Re: [Amc-list] Anyone Around Charlottesville VA know anything about 96Dodge Truck with 3.9 V6?

["jerijan baldwin" <jerijan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I checked the fuel pressure at the point where the manual (Haynes
UseLessAsARuleBooks) said to.  It was 'within the norms'.
Fuel Filter is part of the fuel pump if I'm correct.  (this is from Memory-I
think it was in Haynes, not sure...but not sold 'separately').
Injectors have had lots of cleaner put thru 'em, as well as those not 'tick
tick tick'ing replaced.  (there WERE faulty injectors which caused a
noticeable miss (skip) when running, and shot the correct codes in OBDII
(misfire in cylinder XXX) or something like that.
It also took out the coil at one point.  I was wicked happy to put a new
coil in, only to find the old problems still resident!  
This truck 'multiprocesses' failures; this drives me straight up a tree!
When you stumble on an actual failed part you think you've got it, only to
find, *SIGH*...
"Now What"?
Feeding the carb cleaner down the 'hole' gives me hope (I can't believe the
power this thing SHOULD ...or is that 'could' develop?
I'm going outside now to hook up some of the junk left off last check and to
recheck fuel pressure 'under load'.  Seems though 141lbs (or whatever it
was) should be sufficient.  Perhaps the real test is 'Gallons per minute'
out of the fuel line?  If that really 'squirts', it ought suffice, yes?
Jj


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Subject: [Amc-list] Anyone Around Charlottesville VA know anything about
96Dodge Truck with 3.9 V6?

not anywhere near charlottesville, but my input:

sounds like maybe tps. where did you check fuel pressure? did you check fuel
pressure at idle, or with throttle open? possible fuel filter is plugged,
and provides pressure at idle, but nothing more. what about injectors. have
you checked to see how nasty they are? maybe they are plugged. a lot of good
shops can test/clean injectors in-house. my only other idea is bad ecu. or
maybe the ground to the ecu? have you checked all grounds well? bad ground
will do WIERD things.... 

just my thoughts. 

i have discovered, (since i started working on ecu cars) that i HATE the
computers on them. i have a pretty good odbI/odbII scanner/reader gizmo. it
tells me what the ecu says just fine. but alot of times, the dam ecu dont
know what is going on. replace/clean/repair what ecu says is bad, turns out
its something totally different....

might be worth investing in an odbII reader. they are fairly cheap now. i
think you said it was '96 correct? 96 and newer are odbII. older is odbI. 

dave stohler
my rambler pics@
http://picasaweb.google.com/das24rules


      
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