Rear Clip

I continued a bit on the rear clip with some smoothing. The first shot is of the left rear toneau where the bumper bolt goes through. Fairly beat up but as you can see in the second shot it flattened out fairly well. The next two shots are of the rear clip after this repair.


On other news, the head went to the machine shop to start the valve job. It gets cleaned, then pressure tested, then the valve guides get removed and the seats get checked for height. This head has been rebuilt and the seats have been ground before. The exhaust looks pretty meaty yet but the intake not so much. The number one and six spark plug holes need to be checked that they can be properly heli-coiled as they were stripped out and a very short coil was inserted. In any case, I'll know more next week. One thing that the machinist noted is that the cams are not stock so I was wrong in saying that they were reground. Apparently Jag cams have numbers cast into them when they are made and these don't. There are no other markings of any kind that I could find. I don't know who made them or what they were designed for. Looks like we will need to bolt it to the top of the block and with a degree wheel in place check the valve action and duration. It's really interesting that this engine was hot-rodded back in the 50's. I wonder what the carbs and distributer were (they are missing)and if they were hot-rodded as well. If they were a hot item it helps to explain their going awol.