The Jensen Owners' Club

Thanks for the input guys.. I have to agree that I’m not a fan of white. I personally think it’s a waist of the lovely body lines. I think it looks a bit plain and lacks the depth other colours have. If I was to paint it white for my granddad the car wouldn’t be original so I was wondering if I coul...

Hi everyone. So I’ve spent the last few weeks working on my car, while waiting on engine parts to arrive.. the engine is now almost fully rebuilt, unfortunately the rain and wind in wales over the last few weeks has been slowing my progress. I’m having to rebuild the engine outside as there’s not en...

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When he bought it and got it home

I’ve found some photos of the engine when my granddad bought the car.. some photos of when he had it rebuilt in 1990-91, and how the engine sits now, well before I started dismantling it...

Ah right.. well as much as I’d love to go to town on the internals of the engine and get it running sweet, it’s purely down to cost at the moment.. I know it’ll be much better to replace everything but the block, start with fresh new bits. But it’s going to have to be broken things first... When we ...

Ah thank you @slotcarone, that’s Exactly what I needed to know. I may as well go ahead with my plan and pull the whole lot out, and start from scratch, I was thinking about separating the gearbox first and trying to turn it then, but I won’t bother now. Arm and leg, well basically nothing. Because o...

Hi everyone, sorry for the lack of information over the last few months, Myself and my grandparents haven’t been well so haven't been able to work on the car, but with this lock down it finally gave us chance.. so when we last worked on the car we’d just received a new start motor because several pe...

Unfortunately there’s been a lot of Illnesses in the family over the last few weeks, with my granddad being rushed into hospital and I’m only just getting over something myself.. there’s even been a death in the family that’s hit us all hard.. so hopeful we will get back to work on the car by the en...

We’ve come to the conclusion the start Motor has had it, and. It’s just not turning quick enough. I’m trying to attach a short video below


Luke

Thanks rocky USA, that’s the diagram ive been using. everything is set up and looks identical to that.. no I haven’t tried disconnecting the HT, Only tried plugs in and all connected up and all plugs out.. RayR : Thanks, we’ve tired every watch way you can think of as regards to the carb and choke. ...

Thanks everyone.. we’ve stripped everything down and started from fresh about 3 times now over the last week or 2, idiot checking every time. Everything seams to be exactly where and how it should be... with piston 1 at TDC the rotor arm is pointing at the rear edge of the alternator, just past the ...

The engine does sound a bit sluggish when it’s cranking, like your trying to turn the car over with a flat battery.. it dose seam like we can’t get the engine to turn over fast enough to get it to take off. there’s more life and it sounds a lot better better when we rotate the distributer 180* but t...

Thanks Grant, that’s basically what I’m doing now. . Though even with half a cup full, the plugs are barely moist.. it quite baffling.. The fuel tank isn’t connected, fuel line stop half down the car before it reaches the tank... we’re getting occasional coughs and splutters, and signs that the engi...

Hi everyone I wonder if anyone can help me. I’ll give you the short story, basically my granddad gave me his car years ago. he bought the car to restore in the late 80s as a complete rust bucket in bits and he managed to get the car Almost ready for paint and final assembly, but he had a massive acc...