maybe somebody here could shed some light on this for me:
1993 Ram 1/2 ton, 4x4, 318, auto, magnum engine, 70600 orig miles, headers, true dual exhaust w/flowmasters
-Truck will not start until you dump some gas into the throttle body, though it will restart if it was just running if yer foot is on the gas pumping it.
-Truck will rarley idle, it will just stall after letting off the pedal.
-when it will idle, it is choppy at best, at rpms low enough to tell the oil pressure dummy light to turn on
-Truck will run kinda ok at higher rpms (2800+), but only in neutral, not in drive
-truck will die as soon as dropped into drive or reverse, unless foot is on the gas about half way
-Truck puffs fairly thick black smoke out both tail pipes almost all the time.
-Throttle body makes fairly loud "sucking noise" that i am not used to hearing
-Truck "smells" and feels hotter than usual after 10 min of running, though temp needle is right where it always is.
-Check engine light is NOT on, NO stored codes
-Problem has been progressivly worse over the last year. used to only do it when hot/humid/raining. now truck is undriveable and off the road
Brand new accel coil, plugs, wires, cap rotor, bought as a set specifically for this truck/engine. Brand new air and fuel filters. Cleaned screen on bottom of fuel pump, sort of dirty, but not too bad. alternator charging at 14.2x volts
I have no idea where to go from here. Throw some ideas at me. Thanks
1993 Ram 1/2 ton, 4x4, 318, auto, magnum engine, 70600 orig miles, headers, true dual exhaust w/flowmasters
-Truck will not start until you dump some gas into the throttle body, though it will restart if it was just running if yer foot is on the gas pumping it.
-Truck will rarley idle, it will just stall after letting off the pedal.
-when it will idle, it is choppy at best, at rpms low enough to tell the oil pressure dummy light to turn on
-Truck will run kinda ok at higher rpms (2800+), but only in neutral, not in drive
-truck will die as soon as dropped into drive or reverse, unless foot is on the gas about half way
-Truck puffs fairly thick black smoke out both tail pipes almost all the time.
-Throttle body makes fairly loud "sucking noise" that i am not used to hearing
-Truck "smells" and feels hotter than usual after 10 min of running, though temp needle is right where it always is.
-Check engine light is NOT on, NO stored codes
-Problem has been progressivly worse over the last year. used to only do it when hot/humid/raining. now truck is undriveable and off the road
Brand new accel coil, plugs, wires, cap rotor, bought as a set specifically for this truck/engine. Brand new air and fuel filters. Cleaned screen on bottom of fuel pump, sort of dirty, but not too bad. alternator charging at 14.2x volts
I have no idea where to go from here. Throw some ideas at me. Thanks