Careful guys is that your trolley jack gradually dropping during the time lapses. This looks like a huge project but it’s great to see you both working together.
Have to admire your ingenious persistence with dragging the jack over a gravelled drive - might be worth laying a plywood board down first to allow a smoother surface for the jack wheels to roll on. You definitely earned your bevvies on this job. 👍👍
Ohhh wow !!!!! Tinkering with an old Jag amidst the sounds of the birds and the church bells pealing across the fields....then off for a few cold beers.... It cannot get any better.... Thanks chaps ,really enjoying the Jag adventures.....and yes I'm in love with them too !!!!! .
Worked near a jag garage in the 70's and how the machanics dealt with changing the rear pads was to remove the rear seat cut holes in the floor and do the job that way .They would then repair the floor refit the rear seat base job done .The type of customers who owned these cars were hardly likely to lift the rear seat to discover their shortcut.
Cracking job, you earned your pints! Something I bought a few years ago was a cheap set of podgers, they make it so much easier to line up bolt holes on a heavy bit of kit like that subframe.
Fantastic rear suspension. Needle roller bearings on outer lower swivel with coil overs, the whole package isolated from car by rubber bushes. Inboard discs cut down on unstrung weight makes for a really smooth compliant quiet suspension. Exhaust boxes off, prop shaft off, disconnect brake pipes and handbrake and drop the whole subframe. A superior suspension system. Some people cut a hole in the boot floor and did brakes then put a panel over the top and cannot be seen with boot carpet in.
Great video lads, it’s great to see father and son working together. I enjoy my two sons. Ps that Jag is one of my favourites. Keep them coming please.
It was 1978, my cousin, Chris, bought a blue 3.4, brand new. With the car just a few days old, his little girl toddled up to him wanting him to look at the flower she’d drawn for daddy. She’d drawn it with a stone on the car door. Agghhh. I remember he emigrated, to Australia, taking the car with him. He kept it till he died just a few years ago - I imagine his family still have it. He’d have loved your videos as much as I do.
My dad had inherited the xj6 jaguar from my cousin who played drums for Wilson Pickett who wrote the the song Mustand Salley it was an 1985 model British racing Green i use to work on jaguar motor cars as well cheers
I really think it's about time you brought yourselfs a sheet of half inch plywood . Just to lay on your driveway. It would make your lives so much easier when asking dad to pull the jack from under the jag. Loving your videos keep up the good work 👏
Hi guys . Tip of the day . Next time you drop the irs put trays under the hubs it'll pull a lot easier . Guarantee that engine rattle is the timing chain and l've heard them rattle a lot louder than this old girl . Well , take care and have a great 2024 .
Great job guys, nice to see a good old fashioned get it going , like the old days when we couldn’t afford to replace everything for new. Just about to drop the IRS on my 76 XJS.
Great job with that bleed nipple - and for persevering outside in the rain! A couple of big wooden boards will probably make life easier in future when dragging stuff to/from underneath the cars 👍 I’ll be joining your Patreon on 1st Jan (so that the payment date syncs with my other subscriptions) 🙂
Jobs like this would benefit from a flat and solid surface to work on - not gravel. And oh, that jack which goes down over time! But, despite the rain, you got it done, calipers freed-off and reinstalled. So well done to you guys for that. When I did this on my E-type, I installed the (EZ-bleed SNG Barratt) and that enabled me to bleed the rear brakes. Can't imagine doing it any other way. BTW, my garage is filled by a 69-E-type and the wife's MX5 grand touring.
To be fair, that is a tough job in a gravel yard. In my opinion, it would be a great opportunity to take the IRS apart and restore/repair it all and the underside of the car body shell rather than doing a quick fix repair job. New bushes in the trailing arms, new shockers, new springs, new brake calipers and check the drive shafts and diff. Clean up and paint the IRS cage. For the sake of £500 approx it was an opportunity not to be postponed because as you know, you have it all to come back out again. Still, it makes for a very interesting video. All the best for 2024!
Well done, lads. I'm a big XJ fan, currently on my sixth! We had those Halford axle stands and ditched them because they were so unstable. Looking forward to the next video, nice to see this old girl in loving hands.
