ok anyone know where i can get a gasket kit for the top of my 3.0l v6 vin-fl33299. thats less than £300?

 

DUCKWORTH PARTS , one of our vendors

www.britishparts.co.uk

www.ebay.co.uk

Hope these help you out

 

ta! £290+vat i wonder if the ford 3.0 v6 is the same its only £60

 

i came to the head gasket, but is it? no smoke today but it did yesterday right hand pipe , no water in oil, no oil in water never has been and runs ok not lumpy. ideas!

 

From your intro thread you say that it is heating up fast, is it overheating.

Maybe you should start with a pressure test on the cooling system and check the thermostat?

 

no its not over heating, did a pressure test and it seems fine

 

Seems like there must be a more coherent and all-in-one description of the problem just in case someone can figure out the things to do.

 

just had plugs out of left bank all look ok.

 

I agree, what exactly is the problem?

If you give some details maybe someone can help.

 

the car is smoking and it looks like steam

 

Well, I tried.

 

What info would you like?

 

If that's all you have I think you need to gather a lot more.

 

Well i got the heads off, yes one cylinder was clean, must have been all the water in there. New head bolts are on there way £2.00 each(had to ask in one of my posts why), head gaskets £40 for the two. head skim £60 for the six pots. About £50 for the rest of the gaskets with intake upper and lower in that, spark plugs £22, oil asda(walmart) £20 5ltr full synthetic oil filter £4. I don't think thats bad for a diy'er with a small box of tools, if you want to play with a s-type get a dam good 8mm and 10mm (just like ford). Come to think of it all the gaskets are ford (well well).

Ok just got to rebuild it when all the parts have come, that sould be more fun and then i will find out if this is a diy car.

replace a sill next, because the last owner could not read where to put the wheel jack.

I was going to put some pics on but dont know how.

 

therave, you can see this link below :

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/j...essages-36173/

However, assuming you're still a junior member then you may not use this procedure above then embedded [IMG] [ / IMG] tags between http links w/o any space

 

well the heads came back from the shop bang on price £60 uk.

Started today rebuliding just had a hour one head back on, the chain tensioner was a bit of a pain reseting it, so not that bad up to now.

my night time reading for the last week has been jtiss,

Its around 20years since i played with engines and i dont think this one is
particulary hard well not as much as i was expecting.

 

Very rare for you to lose a head gasket?? Fist one I ever heard of? Can you explain how it happened?
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i dont know, this was how it was when i got the cat. when i picked it up it did seem to run fine but i had a steam room following me, got home and there was a water leak that had been there for some time. i think the head over heated. reading the forum it does happen. also the cat has over 180000 miles on the clock.