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Old 03-24-2012, 02:44 PM
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have a 94 dakota sport 318 -- will start up and sit in drive way all day, but the 1st time it died i drove about 20 miles it died on the freeway at 70 mph( just stopped not a sputter nothin) waitd 5 minutes started back up but died every 100 ft took me 30 minutes to get off freeway now when i drive it now it goes from 3 miles or more than it just dies (seems like when i slow down to make turn more recently)has no spark after it dies either have replaced cap rotor sensor under distributor cap , coil and fuel pump filter.
 
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Check the notorious splice. The FAQ has a write up on it.
 
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Damn that splice!!!!!!
 
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thanks guys will take a look at that today and let ya know
 
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yea ive read about that, let us know if thats it man
 
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thanks for the info all it was not the notorious splice it turned out to be the simplest thing = the female plug wire for the coil was not getting a good connection was shorting itself out took it apart reset wires soldered them and seems to be fine, but am going to do another post new problem thanks would have never found it without looking for the splice
 
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Happy you got it straight! when i got mine it was a total eureka moment!
 



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