Re: [Amc-list] Anyone Around Charlottesville VA know anything about96Dodge Truck with 3.9 V6?

[Glen Hoag <hoag@xxxxxx>]

It sounds to me like a fuel system restriction.  There's enough to 
make it idle, but not enough to make it go.  Add fuel in the form 
of  carb cleaner, and it runs.  Take the extra fuel away and it goes 
back into the barn.  Could be a bad fuel pump, or leaky o-rings in 
the tank, so that the pump is dumping most of its fuel right back 
into the tank.  I'd also look for other issues, like a pinched fuel 
line somewhere.  You say that there is pressure at the fuel rail, but 
have you checked the flow rate?  Something else to check is whether 
something got past the fuel filter and into the fuel rail, 
restricting flow at the injectors.

--Glen

At 12:18 PM 10/15/2008, "jerijan baldwin" <jerijan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Greetings Gang!
>I was just outside on this beautiful day having my daily dose of
>disabledtruck.
>Checked the sensors which are voted 'most likely to succeed' in doing this:
>ALL check out with correct inbound and outbound voltages.  Includes, of
>course, the TPS.
>Grounded everything to everything else with JumperCables just to be sure
>everyone was 'talking' to everyone else with no resistance loss thru crappy
>grounds.  Not a bit of change at all.
>So I'm left with:
>Truck starts and idles instantly.
>Put in gear, you get the 'ingearthunk'.  (you know the AT has fluid and is
>'ready' to go.
>Step on accelerator and...
>Wait.
>And wait.
>And wait.
>And wait.
>It kind of screws up the idle, but wont get any faster than the 'in gear'
>idle and won't move.
>Shoot carb cleaner down the throttle-opening and..
>*Its ALIVE, It's Alive!!*
>And..it does sound like 175 rarin' to go horses.
>Cut the cleaner, and they 'Dodge' right back into the stable.
>And folks wonder why I prefer the Old Rambler??
>At this point, I'm inclined to believe the ECU/PCM (or is that PCM/ECU?)
>has, ummm, 'Gone South'.
>How specific are these ECU's?
>Apparently it has to be..
>1996
>Dodge
>RAM1500
>3.9 V6
>Automatic Trans
>White paint
>Blackwall tires.
>(is that correct?  Did I miss anything?)
>I AM tired of this game.
>Jj
>
>
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