a series 1 bonnet into a 1.5 . My word it was hard work ! And luckily my "e"type IS a series 1 .......phew !

Great to see your smiling face

This bonnet from my coupe 1E34263 was built on February 9, 1967. From what I’ve read, the coupes started open headlamps (at least LHD) at 1E34250. So even though we’re in February of ‘67, it’s very early in open head lamps for coupes. If they started on January 1, 1967, maybe they were doing roadsters or RHD coupes or 2+2s. Some people have suggested to me that you could have a ‘67 E type with covered headlamps from the factory if it was European specifications. I don’t know if that’s true or not. At any rate, thanks for another great presentation explaining a complicated subject with your typical humor and panache.

Even though I have completed my E Type, I still love watching your video's WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I DID MY E Type 😉😉😉😉😉😁Yup Dumb ass US LAW, gotta see the headlight bulb from the side, must have been a democrap that thought of that

Check out a company named 3-Dimensional Services Group in Michigan. Sandy Munro at the Munro Live UA-cam channel did a recent visit. If you wanted to mass market your E-Type parts 3-D Services could manufacture them for you in small or large batches.

Excellent video, seeing is believing.

Brilliant video, knowledge and discussion. Even though I have never owned an E Type (One day? I have had many XJ's and two XJS V12's) I found this video very informative and interesting. Top stuff young man, best regards from the UK!

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Hi Chuck great vid are you planning to do series 2 to series 1 rear end conversion , cheers G

Wow, that’s nailed it for any one wanting a covered headlight, great info 👍