EV-XJS

A bit of a gap

(02/24/2023)

It’s been a busy month and I haven’t had a moment to work on the car until now.

I DID manage to get a second wheel off! Two down, two to go!

Behind each wheel is a small compartment. I found there are five screws in the wheel well area that can get in there. The passenger side I knew had wires in, as with the driver. I did find yet another mouse next in the passenger side.

And on the driver side? I found a random tank! Again Jaguar with the “shoving something wherever” motto. I’m pretty certain this is a coolant overflow tank.

One last cooler.

(02/04/2023)

Today I removed the engine oil cooler. You can see things are getting pretty bare under the hood!

Dissimilar metal welding

(02/03/2023)

When aluminum is bolted up to steel for 15+ years, it essentially welds together. Imagine if there was salt and water on top of this (thankfully this car has never seen Michigan salt)

It took many soakings of penetrating oil and hammer swinging to get this wheel off. Fun part is, all four are like this. One down, three to go…

So many hoses…

(01/28/2023)

Today I removed so many hoses. Coolant lines, oil lines, transmission lines. So many hoses. The engine bay is starting to look bigger.

The disconnection

(01/21/2023)

Once part of the exhaust was out of the way, I focused on removing the starter and the torque converter bolts.

I’m sure with a different tool I could get the TC bolts from the inspection shield on the bottom, but with what I had, I ended up going through the starter well.

All aluminum engine, all iron everything else…

(01/15/2023)

Today I tackled getting more of the driver exhaust out along with the driver side manifolds.

One reason why they burn

(01/14/2023)

Look up “Jaguar XJS fire on YouTube” – you will find more than one result.

This picture is the main positive battery cable as it traverses from trunk, where the battery is housed, to the engine bay. Notice it pinched under a heat shield.

Yes, it is clamped and there is foam in there. Still, seems poor.

Removed more of the 4,000 shields today and revealed more of the driveline.

And I started removing part of the intake on the engine.

Exhaust(ed)

(01/08/2023)

I randomly decided to tackle removing the exhaust. Or at least the driver side.

I found this bolt already missing. Hopefully that’s not important.

Back in the cabin, I pulled off this transmission cover to reveal…wait for it….MORE FOAM.

This is starting to look really good.

Let’s make some space

(01/07/2023)

I decided it was time to get the hood off and get serious about the engine tear down. I want to tear down as much of the engine as I could before I have to pull it. This saves on weight, frustration and most importantly me pulling out hair from my already-balding head.