£3k to fix a sticking caliper

[stevewarbs]

OK, so a caliper recon is around £90 but I always do brakes in pairs but if I am doing the back and I have already done the master cylinder then I may as well do the front at the same time.

Recon calipers deserve new disks and pads

Whilst the IRS is out I may as well replace all the bushes, shock and springs

The exhaust will pretty much fall out so a new SS system is on the shopping list

And I really don't want to be crawling around under a car anymore so I have just purchased a four post lift which arrives tomorrow

[Brakebuster]

Ill be round Saturday morning to use it


BB

[stevewarbs]

Ill be round Saturday morning to use it


BB

I think mine might be unmovable without an IRS by then.......

[oldtimer]

Steve,
Well done, I installed my four post lift about twenty years ago . I think I would have given up fettling old cars years ago without it.
I actually store my old XJ upstairs and the S type beneath. It's great to lower it to waist height and use the platform as a work bench.

Mine has wheel free jacks but I have been keeping my eye open for a jacking beam

Worth every penny

[PaulGover]

...
I actually store my old XJ upstairs and the S type beneath. It's great to lower it to waist height and use the platform as a work bench.
...

Waist height? I presume the S type has collapsed suspension

[oldtimer]

Thanks Paul, - It's the way 'e tells em

[jBlackwell]

It seems like Shipwrights disease has caught up with you.

Simply explained on another marques forum. http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?1,1573432

It is half the reason my XJ12 is taking so long. As I took each part of the saying was "well while we are here might as well do that bit as well"


James

[stevewarbs]

The lift is in and working so I put the lightest of my cars (Jensen Healey) on it to test under load and whilst it was up there I topped up the gearbox oil which was getting fairly desperate.

Next. I'll get the Landrover in to find out why the clutch isn't engaging properly.

Then I have some modifications to do to the roof

Then the XJ6 can go on and the IRS can come out....

[stevewarbs]

It seems like Shipwrights disease has caught up with you.

Simply explained on another marques forum. http://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?1,1573432

It is half the reason my XJ12 is taking so long. As I took each part of the saying was "well while we are here might as well do that bit as well"


James

I've looked at the symptoms and I have definately got this disease