The 'E' Type Forum

Hello Jaguar Gearheads,

i got a 64 3.8 coupe. During the last drives the indications of fuel, water temperature and oil pressure gauges go down and then up again to normal readings simultaniously.
What could be wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards

Robert

Hello again from Germany, the reason for the fault was the berillium/copper contact (as recomended i used the original one) which was making contact to the outer column . If someone has the same problems, some explanation, now that i see clear: There could be NO short cut in the circuit as you only ...

Hello again from Germany, first of all many thanks for your answers. Yes, its a ser 1 horn, therefore posting in the ser 1 forum. As far as i could see from the wiring diagram, the horn works if you ground the earth wiring from the relay which opens and closes the strong wires to the horns . the rel...

Hello Jaguar Guys,

what could be the reason for that? Any ideas?

Best regards


Robert

Hello E type folks,

i was just shuffling thru the pics of the correct Series 1 factory fit. I noticed, that most of the early cars had no armrests fitted. When Jaguar start to fit the armrests?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards from Germany

Robert

Hello again from Germany, thanks a lot for your replies - i saw it now, there is, for what reason ever, no fan relay fitted in the ser.1 4.2. That is strange, because the 3.8 got one and the later series 1.5 and 2 got one again....the (new) loom i have is from a series 2 i guess ( i am puzzling a ki...

i forgot to mention that the car is a 4.2 series 1.

Best regards

Robert

Hello again from Germany,

thank you very much for your postings, i will check it out this weekend (if the weather continues to be that bad)

Best regards


Robert

i mean the flasher unit, of course...

best regards

Robert

Hi Christopher,

thanks for your reply, it seemed the the indicator relais is working, the lamps at the car are lighting as they should, only the lights at the control only light once...

Hello from Germany, the indicator warning lights (middle of the dash between rev counter and speedo) only light up once when i apply the indicator...what is the reason?? I guess they should light up as long as the indicator lights at the car?? Any help would be gladly appreciated.... :wink: Best reg...

Hello David, i will do my very best...things are really complicated - it seems that somebody modified the ser 2 wiper motor , there are blue light green (shouldnt be there), yellow light green,red light green, green and black (earth) wire coming out of the motor - i have to dismantle the motor for b...

Yes, as far as i know, the wiper motors of ser 1 and 2 are totally different - the ser 1 motor has current all time and will work when get ground thru the switch, the ser 2 motor has ground all the time and get current thru the switch... Hopefully maybe someone has a solution.... Any help will be gl...

Hello to all from Germany, i am currently doing a restauration of a ser 1, somebody else has started (i will never do that again, its really a nightmare) and i found out, that the car is a mixture of ser 1, 1,5 and ser 2 parts. parts which seem to fit at first sight dont do that anymore at a closer ...

Hello to all from Germany, i am currently completing a restauration somebody else has started ( i will never do it again!! :shock: ) and found a mixture of parts which fitted together first sight, but at a closer (very close) look wont... So my question is: I got a Ser 2 wiper motor,and i want to ma...