1964 S type

[cass3958]

A very tidy and obviously a well looked after car. As with all these cars there are always things we need to fix or just make better. Remember they are all over 50 years old now. Thank you for sharing the photos.

[John Quilter]

Very nice looking S Type, much like mine, disc wheels and MOD, my family owned for a long, long time, never "restored" but maintained, always garaged, serviced and driven regularly. The clocks, if you are interested, can be upgraded to modern mechanism by Mike Eck at https://www.jaguarclock.com/. in New Jersey USA but there may be someone in Europe who does a similar thing with them.

[Glyn Ruck]

Nice car ~ enjoy!

[Norton]

Hi, thanks.
Chekced Mike Eck’s website, they « no longer accept foreign ordrers too frequent loss of packages when we ship overseas «
Anyone any information about clockservice in Europe?

Rgds Harald

[cass3958]

I came across this the other day and I am thinking of ordering one of these repair kits myself. It means you stripping the clock down yourself but there are very detailed instructions and you can buy either a positive or negative earth version. They supply a small motherboard which replaces a set of balanced wheel contacts in the clock which is the failure point.
I have a spare non working clock so I will see if I can get this one working to negative earth and then fit it in place of my original non working positive earth clock.

https://www.clocks4classics.com/
https://www.clocks4classics.com/repair-kits.html
https://www.clocks4classics.com/uploads ... ns__v7.pdf

There are other repair kits you can buy but they tend to be modern electric clocks that use a replaceable small battery to power them if you have changed to negative earth and I personally would like to retain the original clock powered off the car battery so this version would be ideal for me.

[Norton]

Thanks.
Checking their website and very good instrucktion videos. Have no spare clock so will be next winter.
Harald

[Norton]

Here is another one.
What is this? Looks like some pressure switch, brake warning something? It have four small diameter tubes, one going to brake servo, two disappearing down ( one for each front brake? ), one backwords through firewall. ( rear brakes? ). But what is it supposed to tell? The red wire is obviously a replacement routed back throug firewall. Green wire ( from ignition switch I suppose ) is coming out of a bundle with two others, both green with black tracer, both cut off ( what have they been connected to? ). It’s located inside rh wing, just forward of petrol line. Thanks.
Harald.

[Treetrimmer]

Is that not the Brake light switch?

Richard

[cass3958]

Yes it is the brake light switch. It works on fluid pressure so when you push the brake pedal down it creates pressure of the brake fluid in the brake pipes and this switch closes the circuit between the two wires and the brake lights come on.

Quite often if you are working down in this area on the servo or the distributer you can easily dislodge one of the connectors and your brake lights will stop working.

In modern cars it is normally an electric plunger switch behind the brake pedal which does the same job.

[John Quilter]

In my experience the newer replacements for this pressure switch are notoriously unreliable and fail after not too many months or a few years. I have found a heavy duty version but even it has failed on some of my cars (Morris Minors). So as recommended I have fitted a relay near the switch and do not run the full power of the stop lamps through the switch. If one has converted to brighter halogen stop lamp bulbs, or added a center mount stop lamp, the issue is made worse since there is too much current going through the switch.