Hi,
Not that I am going to win this one 
, but I had 54 happy sunny miles yesterday to our club meeting and back, and 15 miles of shopping the previous day, so now I have 5 driving days and almost 200 miles behind me this year. Lets see!
Cheers!
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Hi Pekka,
You win so far - for me 5 days outings but only 71 miles to date this year - but just wait till mid-May and I might catch up!
Cheers
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Hi,
Yesterday was nice weather so I had the top down and did 66 happy miles more.
So this spring’s total for me is now 217 miles in 7 days. 
Cheers!
And I bet you’re the only MkV owner on the planet. who’s done some of those miles with chains on…
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Hi all,
And sorry I didn’t report back sooner, this was already last Saturday, but I had a very busy week, my daugher moved last month but still putting together cabinets and book shelves etc AND I am moving from one garage to another one, funny how many bits and pieces I’ve managed to collect in only 15+ years! 
So I wasn’t going at first, but then it was a chance to meet a long lost brother!
#527126 1st reg. in Helsinki on March 14th 1950 as AO-200 had not been out in 28 years!
But after the first 9 miles at 9 AM I lost all oil pressure at about 3.000rpm and the speedo showing 60mph. Before that it was 60lbs and I immediately switched the engine off and coasted to the hard shoulder.
20-30 mins later I had the oil pump shaft back down and good oil pressure again.
The rest was nice, except me & my passenger friend were late for the meet.
But after 123 miles I was back and all was well.
Cheers!
Ps. So I am at 340 miles this year, eight days of driving! 
Hi,
After one month’s hiatus 45 hard miles today.
I finally replaced the vacuum unit and screwed something up in the dizzy. Long story short, I replaced the points and verified wires and the engine ran very well, but I had to wash off all the pollen (although the car had been in the garage) and I was an hour late, so I saw 9 fellow club members already driving back from the club meet just as I was getting there. Well I still had a cuppa coffee.
Ran out of fuel on the way back to the city, but I carry a reserve cannister,
Cheers!
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I have done 890 miles this year. I try and use the Jag every 2nd weekend, and where possible on the highway so I can give it a good run. The more often I use it, the less problems I seem to have! I installed an overdrive, which has made a dramatic difference.
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Words to live by!
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Hi,
Great to hear! Yes, revs are a bit high on highways, which I try to avoid. Small roads are fun.
Cheers!
Hi,
I’m still only half way to your mileage, but after 4 weeks pause drove the ol’ lady again, 42 miles. The first 40 were a joy, but then the engine suddenly shut down in a traffic light and would not start. It took me a while to realise that the fuel pump was not clicking. After hitting it a couple of times and checking the ground connection I took out the old light pen and could see that also the coil was not powered. The LH side fuse on the RB95 was blown.
So a new fuse and I got home just fine.
So now at least 435 miles this year.
Cheers!
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The wiring going to the fuel pump has several places on its path where gradual rubbing can dig through the wire insulation and provide a place where a vibration can short the electrical path to ground and blow the fuse. Unfortunately, the cloth insulators on Mark V wires now are seven decades old and getting slowly brittle and easier to fall apart. I’ve also had to replace some of the dashboard wiring on a few Mark V cars where the current became more than the plastic/rubber insulator could take, producing smoke behind the dash wood.
I didn’t think the fuel pump and ignition coil were protected by a fuse. The A3-A4 fuse is for the accessories like wipers, fuel gauge, heater and turn signals. I wonder if your car is wired wrong?
Good point, my remark may be incorrect about wiring path and fuse involvement. I did not check my own wiring or the shop manual diagram before writing the remark. I did find chafed-bare wire on my fuel pump line yesterday when doing some work on the oil pump and found chafed-bare wire on the line underneath the car last year.
That’s great it was something simple. Lovely car, so elegant in your colours.
South African drivers are lunatics, so I need the overdrive so I can keep up with traffic.
With the drophead, and patient road users, you don’t need speed!
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Hi,
Yes, my car has also extra fuses as ALL the original wiring has been removed before 1976 and replaced with a very scetchy job where all thick wires are black and all thin wires are white. :-o
I had a hard time debugging and making the car street legal and first pass an MOT in the UK in 2008 and then a more strict one in Finland in 2014, as the car had no working horns at all and no wiring for reverse lights and switch etc.
I have a complete new wiring harness incl all the intruments and dash wiring from Rhode Island Wiring that I bought ca 5 years ago, but I am still not sure when I would restore the car back to factory spec. 
Cheers!
It wasnt me, Pekka!!
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Nope, for sure. The door frame hack job and wiring was done before the Kruse Oklahoma auction from where Bud Kalland bought the car in 1976.
Cheers!
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Do it, you won’t be sorry you chose RIW.
My 120 had been rewired by somebody using all the same color wire.
It used to blow fuses when I signaled a left turn. I found the wiring inside the manette tube was chafing on a sharp edge in there from pulling the wheel in and out, and the left signal wire was grounding.
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