Hi everyone! I'm Dave, I've bought my 2001 x308 XJR back in feb of this year, it's only got 69k miles on it and I think it's great. It's in Carnie Red and I'm based in Bristol UK. So far I've only had to replace two tyres and fix an annoying rear view mirror rattle. Planned work list starts with resolving the dry bearing noise I get on start up - I'm hoping is a simple belt and tensioner job and also confirm the timing chain tensioners / replace to ph3 jobbies. Rgds

 

I would guess an idler sprocket. But that is just a guess.

Ask away in the X308 section, the guys will help.

Welcome to the forum.

Good to see you.

 

Welcome to the forum Dave,

Check the XJ ( X308 ) XJ8 / XJR - Jaguar Forums - Jaguar Enthusiasts Forum for help and advice. Doesn't pay to ignore tensioners on the V8.

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Graham

 

Welcome to the forum Trevor,

Good to have you with us.
I think we know a song about that: "Don't delete me, let me stay" :-)

If you haven't done so already you should add your car details to your signature to help others to help you.

 

Hi Trevor / Dave and welcome to the forum, good to have you here with us
We won't delete you Dave, no prob.
Thanks for the post, we now know a little more about you / your car etc.....all good

There's a really great mix of information, camraderrie and fun here.....

I have manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view the whole site and all its features

Jump on in and enjoy the site.................

 

Isn't it Tom Jones - 'Please delete me, let me go'?
Anyway a warm welcome to this splendid forum from an ex Westbury-on-Trym lad (a long long time ago)
As Graham said, check out those tensioner posts on your sub-forum, apparently things can get expensive very quickly if the piston going up meets the valve going down.

 

Thanks for all the messages.