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04.5 engine shuts off

06-20-2006, 02:21 AM

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SGregson

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04.5 engine shuts off

I have a stock 04.5 2500, and within the last 3 months I have had it in the shop 3 different times trying to figure out why the engine and entire electrical system shuts off while driving. For instance I will be cruising about 60mph and then all of the sudden the headlights, instrument cluster, radio, everything electrical shuts off for 2 - 3 sec. After the 2 to 3 second lag the engine and all electrical components come back to life. This as also happened to me at a stoplight and I had to restart the truck by putting it into neutral and cranking it up. There is no pattern to when this problem happens. This morning in the middle of a down pour it happened again, it tried to start back up 4 different times and I had to put the transmission in neutral and crank it back up to get going again. It will go up to a week or so with no problems and then it will do it. 3 different dealerships can not find anything wrong with it. They have taken it for test drive and it shows no code from the computer. I am so frustrated with the truck and I just want the problem to go away.

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