Re: truck won't start

From: Mike D. (miggitymike@juno.com)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 18:33:49 EST


mine died a couple times mysteriously. Turned out to be the "pikc-up
plate". It's in the ditributor. Pretty pricey little part, but when it
goes it makes the truck do wierd stuff... look into that...

-mike d.

---> Yorktown, Va.
miggitymike@juno.com
88 6er LE, slammed, modded, painted, and can clear speed bumps just fine,
thank you! =)

http://members.xoom.com/dakotaperf/index.html

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:56:36 -0500 "Gregory Wright" <gjw@umich.edu>
writes:
> Hey everyone, I'm having a problem with my 1987 Dodge Dakota V6. It
> won't
> start. The battery is about a month old and the spark plugs were
> just
> replaced in the past two months. When I first started it up
> yesterday it
> started to run for a few seconds then died out on me. It did that
> three
> times, now I can just hear it churning, but no luck in starting it.
> I check
> the distributor cap and wires and they all look intact, no cracks or
> anything. It is deathly cold here in Michigan and I've always had a
> problem
> with it starting in the rain, but never to this extent. I even tried
> pushing
> it back three or so feet in order to reset something (at least
> that's what I
> was told to do when I bought the truck in December 98). Any ideas?
> Please
> help. Thanks.
>
> Greg Wright
> Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Colony - President
>
> GO BLUE! University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
>
> "When I grow up I wanna be like me."
>

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