| This is a picture of the vacuum switch, after being taken off the car.
Considering it is up out of the vee and mounted in a cool spot, the wires were in surprisingly terrible shape.
You can see the insulation breaks and the entire length of the wire is rock-hard and crumbly. As long as I planned to fix it, I figured I would do something about its appearance. It is the color of every kitchen appliance from 1974. |
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| I repainted the casing with Rustoleum "Banner Red."
It is the closest spraypaint I could find to the Jaguar Signal Red."
If you look at my engine pictures, it's also used on the fuse box covers. This closeup shows the broken insulation. The inside of the sensor is filled with a sealant that has a texture that is a cross between very hard wax and hardened chewing gum. Yummy. I took an exact-knife and started carefully excavating. |
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| It turns out, there are two chambers with a spade connector at the bottom of each. Dig past the sealant and the wire can be pulled off the spade connector. |
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| Here is the sensor cleaned out and the spade connectors exposed. |
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| I used the original connectors on both ends and just attached them to teflon insulated wire.
I plugged the new wires onto the spades and refilled the switch with epoxy to seal.
I then used 3:1 heat shrink tubing on the whole thing. The bracket was polished and it's done. |
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| I mounted the vacuum switch on the back of the A bank intake manifold instead of its original spot on the back intake runner. |
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