Hi
I have a 98 xj8 with the 4.0 litre in a no start condition. I put new primarys and secondarys about 10000K ago. I came home from an 1100 km trip and parked the Jag because the waterpump started leaking. The Jag has sat from October till now. I went and tried to start it early this week (-18C) and it back fired once, now it seems like a no compression condition, and when I floor the gas pedal you can hear a distant fire in the exhaust manifold. I thought i read on this site about lifters bleeding down. Any suggestions?
The Jag has 150,000Km.
Cheers
Rick M.

 

cylinder wash it sounds like...there's lots of good writeups on how to get it to start again. if you go to the faq in the xk8-xkr subforum, theres links to what I am referring to. g'luck!

 

h2oboy is right on- the point is to get about a "squirt" of oil in each cylinder through the spark plug holes, then crank. And the lifters are not hydraulic, so there is no "leak down" possible.

 

Thanks Guys for jogging my memory. I did the oil squirt and abit of propane in the intake and it fired up once again. Now I can finish putting in that new waterpump that I bought off Ebay.Now is there a preventative remedy if I am not driving the jag again till the summer time?
Cheers Rick M.

 

Remedy = start it on the first turn of the key let the engine reach temperature before shutting down, basically no short runs...it'll do it every time. Remember the 'pedal floored' method to restart, if u cant get oil into the cylinders. Read up on it, as there's time limits attached so as not to burn up ur starter while waiting for the cylinders to gain compression.