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My son left the dome light on all night. Replaced the battery. The truck starts but will not stay running. Ran perfect when I parked it.

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Okay , this is normal the computer just lost its programing for the idle, all you need to do is to use the gas pedal to keep it running for about 2 min, then slowly release the gas pedal and let the truck idle for a few minutes and all will be fine. if it stalls when you let gas go just restart it and hold pedal again for a few min, and then release again and let idle. hope this is helpful, let me know how it works out,

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The computer has lost its memory for idle control possibly.Try this, crank the truck and shut is off.Do this as many as 20 times , each time try to leave it running for 2 or 3 seconds so you can see if it will idle on its own.Do this till it relearns base idle.

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