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Please bear in mind that time moves on. These photos were contributed in 2007.
Do not assume that the situation (or the people, or the cars) will remain as shown forever.

Hendrik-Jan Thomassen: Rear drive train

The restoration of my second limo is quite hefty. To restore the rear jacking points (fotos to follow) the rear drive train bridge was removed. This was a famous part of the Jaguar design, used in DS420 limos and E-types (and a lot of other models) alike.

First the wheels and the exhaust are taken off. Then the long flat radius arms are unscrewed from the longitudinal chassis beam. The second picture shows (near the bottom of the picture) the leftmost arm still attached to the bridge; the rightmost one was taken off entirely.

Next the brake line is disconnected. The last picture shows how the brake line on the car must be blocked to avoid the oil to leak out. When assembling this again later, a "brake bleeding" procedure must be done.

Then follows the handbrake cable, and finally the drive shaft flange is unbolted. Now the entire bridge comes off when the eight bolts through the chassis beams are taken out. The first picture clearly shows the corresponding eight holes (two pairs on each side) in the chassis beam. If you ever clean up part of the underbottom structure of your car, it pays to put penetrating oil on these eight bolts & nuts. Just to prepare for the future...

My spokesman warned to be careful with the small pipe that extends vertically from the diff housing (very well visible on photo No. 4): it breaks off easily.

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