Truck has starter issues

[Deathray]

Ok so this is my first time posting so...hi everyone!

I really need your help, I've got a ram 1500 2011 with the hemi 5.7l hemi. Basically it turns over like normal except it won't actually fire. It usually takes three or four tries before it starts. Brought it to a mechanic and they put it inside and it started every time. I thought maybe plugs and coils but it runs fine with 100% power. And no lights on the dash.

Please help!!

 

[Hootbro]

No codes setting, sounds like the fuel pump is on it's way out then.

 

[RamCares]

Ok so this is my first time posting so...hi everyone!

I really need your help, I've got a ram 1500 2011 with the hemi 5.7l hemi. Basically it turns over like normal except it won't actually fire. It usually takes three or four tries before it starts. Brought it to a mechanic and they put it inside and it started every time. I thought maybe plugs and coils but it runs fine with 100% power. And no lights on the dash.

Please help!!

Hi Deathray,

Sorry to hear about this! If you decide to visit your local dealership I'd be happy to follow up with them for you if needed. Just PM our page and let me know.

Andrea
Ram Social Care Specialist

 

[RamNoob]

It might be a fuel pump, but when a fuel pump goes it just goes. I dont think it wouldnt work a few times then suddenly work again. In my experience that when they fail they fail completely. Have you changed your fuel filter lately? It could be plugged up. Is it really cold outside where you live? If it is, you fuel could have to much moisture in it to fire.

 

[Numnutz]

Ok so this is my first time posting so...hi everyone!

I really need your help, I've got a ram 1500 2011 with the hemi 5.7l hemi. Basically it turns over like normal except it won't actually fire. It usually takes three or four tries before it starts. Brought it to a mechanic and they put it inside and it started every time. I thought maybe plugs and coils but it runs fine with 100% power. And no lights on the dash.

Please help!!

Have the plugs been changed?
Has the fuel filter been changed?

 

[Hootbro]

It might be a fuel pump, but when a fuel pump goes it just goes. I dont think it wouldnt work a few times then suddenly work again. In my experience that when they fail they fail completely. Have you changed your fuel filter lately? It could be plugged up. Is it really cold outside where you live? If it is, you fuel could have to much moisture in it to fire.

You can get spotty intermittent fuel pump performance when the elector motor segmented commutators start to fail. Get enough segment commutators in a row, then you have total pump failure.

Once a elector motor gets running, having a few commutators bad is not apparent but depending on where the motor stops in relation to the bad commutators in relation to the brushes, can make the next start up event iffy. That is why the troubleshooting "trick" of banging on a fuel tank is used, it basically is jarring the elector fuel pump motor to move past a bad communtator segment and get the brushes to pick up a good segment and get the motor spinning again.