[Gonzalez0828]

Sorry for the late reply I finally got around too working on the 98 dodge ram 5.9. After lots of diagnosing and replacing fuel pump assembly, crankshaft position sensor, all relays involved with engine and ignition, distributor, ignition coil, spark plugs, pcm, coolant temp sensor, instrument cluster, throttle body, found the culprit to be clogged up catalytic converter. After removing spark plugs and seeing they were completely wet and black I decided to unbolt both exhaust flanges going to exhaust manifolds and the motor fired right up, idled rough for a few minutes then evened out and ran great. Tomorrow I will be hallowing out catalytic converters and reinstalling exhaust pipe flange bolts to manifold. Thank you too everyone who replied I appreciate the help and advice

 

[Gonzalez0828]

Today I gutted the catalytic converter and it ran and Idled not perfect though but it is progress since it never ran before for more than a few seconds but today it idled and ran rough however no acceleration with gas pedal applied I know the fuel injectors are controlled by the distributor so I decided to remove it and set the motor on Tdc and reinstall the distributor and set timing With my Maximus 4.0 scan tool and it desires the sync at exactly 0 however mine is reading between -0 to 1 not dead on 0 as it should while I was scanning it I thought at 270k miles could the chain have excessive play? Causing the timing to be off a bit so when I went back to look under the hood after it running for about 30 mins I saw both exhaust manifold glowing red hot any ideas?