THE INTERNATIONAL JAGUAR 'S'-TYPE REGISTER FORUM

Thanks for your thoughts, Rob. I'd imagine the cooler will be on the return. I am definitely going to use the car without any cooler for now and see how I get on. As you say, difficult to imagine that it would be needed but I guess Jaguar put it there for a reason - maybe for hotter climates than ou...

I thought I would update you on my progress. I have sorted out the hoses to the power steering box: I had some 420 hoses which I had bought just for the connectors which I repurposed. As the 420 box I am using has the connections on top the routing is not ideal - down to the front of the subframe wi...

Hi All. Been struggling to find the time to put the subframe back together and in the car, but now finally on the home straight. All pretty much done except for connecting up the steering box to the pump. Now I have a varamatic box, the connections on the box are different from the Burman and I have...

Thanks. Interesting you have also come across some springs with pale blue markings. I imagine that mine must have been replaced over the years (one of them has no visible marking and one has pale blue) but they seemed to be fine prior to dismantling so I will stick with them for now. Great colour fo...

Thanks both. Feels like the best thing to do is to discard the packing rings and use my existing springs with my replacement subframe. I believe the replacement came out of a 420 so maybe that has something to do with why there were packing rings in both turrets - maybe the ride height needed to be ...

Sorry for confusion - the pics have been swapped round. One on the top is the original s/f, bottom the Marles one.

Pictures of the subframe, first is of Marles subframe, second old subframe

An update on the steering box/subframe situation. I've finally found the time to dismantle everything and just about to send off to the powder coaters. I've only just realised (apart from the fact that I'm obviously not very observant!) that the Marles subframe has what I assume to be packing rings ...

834F143B-C8A5-4929-B480-E4F647E6CFD8.jpeg Finally dragged the subframe out. Appears that I have no indent for the existing Burman PAS box. A lot of dismantling, cleaning and reassembly to do, swapping over to the other varamatic subframe. I’ve gone for the black polybushes, but it will be a while b...

Thanks, this is really helpful. Polybush are showing a bush kit for the front suspension - the black ones which are "comfort", I don't want the stiffer ones. Powerflex seem to have bushes for later Jags but not for anything as old as the S type, from what I can see online. Barratts also ha...