Well I noticed this problem today truck was cold has been sitting out since last monday(never started) anyway got home and started it up pulled in the garage to do my fogs and was about 60 in there was in there for 5+ hrs when I pulled it back out It was idling and all the sudden it started to misfire and you could hear it sucking air real bad also the smell of unburnt gas. I hit the gas it revved up and was fine. Then later tonight I was driving home(truck was cold) it was cutting out almost going to shut off let off the gas and it came back to life and was fine. Just now got back from another cold test drive this time when it did it instead of letting off I used more throttle had a couple sec of lag but then came back and down shifted like it should of and was fine. Now the weird part my buddy has a 01 ram 318 he has had the same problem with his truck for 6 months now he has a new tps and IAC is working fine. So im guessing thats not the problem with my truck but I am going to test the tps and IAC just to make sure. Could it be a map sensor? I didnt check to see if its throwing codes my light is already on so I cant be sure until I put my code scanner on it. It really pisses me off that every time I get money something goes wrong with my truck but I guess it beats having no money and something wrong with my truck.

 

dude that blows, as long as you can drive it, its not that broken. lol.

 

check the codes and answer back. mine just threw 0320 and 0340 the last 2 times I washed it and the second time it wouldn't start sounds like the same symptoms kind of. I had to use the throttle to get it to start and it wouldn't rev above 2800 without sucking in air and falling on its face it would also randomly rev at stop lights and try to die. I changed the crankshaft positon and camshaft position sensor for 40 bucks combined and my mpg went from 16-17.5 and I dont have the bogged down going up hill marbles in a can sound anymore which I think now was probably really bad pinging.

 

Put the scanner on it and didnt have any codes other than my p0442 one. Im going to try and get a vid of it.

 

Well figures took the camera out to record it doing it and now its fine, Figures. It has been sitting in the sun all morning and it is 43 out so maybe its not cold enough.

 

Story of my life

 

Its true for my truck last time I had to do a fuel pump the time before that I had to do brakes,rotors and calipers and before that was water pump and belt.

 

I know what you mean man. I've done the whole suspension minus the front sway bar, brakes, water pump, ctm... sucks man but it's how life goes a lot of the time.

 

hey man how much was it to get the whole suspension done? my dak needs it bad

 

mine has been doing the same thing for the last 3 months changed TPS , plugs and wires,IAC valve, cam position sensor and crankshaft sensor , and it still does it the only thing i can think of now is the o2 sensors just ordered them being no one around here has them in stock . If that fixes mine i will let yall know . oh and yeah my suspension needs work also mainly ball joints and bushings, you can get the energy poly bushing kit on autopartswarehouse.com for $55 maybe a little more i had a coupon for them .