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Jaguar XJ-S. Manual - part 6

Copyright date is 83.” That explains that; 1983 is when the AJ6 engine was introduced, so obviously the book won’t
contain the 4.0 AJ16 engine or even the EFI system that was introduced in 1988 with the XJ40.

Petermann goes on to describe the publication: “There's 9 'booklets', about 30-45 pages each. The complete manual is
AKM 9063, but each book has its own number e.g. AKM 9063/1../2 etc.

Book 1: intro, general specs, engine tuning data, jacking, lubricants, maintenance, service tools.
Book 2: Engine
Book 3: emission control, fuel system, cooling system, manifold & exhaust
Book 4: Clutch, manual gearbox
Book 5: Propellor (?), final drive
Book 6: Steering, front suspension, rear suspension, brakes, wheels & tires
Book 7: Body
Book 8: Air conditioning
Book 9: windscreen wipers & washers, electrical, instruments

“The AKM 9063 is now discontinued.”

Note that AKM 9063 does cover the 8CU electronic fuel injection system used on the early AJ6, which never appeared
in any other Jaguar and therefore may be a bit difficult to get info on elsewhere.

Even if you have a later 6-cylinder car, buying AKM 9063 might still make more sense than buying a V12 ROM.
Perhaps you might choose to buy AKM 9063 along with another book -- such as an XJ40 (1988-94 XJ6) manual -- that
covers the later engine configurations (the XJ40 and the ‘88-on 6-cyl XJ-S have the same engine and transmission).
XK’s Unlimited (page 694) offers a book called the Jaguar XJ6 Workshop Manual -- Owners Edition: “Covers 1988
to 1994, 180 pages. This is an "Owners Edition" manual, meaning it is a boiled-down version of the full factory
manuals and covers the maintenance and repair projects most likely to be tackled by an owner.” The good news is that
it’s only about forty bucks. A Haynes manual might also be a consideration; see below.

There apparently is a later Jaguar publication that covers the 6-cylinder XJ-S. XK’s Unlimited offers a book titled XJ-S
3.6/XJ-SC 3.6/XJ-S 4.0 Service Manual, number 11-0252D (which may be an XK’s number rather than a Jaguar
number). It’s priced at a little over $100, indicating it may be the equivalent of a ROM.

If you’re interested in the multi-volume XJ-S Service Manuals described above, Richard Mansell indicates that they do
cover the 6-cylinder engines.

If you have a 6-cylinder XJ-S, the Haynes manual #478/49015 will be no help with the engine or transmission at all.
However, you could opt to buy the Haynes #478/49015 to cover the rest of the car and Haynes manual #49011, Jaguar
XJ6 1988 thru 1994: Automotive Repair Manual, ©1997 (thanks to Loudon Seth for this info) for information on the
engine and transmission, as well as the later IRS with outboard brakes. Or, you could supplement the Haynes
#478/49015 with the Jaguar XJ6 Workshop Manual -- Owners Edition described above. Either combination of two
books should cover most of what you need to know, with the notable exception of the 8CU EFI system used on the
1983-87 3.6 cars.

REPAIR OPERATION MANUALS -- XJ12, DAIMLER DOUBLE SIX: This book is on the XJ-S, but I’ll be a nice
guy and list what little I know about Repair Operation Manuals for saloons as well. John Littler reports that for Series
I/II cars, Jaguar issued one manual for the XJ12 and another for the XJ6, but starting with the Series III they issued a
single manual to cover both.

Regarding the S I/II manual, Littler says, “Jaguar XJ12, Daimler Double Six, Repair Operations Manual. Publication
Part No. E190/4. Copyright 1979. Covers Series 1 and 2 (of which the only significant difference are carbs vs. EFI
and the swap to GM400 halfway through the S2 model run - not the start contrary to common belief.)”

“Series 3 Service Manual - 3 items listed on first page:

Service Manual complete, AKM 9006 Edition 2
Service Manual Book 14, AKM 9006/15 Ed. 2

Service Manual Binder, AKM 9006/B Ed.2

“Copyright 1985. Covers both XJ6 and XJ12 series 3; the XJ12 has both H.E. and Pre-H.E. sections although they
aren't particularly differentiated. The S3 manual I have doesn't seem to cover the late XJ12 S3's (1987-92). It covers P
and D Jetronic but there's no mention made about the later ECUs.”

ADDING YOUR OWN BINDER: If you get a softbound ROM -- or any other manual from Jaguar or the UK in
general -- and decide to tear it apart, holepunch it, and put it in a 3-ring binder, you will find that it is a metric sized
book and won’t fit in a US-standard 8½” x 11” binder. If you’re in Europe that’s no problem, but here in the US you
may find it a bit of a challenge. Better office supply stores sell metric “A” size binders, but you’ll also need to get the
proper 4-hole punch.

