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Jennifer Rowe Posted on Oct 30, 2013
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I have a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was running good but then all of a sudden it starts running rough. You can be driving down the road and all of a sudden it will die . It will run good for about 10-15 mins at a time before it starts stalling. Almost like it is out of gas. But it has plenty. The RMP run about 500-700 now. Some times when it stalls it back fires as well. We have changed the fuel filter, we have changed the PCM , The battery, the ADS relay and tried fuel attive but nothing helps . We also took it to Autozone to have them check to see if it was reading any codes and nothing . Please help

  • John Zientko
    John Zientko Dec 15, 2013

    Since there is a mis fire, it may be due to either a plug wire gone bad or fell off or the plug wires installed in the wrong firing order

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It could be a dirty idle air control valve located on the throttle body but when you said it backfires after running a while and before stalling, this sounds like a clogged catalytic converter. When blocked they will cause the exhaust manifold to glow red igniting gasses on the exhaust stroke, backfiring. A clogged cat will result in a loss of power as if you are trying to pull a trailer full of rocks uphill.

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  • Posted on Sep 13, 2010

SOURCE: 1998 jeep grand cherokee keeps

similar problem with mine. disconnect battery for 45 min and better=
reconnect battery 1 hr later better/causes car computer to reset

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SOURCE: car runs good then cuts

I have a 1994 bucik Park Avenue Ultra The car dirve good then it cuts off the service engine light will come on and stay on for the duration of the trip. the car will start back up but now it will cut off and take a while for it to start back up, sometimes when im driving and give it gas it will stall unless i ease off the gas a slightly give it gas. whats the problem? I also have a 1994 buick Lesabre had a slight similar problem I was told its the throttle control sensor is it?

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  • Posted on Mar 18, 2013

SOURCE: rough idle stalls at low rpm's

chk and change complete throttle body with tps and idle motor also chk vaccum leaks

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