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My son says that he starts up the 1996 Dodge Ram pickup and it starts right away but if he doesn't keep his foot on the gas pedal for 30 seconds to 2 minutes or so, the truck dies. It will start up again, but will need to be given gas to stay started. This happens intermittently. Usually first thing in the morning when the temperature has been cold overnight and other times when it sits at work for 10 hours and he tries to start it to go home. When it is final running, it runs fine and never stalls or dies - only when starting it up. It's been in the shop 4 times, been hooked up to all sorts of machines and no one can find the problem. Could it be the IAC valve is possibly sticking occasionally and causing this problem.

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It could also be carbon build up on the throttle body, but regardless the cure is the same. Your going to need to clean the throttle body and the idle air control valve (IAC). With a can of throttle body cleaner, (follow instruction on the can) clean the throttle body blade and the IAC passage way in the throttle body and IAC. Once the throttle body is cleaned, with the engine off, turn the ignition key to the on position (engine not running) and wait for 30 seconds and then turn if off for 10 seconds and then start it. This should reset the IAC, if it did not work do it again and see if it helps. If not clean out the IAC passage way again. The turning on and off the ignition reset's the IAC and it may still be stuck with carbon build up. Once the engine has started, Note there will be lots of smoke form the tail pipe, that's normal. It's just the left over throttle body cleaner and carbon being burn off, take's not more then 10 min to burn off. Good luck and this should keep you from replacing the IAC. Oh and don't use Carb cleaner, Carb cleaner is to corrosive to the throttle body gasket.

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