@@PeterShaw-lb9lt It is a flawed masterpiece! The inboard brakes are to reduce the un-sprung weight, it all helps to add up to what gives the magic carpet ride. I think you are using a bit of poetic license, you can change the rear pads without pulling the axle, well as long as they aren't seized.
Brilliant work guys. Loving this content. Just watch that heat shield under the car though. Looks like asbestos to me. Should be ok but be careful not to disturb it. 👍🏼
This is great info. and will really help me when i start this work. Thank you. For unseizing , I use Plus Gas , it seems to work its way into bolts better than WD40 and mostly always work. Also giving it a few applications over a couple of days before can help.
Beer well deserved after all that work! :) I'm fairly sure that the rear suspension unit is the same as the one fitted to an E-Type. The Jag that I removed the lump from, it had to come out as one of the cam supports had snapped and the front end of the cam dropped a good couple of centimeters and the cam support wouldn't come off because the chassis was in the way. The engine sounded terrible and had severe chain rattle but it still ran. :) Your engine sounded nothing like that so I suspect you might just need some new tensioners. Great work guys! :)
I stumbled across the channel as i do love a 'will it run' or restoration type thing! I do also have a soft spot for the old Jags. Had 4 early to late Xj's and not one of them was the full resto.... its was buy a good body but bad engine, good engine, bad body etc... the best one i had was an 82' in brown with tan interior... God it was such a lovely thing to drive.... Can't wait to see yours on the move! I have now subscribed.. 👍
i have owned lots of jags , they must be garaged , real rusters ! just plaster everything underneath with waxoyl , inside the doors etc , grease all joints , and lots of copper grease on brake connections !
Personally I would of strip it completely, and rebuild it all, especially as you have it all off, and clean off and paint under the car. it's great to see you and your father pottering on this, and no offence with the basic of tools how it was always done,no fancy lifts and few bare knuckles lol.
Big project Mark. I wonder if you can still open the back doors? If you can, you have a stronger car than the only one I ever worked on! I'm sure it's safer than it looks, but I would go for some extra supports before you get under it again. I have been restoring a BMW 840Ci for many years and while working on the rear suspension I managed to drag that off of axle stands in my garage. It was a brown trouser experience make no mistake! The only thing that saved me and the car from untold damage was a single scissor jack that I had been using to compress the suspension slightly, it tipped and wedged. My mistake was that I had the steering lock off and the car could pivot on the front wheels. It frightened me so much I spent some money and bought a Hamer car lift, (wonder if they're still in business?) which was the best money I ever spent. Anyhow, good to see you both again and looking forward to following your progress.
Might want to use a sheet of plywood on a dirt floor helps the jack roll a lot better lol and please get ride of those jack stands, those pipe like are known to fail, take now...
Great work 👍 Get an old wardrobe door or something to wheel that trolley jack on. Also put the road wheels under the car when you jack it up (just in case a jack fails). Typical how the sun seemed to be shining when you were in the garage and raining when you where outside 😂
Get a new 3 tonne jack .. SGS have some great stuff ... Personally I would put the wheels under the sills as a back up ... Just in case ... Hard work on your back
Thanks for posting. When I did my series one years ago i left the rear radius arms in place and removed from irs side. I got told off by my mechnic for not getting the rear brake disks resurfaced as they were slightly warped. I am sure you would have given the car a good shake on the axle stands before getting underneath it
Well done chaps love the father and son combination really good progress so much wisdom and experience from your dad and most of all building priceless memories 👍👍👍
Good job boys! Keep them coming 👍I’ve got the dredded rattle in mine too, looks like bottom tensioner in mine isn’t pushing out far enough any more😔 only 44,000 miles too
Great eposide guys. I really enjoy seeing your dad working alongside you on the new project. Thank you for sharing all the best for the new year. Cheers
I can remember dad doing this on a 1971 series 1 xj6 in 1975 but we had a 5 tonne indoo4 ramp and running car. But he took sub frame out to do the brake but also to remove rust and paint it and underseal the car as well as do the rear valences as the we buggers for rusting . The rust protection was crap. He also did the spring and shocks as the sat low and when full going on holiday to Jersey it would catch it bottom on the ferry ramp every time. So he put heavier spring and shocks so it was a little higher but the ride was not compromised . He said it was flatter in corners Plus it was better with caravan aswell
Enjoying seeing this, My brother has recently rebuilt the rear axle on his E Type, and that looks quite similar. For stubborn nipples, use a chisel and create a slight burr on a flat side, and then a nice flat punch , apply the punch to the burr flat and tap gently in right direction Good penetrating fluid RP90 can sometimes help a bit. Key to ceating the burr with the chisel, Be gentle with the hammer !. Great video
Really enjoying this. I love the XJs and seeing you two bringing one back to life. Once I start watching your videos I find it hard not to watch until the end! Is there a cure for this sort of addiction?😂
Also check your servo, if you get a puff of smoke out of the exhaust with your foot on the brake when coming to a stop, you can almost guarantee the seals are gone, swear it got me out of a speeding fine when I had mine, there was that much of a puff of smoke out of it you could not see the rear no plate lol.
