The Reverend Bluejeans wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 10:49 pm Joyfully, it's equipped with the innovative 4-speed AP automatic.

FTFY.

My bias stems from the family transport being a 1979 12-seater minibus - FLO 440T.

It was quick* work unbolting seats for tip/load lugging duty. Generally the last row was left out and Renault hadn't even thought of putting a bit of carpet and seats in a van.

Not keen on these.

Prefer the earlier Mk2 rather than all the thick plastic stuff on these facelifts.

https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1572375709.htm/ https://img0.leboncoin.fr/ad-large/b51553f7d1a043a6944fec9b45c4bc6d54640714.jpg Seller comes across like a bit of a dickhead, though. Not really. He comes across to me as rather accommodating for a Frenchman as he'll let you interrupt his lunch with...

Round 2. This was a bit harder. First moar fire. IMG_20190519_135908_1a.jpg Then remove all the flaky rust. Look at the state of that now, what hope have I got? IMG_20190519_135953_0a.jpg As the diameter is a bit smaller than the last due to corrosion, I'm having a bit of bother getting the socket t...

the same couldn't be said of the flange nuts, so out with the hacksaw... IMG_20190510_135142_6a.jpg IMG_20190510_135757_6a.jpg Three nuts sawn off and it could be separated. However now I had three broken studs to deal with. Out with the hacksaw again... IMG_20190510_140643_8a.jpg No luck. Drill tim...

A Jizz catch-up. Before I went over on Jaaag collection shenanigans, Mrs H noted that the Jizz had got noisier and the exhaust might need looking at. Alert readers may remember that the exhaust broke at the backbox flange back on 16th March 2018, at that time I welded the flange back on as a tempora...

MRustbucket wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 7:05 pmThe 3.2 has a ZF4HP22 transmission which does have a changeable a filter.

Cheers for all the details. My knowledge is a bit stuck in the past (BW35s, GM400s and such)

Nevermind, Google found it. Haynes: http://www.jaguardriver.nu/manualer/XJ40/XJ6_Service_Manual.pdf Official Workshop: http://www.jaguarclub.sk/service/x300.pdf If they don't work, I have the original PDFs in the downloads folder on my phone and I can upload them to somewhere. Already have these do...

SiC wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 5:10 pm About 40 miles round trip or so if you are wondering.

...............................................................................110 miles!