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XL391
Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 147 Location: The Red Side of Liverpool
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Right, a brief update. The dashboard in these Series 1's are a lovely looking thing. However, early XJ's looked even better as the dials had chrome rings as opposed to black rings. They didn't hang about for long, they were removed around the 1970 model year as they were said to cause glare/reflections. There was an early car being broken on the XJ group on Facebook so I put together a shopping list...
As soon as they turned up I got to work. Because the dials were from a 2.8 they weren't a straight swap as the speedo only goes to 120 but the red line is higher. I wanted to keep the mileage the same as well so this meant removing the dial faces from the body.
The faces are held on by metal tabs. By turning the faces to cutouts on the dial body you can remove them. I put lots of WD40 around the dial to help get things moving but also to preserve the thin rubber gasket between the glass and the body.
The middle dials are not separate units except for the clock. I dismantled both sets and used my dials and electrics with the chrome faces. The clock also has to be changed as the unit is different from the later one as fitted to mine. This clock isn't working but I will send this away for repair. I think you'll agree the chrome is an improvement...
I also changed the panel that the radio sits in. The radio is now integrated into this panel, I'm made up with the result.
_________________ Regards,
Will
1972 Daimler Sovereign 4.2 Series 1
1965 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1
1968 Triumph 1300 |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22446 Location: UK
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XL391
Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 147 Location: The Red Side of Liverpool
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Yeah I love them Rick, really given the interior a lift. Was that the wood that was fitted to the doors? _________________ Regards,
Will
1972 Daimler Sovereign 4.2 Series 1
1965 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1
1968 Triumph 1300 |
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XL391
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 2:00 am Post subject: |
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I was after a back seat as the leather on the seats in this were brittle and cracked. After asking on the Facebook page if anyone had a rear seat one of the guys came back to me to say he had a set of retrimmed seats out of a Series 1 project that the guy had given up on and broken. £150 for retrimmed seats that had never been sat on was way too good to miss! So, I nabbed them, give them a clean and a good feed and fitted them.
_________________ Regards,
Will
1972 Daimler Sovereign 4.2 Series 1
1965 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1
1968 Triumph 1300
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2016 10:34 am Post subject: |
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Hi XL391
If you could edit your post by putting a line break (enter key) between the end of one link and the start of the next; then we wouold could see all the pictures with the inconvenience of horisontal scrolling.
example [img] link [/img] "line break" [img] link [/img] _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
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