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Borrow a cooling system pressure testing kit from Advance Auto Parts or Autozone and use it to pressurize your cooling system to positively identify the source of your leak. Once you know exactly where the leak is, you can formulate your repair plans without any guessing. To "borrow" the kit, you put down a deposit on your credit card. When you bring the kit back (clean and intact), they apply a full credit to your card. Quite a few of us have done this over the years. It pinpointed the coolant outlet pipe leak in my wife's 2006 XK8 back in November 2014....
Be aware that the plastic coolant expansion tanks in these vehicles are always prime suspects for leaks. The plastic is not very robust and after baking in the engine bay for just a few years, they all eventually leak at the hose nozzles or seams (or both)....
I know many of us avoid draining the cooling system when working on it because the Radiator Drain Petcock is fragile. I have found a replacement.
If you google: Dorman 61138 you can find what looks like an exact match. It can be found at Rockauto, Advanced Auto, Autozone, and O'reilly. However, none of the local stores had it in stock, but they did have it available to order. Rockauto's price is the best at $3.55 plus shipping. Hopefully I'll have it here by the end of the week and can report back on the fit.
You can also use a $5 siphon hand pump from Harbor Freight to pump out most of your coolant from above. No messing with the fragile drain petcock required....
If some one needs a replacement tow hook for an 2003 XK8, (with the M20 x 2.5 RH thread arrangement), one for a 2007 Hyundai Accent works perfectly for the front and rear. Best of all it was only $3.25 at the local salvage yard.
The petcock arrived and I installed it. It's a two second affair, just pull out the old one, push in the new one and screw it in. For the price, I would rather deal with the petcock than with having to get the radiator hose out.
The new plastic feels far less brittle than the old petcock. I highly suggest that if you still have the original one, change it out for a new one the next time you need to drain the radiator fluid.
The old one was a goner. The rubber o-ring was torn when I removed it and the Philip's head was abraded.
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For a rear parking assist sensor a YDB000121 will fit but orients the oval lined face the wrong way. Up and down instead of side to side because the locking tab is not oriented in the right spot. The locking tab can be cut off and reglued or epoxied into a correct position. It fit my 2003 XK8 once modified and now my parking assist works perfectly. About $10 on Amazon.
If you need one with the circle on the face of the sensor the C2C29376 should work perfectly per Zray. About $11.35 on Ebay.
If anyone needs to replace the coolant reservoir cap - the CARQUEST PN 10263 is available at Advance Autoparts for $12 as I found out last night!!! Although a few $$ more than Rock Auto, it was worth being able to get the Mistress immediately back on the road
The duralast parking aid sensor 1160 is the same configuration as the coil connectors/pigtails that connect to the 2 pin (1997 to 1999 I think?) ignition coils. The wires that come with it are a different gauge, but I my connector was cracked and the terminals were already coming out. I was able to slide them into the new connector. It comes with a white plastic septum that separates the two terminals. You may need to trim the ears/wings off so that it's just a middle piece. I had to. Otherwise, it's a perfect fit. There are others out there that will probably work (i.e. on partsgeek and rockauto), but this was ready for in store pickup from Auto Zone, so huge convenience factor.
In changing oil in my 1999 XK8 coupe, I looked for a new oil drain plug gasket. Advance Auto Parts had a complete oil drain plug with new gasket in stock on their Needa Part rack: #653116. The new plug is M14 - 1.50 and is an exact fit for my engine. I imagine it will fit all 4.0 L engines and 4.2 oil pans also.
$3.50 + tax https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...K7OkaaAQHIvVkS
Rather than deal with oil drain plugs and gaskets, the next time you change your oil replace the drain plug with a Fumoto drain valve. Just search Fumoto online and search for your vehicle.
I've had them for years in all my cars and they are a huge improvement over conventional drain plugs. I can open and close it as I please. Especially with the Jaguar holding so much oil, I can drain some into the pan, shut it off, empty the pan, then drain the rest.
I have a missing tip on the passenger side seat back release. There's also an unwelcome screw in the middle of it, previous owner was careless. Any suggestions for a plastic tip or replacing the entire cover and tip? 2003 XK8 convertible. Passenger side, tip missing and screw inserted. Don't know why. Passenger side missing the tip This is the driver's side and it works and looks fine.
Do you know the model of the Fumoto valve you selected? There appears to be several options on the Fumoto website search. The first selections are the F106 and the F106N
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J Cat...go to eBay and find a seller named soughtout1. He has a small business disassembling Jags. Mostly XK8's but the occasional XJ8 as well. Tell him what your looking for as he probably has all the seat back release knobs you could ever use. His prices are excellent and I've bought from him on several occasions and never had a problem.
Sun visors non-OEM? Anyone know of a compatible replacement sun visor for a 2003 X?
[QUOTE=J Cat;2107031]I have a missing tip on the passenger side seat back release. There's also an unwelcome screw in the middle of it, previous owner was careless. Any suggestions for a plastic tip or replacing the entire cover and tip? 2003 XK8 convertible. Passenger side, tip missing and screw inserted. Don't know why. Passenger side missing the tip
This is the driver's side and it works. Sun visors replacement source non OEM??
Hi J-Cat. I can probably tell you what the screw is for. One of my daughters, who was small enough to ride in the back seat, grabbed the guide plate instead of the lever itself while exiting the rear seat and whatever clips there are holding it inside snapped. So that guide plate is floating loose now. Thankfully, I do still have the knob on the lever, and it holds the guide plate nicely in place. I'm sure your unwelcome screw is there, holding the guide plate in place, because someone busted it just as my daughter did. One of our OEM vendors here might be able to help. I think it's a pretty big long shot hoping to find just the knob on ebay. Hope you find though.
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