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Old Dec 2, 2014 | 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Tootall
I was cutting some ridiculous dough nuts one night and the truck would sputter and die when drifting to the right. I ended up pulling the small positive wire to the fuse box out of the stock battery crimped connection.

It was in the plastic housing just fine visually, but after pulling on all of the wires while it was running, the dinger came on and died just as you're describing.
I'll check that, thanks for the advice

Originally Posted by terravast4
a bad crankshaft sensor can cause this problem also
Wouldn't this trigger a CEL, or be more frequent?
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Old Dec 2, 2014 | 01:31 PM
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i don't think it throws a cell cause its just an intermittent issue....but if it is it will become more frequent.. but the symptoms are exactly like yours
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Old Dec 2, 2014 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by terravast4
i don't think it throws a cell cause its just an intermittent issue....but if it is it will become more frequent.. but the symptoms are exactly like yours
Even the "Battery Not Charging" message?
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