Winter may be over here in upstate NY and as I was getting my 99 XJR out of mothballs she emmitted a strange noise up front, only for a few seconds then earily quiet.
I shut her down and headed to the front and spotted a couple of black shreds under the car that I hadn't noticed earlier.
Turns out the serpentine belt had shredded.
I couldn't believe my luck having this happen in the driveway!
Of course bad luck often accompanies the good and while tying the fan harnes back out of the way I heard a light snap from the rigid pipe heading from the radiator to the expansion tank with a small drip following quickly afterwards.
Luckily not the radiator nipple just the pipe at the squeeze connector.
I found that pipe in stock at FCP Euro but in looking things over noticed the pipe from the expansion tank to the passenger side side on the thermostat housing is missing part of that locking squeeze connector.
I can't seem to find anything that looks correct on anyone's website but would like to replace all these plastic pipes as I'm probably on borrowed time after 26 years.
As one of my old bosses used to say, "there's two types of plastic, cracked and about to crack"
Has anyone found a source for these parts?
Does anyone know the part numbers so I could search that way?
Also as a side note, the serpentine belt is one of the harder ones to get over that last pulley but this last one has only been in service for about 30k miles.
I guess that means I should be planning on replacing these every 25k but is that how yuse guys have been handling your cats?
The supercharger belt was replaced at the same time (why knot?) but looked fine...

 

This had me 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you!!!

I'm not sure if this link will take you to the exact page but, if not, go to partsgeek.com and enter your info and look for the plastic pipe.

https://www.partsgeek.com/catalog/19...tank_hose.html

 

Thanks for the tip!
I've been to parts geek a couple of times in the past and hadn't noted good selections for my Jag parts needs but perhaps they've expanded their inventory or I wasn't looking in the right spot.
In any case they had all the hoses (pipes I guess) that I needed as well as the gas cap I keep meaning to replace so it's all on order.
Too bad I already ordered the first hose parts geek had that as well and quite a bit cheaper...

 

You can look up all the part numbers, with superseded numbers etc on https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic...98-2003-parts/
You'd be feeling rich if you wanted to buy from them though.

 

Parts Geek
Rock Auto
SNG Barratt US
NOMA
Amazon
local Jaguar dealer

all have them; belts too!