Happenings

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 07/14/2017 at 00:58 • Filed to: None

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New front brake pads and steering rack bushings ordered for the Jag. Gotta get the safety items out of the way before I can start having fun! Hopefully the hubs simply need the bearing preload adjusted but I may just end up rebuilding them.

Not sure what I’m going to do about the steering rack. The end-seals are leaking an alarming amount of fluid and the sealing surfaces look too marred up for replacing the seals to do any good. I wonder how difficult it would be to pilot a 4000lb vehicle with no power steering? 

Oh, also. After rebuilding the carb I appear to now be getting city fuel economy in the double digits, possibly!

Also how much of a douche will I be if I start referring to my car as a “Jaguar S-type”?

Fun fact: the “thick rugs on the floor” and “thermostatically-controlled heat and air conditioning” are two of the ‘s-type’s Achilles heels. The condensation pan drain holes of the HVAC leak and water drains onto the “thick rugs” which absorb it and hold it against the floor like a pillow over a suffocating murder victim until the floor rusts through. Fabulous. I swear I’ll fix it eventually.

sony1492 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 07/14/2017 at 01:18

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I’ve been without power steering on my SC for over a year now. It’s fine when the cars moving and feeling the tires better is nice when cornering but parking is a real hassle and takes longer. That being said the SC weighs 400 pounds less

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > sony1492 07/14/2017 at 01:24

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Yeah this thing is a bit of a bear to wrestle around a parking lot as it is... but $250 is a bear to part with.

sony1492 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 07/14/2017 at 01:33

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Daily shoulder workout routine whether you want it or not

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > sony1492 07/14/2017 at 01:47

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Arms by Jaguar

AuthiCooper1300 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 07/14/2017 at 05:08

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There are manifold reasons why one shouldn’t call an XJS – or even an XJ-S – an “S-type”, but a pretty good emotional one is seeing it being used in a brochure with British Leyland’s notorious pissoir logo.

Re: steering I would worry more about the rack eventually and inadvertently loosing all its fluid, therefore not being lubricated and leading to much seriouser things.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 07/14/2017 at 09:42

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At least the SBC in there is lighter than the V12

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > AuthiCooper1300 07/14/2017 at 11:05

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Yeah but heritageI and shit

Sovande > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 07/14/2017 at 13:48

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Fixing the floor should be the top of the list before any of this other stuff.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sovande 07/14/2017 at 14:03

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Why? I have a wooden floor for now. It works. I’d rather fix stuff that is known for causing loss of control of the car (steering rack bushings, brake pads, wheel hub adjustment) as well as the issue that caused the rust in the first place (crap drains from the A/C drain pan) instead of stuff that amounts to mostly being an annoyance (warm breeze from holes in the floor).

Sovande > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 07/14/2017 at 14:55

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It’s a pretty obvious safety issue in a unibody car. From the one pic you posted it looked like there was nothing at the transition from the firewall to the floor pans. The floor pans in a unibody car are a structural element. That thing will just fold up in a crash.