I still have my 1989 Concorde Aqulia I purchased from new, still ride it to this day.

Enjoyed video and your reaction 😂

Hello, what is that black paint name? Too much rust on my xj underneath... Thank you for video 🎉

I commend your perchaverance but just get the OE part!

Where did you get your parts from? We have an 88 Jaguar xj6 and we're deleting the self-leveling system and going with this type of setup. Thanks in advance

You've splashed caustic liquids specifically chosen for their chemical property of compromising aluminum onto your wife's alloy wheel? And you fixed it ... by coloring over the damage with a sharpie? That seems, um, problematic, and I am being deeply euphemistic here.

Why would they use low carbon steel with an investment cast BB shell

I am a chemist. I have done this using full-body protection from head to toe. Outdoors. I can’t emphasize how dangerous it is. I will never do it again. Lye will instantly destroy your cornea on contact. It will cause severe burns with any skin contact. Just mixing the lye with water is exothermic (not a reaction but a heat of solution). Done improperly it can boil and splash. Putting it in a bottle with another label violates one of the first rules of handling dangerous chemicals. Accidents happen and you risk having caustic liquid where you do not want it. STOP! STOP! STOP! NO!

just want to know, Will this damage the hi ten or chromoly material tube in the future, such as becoming brittle?🤔

An induction heater would have been useful here.

"So I've gone over it with a Sharpee...," 😂🙌💞

wouldnt gallium have been less messy?

How did you bleed the air out of the lines?

Great video

Great video! Did mine last week took 6 days to remove . Mine was a 400mm seat post that had 300mm inserted. I made the mix a bit weaker it all most dissolved the post . No Damage to the paint work whatever

Great job. I dont no if you no.the park cable cutters in the middle of them theres a flat section for crimping. All the best😊

Sorry forgot grest restore😊

Hreat content new sub. My bike for work for work is a Peugeot the frame work chucked in a skip this was years ago i had most of the components which i put on. But over time i changed the wheels to 700 c s from the 27inch and a old man comfy seat lol. Just love Raleigh s which i had a road bike until it got nicked i was gutted now the Peugeot . All the best 😊 john from leicester uk😊

I wish I'd known this fifteen years ago when I trashed my (rather neglected) '96 Merckx trying to remove a Chorus seatpost. Ho hum. Live and learn etc. ;)

I have to get my rear bumper off. Thanks for this video. I now know what im up against. Great xj308 like the gold colour.👍

Just to let you know I did mine today and same thing happened to me with the nuts just going round so cut them off like you did. I found it easy to do, my trick was to remove the rear box from the axle end, slide it out from the bumper end, then you have bags of room to cut the nuts with the dremel.

Hello from Kuwait. Doing the same job. I held the strut’s bolt with a spanner, rotated top bit with an electric drill. Thanks for the Copaslip tip and clip.

Great video ...Good progress on your Jag ...I need to point out those fuel lines are nearly Rubbed Through ...I'm sure you noticed.

Well done. I’ve only done this once before but it was a nasty job. Mine was bubbling away like a witch’s cauldron 😂

Tell the next stuck part what happened to this one. It may be more agreeable! !

Yeah, partner! Take no prisoners! All resistance is FUTILE.... "no" is not an acceptable answer! OUT DAMN POST! You escalated to chemical power correctly sahib! ❤

It's good you didn't splash it into your eye. You could have lost an eye.

Congratulations, it's good that you finally succeeded, and only small losses around. My memories - a few words: This method is effective. The scenario presented here is very dangerous. The reaction is highly exothermic. The solution may foam and bubble for hours. Hydrogen is released. It's worth being outdoors. But how to protect cats, hedgehogs, birds and children from getting burned? The solution should be replenished from time to time because the process takes a very long time, which means that checks must be made. After etching, you need to have easy access to running water to rinse the frame perfectly. And then dry it thoroughly, clean our tube with a wire brush on a drill, remove filings, and finally pour oil over the frame and protect it against corrosion... The best thing that happened to me was that before digestion, I met a plumber who showed me his hands. They were full of sodium hydroxide scars. When fire burns us, we feel pain immediately. The hydroxide we use burns gently. But deep. I cut off the seatpost at the top, glued a kind of funnel on it, and sealed the area around the pipe from the bottom, on the bottom bracket side. Thanks to this, the mud fell down and I could conveniently pour the newly added liquid from the top. In the funnel, the solution boiled like soup and splattered. Previous attempts with a punch, two car jacks, pouring kerosene or heating were not effective... If two or three days with WD-40 or kerosene do not help, it is worth dissolving it immediately with hydroxide.

Seriously, NEVER put poisonous or caustic liquids in an unmarked drinks bottle!

AWESOME 💯💯

Bargain build I'm not a fan of the stem/bar you put on it, though I understand your reasoning.

Great video!

Nice bike

Had a similar problem but found the bumper bolt had unscrewed, just needed a bit of WD40 and persuasion to drop out. If you do the front bumper its more of a faff because the the fronts of the two air ducts will drop down, and you have to line them up as you slide the bumper back on. Might need 2 folk at the rear to get the bumper into both side retainer slides. Maybe thought about just a steam clean and lanocare spray?

Another great video, ... This is so interesting in what your doing here, keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

These videos are great, I've got all this to come next summer, I will be doing every bush, rubber, shocks, springs and like your doing with getting rid of all this rust underneath the car!

Awesome vid! This helps a ton more than the pics on the forum

Nice one, .... This is going to be my next job, I want to install the polly bushes in there as an upgrade. Keep up the good work. 😎

Hi. In last summer I welded the exactly same spot on my x308 xjr at the rear door arc. Reason why the paint is bubbling is because under that metal plate there is empty cavity. That cavity is filled up with some black nasty wet goo. The goo has dried out over the years and there is moisture now eating up the metal inside out. You need to replace the metal and find out the condition of the sill metal. Sill does continue under the bubbling paint metal. You said that there is filler because someone has replaced the sill. No. It is factory made. Like is the 3cm thick seam sealer at the firewall, inside sill and floor connection corner.. 😄

fantastic build!

Great job, looking forward to part 2 😎😎😎

Nice, I have a very similar frame, except it has down tube shifter bosses. Columbus Brain tubing is very light, although lugless looks a bit too much like an aluminium frame. The entire rear triangle and the down tube are chromed on these, including the bottom bracket area, do it makes for a great protection against rust. Mine is being repainted in PDM colours at present

I had this model about 10 years ago, best car I ever owned….. but yeh a swine to work on!. Good luck, I shall be following.

Amazing build! This was what i could not afford at that time. Shocked you never went with Campagnolo, but that groupset looked brand new!

What a beauty! All it needs is an Italian saddle rather than the USA one. I love that you put Deda bars and stem to match the frame. That's the kind of attention to detail that makes a nice job into a great one

Lovely job. That fork is a big improvement, though I'd have sawn more off the steerer tube to get rid of the 'chimney'. I suppose if you want to raise the bars at some point it makes sense to keep it.

I was searching for DEDA MUREX and came across your video. I am a lover of vintage Italian and my favorite bicycle is a bottecchia, and I saw in the 1995 Concorde the workmanship of Italian craftsmen of a higher dimension. First of all, I was fascinated by the beauty of the seamless frame.

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Clever!

very nice