What did you do to your X308 Today?
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Done deal I'm just going to will/positive thinking lol it loose until someone's here to press down on the hood as I pull the release. Not too keen on drilling & removing wheels after all this work today lol.
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Sounds a lot like my 1st marriage lol.
Last edited by King Charles; 06-29-2017 at 12:25 AM.
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Well, the 255/40-18 Hankooks, which came with the car, drove quite nicely but it looks like they all were out of round.
After a l-e-n-g-t-h-y consideration I decided to get Continental PremiumContact 6 in 245/45-18. They were put on today and the difference is like night and day and shakes, vibrations and wobbles are gone. Which is nice.
After a l-e-n-g-t-h-y consideration I decided to get Continental PremiumContact 6 in 245/45-18. They were put on today and the difference is like night and day and shakes, vibrations and wobbles are gone. Which is nice.
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Tracked down an E-5 torx socket w/ plans on doing the ABS module solder fix this weekend. Car's riding much better w/ the new shocks & mounts although I am still getting a light creak/squeak from the center dash wood. I plan on removing it & securing maybe w/ some graphite lube. Also good to know that my low coolant light every 300 or so miles will be a thing of the past w/ the housing upgrade.
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I did fluids and filters, new summer tyres and a couple of hoses for it's yearly inspection - it smashed it as usual
Got a few runs planned taking in some historic roads in Wales and Scotland this summer and any UK members that want to tag along are most welcome I may put a post together on this at some point in the coming couple of weeks.
One of the routes takes in Jaguar's development road from the 1950's to present day - the same road a lot of publicity/brochure pictures taken for the X308 and X100 cars.
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ericjansen (06-30-2017)
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Secondary tensioners
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Spent the morning getting the cams locked down and sprockets off to get the tensioners swapped out, and was again surprised how nice they looked. The left bank tensioner was fine, no melted plastic, good spring tension, apparantly 80K is not enough to make ‘em fail, can’t see what all the fuss is about. Right bank tensioner has just the beginning of a crack, and if the plastic chain-contact cap weren’t missing, it wouldn’t be suspect either. The only question was, how was this so bad as to make the chain jump a tooth on the sprocket? That thought kept nagging at me until the bulb lit up: The mystery plastic piece, shown in close-up, has tooth marks on it, indicating that when it failed it got in between the sprocket and the chain, and the force of the turning sprocket made the wedge of plastic push the chain over the tooth. Everything seemed so much more pristine than my 130K engine with melted tensioners, but that engine hadn’t jumped a tooth. Replaced tensioners, and it ran like a charm.
Spent the morning getting the cams locked down and sprockets off to get the tensioners swapped out, and was again surprised how nice they looked. The left bank tensioner was fine, no melted plastic, good spring tension, apparantly 80K is not enough to make ‘em fail, can’t see what all the fuss is about. Right bank tensioner has just the beginning of a crack, and if the plastic chain-contact cap weren’t missing, it wouldn’t be suspect either. The only question was, how was this so bad as to make the chain jump a tooth on the sprocket? That thought kept nagging at me until the bulb lit up: The mystery plastic piece, shown in close-up, has tooth marks on it, indicating that when it failed it got in between the sprocket and the chain, and the force of the turning sprocket made the wedge of plastic push the chain over the tooth. Everything seemed so much more pristine than my 130K engine with melted tensioners, but that engine hadn’t jumped a tooth. Replaced tensioners, and it ran like a charm.