“JOBBING” & COMPONENT RESTORATION

Many vehicles have components that are past the expertise of a hobbyist, once they fail or require maintenance. A large portion of our work is rebuilding such components. Irritatingly they often don’t necessarily fall into a category or job description and it becomes difficult to search for people whom can carry out such work. We tend to call this style of works “jobbing”. These can come in a variety of shapes, sizes and complexity. But we’ve listed a few to give you an idea, the list is not exhaustive, and we’ve given a little case study where possible.

  • Fuel pump rebuild (AC Delco, SU)

  • Fan bush upgrade to bearing

  • Axle rebuilding

  • Kingpin Bushing

  • Electrical, Wiring, and Loom repairs, replacement and fault finding

  • Carburettor rebuilding

  • Gearbox rebuilding

  • Diff/Differential rebuilding

  • Gear linkage rebuilding

  • Block repairs

  • Crack repairs

  • Engine Machining (also see Engine Rebuilds)

We Cover a huge host of machining in house, please check out our Precision Engineering for further details. Alternatively, Contact Us for more information.

 
View fullsize It's another which would you rather!? The timelessly elegant Healey 3000 BJ7, or the Grandfather of all prowling big cats, the Jaguar XK120? The Healey popped in for some service work and MOT. The XK120 visited us to solve a rather frustrating nois
View fullsize That's the 200TDI engine build finished and ready to be slotted back into the Landrover 110. This has not only had a full engine build, but all ancillaries have been seen too, plus its had an upgraded R380 Gearbox with taller 5th, and various diff up
View fullsize Pretty handsome pair! Which would you rather? Both very different cars, but both brilliant in their own respects. The Capri is a regular and just popped in for a long overdue diff rebuild, the Midget a first time visitor, needed various small jobs s
View fullsize And thats it for another batch of WW2 Willys jeep blocks heading back to the customer. These were just in for machining having had many, many thread repairs, crack repairs, liners or rebores, valve seats cut and some replaced plus a skim removing as
View fullsize Well it's been a long time in build... but this engine is going to be pretty special once it's tuned up! For those that aren't in the know, it's a Datsun L28 with a twist... Its running an LD28 (diesel) crank, some rather long rods, some rather dumpy
View fullsize What a lot of fun this Series 1 Landy is! It's got the Rover P4 cylinder head and carburettor fitted to its original bottom end, so it goes considerably well for a series 1! It came into us with starting issues, so we rebuilt the carb and went throug
View fullsize It's been an incredibly busy summer over here at Exeter Engineering... so busy that we've not been able to catch up on here! But here's a lovely little Frogeye we rebuild the engine on in the summer, not only this, but we saw to various issues with i
View fullsize A team effort this one! We've carried out quite some work on this peppy TR2 over the course of the winter, its Standard Vanguard engine was fully re-built in house, along with its carbs and ignition. Its clutch hydraulics have been replaced in their
View fullsize Not our usual cup of tea of here @exeter_engineering! This Pontiac GTO came in for it's carbs to be overhauled, and noticing it wasn't tuning as it should, we ran a compression check to find the rear two cylinders very low on compression... one engin
View fullsize And one for the more retro enthusiasts! This Renault 5 is straight out of the 80's from the brown on brown interior, to the brown on brown exterior! It came in to resolve some carb issues and run through its MOT fail list, which then turned into a fa