Great video Evan Just bought an XJR and this is a job that will need doing pretty soon. Smoke coming through the vents after a quick blast keep up the excellent work Chris
great video but those tesioners are original and do not wait, change them, I heard the death rattle a first start up. they will fail. I have a Jag car channel.
I know, eventually I will change them down the line for now the car is adult driven so I'm not really worried about the tensioner breaking under hard accelerations. I've heard how they sound when they go bad and it's not a good sound to hear.
My car had a " Catastrophic engine failure" and the engine was replaced by warranty, so I assumed the tensioners was not an issue with the new engine. However I heard a rattle as I started up yesterday, so am going to take covers off and have a look
Hi Evan, thank you for the video. I was wondering what the circular thing with three pipes (coolant?) going to it near the air intake pipe was, I have a 98 XJR and I don’t have that?
I believe what you are referring to is the catch can. I installed the catch can a long time ago to help reduce the amount of oil going back into the air intake system or back into the motor as they would say. All jaguars whether supercharged or not from the year 1998 - 2003 do not come with a catch can from the factory. It's something I fitted as an aftermarket accessory. Hope that helps!
Hi! Will you give me advice please. I have an little oil leak from under the timing chain cover. Mechanic says to replace timing chain cover gasket. For this action do I need to take out the engine? And do I need to disconnect the supercharger?
Motor does not need to come out nor does the supercharger!! First, you will need to buy a good universal crankshaft puller tool (either from amazon, Ebay, etc) or buy the specific one for our Jaguars (which I bought from Ebay). After that you can remove the big crank pulley and remove the timing cover to remove and install the new timing cover seals (both top and bottom). Then reinstall everything back together. When reinstalling the crank pulley, you can reuse the same bolt (just clean the threads and apply red loctite) or buy a new one from the dealership or from anywhere online, etc. After that, you can torque the crank pulley bolt down to 275ft pounds! Hope that helps!!!
A simple google search like typing in, for example, "00 jaguar xjr owners manual pdf download". Should be able to bring up a ton of different websites that you can click on to get the full free pdf file. Which can give you information pertaining to the cars engine, transmission, suspension, electrical and body components, etc. Hopefully this helps!!
The way I did it is by grabbing a long enough flathead screwdriver and placing it between the oil dipstick bracket and the valve cover bolt on a slight angle. I then used my other hand to grab the oil dipstick bracket and at the same time turning the flathead screwdriver left and right while trying to wiggle the oil dipstick tube up and out of the way. It may take some time (fiddling) to remove it but you can definitely get it out. It may be tough at first because it's probably never been removed but it will come out, take your time with it. No cutting on my end of the oil dipstick bracket. Hope that helped you out!
@@EvanTheMenace o ok thx I got it off, but when I went to put the new gasket on and put the valve cover back on and together it still was leaking I'm not sure if I cleaned the surface good enough but will see if that fixes it
@@The1972Cutlass If you followed the video exactly then you shouldn't be leaking. Unless, you went ahead and hand tighten (over tighten) the valve covers and caused them to crack. If that's the case you may need to order new ones and I hope not. If you torqued them down by using a torque wrench, torquing them down by sequence and by torque specs, you should be fine. Make sure you changed the valve cover gaskets on both sides, cleaned the bolts thoroughly inlcuding the head surface, put the rtv sealeant on the two points on the head and torqued everything down nicely!
In the near future, yes! Right now car is adult driven so I'm not too worried about them failing. It's not driven hard so they can fail at even a faster rate but I know they will and when they do they are getting changed out to the metal chain tensioners!
