What did you do to your XJ today? 1M Views

[anthonygubbin]

Originally Posted by optical

installed stereo

now have to sort missfire... changed plugs, no go... might swap some injectors next to see if the miss moves cylinders

Not a lead is it Optical? I had a cracked lead a few months back and only way I found out was when I just decided to buy new ones as they were getting on. The other issue I had once was a dizzy cap. Mech pointed it out by showing me the clicking with a stethoscope.

Regards A

[optical]

Nah she's an 01 with coil packs :-|

[XJeepers]

Installed new coils and the heep sit nicely at 4" tall. Set the UCAs to 15" and the LCAs to 16.3" as per several charts on the internet. Thinking they are not sitting right and while diff needs to be shifted forward about an inch. What do you guys reckon?

Sorry about the shitty picture.

[junglejuice]

By the second pic I see two things, a- it looks to be too far back so longer arms would seem to be the go and b- you have bugger all uptravel...

[XJeepers]

Originally Posted by junglejuice

By the second pic I see two things, a- it looks to be too far back so longer arms would seem to be the go and b- you have bugger all uptravel...

Yep - Thats what I thinking about the arms being to short. They are adjusted as per several tables on the net suggest, so I guess you can't trust every thing on the inter web even when it is repeated hundreds of times….

I am aware of the bump stops, they are like that (temporarily) for a reason, hence I asked about the CA lengths, and not bump stopping/up travel etc

[junglejuice]

Originally Posted by XJeepers

Yep - Thats what I thinking about the arms being to short. They are adjusted as per several tables on the net suggest, so I guess you can't trust every thing on the inter web even when it is repeated hundreds of times….

I am aware of the bump stops, they are like that (temporarily) for a reason, hence I asked about the CA lengths, and not bump stopping/up travel etc

I just had a look at mine, due to some ride experiments I have stock arms in at the moment, with 1/2" lift over sport and no shims in the lower arms mine sits at a guess maybe 1/2" behind centre of the bump stops when referenced to the bump stop pads on the diff, if I were to fit the maximum shim thickness it would almost line up centre to centre.
The other thing that will happen with arms that short is the coils will rub a lot on the bump stop cup when on droop....

[XJeepers]

Originally Posted by junglejuice

I just had a look at mine, due to some ride experiments I have stock arms in at the moment, with 1/2" lift over sport and no shims in the lower arms mine sits at a guess maybe 1/2" behind centre of the bump stops when referenced to the bump stop pads on the diff, if I were to fit the maximum shim thickness it would almost line up centre to centre.
The other thing that will happen with arms that short is the coils will rub a lot on the bump stop cup when on droop....

The spring wasn't quit hitting the cup, but it was close and deforming the bump stop. I was going to wind them out an inch tomorrow night, but just thought I would check in case it was meant to be like that for a reason as most the web sites all seem to quote that same table for CA lengths. Thanks for your input JJ.