Another option is to drop into a Wal-Mart and buy a photo album intended for the Kodak Advanced Photo System;
these albums are quite a bit larger than standard notebooks yet retain the standard 3-hole pattern. Having a 3-hole
punch with an adjustable paper stop is a plus, so you can adjust the stop to center the holes on the longer pages. Just
throw the photo sleeves out, although the section dividers are nice, you’ll wanna keep them to separate the manual from
the supplements and the like. These photo albums have the added benefit that they are really nice quality; this author
even found one with a dark green, gold, and black cover that looks like it could have come from Jaguar.

PRIMERS: If you are new to automotive tinkering, you should buy one of the many books on the market explaining
general procedures for car repair. While this book is written to be as clear as possible, it is not intended as a primer and
no efforts are made to explain standard auto repair procedures. For example, this book may describe in great detail how
a particular electrical component has a history of shorting out at a particular spot, but it will not provide any instructions
on how to use a VOM to track down a short. Quite the contrary, the reader is expected to know how to do things like
track down a short, so problems that are easily isolated and corrected may not even be mentioned.

PARTS BOOKS: Jaguar also makes parts books. Many owners suggest these books are more helpful to the mechanic
than the repair manual; they contain exploded views of just about everything which are often easier to understand than
the step-by-step text in the ROM or Service Manual. And it helps to know the part number of what you need when
placing a parts order by phone, since the names of Jaguar parts are often confusing and mercurial.

Stephen Wood describes the parts book for the early XJ-S: “Jaguar Parts Manual, RTC-9109-B, for the XJ-S, 1976 to
1982, pre-H.E. cars.”

This author owns the one for the next generation: “Jaguar Parts Catalogue, XJ-S H.E. and XJ-S V12”, RTC9888CE,
August 1987. Note that the title might be misleading; this parts book does not cover the pre-H.E. cars. The title
probably reflects the fact that the H.E. badge on the car was replaced with a V12 badge starting with VIN 125020 even
though otherwise it’s still the same car with the same engine. This book covers models from the introduction of the
H.E. engine through the mid-1980’s -- which should be kept in mind when using it, remembering that “up to” really
means “from the introduction of the H.E. up to” and “from” really means “from this point until 1987.”

Richard Mansell reports on the next edition after that: “...the Jan ’87 to late-’89 parts book (RTC9900CA). IMHO

this is laid out a lot better than the earlier parts manuals as it has a description for each item on the same page as the
pretty picture. If you have an ’87 to ’89 3.6 or 5.3 XJ-S this guide is well worth getting, especially to aid reassembly.”
He has a point about the layout since RTC9888CE has no descriptions at all on the page with the illustration but rather
has the descriptions listed in the back under the part number.

JAGUAR BOOKS ON CD: The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (page 688) offers several of the repair manuals and
parts catalogues described above on CD-ROM. Compared to the paper publications, these CD’s are dirt cheap: £12.77

IMHO is an Internet abbreviation for “in my humble opinion”.

+ 17.5% VAT (£15 even) each plus £2.50 shipping, which adds up to about $25 each or so. If you’re outside Europe
you’re not supposed to have to pay VAT but they charge it anyway and so far nobody has called them on it. Tony
Bailey says, “e-mail Julia Simpson at the JDHT on <

jsimps16@jaguar.com

> with credit card number and other details.

If you are worried about the security of using plaintext e-mail, Julia's telephone number is +44 (0)24 76 202141, and
her fax number is +44 (0)24 76 405581.” Of course, you could always write a letter.

There are three CD-ROM’s of interest to the Jaguar XJ-S owner. The first is titled XJ-S to 1987 - Original edition
Service & Parts catalogues, part number JHM 1114. This disc contains:

JJM 10 04 06

Service Manual (4-volume)

1988

AKM 3455

Repair Operation Manual (Ed 3 with H.E. Supplement)

1982

RTC 9109B

XJ-S Parts Catalogue

January 1977

RTC 9889CA

XJ-S 3.6 Parts Catalogue

November 1985

RTC 9888CE

XJ-S H.E. Parts Catalogue

August 1987

Plus some photos, a JDHT brochure, etc. The Ed 3 ROM included doesn’t cover 83-on cars, but hopefully the Service
Manual will cover most anything in the pre-88 cars that isn’t in the Ed 3 ROM.

The other CD-ROM is XJS post 1987 - Workshop Service Manual, part number JHM 1127. This disc contains:

JJM 10 04 06/20

Service Manual (5-volume)

March 1991

Amendment No. 1

August 1993

Appendix 1

August 1993

Appendix 2

January 1995

Amendment No. 1 was originally issued as four packages of pages; you’re supposed to whip out your Volumes 1
through 4, pull out old pages and replace them with new pages. Of course, you can’t do that when all the pages are on
a CD-ROM. Good luck keeping this straight when looking things up. Printing out the tables of contents might help.

Apparently if you want a parts book for a 90’s car, you’re SOL.

George Balthrop says, “JHM-1146 is the current offering from JDHT.”

