In case nobody has already pointed it out, the BSF/Whitworth nuts and bolts use different spanner/socket sizes to the 'imperial' A/F sizes (which are American standards), which is why your spanners don't fit properly.
@@kennethmoxon7337 eh, it's common knowledge for anyone that's had something to do with old British cars but outside of that not really. Can't imagine it helps that he's in the US.
"It's like this car was driven on roads made entirely of dirt." Deadpan master. Also, I think it is somewhat a materials issue. My understanding is that after WWII, it was really hard to source high quality steel in the UK, so carmakers just went ahead with whatever they could get their hands on. I know the body of the contemporary Bentley Mk VI is famous for it's low quality steel.
They were buying steel from Russia- the Mini, harbinger of so many unibody designs from the mid fifties, was so bad for this that many people still call the car hygrocentic, as it seems to draw the moisture out of the air and by five years age, the rust is holding the whole car togehter!
Not really, Jag were innovators, their application of Girling disc brakes won them the 24 hr Le Mans. My 1959 Mark IX had 4 wheel discs in a fuuull siiize sedan. Do you know of any other mfg doing that?
The bolt threads are BSF, whitworth spanners fit the bolt hex but are a size out, so a 5/16BSF would use a 1/4whit spanner, but you can of course get BSF spanners just marked with BSF. You probably need to log onto eBay.co.uk to access the stuff. Using an adjustable spanner is best with an imperial one...!!! If you were doing such a conversion here in the UK there would be a lynch mob at your front door... As for modern safety features, the best form of safety equipment would be a very sharp spike sticking up from the steering wheel, fitted to all cars would transform road manners in an instant! Good luck with what will be an interesting build! Greetings from the UK!
Matt...as an owner of several pre-war and immediate post-war examples of exemplary British design and engineering, I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I refer to "Riley" cars exported to the less deserving colony of Australia and shared many of the design characteristics you found so alluring ( rotary"lever action" dampers, leather enclosed leaf springs, using cast-off teaspoons as welding rods, etc.). I particularly enjoyed your "tongue in cheek' narration which managed to highlight some of the more interesting limitations of British workmanship while not being too condescending. Now here in the USA, in an effort to relive years toiling under and over Rileys (which were thankfully never foisted on unsuspecting Americans), I like yourself have turned my attention to Jaguars which is a bit like marrying your ex-wife's sister! I can't wait for your next posting!
Oh another reason for the bottom hinged trunk was to carry more luggage , just leave it open you could carry a big steamer trunk -half in half out that way :-)
You need a set of Whitworth wrenches and sockets, obsolete in the UK over 50 years ago but you can usually find them at flea markets here. Best of luck from the UK.
Just found your “channel” and am already hooked. I believe Mr Whitworth should be commended for producing the first standard threads back in the mid 1800’s. Keep up the good work Sir!
The beading between panels is called "welting" and the Withworth system has its own spanners "wrenches" that are slightly different from sae wrenches but that fit snugly on Whitworth nots and bolts. I recommend that you get a set from the UK; it makes work more pleasant. Interesting project, thank you.
Wait wait wait. The F Type is good looking and the E type is okay I guess. I have the video paused to recover from that. If I don't comment later send help.
I had a Mk V many years ago, in immaculate condition. Paint like a black mirror, interior in the condition it came out of the factory. It needed re-ringing and being a poor student it became impossible to service its inordinate thirst. Had to do brake cylinders and shoes, which the dealer still had wrapped in grease on their shelves. Always overheated, not jags finest product, but still beautiful
The ropey stuff is called fender welting. The old fashioned way of covering up bad panel gaps. If memory serves, 26 is a BSF or British Standard Fine thread pitch. BSF and Whitworth have completely separate wrench sizes from SAE as they predate it.
Will admit that had I found this video a few days ago I would just write you off because of your attitude. But I found some of you later videos in which you worked on modifying the frame and in those videos you came across as a young engineer with hands on experience in machining. Got to thinking how much alike we are, or would have been if I had not attended a junior college vs an actual college. You have my subscription, something I hard to justify with most You Tube videos.
