jhamilton86
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- Dec 1, 2016
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- Ram Year
- 1999
- Engine
- 5.2
OK I have a 99 ram 1500 with the 5.2 engine, 186k miles on it. At first it started just when I got into the throttle a little too heavy it would buck a little then clear up. I ran a bottle of seafoam thru it and that helped for a while, but recently its a lot worse. I had to quit driving it because it stranded me in an intersection and when I finally got it to crank and stay running I limped it home and havent been able to figure out why it doesn't want to run.
It acts like it's running out of gas, when it will run at all. with it getting to the point it wouldn't crank or stay cranked I thought it would be either fuel pump or fuel filter.
Pulled the bed off today so I could get to the pump, first I checked the filter, could blow though it no problem. Could feel the pump coming on when I turn the key so I checked the pressure and had 45 lbs or more when I primed the pump, and when cranking it went somewhere around 45-48 lbs, so I think pressure is OK.
After scratching my head a while I just started trying different things and found when I took the airbox off it would crank and run better than it has been but still not great. The air filter was a little dirty but I can't believe that would be the whole cause. I put the airbox on minus the filter and it would run but stumbled if I tried to stab the gas pedal.
I need ideas of stuff to check because this is driving me crazy. Oh and I put a scanner on it and had no codes.
It acts like it's running out of gas, when it will run at all. with it getting to the point it wouldn't crank or stay cranked I thought it would be either fuel pump or fuel filter.
Pulled the bed off today so I could get to the pump, first I checked the filter, could blow though it no problem. Could feel the pump coming on when I turn the key so I checked the pressure and had 45 lbs or more when I primed the pump, and when cranking it went somewhere around 45-48 lbs, so I think pressure is OK.
After scratching my head a while I just started trying different things and found when I took the airbox off it would crank and run better than it has been but still not great. The air filter was a little dirty but I can't believe that would be the whole cause. I put the airbox on minus the filter and it would run but stumbled if I tried to stab the gas pedal.
I need ideas of stuff to check because this is driving me crazy. Oh and I put a scanner on it and had no codes.