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Title: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: yoda on June 27, 2006, 03:34:43 PM I belive the hotrod lads can gatt all sorts of nice parts for the v12 axle to tidy it up
Just wondered what was available, and where from? any body know?? Yogi Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: lunatic on June 27, 2006, 04:48:07 PM Try pop browns for chrome dress up goodies for jag axles I belive. 8)
Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: yoda on June 27, 2006, 06:51:59 PM had a good mooch, cant find nowt there
Yoda Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Manky Monkey on June 27, 2006, 09:38:28 PM I've just checked the new issue of Custom Car from cover to cover & found nothing Yodie. Thought there'd be loads.
Suggest you try the guys over at the National Street Rod Association forum. They're bound to know where to find what you're after. http://www.nsra.org.uk/ Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Desperate on June 28, 2006, 05:24:42 AM I doubt there's much available nowadays. You used to be able to get diff covers, but if you've got a V12, it should have a finned ally cover anyway. Fancy tie-plates for the bottom inner pivots were also available, and you could get chromed U/J covers.
All the jag axles were the same, with the exception of axle ratios and width, which varied. The usual route was to chrome everything in sight, and polish the diff cover and outer hub carriers. Check out my Mercedes trike, possibly £1000 of chrome and polishing at today's prices. Wisbech Engineering used to be the big Jag axle modifiers. Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Manky Monkey on June 28, 2006, 08:02:55 AM Yodie's axle's actually painted pink at the moment.
Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Nomad on June 28, 2006, 08:10:14 AM you can get everything from the states, but at a price. They generally dont describe them as Jag IRS but their own independant rear suspension. Some service parts were even cheaper than over here when I built mine 2 yrs ago.
I will see if i can dig out some paperwork but Im sure a decent search on t'internet will help you. Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Manky Monkey on June 28, 2006, 08:16:55 AM Cheers Nomad. :D
Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Nomad on June 28, 2006, 11:10:37 AM http://www.heidts.com/heiirs.htm
ouch! ££££££££££££££ Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Nomad on June 28, 2006, 11:24:17 AM oh and this is where I spent the majority of my pennies on the IRS...about £2k and that was after buying a complete XJS assembly and renovating it myself. Mind you it did look the bolox IMHO ;D
Title: Re: Jag v12 Axle Dressing? Post by: Manky Monkey on July 03, 2006, 03:41:30 PM Yodleypoos. Had a word with the Pop Browns people at the Nostalgia Nats over the weekend. They do indeed do chrome dress-up parts for the Jag axles. Diff covers, smooth & finned, tie rods in various designs, chrome shocks etc. They're in their printed catalogue but not on the online version.
Order a copy from www.popbrowns.co.uk -or pinch my copy. I'm gonna be spending lots of pennies I haven't got with them over the winter cos they do all manner of lovely bits for my '27 T project. |