Here is the article that got him fired up to do this, removing park brake first. These are available at your local Harbor Freight in the US, I don't know where Off Landers would find them. To do this, certain specialized tools are called for, especially Extra long wrenches and Extra Short wrenches.

It's obvious he did the left one first and didn't even pick up tools he was so chuffed! Picture of Left Rear caliper where he dropped it.Īnd here's the Right Rear caliper where he dropped it. When I got in that day he met me with, 'I got them out,' as he was having a tall cool one. He didicated a day to detatch the park brakes and another day to remove the main calipers. He didn't get the calipers changed out in 2 hours like the write-up said, but he doesn't have 30 years experience working on Jaguars either, this is our first. Of course he has a different version of that. It might also have had something to do with the fact there isn't room for both of us down there at the same time. He wouldn't even let me help! He said, 'Go away, woman, don't bother me if you want to drive your car anytime soon.' So I went away and didn'tīother him because I DO want to drive my car sometime soon. Part of the reason is that Nix's exhaust pipes are Welded together at the BL muffler, rendering them undisassemblable without more heroic effort than we wanted to expend. Otherwise, Nix would have been on the road a month ago.Įver since I showed husband the printout of instructions to remove rear calipers without dropping the rear cage (included at the end of this post), he's been Determined to do it that way. Please register or login to enable Dark Mode.īoth calipers needed changed because they Both spontaneously leaked out all the fluid in the system, which I discovered in January.Forum announcement archives / Forum History.PRIVATE For Sale / Trade or Buy Classifieds.Other Jaguar Models / Concepts / Replicas.S-Type / S type R Supercharged V8 ( X200 ).

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