95 RAM bogging down

Asked by Tucker Mar 31, 2018 at 02:01 PM about the 1995 Dodge RAM 1500 LT LB 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

95 Ram 318 ram great only has 90000 miles starts
up idles fine for a mine then will bog down almost
shut down then kick back normal but if you give gas
it may go a little bit not far has seems like it gets no
gas mechanic changed distributor cap, coil, spark
plugs.  Please help need my truck back.

3 Answers

64,510

Check all the rubber gas lines going to the steel gas lines they maybe collapsing under pressure cutting off gas flow. I know this can happen because it happened to a ford truck that I owed awhile back.

4,630

Start at the cat, if you can get it to an exhaust shop, most should check the pressure diff for free...phone around. It may be really restricting exhaust flow. Next, get your hands on an engine scanner that'll read live data, wait till the engine is at normal operating temp (if she'll run that long) and record the short and long term fuel trims and O2 sensor readings. Do this at idle/1500/2500 RPM. Trims should be around "0" at steady RPM and load. The upstream O2 should move up n down in voltage or % depending on which your scanner displays, the downstream should be steady at some voltage around .5 volts...you just don't want it pegged at 0 or 1volt.

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