1994 XJS 4.0L ......... the cable seems to be frozen ................... i will blame it on the good wife who pulls on the handle like mad to lower the top ............. have the plastic cover off and I do restore British Cars so I know my way around ......... is there a work around to lower the top but NOT set the Parking Brake... kinda a dumb idea

Will eventually remove parking brake shoes which I know is "incorrect" but heck you only live once LOL

Thoughts ???????

 

Yes, you can wire the top to raise and lower without needing the brake on. Find the black/green wire from the module, and across the connector it goes to a black/white wire in the harness. With a very fine pick you can release the catch that holds the metal part into the plastic connector body and slide the wire out.

From the junkyard, I took another connector ( from a Ford I think) that was the same width, as there are various width of pins and sockets; and made a mating portion and grounded that wire. The harness wire is a male pin, you'll need a female socket from another connector. Now the top module thinks the handbrake is always applied and I can raise or lower the top whenever I want.

Doing it this way doesn't disturb the original harness, and it can be put back to standard simply by sliding the wire back into the connector.

 

so you just remove the black wire from the harness and ground it?

 

fishbait1,

It's black with a green stripe

Cheers

Paul