Tom,I know how you feel,buddy! As I read your post,I
literally shook with emotion. And then the tears came.
Lord knows I didn't want it to happen! But I think I
was actually smacked in the face by the human
experience itself,and I reeled under the full weight
of it. The common struggle,the shared pain of a friend
who has himself dealt with intermittent hesitation and
erratic performance. I believe it was Thomas Jefferson
who said,and I quote: "We must all stick together,or
we'll all hang out separately!" End quote. What did he
mean and how does that apply to Daks? And is that even
an accurate quote? Well,that's hard to say exactly.
But I do know this! We must fix our trucks! Ourselfs!
I have had similar problems with two 3.9 Daks. One is
a former truck of mine,the other is my current work
truck. My own Dak is equipped with the venerable 4.7!
I've been too busy for a couple weeks to delve back
into the work truck again,but I bought new plug wires
for it the other day. Part of my problem is I haven't
learned enough about the diagnostic programs that work
with my scan tool to do everything yet. Looks like
next week I'll have more time. If I don't fix it
soon,I'm going to end up with a bad cat,or
transmission,or the thing mounted ahead of the
transmission that the hot pipes come out of. :)
Steve P.
--- Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
>
> ok... new developments...
>
> I'll be lucky if I ever get outta debt... The Ford
> Exploder is costing
> me a fortune... AC work $100, all new brakes $500,
> and now a blown rear
> CV Axle - another $330 in parts - all since June.
>
> So what do I do? I bought an Actron scan tool... the
> one that does
> everything but only OBDII and you can buy the
> optional cables... so I
> bought a chrysler OBDI cable as well, to use with
> Christine and whatever
> OBDI Dodge's I may come across in the future. I
> reasoned it was a good
> investment because I can use it on anything OBDII.
> And hell - if I end
> up thinking I'll never use it again - theres always
> FleaBay, when I'm
> done with it.
>
> So... I've been trying to pinpoint the issue with
> the Ram. I whipped
> out the Hypertech Power Programmer and reset
> everything to stock, even
> the tire size adjustment. Didnt help - engine still
> shakes at idle,
> still feels like its down on power and it still did
> its "I wanna stall
> out" crap on me. Unfortunatly both times its
> started to stall - I did
> not have the scan tool hooked up and recording
> sensor data!
>
> I also tried a new MAP sensor and it didn't so
> anything. I ran the
> engine at idle and at 2000 RPM and the map sensors
> both reported
> virtually identical readings. The old factory MAP
> did however seem to
> report ever so slightly higher manifold pressure
> readings. But I deemed
> the differences so insignificant that it prolly
> wasn't the cause of my
> drastic problems - however whos not to say that its
> an intermittant MAP
> issue that comes and goes...
>
> Yes... while its not anywhere near as expensive and
> as versitile as a
> deal from Snapon... (I know that what I bought isnt
> as powerful a tool
> as what a shop has) I also realize that I could have
> had a shop dig into
> the problem and fix it for me for the cost of what I
> spent. I'm a
> stubborn ass... I want to fix this bastard myself.
>
> What I need now are some numbers to compare my data
> with... stuff like
> such and such sensor should be reading X value under
> such and such
> conditions...
>
> Bernd? any insight?
>
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