There are Whitworth wrenches. Some sizes are close to either SAE or Metric but some are not. I have an Austin Healey. I think I have one Whitworth socket and a couple of filed out open end wrenches. A 5/8 6 sided socket came in handy. You have probably figured this all out by now as this is an old video but noticed your comment around the 6 min mark and thought I would chime in. Love your videos. Very fun.
Yes on the Q1 thing - I think over half the population gets that wrong. And yes on the E-Type looking like a tongue, I've never heard a more apt description. Your videos are amazing, I love your production and delivery style.
here in Blighty, I bought my Imperial spanners from that famous USA company called "Snap-on". The Mark V uses UNF bolts as well as BSF bolts, and a few BSW in the cylinder head. And 2BA screws hold the steering wheel horn push together too. :) I always wanted to buy an old Mark V and stick a Jaguar 5.3 litre V12 under the bonnet with Jaguar XJ-S running gear/brakes. As for sticking an EV motor under the bonnet, Jaguar did that with an E-Type Jag that Prince 'Arry and the wife drove out after his wedding.
The boot lid folds down because at the time people still frequently travelled with steamer trunks, and you would load it on to the “tail gate” and strap it down. The stuff wedged between the body panels is called fender welt. Hot rod shops sell it by the foot. The hand crank was for emergency starts, since battery technology was pretty poor and batteries failed frequently. Also, the typical Jaguar buyer in 1950 would have grown up with hand cranks and would have seen it as an essential backup.
I have fender mounted mirrors, they are better than door mounted. you can see traffic on both sides without taking you eye off the car in front. on a 60s saloon, there is no blind spot between the 3 mirrors & your peripheral vision. No turning your head to look in the curb-side door mirror, Because they are far from the driver you don't need to adjust them if you move the seat. It does seem to have hydraulic brakes.. so very advanced.
Whitworth is an imperial system, but the spanner size for them refers to the thread size, NOT the AF of the head of the bolt. And the AF size of those spanners is not a rounded imperial size . For example, a 1/2" Whitworth spanner is 0.92" AF / 23.37mm AF.
Find some propper Witworth wrenches, they are not the same size as anything out there. Wait till you get to the BA bolts on the electrics that is the same story.
If you haven't figured a way to augment those tail lights, I had an idea that might work: You could 3d print a holder base to fit those lenses. I'd design it to hold LED brake lights that are found on Amazon/eBay. They are incredibly bright by themselves, the ones I have have like a lens on the end, and LEDs on the sides as well. 4 or 5 would be ridiculously bright. I might add those fog laser brake light add ons that project a laser pattern on the ground. Also found on eBay ect. Excellent video as always, thank you.
"I'm pretty happy with the suspension design of this car...this could be on a car that was designed 50 years later." From an initial glance, the upper wishbones actually were used on a car 50 years later. They look identical to the ones fitted to my 1992 XJ40, and I doubt they changed them for the 1996 X300 or early 00s X308. Perhaps they did, Ford changed a lot on the X300 compared to the 40, but even still that's at least 40 years of parts continuity...
1970, Colorado Springs - heading east, past Ent AFB, towards Kansas, was a monster G.I. Junk Yard (my words). All Non Comms above E-4 and Officers serving in Europe post WWII were allowed to bring household goods and one car back to the U.S. And bring back cars they did. But what was popular in Europe was considered clownish in America. So the G.I.s scrapped their Euro Cars and bought American. I bought a 1950 Jaguar MK V- it RAN. Maybe $50 and I was driving in style - being laughed at by everyone else. I also bought (1 at a time) an XK-120 and a Ducatti. With NO parts, I took each one back - cheaper than rentals.
The one with the "awful color" is Willow Green, like the Mark 10 I just got for conversion. I think it is awful, too, but nearly everyone I ask loves it! I'm getting used to it, slowly. BTW, Mark 10 or Mark X? Starting with the "ten", Jaguar spelled it "10".
