Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) What does this sound like?

[SDDAVE]

Hi everybody. I had a unnerving experience yesterday. Tell me what you think.



I have a 98-1/2 Ram with the 24V engine, five speed manual, 4X4. 93,340 miles.



Yesterday I'm driving along at 45mph when all of a sudden I lose all engine power, and the warning lights come on. I pull over to the side of the road and notice that the engine is still running at idle. I shut the truck off and restart, no problem. All the warning lights are out except the check engine light.



Have plenty of oil and oil pressure so I drove it home with no further incident. This morning I took it to the dealer with the check engine light on, but it runs fine.



Service tech. said it might be a fuel pick up pump.



What do you all think so I can tell the tech?

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

Did he check for any codes? Sound more like an electrical connection to me. A bad lift pump would not cause all the dash lights to come on, but hey, at least he knows about that common problem.

 

[kluther]

my truck did the same thing. turned out to be the lift pump. electrical malfunction, was in the process of melting. did it smoke at all? ken

 

[Froadin]

Exact same thing happened when my lift pump died last week.

Lift pump would run, but at idle could only make about 1 psi of pressure. Any throttle and the VP44 had to pull the fuel in to run (noticed the gauge go to vacuum).

 

[SDDAVE]

Dealer said its the "throttle position sensor", thats per the error code. So we will see. It should be done as we speake.

 

[OakViewJeff]

My 99 did the same thing twice in the last two weeks. I wasn't able to read the codes before the check engine light cleared.

Did replacing the throttle position sensor fix the problem?