Very nice floormats, I have used Avery mats in the past on other cars and have always been pleased.

Today I put on the OE Jag union jack center caps on my Hornets.

 

Added badge, inspiration from the other thread

 

Changed out the fuel sender unit and spark plugs. Yes in 90 Degree Heat in Largo FL.

 

What I did today ?
Pulled drivers seat out, again, looking for intermittent airbag light I think I fixed it, and gave her a bath.

 

Flicked a few emails around trying to work out why my rebuilt and bored out throttle body has MORE issues than the old one it's meant to replace...

Tomorrow it's being put back to standard, and I'll either take it to another place (depending on how confident they sound over the phone about fitting it, as they've had experience with these before), or it'll get sent back to ASI for a second rebuild, which I can't see how it will need... but nobody seems to be able to tell me much more about them than 'maybe it needs adjusting'.

I remembered I have the JTIS cd... had a good look through it, and I can see instructions for removing everything BEFORE and AFTER the throttle body, but not the throttle body itself! Was hoping to find out if there would be any calibration/setup type steps, but can't find anything.

 

Where did you get the alum. surround for the j-gate that matched top. I visited the sight for the top but I didn't see the surround. Great look!!

 

eBay UK

 

:-)

 

put new pads in, fitted new cam cover oil seals and did an oil and filter change. And a little bit of detailing ready for some trips coming up. Looking forward to some driving

 

Well the same night, in fact the 1st drive since installing the mats I went to the post office after midnight to mail some packages using the self serve kiosk. Went to park & the mat came loose of it's anchor, pinning the gas pedal down rendering me curb jumping in 1.3 seconds @ full throttle & the car going through the double glass doors into the lobby lol. Drove the car home from the tow yard(surprisingly nothing mechanical's damage,the front end clip/bumper is crooked,grill busted,windshield needs replacing,right hand side mirror & a new truck lid/skin). All this after I just dropped a nice chunk of change getting everything right (shakes head). Could've been a lot worse as no one was injured including myself but I did make all of the local new casts & an impromptu drive-thru window for USPS lol. Not to mention that awful LOW WASHER FLUID light is back on lol.

 

I would send the mat company a web address with the story, was there something defective about the mat's anchor?
Vector

 

Ok so June and July were spent doing the following:
Replaced drivers highbeam headlight, front blinkers and markers, windshield washer reservoir and pump, front wiring harness, spark plugs and one ignition coil, Evap canister purge valve and Evap line connecting the two charcoal canisters, front bumper cover and side mounts for the front bumper cover, instrument lightbulbs, air-conditioning control, J shifter and ski slope woodgrain, cupholder, drivers door latch and lock mechanism, all door speakers and rear 6 x 9, replaced headliner, fixed the front tilt on both the drivers and passenger seat, replaced numerous relays, steering column speaker, replaced front window defogger vents, fixed rear seatbelts, fixed fuel quantity not indicating, replaced interior trunk panels, repaired minor exhaust leak, and a bunch of little trim things here and there. How's that for a run on sentence? ;-)
We also took it on our first road trip… It wasn't quite ready for the street with everything that needed to be done to it.
This weekend I'm going to do the front struts and upper mounts and probably tinker on a few other little things.

 

 

After further inspection it stands as grill, lower grill(guess I'll just go with the mesh lower grill now)?!,head light housing both sides,windshield,leaper,passenger side mirror glass,antennae & trunk lid are the things that will have to be replaced. The hood lip is rippled which I think can be straightened as well as the dents in the passenger side fender & scuffs on roof & right side. Haven't had a chance to pop the hood, but no warning lights or fluids leaking on the drive back, fan kicks on & sounds unaltered. Do not want to risk shutting the hood causing the windshield to shatter as we are dealing with torrential rains here.

Edit : Popped the hood everything looks & sounds normal minus a little movement of my washer reservoir bottle & shattered glass(from the building) that was tucked down in the hood gulley that houses the wiper etc. was/is difficult to get all out. Now I know why Jaguar put covers on everything in the engine bay lol this could've been an even bigger mess.

Going to get a few estimates next week I have a skilled associate who can likely put any parts I need on I'd just have to get someone to buff & paint. So part hunting I go !

Will get pics when the weather breaks.

So far I'm batting a high % on E-Bay a lot coming off of white XJ8's as well.

 

A friend and I decided to have a crack at the replacement throttle body today...

We had a multimeter, and following the guidelines in this thread, we checked the new TB to see what values we got.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...acement-77560/
What we found was that the new TPS was adjusted as far as possible counterclockwise. This was giving us readings lower than expected, so we decided to check the values on the original TB which had been reinstalled back onto the car.

We checked that, and the values were very similar to what we were expecting. Based on this, we adjusted the new TPS back closer to the centre of it's range, and matched the values as well as we could.

Following a guide... which now I can't find... we set about removing the original throttle body. First thing we did was kill the battery, which is something I don't believe the garage did when they were working on the car, even though it's as simple as flicking a switch, because I have installed a kill-switch in the boot.
It's quite straight forward, just watch for spilling coolant everywhere when you remove the two coolant hoses.
We put the new, adjusted, throttle body in, connected the hoses and plugs, switched the battery back on... and it fired up PERFECT!

We let it idle for a while, just to make sure it was fine, then took it for a quick road test. Everything seems peachy

So... on Monday I'll be making a rather angry phone call to the local Jaguar dealer and ask them why, after spending $700 with them, they were unable to loosen two screws and adjust the TPS, especially seeing as it would seem like a very normal thing to have to do with a replacement throttle body.

 

Just in case you haven't yet seen this (not mine, this just seemed like a suitably casual thread ) Sbarro X308:

 

Kill it... With fire...

 

What an effing abortion!
It should be put out of it's misery......

 

Would really love to know more about this process. Specifically, what products you used, and your general process for polishing the emblems (without scraping up the chrome surrounds).

I've got similarly chewed up emblems and I can't find a good new set on Ebay to replace them (need both rear emblems, trunk button, and the two jaguar side-markers - downsides of living in the desert).

I'm really liking your results, and I'd love to give it a shot myself.

 

Spent a whole day hunting noises and squeaks.

Took off all door panels, and re-hung them with some insulation in between.
Also secured all electric wires inside as they should be (obviously, all panels had been removed before, and were never fitted correctly).

Also checked on each and every panel where 'plastic hits plastic', and re-fitted them with insulation where needed and where possible.

Results: fantastic!
I noted that the clock makes noise, how about that ?

E.