Hi,
I want to put a fuel pump cut off on my 96 xj6 but I can't find the wires to my pump. In my 95 xjs the wires are behind the passenger kick panel by the inertia switch (is that the correct name?).
As always, thanks for your help.
Jomo

 

What a great idea. I'll keep tabs on this post. Sorry I have nothing to add..

 

Not a problem! I hope this thread will help you, me and many others.

 

Aren't the relays in the engine compartment up by the LH headlight? You could insert a switch near the relays.

 

Al,
Yes, you are correct about that (I actually forgot about that). The thing is that I wastold (by Doug D??) NOT to use the wires by the relay for my 95 XJS but I was not told why and to be honest you never go against Doug D. It would also be easier for me if the wires were up front.

Normally I question why (to learn) but this time I did not. There was this Bozo who asked if he should buy a car and when EVERYONE told him not to he argued with them. I was not going to start round two of this fight.

If anyone can give me another location up front that would be great. If someone can tell me why the wires by the relay was not a good idea to use on my XJS that would also be great.

Jomo

 

Well, I can't say why it isn't recommended to use the wires in one location versus another, but I can say I am not a fan of cutting into factory harnesses whenever possible. I learned the hard way many times in my youth the follie of cutting factory wires and then not being able to reverse the modification back to OEM and/or then having intermittent electrical faults due to my amateur termination skills

That being said, one easy way to add a switch at any relay location would be to build or buy a plug that plugs into the relay socket, then build a small harness with a switch, then terminate that harness with another relay socket. This way your switch would sit between the OEM socket and relay without any modification to the factory harness. You could also then extend your switch to any location in the car as desired. Remember all you have to do is switch the trigger current, not the current that powers the pump.

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OK, I found the switch. If my memory is correct it looks a little different from my xjs and it is further back in the rhs kick panel. It is mounted vertically in the back right of the picture.

 

Ah sorry, didn't know you were asking where the inertia switch was.

BTW, your info says you are in NY, but that looks like a RH drive car. On a LH drive X300 the intertia switch is similarly to the right of the accelerator pedal, but of course aside the transmission tunnel and not kick panel and ECU.

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Yeah, I am in NY. I searched online to find a picture of that switch which happened to be from a rh drive car. I knew that someone would pick up on that picture. The thing is that I did find it behind the rhs kick panel just like on my 95XJS and both of my cars are lh drive.