Jaguar XJS (1975-1996): Buyers' Guide

A nice article I came across which is worth wile sharing. With some very nice pictures of a perfect example.

https://www.tradeuniquecars.com.au/buyers-guide/1605/jaguar-xjs-1975-1996-buyers-guide

Gas / Fuel indicator - sender unit - brass floater

You might recall I still had this issue with the fuel indicator. See also this first blog update:

http://erwinxjs.blogspot.nl/2016/09/eureka-fuel-gauge-repair.html

Since the replacement it has been acting strange, ie not moving up, temporarely working and since last time completely stuck at full state.

Today I had a little time left to have it checked again. Luckily the gas tank was just empty enough to get the sender unit out without spilling gas. I'm not sure if the arm or floater was stuck somehow. In any case it came out easily. Again I checked the functionality of the unit and lifted the arm up and down and the fuel indicator moved along accordingly. The weight of the floater has no influence either, which I thought could be the problem here. But the arm itself is heavy enough to go down. In any case I had bought this brass floater a little while ago as I thought it could help here but also to prevent a failing floater in the future. So nice timing to get this replaced. All put back in and first indication looks normal. But the wheather was bad, so I didn't drive outside to fill it up a little and check functionality. I will do that next time, so watch this space.