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Mar 24, 2011 | 06:56 AM

kent521

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Hickups

For the past few days my truck when you crank it up after sitting for a good while and drive it down the road say 6 miles or so it will skipp once and the fine after that , its been doing this for about 3 days now . This morning the same thing except after a skipp it wouldnt go over say 1300 rpms for about a minute or so it was like it was starving for fuel . The motor was rebuilt about a month ago and I havent had any issues like this before

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Mar 24, 2011 | 07:29 AM

Talyn

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Have you checked your oil?

Mar 24, 2011 | 03:43 PM

YoungFordAddict66

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The first thing i thouhgt of was the cps. cause i know they can start acting up i just dont remember exactly if these are the symptoms of a cps giong bad.

Mar 24, 2011 | 03:54 PM

BuckHammer

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When my CPS was going bad, it caused hiccups. I'm with Keith Stone, too. Go ahead and check your oil because it's easy to eliminate as a possibility.

Edit: If you follow Talyn's advice, it will make your truck run smooth... Always.

Mar 24, 2011 | 05:07 PM

Talyn

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Joseph. It's Keith. Get it right!

haha.

Air in the oil rails can cause hickups.
but if the oil isn't high enough, it will do the same thing.

CPS does weird things.
but its going away, so I doubt the CPS is doing it.

Hard telling on rebuilds.

Mar 24, 2011 | 05:13 PM

BuckHammer

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Originally Posted by Talyn

but its going away, so I doubt the CPS is doing it.

Mine did it. What he describes sounds exactly like what mine would do. Possibly the only difference is that mine sounded like I was rapidly turning the key from stop to run. If it's sputtering, then I doubt it's the CPS. Any way you could take a video with audio of the tach and cluster while it's doing it?

Mar 25, 2011 | 12:52 AM

oldbird1965

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Sounds like the hpop to me. Are you getting on it when it happens?

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Mar 25, 2011 | 07:06 AM

kent521

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well I drove home from work it skipped once or twice shifting trough the gears , I changed the fuel filter thinking that I run a tank down to low and switch tanks while driving might have picked up some trash , as of this morning the truck ran fine w/out any problems , but the fuel filter had about 2000 mile if that and looked new . The oil was still topped off and looked as if I just changed it . I really dont think it was the filter but figured would be a good starting point . I cant pinpoint the time its going to happen so I cant do the video / audio thing as of yet .