As a "Brit" I really do appreciate your attempts to grasp the mother tongue. American IS based on English after all. I especially like your rendition of "aluminium" but please please can I offer some elocution for the name of the car manufacturer. It is "Jag u are" NOT "Jag warrh" Good luck with that one 😎
Withworth bolts use withworth spanners, brittish wiring not usually a problem, it's the joseph lucas "king of darkness" at the end of the wiring that's usually the problem,, the material between fender as nd body is "called fenderwelt"
Just a few - fuel line in wheel well and exposed on frame rail (but hey the Rangie is 4x4 so what could hit the frame rail?) - hand crank option (for suicidal he-man) - collects a wheel barrow of soil every dirt road - One of every thread type (but that's from factory not due to crazy swap) - PITA through bolts - Barely working Lucas electrics - I'm afraid to think about it any more, but thankfully it has a pretty good Bible with it too.
"I don't understand why they people think the E-Type looks attractive." Ok. Admitting one has no eye for style is the first step toward gaining it. It was someone like Enzo Ferrari who said "If aesthetics equaled aerodynamics, the E-Type Jaguar would be the fastest car in the world".
Old joke about Lucas electrics Why do the British drink warm beer----because they have Lucas refrigerators. Just found this site, enjoying it alot, keep up the work.
To bring it fully up to contemporary safety standards, will you remove the interior door handles and replace with a door-open switch which doesn't work if the battery's gone pop?
You wonder why heavy metal took off in the UK? This may be why. Fun Fact, Tony Iommi, Guitarist of Black Sabbath, Influencers of heavy metal, Lost the tips of his fingers to a car factory metal press, hence his style of guitar playing!
You are using US SAE inch spanners instead of Whitworth imperial British inch spanners.A half inch Whitworth is as similar to an SAE half inch spanner as a metric 13mm. They are"almost" the same :)
RE the weight. Remember, a mere 5 years before they built this car Jaguar was building tanks for the war effort, so you have to forgive them for having a railroad mentality = if it broke *then just weld on more steel!* In the USA the government told all the car manufacturers that March 31, 1942 was the absolute last day they were allowed to make cars. After that they were all involved in production of war material. Perhaps someone can shed light on how this worked in the UK.
Matt, Sir George Lucas, the founder of Lucas Electric, and often called the "Lord of Darkness" both at home and abroad, was given his Order of the British Empire and "elevated" for his brilliant and highly functional electrics on WW2 airplanes and tanks. The postwar autos, were in many ways, bean counter's contests and most factories cheaped out on the specs for electrics- hence Lord Lucas' sobriquet. It would only get worse when the British government subsidized and took over the auto industry in the '60s.
Having owned quite a few British classic cars, I have found that if you use an off the shelf Chinese socket/spanner set they are rubbish. I ended up buying some Britool spanners and assorted Bedford, Britool and some other British made sockets and these have undone the nut and bolt quite easily no rounded heads. Also quality German/Spanish/American tools make a difference too. Or buy yourself a car made by the Rootes Group. My 1965 Humber comes apart with very little problems, OK you might have to soak the nuts with oil, but you have to do that on any car.
@@andrewallen9993 He moans about his spanners not fitting. NEVER use an adjustable spanner. Simply buy a set of Whitworth spanners. These fit both Whitworth and BSF threads.
No, quality tools and fasteners here post war do you have a full set of British spanners? From my set some are the same physical size with double nomenclature.
I have the spanners that came with the car, which fit most of the fasteners. Except that all the bolts are rusted on, so I've just been impacting them off with the nearest size socket. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Matt, Josiah Whitworth was the pioneer of fastener standardisation, prior to his sytem fasteners were made to whatever size or form users wanted so there was no interchangeability. Arguably his thread form is yet to be bettered from a strength aspect but made them more difficult to make. I would also like to register my strongest disapproval of what you are doing to this classic motor car, there can be few left of this model and you are destroying one of them. Just what is the reason for this desicration?
Oh yeah those Lucas starters are dumb heavy. I just replaced the same one in my '68 Triumph. Looks like starters didn't advance from 1950 to 1968..........
I come here for the education and knowledge/fuckery i stay because sarcasm is my first language! Love what your doing Fuck the haters, i mean not literally unless you want to then of coarse by all means fuck away !!
