Hi, new to the club. I,m fitting new wheel bearings to my 97 xk this weekend and need to be sure i have the correct one. Mainly due to the fact that i,ll be useing my firms workshop, and if the cars still in bits on monday morning due to discovering the replacement is the wrong one 2 mins after the parts shop has closed ,I,ll be needing employment.
Bearing No Timken JRM4249.
Thanks Bob
Any advice on the job would be most greatfully accepted
correct front wheel bearing?
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Hi Bob ,
Just had mine done at the main agents , in addition to the bearings you will need 2 circlips either side , if there are two types of bearings why not get both types and take back the ones you don't use
. You might also need a hand with the job , the nut is done up to 350nm if my memory serves me right and can be a swine to undo 
, thats why I didn't do the job myself
Hope all goes well ,
Nik
Just had mine done at the main agents , in addition to the bearings you will need 2 circlips either side , if there are two types of bearings why not get both types and take back the ones you don't use
. You might also need a hand with the job , the nut is done up to 350nm if my memory serves me right and can be a swine to undo , thats why I didn't do the job myself Hope all goes well ,
Nik
Antigua Blue XK8 Coupe.....1998.75 MY.....Reg No ..N1XKO
Hi Nik, Thanks for the reply.
Couldn,t have both types of bearing due to supplier being "out of stock" and how do i regret it!!
Bearing was right for year but wrong for later type vertical link fitted at some stage! So i needed the 80mm bearing, and as is always the case found out 10mins after shops closed.
May be a lesson for anyone in JEC attempting this job in future to check vertical link part number before ripping the suspension to bits, I,ll post part numbers at a later stage when I,ve completed the job, they are easily visible on the link.
As for the super tight rotor nut, I prepared by 3 hours in the gym,lots of steroids and enlisting the help of the local house brick spitting champion, who,by the way, had just taken the title of his mother! and gathered together enough scaffold poles to enable a small child to lever the Great Pyramid into the Nile, because I had also heard tales and seen photos of the task of removing it. As it turned out, the nut could have been undone with just a rolled up copy of the Guardian and maybe a paint scraper! WHAT a disapointment ! Not to mention the fortune i,d wasted up the gym and on steriods .
Yours, Bob
Couldn,t have both types of bearing due to supplier being "out of stock" and how do i regret it!!
Bearing was right for year but wrong for later type vertical link fitted at some stage! So i needed the 80mm bearing, and as is always the case found out 10mins after shops closed.
May be a lesson for anyone in JEC attempting this job in future to check vertical link part number before ripping the suspension to bits, I,ll post part numbers at a later stage when I,ve completed the job, they are easily visible on the link.
As for the super tight rotor nut, I prepared by 3 hours in the gym,lots of steroids and enlisting the help of the local house brick spitting champion, who,by the way, had just taken the title of his mother! and gathered together enough scaffold poles to enable a small child to lever the Great Pyramid into the Nile, because I had also heard tales and seen photos of the task of removing it. As it turned out, the nut could have been undone with just a rolled up copy of the Guardian and maybe a paint scraper! WHAT a disapointment ! Not to mention the fortune i,d wasted up the gym and on steriods .
Yours, Bob
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Hi mike, Had the same problem on the nearside only in reverse!. It was the 75mm bearing fitted, so having bought a pair of the 80mm, I was in the mire again! So once again, I had to carry the car out from the workshop to the carpark so as not to halt my firms production the following day.Well!, by this time I was getting used to it!. Anyway , I,ve changed top and bottom balljoints ,upper and lower wishbone bushes and damper bottom bushes(Got stung with those,just under half the price of a new damper! How come!?).Made all the tooling to do the jobs, apart from the rotor nut removal tool of course. The lower wishbone bush removal tool wasn,t very successfull so I removed the rubber from the bush with a modified starret hole saw and used the old "dabs of weld " trick on the outer caseing to shrink it ,then it pressed out no problem.
First time i,ve done any serious work on a Jaguar, i,ve had the new S type for a couple of years, but only needed to do basic serviceing on that.Found the XK well engineered, i.e things do fit correctly. I used to do work on my brothers 911, put me off um for life.
Going to have the geometry checked now, can,t make the tooling for that.
So , If any members in the West Midlands area are thinking of taking the job on themselves, time permitting ,i,m available for assistance.
Yours Bob
First time i,ve done any serious work on a Jaguar, i,ve had the new S type for a couple of years, but only needed to do basic serviceing on that.Found the XK well engineered, i.e things do fit correctly. I used to do work on my brothers 911, put me off um for life.
Going to have the geometry checked now, can,t make the tooling for that.
So , If any members in the West Midlands area are thinking of taking the job on themselves, time permitting ,i,m available for assistance.
Yours Bob
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Have you made your fortune yet hiring out all those special tools to fellow members? It does seem to me that there will soon be enough ageing XK8s for someone to make a steady bob or two by providing exchange suspension items of the bolt off/on variety complete with new bushes/bearings as appropriate. Mike.
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