I can see you with the Q-tips under the car every Saturday now! : ) Absolutely great work. Awesome color selection. WOW!

 

UGH.... WHY did i have to click on this thread....

Guess it's on my to do list now!

 

Thanks for the kind words folks! I would never be doing this kind of thing without the forum to back me up when I run into trouble

 

Bruce,

What you have done to your Jag is an atrocity. It's so cheep, the colors are offensive, outrageous and tacky. ------ Please come and do it to my car. Name your price.

 

Unbelievable detail and quality. Nice contrast with the yellow and red colors. Good work. Very jealous and feel like a slug for not painting my calipers already.

 

Fantastic job, certainly makes me jealous of your undercarriage (wouldn't say that to a woman).

I'm trying to find my u-joint grease nipples ( this post is going downhill rapidly) but am not quite sure what i'm looking for, or exactly where it is.

Did you happen to take any pics of the u-joints showing the grease nipples?

Might help some people out if you did, especially me.

 

Hmmmmm, you'll say it to a man tho? To be honest, I don't think the old U-joints had Zirk fittings ("grease nipples").
The new ones do have them tho. As does the new u-joint for the driveshaft.
Sorry

 

I figured a man wouldn't be so touchy about references to his undercarriage as a woman, but perhaps it would be better not to analyze that comment too much and just move on to the nipples

From what I understood the earlier XK8's and R's had u-joints with grease nipples, but the later post 2006 XK/R's have CV joints with no nipples.

It's probably not as simple as that but if your car has no grease nipples on the u-joints then i'll have to try and find out if my u-joints are serviceable by other means.

I did not intend to side track your thread by asking about grease nipples, it's just that your pics are the best I've seen of the entire rear suspension and drive train removed from the car, and they are also the cleanest rear suspension/drive train parts I've ever seen.

Keep up the good work, you are showing us all what's possible.

 

Cheers to the nipples

 

about to do the same thing to my new project - you did a GREAT job !

 

Amazing!! Great Job!

 

Thanks for the kind words guys.

 

That's just stunning. Honestly, without the colors I always had trouble holding in my mind how all the components fit together.

I have in mind a less-ambitious effort ... trying to exorcise some noisy demons who may live in the driveshaft of my '03. Questions:

- What source did you use to spec' the driveshaft u-joint? I'm told Jaguar doesn't offer replacements. (My '03 driveshaft is different, has 2 u-joints, but maybe they're the same.)

- Did you have any noise sources before the rebuild that were traced to the driveshaft components?

TIA.

 

Most of my components I searched for on the web, but as far as the drive shaft u-joints I actually brought one in to have it "matched up" at advanced auto parts. I did have a tough time finding it. Many auto parts stores and a couple " specialty shops" visited until I just brought it in and left it with them to match it up with something they may have had in stock. I think I put a contact number for the girl (Charlene) who found it for me. No, didn't have any problems ith noise before the rebuild. I just wanted to familiarize myself with the car and clean it all up. Give me a couple days and I may be able to look thru my receipts and find a part number.