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.

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.


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.

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