On Jul 13, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is scary to think of someone holding up an E-type as a paragon of >> serviceability. Though the enameled exhaust manifolds are awful pretty. > > Sounds like you don't know them all that well. Nearly every piece on a > Jaguar E-Type can be adjusted and/or rebuilt almost indefinitely. > They're not particularly hard to work on ... stuffing that huge engine > and transmission into such a tiny chassis makes access to some things > complicated but that doesn't mean they are not serviceable. Even the > (rightfully maligned on reliability) Lucas electrical components can > usually be repaired even today, almost forty years after the E-Type > went out of production and fifty years since it was introduced. > > Some bits on modern cars simply cannot be repaired at all, and many > more cannot be repaired economically even after as short as ten years.
I've heard horror stories of working on the inboard disk brakes. About 20 years ago I was given a '69 buick wagon. Finding parts for that was much harder than finding parts for my '64-'68 spridget. For that matter, most lucas starters, alternators etc. these days have been rebuilt by shops with much better quality than the originals. I've wrangled a few SU electric fuel pumps in my day. Even had something large and heavy under the drivers seat to bang on the floor board when the points in one stuck. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
