Sorry for the crap quality camera phone pictures !

Not to worry! They're plenty good enough quality to show what happened.
Thank you for posting them. I've never seen one of these heads off the engine before.
(';')

Agree! Very interesting. I could have chosen that route in 2001, mebbe.


Pictures!!!!!


1. My ancient flip phone has a camera. I've no idea as to how to down load them to this PC!


2. My really old digital Olympus from back when they first came out has no USB port. I have a card reader, but this PC doesn't recognize it???


3. My"newer" but still old Canon does have a USB port. I did get this Pc to upload from it. but, into a Collection". Can't do anything with them?? I can look, so, I guess that is something???


This tech world is running away from me....


Carl

Me too. The cams and head seemed to be pretty straightforward but the cam pulleys and chain tensioner fairly gave me a head ache until i could get my head around it.
I really like the cam tensioner - looks a bit like the innerds of a swiss watch !

looks like an Alfa Romeo to me; that's a good thing!

Mmmmm so im still using a bit of water and this morning had a slight missfire on initial start up.


I'm confident that its not related to the head or gasket in any way so am now wondering if the water pump could be on its way out ???


Any opinions welcomed.


Cheers in advance

To (hopefully) close out this thread, here's an update https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...8/#post1349359