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> 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
>
You're right. Now that I think about it, when I was removing the front
suspension the rubber-in-steelplate sandwiches that Jag uses for
isolators at the front end fell apart (same stupid vulcanizing process
that Healey used for exhaust brackets?) when I removed them. That was
the source of a mysterious"clunk" that I had been unable to find- mounted
you couldn't tell they were shot.
I feel better already.
Mike Tobin
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