Now that I've fixed the cylinder 5 misfire code and drove the truck for over 400 miles this week, this afternoon when I went to crank it, the starter wouldn't turn over the engine for the first 2 tries. The 3rd try it started up fine and had the cel on. I took it to autozone and it came up with 3 codes. PO443, PO585 and PO123.
One of them is the idle air control malfunctioning and I just replaced that sensor with a brand new one.

 

There is a whistling sound at idle coming from the vacuum cannister purge vale and none of the vaccum lines are cracked.

 

what plugs ya runnin and when is the last time you cleaned your iac?

 

I'm running Autolite resistor copper plugs and my IAC is a brand new duralast.

 

P0443 Evap Purge Solenoid Circ

P0585 Cruise Ctrl Multi-Function Input A/B Correlation

P0123 Throttle Pos Sens Voltage Hi

Clear the codes, and try again.

When you say it didn't wanna turn the engine over, what exactly do you mean there? Did it give you the grinding sound? Did the starter motor run, but not turn the engine, or, did nothing happen at all? Other??

 

It acted as if there was something holding the motor from starting. Not like a bendix sticking, but more like somebody having a torque wrench on the balancer bolt while I was turing the key. I went into town about an hour ago and when i turned the truck off went inside the bank and came back out the cel went off and she's running fine now, no whistles or anything. I wonder if it set those codes or just was a computer malfunction?

Also today I went or o'reilly's and got new check valves for the vacuum lines running up to the a/c vents to cure the wild vents. The one next to the manifold was stuck wide open and no more wild vents. It also helped the idle a little I think.

 

Correction, It was code 505, not 585.

 

Check and clean the power cables from the batter, all the way to the starter motor. May have been a fluke, but, cleaning them up a bit sure won't hurt.

If the codes don't come back, chalk it up to "a ghost in the machine", and call it good.

 

I think I will. haha I love my truck but it's a constant project. I'd rathe rbe spending my money on getting the keyless entry remote programmed to my truck this weekend than buying a TPS sensor.

Also since I did the plenum repair on the truck I accidentally broke the temperature sensor with 2 wires on it on the intake manifold. It threw a cel code a few weeks ago for it and I replaced the sensor with a new one. Now it says my truck is running hot and saying my temp is on 250 but with 2 dodge intrepid 13" fans and my clutch fan on the radiator I think the gauge is going crazy. Any way to test the gauge or replace it?