Replacing brake pads and rotors
 

82 series 3

Does anyone have a link or anything when working on the brakes. Replacing rotors and pads

fronts are easy,like most standard disc brakes!

but rears are completly different, in board brakes,

i did mine by removing the whole rear subframe assembly, after that just keep things in order(like shims,etc).

Thanks, do you know where any info online is for getting to the rear brakes? Not worried about the front just the rear because I heard it can be difficult

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...dbrake-128298/ Read through all the links in the thread.

Remove outer driveshafts from diff, drop down,unfasten shock bottoms, calipers and rotors are right there, might have to remove section of exhaust. Never dropped full housing on Series 3.

jagfixer, what about a series 2? Dropping the whole unit for brakes alone?

Within this past year I found and saved an article written by Dick Maury at Coventry West Inc., (I have no idea when) entitled,

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REMOVING CALIPERS WITHOUT DROPPING CAGE
"There seems to be a lot of differing opinions on replacing rear calipers. As a line mechanic of 30 years, we only charged 1 hour per caliper. It usually did not take an hour.

Just remove the handbrake cable, unscrew the two handbrake bolts ( you will have to pry back the lockplates) and push the handbrakes up on top of the rotor. Unscrew the brake line, bend it slightly out of the way and plug it with a rubber plug. Using a long 5/8 wrench open end from the bottom, loosen the lower bolt.

Using the box end, loosen the top. From here a set of short wrenches come in handy to loosen the bolts. If you are lucky the top one is loose enough to turn with your fingers. Once unscrewed, they will not come out of the caliper but the whole caliper is lifted out.

Replacement is reverse except a long screwdriver to hold the bolts in place until started helps. Make sure the handbrake screws are through the handbrake. Removing them and putting a small taper on them helps.

If the rotors need changing, do this while the calipers are out. Remove one shock to gain access to the 4 axle bolts.

Remove the lower trunion grease fitting and the trailing arm front mount. Lower the arm down, axle,trailing arm and hub as a unit. Then the disc can be taken out. Pay attention to the shims and put them back where they were unless you need to adjust camber.

The holes mentioned on the rotors are for access to the caliper bolts on the ''Dana'' diffs which were put in the XJS for part of the 1985 model year. They redundant on the Salisbury diffs.

Note that the bottom plate does not have to be removed. It will be dented slightly when the lower arm is swung down but can be easily be tapped back into place. I have found on working on cars that if you remove a bolt, you will need to put it back so I try to keep it to a minimum."
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Dick Maury , Rebuild Dept., Coventry West, Inc.
Lithonia, GA, United States
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I plan to try this when I get to my rear brakes, just to see if I can, because I haven't had enough challenge with all my other projects.
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Perfect and as useful as it gets. And by as qualified an authority as there is.


Saved for adding to my voluminous Jaguar lore.


Thanks, Elinor1