Replace your battery. Seriously.
Biff Byrum wrote:
>
> 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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