[Chrysler300] Ram K Blues

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Hello Group,

I'm hoping someone can help diagnose some strange happenings with my K.

About a half hour into a 2 hour trip a couple weeks ago, the car shut off while going a steady, smooth 60 mph.  It was like the car ran out of gas, which was not possible.  I looked under the hood, saw nothing wrong and started it up.  It ran terribly.  After letting it sit for 15 minutes, I started it again.  It ran badly, but I was able to get it going by feathering the gas and brake.  It then ran ok at highway speeds, but it didn't want to leave stop signs, and it wouldn't idle without giving it some throttle.  I completed the trip and just to try something, I changed the fuel filter.  That didn't seem to help, although I was able to get it the 2 hours home by doing a lot of feathering.  When I got home, it would idle without giving it throttle, but idled very roughly.  

A week later, I took it to the local Mopar mechanic.  It started and idled ok, but still needed a little feathering at stop signs.  When I got it there, of course it ran fine.  He couldn't find anything wrong with it.  When I left the shop it ran well, but it would stumble and cough when stepping on it at a steady 40 mph.

The latest episode was today/tonight, when I drove the car and it was fine, until tonight I started it, backed it out of the garage, let it idle a minute and it died.  Then it wouldn't start.  5 minutes later it did start and I was able to get it back into the garage.

I was thinking it was some kind of fuel problem, because if it was electrical it seems that it would either run or not run and not have these weird random symptoms.  Now I'm beginning to wonder if it could be the Pertronix unit malfunctioning.  Could this be possible?

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

George Clineman




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