Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.... or so says the Operating and Repair Manual.

Evening Y'all,

Today was fun, working with clean painted parts is so much more enjoyable than working with dirty, greasy stuff.  I have a couple of pictures for Drew at the end to show how this relatively unmolested car is assembled.

Started the morning with doing the safety wire on the caliper bolts.  The wire is triple redundant which is a good thing because I look at this picture and feel like it needs to be redone, looks just a bit sloppy.  Even so, the bolts have lock washers and have been treated with Locktite. 

Then on to installing the splash guards and relays

Put the front end down on the suspension, you never want to tighten the rubber bushings at the extreme of their travel, i.e. all the way down or all the way up.  If you do the rubber bushings will fail prematurely

Battery tray installed along with the battery cut off.  I think a battery cut off is mandatory.  If nothing else it's an anti-theft device but most importantly it reduces the rick of fire with an old electrical system.

Then on to the passenger side, installed the splash guards then the air filter 'box'.

Such a pretty clean air filter I had to take a picture of it.

Air filter box, plenum and new rubber gasket that will seal out the crap-the one on the car was in tatters.

There has been a little debate on Jag Lovers about how the air intake was installed, painted washers and so forth.

Since i think that this car has not been tampered with here I believe the car/bonnet was painted then the air intake was installed.  You can see the body colored washers and in the bottom picture you can see an unpainted area under the housing where the washer was when the bonnet was painted.

Well, that's it for today!

Cheers,

Lynn

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