great work freeing the pistons too but I'm not sure how heat helps as there shouldn't be any metal to metal contact. All that's holding any caliper piston really is a rubber seal. The manual advises against separating the halves of these calipers during rebuild but have seen ppl doing it before with no issues, except the rubber seals between the halves aren't included in the seal-kits
I owned a series 1 daimler soverign with a 350 chevy turbo 400 it was awesome to drive but everything else like electrics , ball joints would constantly fail and i swore id never buy another again , 5yrs later i bought an xj6 lol
Well done I just refurbished my IRS on my XJS just a couple of things it's always a good idea to replace the subframe mounts and the trailing arms their fairly cheap I found it was easier to take the the IRS out sideways from under the car, the rattle could well be the timing chain the guides do wear away being a plastic I believe their are a upgraded replacements anyway enjoyed your video as always I wish you both a Happy New Year till the next time Andy Allen.
Love seeing Dad and Son working g together with the assistance of the missus in the background lol
Careful guys is that your trolley jack gradually dropping during the time lapses.
This looks like a huge project but it’s great to see you both working together.
Have to admire your ingenious persistence with dragging the jack over a gravelled drive - might be worth laying a plywood board down first to allow a smoother surface for the jack wheels to roll on. You definitely earned your bevvies on this job. 👍👍
I was a lot happier when I saw you had the extra timber blocks supporting the jag.
Careful guys,next time scrape away the gravel and put a sheet of 1inch plywood,great job guys🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🙏
Ohhh wow !!!!! Tinkering with an old Jag amidst the sounds of the birds and the church bells pealing across the fields....then off for a few cold beers....
It cannot get any better....
Thanks chaps ,really enjoying the Jag adventures.....and yes I'm in love with them too !!!!!
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Couple 12mm ply underneath wud make safe and finding things easier 😊
I’ve never watched any RUclips videos as these with as many armchair experts, it’s amazing
You really should put a few sheets of ply down. Make life a lot easier than crawling around in the dirt and gravel
Worked near a jag garage in the 70's and how the machanics dealt with changing the rear pads was to remove the rear seat cut holes in the floor and do the job that way .They would then repair the floor refit the rear seat base job done .The type of customers who owned these cars were hardly likely to lift the rear seat to discover their shortcut.
Oh the joys of working outside on a gravel driveway in the rain. I know your pain!
Cracking job lads keep the videos coming I really enjoy them
Lovely job boys, let's crack on.
I can't believe how solid it is. It is a lovely car. My 02 mx5 is like a bag of crisps underneath 🙄
Cracking job, you earned your pints! Something I bought a few years ago was a cheap set of podgers, they make it so much easier to line up bolt holes on a heavy bit of kit like that subframe.
Dragging that trolley jack across gravel looked like hard work! Fascinating to see how the brakes work on these old jags...
I use an old piece of old kitchen worktop to rest trolley jack on. It rolls quite easy on that and saves damage to my drive.
Another great fix bit I couldn’t help but think you could attached the wheels back on to roll that in and out ! Would have been so much easier
Fantastic rear suspension. Needle roller bearings on outer lower swivel with coil overs, the whole package isolated from car by rubber bushes. Inboard discs cut down on unstrung weight makes for a really smooth compliant quiet suspension. Exhaust boxes off, prop shaft off, disconnect brake pipes and handbrake and drop the whole subframe. A superior suspension system. Some people cut a hole in the boot floor and did brakes then put a panel over the top and cannot be seen with boot carpet in.
all desk top mechanics say they can do it quicker, great work guys 👍
Great video lads, it’s great to see father and son working together. I enjoy my two sons. Ps that Jag is one of my favourites. Keep them coming please.
