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[Gaffers]

Did the shocks springs, bushes, tie rod end, discs and pads......on one corner of the jag.  F€ck me it's a job and a half! 

[pscocoa]

Did the shocks springs, bushes, tie rod end, discs and pads......on one corner of the jag.  F€ck me it's a job and a half! 

That is a huge amount of work - great stuff

[aaronjb]

Did the shocks springs, bushes, tie rod end, discs and pads......on one corner of the jag.  F€ck me it's a job and a half! 

Which corner?

Then again, none of them were easy to dismantle on the XJ40 - I know yours is a bit newer but I think still the same general layout?

[Gaffers]

Offside front.  I think the v sub frame bush might be gone too but we'll see.

[Lazydocker]

With Gixer's input (he did most of it ):

Wishbones (with Poly) shocks and springs, rear shocks and springs, poly donuts, swap front and rear bumpers and grill.

[biggriffin]

Where did you find those...   rocking horse poo springs to mind

got a rear set of those in the garage.

[biggriffin]

Chaved it.

the floor msts are rarer than the trims. Last time i tried to get mats,only 2 sets in the country and no more being made.

[amba]

Wrestled the old VX back box off the 3.2 which had albut welded itself to the mid pipes.Good old angle grinder to the rescue.

Then spent the next 4 hours fitting my original Remus back box only to discover when dropped down off jacks and put wheels back on to admire my handy work oval tail pipes arent level.

Another job for another day now

[chrisgixer]

Chaved it.

the floor msts are rarer than the trims. Last time i tried to get mats,only 2 sets in the country and no more being made.

shame mines got a wacking great hole in it

[Shackeng]

With Gixer's input (he did most of it ):

Wishbones (with Poly) shocks and springs, rear shocks and springs, poly donuts, swap front and rear bumpers and grill.

Interesting, how does it look now?

[05omegav6]

Chavvy

[MR MISTER]

With Gixer's input (he did most of it ):

Wishbones (with Poly) shocks and springs, rear shocks and springs, poly donuts, swap front and rear bumpers and grill.

Interesting, how does it look now?

He doesn't known whether he's coming or going.

[Andy H]

With Gixer's input (he did most of it ):

Wishbones (with Poly) shocks and springs, rear shocks and springs, poly donuts, swap front and rear bumpers and grill.

Interesting, how does it look now?

He doesn't known whether he's coming or going.

Is it an age thing?

[Lazydocker]

Chavvy

Not there yet

[Nick W]

Finally flushed the heater matrix as I was fed up with the interior misting.

I've been meaning to do this for a while, and had already prepared a couple of adapters to plug the garden hose directly into the heater hoses. These were to avoid having to fiddle about with the bulkhead connectors.

I turned down a couple of lengths of aluminium bar to 21mm(to fit inside the hose), screwcut a male 1/2"BSP thread on the other end, and drilled a 12mm hole through the middle. These meant I could use standard Hozelock connectors to attach the garden-hose supply and a drain hose. A bung in the open end of the lower hose completed the set.

A few minutes of swapping the supply and drain hose soon flushed the matrix so that the water was running clear. I then added a bottle of dishwasher cleaner and left it to soak for about 15minutes. Flushed it through again, and reassembled everything.

Now the heater works!