You're funny.. you also need Whitworth spanners (wrenches in americish) as they're not std. AF sizes. Whitworth was the first standard (ever). Everything else is an imitation.. x
yep e type looks like a tongue ,got a good laugh out of that . hot tip whitworth bolts and nuts use whitworth spanners , some sort of evil pomy engineering from british empire , the finest of british electrical engineering lord lucas prince of darkness (throw that stuff away) and anything that needs oil will not hold it throw that stuff away as well . compound turbo 12 valve cummins will do nicely to keep the batterys charged
Almost had to unsubscribe when you said the E-type looks like a tongue. Surprising considering its history as a car from that era which was really designed from the ground up by an engineer/aerodynamicist.
To be honest I don't think you're appreciating what you've got . Old British cars used many bolt thread types as each was suitable for a specific job - your spanner didn't fit because it was the wrong type not due to bad engineering . This car is a beautiful thing and best left be - I'm sure your a good guy but this isn't one that you understand , please leave it alone as you're going to ruin it .
The convertible E-Type is beautiful, coupe is just nasty looking xD Anyways, if the body is sound I would probably do a custom chassis if the original really is that bad.
Haha, withwoth are cool, old series landies had them, just try finding a set of appropriate spanners for a decent price... It is said that one can completely disassemble a 1953 series one land rover with 6 or 7 spanners. Talk about simplicity! Also the measure ment on the bolt (5/8) refers to the thread diametre on the flat to flat of the bolt. All this because the brits pretended to be metric but wanted to be imperial.
"Last time I threw things away Jay Leno yelled at me" 🤣
Without doubt, one of the most interesting builds on UA-cam
Exactly
In case nobody has already pointed it out, the BSF/Whitworth nuts and bolts use different spanner/socket sizes to the 'imperial' A/F sizes (which are American standards), which is why your spanners don't fit properly.
I don't understand a car guy does not now this, made me laugh...
Whitworth threads are typically used on tubing threads today, eg brake lines.
Correct, he must know that, think he is just playing
He must do
@@kennethmoxon7337 eh, it's common knowledge for anyone that's had something to do with old British cars but outside of that not really. Can't imagine it helps that he's in the US.
"It's like this car was driven on roads made entirely of dirt." Deadpan master. Also, I think it is somewhat a materials issue. My understanding is that after WWII, it was really hard to source high quality steel in the UK, so carmakers just went ahead with whatever they could get their hands on. I know the body of the contemporary Bentley Mk VI is famous for it's low quality steel.
They were buying steel from Russia- the Mini, harbinger of so many unibody designs from the mid fifties, was so bad for this that many people still call the car hygrocentic, as it seems to draw the moisture out of the air and by five years age, the rust is holding the whole car togehter!
in reality this is a 1930's car that they were still making in the 1950's
Totally. I'm spending a lot of time watching videos on 30's and 40's hot rods to figure out how to modify things.
@@SuperfastMatt you were on jay leno?
Links or name of the video?
@@rronaldreagan jays garage Honda s600
@@djfast3 doesnt even look like him.
No homo but he looks much better today
Not really, Jag were innovators, their application of Girling disc brakes won them the 24 hr Le Mans. My 1959 Mark IX had 4 wheel discs in a fuuull siiize sedan. Do you know of any other mfg doing that?
The bolt threads are BSF, whitworth spanners fit the bolt hex but are a size out, so a 5/16BSF would use a 1/4whit spanner, but you can of course get BSF spanners just marked with BSF. You probably need to log onto eBay.co.uk to access the stuff. Using an adjustable spanner is best with an imperial one...!!!
If you were doing such a conversion here in the UK there would be a lynch mob at your front door...
As for modern safety features, the best form of safety equipment would be a very sharp spike sticking up from the steering wheel, fitted to all cars would transform road manners in an instant!
Good luck with what will be an interesting build! Greetings from the UK!
Matt...as an owner of several pre-war and immediate post-war examples of exemplary British design and engineering, I thoroughly enjoyed your video. I refer to "Riley" cars exported to the less deserving colony of Australia and shared many of the design characteristics you found so alluring ( rotary"lever action" dampers, leather enclosed leaf springs, using cast-off teaspoons as welding rods, etc.). I particularly enjoyed your "tongue in cheek' narration which managed to highlight some of the more interesting limitations of British workmanship while not being too condescending. Now here in the USA, in an effort to relive years toiling under and over Rileys (which were thankfully never foisted on unsuspecting Americans), I like yourself have turned my attention to Jaguars which is a bit like marrying your ex-wife's sister! I can't wait for your next posting!
