I'd certainly be interested in finding out the cost of getting one like yours made up. Of course it won't be cheap but there are no cheap options. I took a full set of measurements of mine. Then I found this at Xantia007:i'll check mate. its sitting down the workshop still in the box. mike ordered it in a while back, think he would have ordered the gasket as well but you never know. thanks for the tip.
if you guys do want to see if mike can arrange a batch i still have the plastic one in a box he can use as the reference model again.
usually when they go if the seam splits you get a bit of warning, not a catastrophic failure - more the onset of a gradual decline.
I'd certainly be interested in finding out the cost of getting one like yours made up. Of course it won't be cheap but there are no cheap options. I took a full set of measurements of mine. Then I found this at Xantia007:
they do look like a good basis buttercup.I just raided my wife's cooking cupboard, and found a very good starting point.
I'll go and look in some kitchenware shops to see if I can find something even closer...
These are about 80mm diameter.
It might not be too expensive.....View attachment 129391
Im looking for advice please my 98 XM2 ES9J4 has developed an alternator fault. The alternator warning light comes on and the climate control lights goes out during normal city driving. If I increase engine rpm above 2500 the warning light goes out and the climate control comes on and sometimes both flicker and that is particularly annoying. The multimeter across the battery while running shows no charge from the alternator so Im thinking my alternator has chucked it in. The occasional short period of apparent correct operation no warning lamps throws me a bit and I wonder if there might be a loose connection or regulator issue instead. Any thoughts please? Any advice on what alternator replacement I should look for? I dont know what to buy its hard to see any codes on the existing alternator. I can see it is Valeo so i suppose that it has replaced the original Mitsubishi alternator. My XM2 has done about 280K now.
I just raided my wife's cooking cupboard
Put me down for three (3) please. I have two Xantia V6s with ES9J4 and a spare ES9J4 from a series 1 (D8) 406 for a project.Thanks WP.... I'll look for something slightly under size rather than over.
Given that the original plastic would have had significantly thicker wall than the SS cups, so a slightly smaller od could well give correct id.
You stated that the 2 plastic halves of the original were identical.... but the drawing shows the inlet and outlet tubes to be different sizes.... 18 and 22mm.
I guess you were referring to the shape of the shells.
I think it's going to be pretty straightforward......
How many should I plan to make?