check your battery if you have a burned cell in the battery this will cause
your truck to stall all dodges do that according to the service writter at
dealership.
arnold
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Eng" <keng@novadigm.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 1:04 PM
Subject: DML: RE: Stalling/Dieing, 4.7, '00
> Todd,
>
> I have been to my dealer twice to correct the stalling problem on my 98 V6
> Auto. My engine would mostly stall when I would go to restart it after
> having driven the truck for a while. This problem first showed up in the
> Fall of last year. The engine would start and run but would stall when I
> would release the key or shift out of Park. On my first visit to the
dealer
> last December they replaced the AIS. The dealer did not find any codes
set
> in the computer. After a week or two my Dak stalled while stopped at a
> light. I also still had trouble restarting the engine. On my second
visit
> to the dealer in January they told me that my QuickD TB was not on tight
> enough so they torqued my TB bolts and reset the computer. The truck
didn't
> stall for about 2 weeks. On the third week my Dak stalled twice on me.
Once
> after I lifted of the gas moving around 20mph and once while braking to a
> stop. Since last month I have not had any stalling problems. The engine
> would also stay running when I would go to restart it. Last week I ran
> several errands and I must have restarted the engine 5 time within 5
hours.
> I have no idea what may have corrected the problem or if it is really
> corrected.
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Abernathy [mailto:t_abernathy7@juno.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 11:15 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Stalling/Dieing, 4.7, '00
>
>
> I was just getting ready to send this e-mail when I saw Kyle's. My truck
> a, 4.7, 5 spd, '00. I've not had any trouble starting, but she has died
> on me. I got the truck about year ago and first really noticed the
> problem when it would die while I was on vacation in the mountains. At
> the time a discarded the problem, even though it happened about a dozen
> times, as a glitch in the truck, operator error of the clutch, or due to
> the elevation. Once I returned home it did not die for months, then did
> a few times and I took her into the dealership. They could not duplicate
> the problem. A month or so later, one day as I was getting of the
> highway, going down hill on the exit ramp, with the clutch in and
> applying the break as I was approaching the stoplight she died on me. A
> few miles down the road again going downhill, clutch in and breaking for
> a stop sign she died. When she dies just the tranny light comes on and
> she does not have enough momentum to pop the clutch. I took it into the
> dealership again and they replaced the AIS motor. They said it was not
> bad enough to trigger a code, but was sluggish when they hooked test
> equipment up to it. When I got the truck back it seemed to run with more
> pep. Since then, twice on the same exit ramp the truck has died again.
> I noticed I had about half a tank of gas the last time it happened. I'm
> going, again, back to the dealership, but wanted to see if anyone had any
> problems with their '00, 4.7s like this, and see if anyone had
> suggestions on what the problem is. I already got some thoughts from
> Shane's and Austin's responses to Kyle's e-mail. Thank guys. Any
> thoughts welcomed.
>
> Todd
> t_abernathy7@juno.com
> '00, 4.7, 5 spd, 4X4, extended cab
> St. Louis, Missouri
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