2010 ram stalled

[Mario Rancatore]

Idk if I'm posting in the right spot but my ram had the light for the gas cap come on this morning I drove the truck almost all day today and then all of a sudden half way through a turn it stalled. Was able to drift the rest of the way around the turn and drifted to the side of the road. I put it in park and it started right back up again and drove off like nothing happened. No codes or check engine light came on only light is the gas cap light. Is there any correlation between the gas cap light and the stalling it did or is somthing else wrong. It's a 2010 ram 57l with 281000 miles on it.

 

[Tach_tech]

The gas cap light would not be related to an engine stalling.

 

[Dark Knight 500]

Being that your truck is a 2010, the first thing I’d do is clean the throttle body. Probably the most plausible thing to cause the engine to stall. In my experience anyway.


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[Mario Rancatore]

I'll try cleaning the throttle body I hope it works. So far that was the first time it's done it

 

[huntergreen]

After cleaning the throttle body, start with the basics. Battery good ? Connections tight and clean ? Spark plugs in good shape ? Coils still or ? A long list to go through..

 

[Mario Rancatore]

After cleaning the throttle body, start with the basics. Battery good ? Connections tight and clean ? Spark plugs in good shape ? Coils still or ? A long list to go through..

Just put a new battery and alternator on it last month. No idea when the plugs and coils were last changed. But I'll start digging into everything this weekend. Iv only had this truck for about 2 and a half months. I woke up this morning with the check engine light on. 2 codes came up one for a small EVAP leak and another for a large EVAP leak I'm assuming those to code will be from the gas cap

 

[Mario Rancatore]

Another 2 codes came up on the truck p3425- cylinder 4 deactivation control circuit and p0302- cylinder 2 mis fire. Would these 2 codes have anything to do with each other. And what should i check for them. I was going down the road when I noticed that the truck would start shaking bad when I gave it a little gas but would be smooth when I gave it a lot of gas. Then I stopped at a stop sign and the whole truck was shaking and had no power for about 50 yards and the check engine light was flashing then the truck smoothed out again. So i pulled over and checked the codes with my scanner and that's what I found. But it kept the shaking when I give it a little gas while up in speed and the truck does feal a little sluggish. Maybe bad gas or trash in an injector or fuel filter clogg. I don't have money at the moment I'm in between jobs and it will be 2 weeks befor I'm paid and need the truck for work.

 

[Burla]

maybe you will get lucky and just have to replace valve spring. need a compression test. The worst case would be you are next of many ram owners with a wiped out cam lob.

 

[Mario Rancatore]

maybe you will get lucky and just have to replace valve spring. need a compression test. The worst case would be you are next of many ram owners with a wiped out cam lob.

I hope not lol

 

[Burla]

Do a compression test on that cylinder, it if fluctuates and is erratic likely a valve spring. If not, we have seen those mis fires a bunch of times and the news aint good. I hope you get lucky young buck, but either way time to start a rainy day fund.

 

[Mario Rancatore]

Do a compression test on that cylinder, it if fluctuates and is erratic likely a valve spring. If not, we have seen those mis fires a bunch of times and the news aint good. I hope you get lucky young buck, but either way time to start a rainy day fund.

Yeah I guess it is. I had a 2011 ram a couple years ago that a valve collapsed in it. I'll just have to park it for now till a build up the funds to play with it. Guess I'll have to pull out old reliable and drive her around till I can fix the ram. It's a 99 ford ranger with the 3.0 it's never let me down before. It's ugly it squeaks everywhere gotta stand up on the brake for it to even start to slow down it goes 0-60 in about 25 seconds Back windshield leaks it sounds like a lawnmower and burns fuel like a V8 it gets about 250 miles to a tank. But it just won't die. Iv let that thing sit almost a year, threw a battery in it and it starts right up this poor truck has had way better days but it keeps going. Oh and i aved it from a scrap yard and paied 600 bucks for it because it was totaled but I pieced it back together with junk yard parts and ot just keeps going

 

[Burla]

I love those old Fords, and the 1996 f150's 351 and down are great great trucks, I owned 3 f bodies and they never let me down neither. Those rangers were great, I can't believe Ford discoed those for a while even though they were the second best selling small truck. Have a mechanic do that test unless you have the tool to remove the spring. They can test it and replace the spring at the same time. If it is the Cam, maybe get a junk yard engine. good luck to ya, Burla

That tool is 189 smokes, damn.

 

[Mario Rancatore]

I started it up this morning and moved it around the yard and it run smooth other than the usual exhaust leaks coming from both manifolds. Didn't have much time to do anything else with it.

 

[Mario Rancatore]

I can't get it to start shaking again it ran fine but still throwing codes for culinder 2 misfire and cylinder 4 deactivation code. Erased them but they still come up

 

[Mario Rancatore]

Well the spark plugs were bad. So I guess I'm gonna have to go ahead and change all of them I'm sure the rest wont be far behind. It's back to running good again. And the code for the number 4 cylinder deactivation also went away with changing the plugs in the number 2 cylinder