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Apart from the split, that hose looks in good condition. It makes me wonder if there may be a lot of 60 or 70 thousand mile engines that should have all the water hoses replaced.
Apart from the split, that hose looks in good condition. It makes me wonder if there may be a lot of 60 or 70 thousand mile engines that should have all the water hoses replaced.
The AJ V8 is a great engine, with good points and bad, as all engines have. I have always found the external plumbing to be ridiculously convoluted.
Then you add an intercooled supercharger and the convolution is doubled!
Only issue ive ever had with the hoses was self inflicted ... pliers would slip off the dam hose clamps and they would snap around and cut into the rubber. I did however proactively change the valley hoses since they looked terrible and I was already there.
The cooling fan connectors...
Can't find a photo but there is a harness mounted below lower lateral frame strut , coming from the front left side of the front .
See screenshot from the electrical manual. It is the purple harness. Look for the connectors marked with the red circle
There is a big chance you removed that loom and now it is resting in the lower front left area somewhere
Hope it helps
The cooling fan connectors...
Can't find a photo but there is a harness mounted below lower lateral frame strut , coming from the front left side of the front .
See screenshot from the electrical manual. It is the purple harness. Look for the connectors marked with the red circle
There is a big chance you removed that loom and now it is resting in the lower front left area somewhere
Hope it helps
Thanks for trying to help there brother 🤗
I am having difficulty in locating the little bugger, I will have another fo tomorrow evening. It's so dam close, just need to find it.
What I need is a definitive picture or location. Although your diagram clearly shows it coming in from the left to right. This may help if I try to locate and follow that loom.
Thanks Danny🤗
hey, I always hand grind the valves into the seats old school style😂 Before I grind them in I always clean up the valves, the exhaust valves always have carbon on them. Also replaced the vale seals while they are out, good opportunity to do this while the valves are in hand.
Gave the heads a light clean up skim.
Hey and manage them colletts carefuly, they are tiny 😳 , long nose tweezers are in order😳
Which style of valve spring compressor are you guys using for these heads
Found that fan plug, it was looking me in the face 😂
So that's it, engine done and complete.
I even did a video recorded its first start up, of course it once again roars like the Jaguar that it is😁.
So I shall post the video of the initial start up straight from the re build in a moment.
Then I will post another video of the whole complete and finished car tomorrow with a walk around, then I'm done with the thread👍
I really hope this will help others understand a little more about these magnificent engines. There certainly was not much out there when i was researching, so maybe this might help start the ball rolling with other forum members. The journey was not as bad as I was expecting on the forum, got a little close but that's forums😁😂
Thanks Danny J for helping out with the scoop location thing, always appreciate some one who goes out of there way to help🤗
Oh and for those who were rather concerned and worried about the colour of bloody coolant. I am not quite sure about the shade of red/pink, what do you think?🤔, a little lighter or darker😂😂
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Beautiful job!
(Enjoyed following your straight forward, methodical approach to things. Big compliments. And, enjoy that gorgeous Jag...)
Book you might like, about the Zen of mastering the machines we live with, and the innate joy of using them: "Why We Drive" (Matthew Crawford)
(Crawford also wrote "Shopcraft as Soulcraft" - another fine work about the philosophy of mechanical competence)
I got rid of my 07 XK at 50k miles because I was too old to do my own work at age 75. My closest dealer was 100 miles round trip, independent service was also 100 miles and I knew what a hassle parts id/cost and availability was from doing some suspension work. I still mourn the loss of that car.
Oh and for those who were rather concerned and worried about the colour of bloody coolant. I am not quite sure about the shade of red/pink, what do you think?🤔, a little lighter or darker😂😂
I gotta ask. Did I give you the correct hose part # the second time around? I was using the electronic parts catalog and found the part closest to the pic.
I gotta ask. Did I give you the correct hose part # the second time around? I was using the electronic parts catalog and found the part closest to the pic.
Thankyou for taking the time to document this whole event. Taking images and videos, making notes and posting to this thread will have been a major effort in itself. A very appreciative Mark. (2008 XKR, Australia)
