Jaguar X-type day

I love these days with a theme, it really lets you get a rhythm going,  and for some reason the Jaguars seem to come in bunches.  Last time it was three XJ8’s on the same day.  Today it’s X-types.  First we had a nice 3.0 5-speed throwing all kinds of “transmission fault, DSC failure, restricted performance” codes.  We have the Jag DLR software and it shows the TPS isn’t talking.  The Jag is a drive by wire and the TPS isn’t available unless you replace the entire TB.

pretty easy to access:

So with X-type #1 done, Marilea calls and says Winston is running rough (she always names her cars, and this one got named after a dead British Prime Minister.)

These Jaguar clamps have a detent to lock the clamp wide open.  When/if the car ever has a backfire through the intake they can lock wide open.  This one on the intake was found in just that condition. Winston was revived after being left parked for a year so I’m guessing he had a little backfire when clearing out the old fuel and crap from sitting.  The only thing in the ECU was a little lean idle which makes sense for a leak here.

Much more secure now.

I also threw a new fuel filter in, been meaning to anyway.

X-types done!

We would have had three Jags today but Stuart couldn’t get his ass out of bed 😉