Unbalanced engine

If the converter and harmonic balancer are acting up, would this create an issue sitting at traffic lights wanting to stall and rough acceleration? Has only happened twice in two months.

Hi Ken. Today, the truck ran great until I got Into stop and go traffic. The rpm's dropped down to probably 600. Had to put into neutral. It did not want to accelerate when back in drive. I do believe I heard popping (possibly misfiring of plugs). Ran bad. I pulled in to a gas station and allowed it to idle for ten minutes. Ran great after that. When the Dodge dealer ran the engine analysis in April, they did not seem to believe that the plugs needed to be replaced. I took them at their word. There were no trouble codes either. I gave up years ago working on engines. I would not be surprised if the link you sent to me is the problem. The fact that it would not accelerate and had popping sounds, I would imagine it is a firing issue.

Thanks again

Tom

Ken, I found out yesterday that my Dakota has a problem code P0172 "system too rich on bank one". As I think I understand, that is the side that has the number one cylinder in firing order. To me, it makes sense. Correct me if I am wrong, but not enough o2 is mixing with fuel, not enough torque is being produced on the downstroke of the Pistons, this would equate to sluggish / non responsive acceleration, if I have the sensor replaced which is down on the bottom left side of the block, have all vacuum hoses checked and have mass airflow sensor cleaned. Do I have a good chance at this fixing my issue?