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Glass half empty today?
The other day my Toyota got warm on a quick run to the post office. Brought it home, called AAA to drag it to the shop, got another new radiator under warranty. Didn't get stuck 60 miles from home in the mountains bear hunting the day before. Didn't get stuck in a congested intersection in town or in some tweeker neighborhood with no cell phone reception. I drank a cocktail while my truck got repaired.
You drive it home, it was a good day.
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Why not replace all your spark plugs and coils so your truck is dependable?
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Hi Randy. I am not familiar with that engine, but the symptoms cause me to suspect something other than no fire in one can. Eager to learn what you find.
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Oldman3 said it was a Nissan. Someone else speculated it was a Ford.
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OK truck guru's - clue me in on this. My 03 Ram 3500 with Cummins got harder and harder to start, so I took it in while it still would. Leaking injectors. $3500 foir a whole new set of injectors, etc- instlled....should be done today.. I hope. Wife took her car to Anchorage for a 5 day trip to MT., yesterday, so I'm Wheelles (and clueless) In Alaska today.  Is this leaking injector failure usual for 97K miles? Seems they should last longer to me. My 90 Chev 3500 lost a couple (after an engine transpant- I think the guy damaged 'em on the change over), during it's 24K run before I got rid of it a few weeks ago.
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Something sounds wonky to me, like Fraudulent Mechanic Syndrome. Your ram's a 6 right? That means your injectors are $600 each. I could see a couple hundred each maybe, but that's plumb ridiculous. I think you should have gone to an independent mechanic not the dealer. Either that or I should have stayed pulling wrenches. I was in the wrong business.
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Oldman3 said it was a Nissan. Someone else speculated it was a Ford. Thanks, I missed that. I don't savvy Nissan so I'm out.
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99 bucks or so for a bluetooth to phone code reader... coil on plugs are simple to change where ever you are and back on the road again. Maybe not the best for this morning but some days it sure comes in handy...
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Went to the parts house and Jeff put the meter on it. #6 coil not firing. Back right cylinder and easy to get to. Bought a coil, plug and while there got me one of them meters that hooks into the plug under the steering wheel. Tried the meter out, before I changed the parts and sure enough, it showed the same coil was bad. Took 15 min to change the parts and that fixed it. Cleared the code with my new meter and all is fine.
Called my buddy and his plans have changed, so I'll get up at 3 am again and give it another try in the morning.
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being someone that had to keep spare coils in the cab when I had one, I'm guessing Ford too All 10 of my OE coils made it to 195,000 miles.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
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