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andrewfessler
10-29-2003, 19:08
On my 2003 with 8,000 miles this evening I got off of the interstate. Stopped at the exit and decided to pull into traffic in a gap that required me to accelerate hard.

I pushed the pedal to the floor, the truck started to accelerate and then suddenly, around 2500 RPM there where two very distinct drop in power. Enough that I started to pull over to get out of traffic.

About as suddenly as it happened it quit and after that it seemed fine. Might have been one other small hesitation.

I have only had the truck for about 1500 miles.

Any immediate thoughts that come to mind? I am contemplating replacing the fuel filter. Later in the evening after the truck sat for 90 minutes, I drove it, let it warm up for about 5 minutes then tried a hard acceleration again, no problems.

Ideas?

dmaxalliTech
10-29-2003, 19:50
fuel filter is a good place to start...

Mudflap
10-31-2003, 05:34
Have the dealer check your codes. Mine did that and the computer was telling the engine that I had a bad injector and it shut the fuel down! Only did it once and shutting it off cleared it - Gremlins!