Has 360 engine, just installed the hughesengines performance plenum repair kit hoping to solve this issue and seem that it didnt help at all!?! i uploaded a short video to youtube with the exhaust...

http://www.youtube.com/user/maddmudd.../0/erZaOYtGovI

I just re-installed the kit this morning to make sure i didnt overlook something but it was all good... im lost, please help!

 

was your plenum gasket badly blown?

If so, your next move should be a new catalytic converter.. Oil does a number on them..

also, if it was badly blown, your going to have some residual...

btw: what does that smoke smell like? Is it sweet smelling? Have you checked your oil to see if your flooding your valley with coolant?

 

Before you go and throw a bunch of money at it, try seafoaming the entire truck. Gas/Crank/Oil. If its a residue problem you're having that should take good care of it. If not, then move on to more drastic measures.

 

Throw some full synthectic oil in there it will burn clear

 

couldnt really tell want color is the smoke?

if your talking about the frist 5sec, that becuase its cold out

dry and wet compresstion test would tell you alot

 

The smoke is white until I gun it. Then turns blue... it smokes no matter how long it runs and its 45 degrees out today. The converter has been cut open. Gutted and rewelded shut. Bout to buy a diff. Motor. Will a 318 out of a 1993 dakota work in my 1997 ram with 360?

 

No it will not.

 

it would

you would need a new computer out of a 5.2 your year,,

the intake man off your 5.9(no egr)

flywheel or flex plate what ever because they are balanced differy


but really dry and wet compresstion test would tell you alot,, it could be vavle seals which could have you time and money

 

well, the dakota is complete and drivable so id have everything with it. i swap things around between the two trucks.. can i make it happen?

 

i really think you will have everything on the dakota that you would need,,, and your 97 intake manafiold


the only thing i see you needing is a pcm for a 318 about the same year as your 97, or see it you cant conact hemi see if he can change that with the SCT tuner which i think he could