Ram 1500 2001 missing.

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Asked by Jason Mar 22, 2018 at 06:37 PM about the 2001 Dodge RAM 1500 SLT Club Cab 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Bought with 140,000 has 170,000 started
missing on backing up. Then idling rev up
and down. And missing and idling  speed up
anddown  read codes. TPS. Changed tps.
Ran fine until got up to temp sitting in one
place idling. Then as it reaches temp. Starts
missing and idle up to 1000 or1100 down
to5 or7. Help

4 Answers

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more detail will be needed...however...pull the intake temp sensor and clean it, if your plenum is leaking, the sensor will have oil all over it. Next, if you have or can get a scanner that reads live data, what are your long term/short term fuel trims and upstream/downstream O2 sensor readings? Fuel trims are usually the tell all, followed by the O2 sensors. Lastly, open the throttle body valves, take a gander with a flashlight and see if the floor of your intake is a swimming pool of oil...some oil is okay, but not a swimmingpool.

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BTW, make sure the engine is at normal operating temp and at steady load. You can do this in your driveway. Take your readings at idle/1500/2500 RPM...don't worry about any RPM variation or misfire (scanner will register misfires), the trims n O2 readings are your goal here.

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I will start there, thank you. I know I was a bit Hasty with my info. I will do this and see where it goes. I know I have a plenum leak.... I totally Forget about it. Truck has sat for a bit. No time to work on it so I will be in touch

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If she's been sitting for awhile, then your suffering from an equivalent condition to all things known as "she" in our life if you don't pay attention to them. You may just try something like new gas or spray a liberal (the only time this word works in society) amount of carb cleaner into the intake of the idle air control valve from the top of the throttle body...these pickups hate their IAC taskmasters.

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