Well, the booster problem is this...there is a bolt in the booster that is
supposed to STAY in place, factory adjusted and set, that goes into the
master cylinder when you push the pedal. However, this bolt works its way
loose and begins to back out and takes away the slack in your brake pedal.
It keeps tightening up the brakes as it creeps out and the fluid in the
calipers cannot back off the piston so thus, the brakes begin locking up.
Its always the passenger side first, (I dunno why), but eventually both will
lock up. Its not a vacuum problem, it's a booster bolt problem and
unfortunately, pretty common on our Daks.
As far as the fuel/coil...heck, could be a coil, put a stocker on. We have
all kinds of guys who have problems with the MSD coils for some reason. I
think its Racer Ray that swears by the stock coil, he has tried them all.
Backing up? I wonder if you have a short in a backup light or
something...weird for sure, but a coil is sure easier to replace than a fp.
Just my two cents friend, let us know how it goes.
Rascal
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Stewart
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:05 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: Hard start, stall in reverse???
Yep, it started out with the truck being hard to start for a couple weeks,
OCCASIONALLY. Have to pump the pedal like a carbed car but you could tgell
it was flooding it almost too. Then it started wanting to die out when
backuping up, only backing up. And also one time pulling it into my friend's
garage where it had to go up a lil elevation at the opening, kept wanting to
die.
So, I think, 110k mile FP is going, right? Run tot he dealership my friend
works at and borrow his FP gauge..... AT idle it sits perfect at 48psi.
Under a 3k load in drive (shows how inaccurate the factory tach is it'll
show 3k and not spin with a 2800 stall) and it stayed right at 46/47-48psi.
So now I'm stumped. Take it back and since it doesn't always do it, friend
had never seen the hard start, but it did it when I went to leave. He think
the MSD coil si going bad. Sounds feasible since you can smell it dumping
fuel while it's trying to start.... then it started doing the dying ONLY
when in reverse.... I see no way that could be a coil.
So, I'm reading on DML about someone's brakes goign bad and another member
saying that a sticking pass. caliper was a sure sign of the brake booster
going out... Hmm, just did my brakes and had to go get a new pass caliber
because it was sticking. Head starts thinking..... Even with new rotors and
pads, brakes still feel weak. We bled em 4 times trying to get em good and
couldn't.
Soooo, could a dying brake booster cause weak brakes, a lack of vacuum
causing it to want to die out in reverse, and lack of vacuum for starting?
What about power loss? Truck also runs really, really rich.
What's your fella's thoughts?
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