I don't know what this part is but i guess it is a temp. sensor. i've done the research and even asked in another thread and no luck.

so while painting all the plastics under my hood today i took off the fan shroud. on the passenger side there are two white film canister looking things with a black plug and a white plug. its right next to the window fluid cap. w/o these plugged in the enigine would cut out w/o my foot
on the gas. after i hooked it back up and started it a couple times it works but wtf is that little thing?

 

haha those are the plugs for your washer fluid pump bro...

 

yea i figured at least one of them was.
then are you telling me the truck cant run w/o window fluid?
thats just stupid. anybody else remove the shroud and relocate those
pumps then?

 

never heard of it. I think you've got something else going on...bumping a plug or a sensor...something else is keeping it from starting. Not sure what it can be...but washer fluid pumps wont keep it from starting, ive had mine running without the upper shroud after replacing the thermostat...

 

If I still had my dak I would check, but I'm fairly certain that one plug is your coolant level sensor and that will keep it from running.

 

that would make sense, but the coolent is on the other side of the shroud.
i can't describe it so i'm going to take a pic. not a big deal now but i was
freaked out at how my truck started fine then would just die w/o any throttle.

 

they are both for windshield washer fluid...and a coolant level sensor wont keep it from starting either...

 

Are you kidding? I hope so. A coolant level sensor is an input sensor, if the ecm doesn't have all its nessacaery inputs it will not start. It goes into a safe mode

 

all i did was plug the two plugs back in and it ran fine. w/e they do
the ecm must think they are improtant. i really didn't touch anythingelse.

 

I just unplugged mine and holy crap...it started...