About time for an update!
We're fewer than ten days from departing the UK for Naples and a lot has been happening!
Where to start?
Well, The Beast now has an MoT, FINALLY.... Special thanks to Ian Button Cars, Ltd for help with this. It needed:
New rear suspension bushes
Rear Brake overhaul
New Windscreen
The beast also had a few other problems that are now ironed out:
Leaking headgasket
Leaking coolant hose
Leaking oil cooler.
The special thanks to Ian Button is for helping us (continually...) and also answering all the stupid questions we had to ask about the car and its engine. He oversaw the replacement of the cylinderhead gasket and has helped us out in so many ways.
We now have no oil leaks whatsoever and everything is nearly as it should be.
That's not to say that there haven't been any brown trouser moments though.
I came home yesterday and decided to fix a coolant hose that the RAC had repaired some time ago by using a plastic tube and a couple of jubilee clips. It was a complete swine of a job to replace the hose because the original hose clips were put on in such a way that it was nearly impossible to get to the screws.
Anyway, about three hours later the hose was replaced and coolant retopped up so I tried to start it and make sure that there were no air bubbles in the water system. So I stuck the key in the ignition and turn it.....NOTHING! About 160 relays, motors and solenoids seem to arm themselves but there was no actual engine tuning over happening.
Damn it. Fewer than ten days to go and I've broken our chariot! a bit of investigation revealed that a wire had been dislodged from somewhere:
Thanks to members of Jag-lovers.org I soon found out that I'd removed a wire from the starter motor and fixed it in about 5 minutes this evening. Thank God!
So before we leave the following still has to be done:
Make the electric windows work
Find out a way of locking the boot
Replace the radio aerial
And most importantly: fit a working radio!
Where to start?
Well, The Beast now has an MoT, FINALLY.... Special thanks to Ian Button Cars, Ltd for help with this. It needed:
New rear suspension bushes
Rear Brake overhaul
New Windscreen
The beast also had a few other problems that are now ironed out:
Leaking headgasket
Leaking coolant hose
Leaking oil cooler.
The special thanks to Ian Button is for helping us (continually...) and also answering all the stupid questions we had to ask about the car and its engine. He oversaw the replacement of the cylinderhead gasket and has helped us out in so many ways.
We now have no oil leaks whatsoever and everything is nearly as it should be.
That's not to say that there haven't been any brown trouser moments though.
I came home yesterday and decided to fix a coolant hose that the RAC had repaired some time ago by using a plastic tube and a couple of jubilee clips. It was a complete swine of a job to replace the hose because the original hose clips were put on in such a way that it was nearly impossible to get to the screws.
Anyway, about three hours later the hose was replaced and coolant retopped up so I tried to start it and make sure that there were no air bubbles in the water system. So I stuck the key in the ignition and turn it.....NOTHING! About 160 relays, motors and solenoids seem to arm themselves but there was no actual engine tuning over happening.
Damn it. Fewer than ten days to go and I've broken our chariot! a bit of investigation revealed that a wire had been dislodged from somewhere:
Thanks to members of Jag-lovers.org I soon found out that I'd removed a wire from the starter motor and fixed it in about 5 minutes this evening. Thank God!
So before we leave the following still has to be done:
Make the electric windows work
Find out a way of locking the boot
Replace the radio aerial
And most importantly: fit a working radio!
posted by TeamXJ3 at 12:33 PM
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