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01-07-2006, 12:59 PM
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99 Ram 318 very odd, sputtering???
After setting for an undetermined amont of time, 8 hours or so, when I drive 3 to 5 miles the truck starts sputterimg, starving for fuel/air. After a brief period it will straighten out and be just fine and I can drive on and on until I park it for an undetermined amoumt of time. I have tried different brands of gas. Nurmerous cans of heat. Had it in a shop and they checked the fule pump pressure, cleaned the injectors, checked for codes (none). Of course it would not do it for them. It has done it for me a total of two weeks. However there was a break in the two weeks of about three weeks. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Last edited by nonetheless; 01-08-2006 at 09:52 AM. 
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01-08-2006, 05:46 PM
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Re: 99 Ram 318 very odd, sputtering???
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I had a 95 ram that all of a sudden started sputtering on a 3 hour trip. The sputtering lasted for about a half hour then went away.I took it to the dealer a few days later and everything checked out OK. A few days later while on a 2 hour trip the same thing happened again. I found out later that the trouble was a bad fuel pump. It cost $600 can to buy and about 2 hours to install. A good idea is to add about 2 pints of tranny oil to your fuel tank twice a year to avoid fuel pump failure. Fuel pump failure is hard to pinpoint when it is intermitent.I hope this is helpful.
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01-12-2006, 10:09 PM
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Re: 99 Ram 318 very odd, fuel related???
My 95 5.2L Dakota would do that same thing. start it felt like it was missing get off the interstate after a 1 1/2 drive start acting like it was missing. Did all the tune up stuff didn't seem to help finally I decided to put a new pickup in the distributor and it has not done it since. My fuel pump went bad but it was not causing this sympton
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