I bought this 50th Anniversary edition LSE with AEL because it was in good physical shape and already had a 2" lift and sliders and the PO said he had issues starting in Park or Neutral and finally it stopped starting at all and the wife wanted it out of the driveway and gone so I picked it up in Columbia, SC, towed it to western NC and had a local mechanic who owned an RRC check it out. He replaced the CPS but could not get it to run and finally gave up when some tweakers cut the cats off. I have a '96 D1 trail truck in AZ with a great independent shop with long experience in Land Rovers so had it shipped to AZ for more trouble shooting. Inititally, it was bad shielding on the CPS wire loom shorting and the check engine light came back on at ignition. Still, intermittent start continued and the mechanic identified a loose retaining ring on the flywheel and tightened that up which seemed to fix the issue until it would not start at random intervals. ECU's were also swapped (thanks Will) and no change so back to the original ECU. When it wont start, there is a yellow fan relay behind the glove box that starts clicking in position II. Before I drop more $ on this truck, I thought I would get some input from the brain trust here as my mechanic is Land Rover master certified and does most of the work here in Phoenix on vintage Land Rover's so he's not ready to throw in the towel yet but clearly stumped. what say all of you?
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