2000 Dodge Ram Cutting off Intermittently

[DerekHasARam]

Hello everyone, I am new to the forum and dodges in general, however not new to vehicles. I have an issue which may be common by reading some other posts however mine is kind of unique. I just bought a 2000 Dodge Ram 1500 318 V8. I was driving it the other day and it cut off. There was no warning or sputtering, just as quick as you can say OFF. I tried to restart it and it would just crank and crank but not turn over. NOW I pushed it into a parking spot and let it sit for a second and tried again, and once again just continuous cranking. I pressed the shrader valve on the fuel rail and had plenty of fuel pressure from what I could see, which lead me to believe it may be something not giving it spark. Got it started and I drove off and it cut off again and I noticed this time that my gas gauge was not working as it should when you would turn the key on to acc. so I waited a second and turned key to acc. again and the gauge worked fine and the truck turned over. Also when it cut off the second time, I had my hazards on which went from blinking to solid lights :/ ... which I believe would be something with the BCM? So basically that's where I am at. The problem is intermittent and does not happen all the time. Just a quick overview of symptoms ... sorry for the long post, hard to explain with writing.

- Truck cuts off intermittently
- Discovered with key on acc. if gauge is not working truck wont start, however with key on acc. and gauge working truck starts
- Flashers went solid during not start problem
- There was a CEL on but now off and scanner did not pickup anything in the memory
- Cuts off at any speed
- 2000 Ram 1500 5.2 4x4

Please help me out, I am thinking maybe faulty PCM, BCM, CPS, what do you guys think? Thank in advance
Derek

 

[BAILEY1]

With what you have described above it definitely sounds like your PCM needs to be replaced. It is a common problem with those models. Does it show anything on the cluster that says "no bus"?

 

[DerekHasARam]

I did not notice the "no bus" but I have read that a lot of people get that with similar issues. Is this displayed on the odometer display?

 

[BAILEY1]

Yes. It will say it in the odometer.