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Dakota Wont Start - 3/7/2004 11:56:08 PM    1996Dakota   Posts: 2 Joined: 3/7/2004 Status: offline My 1996 Dakota (magnum 318 V8) ran out of gas a few days ago, I filled up and drove home. The next day, it wouldnt start. These two events could be coincidence. I have fuel, but no spark at the coil. Please help! Post #: 1

RE: Dakota Wont Start - 3/10/2004 12:48:16 AM    dodgemech   Posts: 788 Joined: 2/22/2004 Status: offline best guess is dist pick-up plate. (in reply to 1996Dakota) Post #: 2

RE: Dakota Wont Start - 3/12/2004 5:17:22 PM    93Stealth   Posts: 28 Joined: 2/19/2004 From: Canada Status: offline Had the similar problem before with my 96 Dakota and 95 Intrepid. The Intrepid is was a yellow#12 wire at the bottom of the steering column from the ignition that was broke and on the Dakota it turn out to be the Auto Shutdown Relay in the control center under the hood. Used the fan relay in place just to test and truck fired up. Changed back to the old relay, no start and no spark. Might help? Thumbnail Image Attachment (1) (in reply to 1996Dakota) Post #: 3

RE: Dakota Wont Start - 3/13/2004 6:49:26 PM    dodgemech   Posts: 788 Joined: 2/22/2004 Status: offline Not auto shut down relay-that would not allow fuel pump to run=no fuel pressure (in reply to 93Stealth) Post #: 4

RE: Dakota Wont Start - 6/19/2004 6:31:30 PM    DaCubsFan   Posts: 1 Joined: 6/19/2004 Status: offline I have a similar problem. I drove to work, it ran fine. Went to go to lunch, the vehicle started up fine and ran for about a minute before it died. After that, I was unable to get ignition although the engine would crank no problem. We replaced the fuel pump, filter and that didn't solve the problem. Next we checked the relays, fuses and wires. All work. The mech's that looked at the vehicle narrowed it down to possibly a bad PCM unit, but I was curious how practical that was. I have fuel pressure to the ignitors...but the ignitors aren't sending fuel out and there seems to be no spark from the coil. We are able to get a direct elec. signal from the coil, but the PCM seems to not hold a ground on its own. Does any of this sound practical? 1991 Dakota 4WD, 5.2 V8 (in reply to dodgemech) Post #: 5

RE: Dakota Wont Start - 2/6/2006 9:20:06 PM    Deweys dog house   Posts: 1 Joined: 2/6/2006 Status: offline I could use a little help. I'm new to this forum, my problem may be already posted some where, if so I'm sorry. My 93 Dakota, 318, won't fire. Got no power to the coil. I've checked the relays and fuses under the hood and all seems good. Is there a fuse I don't know about? I may go get a new dist. pick up and see what that does. When the Dakota is down my wife drives my Hemi powered Ram. I got to get this truck back on the road! Any help please. Dewey (in reply to 1996Dakota) Post #: 6

RE: Dakota Wont Start - 2/6/2006 9:39:06 PM    stantheman Posts: 243 Joined: 1/14/2006 Status: offline hate to say this it might be your computer dewey. got one in the shop right now with that problem. (in reply to Deweys dog house) Post #: 7

RE: Dakota Wont Start - 2/20/2006 11:38:25 AM    Hockeydad12   Posts: 1 Joined: 2/20/2006 Status: offline I had the same problem with my 93 v8...underneath the computer, on the driver side front wheel well, all the wires come out of the bottem, a large bundle of wires are taped together, peel back the tape to expose the wires, (only about 4-6 inches from the computer ) spread out the wires, you'll find a 2 wire to a 1 wire connection, check that, mine was sooo corroded, it was just dust...replaced the connection, truck started fine!!!! (in reply to Deweys dog house) Post #: 8

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