washed and polished her, god its hot in Yorkshire will do leather when it cools down

 

Drove it to work without any warning lights coming on! I found a brand new
clock spring on EBay. Tomorrow night I hope to finally have my intermittent
airbag light fixed. It is doing well for 186,000 miles. The 1 week old Michelin tires help provide a smooth ride. No major malfunctions since last fall. Life is good.

 

Cleaned and re-oiled the air filter. I can't wait to see what difference that makes.

 

I installed and wired up this:

I removed my fog lights so I could run a cold air duct up to my air box area (see the huge rectangular opening just below the head lights I made ) I'm going to run a 4" flexible hose from the passenger fog light hole directly to my conical air filter box.

Now that the fog lights are not sticking back into the windshield bottle, there was room for me to locate the 70 PSI fine mist inter cooler water spray pump in front of the bottle. You will also see in the 2nd photo the low fluid level switch and intake for the Water/Methanol injection at the very bottom.

So from this bottle I'm feeding:
1. The windshield wiper sprayers
2. The Water/Methanol injection (Snow Stage II MAF controlled)
3. The fine mist spray onto the inter cooler radiator, this is good for a 20++ degree F drop in intake air temperatures. This comes on via pressure switch at 5+ psi, or when I push the button seen in picture #5

All the wiring is hidden, the relays in the compartment with the brake res, and the switches wiring is above that little cubby hole to the left of the steering wheel. You can's see it while driving, but it is easy to reach down and feel the switches to turn on/off or press the button momentary switch for a cool water inter cooler spray blast.

Switch 1: Inter Cooler Radiator 12" Pusher fan
Switch 2: Water/Methanol master on/off MAF controlled delivery
Switch 3: master on switch for boost controlled on/off switch + door bell momentary button for Inter cooler water mist spray

In photo #6 are the 3 relays for the fan, meth, and sprayer, as well as the pressure switch for the auto spray for the intercooler, and a boost gauge part I still need to wire up.... Getting closer.

 

I found a bunch of oil in the intake this morning. Thanks to this forum, I was able to quickly determine that the part load breather needed cleaning. Of course, the tube broke in the process of removal, and is now temporarily fixed with electrical tape. Hahaha. I also added some Restore to the oil, and some Seafoam to clean the injectors. What a difference!

Next up, finding the loud air leak that I hear at the rear of the engine compartment. Any ideas? Sounds like it is around the TB somewhere.

If it wasn't for this forum, I would never be able to maintain a car like this. Thanks to everyone for putting their own experiences on these threads. I can't wait until I've had more experience with this car (I'm a new owner), and can help someone else with their problem!

 

Here is a simple breather hose fix https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...ose-fix-91884/

I am doing an oil change tonight, probably add a little restore as well. Going on a mini-vacation with the family in the XJ8, our first trip in this car.

 

Fitted a RealGauge that's been sitting waiting for a couple of months. Pretty easy, if fiddly. Changed a dead instrument light while I was at it. Got it all back together and about 2 minutes later another instrument bulb died. Bugger! Can't be bothered taking it all apart right now, it'll have to wait till next weekend.

Also went looking for the source of my front end bumps and shimmys. There's a bit of play on the right front wheel jiggling it from 3 to 9 o clock- LBJ, maybe?

 

Great job mate will know what to when and if mine goes

 

On going adventure.... new fuel pumps hacked to work at the same time, new single rail fuel line, new front end(bushings, ball joints, suspension), deleted rear silencers....

 

Added freon to the air conditioning system. Can freeze meat now.

YouTube video on charging Jag XJ8 air conditioning was perfect.

 

Drove past four parked police cars at different times today and did not get a ticket.
Life is good! After 2 years of ownership, it runs better than the day I got it. 187,000 miles
on it now. Gonna go to bed early so I can go driving tomorrow.
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Packed up and now I'm ready to drive 1,500 miles in the next two days! Love this car on the highway!

 

Took the right hand (driver's) side lower wishbone/control arm off to replace the lower ball joint....couldn't do it in situ, couldn't drive the old one out....got the old one out on the bench eventually using a blowlamp for heat... and now I can't get the new one in....Aaaarrgh!....had to push the car back into my garage on a trolley jack supporting the car on the front cross member as the suspension is in bits, my son and my wife helped - a family effort.....Hey-ho! Just a day in the life of jaguar ownership, LOL ....Allan

 

Drove to Jaguar dealer and had an oil and filter replaced and an squeaky tensioner pulley replaced.

 

Mine looked almost identical I soldered my abs board today.

 

Since I'm still waiting for my OBDII code reader to arrive, so I can make some headway on my Restricted Performance issue. I bought an A/C recharging kit. Couldn't find where the low pressure connector was, but they offered a web based support system to show location. Unfortunatley no Jags listed. So a quick search on Jaguarforums.com turned up the required info. A/C now cold as ice. Also got a free A/C cleaner (a bit like a bug bomb) so I set that off as well and car now smells like new.

 

Been a busy few days.

New front shock upper bushes, sway bar links, RHF LBJ. Tightened things up but still hasn't fixed the clonk over small bumps.
Front Brembos skimmed. Yet again. Under warrantee this time, which is nice.
And today, on the "its the details that count" principle, new centre caps for the wheels. Went for green - bit more subtle against a black car than the red they were originally, and a bit classier than the pink the old ones had become.

 

I'm hopefully getting my XJR back from the shop today. Both fuel pumps, fuel filter, and oil change done. I miss my Jag!

 

Rain forecast for today so parked the Jag outside. 2 hours of heavy rain and all the dirt was washed off the car. Thank you God, you saved me a job.

 

Well, I'm hopefully getting the car back from the shop TODAY. They would have had it done yesterday, but the moron who worked on it last had messed up the nylon or plastic fuel hoses that hooked to the lines on the front bottom of the tank. My mechanic is replacing both of them with fuel injection hose, and had to order a fitting to adapt one of them.

The guy who replaced a fuel pump a year or two ago apparently messed up the lines trying to remove the fuel tank. He gave up on that, took off the boot lid (which is scratched to hell because he just set it on the floor of his shop), took out the speaker in the rear window shelf (ripping the wires off it in the process), and removed the fuel pump assembly through the speaker hole.

I'm glad I have a good mechanic to fix this other guy's repair job...