Q: Truck shuts off, trembles, difficult to restart
My truck shuts off while I'm driving it. When I try to start it up again, it trembles and shuts off several more times until I manage to turn it on again. It occasionally runs fine. About ten months ago, I had similar issues so I took it to the dealer. He had the fuel pump replced but to no avail. A few months ago, the dealer changed the IPDM as the truck had the symptoms of that module being broken. Now it has the issues again and I wonder if it is the IPDM is broken again. Do you have any suggestion how I can fix it? I would like to do it myself. Thanks.
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