A practical guide for the 1972 W108 280SE 3.5 — with fewer rabbits to chase By John Tawadros There is nothing quite like driving a smooth-running, high-compression 3.5-litre M116 V8 with a properly functioning Bosch D-Jetronic system. Conversely, driving one that isn’t running properly can be an exercise in frustration, despair and other distinctly first-world problems. This is the story of how I diagnosed...
In my first drives of the Daimler, one of the things on my list to fix was the tachometer. When I first got the car, I had it converted to modern electronic ignition. The Jaguar V12 always had electronic ignition, however it originally used a system called OPUS. On my car, the ignition system had been messed with and the OPUS box wasn’t working....
The brakes on the E-Type have been somewhat problematic since I got it. When the brakes got hot, they would not always release fully. Over the last 4 years I have tried a number of things to fix the problem but it has always come back to some extent. When I still had the car in the USA, it was worse,...
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