Finally got the new toy home, 8/01 S Type 3ltr SE. drove it the 1200kms, making a holiday of the event, as you do at our age.

Drove impeccably, a slight misfire at first, found the breather "T" at the top of the throttle body trunking had escaped its position in the small hose, so pushed it back in, zip tied it in place, sweet as they come.

The whole trip returned 8L/100km, so that impressed the "minister for finance" somewhat.

MAJOR/MAJOR service being done this weekend, MY way. Spark plugs on the RH bank look like fun, NOT. The rest will be simple, even the trans filter replacement looks easy enough.

 

Service 'your way', so that will be Pistons out, new rings, big and top bearings, balance crank, hone bores, lap the valves.....

Nice one Grant congratulations on the S Type.

Tech manuals and what have you are available through my signature. The Tech Guide is good for a general 'get to know her' type read. About 10mb.

 

Congratulations Grant. What happened to the XJS? I assume by the mileage that you bought it in Sydney. Adelaide always seemed to have a lot of Jaguars, nothing suitable there?. I think you should regale us with the whole story

 

Congrats and welcome Grant on "the one who must be obeyeds" S Type. Wheres the pics?

Besure to check out the FAQ section here, you will find loads of information on keeping the S Type tip top.

While you are doing the spark plugs, you may consider going 2 steps further and replace a little elbow located under the lower intake manifold, shown here by Gus, JagRepair.com - Jaguar Repair Information Resource. A word of advise, be REALLY careful moving all the vacuum lines around, they more than likely are very brittle and will crack just by looking at them.

Good luck and see you around.

 

[QUOTE=Translator;589322]Service 'your way', so that will be Pistons out, new rings, big and top bearings, balance crank, hone bores, lap the valves.....

NAH, its NOT a V12, mmmmm, YET.

MY WAY is ALL wheels off, new rotors/pads, ALL (and I mean ALL) fluids drained, new hoses, belt, idler pulley/s, thermostat, spark plugs, whatever else I see on the journey.

Then the interior gets the works, usually 2 days worth.

I do this to ALL the Jags when I first get them, and that makes motoring sooooo sweet.

We have a serious problem in that we will, out of the blue, pack the car and go bush for weeks, or more, at a time, so if the car is "right", the less I have to think about when the mood strikes. the last such trip was a few years ago in the XJ-S and we travelled about 15000kms (almost 12 months) before we got back home, so any future Jags have some serious "big boots" to fill.

 

The XJ-S, well, some people followed the bride home from the shops a few weeks back, and wanted to look at the car, etc, and then the obvious, "is it for sale", NO was her reply. Much discussing, and the mood changed, and the deal was done.

Car came from Sunshine Vic, and we have this habit of going the "long way" home. So from the sale point we went to Dubbo, Parkes, Wagga, Mildura, Wentworth, few odd places here and there, and then home.

Same happened with the X300, which came from Canberra, took 5 days to find home.

Nothing much in SA at the time, and usually too expensive for what they are, and too many kms mostly.

 

Thanks Rick.

I read that little saga just a few hours ago, so the hoses, o/rings, etc are already ordered and should arrive next week.

 

[QUOTE=Grant Francis;589334]Grant,

Congratulations on the S-Type.

Good to see I'm not completely alone in the appropriate schedule for a post-purchase Jaguar check and service. Thought I could be an obsessive!

Hope your weekend work turns up no surprises.

Graham

 

Grant, welcome to "S" land. Ey mate, you should throw a blankee over that lass in your avatar...she might catch a cold.

 

With the work you're doing I'd be more inclined to change the coils than plugs. Or just do both. Especially the ones under the manifold.

 

Thanks, according to the receipts I have it had 6 coils fitted 4 months ago, and I am told they were the latest spec units fitted by the servicing Jag dealer??, but time will tell.

 

No worries!

 

And they did not replace the plugs at the same time? hmmm....

 

Rick,

My typo I think, getting waaaaay too tired, must go to bed, need the beauty sleep.

The car had the 112000km service at that time, and from what I found via your links the spark plugs are replaced on that service on the V6.

The coils were replaced due to the owner complaining of hard starting and intermitant mis-firing. The receipt for the coils is in the wallet, but nothing for the service, just the book duly stamped. I will attempt to ask the servicing dealer next week, I might be lucky, but not holding my breath. They really dont give this info easily, privacy rules or such like.

If I can confirm they were done I will not repeat the process, but those breather hoses will definately be done, that just makes sense to me.