Locking Gas cap?

From : gene

Q: should read between lu / od solenoid.......and the main valve body there is a filter screen between the lockup / overdrive solenoid assembly accessible with the pan off and a t-25 torx rh side of the valve body has a three wire harness going to it white-black-red; if the filter for the lock-up solenoid is plugged it will lock-up immediately as it hits 2nd and stay locked up till it drops into first on the coast-down dont know if this fits your symptoms exactly but you might check it the filter screen / gasket wil be stuck tight to the solenoids dont try to take it off just wash the dirt off the exposed side with carb cleaner or similar warning it will plug again that dirt is being generated somewhere............ on tue 28 jun 2005 191207 -0500 pcb62 pcb62@cox.net wrote help! this has been going on about a month now. about 15 minutes into my 30 minute drive to and from work my truck will shudder or lurch like it momentarily loses power. it feels like running over a speed bump on the highway. this may happen 2 or 3 times before getting to where im going. i dont think im losing total electrical power because there is no break in the radio or ac. this also happens with the radio and ac off... also about a couple times each week when i come to a stop the truck will just die. starts right back up with no problem... there are no check engine lights. i took it to the shop and they ran a diagnostic with no results and told me to take it to dodge. dodge did a diagnostic with no results. so they started playing the guessing game which has cost me $313.00 so far. here is what they did 1 change spark plugs 2 change pvc valve 3 bg major fuel induction system service with injector kit and throttle body gasket nothing has changed!!! question can an electrical fuel pump gradually go on the fritz dumb question i know and/or after driving for a while can the motion of the truck shake up any crap in the fuel filter and clog it up enough to cause the above problems dodge wants $700.00 to drop the tank and replace the fuel pump and filter. cant afford this to be another guess... any guidance would be appreciated. thanks pcb im sorry this isnt an answer im here looking for answers too and yours was the only post with the same problem. our 99 durango has been doing exactly the same thing. it dies about once a week now. i got an answer from this group about six months ago and it did work for a while. we went for months with no stalls and then it started again. that first solution doesnt seem to be working anymore. heres what we did back then just in case you want to try it. we took the air cleaner off and cleaned out those butterfly things with carburetor cleaner and a soft cloth. the gunk builds up in there and its kind of a fine powder when it comes off. anyway i dont know if that was what made it work or if it was just a coincidence but for a while it was fixed. it started dying at stops about a month ago. right now were where you are. weve been told that its probably the fuel pump but we were also told its probably the coil bought a new one- it wasnt that. and its probably electrical. we were told by dodge that a fuel pump would be $800 and by a friend that it would be $300. auto zone has one for $180 and one for $240. with all the differences in price we dont know what to do. my instincts tell me to go with the friend for 300 but hes never changed one before. the dodge guys would have a warranty but i dont trust them.* its just more guessing games. diagnostics came up clean a week ago and the mechanic said he would have to drive it around for a few days until it quits and then he could tell us whats wrong. i dont know if he was serious or not. this durango is a 99 and only has 30000 miles on it. it still looks like new and i love driving it but i cant trust it. even after the fuel pump is changed we wont know for sure if that was it until it dies again. right now were looking at toyotas. *the last time we took it to the dodge dealership because the check engine light wouldnt go off we noticed when we got home that someone had left a little bent paper-clip laying on top of the battery. it was bent into a perfect u and the two points were an inch apart. anybody know what that might have been used for is there anything in the engine thats the right size to be damaged by sticking that wire into it it could be something they use as a tool but it looks very suspicious. we never said anything to them about it but now that were having trouble we do wonder. .

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From : dale yonz

wholalu wrote change fuel pump found a green ball in tank the size of a ball like you would use to play jacks....what is it for ... probably the check ball from the bottom of the fuel filler tube; part of the evaporative emission control system. rick .

From : dale yonz

mac davis mac.davis@splinters.comcast.net wrote on thu 30 jun 2005 172623 -0700 gene gene@nowhere.com wrote hi bought a 2003 dodge durange god i love this ride and filled the tank but what with the cost of gas today i want to use what i buy! suggestions of who to go to for a gas cap that locks and is not something thrown together in the back of a chinese sweatshop get a good car alarm and a better shotgun.. mac better yet dress up a blowup doll or a mannequin and park her in the front seat .

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From : mike simmons

thanks tom. i remember a while ago you or someone else directed me to the thermostat may be leaking why i could smell coolant outside the truck yet no leaks. i found the leak the other day when i was doing a service to replace the front u-joints. i fill the coolant overflow tank every other month. how long are we talking to replace the pump...and what else should be replaced while im at it hoses thermostat anything else .

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