Driving it jerks on me once in awhile

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Asked by GuruZ8FSB Nov 18, 2017 at 01:16 PM about the 1998 Dodge RAM 1500 Laramie SLT LB RWD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

When I drive down the road it will jerk on me
once in awhile . At first I thought it was the
trains. .. When it jerks I step on it trains
Wright there no slipping . could it be bad
gas?

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Thank you for responding it seems when I add some fuel cleaner it ok . its driving me nuts . My engine light does come on when I check it reads nothing there something going on .

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I had new spark plugs put on . I never got around to the dish ... Cap and rotor and wires yet but what is crazy it doesn't do all the time runs good than it jerks

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take your automobile to your local shop and have them diagnose the cause of the malfunctioning trains

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I want to thank you for everyone response. If anyone else has anything they want to add please fell free to

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Dang. Lol. Mine did the same thing. Drive it would start missing and bog down. I would stomp the gas and it would straighten out. No engine lights was on. Heres how i fixed mine. Unhook ur battery. Then unplug both ur oxygen sensors. The one upstream and the one downstream of ur catalic converter. Leave them unhooked. Tie up ur wires so they dont hang down. Hook ur battery back up. Ur enging light will come on and stay on but it should take care of ur problem. Will throw ur computer into retard mode. Lol. See if that helps.

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My truck is doing the same thing at 5 miles per hour I don't think it's a transmission can you tell me what should I do or should I take it to the transmission shop

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My 2014 Ram 4x4 did the same thing so I searched and through the grace of God I found a video and someone mentioned their MDS is what was causing the issue and sure enough that's what was causing the jerking for me as well. When I disabled it my truck no longer had that issue.

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The easy way is to just buy a disable chip, you can also get a reprogrammed unit and disable it through that. The more expensive way is to replace the cam and lifters with a normal system.

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