Steve:
Your tanks should be near empty. Have a large container handy. Remove
the black plastic cover at the bottom of the rear quarter panel. You may
have to cut into it, if it is still in place. Alternatively you can go
through the rather involved process of removing the entire rear quarter
panel; this is not, however, necessary, and will cause a good deal of
frustration if the valence and bumper screws are rusted.
Once the black cover is removed you will see two large bolts, one within
the other. Remove the small one and drain the fuel out (lots of rust and
dirt will come out with it). Now remove the larger bolt/plug. You will
find the pick-up pipe right there, with the nylon mesh thimble filter
fitted to the end. As I wrote before, gently twist this filter off.
Clean it (or replace it with a new one, available from Jaguar, part
number CAC3762 or C29445). Clean as much of the dirt out of the bottom
of the tank as you can (at this point, with the drain open, you can put
some fuel through the top and allow it to flush through). Refit the
clean filter to the end of the pipe. Replace the bolts (new gaskets are
a good idea, part number C26310 for the large nut gasket and C26311 for
the small nut gasket). Put some fuel in to check for leaks. Done. You
can put a piece of flexible black rubber into the opening to cover the
bolts if you like, or you can follow the suggestions in Jagcare III, or
Alex Cannara’s suggestions. Many of these cars have no cover there at
this point in time.
Gregory
Victoria, Canada.
1966 Mark 2 3.8
1992 Series III V12 Vanden Plas
2002 X-Type-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xj@jag-lovers.org [mailto:owner-xj@jag-lovers.org] On Behalf
Of stevied 520
Sent: February 18, 2007 8:45 AM
To: xj@jag-lovers.org
Subject: Re: [xj] Noisy Fuel Pump
In reply to a message from Bruce Hugo sent Sun 18 Feb 2007:
Hi Guys,
Thanx for the continuing advice on the noisy pump subject,
consensus now suggests I look at the thimble filters.
I’ve trawled the archive several times and looked in Haynes book,
but to no avail. Please could someone enlighten me as to how to get
to and remove/clean/replace these darned filters…??
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