Josh Battles wrote:
> On Thu, August 10, 2006 8:27 pm, Terrible Tom wrote:
>
>>The Ram is again having the same problems with power loss, misfires, and
>>stumbling. I've changed the cap, rotor, plugs, wires, not recently...
>>but back the last time this was happening. That had no effect. I also
>>changed the TPS sensor... (thought that might also account for the very
>>touchy throttle I have) no dice. It occured to me perhaps a crank
>>position sensor. The truck acts like its tming gets screwed up...
>>misfiring... never once has the check engine light come on when this
>>happens. It sometimes just stopps doing it as abruptly as it starts, as
>>it did today while driving. Other times the only way I got it to stop
>>was to kill the engine and restart.
>>
>>I really wished today that I had the laptop and diagnostics software set
>>up that walt has in his Ram. I would really like to see what the
>>sensors report when it barfs like that.
>
>
> No codes at all?
>
> You may want to check the coil, it'll do all sorts of weird things when it's
> about to die. When my coil failed, it'd cause all sorts of misfiring or it
> would shut the truck off. It eventually set a code but it took a while. You
> may also want to check the HEP, they do go bad from time to time. I had to
> replace mine at about 80k.
>
No codes at all... Its getting to be a REAL pain in the ass. Its doing
it daily now. I'm scrambling to get the neon back together because I've
got to dig into the Ram to find out what the hell is causing this. I'll
try a coil... I'm actually pondering picking up one of those OBDII
port recorder tools, or something like it - to monitor the sensors when
it happens.
Refresh my memory here... "HEP" is not ringing a bell.. I should know
what youre talking about but I can't think of what that ancronym means
at this moment
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