The XJ6 was about the simplest and easiest Jag to work on of its vintage. The worst parts were the climate control. The engine compartment wasn’t bad with the inline six, giving you pretty decent room to move around and get to stuff.
I had a customer with the first year V12 in the XJ body, an XJ12. Darned thing had a distributor cap the size of a dinner plate. Six side draft Solex carbs that had to be balanced every 800-1000 miles or your mileage dropped from around 8 mpg to around 4 mpg. The saddest thing about that car was the transmission. It was a cast iron case Ford FMX three speed as I recall. Gearing was so awful it was out of first gear as soon as the tires began to rotate. I will say it was a real pleasure to drive, however. So smooth and quiet that when you were doing 60 mph it felt like 30. Sucked gas like crazy, though. That’s why the car had two 16 gallon tanks. Dan > On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > OTOH, we owned an 84 XJ6 sedan that was remarkably reliable - even drove it > to Cincinnati and back w/o incident. Local techs weren't all that > expensive either. This was back in the 80s. > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> My Suburban has one of those in plastic that ended up failing up by the >> airport last year. Luckily mama still had AAA coverage on it so got it >> flatbedded home after it puked all the coolant on the airport access road. >> It was a bugger to replace, and really annoys me that a cheap >> >> plastic fitting can cause a fatal error. Oh well, the first one lasted 15 >> years, maybe this one will go a few more years, but I wonder what other >> fatal parts lie within. >> >> --FT >> >> >> On 9/22/16 7:45 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> >>> I know that hose on the firewall of the XKE. I believe the XJs had them >>> too. Imagine my surprise when I found the W140 has a very similar tee >>> fitting just like the Jags! They fail just as catastrophically in Mercedes, >>> too. >>> >>> Dan >>> >> >> -- >> --FT >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