Get a couple of sheets of 8x4 to move your trolley Jack around on the gravel, great vids 👍🏻
It was 1978, my cousin, Chris, bought a blue 3.4, brand new. With the car just a few days old, his little girl toddled up to him wanting him to look at the flower she’d drawn for daddy. She’d drawn it with a stone on the car door. Agghhh. I remember he emigrated, to Australia, taking the car with him. He kept it till he died just a few years ago - I imagine his family still have it. He’d have loved your videos as much as I do.
My dad had inherited the xj6 jaguar from my cousin who played drums for Wilson Pickett who wrote
the the song Mustand Salley it was an 1985 model British racing Green i use to work on jaguar motor cars as well cheers
I really think it's about time you brought yourselfs a sheet of half inch plywood . Just to lay on your driveway. It would make your lives so much easier when asking dad to pull the jack from under the jag. Loving your videos keep up the good work 👏
I would put a piece of 8ft X4Ft shuttering ply on the ground so that its easier to pull the jack out
Great father-and-son project - lovely people. Really enjoying watching this gem of a channel. Greetings from a Jag fan in Gibraltar
Made my back ache in sympathy dragging that over gravel! Enjoy the well earned beer you two, plus the extra helper we saw sneak in..
Hi guys . Tip of the day . Next time you drop the irs put trays under the hubs it'll pull a lot easier . Guarantee that engine rattle is the timing chain and l've heard them rattle a lot louder than this old girl . Well , take care and have a great 2024 .
Great Work Team 👍👍Love seeing The JAAAG coming back to life 👍👍🥳🥳
Love all your videos, informative and entertaining !
Thanks for sharing
Fantastic must be a great to spend time with dad working together on this fantastic car.
Nice number plate. Get a piece of hard board under your jack! Will make it easier to drag items out from under the car. Great work. Cheers
What a beauty that XJ series 2 is. The colour really suits it. Best of luck!
good job looks like you are in the rain what dedication look like the jack may be leaking pressure be careful thanks again for your work Bill USA
Our dad looks like he's in his element working on that Jag. Happy New year to you all and keep up the good work 😎😎
Careful man very dangerous with that jack sliding. Very interesting project keep it going.
Great job guys, nice to see a good old fashioned get it going , like the old days when we couldn’t afford to replace everything for new. Just about to drop the IRS on my 76 XJS.
Hard to push/pull a jack on gravel , great video
one of beast rear ends to use up grad for most ford's your doing fab job
Top job 👍 I had one of those jags years ago. Just thinking of buying another. They are fantastic cars.
May you both and family have an outstanding and healthy New Year... 💙👊😎💙👊😎
Great job with that bleed nipple - and for persevering outside in the rain!
A couple of big wooden boards will probably make life easier in future when dragging stuff to/from underneath the cars 👍
I’ll be joining your Patreon on 1st Jan (so that the payment date syncs with my other subscriptions) 🙂
Brilliant episode, so interesting and great to share your achievement. All the best for 2024!
Jobs like this would benefit from a flat and solid surface to work on - not gravel. And oh, that jack which goes down over time! But, despite the rain, you got it done, calipers freed-off and reinstalled. So well done to you guys for that. When I did this on my E-type, I installed the (EZ-bleed SNG Barratt) and that enabled me to bleed the rear brakes. Can't imagine doing it any other way. BTW, my garage is filled by a 69-E-type and the wife's MX5 grand touring.
Maybe an old sheet of plywood on the ground first so it’s easier to move jack under car
i've watched in the wrong order, never the less, keep up the great work. looking forward to more
To be fair, that is a tough job in a gravel yard. In my opinion, it would be a great opportunity to take the IRS apart and restore/repair it all and the underside of the car body shell rather than doing a quick fix repair job.
New bushes in the trailing arms, new shockers, new springs, new brake calipers and check the drive shafts and diff. Clean up and paint the IRS cage. For the sake of £500 approx it was an opportunity not to be postponed because as you know, you have it all to come back out again.
