Philjay50

OK, things are now serious, I took the cam covers off to discover that two of the cam buckets have failed on the inlet cam and knackered it, C&B cam down the drain. Today I took the sump off to discover that cylinders two and three have experience shell movement, one and four seem OK although well worn. I pulled the centre mains cap and that looked OK. The journals looked fairly good and I guess I may be able to dress them, but do you think I will get away with new shells? How this car got to and back from France is beyond me, no horrid noises or indication of low oil pressure, amazing. Your thoughts please.

Thanks for your comments and benefit of your experience, I am off to Europe for a while but plan to do this on my return as I now intend to hang on to it for a while longer. I have changed the cams for a pair of C&B fast road, but the standard ones were in good nick. As I have the injectors I figure I may as well use them. I wish I had done the job before my trip, but I said that last year. í ½í¸¬

Thanks, I read that some time back and I have just gone thru it again, good read. I am hoping that just a shell change will suffice as well as rings. I also have an overhauled set of injectors I would like to install. Some interesting comments on the forum, I have owned several TS version cars and although I think I prefer it I like the jts, in town and slow traffic it is far more user friendly. Oh, by the way, did you remove the inlet manifold after you had done the job, was it difficult, it's the one thing that's holding me up to be honest. Again thanks.

I decided ages ago to rebuild my JTS engine but never got around to it, it goes well and I have no issues except it uses oil. I have given a lot of thought to replacing the car but it would have to be a diesel. I have looked at GT's but I feel its too close to the 156 for me to feel like its a real change so I have been looking at 159's but troubles with the M32 gearboxes and possible rust have put me off despite it being the best looking saloon car on the road. Because my annual mileage is not very high I have now decided again to rebuild the JTS motor. So my simple question is, I have read that the oil control on the JTS is a single ring and a 3 ring type should be fitted, is the bottom groove wide enough to take the 3 ring option? Thanks

I believe the colour you require is: Toyota Lucerne silver T931-401 To the best of my knowledge Alfa do not publish a code but I have used this several times and I cannot see a difference on original.

Thanks for the reply, the problem is its doing up to the time of year that I take the Alfa across the water for a bit of chasing around, Lemans, Spa, etc., so my paranoia is kicking in. The car generally runs very well but recently I had to use supermarket fuel, something I usually do not do, it started to run a little off so I thought it was due for its annual dose of injector cleaner, so I shoved a bottle of Tectron in, things got a little worse, so I cleaned the throttle body. It seemed a little better but then got worse and started to stall and tick over erratically. Now as it happens I have an overhauled and cleaned set of injectors, so I thought I may as well stick them in, hence my question. Since then I have taken out the plugs and cleaned them, cleaned all the connectors I could see and gave the MAF a bit of a clean (I do have a useable spare). Anyway, it seems to be a little happier with it self but I still fancy replacing the injectors at some point.

Just found this, 5131, not too bad as I am watching TV at the same timeí ½í¸ƒ

Hi, has anybody done an injector change on a JTS engine, if so, is there a guide somewhere please.