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OB
If that is a shot from the front, then it looks like the air dam has been removed. With the air dam back in place, the pipe may not be visible, or an easy target for any road projection.
I could not quite follow your idea about a bendier pipe, but the best thing is to have the exir/imput from the cooler going rearwards horizontally, as in the OEM pipes. Is there any way you can do this? If that thing fails, you will have a few seconds to shut down the engine after all the oil dumps out at 50 psi.
Greg
I wouldn't say it was a bargain either but it did have a price tag of £59-99 which they probably got from seeing something similar on ebay.
So I thought if I got it for £30 I would be on the right side but wouldn't have gone any higher, as if you do its all too easy to get carried away.
50% of those Sockets are A/F which are not much good for anything these days (unless someone knows different?)
And my own Socket Ratchet and Extensions are better than those in the Box and so I have to be honest and say that it was a bit of an impulse buy, as it had some 'eye candy' about it.
I didn't really need it anyway, as with my odd jumble of Sockets and Spanners, I've not yet come across a Nut I couldn't get a Spanner or a Socket on (even if I couldn't manage to undo it!)
So although I'll hold my hands up and say that I probably made a mistake with this one, at least it was only £30 and not £100 or more.
You are really incredibly lucky with the price of Tools in Germany and the USA is the same.
But I have just re-jigged the Box and taken all the A/F Sockets out and in their place I have put some Metric Impact Sockets, that came with my Air Impact Wrench.
And then I picked up these:
8 Brand New Spanners £2 and have bought exactly the same before and used and abused them before I declared them unbreakable.
So I guess you Win some/Lose some, that's the name of the game.
8 Spanners only £2 the lot
I've bought exactly the same before and found them to be unbreakable, even when I've hit them with a FBH.
I would "bite that bullet" and get the cooler, and correct pipes/hoses. and do it right.
You are going to do that cooler anyway at some time, and to waste money and time ($$$) to bodge something up that could cause more grief, is simply false economy to me.
You are probably right but I wanted to get her through the MOT and try and make sure She was running alright before I splashed out £300 for an Oil Cooler and some Shop made hoses.
The cooler is still available (I need one too as mine is "okay" but the lower mounting points have rotted off the cooler) and costs around €280 (so about £250) and the hoses are available aftermarket...
That is already with VAT... I noted all the prices by hand in my excel list, so I know what to order and how much it will cost (roughly due to €-£ exchange rates)...
For our cars you need both metric and A/F sockets and spanners. The majority of nuts and bolts are Imperial, and the engine is a seemingly random mix of both! Quite often a metric will do on an A/F (ie Imperial sized) bolt or nut. But if the fixing is a bit worn or very tight, a really accurate sized tool will be best and reduce the risk of rounding off the hex, etc. The smaller the hex, the more important the right size is.
Sizes for spanners (whether ring or open ended) are the same as for sockets, sockets are (in effect) easily interchangeable ring spanners. Just a different shaped tool but fitting the same specified size bolt head or nut.
Greg
Last edited by Greg in France; 02-16-2017 at 05:29 AM.
OB, you're best to buy two COMPLETE kits... Metric and imperial. BOTH are required. I mean good example:
the nuts that hold the intake manifolds to the head are metric, the thread of the same stud that goes into the block is imperial. So it is half metric, half imperial.
I started to use metric tools on the lot but ended up stopping that, as the results were always (after they hadn't been used for a long time) that either the shoulders wore round or the tool just slipped.
My XJ8 is fully metric (like the XJ40, the first metric Jaguar) and only gets metric tools. The XJ-S is really, as Greg said, a wild mix of metric AND imperial tooled parts. So you need both kits ready by the hand when you attempt to do a task...
the nuts that hold the intake manifolds to the head are metric, the thread of the same stud that goes into the block is imperial. So it is half metric, half imperial.
Daim, on my car, at least the manifold to head fixings are both Imperial. The studs into the block are UNC (as a coarse thread is better into aluminium) and the top part the nut goes onto is UNF with an Imperial sized nut. Mind you, your car is later than mine, and Jaguar did gradually change things from Imperial to metric on the engine. probably as old stocks ran out!
Originally Posted by Daim
I started to use metric tools on the lot but ended up stopping that, as the results were always (after they hadn't been used for a long time) that either the shoulders wore round or the tool just slipped.
100% agree
Originally Posted by Daim
The XJ-S is really, as Greg said, a wild mix of metric AND imperial tooled parts. So you need both kits ready by the hand when you attempt to do a task
Absolutely.
So, OB, get down there are buy that lovely set back. Your ratchet will fit any socket with the correct size stepper as needed.
Greg