# Jeep Wrangler loses power and starts to stall

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-wrangler-loses-power-and-starts-to-stall/22965>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** wrangler, jeep\
**Created:** [December 5, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-wrangler-loses-power-and-starts-to-stall/22965 "2008-12-05T00:11:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![krystal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@krystal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/krystal)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-wrangler-loses-power-and-starts-to-stall/22965/1 "2008-12-05T00:11:03Z")

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My local mechanic has been unable to figure this out, and I’ve had the problem for months:  
  
 My 98 Jeep Wrangler occasionally (and recently more frequently) starts to lose power when I’m driving along and starts to buck like it’s stalling out. I can’t figure any rhyme or reason to when it does this (it used to be only in low gear, now it can happen in any gear), and we replaced the fuel pump in hopes that that would fix it. It didn’t. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-wrangler-loses-power-and-starts-to-stall/22965/2 "2008-12-05T00:24:06Z")

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Has anyone checked for an error code?

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**Author:** ![krystal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@krystal](https://community.cartalk.com/u/krystal)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-wrangler-loses-power-and-starts-to-stall/22965/3 "2008-12-05T00:33:34Z")

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Yes, unfortunately it’s not registering any errors.

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**Author:** ![fitjeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fitjeep](https://community.cartalk.com/u/fitjeep)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/jeep-wrangler-loses-power-and-starts-to-stall/22965/4 "2008-12-05T18:22:59Z")

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Sounds like its starving for fuel, try replacing the fuel filter.