As the title states, I started replacing my fuel pumps since one was bad. When I pulled the carpet back and followed the instructions to remove the ground cable I noticed that it didn't even exist. I noticed as well, when I got the pumps out, that they were different and guessed someone had been in the tank before. So I would guess that the previous owner forgot to put the ground cable back and that could be the reason one of my pumps failed. I looked for burnt cables and cable connectors and didn't see any problems there.

So My question is, do 2001 XJR's even come with ground wires? and how do I make or obtain one? If I can make one that would be even better since the car needs to be working in the next few hours.

Thanks everyone!

 

According to my photos when I pulled out my XJR tank, there were only two electrical plugs, one white, the other black. Both plugged into the top cap of the tank. Please see attached photo.

The third wire hanging by a sensor, plugs into that sensor and not to the tank.

 

Great! Thank you. I guess the two that plug into the tank have a thicker ground wire.

 

On my 98' XJR, I just replaced both of my original 235K mile pumps yesterday because the secondary pump was dead. They were dated 9/29/97! Anyways, I did have a ground wire bolted from the left side underside of the speaker shelf to a clip on the top left side, on the frontside of the tank. I only mentioned this just in case someone performed a search on the forum.