Thanks Alec I admit that the last 2 weeks where a pain in the butt and the reliability that I wanted to gain with all these part did not materialize. So I will run down to the Champagne festival in the XKR instead. I do drive the MK2 almost every day but not to work (I do need to get there and be cl...

Gentlemen Sorry that I have not posted anything lately BUT I had so much trouble with parts that is hard to describe. Two weeks ago it started with the water temperatur: my car keeps the temperatur always nicely around 70 but here it started to drop about 10degrees on each new drive. The instrument ...

Gentlemen
this information is exactly what I was looking for. I will do as described and hope to get all my stuff done before the weather will be good for racing it on German Highways again.
Bernhard

You see, I have some tendency for disorderly conduct but a few years back I decided to enjoy life at its fullest and so I do race these streets once in a while. When we drive to France, once crossing the borders of Luxenburg, I swap seats and let dear wifeee drive. First, she runs speed limit and th...

One word of warning (that I constantly ignore): never mess with a good working system. I started messing with the brakes and now I am down to a severly leeking brake master. My fault, but mess with the ignition only if You honestly believe that there is definitely room for improvement. I should have...

Back home from freezing Dallas, TX.
I just started a new thread:

Ignition, Timing and electronic Distributors
in Electrics

so we can continue the ignition topic in the right place, and keep the suspension here.
Bernhard

Gents, this our place to continue the very important and often wrong settings for ignition timing on the MK2. I for example had an XJ6 dizzy installed which was 12 degrees behind the original MK 2 that was part of the original equippment. Now I have the 123Tune which is programable via a USB port an...

Hi and good morning No, even in Germany it is 60mph on normal roads. Now here are the Instructions for my tests: 1) pick a nice road (maybe a bit downhill) 2) drive it along (uphill) to warm up the engine. More important, check that there is no Radar around! 3) turn around and get your goggles on (m...

Greetings from sunny but cold NYC Lets keep exchanging experience with the different Settings in our electronic dizzies, OK, Because everybody that I know is running the wrong settings (too low) I even found an XJ6 Dizzy in my car (13 degree baseplate) which means 12 degrees off!!!!!! It still ran. ...

Brian, my engine and carbs are like Yours. I will be happy to discuss this (my favourite topic) but I think we should open an ignition thread for that. I do have the 123tune ignition and I have been fiddling a lot with it, but now the time has come for more serious testing. I do have to leave tonigh...

Hi Alec Is there a marking on the shaft (I believe I had seen something in the book, have to check on that) cause this is easily possible with people who fix a SS exhaust with furniture screws into the rubber. The ignition timing is somewhat controversial since I also have D. Hamills book and also h...

Hi Gents I have an XKR and I want to lift it onto jacks. I dont have these nice hydraulic lift that they have in the shop so I have to do it with a strong single point lift (the pump up type). Hope the description is good enough. Now my problem is where can I position that lift to raise the car high...

Hi Alec I checked on the universaL joint and it does have a very small play when pulled hard. I have heard about shaft balancing but technically I do agree with You, the at such a small diameter it is hard to get a serious imbalance but rather in the joint when it has room to move into an excentric ...

To Alec: I have been working on everything forward of the steeringwheel, that explains the dropped exhaust. I do have most replacement items for the rear axle already but need to tackle my XKR now (tires, brake disks and pads, polybushings and other small items) to keep that one in top shape for spe...

Thanks Alec The tires are new, Vredestein Classic 185-15 and when the guy checked them he found that one front wheel/tire combination was at the limit so he suggested to put them on to the rear, the two with the minimum runout are now on the front, but they all have a bit of runout or wobble, but ev...