When I bought my project, the PO (a trusted friend) told me that the top stopped working and there was a lot of fluid that leaked in the trunk. He told me the latch worked normally until the point when the fluid leak in the trunk occurred. I took the interior apart to start replacing the rear lines. These are the two rams - the one with a screw fitting at the bottom is the left side. The right side is, well, I don't know exactly. It's also a little wet at the bottom. Does this mean I need to have the rams serviced, too? Is that line to the bottom right supposed to be different?


Left side

Right side

 

Never mind (I think), a bit of searching shows me to expect this one different fitting for a 2000 MY car.

 

Now you have to decide if it's the connection or the ram itself. There is a small "O" ring on the right one.
Don't lose that little split pin, hard to find.
Have a good look, someone might have replaced the front lines, if so, the rears are easy, but any are expensive for what they are.
I used Top Hydraulics' and had the rams rebuilt. I understand there is a place in Florida that also does this repair and have a look at some of the threads for the lines in Europe, some what cheaper.
Jon89 and I did mine back in 2015, good writeup to get you started. Have lots of little containers to keep the nuts and screws for each section helped a lot.

 

I had the same on my 2000 XKR last summer. It leaked at the pump in the trunk and the hoses was wet at the rams. No leaks in the front above windscreen. I just bought new lines from Top Hydraulics (expensive!) and changed them all. When disassembling the front lines I discovered that these had been repaired as Jaguar tried to do some years ago. Took me a hole day but worked as new ever since! :-)

 

Is there a preferred direction when fishing in the new lines? Is it better to attach in the trunk and pull the old line (with new attached) toward the ram, or is it better to attach the new line at the ram and remove the old line from the trunk and puil the replacement line into the trunk?

 

Either way is very easy, but you must remove the sponge stuffing surround on the left side of the rear firewall by the gas tank. A few black ties are along the way, so just pull on the cables and you will see where they are, hard one is by the driver side near the "B" pillar.
Taking the pump off makes it a bit easier, Gus gives a good write up on where all the connection go, if you get a question about it. After getting the pump out of it's place, go forward and turn it clock wise, install in reverse.

 

Thanks, Wayne, very helpful.

 

I did tell you wrong on one thing, it's the right side that the lines go by the tank, sorry.

 

It's nice when the car shows you what the failure was!