Still, it makes for a very interesting video. All the best for 2024!
brilliant getting the nipple out. I refurbished mine and have refurbished spares but am determined to get a broken nipple out of one of the originals
Looking good. Good job on the rear subframe. A lot of surface rust. Now at least you can move the Jag a bit better. Wishing you both a happy new year.
Well done, lads. I'm a big XJ fan, currently on my sixth! We had those Halford axle stands and ditched them because they were so unstable. Looking forward to the next video, nice to see this old girl in loving hands.
Really nice to see a Jag rear end out. I am fascinated by the engineering of it.
It is a mechanical master piece. No wonder Jags ride so well.
i am glad you think there a masterpice i call them a pain in the ars having to pull the whole axcell out just to do the brakes lol
@@PeterShaw-lb9lt It is a flawed masterpiece!
The inboard brakes are to reduce the un-sprung weight, it all helps to add up to what gives the magic carpet ride.
I think you are using a bit of poetic license, you can change the rear pads without pulling the axle, well as long as they aren't seized.
Great effort lads really enjoy the videos .Your dad is a great character👍
Brilliant work guys. Loving this content. Just watch that heat shield under the car though. Looks like asbestos to me. Should be ok but be careful not to disturb it. 👍🏼
This is great info. and will really help me when i start this work. Thank you. For unseizing , I use Plus Gas , it seems to work its way into bolts better than WD40 and mostly always work. Also giving it a few applications over a couple of days before can help.
great videos...thank you both!
Big job out the way there. Never ceases to amaze me how few fasteners hold subframes in. Keep ‘Em coming lads.
Really enjoyed the video but why didn't you do a complete refurb before putting it back in the car?
Beer well deserved after all that work! :)
I'm fairly sure that the rear suspension unit is the same as the one fitted to an E-Type.
The Jag that I removed the lump from, it had to come out as one of the cam supports had snapped and the front end of the cam dropped a good couple of centimeters and the cam support wouldn't come off because the chassis was in the way. The engine sounded terrible and had severe chain rattle but it still ran. :)
Your engine sounded nothing like that so I suspect you might just need some new tensioners.
Great work guys! :)
I stumbled across the channel as i do love a 'will it run' or restoration type thing! I do also have a soft spot for the old Jags. Had 4 early to late Xj's and not one of them was the full resto.... its was buy a good body but bad engine, good engine, bad body etc... the best one i had was an 82' in brown with tan interior... God it was such a lovely thing to drive.... Can't wait to see yours on the move! I have now subscribed.. 👍
Well done Gentlemen fantastic job
i have owned lots of jags , they must be garaged , real rusters ! just plaster everything underneath with waxoyl , inside the doors etc , grease all joints , and lots of copper grease on brake connections !
Personally I would of strip it completely, and rebuild it all, especially as you have it all off, and clean off and paint under the car. it's great to see you and your father pottering on this, and no offence with the basic of tools how it was always done,no fancy lifts and few bare knuckles lol.
Big project Mark. I wonder if you can still open the back doors? If you can, you have a stronger car than the only one I ever worked on! I'm sure it's safer than it looks, but I would go for some extra supports before you get under it again. I have been restoring a BMW 840Ci for many years and while working on the rear suspension I managed to drag that off of axle stands in my garage. It was a brown trouser experience make no mistake! The only thing that saved me and the car from untold damage was a single scissor jack that I had been using to compress the suspension slightly, it tipped and wedged. My mistake was that I had the steering lock off and the car could pivot on the front wheels. It frightened me so much I spent some money and bought a Hamer car lift, (wonder if they're still in business?) which was the best money I ever spent. Anyhow, good to see you both again and looking forward to following your progress.
Might want to use a sheet of plywood on a dirt floor helps the jack roll a lot better lol and please get ride of those jack stands, those pipe like are known to fail, take now...
Well done there. But to echo others' comments, that jack needs retiring asap. Wish my dad was still around to complain about the mess I'm in ;) Cheers
Great work 👍 Get an old wardrobe door or something to wheel that trolley jack on. Also put the road wheels under the car when you jack it up (just in case a jack fails). Typical how the sun seemed to be shining when you were in the garage and raining when you where outside 😂
Get a new 3 tonne jack .. SGS have some great stuff ... Personally I would put the wheels under the sills as a back up ... Just in case ... Hard work on your back
Thanks for posting. When I did my series one years ago i left the rear radius arms in place and removed from irs side. I got told off by my mechnic for not getting the rear brake disks resurfaced as they were slightly warped. I am sure you would have given the car a good shake on the axle stands before getting underneath it
Well done chaps your getting there hope its nothing serious with the engine as there usually strong engines.
