Over the weekend, I completed the projects I had scheduled on my 74 O2S for this winter. They were:
-Brakes: New master cylinder, power servo cylinder, PDWA. Surrounding shrouds refinished.
- Heater (while removed for brake project) received new core. Was refinished on outside last year.
- New stainless steel exhaust system.
- New fuel gauge sending unit in fuel tank.
There were many "stories" as there always are on Jaguar projects! I'll only tell one - With everything back together and engine fired up, I was sitting behind the wheel just waiting for warm up and checking little things out - heater, radio, etc. Wait a minute! The air conditioning was dead! I didn't do anything to the air conditioner. Except, hmmm - the air conditioner relay is mounted on the back side of one of the shrouds I had taken in for refinishing. Guess what? The new paint inside and outside was preventing the relay from grounding. Loosened the mounting screw and scratched off a little paint, tightened it back down and, voila!, the air conditioning returned!
-Brakes: New master cylinder, power servo cylinder, PDWA. Surrounding shrouds refinished.
- Heater (while removed for brake project) received new core. Was refinished on outside last year.
- New stainless steel exhaust system.
- New fuel gauge sending unit in fuel tank.
There were many "stories" as there always are on Jaguar projects! I'll only tell one - With everything back together and engine fired up, I was sitting behind the wheel just waiting for warm up and checking little things out - heater, radio, etc. Wait a minute! The air conditioning was dead! I didn't do anything to the air conditioner. Except, hmmm - the air conditioner relay is mounted on the back side of one of the shrouds I had taken in for refinishing. Guess what? The new paint inside and outside was preventing the relay from grounding. Loosened the mounting screw and scratched off a little paint, tightened it back down and, voila!, the air conditioning returned!