My new Jag.

[Manky Monkey]

The Flapster & I trundled back out to Marlborough yesterday to continue scavenging the Jag. Damn it was cold up there on a windswept Wiltshire hillside! We were sat in the Landy, eating doughnuts for lunch & watched as the wind pushed the Jag 12 feet across the yard. As it was heading for a friend's car we continued munching until we thought perhaps we should do something about it.
Only 2 engine bolts holding the motor in & the gearbox sits on a weird coil spring arrangement on the g/box cross member, so actually easier to remove than we thought. Cable operated gearchange came out suprisingly easily too. Prop shaft is on a splined sliding joint so just pulled apart. Only real pain was having to cut through the exhaust with an angle grinder. Jags are built like Sherman tanks. Everythings ridiculously heavy duty. The prop is about 4 inches in diameter & the exhaust pipe is 1/8 of an inch thick. The engine alone weighs a bloomin' ton -literally. The boot was a convenient place to put all the bits we don't need.
 

[Manky Monkey]

Having unbolted everything we stood about for a while, vaguely wondering how the hell we were going to lift several hundredweight of engine out. No problem. One of Steve's mates disappeared & soon came chugging back in the farm's forklift. Didn't have the keys so he'd "found something that fitted"! I slung a strap around the engine, we hooked it up to a chain & up she went. 2 1/2 tonnes of Jag lifted clean off the ground. Literally shook the car until the engine fell out! That's the way to do it!
Next job now is to get back in my lock up & strip the axles & steering from my Sherpa van, bring them over to Steve's workshop & decide exactly what we're going to do with it all. 

[Manky Monkey]

Taken everything we need from the poor old Jag now. Anyone want to buy a restoration project? I was given the car for nothing & we found £1.50 in loose change while pulling it apart so this project's actually in profit at the moment!

[wizzkitt]

You evil, evil, EVIL bastard!!!

[Manky Monkey]

 
Die Jaguar die!
Fear not, fair maiden. 'Tis only sleeping. The beast shall live once more. May not be quite so welcome at the golf club in it's new guise though.

[flap]

It was good fun, in a 'this is a very nice car and we're destroying it' sort of way 
Want one of those big fork lift things now. It was effortless.

[Manky Monkey]

Like ScrapHeap Challenge in reverse. We start off with useful stuff & end up with a pile of scrap. Anyone else want us to look after their cars for them?

[wizzkitt]

Um, no.


Never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never ...

[Manky Monkey]

We hid all the dead bits in the boot & now the car's heading for the crusher so there'll be no evidence left.
Looking for a set of triple SUs to suit now if you hear of any.