hesitates/dies if I give it gas after starting

I have a 97 Wrangler 4 cyl with 66K miles. It starts fine, but if I give it gas right away it dies. I find I can get around this by quickly tapping the gas pedal several times to get moving - this keeps it from hesitating and dying. Once it warms up it runs great.

Sounds like a bad sensor, since it runs fine when it's warm.

does the engine seem to crank longer than normal or miss on initial start-up?

Hey i have a 1997 4 cyl with the same problem. If you look down to "97 jeep problem" you can see what people told me. I hopfully got my dad to the point where we can get ours in to be fixed. Ill update you if we do.

..........yeah.........this is kind of creepy. I have a 97 4cyl as well and it is having the same problem. Look up 97 doesnt stay warmed up ( right now it is on the second page ) if you want to hear what kind of answers I got. After all this maybe we'll finally be able to figure out what the problem is.

By the way rivguy, mine does take a while to start up. If anyone figures out what the problem is I would appreciate the info.

hey im taking my jeep in on monday the 23, once they tell me the problem i will get back to all of you with the same problem!

Derek