Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Ignition coil

 NGK U1086 (48812) HEI Ignition Coil  arrived,

it has a brass terminal, 2 pin oval connector




Monday, August 27, 2018

leaf spring and shocks

decided to add secondary leaf spring for my rear to decrease axle wrap,


my friend's gift :D -  4's of EFS shock absorber,

actually they are for TLC80/105 and Patrol Y60



rear shocks fit nice using BPE at top

front bottom end is too wide to fit in BPE, needs little touching




  



done :D 

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

camshaft position sensor

a XJ died while driving in traffic. Tried to start, cranking cranking, no start at all. Checked gas and it is there at port on fuel rail. Got a code 12 54 (camshaft sensor) 55. Called my son and tow to home. Then removed distributor cap and rotor then I found little metal with magnet is loose and saying hello and and waving at me from behind of pulse ring  :(



Pulse ring removed and found a permanent magnet of Distributor pickup coil (part# 53009077) was loose

magnet

removed pin at bottom end gear, distributor disassembled, it is a part with many funny name

magnet should be there vertically,  the black plastic stripes were also broken, originally they should be at the both sides of magnet, here it is used temporarily for photo, magnet wants to jump to hall sensor at opposite side

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got a two part epoxy and used some copper wire to mount magnet to plastic

wait till epoxy harden enough and more epoxy there, where it needed


 Looks good to go

Assembled and ready to install in engine.



Distributor installed, PCM reset, and time to start engine. Wooohoo it works. Engine turned off and left for 24 hours to cure epoxy fully

Anyway, ordered new one, repaired one may not last long.