check your cold cranking amps on your battery, mattderen@hotmail.com
94 dak sport
>From: Mike Crumley <mcrumley@airmail.net>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
>Subject: Re: DML: Starting truck in the morning
>Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:35:30 -0600
>
>On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:44:27 -0800, jay&dana@telus.net ("jay & dana")
>wrote:
>
> >On the DML so many times I've read about the horror stories of our trucks
> >with problems and have considered myself very fortunate to have bought my
> >truck new in 1997( 318, 5 speed, 4x4), and never any problems, UNTIL NOW.
> >Whether cold, warm, or hot it always started at the first turn of the key
> >until this morning. I had to crank it quite a few times (being cold)
>before
> >it started. Almost drained the battery. This has NEVER happened before.
> >Any ideas or opinions as to what would cause this, why now?
>
>Since you have a 97, you can pull the codes using the key on-off
>method (see the DML homepage for details and code meanings). Could be
>lots of stuff, but I'd try running a bottle or two of injector cleaner
>thru your tank first. Good luck.
>
>
>97 V6 Auto
>e-mail mcrumley@airmail.net
>
>I'm gonna drive 90 all the way to work this
>morning. That cop's radar can't possibly
>work in fog this thick!
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