XJ40

When I was cleaning up my engine and especially the V-valley I achieved very good results using WD40 Degreaser spray and my Dremel with a steelbrush-head.

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I haven't done my inlet manifolds, yet, they are not that dirty, but I'll try out soon.

Well, I just granted me this little machine for christmas and today I was keen on checking it out ;) . With the support of various videos from youtube and co it is set up pretty easily, the manual is rather in need of improvement. But the usage actually opens up some questions: 1. the mount for the ...

Nope, did not fit it myself. We were doing the rear windscreen frame at the same time that allowed to move the headliner through the rear windscreen opening. But all of the roof panels, a/b/c-pillar-panels, sun-vizor and stuff had to come out and needed new clips.

My supplier (headliner world) offered me three colors: grey, oatmeal (=beige) and cashmere. Cashmere is rather a light brown and I am not 100% sure if it is a genuine XJ40 color or rather a X300 color, but I am almost sure I saw it on some late fourties. I finally went for oatmeal because I thought ...

Hello Nico, I have a similar phenomenon on mine, when the passenger front door (=driver door on RHD) is openend, the interior light is not coming on, on all other doors it works fine. At the beginning it at least started flickering for a while and sometimes decided to stay on, sometimes to stay out ...

Well, I felt a bit like cleaning it up, now it looks much better imho ;) . Engine cleaned With the camshaft covers off, I naturally wanted the check the valve clearances, too. I could measure it on 12 of the 24 valves without turning the camshaft and they were all well withing spec. Anyway, to compl...

I had a closer look at them and I think it's better to change them, they are burnt and rusty. The new ones are not original JCP, they look like they are kind of coated but I guess that's alright. But before fitting anything new, I got to clean that valley, that squirrel that used to reside there has...

Great description on your website, Leo, and the small embedded vids make it even more comprehensive! If I got you right, you first cleaned the injectors and afterwards refurbed them with new o-rings, pintle caps and filter? That little machine you present looks like it is perfectly designed to do th...

From my own experience I can tell that operating the XJ81 at 153mph does not necessarily break the radiator! But it might cause your door mirrors jitter :mrgreen: . I once thought I had a similarly located leak on mine but it was not green fluid but rather clear. I first thought it was coming from t...

Hi Rob, that's a good hint, my AAV is not causing any issues at the moment, but since it is very likely to fail one day and only rarely available, it might indeed make sense to put one on the shelf, even though the price seems to have increased already (~202 pounds) :o . Since I expect part prices t...