Early Jaguar Auto Enrichment Device

In article , Mick Whittingham writes

Bad form following your own posts etc.

I've just thought. I didn't take the starter carb off. The final fix was the fuel line blanked off. Cab in place with the electrics disconnected.

It was like that when I PXed it for the next car. (1979?)

Scary.

Chris

I was thinking the same. It's amazing he got that flight at all.

He'd be fine, as long as his passport states his ID as S.U.Weller.

Santa got priority but still hasn't recovered from missing a nights sleep.

I can get it to start easily enough but it won't idle happily until it's up to temp and is a bit lumpy pulling away. The AED on the early type is slightly different and cruder than the later 420/Mk10/XJ6 type.

The local car breakers (who does a sideline in stashing old Jags) has another solenoid for a score. Fortunately it's a thirty second swap so I can check it there.

Duncan Wood has brought this to us :

Just chucking ideas in the pot!

As far as I remember it has two actions. One for cold starting and a second for warm up.

If your car started and ran without the starting carb it must have been running ridiculously rich. Because it's the same as saying a car fitted with SUs with a manual choke wouldn't need the choke used on cold days.

In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

Hence having to fan the throttle when hitting the starter. No it wasn't running rich. It was spot on with very good MPG.

Pfft. My old 4.2 LWB XJ6 had starship mileage and correspondingly timeworn components. The 'choke' didn't work worth a damn, but a good footful of throttle and providing the truck battery had enough oomph in it, it would go after 30 seconds of churning and farting.

I never bettered 14mpg from it, the worst was 9mpg in cold weather.