I run premium, It is NOT one of those Alcohol mixes, I have the dodges
replacement high HP, dual exhaust, and dual air intake, been running this
way for some time with no problems, Any other ideas?
GV
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> From: T & J <jan@bewellnet.com>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Re: Engine died ?
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 9:00 PM
>
> From:Tim Roller>magnum318@bewellnet.com
>
> >Don't know what part of the country you're in, but if it's a place where
> it's HOT,or a part of an area that sells gas that has alcohol as a
mixture,
> then on top of that you run the AC which gets the engine even hotter then
> what you're experiencing is probably --vapor lock which wants to boil the
> cheap properties in the gas. Try a higher octane fuel in the summer
months.
> Also have you noticed a larger than normal pinging rate in the summer
than
> the winter, this is telling you that your engine is starving for good
octane
> fuel. One reason I mentioned alchol mixture is while on a trip in
Missouri
> they had 95 octane regular fuel and 95 alcohol fuel which I tried and boy
> did my engine ping. Went back to regular fuel,pinging stopped and truck
had
> better power.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vanderbu@silk.net <vanderbu@silk.net>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 8:38 PM
> Subject: DML: Engine died ?
>
>
> >I was wondering if any of you know why, or what is my engine problem?
> >On the way home with the Air conditioning on the engine (1994 V8 with
> 22,000 mile on it) suddeny started to run real bad, idel dropped to 100
RPM,
> I parked and the engine could barly run, more gas didn't help, then it
> started to diesel real bad, I shut it off, and tried to restart. Nothing,
> try again nothing, try again it starts and RPM's go way up to around 2500
> for a second then back to 100 RPM, then it diesels again. Shut it off.
Try
> again after a minute. It starts up and I drive home. Any ideas?
> >GV
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