Rear Axle - The Jag Rear arrives

Special thanks to Phil Bradshaw who has been and retrieved the Jag rear that I bought a while ago from a chap by the name of Don Hawkes. I gather Don has a few old cars and parts squirreled away and as luck would have it an early S Type Diff.

I asked a question on another Trademe auction for a Jag Parts car and unfortunately the diff had already been sold. Don had seen me asking about the diff and was wondering how the heck he could track me down as he had one available.

About a week later I put a wanted add on Trademe and Don thankfully spotted it and contacted me. We settled on a price and the deal was done.

As I mentioned earlier, I decided to have Ed Juniors do the build as Phil has the engine and trans there in Stokes Valley to do the wiring and the Diff was in Tawa. May as well bring it all together down there I figure.

Phil kindly picked the diff up for me yesterday and sent me a few pics of it sitting on his trailer.

A fair bit of work to get this going again I think, but bear in mind the big ugly frame it is in will be disposed of and the rusty old springs and shocks will be replaced with new and you are halfway there with stripping it back. Well okay maybe not halfway but you get the picture.

Phil is leaving this lump of rust and grease on the trailer until Saturday when he'll shoot it down to Ed Juniors in Lower Hutt where it will end up getting mounted in the chassis.