Very useful video, thank you. I wish I had been able to see it before I changed my bushes and caused myself alignment problems 😢. Lesson learned for next time
Welcome back, William. The best way to determine the overall caster combo between the left and right side is to find a crowned road that you can drive in the same direction on both lanes of. See if it drifts naturally to one side or the other. Normally in North America we drive on two lane roads that are crowned so they fall off to the right. To counteract this your caster should be a bit greater on the right side. My 'XK8 Bible' that may be Googled goes into detail on this.
Hi Gary, thank you! I've been more busy driving lately, rather than repairing/working on the car :) I completely missed reading the bible in advance. Did so now and I understand your explanation. Interestingly, I find myself a lot of time on the highway, in the left-most lane (3+ lane highways here in the GTA). Here in Canada this lane is crowned to the left and the car tends to gradually drift to the left. From what I understand, if I want to counteract this, I would need my left caster angle to be greater than the right (sort of the opposite of what Jaguar recommends for North America). I'll see what the caster readings are now once I get my fresh alignment check. After that I may have to fine-tune :)
You would not believe it but I have just done my drivers side . I believe the bushes where original ones as the whole inside of the right side one was full of rust. I also change the ball joint while I was at it. You made it look so easy than my one. It was a bugger to get out. 😤😤😤. I toque mine at 110 pounds as suggested on an other video.
Hi Steven, congrats on the new bushings & balljoint! Mine did have rust as well, I filmed the amount at 15:40 in the video. Not excessive, but frankly I did not expect to have any in there... The torque specs I took directly from the factory service manual, and I included a screenshot from the manual itself as well. 110 is quite a bit higher than recommended, but frankly I don't see what harm a higher torque setting could cause. I am sure you'll be doing the passenger side soon as well. Best of luck, it is well worth the effort!
Hi, Quick one hopefully, but I dont suppose you know the thickness of the washers for the powerflex bushes? Mine are rusted out and giving me different thicknesses on each.
Oh, interesting! I did not suspect that those could rust to that extent, but good to know that this is an issue. How long have you had yours on the vehicle? I will take a wheel off and measure a washer in place, as it is installed along the fulcrum bolt. Can send you pictures. Please email me at "x100.jaguar.xk8 at gmail.com" By the way, the thickness of the outer washers does not matter, but the thickness of the inner ones has to be exact (the ones closer to the subframe).
I measured the thickness of the Powerflex washers - they are exactly 2mm (two millimetres) thick. I took a picture with the measuring tape, feel free to email me here at the channel contact email and I can forward you the pic. Cheers!
@@2001JaguarXK8 Hi, Apologies I hadn't realised you replied! I don't have the washers anymore as I threw them away, recently found out Powerflex will send out entirely new parts if asked! The new washers received match your measurement I don't believe you will see any issues with rusting washers, UK climate and all that! They were on the car before myself or the owner before me had it, so 12 years+ at least.
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Very useful video, thank you. I wish I had been able to see it before I changed my bushes and caused myself alignment problems 😢. Lesson learned for next time
Glad to hear the video was helpful, thank you for your coment. I hope you sorted out the alignment mishap with your car. Cheers!
Welcome back, William. The best way to determine the overall caster combo between the left and right side is to find a crowned road that you can drive in the same direction on both lanes of. See if it drifts naturally to one side or the other. Normally in North America we drive on two lane roads that are crowned so they fall off to the right. To counteract this your caster should be a bit greater on the right side. My 'XK8 Bible' that may be Googled goes into detail on this.
Hi Gary, thank you! I've been more busy driving lately, rather than repairing/working on the car :)
I completely missed reading the bible in advance. Did so now and I understand your explanation. Interestingly, I find myself a lot of time on the highway, in the left-most lane (3+ lane highways here in the GTA). Here in Canada this lane is crowned to the left and the car tends to gradually drift to the left. From what I understand, if I want to counteract this, I would need my left caster angle to be greater than the right (sort of the opposite of what Jaguar recommends for North America). I'll see what the caster readings are now once I get my fresh alignment check. After that I may have to fine-tune :)
You would not believe it but I have just done my drivers side . I believe the bushes where original ones as the whole inside of the right side one was full of rust. I also change the ball joint while I was at it. You made it look so easy than my one. It was a bugger to get out. 😤😤😤. I toque mine at 110 pounds as suggested on an other video.
Hi Steven, congrats on the new bushings & balljoint! Mine did have rust as well, I filmed the amount at 15:40 in the video. Not excessive, but frankly I did not expect to have any in there... The torque specs I took directly from the factory service manual, and I included a screenshot from the manual itself as well. 110 is quite a bit higher than recommended, but frankly I don't see what harm a higher torque setting could cause. I am sure you'll be doing the passenger side soon as well. Best of luck, it is well worth the effort!
Hi,
Quick one hopefully, but I dont suppose you know the thickness of the washers for the powerflex bushes? Mine are rusted out and giving me different thicknesses on each.
Oh, interesting! I did not suspect that those could rust to that extent, but good to know that this is an issue. How long have you had yours on the vehicle?
I will take a wheel off and measure a washer in place, as it is installed along the fulcrum bolt. Can send you pictures. Please email me at "x100.jaguar.xk8 at gmail.com"
By the way, the thickness of the outer washers does not matter, but the thickness of the inner ones has to be exact (the ones closer to the subframe).
I measured the thickness of the Powerflex washers - they are exactly 2mm (two millimetres) thick. I took a picture with the measuring tape, feel free to email me here at the channel contact email and I can forward you the pic. Cheers!
@@2001JaguarXK8 Hi, Apologies I hadn't realised you replied! I don't have the washers anymore as I threw them away, recently found out Powerflex will send out entirely new parts if asked! The new washers received match your measurement
I don't believe you will see any issues with rusting washers, UK climate and all that!
They were on the car before myself or the owner before me had it, so 12 years+ at least.