Hello everyone! This is my first post here and I want to start with saying
Thank You for helping me solve my problem. I searched and read thru a lot of posts, but it was well worth it!
My old reliable 210K '88 Dakota finally started to give me problems. I replaced the timing chain last winter and did a major tune-up. All was well. It ran and started much better. Then I really needed it in the last few weeks. More driving it than usual. It started dieing and running like crap every once in a while. It would run rough, the die. Then re-start but run like it was missing. You could hear the fuel injectors mis-firing. I would run a code check and it kept giving me a code 26. Which is something cryptic like fuel injecter resistance or something. LOL. I tried all the usual stuff. A bottle of HEET, a new fuel filter, fuel injecter cleaner, throttle body spray,checked the gas for water,...thought about taking it to a shop,...Sooooo....I found this forum and I kept reading, and the same issue kept coming up in other peoples trucks, but no code 26. So I took a gamble andbought a"Hall Effect" switch (pick-up in the distributor). Then I cleaned the rotor that it works off of with a little scotchbrite, it was a bit crusty looking,and put it all back together.
It worked! The truck runs like it hasn't in a loooooong time! So far so good. No more dieing or stalling. I can't believe how smooth it is again. This stupid 28 dollar part was probably going bad for a long time. Amazing.
I hope this helps someone else!!!
Thanks again!!!
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'88 Dakota with a code 26
