It's a "Dodge Thing"....even us techs sometimes don't understand why they do
the things they do. ;)
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: Biff Byrum [mailto:bbyrum9@foothill.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:44 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: Re: Re: RE: a little help please
Bernd, you aren't going to believe this, because I don't. I just walked down
to the corner to move it to in front of my house. It DIDN'T die.....
It started right up, and I kept the pedal to about 900 rpm for about 15
seconds. Then let it go and put it in gear, it went about 300 feet and when
I parked in front of my house, it went right to normal idle, didn't die, and
the tach didn't bounce. After 20 years and 2 months of owning four of these
things, I thought I knew something about them, oh well. Biff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Biff Byrum" <bbyrum9@foothill.net>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:29 PM
Subject: DML: Re: RE: a little help please
>
> Sorry, I didn't get that yet. The Auto Zones here in Sacramento don't
> check it for you anymore, as far as I've been told. I'll try to find
> somewhere to check it today. I guess it'll still start. Biff
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@dodgetrucks.org>
> To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:08 PM
> Subject: DML: RE: a little help please
>>
>> So what's the code?
>>
>> And yes...the MagnaFlow cats work very well.
>>
>> - Bernd
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Biff Byrum [mailto:bbyrum9@foothill.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:01 PM
>> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>> Subject: DML: a little help please
>>
>> I know this has been talked about somewhere here, but I'm getting a
>> little brain fog right now.
>>
>> Last night I went about two miles to a donut shop, about two blocks short
>> of it was a slight S curve, so I just took my foot of the gas. Poof, the
>> engine died. Yes a check engine had been on for a few days. So I steered
>> it into the parking lot and looked at it.
>>
>> The check engine light was now off, and it would start, but would die at
>> anything less than about 900-1000 rpms. Otherwise it seemed to be running
>> as usual.
>>
> I'm not in shape to walk that far, so I thought I'd chance it, by the "two
> foot" method. It worked, didn't stall out until I backed it into a space.
>>
>> It seems like the crank sensor can be ruled out, as it usually causes a
>> complete no start condition. IAC motor? Can it cause that? It has a three
>> month old Bosch pump in it, under waranty. I can't hear a vacuum leak,
>> not saying that there isn't one.
>>
> Nothing like this has ever happened before. I have put about 97,000 on it
> in two years plus. By the way, it's a '98 CC with a 3.9 and a 42RE, all
> stock.
>>
>> By the way, there are problems getting OBDII cats here in California
>> right now due to a new CARB rule, but the manager at my area Kragen says
>> they list a high performance cat from Magna-Flow. Any thoughts on that?
>>
> Thanks for any help, I just can't remember where my problem was discussed
> here in the past. Biff Byrum
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