On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've heard horror stories of working on the inboard disk brakes.
I've worked on them. They're not hard to work on at all, although they can be time consuming if things are rusted up. The entire rear suspension unit (differential, shock/spring units, stub axles and hub carriers in a pressed steel frame) can be dropped out of the car in about 20 minutes work, assuming you know what you're doing and have the right tools (jackstands to hold the car up, a suitable lift to manage the assembly (it ain't light!), etc). Then you can take the brakes apart with a lot better access. Changing the pads alone, with no other problems, is about ten minutes work with a suitable lift so you can get under the car with adequate access. It's often the case on the E-Type, due to how tightly that big power train is packaged into a small chassis, that the fast way to take care of things like this is to take the long way around to gain working access. For example: doing a clutch on an E-Type the right way is a seemingly enormous job, in that you almost literally have to dismantle and remove the entire power train from the car to do it. But if you take your time and dismantle things the way they were designed to be worked on, it's not hard work at all, just a lot of work. The problem we always ran into was that some impatient fool would try to do it the fast way using a short cut (like cutting access holes or the center supporting tunnel in the monocoque chassis tub), which damaged the car and caused a great deal more repair work than the task of changing the clutch. I always found it much easier to the job on a E-Type than on many other cars where it looked to be a lot simpler at first glance. If this all gives you the impression that I loved the Jaguar E-Type and enjoyed the hours I spent working on them, you'd be correct. ;-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
