Q: Truck stops taking gas, but engine stays running

asked by on August 24, 2016

While I'm driving, my truck will suddenly kick and stop taking gas, rpms won't go past a .5, if I hit the gas while it's like this it'll go to 1, but that's it, I have to recrank it a few times for the rpms to jump, and it's starts running right again. It also idles as if it has trash in the fuel, like a mild shaking.

My car has 166000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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