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bigdakstud
Dodge Dakota
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1/06/2003
22:27:24
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 Subject: 87 dodge dakota dies in traffic
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my 87 dodge dakota dies in traffic it has an electric fuel pump that has been added by the guy that owned it before me. but anyways it has a tendency to die in traffic when it has run for about twenty to thirty minutes and it does it frequently in hot and really warm weather. not so much in cold weather, when it gets ready to die the fuel electric fuel pump makes a humming sound that can be heard in the cab please does somebody know how to help me. eng stats v6 3.9 carb driven.
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TigerDak
Dodge Dakota
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1/06/2003
22:38:55
|  RE: 87 dodge dakota dies in traffic
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The elec fuel pump still has to draw fuel up through the old pump, right? The old pump itself might need to be replaced. If you do that, you dont need the elec secondary pump anymore. My OEM pump failed on my about a month ago. We replaced it with a new one; now everything works great. The elec fuel pump is really a waste of money, especially when the OEM pump works fine.
You might try an onboard diagnostic and see if anything else is causing it:
http://www.geocities.com/ryankane/FaultCodes.html
Do that and see if any sensors are showing up as bad.
Also, did you buy a bad, dirty tank of gas? Sometimes when my 1989 4x4 starts acting funny like that, I just wait until that tank of gas is empty. That has solved about 1/2 of all my problems I have had!
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bigdakstud
Dodge Dakota
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1/06/2003
23:03:34
| RE: 87 dodge dakota dies in traffic
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i dont know why the guy by-passed the old pump but when it first happened the first thing i did waas replace the pump the electric pump draws fuel straight from the tank it by passes the oem pump and the fuel regulator a mechanic thought that it might be a fuel reg. problem so he put a manual fuel regulator on it. it still soutters out in traffic . it surges then nothing and then eventually just sputters out
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TigerDak
Dodge Dakota
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1/06/2003
23:14:06
| RE: 87 dodge dakota dies in traffic
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Try doing the onboard diagnostic using the CHECK ENGINE light to see what the codes say. maybe its something other than the pump.
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bigdakstud
Dodge Dakota
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1/07/2003
00:00:51
| RE: 87 dodge dakota dies in traffic
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does anyone know anything about carbs a buddy of mine thought that it might be the carb or something that affects the way the carb operates it also tends to idle extremely high
i can put my truck into drive and it will get enough speed to shift into second gear. does anyone know anything about carbs or other things affecting the carb
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