mwclarksr
Senior Member
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2013
- Posts
- 116
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- Location
- Mooresville, Indiana
- Ram Year
- 2002
- Engine
- 4.7L - 287cid
Hello all;
What brought me here today is a bit of a poser for me. Hard starting (prolonged cranking) 1999 1500 SLT Laramie w/5.2 318 motor & 225k miles on it. I'm pretty sure it's the TPS, but everyone and there mother insists that in 1999 the Ram 1500 has the same 4.2 V8 motor as the Grand Cherokee. We all know that is a bunch of BS. Dodge didn't put the 4.7 in the 1500 until 2002.
These same people (I'm talking Autozone, O'Reilly's, Rockauto), seem to think that the 4.7 TPS will work just fine on a 5.2. So I was suckered into it. Put it on and code threw out a "Too High" fault. I can't remember exactly because I returned that TPS and put the original back on.
But the issue is still prolonged cranking until it fires up and runs with no problems & no Check Engine light. So my question is: Will a TPS from a 5.9 work in place of the 5.2 TPS (or 4.7 as those ******** want to say I have)?
What brought me here today is a bit of a poser for me. Hard starting (prolonged cranking) 1999 1500 SLT Laramie w/5.2 318 motor & 225k miles on it. I'm pretty sure it's the TPS, but everyone and there mother insists that in 1999 the Ram 1500 has the same 4.2 V8 motor as the Grand Cherokee. We all know that is a bunch of BS. Dodge didn't put the 4.7 in the 1500 until 2002.
These same people (I'm talking Autozone, O'Reilly's, Rockauto), seem to think that the 4.7 TPS will work just fine on a 5.2. So I was suckered into it. Put it on and code threw out a "Too High" fault. I can't remember exactly because I returned that TPS and put the original back on.
But the issue is still prolonged cranking until it fires up and runs with no problems & no Check Engine light. So my question is: Will a TPS from a 5.9 work in place of the 5.2 TPS (or 4.7 as those ******** want to say I have)?