hi clive and welcome to the forum. apologies for near silence on the forum. I guess a lot of hibernation goes on with our group! personally I have been rather busy fixing familly and friend,s cars as well as work of course so haven,t had chance to visit site much. the ones I have met on here are ver...

furry steering wheel probably not the best addition! took my series3 to dad's in cornwall on new years eve which was fun in the ice! unfortunately had to bring his mondeo back which is totally rubbish in the snow so I am now using 4.0 xj40 auto which hasn,t quite got stuck yet but is tricky to stop ...

hi david did you manage to start your v12? I take it there is a good spark at the plugs? take out one of the easier ones and see if they are wet.If they are and the spark is good try knocking inertia switch off so fuel pump doesn,t run and press it down again if it fires. ngk plugs do not cope well ...

I recently had a friend,s very pretty, rust free(south african import) series 2 to tune and fettle after a long lay up. It had been mot'd but ran rough at idle and handled "interestingly". someone had removed the overflow pipes from the carbs and when the front one flooded due to dirt in the float b...

hi and happy christmas to all on the forum. sorry not been on for a while but work has been chaos and i,ve been having to use the daimler daily in all the rubbish weather as I didn,t get time to mot the xj40 (now done but not taxed!) and both triumphs are being welded again due to standing out in ou...

hi the series 1 and 2 steel wheels have studs for hub caps and the series 3 ones only use the bolts to hold the trims on apart from some daimlers which have different lugs holding the hub caps on. I do have some plain painted series 1 and 2 steel wheels if you need some. don.t try to fit series 3 tr...

hi ted I played this game recently with a series 1 that someone put a series 2 manifold and carbs on which fit as long as you don't want to use the fuel pipes or throttle linkage as it is all very different. even the gaerbox dipstick tube is in the way so you should check to see if the series 3 mani...

hi stuart I didn,t get a reply but I have been away until today and membership expired during holiday so not long redone it! It seems to be a borgwarner box but can,t read all of id tag.I may have been rebuilt in america as it was there for 25yrs or so! I do have a series2 xj engine and autobox whic...

hi all I tried series 3 steels on my daimler v8 but wouldn,t clear calipers.i did buy a rotten series 2 from a scrap yard 3 years ago as it had brown painted wolfraces on it. they took 4 weeks to clean and now sitting on my mates 420 looking very cool! the 205/70s do just scuff the rear arches on bi...

hi brian don,t throw useful information away! A friend of mine has a series 2 v12 so this would be handy. let me know how you want paying and I will gladly relieve you of it. thanks simon

sorry to hear that but I do understand as had to buy a dog for the otherhalf when I bought the manual series3. Luckily she doesn,t know about the mk2 v8 donor. unfortunately I am not ina position to buy any more at the moment. There is an unfinished black daimler coupe which I am trying to get a fig...

su hs carbs are no worse than hif carbs as you do at least have a proper float bowl which you can get at in situ unlike an hif carb which requires contortionism and still blocks and floods just like an hs or hd carb especially if not used regularly! A carefully built hs carb will work great. Tried h...

I am sure the lucas part is made for them rather like the unipart ignition bits I got recently that were made in Turkey! Needless to say after changing them the car would not start until I put the old bits back on! Intermotor seem the most reliable at present even though 4 or 5 years ago they were r...

To be fair I did use the luminition system on the triumph for 5years with no problems and then suffered a few duff rotor arms and it may have been the high resistances that these developed that killed it.I had a few duff ignition amplifiers on the series 3 set up but touch wood all is ok at the mome...

Hi to you both and thanks for the replies. Sorry was out and about at the weekend as the weather was nice for a change! The 420 has a bw35 box so probably has been changed but as it has had a few owners since returning from texas the history is sparse! It does sound like the rev counter is telling t...