From: (Mike Tobin)
>For simple things made hard though Jag always takes the cake. For my
>420 the instructions for removing the front timing cover read.
> 1. Remove cylinder head,
> 1.1.....n
> 2. Remove sump (but first...)
> 2.1 Remove front suspension
> 2.1.....n
> 3. Remove cover (a 2min job)
> 4. The always enlighting "replacement is a reversal of the above
> proceedure".
>
>When I finished with 2. I discovered why the cams weren't turning (which
>is why I wanted the cover off in the first place): the
>chain tensioner was lying in the sump.
But this make perfectly good engineering sense. Obviously you had to remove
the sump to fix the problem. Those Jag designers knew what they were doing.
Look at all the time you were saved trying to figure out where the hell the
tensioner had got to.
Roland
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