(01/06/2023)
If you look closely underneath on the passenger side, the SECOND engine mount is visible!
Is there a reason Jaguar left the engine pull hooks attached to the V12?
I had to remove more coolant. This is one of the hoses I pulled.
Oh look, more relays random electrical crap mounted somewhere random.
Jag didn’t want that oxygen sensor to get unplugged I guess. Not like a light would appear if the sensor went bad (looking at you, 30k mile timer)
Another in-line fuse with a fancy mount.
(01/03/2023)
I’m starting to move my attention to the underside of the car a little. All of this is prep work to get the engine out as easily as possible.
Here we have the driveshaft going into the rear diff. The other end disappears into one of 4,000 shields.
This will be fun to take apart later.
Oh look a bunch more grounds. Wait. No. Those are hots.
And a similar grouping on the otherside of the cabin
(12/16/2022)
I spent today cutting and gutting.
Lucas – we can’t make our voltage regulators work properly, but we CAN alert you when the voltage goes too high!
I uncovered this on the driver side kick panel:
This is the brake light switch. It looks like something out of the 1950s.
As I began to remove the harnesses tucked up inside that cavern in the kick panel:
Poured in epoxy. Zero markings. Inline fuse.
Here we have power resistors, covered in tape, behind the instrument cluster.
More grounds. Everywhere you look there are grounds.
Insulation all comes out in chunks. This will all be replaced with Dynamat
I’ve never seen a vehicle that had a complete electrical schematic included in the owner’s manual…
Every connector I found, I put in this bucket:
(12/12/2022)
I’m just going to let these pictures speak for themselves.
(11/23/2022)
About 15 years ago when the fuel leak was discovered I had fully intended to just replace the leaky fuel tank with one of those racing fuel cell type tanks. I even purchased the tank, a pump, filters – the whole deal. For some reason gasoline, or maybe the off chance of a fire in my trunk, scared me and I never finished it.
I had removed the back seat from the car to ensure no fuel was actually in the cabin, but then after that I just kinda parked the car. On 11/23/2022 I resumed the teardown of the car, this time with new intentions.
Here’s the trunk. The car is in perfect shape (well, more on that later) and I just need to remove all the wiring and plumbing mess that was factory installed.
See all these hoses with bolts plugging them? At one time they all went to the fuel tank, or the external sump tank, or the external fuel pump. Lots of external things on these cars that other vehicles in 1986 would have had mounted internally.
This full wave rectifier looks like an afterthought, but I have to believe this is probably factory? This is just many of electrical gems to be found…
What’s with all of the inline fuses and taps? Why is this wiring harness such a mess?
And then I came across this discovery. See this sticker? That’s a factory Jaguar replacement part. Great, right? Factory parts are typically superior to aftermarket, right? Yup, that’s certainly true. However, this is a rear quarter panel. This means the car was wrecked at one point in it’s life. The repair looks to be done quite well and was possibly done at an authorized factory repair shop. I haven’t uncovered the mystery of how bad the wreck was, but my dad and I believe that it sideswiped something. The driver rear quarter was replaced, there’s evidence that a completely new door was fitted and evidence of body filler in the front driver side fender.
EV-XJS 