There is another CD-ROM that might interest some readers: JHM 1122 covers the SIII XJ12.

Early versions of JHM-1114 and JHM-1127 were formatted using a software package called ScanFile, which is
unsearchable. Really, it’s only presenting scans of the paper; it doesn’t recognize the data on it and therefore cannot
sort or search it. The only way to find anything is basically the same way you’d find it in the paper version: you have to
display the table of contents pages, find a listing that looks like it might contain the info you’re looking for, display that
page, read it, get frustrated, return to the table of contents, try to figure out where the Brits hide information, etc., etc.
Note that JHM 1127 has a later release of ScanFile than JHM 1114. If you buy both, install the later release and use it
to view both discs.

Nope, these CD’s reportedly won’t run on a Mac. The savings over buying the printed versions would probably pay
for a real computer, though.

It doesn’t help that whoever put these packages together didn’t do the best job. Some collections start with the table of
contents, completely omitting the title page and the copyright date. Sometimes they make up names; the four packages
in Amendment No. 1 are called “Supplements” for some reason.

Reportedly there are later releases of these CD-ROM’s that use better formatting.

Besides ordering directly from JDHT, Craig Sawyers says you can get them “...from a small number of appointed UK
dealers and specialists - JDHT have only appointed 10 of these. The best one to go for IMHO is Martin Robey Ltd on
(+44) 2476 386903. They export too, so no problem there (One of their quoted phone numbers is (+44) 7000 ROBEY
SALES so it could be worth trying that from the US). Don't bother looking at their website at
http://www.martinrobey.co.uk - it is pretty useless and also doesn't mention JDHT parts.”

JHDT says, “Please note that these CDs are generated by Jaguar Classic Parts at Unipart House and that we simply
retail them. In principle therefore, the same CDs should be available at the same price from all the Jaguar Classic Parts
outlets, whether Jaguar dealers or independent approved specialists.”

Apparently the US dealers think you need to pay more -- much more -- than $25 for this info. Don Lundquist says, “I
tried to order from local Jag dealer (JHM1127)... Price quoted was $123.37.” JDHT responds: “Originally these CDs
were being retailed in the USA by Jaguar dealers at far too high prices. However, it has now been agreed that they will
be available through all Jaguar dealers in the USA at the cost of $25.00. We have accordingly been asked by Jaguar
Classic Parts to cease accepting orders from the USA, since we want to give the US dealers a fair chance. Any US
customer who either has difficulty ordering a CD from a local dealer or is still being quoted the old price should contact
Jaguar Classic Parts on +44 (0)1865 383358, or e-mail Brian_North@unipart.co.uk.” There are already reports that the
US dealers insist on adding fees to that $25.

Even if you’d prefer the paper versions, it will undoubtedly prove cheaper to buy these CD-ROM’s and print the books
in entirety on your trusty inkjet. They print just fine -- although they want to print to metric-size paper and will try to
make one page into two when printing on 8½ x 11. The part on the second page is usually just a blank half inch.

OWNER’S HANDBOOK: Owners who don’t have an owner’s handbook might want to get one. However, note that
insisting on the proper one for your model year XJ-S might not work; apparently Jaguar published a single edition of
the handbook intended to suffice for multiple model years without change. For example, the owner’s handbook for the
1983 model year is titled “XJ-S H.E. HANDBOOK” and is publication part no. AKM 9045, 2nd Edition -- no model
year evident. The copyright date is 1981. Ask for the one with the most recent copyright date before your model year.

If you have trouble finding a handbook from a bookseller, ask at junkyards and similar places that might be parting out
a car of the same year as yours.

SCHEMATICS: See page 549 for info on available electrical schematics -- invaluable on this car.

MAIL ORDER CATALOGS: To those just getting started with the XJ-S, take this bit of advice: Order at least two
mail-order catalogs immediately. Turn to page 689, look through the list of new parts suppliers, and start calling until
you have a couple of catalogs coming in the mail. You will want to have such catalogs on hand even if you never order
any parts just so you can tell when some unscrupulous repair shop is trying to rape you on parts costs.

OTHER BOOKS: Richard Mansell suggests: “For XJ-S fans there is a book by Paul Skilleter called Jaguar XJS: A
Collectors Guide (ISBN 0-947981-99-3). It is full of pretty pictures (nearly 200) of XJ-S’s and variants. There is a fair
bit of history detailing specification changes, etc., covering a total of 144 pages.

“Appendix A lists the technical specifications model by model.

“Appendix B lists the location of the chassis/VIN numbers and explains what each bit of the VIN means.

“Appendix C lists launch dates and prices.

“Appendix D is a fairly detailed list of production changes by date chassis and/or engine number.

“Appendix E lists annual production numbers.

“Appendix F lists performance figures.

“If you are into XJ-S’s it is well worth a look.” Skilleter’s book is published by Motor Racing Publications Ltd., Unit
6, The Pilton Estate, 46 Pitlake, Croydon CRO 3YR, UK, ©1996.

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