Remove coils and plugs. I cannot remember what the cost was for the gaskets, all receipts are in Joyces Jag and she is not currently at home. I may have a copy here on my puker, I will have to search for it.

 

Found it! Disregard the top 2 items....Those are the lousy engineered tether covers on the parcel shelf... see Jeff!!!!!

The last item are the upper intake gaskets.

REMEMBER this is for a 2005!!





Thanks Brutal, I will have to try monkeying around with the vacuum connector later.

 

Why did you purchase 6? I thought you need one peice for each side.

Anyhow, I think I have to change the rear brake pads first and work on this later. Even my daughter is complaining about the brake noise.

I checked local Jag dealer and they quoted me $25.37 for valve cover gasket and $37.76 for spark plug gasket. It seems reasonable.

 

The 6 pieces were the upper intake gaskets. Looking at the receipt you want the "camshaft and spark plug seal" prices not the others on the the paperwork. I purchased the upper intakes to replace both the "camshaft" (valve cover and spark plug seal)) and the IMT O-rings all on the passenger side (US) of our vehicle. I also replaced our irdilium sparkies at 42,000 miles. I know overkill, but I am now good for the life of our S Type seeing my wife drives it a total of 4 miles a day five days a week. We also live in a salt free enviroment so that is going to be a loonnngggg ownership!

Oh and looking at your dealership compared to Scott Jaguar yours is high!

 

Yeah, I'm in Canada and the parts (and pretty much everything else) are more expensive on this side of the border. That's why I like to shop in US and ship it to the border postal/ups outlet.

But I usually purchase Jag parts from local dealer. As the closest Jag dealer in US is in Seattle. I don't need to drive down there to save few bucks.

 

Do yourself a favor and if you get the intake manifold gaskets, order them for a 2004 Lincoln LS 3.0. Same exact gaskets, sold in sets of 6 instead of individually, they are made by fel-pro and cost less than half the cost of the jaguar gaskets. The part #'s are in a thread i have called intake manifold coming off...

The upper gaskets are know as the plenum gaskets.

George

 

I checked the spark plugs today as I replaced the rear brake pads. It's pretty bad. The engine oil was pooled inside of last spark plug (driver-side(US), most inside spark).

I guess I have to replace the valve cover gaskets and spark plug gaskets next weekend.

George,
Thanks for the tip. I will check with Ford/Lincoln dealer tomorrow.

 

Andrew atleast it is the drivers side.... should be a breeze to replace.

 

oh, my name is "Andrew". I thanked George on the tip on Lincoln LS. :P
btw, how did you remove all the clips that's hold the cables/wires. I could find easy way to remove them. Also, the spark plugs were locked in very hard. Is there easy way to remove them? Any kind of tips will be very helpful!

Thanks!

-Andrew-

 

On ours I used an awl to remve the clips. On the tight spark plugs, hmmmmm elbow grease and replace the broken ones, maybe try some PB Blaster the night before attempting to remove them.

 

Andrew, what Rick is saying is that to do the driver's side, the intake manifold doesn't have to come off. If you just have a leak from that side you can easily get the valve cover / plugs off, no need to pull the manifold. If there is a leak on the passenger side, well that's a different story

Then the manifold has to come off and so do the gaskets.

George

 

Thanks Rick and George,
I guess I will figure out one way or the other. It seems everything is tied down tidily. It was very hard to remove the volts from the calipers today. I had to use rubber hammer to turn the socket rench. I guess I will have some extra muscle when I finish it all. :P

 

Andy,

Do yourself a favor and make sure you use a spark plug socket (with the rubber insert to hold / grab the top of the plug) It goes along way from preventing you from snapping the top ceramic portion of the plug off... Especially if you have to muscle into it. It also makes it much easier to pull the plug out.

George

 

I do have the spark plug socket (one with rubber inserts). It just hard to unscrew the sparks. :P

Here's the instructions from Autozone.

1. Before servicing the vehicle, refer to the Precautions Section.
2. Disconnect or remove the following:
a. Negative battery cable
b. Left-hand on-plug coils
c. Left-hand valve cover wiring harness
d. Engine breather tube
e. Engine wiring harness retaining bracket
f. Valve cover
3. To install, reverse removal procedure. Tighten bolts in sequence to 7 ft. lbs. (10 Nm). Refer to Camshaft removal and installation procedure for tightening sequence illustrations.
4. Apply a 5mm diameter bead of silicone gasket sealant or equivalent meeting Jaguar specification on the half round gaskets and apply an 8mm diameter on the two places where the cylinder head and front cover join.

One question, do I need to put silicone gasket sealant on the gaskets?

 

Sometimes tight spark plugs are better removed when warm. A soak with penetrating oil helps, too. If you have engine oil in the wells you'd have to get it out before the penetrating oil would have much chance I think.

 

There are 2 spots that need a 1/2" dab of silicone, where the head meets the timing chain cover and after looking at the pic again 4 spots at the rear of the cover, LOOK very closly at the pic.
No you do not silicone the entire gasket.

Oh I guess I did not remove the spark plugs at that time.

 

Thanks Rick! You rock!!!!

I guess I don't really need to worry about the spark plugs now. hehe. One less item to remove and re-install. I will get the PB Bluster or some other penetration oil, and silicone sealant when I get the gaskets.

 

I checked the local Loncoln dealers and Jag dealers. Lincoln dealers did not have the parts and have to order them from detroit. Jag is asking a lot for the parts.

I found the cheaper parts from the one of sponser.
http://www.autopartsway.ca/autoparts... 3.0 V6~240452

Can I trust the parts from AutoPartsway? Any idea?

 

I picked up the parts from the Jag dealer. The Lincoln dealers didn't have the parts, and I set sometime aside this weekend to work on the valve cover gasket and front brakes.

 

Completed!!!

Changed both Valve Cover Gasket and Spark Plug Gasket.
I tried to save plastic clips but I broke two off. I replaced with cable-tie for now. Other than that, the work wasn't too hard. I managed to drop the screws and I had to remove the bottom cover (unnessary work) to retreive them.

Thank you, everyone who helped me!!! Especially Rick!!!!!