Or get three more and be done for a while.

 

Yeah I know I should but I can't stand replacing them while they're still working.

 

Well the three old ones can become the spare's that you'll never need. Spare parts come in handy on occasion

 

My neighbor (mechanic) installed and balanced my new Nitto Motivo 20" tire today...

 

New Arnott front struts installed and I'm in love all over again.

 

We took her for a drive !! And to the Oil Can Cafe too !

The Carding Shed | Home of The Oil Can Cafe, High Society Clothing, The Retro Shed & IK Classics Garage Services

 

Fitted a near left side rear parking sensor, now all the parking aid sensors work and I do not have to listen to that 3 second beep when I put in in reverse...wonderful.

 

Today's work

Oil/filter change

Diff oil change

Started replacing the thermostat housing, a corroded bolt broke...need to break out the drill tomorrow!!!!

 

Managed to throw a PO171 and a PO174. Drove several miles home before "restricted performance" came up.

Luckily came across the issue within about 60 seconds.

In the picture you can see the vacuum tube to the throttle body area behind the brass connector where it is supposed to be attached.

How the heck it came off is a mystery to me. I did put a little gasket maker on the brass connector before reinstalling the tube.

 

Ah yes, God's country! If you looked across to Castle Hill, I lived just a few miles beyond near the Emley Moor TV tower.

 

Managed to drill out the broken bolt (Post 368) and finished the thermostat housing replacement.

Changed the broken hood(bonnet) cable.

The snag list is getting smaller.

 

I cleaned & polished my chrome exhaust tips and cleaned up the plastic lip right under the rear bumper with "back to black" plastic restorer.

What a difference!

 

Fitted a set of 17" Elegant wheels to replace my 19" Polaris. I found the ride rather too harsh, and the worst bit is the vulnerability to kerbing. Hell, you've only to look at the kerb whilst parking and a wheel is kerbed. With the new wheels, the tyres are "fatter" therefore the tyre contacts the kerb well before the rim. The wheels are quite a few years old, yet virtually unmarked. Ride now is much more compliant. Tomorrow I will have the two front tyres replaced as one is a 2003 Pirelli P6000 and the other a 2007 Kumho Solus. Rears are 2016 Kumho Ecowings with a lot of tread left, so I'm going to run these for a while.

 

I vacuumed trunk and interior, then drove it. We got this 04 XJR 3 weeks ago....
dang thing is FAST and I love it, even though I know it will be a bit fickle. Glad this forum exists as it is where I have found all the answers for our X type.

 

Today, I changed the oil and filter. I also flushed the coolant by draining, and refilling with distilled water 5 times. Last refill was with straight Dex-Cool to achieve the correct mix. fairly easy job, but time consuming what with waiting for it to come up to operating temp and then cool back down 5 times.

 

Replaced a noisy water pump and aux belt while I was doing the job not a bad job to do just a little bit fiddly in places as there's not a lot of room

 

What kind of noise was the water pump making?

 

So today, a pair of Toyo Proxes was fitted. They seem OK so far and cost me around £200 for the pair. I am now very happy with the ride and hope to keep the car for many years yet.

 

Hi xj8jr sounded like a noisy bearing but the noise went after a minute and only done it when it was cold sometimes it never made a noise at all, initially I thought it might be the supercharger as the noise seem to be in that area so i left the car over night then I drained the cooling system and removed the header tank and the supercharger belt and started it up noise was still there,so I removed the aux belt and spun all the pulleys to make sure all were good and the only slightly noise one was the water pump if I turned it slowly you could feel the roughness in the bearing so I replaced it and all is quite again.

 

Persistence pays off, gotta keep at it to get er done.