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Pulled the car to bits today to expose all the hydro lines for the roof operation.
The front clamp has the dreaded honey in the cylinder and lines and is taking a fair time to blow through with and air line....I will win hopefully.
Regards
Wayne
Well I finished flushing the old liquid out of the hydro lines and cylinders. Interestingly the liquid in the roof lift rams wasn't too bad but the lines up to the roof catch cylinder were completely gummed up.
All new fluid in and car put back together.
Roof is working perfectly now so just need to wait for some sun now.
Regards
Wayne
Been dealing with a P1646 for a bit now. I read it to be passenger side upstream sensor heating circuit. Checked the electrical manual. Swapped the heater relays in the hope the fault code would move to the driver side. No such luck. Ended up buying a _wideband_ Denso sensor 234-9029 on eBay. Not super cheap, so I changed only one. Figured there was some "life" left on the other one.
Finally got around to swapping it out this week end. Removed the intake elbow for more room. First checked the sensor plug to make sure it was the same. Check. Removed the sensor (with the help of a cheap HF crows foot O2 sensor socket) with a 3/8" breaker bar and a extension pipe. Check. Put the new sensor in, with the supplied copper grease applied to the treads. Snaked the wire back in, plugged in the harness and re-attached the plug on its post. Check. Put the intake elbow back in, making sure it was sitting low, and not touching the hood lining.
Then moved on to the battery and did a "hard reset" to make sure the computer would forget whatever baseline data off of the old faulty sensor and start anew. Then I reset the OBD fault codes and did a test drive a bit later. Car is now with a P1000, with some monitors pending, as expected.
Altogether, a quick and easy job as I was lucky enough not to have to fight the sensor off the manifold.
PS: Car now reads code P1111, all monitors completed. Happy car makes for a happy owner.
Last edited by fmertz; Dec 6, 2016 at 10:12 AM.
Reason: P1111
After a bit of reading, I figured my Interstate MPT battery is considered "low maintenance", not "maintenance free". Therefore, the water level has to be checked once in a while. Looking at the top, it looks nice, clean and one-piece, but in reality there is a plastic cover that pop off. That cover has all the cell caps built in, to it is on there TIGHT. Took a bit of force with a screwdriver to pry it off.
Lo and behold, the cells were low, and the very top of what appears to be the actual lead elements were visible, clearly peeking out of the solution. I had bought some distilled water a while back, so I refilled each cell to the base of the fill hole. It is visually obvious when the water reaches the proper level as the water "wets" the edge.
After putting everything back together, and doing a test drive, the battery seems to have picked up a fraction of a Volt. My BT OBDII adapter can be reached with "BlueTerm", and the "ATRV" commands can be issued to read the port voltage. Used to be 12.0V now reads 12.4V. It has not been terribly cold, so I am not holding my breath on this 4 year old battery, but I figured this can only help. And I learned how to work this battery, too.
Quick and easy job this week end. As the seat backs on my car seemed a bit wobbly, I spent some time replacing the plastic inserts on the pegs on the seat base. Each peg acts as a catch for the seat back reclining function. The metal peg is supposed to be covered by a plastic insert to be a good fit for the metal hook on the seat back. Over time, these inserts wear out, fall off, and the metal hooks contact the base metal, and make the whole seat back loose and wobbly.
Bought similar chair leg plugs. Removed the pegs off both seats (4 pegs total), put the trimmed plastic plugs on, on top of a couple layers of plumbers Teflon tape. Then put the pegs back.
This is a great use of time, the seat now snaps firmly on its pegs, and is solid with the base. This is easily 100 point on the Jaguarness restoration scale. Highly recommended.
replaced the weather worn "R" side emblem/badges with new metal ones from Mina Gallery.
Fishing line to remove, 90% pure rubbing alcohol to clean off any old 3M tape residue.
Note: the new ones from Mina are a bit smaller, but still look great!
Did some maintenance today. Started with an oil change. This car is so easy to work with. Jaguar had to be thinking of us at home, somehow. Drain plug is right there. Filter is next to it. Nice.
After reports of air leaks, I eventually got around to ordering a pair of VVT seals from eBay (genuine Jaguar), and installed them today. The old ones were leaking some oil. Once removed, they felt stiff and way past their prime. After a thorough cleaning of the valve covers and recesses, the new seals went right in. Also cleaned the plug with contact cleaner, just because.
Last, I replaced the air flow meter. The old one was showing air temperature 10 deg too high. Got a Denso 197-6030. Fit right in, seems to be way better on a short drive. Time will tell.
Tried to find some fabric for A pillars to no avail around town.
then searched on line and found some grey for 13 buxs
and 50 buxs shipping to Canada from USA
DHooo
Think I am gonna do it with suede grey or chrome vinyl or burlwood vinyl... might look kewl!
& Ahh Im still looking...
Last edited by Wide_Tyres_2; Mar 26, 2017 at 09:37 PM.
Reason: .
Spring is in the air, the odd Robin is showing up in Southern Ontario and I am looking for reasons to work on the car while I wait for my wheels to be refinished. While it is up in the air a bit I decided it would be a good time to give the kitty a good polishing. Bottom has been checked for leaks, valley hoses and octopus changed and leather all conditioned. Hope spring comes before I polish all the paint off.
The first day the car has been in my drive since I bought it on Saturday, 1200 miles away, and I've already got my hands dirty. On the drive home the HID headlights kept going out and we had to drive by fog lights. This morning I ordered a pair of 6000K Xenon HID bulbs from Amazon using Prime Same-Day delivery. Tonight I spent 10 minutes getting my hands filthy and swapped both bulbs.
WOW! Is that how well the road is supposed to be lit up?
It's amazing how such a simple change can make the car seem more solid.