We got Rileys here in NZ, the last were Mini's and 1100's. The prewar models had a lovely pre-select gearbox and knock on wire wheels.
Oh another reason for the bottom hinged trunk was to carry more luggage , just leave it open you could carry a big steamer trunk -half in half out that way :-)
You need a set of Whitworth wrenches and sockets, obsolete in the UK over 50 years ago but you can usually find them at flea markets here. Best of luck from the UK.
I love the way you make your videos! So entertaining and informative!
I just discovered this build today. Can't wait to see it progress!
I like the way old brake lights say STOP molded into the glass.lol.Great.
Holy shit! You're the dude who made the Honda S600 that was on Leno. I'm an EV guy but that car is sick!!!! subscribing for sure!
I’m enjoying these. Just finished watching everything you’ve posted. You’re a natural at this.
Just found your “channel” and am already hooked. I believe Mr Whitworth should be commended for producing the first standard threads back in the mid 1800’s. Keep up the good work Sir!
Can you hurry up!? This is too cool to have to wait to see it done lol
Really love that you're uploading more. Keep it up!
The beading between panels is called "welting" and the Withworth system has its own spanners "wrenches" that are slightly different from sae wrenches but that fit snugly on Whitworth nots and bolts. I recommend that you get a set from the UK; it makes work more pleasant. Interesting project, thank you.
That "ropey stuff" is fender welting. Anti-squeak, anti-chaffing. Great project.
Wait wait wait. The F Type is good looking and the E type is okay I guess. I have the video paused to recover from that. If I don't comment later send help.
I had a Mk V many years ago, in immaculate condition. Paint like a black mirror, interior in the condition it came out of the factory. It needed re-ringing and being a poor student it became impossible to service its inordinate thirst. Had to do brake cylinders and shoes, which the dealer still had wrapped in grease on their shelves. Always overheated, not jags finest product, but still beautiful
Just to make the overheating fatal, the temperature gauge bulb was located on the radiator connection, the engine fried before the gauge warned you.
That old Jag is soooo coool! What a great project!
The ropey stuff is called fender welting. The old fashioned way of covering up bad panel gaps. If memory serves, 26 is a BSF or British Standard Fine thread pitch. BSF and Whitworth have completely separate wrench sizes from SAE as they predate it.
It's BSC , otherwise known as cycle thread. Much used on bicycles and motorcycles to resist vibration. The profile is Whitworth standard.
You have a great sense of humor, man!
Will admit that had I found this video a few days ago I would just write you off because of your attitude. But I found some of you later videos in which you worked on modifying the frame and in those videos you came across as a young engineer with hands on experience in machining. Got to thinking how much alike we are, or would have been if I had not attended a junior college vs an actual college.
You have my subscription, something I hard to justify with most You Tube videos.
There are Whitworth wrenches. Some sizes are close to either SAE or Metric but some are not. I have an Austin Healey. I think I have one Whitworth socket and a couple of filed out open end wrenches. A 5/8 6 sided socket came in handy. You have probably figured this all out by now as this is an old video but noticed your comment around the 6 min mark and thought I would chime in. Love your videos. Very fun.
Yes on the Q1 thing - I think over half the population gets that wrong. And yes on the E-Type looking like a tongue, I've never heard a more apt description.
Your videos are amazing, I love your production and delivery style.
3:05 THANK YOU! Not knowing this bothered me more than I care to admit...
here in Blighty, I bought my Imperial spanners from that famous USA company called "Snap-on".
The Mark V uses UNF bolts as well as BSF bolts, and a few BSW in the cylinder head. And 2BA screws hold the steering wheel horn push together too. :)
I always wanted to buy an old Mark V and stick a Jaguar 5.3 litre V12 under the bonnet with Jaguar XJ-S running gear/brakes.
As for sticking an EV motor under the bonnet, Jaguar did that with an E-Type Jag that Prince 'Arry and the wife drove out after his wedding.
