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From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Durling
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:11 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: Highway stalling... OMGWTFBBQ
On Oct 12, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Josh Battles wrote:
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>> On mine it took about ten minutes to cool down before it would start.
>> At first it started acting like you described, where it would just
>> idle, but after a wile it would just plain die (speedo too). Pull
>> over,
>> let it cool, and then it runs fine. Mine went from the first set of
>> symptoms to the worst set in about 20 miles of driving. I know that
>> because I was camping and it did this on the way home and took me an
>> hour and a half to do a 25 minutes drive. I may be way off here
>> (probably am) but it is something to check out.
>
> I didn't have anything like that, I could literally just pop it into
> neutral, hit the key and it'd fire right up every time. It was only the
> first time it happened that I had trouble getting it started again.
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Mine is an auto so if, in fact, it is your problem it could explain the
difference. BTW, yes it is scary what the battery can do!!
Jeff Durling
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