Still with ya buddy!

 

You could do a Canton Mecca oil occumalator?

 

How did the cylinder was get rusted? That engine should be able to sit for a couple of years without being run and not corrode the cylinders.
That car must have sucked up water somehow??

 

Thanks man - just to give an update - life is incredibly busy outside of the car with a wedding, job change, immigration-related stuff and everything else, so the engine has been a bit neglected BUT it's ready to be rebuilt now, I just need to find the time (hopefully in a week or two).

Slight issue comes in the form of the shop that the car was being stored in was sold to new owners last week - I only found out from a friend who also had a car in storage there and went to visit before he planned to tow his car to Seattle. I went down there yesterday with him and the van/car trailer and felt the whole thing was too sketchy for me so we pulled the car out and back into my garage at home, which if anything should improve the rate of progress. I can easily get the engine into the car in my garage at home - transmission would probably require a lift to do it in all honesty so if the shop is still around under the new owners when I'm at that point I'll consider towing the car back down there to put the trans in (or just pay someone to do it at that point if I have to).

 

Hi,
I have the same engine on my RR SC and now in progress of finishing timing chain replacement, I replaced timing chain, tensioners and belts and after I assembled it back it shows misfires in cyls 2-4-6 and idle is rough. I hope I will fix it soon, so if you need any help with computer diagnostic or so - let me know) Will be happy to help.

 

short video of 5.0SC rebuild done localy,near me. too sad its in native language.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSTz...ature=youtu.be

 

Very impressive, most entertaining video in a long time. Well done man!

 

Video really shows how long oil drain intervals will ruin these engines, first things to clog up will be all those small orifices and screens.

 

Thanks for that video! Looks like he had exactly the same issue I did with spun conrod bearings. Almost looked to be the same rods that spun too, but not sure on that.

Of particular interest is the timing chain guides shown at 8:13 in the video - his old one is on the top, the new one is on the bottom. The circular "hole" in the top one is not supposed to be there, and is the result of the infamous timing issue with the landrovers/jaguars that's been talked about a lot here recently. Mine had the same issue. What's interesting is that this seems to be being fitted into a facelifted XFR, and I thought it was only the 2010-2012 engines that had this issue - guess his might have been an early one?

BTW, the build up of my engine is imminent. I'll hit the thread with pics when I can. Sadly there may be a slight further delay as I haven't been able to clean up the block or head gasket surfaces properly and I'm worried about them sealing with the Cometic MLS head gaskets I've got for it, so I'm looking at getting the block and heads resurfaced before assembly. I may be overthinking it but I don't want to make a mistake I only have to tear apart and rectify later down the line.

 

These guys have a whole series of AJ133 repair vids.

 

Sorry it's been so long - progress has been (as usual) SLOW, although I at least had an excuse, as I was busy organizing this:




However, back to the car. Here's a selection of some photos:


Block deck cleaned


Studs installed (with chopped one to clear baffle plate


Bearings installed


Crank installed


Pistons/Conrods ready to go in


Pistons installed


Heads resurfaced


Valve lapping. You'll notice the Manhattan to the side - this is a required workshop tool to calm frustration when lapping by hand because the sucker on these lapper tools only sucks in the pejorative sense.


Inlet valves lapped


Exhaust valves are too far gone and I'm pretty sure those pits can't be lapped out - new ones ordered.

I'm hoping progress can be a bit faster over the next few weeks, so I'll try and keep this thread updated.

 

First of all congratulations on tying the knot, the XFR is now 1\2 hers..lol, Where the pitted exhaust valves due to wear or engine damage?

 

Congrats! On marriage and progress!!

 

Congratulations. Nice pictures, especially the one with Valve lapping while drinking a glass of Pennzoil ;-)

 

More pics...


I purchased a new windage tray to modify to fit the ARP main bearing studs. Bench drill and a good HSS bit sorted this out - you can see where I broke through the aluminum on one of the holes but this is OK - filed it out and it's just another small hole in a plate full of holes Interestingly enough Jaguar have changed the design of this tray so it's slightly shorter.


Windage tray fitted to block


I got a great deal on a brand new oil pump on eBay but as it was for a Range Rover (with a different sump) the pipes on the back were different


So I cleaned up the old backplate from my oil pump (since it doesn't contained any parts that can have worn) and swapped them.


Oil pump and brand new supply pipe fitted


New pickup pipe fitted


Fuel pump cam fitted

 

Love all the pics and the progress updates.

If it hasn't been said already, it's like car ****.

 

Hope you have the time to hold up progress like you are doing now and get the car finished soon.

 

Me too!

 

Atta boy Dave!

 

I have an engine shop in Northern VA repairing my SC 5.0 engine. He claims he is going to rebuild my engine and will take 3 weeks. Reading all of this, I'm seriously doubting it. I may go with a low mileage engine and have someone replace the timing chain. 🤔