I couldn’t agree more completely........ ‘neat’ 👍👍🤓👍👍
The boot lid folds down because at the time people still frequently travelled with steamer trunks, and you would load it on to the “tail gate” and strap it down.
The stuff wedged between the body panels is called fender welt. Hot rod shops sell it by the foot.
The hand crank was for emergency starts, since battery technology was pretty poor and batteries failed frequently. Also, the typical Jaguar buyer in 1950 would have grown up with hand cranks and would have seen it as an essential backup.
I have fender mounted mirrors, they are better than door mounted. you can see traffic on both sides without taking you eye off the car in front. on a 60s saloon, there is no blind spot between the 3 mirrors & your peripheral vision. No turning your head to look in the curb-side door mirror, Because they are far from the driver you don't need to adjust them if you move the seat. It does seem to have hydraulic brakes.. so very advanced.
The ropey material between the fenders / mudguards is called "beading" from memory.
There must be something wrong with Google's algorithm that has not suggested your channel until now. Oh well I'm here now. Feels good.
"Encounter of adventure in park", is chiefly British.
Excellent Project. And, You got to admit; "-It's a Jaaag". 😜
Whitworth is an imperial system, but the spanner size for them refers to the thread size, NOT the AF of the head of the bolt. And the AF size of those spanners is not a rounded imperial size .
For example, a 1/2" Whitworth spanner is 0.92" AF / 23.37mm AF.
aah, the honda! now i remember you.
I have a weird idea for rear view mirrors: use a pop-up camera hidden behind the panel at 3:09
You’re so hilarious 😆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻and I’m English 😁👍🏻fantastic builds too
Awesome video, keep em coming
this is gonna be a cool build.
Mostly restoration with a build at the end somewhere
Find some propper Witworth wrenches, they are not the same size as anything out there.
Wait till you get to the BA bolts on the electrics that is the same story.
If you haven't figured a way to augment those tail lights, I had an idea that might work: You could 3d print a holder base to fit those lenses. I'd design it to hold LED brake lights that are found on Amazon/eBay. They are incredibly bright by themselves, the ones I have have like a lens on the end, and LEDs on the sides as well. 4 or 5 would be ridiculously bright. I might add those fog laser brake light add ons that project a laser pattern on the ground. Also found on eBay ect. Excellent video as always, thank you.
I was going to LED those and also probably put some red LED lights in the rear window. I think I need some lights up higher.
"I'm pretty happy with the suspension design of this car...this could be on a car that was designed 50 years later."
From an initial glance, the upper wishbones actually were used on a car 50 years later. They look identical to the ones fitted to my 1992 XJ40, and I doubt they changed them for the 1996 X300 or early 00s X308. Perhaps they did, Ford changed a lot on the X300 compared to the 40, but even still that's at least 40 years of parts continuity...
With you on the E-Type. It's nice but I've never got the hype around it. F-type is more my style.
1970, Colorado Springs - heading east, past Ent AFB, towards Kansas, was a monster G.I. Junk Yard (my words). All Non Comms above E-4 and Officers serving in Europe post WWII were allowed to bring household goods and one car back to the U.S. And bring back cars they did. But what was popular in Europe was considered clownish in America. So the G.I.s scrapped their Euro Cars and bought American. I bought a 1950 Jaguar MK V- it RAN. Maybe $50 and I was driving in style - being laughed at by everyone else. I also bought (1 at a time) an XK-120 and a Ducatti. With NO parts, I took each one back - cheaper than rentals.
The trunk lid (boot lid) opens down to provide extra luggage space. (3:21)
Fantastic project
Do you have an engineering background?
This car needs to be on Jay Leno Garage when finished 😎🏖🏆🇬🇧
Thanks! I have a dozen years in automotive as a mechanical engineer.
Attach the crank to a hidden air raid siren. Wouldn't that be fun?
The one with the "awful color" is Willow Green, like the Mark 10 I just got for conversion. I think it is awful, too, but nearly everyone I ask loves it! I'm getting used to it, slowly. BTW, Mark 10 or Mark X? Starting with the "ten", Jaguar spelled it "10".
