Hello all! New here. My first post. I have a 1980 XJ6,series 3 with a GM 5.0 with TBI. Pretty solid car,drives well even though the power steering isn’t hooked up yet. I have a couple of minor issues; First start of the day usually takes five or six tries before it will keep running. Each time I turn the key,it runs a little longer until it finally catches and holds on it’s own. Any ideas?Also,my speedo isnt hooked up,so I looked under the car and found a cable at the rear of the drive shaft,not the trans. Is there supposed to be a magnet on the tail shaft? Also need location for my low temp sensor,can’t find the outlet for the sensor unit. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!<img src="//jl-discourse-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/2X/1/137de986f79e0b3c82e3d929ad237bfc70f1aa69.jpg" width=“690” height=“388”
Welcome. Lots of help here.
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I am not sure if your 80 has a cable driven speedo or electric. I suspect the former. You do not say which GM transmission is in your car. A place for a cable to attach? Or a transducer to feed an electric speedometer?
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I am at a loss as to what you mean by a low temperature sensor. Are you referring to a low coolant level sensor?
A picture or two would better illustrate your issues.
- You must really have big arms and shoulders. Sans PS, the steering is stiff!!! The GM PS pump integrates well with the Jaguar rack. Similar pumps!!! Merely, a hose match issue. More than one way to do the match.
Carl
Hi Carl,thanks for the input. You’re right of course. I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t know which trans I have. I am somewhat disabled and can no longer crawl around under the car like I used to. I bought the car with the swap already done and the PO told me the engine came out of an 80’s S10 I believe,with the trans that went with it. And again,yes,I did mean the low coolant sensor. It’s a cylinder with a triangular plug that goes under the right hand dash but I just cant find the spot.Flexibility and mobility issues maybe keeping me from looking far enough. My arms do get a get workout from the steering,but it does feel good to drive like that. It makes you feel it! I do plan on hooking it up,just haven’t made the adapter yet.I’ll do a little looking and see what I can figure out. Thanks again.
S10? Or C10, the latter came with a V8 option. The former was V6!!
A guess would be a mechanical drive cable off a TH
350 transmission. .
As to the low level sensor. Might as well forget it. The sensor was in the brown tank on the wing wall or in the Jaguar radiator. Your car more than likely has neither.
Couple a Jag PS pressure cable and a GM cable
and you have one easily done. The return is easier. One of each, mate 'em. I used flare couplers. Yup, there is a better way, but mine are fine many years later.
Carl
You can get a borescope from ebay that you can attach to a broomstick or similar and use it to video things you can’t get too. Somehow the Chinese can do this for about $10.
You might try a method I used in my former career. At times I needed to look into space that would not allow me to get in to. If I could get an arm in, I’d point my camera in and take a series of shots. Working clockwise and a shot about ever 22 1/2 degrees. In those days film. Then lay out the prints and see "what I could not otherwise see. The resulting panorama revealed a lot. In the last year or two, I did digital and film. Not yet trusting my Olympus. Still have it. It still works quite well. It’s major flaw is that it was a pre USB port model.
Always more than one way.
Carl