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Old Jun 26, 2014 | 02:29 PM
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my dodge shakes like its missing at idle. Some days its good some days its bad. I dont use coolant and come nowhere near overheating but the upper radiator hose gets really hard when hot. I dont smell exhaust or oil in my coolant and I cant seem to see coolant in my oil.. it's usually black when I let it cool. It doesn't smell like its burning coolant either.. I rerouted wires, and replaced them.. I replaced cap, plugs, and rotor 70k ago.. I was told they cant make it do this. Any suggestions?
 
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Old Jun 26, 2014 | 05:33 PM
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Plugs are a replacement item every 30K miles...... do those first.
 
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Old Jun 27, 2014 | 12:31 AM
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Replaced plugs, cap, and rotor. Still shakes
 
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Old Jun 27, 2014 | 10:39 AM
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Now it only shakes when its cold.. when it warms up its fine :/
 
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Old Jun 28, 2014 | 12:03 PM
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What plugs did you put in? How's your plenum?
 
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Old Jun 29, 2014 | 10:57 AM
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Plenum was fixed, im using champion copper heads. For some odd reason, its been driving perfect for the past few days.. but it shakes if I fill my gas tank to the top and if I drive crazy.. if I unplug my PCM and go for a ling drive it stops again
 
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Old Jun 29, 2014 | 11:06 AM
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I am not a fan of champion plugs. In fact, I REALLY dislike them....... my recommendation would be to try swapping them out for some autolites, or similar quality plugs......

Does it start doing it immediately? Or only after it has been running for a few minutes?
 
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Old Jun 29, 2014 | 12:01 PM
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I was told to run champions.. I've tried three other plugs and it still does it.. I'm out of state today, and it stopped dong it until I topped my ank off with premium.. now its shaking again. Only seems to shake and run like crap when I fill my tank completely to the top. It will occasionally throw a P0303 code.
 
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Old Jun 29, 2014 | 12:05 PM
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Swap the injectors on 1 and 3, see if the miss moves with the injector.
 
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Old Jun 29, 2014 | 12:18 PM
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Swapped it and the miss is still p0303. Pressure test on all cylinders is good
 
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