Automatic Enrichment Device XJ6

No comments on this? Anybody who owns a Series 1 XJ here? If so, what are your experiences with this choke system?

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WayneC skrev:

OK, thanks. Jag-lovers is a great resource. I can see here that many owners have had trouble with their AED unit. One of the posters on the Jag-lover's forum sums it up quite nicely when he says that the AED is "an expensive item prone to overfueling engine if not in tip top condition". And that's the answer to my question, I guess. So it's up to me whether I choose to stay with the semi-manual solution, or buy an expensive and less than reliable automatic enrichment device.

AED my ass! What you are talking about is nothing more than an automatic choke. Remember the choke? Your mechanic is doing nothing more than suggesting you take out the electronically controlled automatic one and replace it with a manual set-up. In theory he is correct and if he can fashion one, he is a good mechanic. In real practice, you are better off finding a new one and installing it. The problem with his suggestion is, if you install a mechanical choke, the computer system won't be able to deal with it and change all kind of settings (making them almost all wrong) and that would open a whole new can of worms. Dammit!!!, why couldn't they just leave things alone and rely on real mechanical knowledge and engineering?????

Kestrel skrev:

Now, if you remember this is a 1973 XJ6 so there is no computer system to bother about. But I'm inclined to buy a new AED anyway, as you suggest, just to be able to start the damn thing from cold without putting the engine through five minutes of rough idle and cylinders coughing away! The car does start with the mechanical choke but this is no real substitute for a working AED. With the AED the engine starts just as easily from cold as from warm.