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well its now ruff idling an shop says it;s cylinder number 5 so any ideas ?
Yep, it's probably what they said. Is your CEL on? I had this same problem, CEL was on, engine running rough and the dealer did a compression test and told me it was cylinder #3 and that the head was probably cracked. Well it turned out that the cylinder was not cracked but burnt, but the cylinder still had to be replaced. Lucky for me, I had an extended warranty in place. Trucks runs great now. Of course as soon as the turck was fixed, a week later my dealer got thier Dodge dealership yanked by Chrsyler, as they were on the hit list of dealership closings. Now my nearest Dodge dealer is 20+ miles away vs. the 5 miles I drove to my local dealer.