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Dano here from Oregon, USA,
I live in beautiful Oregon. My family has owned Jags through three generations. My grandfather was the head Jag mechanic at Hanham Motors, unfortunately both granddad and Hanham Motors are both gone now. I'm the owner of a 1994 XJ6 4.0L. When I bought the car it was perfect nice inside and out, Everything worked great. It started to not start if you didn't move the gear shifter around a bit or not start at all. I was driving to work the other day and out of the blue it died, no indication at all it just turned off. I got it home that day and it did the same thing a couple of times and now it will not start at all. I get a Fuel Fail 69 VCM code. I have check the battery and it checked out okay, so next is the neutral switch(it may be helpful to know that it allow me to shift into any gear with or without the car on or off and without the brake on). When it runs it is the coolest car, everywhere I go people what to look at and talk about it. So running is better for me, it is my daily driver.
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Hello, Dano,
It's the Pits when your Driver quits!
Having to wiggle the shifter around to make it start sounds a bit like the Neutral Start circuit has a problem.
Someone will be along shortly to direct you to the correct section where you can get help for that.
Fuel pump, and/or fuel pump relay (common issue with the XJ40)
Crank angle sensor, not so coomon.
HT coil lead, FROM the coil TO the distributor cap is an XJ40 thing.
The group in the '40 section will add to that very quickly.
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Dano from Oregon
