Truck in shop waiting on Dodge Rep, Long

[jeepguru]

Ok, I have a 2004.5 quad cab 4wd shortbed auto w/ 23501 miles on it, purchased in Feb 04, and its still bone stock. I have had a few small problems but nothing major until last week. After towing 6K lbs for roughly 10 hrs the check engine light came on, after a call to the dealer they said keep driving and bring it in ASAP. Next day they run the codes and it comes back low voltage to the CPS, but the light is off at this point so dealer checks milage and says bring it back as soon as it comes on. Three days later after a hard accelaration the engine studders and the light comes on, well the dealer couldn't get it in right away so I kept driving, 62 miles later the light goes off. Next morning drop it off at shop for CPS and PM(oil change, fuel filter, air filter). Well I was planning on leaving with the truck to tow my rock buggy to a competition 600 miles away, and they said they'd have it done. I proceed to my shop and the wife was going to pick it up and bring it to me and thats when all hell broke loose.

Within 1/2 mile of leaving the dealer the light came back on, but right after she got on the interstate. She said at first it seemed fine but when it shifted to OD it immeadiatly shifted back out and never returned to OD. She let off the throttle because the engine was reving so high and tried to slow down, well the truck wouldn't slow down even with brakes it sped up to redline and above in 3rd gear at 75, then started pouring black diesel smoke so bad the entire rear view was completely blocked. She tried to get it to neutral to slow down but it wouldn't shift out, finally right before the ramp it went to neutral, over-revved, then tried to idle but was bucking and kicking terribly. She used the e-brake to stop the truck and called me hysterically scared after she about wrecked twice trying to get people out of her way when she couldn't stop.

As of now the dealer has it and I have a rental Hemi(blah). They said it blew the freeze plug out and they would have to take the head off to replace it, well the head gasket is on national BO and they have no idea when it might be available, so I'm waiting on the regional Dodge rep to come and decide if Dodge needs to buy me a new truck. Meanwhile I have made it perfectly clear that I would not take my truck back and that I expected a new truck from either the dealer or Dodge.

Anyone got an idea what went wrong? It obviously way over-fueled itself, and some one else mentioned a burnt tubro, any other ideas would be appeciated.

Justin Smith
Rock Solid Racing

PS Sorry for the long first post.