I have to give you full marks for effort and skill but that rear sub frame looks like a right piece of old tat.
Thanks for posting
Well done guys! Great content.
Good luck to you both. I love Jags and i'm really enjoying your videos. Well done guys.
Well done chaps love the father and son combination really good progress so much wisdom and experience from your dad and most of all building priceless memories 👍👍👍
Good job boys! Keep them coming 👍I’ve got the dredded rattle in mine too, looks like bottom tensioner in mine isn’t pushing out far enough any more😔 only 44,000 miles too
Great eposide guys. I really enjoy seeing your dad working alongside you on the new project. Thank you for sharing all the best for the new year. Cheers
Fantastic again guys, loving every minute. Appreciate all your work on the car and the editing side aswell.
See you both in the new year.
Next time you take it out, pop a sheet of plywood or OSB under the back end, the trolley jack will be a lot easier to position and also to drag out.
Well done those good men.
Can you imagine the cost to do that if you took it to a jaguar garage😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🇬🇧🇬🇧
Oh look! Another sunny day in the UK. Great day to work on a project outside. 😂😂😂😂
I like it when you’re Dad is it going to be a front axle !!!😂😂
I can remember dad doing this on a 1971 series 1 xj6 in 1975 but we had a 5 tonne indoo4 ramp and running car. But he took sub frame out to do the brake but also to remove rust and paint it and underseal the car as well as do the rear valences as the we buggers for rusting . The rust protection was crap. He also did the spring and shocks as the sat low and when full going on holiday to Jersey it would catch it bottom on the ferry ramp every time. So he put heavier spring and shocks so it was a little higher but the ride was not compromised . He said it was flatter in corners
Plus it was better with caravan aswell
Enjoying seeing this, My brother has recently rebuilt the rear axle on his E Type, and that looks quite similar. For stubborn nipples, use a chisel and create a slight burr on a flat side, and then a nice flat punch , apply the punch to the burr flat and tap gently in right direction Good penetrating fluid RP90 can sometimes help a bit. Key to ceating the burr with the chisel, Be gentle with the hammer !. Great video
Really enjoying this. I love the XJs and seeing you two bringing one back to life. Once I start watching your videos I find it hard not to watch until the end! Is there a cure for this sort of addiction?😂
Great video and enjoying what you do 👍😊
Also check your servo, if you get a puff of smoke out of the exhaust with your foot on the brake when coming to a stop, you can almost guarantee the seals are gone, swear it got me out of a speeding fine when I had mine, there was that much of a puff of smoke out of it you could not see the rear no plate lol.
Happy New Year, greetings from Poland
you make a good job.....thumbs up😉👍
I was waiting for the trolley jack part😂
She a big old lump, major thing is brakes, well done to you both, dad wants a beer, well done sir, s
great work freeing the pistons too but I'm not sure how heat helps as there shouldn't be any metal to metal contact. All that's holding any caliper piston really is a rubber seal. The manual advises against separating the halves of these calipers during rebuild but have seen ppl doing it before with no issues, except the rubber seals between the halves aren't included in the seal-kits
I owned a series 1 daimler soverign with a 350 chevy turbo 400 it was awesome to drive but everything else like electrics , ball joints would constantly fail and i swore id never buy another again , 5yrs later i bought an xj6 lol
Well done I just refurbished my IRS on my XJS just a couple of things it's always a good idea to replace the subframe mounts and the trailing arms their fairly cheap I found it was easier to take the the IRS out sideways from under the car, the rattle could well be the timing chain the guides do wear away being a plastic I believe their are a upgraded replacements anyway enjoyed your video as always I wish you both a Happy New Year till the next time Andy Allen.
Great job.
You did good with that brake nipple.....great videos
A lot of work. Happy new year to you both 👍👍
Brillant work guys 💪💪
Yep - be careful under the car, more contingency support would be wise, but nice job gents..!
Looks like a bitch of a job! Great skills there guys!