Well, it turns out one of the differences of owning a 2001 XJ with Calif. Emissions is that your XJ has four 02 sensors. So, the bad news is you will eventually spend more money to replace 4 sensors instead of 2 sensors.
The good news is your scanner reports the Short Term Fuel Trim, and Long Term Fuel Trim, for each Bank of 3 injectors, as well as the O2 sensor data for each bank. If you have an injector performing marginally (rich or lean), just comparing the STFT and LTFT between the two banks will start to narrow down a problem.
Low trim percentages indicate that the PCM is not having to make large adjustments to the “preset tables” to get the A/F correct, so if both banks are reading low percentages, and those numbers are relatively close to each other, (within a couple of percent) then it can be a basic indication of balanced performance without having to go through the process of disconnecting each injector, one at a time, and then comparing the net change for STFT and LTFT that the PCM will create trying to makeup for a disconnected injector.
My initial scan today seems to show that the two banks are fairly well balanced.
Trim for both banks was around 2% at most in idle from start up open loop, through closed loop and on up to full running temperature.Once getting to closed loop, STFT and LTFT dropped to zero or went a little minus quite often, as the PCM seemed to be running the show greatly while things were warming up.
So, when I have more free time, I am going to measure and record STFT and LTFT at 1500 RPM and 2500 RPM and then do the injector by injector balance check so that I have a point of reference to work from in the future.
Thanks again for posting that article Mike.