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I'm Mike, Pleased to be on here with my 2.7D auto, Known as the "Intermittent one"
Born in 2005 with 215k Kms on the dial. My Contact cleaner has arrived along with the ramps.
Tomorrow is a Holiday Here in Spain, so a spraying I will go.................
Take care in these times.
BTW is my old E-Type still around, 940CTH?
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I'm Mike, Pleased to be on here with my 2.7D auto, Known as the "Intermittent one"
Born in 2005 with 215k Kms on the dial. My Contact cleaner has arrived along with the ramps.
Tomorrow is a Holiday Here in Spain, so a spraying I will go.................
Take care in these times.
BTW is my old E-Type still around, 940CTH?
Yup the ramps don't fit under the bodywork, they touch the front bumper!!! Spent all day making extensions to the ramps out of a load of 2"x2" that was allocated to the barbi.
Tomorrow will try again. The DCC Valve connections are my prime concern. Her indoors is getting a bit uppity about No A/C especially her side. Don't want to have 2 "Intermittent ones"
Jaguars are very low at the front. Impossible to drive straight onto DIY ramps without damage. I use a trolley jack to lift the suspension on one side:
1. slide the ramp under as far as it will go
2. repeat on the other side
3. back to the first side and lift further - slide the ramp in further
4. repeat for second side and so on until fully on the ramps
Be sure to lift at the recommended locations. Here's the S-Type:
I should have been back in the south this month staying up in the mountains at Competa until the pandemic put a stop to that. Wouldn't like to do that without fully functioning AC.
I bought the ramps, they were supposedly secondhand on Amazon.es. They duly arrived from the UK?? in 3 days and were perfect, never had been used.. Realized immediately that there was a problem with them. I had a lot of 2x2" timber so I made some sub ramps, They basically double the length of the ramps and worked a treat this morning. I also used a trolley jack on the RHS lower suspension arm as a security measure. I checked out the DCC valve, Poor cooling A/C.. I checked the compressor High side pressure on OBD2, OK.Cleaned the contacts on the valve and the voltage on the pins, 13+V on the centre pin and 0.33V on the outer pins and still passing fairly hot water to the clima system (when not required). Fairly straightforward so I have ordered a new valve. I'll post a pic of the subramps, they were rock solid, full width, supported in 2 points on the ramps and 2 points on the ground. A couple of hours with a jig saw and some biggish screws.
Hi There.