As a "Brit" I really do appreciate your attempts to grasp the mother tongue.
American IS based on English after all.
I especially like your rendition of "aluminium" but please please can I offer some elocution for the name of the car manufacturer.
It is "Jag u are"
NOT
"Jag warrh"
Good luck with that one 😎
"Al u minimum" "jag u were" *got it :p*
MATT - ELECTRIC DODGE Gen 1 Viper !!!!!!!!!
Withworth bolts use withworth spanners, brittish wiring not usually a problem, it's the joseph lucas "king of darkness" at the end of the wiring that's usually the problem,, the material between fender as nd body is "called fenderwelt"
I like your term shed find ill be using it.
There is so much in this car that is similar to my range rover. I have no option but to find it amusing.
Just a few
- fuel line in wheel well and exposed on frame rail (but hey the Rangie is 4x4 so what could hit the frame rail?)
- hand crank option (for suicidal he-man)
- collects a wheel barrow of soil every dirt road
- One of every thread type (but that's from factory not due to crazy swap)
- PITA through bolts
- Barely working Lucas electrics
- I'm afraid to think about it any more, but thankfully it has a pretty good Bible with it too.
AMEN on the E-type comment!!
"I don't understand why they people think the E-Type looks attractive." Ok. Admitting one has no eye for style is the first step toward gaining it. It was someone like Enzo Ferrari who said "If aesthetics equaled aerodynamics, the E-Type Jaguar would be the fastest car in the world".
Old joke about Lucas electrics Why do the British drink warm beer----because they have Lucas refrigerators. Just found this site, enjoying it alot, keep up the work.
Lucas invented intermittent wipers...but not on purpose.
Get the original wheels back on it when its finished.
in germany an adjustable wrench is called "Engländer" or englishman. I guess there is a reason for the name...
Are you gonna put the aero wheels on it? I think it'd actually look quite cool.
Yes. Honestly, I think they look better on this car than on the Tesla.
@@SuperfastMatt I agree! something about very old and retro-futuristic works well together.
To bring it fully up to contemporary safety standards, will you remove the interior door handles and replace with a door-open switch which doesn't work if the battery's gone pop?
You wonder why heavy metal took off in the UK? This may be why.
Fun Fact, Tony Iommi, Guitarist of Black Sabbath, Influencers of heavy metal, Lost the tips of his fingers to a car factory metal press, hence his style of guitar playing!
You are using US SAE inch spanners instead of Whitworth imperial British inch spanners.A half inch Whitworth is as similar to an SAE half inch spanner as a metric 13mm. They are"almost" the same :)
I never realised the e-type looked like a tongue till you said it. Guess I know why I never liked it now😂
You should hook up with Binky. You guys would love each other.
They may be Whitworth size nuts/bolts not AF or Metric.
You towed that beast with a 4 runner?
RE the weight. Remember, a mere 5 years before they built this car Jaguar was building tanks for the war effort, so you have to forgive them for having a railroad mentality = if it broke *then just weld on more steel!* In the USA the government told all the car manufacturers that March 31, 1942 was the absolute last day they were allowed to make cars. After that they were all involved in production of war material. Perhaps someone can shed light on how this worked in the UK.
Matt, Sir George Lucas, the founder of Lucas Electric, and often called the "Lord of Darkness" both at home and abroad, was given his Order of the British Empire and "elevated" for his brilliant and highly functional electrics on WW2 airplanes and tanks. The postwar autos, were in many ways, bean counter's contests and most factories cheaped out on the specs for electrics- hence Lord Lucas' sobriquet. It would only get worse when the British government subsidized and took over the auto industry in the '60s.
Prince of darkness
i like the 90s xj
Great video!
Do you have to slaughter a new Tesla or are the parts for sale like en LS engine for example ?
If so where can i buy them ?
Get your self a set of whitworth spanners they are commen in the uk
It’s Jag-you-ar not Jagwar.
Thanks pal, now I’ll never be able to look at an e-type without thinking about tongues again.
