got my first dodge about a year ago its an 87 power ram with 318 auto 4x4 ive done a lot of work to make it a play truck 5 inch suspension lift 36 inch super swamper iroks lockrite locker in rear edelbrok carb and a snorkle system duel exhaust with flowmasters it runs great on the road but off road on any steep hills or high rpm's to get through the mud it dies after a little cranking will start back up sometimes with a cloud of black smoke maybe overloading? any thoughts or advice

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Sounda like your fuel is "sloshing" out of the bowls and causing it to flood. You mentioned that on steep hills that it does this after, is the carb a street carb? If you do alot of hill climbing you might want to switch to Holleys off road carb or find a good Q jet for it. Q jets floats are center hung and they are not prone to flood after a hill climb like Holleys. Holleys are a rich running carb anyway, the offroad carb they make is a good carb for trucks. Hope this helps you some....