I think my passenger side front shock is gone and would like to replace it myself. Can anyone give me a link or a recomendation for a good repair manual for a '95 Jaguar Vanden Plas. It's got the straight six motor with no supercharger.

Thanks

 

If it's a shock and not a strut just dig in without the repair manual. Just be careful if you need to remove any plastic fender wells they break easily and are often attached with cheap plastic fasteners. If it's a strut and your not experienced and don't have proper tools have it professionally done. Struts can be very dangerous some of the coils on the strut are compressed to 1/3 of their extended length. If you have to buy the coil and shock of the strut seperated you would have to compress the coil to assemble the strut. Hope that helps and be safe

 

Front shocks on your X300 model are separately mounted to the springs, and reasonably easy to replace, although beware of rusted up nuts and bolts ! Your rears are a strut with springs mounted concentric to the shock as posted by 'skipracer', so if you ever need to replace these, you will need a spring compressor.

 

Thanks guys. Can driving on the bad shock for a while damage anything else in my car. It really doesn't ride bad actually it rides pretty good, it wasn't until someone was sitting on the passenger side that the shock even got noticed.

 

Well yes, in extremis you could end up totalling the car due to loss of control. Is it bouncing real bad ? If you can't afford to buy a new pair of shocks should you really be driving a Jaguar ?

 

I don't care what kind of car I've got I'm not trying to pay a mechanic to do my shocks. I didn't even notice it my friend in the passenger seat did. I don't really think its bad at all but I'm going to open a can of worms by leaving it the way it is I want to fix the problem.