Pete has continued to work on our 1993 Jaguar XJS. A final attempt at separation of the AC fan from the motor failed and it is stuck solid. He is still working on a fix that!
In the meantime, new front upper shock bushings were fitted. While Pete was doing this, he replaced the double lock nuts that were fitted with a single lock nut. This makes things much simpler for any future work and more reliable from a safety aspect.
The rear trailing arms are off the car now, unfortunately at full droop of the suspension, the smaller bushings are beyond service, as are the front body end bushings. Pete will replace both ends and refit these.
The removal of the bushings was challenging and required the forward struts to be removed to allow the bolts to slide all the way out of the mount points on each side.
The intermittent fault with the headlamps is now resolved -, a suspected blown bulb on the passenger side was traced to a loose connection at the h4 plug to the bulb. The side lights, dipped and main are all working as they should now.
The horns have also been sorted, one new unit and a clean-up of the old working unit and both high and low tones are back.
