This is kind of eerie... Just about the same thing just started happening to
my '98 318 4x4 auto. It has never quit just after start in the cold but I had
it stop twice in the last two days when pulling into a parking space. I can't
even call it a stall 'cause it's like somebody turned the key off --it just
goes from running to nothing just like the powers been cut. It seems like it
can't figure out what the proper idle should be when doing low speed maneuvers
in the cold so it just shuts down?!
I'm gonna start simple by blowing out the IAC or IAS or whatever you want to
call it with some Gummout as has been suggested. The strange thing is that it
doesn't happen all the time so I can't define the conditions to re-create it
reliably except that it has to be cold out (I.E. this has never happened in the
summer).
Tom
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Subject: DML: truck doesn't stay started when cold HELP!
Author: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net> at smtpout
Date: 1/22/00 3:17 PM
Has any of you guys expereinced truck won't start or doesn't stay started. if
i put my foot on the gas a little it stays started but as soon as i let off
the gas it dies. Also the last time my truck did this (yesterday) i held
my foot on the gas for a while to get my truck warm and that seemed to do the
trick and it stayed started without me on the gas. when it dies my tach
goes down, when i hold on the gas i try to stay bewteen 2000 & 4000 rpm... I
replaced my factory spark plugs with champion truck plugs around 10,000 miles
ago, i have a msd setup with 8.5mm wires and i have a cold air airraid
intake... after my truck stays runin ( after it gets warm) it run perfect
flawlessly. Please help....
I have a 99 dak with v8 318 4x4
many mods...
Brent Jones
newark, DE
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