Q: When I cut ac on my truck idle goes down two or three times the truck stalls

asked by on July 01, 2016

Yeah I had a diagnostic done on the truck and camshaft position sensor came up so I changed it plus the crankshaft position sensor and I ran the truck for about 5 minutes and the problem started again when I cut my AC on the truck stalls I was just wondering what else could be the problem could it be a throttle body position sensor maybe

My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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