I’m subscribing anyway 😆
Having owned quite a few British classic cars, I have found that if you use an off the shelf Chinese socket/spanner set they are rubbish. I ended up buying some Britool spanners and assorted Bedford, Britool and some other British made sockets and these have undone the nut and bolt quite easily no rounded heads. Also quality German/Spanish/American tools make a difference too. Or buy yourself a car made by the Rootes Group. My 1965 Humber comes apart with very little problems, OK you might have to soak the nuts with oil, but you have to do that on any car.
Shout out to every mg b with a rusted out battery tray
"40 lbs of old copper that I can probably sell at the scrap yard to buy a lot of meth..." Hilarious!
Beautiful ole car. Kinda makes me weep that it's losing it's original 6 banger and moishy suspension.
Don't be rude about Whitworth. He Invented standardised thread sizes.
Yes Whitworth is the standard all the others are due to "not invented here" syndrome.
@@andrewallen9993 He moans about his spanners not fitting. NEVER use an adjustable spanner. Simply buy a set of Whitworth spanners. These fit both Whitworth and BSF threads.
What is the air speed velocity of an unladen jaguar?
Buy. set of whitworth spanners that fit
No, quality tools and fasteners here post war do you have a full set of British spanners? From my set some are the same physical size with double nomenclature.
I have the spanners that came with the car, which fit most of the fasteners. Except that all the bolts are rusted on, so I've just been impacting them off with the nearest size socket. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@SuperfastMatt that or a grinder usually ☹️, I’m planning on building an Austin 7 monoposto and I’m dreading the engine strip down😭
Run it on Nitrogen!
Matt,
Josiah Whitworth was the pioneer of fastener standardisation, prior to his sytem fasteners were made to whatever size or form users wanted so there was no interchangeability.
Arguably his thread form is yet to be bettered from a strength aspect but made them more difficult to make.
I would also like to register my strongest disapproval of what you are doing to this classic motor car, there can be few left of this model and you are destroying one of them. Just what is the reason for this desicration?
Oh yeah those Lucas starters are dumb heavy. I just replaced the same one in my '68 Triumph. Looks like starters didn't advance from 1950 to 1968..........
It's a Lucas starter so just the brushes had probably worn out through long use.
I come here for the education and knowledge/fuckery i stay because sarcasm is my first language!
Love what your doing Fuck the haters, i mean not literally unless you want to then of coarse by all means fuck away !!
What did you pay for the Jag? I've got one here I may buy if I knew what its worth....lol its in "slightly' better condition than yours..
You're funny.. you also need Whitworth spanners (wrenches in americish) as they're not std. AF sizes. Whitworth was the first standard (ever). Everything else is an imitation.. x
or you could of purchased the correct size spanners
8:36 Wait, what?
yep e type looks like a tongue ,got a good laugh out of that . hot tip whitworth bolts and nuts use whitworth spanners , some sort of evil pomy engineering from british empire , the finest of british electrical engineering lord lucas prince of darkness (throw that stuff away) and anything that needs oil will not hold it throw that stuff away as well . compound turbo 12 valve cummins will do nicely to keep the batterys charged
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Almost had to unsubscribe when you said the E-type looks like a tongue. Surprising considering its history as a car from that era which was really designed from the ground up by an engineer/aerodynamicist.
To be honest I don't think you're appreciating what you've got . Old British cars used many bolt thread types as each was suitable for a specific job - your spanner didn't fit because it was the wrong type not due to bad engineering . This car is a beautiful thing and best left be - I'm sure your a good guy but this isn't one that you understand , please leave it alone as you're going to ruin it .
Yes. change to metric.
But try to leave its appearance factory.
I'm enjoying these but I'm not sure if I can cope listening to Jaguar being pronounced incorrectly. 😁
The convertible E-Type is beautiful, coupe is just nasty looking xD
Anyways, if the body is sound I would probably do a custom chassis if the original really is that bad.
Haha, withwoth are cool, old series landies had them, just try finding a set of appropriate spanners for a decent price...
It is said that one can completely disassemble a 1953 series one land rover with 6 or 7 spanners. Talk about simplicity!
Also the measure ment on the bolt (5/8) refers to the thread diametre on the flat to flat of the bolt. All this because the brits pretended to be metric but wanted to be imperial.
“And buy a lot of meth.”