96 XJ6 head gasket

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05-29-2011 | 06:41 PM

darkmon316

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Originally Posted by panchostatus

I know, it was within factory tolerance of being machined down; if I remember right my man only shaved down half of the allowable limit.
so I could do it again if I had to!

& also the clearance for each valve only changed maybe .01mm after it was all said & done. so as far as I know, I'm good, everything else is still straight and in good order.

Hello,
My name is Kevin. I have a 1995 Jaguar Vanden Plas with 176,000 miles on it. I was reading in your post where you changed some valves on your 1996 XJ6 cylinder head. Did you replace the valves yourself, and is it very hard to do? I ask this question because I have some bent valves on my cylinder head from the primary timing chain breaking while I was on the interstate driving at 60 MPH and I need to change out some valves because I have three cylinders with no compression. I have taken the cylinder head off and I can tell that the valves are bent and are staying open on the compression stroke.

Kevin
1995 Jaguar Vanden Plas/ AJ16 /4.0L engine /176,000 miles/6 cylinder

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