Q: No power and stuttering
Truck will start and idle fine but soon as I put gas to it it it stutters like it's out of gas and wants to die. My lights get dim when it does it also. It doesn't do it if I leave it in my shop for couple days but if I leave it in the cold or run it warm for awhile it'll do the same thing again
My car has an automatic transmission.
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