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Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by Albion » Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:19 pm

cass3958 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:27 am If the car is already painted how do you intend to attach the front wings?
Mine are welded on and that would surely ruin any paint work completed.
Body works have been already completed and gaps are just fine. :D

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by JCS » Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:23 pm

The parts manual for the S Type, Mk2 and 340 all show identical part numbers for left and right rear quarter light glasses.

On my car the left hand rear quarter light glass is marked on the inside.

Currently I am unable to look at other windows, as my car is up on my lift with the rear subframe removed for axle and brake replacement.

It might be interesting to know how member’s windscreen and rear windows are marked!!!

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by Albion » Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:39 pm

Does that apply to rear quarter window glasses as well?

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by JCS » Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:47 am

It seems that the quarter light glasses could all be indexed on a random side, and it appears the main door glasses could also be random.

My car is marked opposite to Robs, that is L/Hand quarter light marked on inside. It also has random main window indexing, although it is possible they could have been swapped during rebuild.

However the parts manual does not make any distinction between right or left glasses, the same part number is used for both. This also applies to the glass fitted to the Mk2 models and 340 cars.

Norman

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by cass3958 » Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:27 am

If the car is already painted how do you intend to attach the front wings?
Mine are welded on and that would surely ruin any paint work completed.

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by Albion » Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:22 am

Never noticed such difference, vehicle is already painted. I check that though.

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by cass3958 » Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:32 am

Make sure when you mount the front wings that you also mount the bonnet and get everything lined up and the gaps correct before welding the wings in place. Sadly this was not not done by the professional monkeys that did mine prior to me buying the car and the gaps between the tops of the wings and underside of the bonnet are different on both sides. Only I notice but it bugs me everytime I think about it and without cutting the wings off and starting again there is nothing I can do about it.

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by Albion » Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:33 am

Good morning,

Thanks for the info. This confirms that Jaguar did not give much importance to that. Most probably their suppliers did not bother much with producing left and right side quarter window glass since it is the smallest piece maybe. If anyone has got it differently it would be interesting to know though. I am hereby attaching a picture of some body parts ready to be mounted.
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Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by cass3958 » Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:18 pm

I have a spare set of quarter light window glass in their frames which I have just looked at and you are correct. The right side window has the Triple X script etched on the inside and the left side has it etched on the outside. I have also checked my car and it is the same so it does appear that yours is normal.
Do not know why but it is what it is.

Re: Albions car on FaceBook

by Albion » Sun Oct 20, 2019 5:06 pm

Hi guys,

It has been long since I accessed this forum, and yes unfortunately progress is really slow on my S Type. While putting it all back together various issues pop up and so that slows me even further. As some of you might recall, I had all bright metal re chromed and unfortunately it was not a nice experience. Had to recommision it all after the first workshop did an aweful job. Now, I am being puzzled by an issue which I do not know if any one on this forum ever encountered, thought of or maybe given it any importance. Upon assembling chrome window frames I noticed that both front quarter window glasses are from the Lhs. This I noticed because of the script on each glass which is supposed to be read from the outside. I tried to find a replacement, but all of them seem to be the same. Non of the dozen or so replacement I found is for rhs. Any ideas about this?

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