by NigelW » Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:25 pm
Rob, i don't think anything untoward was involved in the purchase of the pump as I didn't buy any pipes from them, I found some in the piles of Jag parts I used to have back in then as I had a few engines in bits - various Xj6, Mk2 and S Type. My memory is hopeless regarding the parts used at the time to build the S Type engine. I still have a 1959 3.4 Mk2 engine in the shed that I bought for £40 in boxes and fitted to the S Type in 1979 and used the head from the original 3.8 untill I could get around to rebuilding the 3.8 and used parts from both engine blocks to make one engine that worked at the time. For example the alloy sump replaced the tin sump of the 3.4 so the pipes could have got mixed up along the way and putting the 3.8 back to geather again with correct block, head sump etc. So this is maybe the reason I had to get replacement pipes to fit the 3.8 oil pump. It was a mad time back in the 70's for me as I had five lockups full of cars and parts and suddenly I was evicted from them when the Department of Transport decided to build a new road through them and my house, imagine trying to find a home for that lot?
Rob, i don't think anything untoward was involved in the purchase of the pump as I didn't buy any pipes from them, I found some in the piles of Jag parts I used to have back in then as I had a few engines in bits - various Xj6, Mk2 and S Type. My memory is hopeless regarding the parts used at the time to build the S Type engine. I still have a 1959 3.4 Mk2 engine in the shed that I bought for £40 in boxes and fitted to the S Type in 1979 and used the head from the original 3.8 untill I could get around to rebuilding the 3.8 and used parts from both engine blocks to make one engine that worked at the time. For example the alloy sump replaced the tin sump of the 3.4 so the pipes could have got mixed up along the way and putting the 3.8 back to geather again with correct block, head sump etc. So this is maybe the reason I had to get replacement pipes to fit the 3.8 oil pump. It was a mad time back in the 70's for me as I had five lockups full of cars and parts and suddenly I was evicted from them when the Department of Transport decided to build a new road through them and my house, imagine trying to find a home for that lot?