I think you are getting a load of BS from your dealership, sorry
man... I checked my '98 V8 out for this condition this morning and
none of the things you are talking about happened on mine... It
shifted at about the right spot and revved normally under mild
acceleration. I don't know if it might be a temperature thing... it
was only 40 degrees this morning in Boston. The engine fan sure does
sound like a cyclone under the hood though! The noise quiets down
after a short distance once it gets up to operating temp. or whatever
it needs to calm down (personally I think it sounds pretty cool, but I
don't usually leave early enough for work to annoy the neighbors;)...
T.
Boston, MA
'98 CC 4X4 V8 Auto., with ARE CX Cap INSTALLED! as of last Friday
(looks fantastic if you need a cap for your Dak!)
>>Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:10:43 -0400
From: "Buelterman, Chris" <Chris_Buelterman@mail.msj.edu>
Subject: DML: Hesistation on a '98
I have a '98 Dakota CC, 4x4, 5.2 V8, automatic that hesitates after it
sits
overnight. I took it to the dealer and they told me that what I was
talking
about was a characteristic of the '98 V8 Dak. (That's the same dealer
that
told me that it was normal to take two or three long tries to get the
engine
to turn over and three days later my starter died.) Anyway, what
happens is
that when my truck sits overnight and then I take off in the morning,
the
engine hesitates in first gear during the first and sometimes second
acceleration from a stop. When this happens I am holding the
accelerator
steady, but when I look at the tach it shows the engine speed is
holding at
1300 RMP for a second, then jumping to 1500 RMP and holding there for
a
second, and so on until the trany shifts into second. It sometimes
does it
in second gear too, but not as bad. I guess my question is has anyone
else
noticed this "characteristic" with their V8 or is the dealer just
feeding me
another story?
Chris Buelterman
'98 Dakota CC 4x4 V8
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