'91 Has a Bad Cough
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'91 Has a Bad Cough
Well y'all; at the risk of sounding pathetic, let me say that my only transportation are two trucks, a 94 and a 91 6cyl dakotas; the 94 has a bad trans leak so i've been driving the 91. i had driven the 91 on a 3 hour trip and it did fine but coming back home, the truck sort of 'coughed' three times in a row and later it coughed once. i filled it up with premium and have been driving it around town for a month. yesterday in suddenly coughed and nearly died...i didn't want to be stranded and i was able to turn around and drive it back home.....what is likely causing this? the truck has 170,000 miles on it. thanks
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Thanks Robert; i only recently bought the truck and the previous owner had done some work on it but not sure what work he did other than installing two glasspack mufflers and i haven't done anything other than had a starter installed....since u said that, i can only hope its a fuel filter....
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$80 seems a bit high since its pretty simple job that shouldn't take an experienced mechanic more than 20 minutes.
I'm pretty sure you can do that yourself unless you are physically unable to. There are plenty of YT vids. You only need to have a longish phillips screw driver, and know the firing order to make sure you get the plug wires back onto the correct places. I use a silver sharpee to mark each wire hood with the cylinder it comes from.
This should help You can definitely use a long screw driver to remove the bolts he uses the ratchet on. I'm not sure why he struggle but my 94 3.9 the cap comes right on up.
I'm pretty sure you can do that yourself unless you are physically unable to. There are plenty of YT vids. You only need to have a longish phillips screw driver, and know the firing order to make sure you get the plug wires back onto the correct places. I use a silver sharpee to mark each wire hood with the cylinder it comes from.
This should help You can definitely use a long screw driver to remove the bolts he uses the ratchet on. I'm not sure why he struggle but my 94 3.9 the cap comes right on up.
Last edited by onemore94dak; 07-23-2016 at 03:27 PM.